Chapter 8: Lonely Men and Widows
"General Ning asked knowingly, of course I am General Yue's woman." Shu Qingyue added a piece of firewood to the fire, the corners of her lips curved, and a shallow smile was drawn.
She looked calm, and she didn't see the slightest flaw.
"How long have you been with General Yue?" Ning Sichen asked again.
"I've known each other for many years." Shu Qingyue replied.
Speaking of which, she and Yue Rongfei really almost became husband and wife, but that was a long time ago.
The flames crackled in the night, and one after another sparks froze and extinguished, and her face reflected in the firelight looked very unreal.
Ning Sichen wanted to ask her something, but before he could speak, she coughed.
"Cough, cough, cough," although there was a campfire to keep warm, the autumn night was still a little cold, especially the cold wind that blew from time to time, refreshing her bones, and she couldn't help coughing.
Shu Qingyue's body was already weak, and when the wind blew, she coughed nonstop.
"You're alright." He asked her.
Ning Sichen's voice sounded a little cold, but Shu Qingyue could feel that he was caring about her.
"I'm fine! It's just a little cold. Shu Qingyue coughed a few more times, and finally stopped.
"Women shouldn't be on the battlefield." Looking at Shu Qingyue's weak appearance, Ning Sichen said. Thinking of Yue Rongfei taking her with him, he was not going to let her sleep in the open and suffer hardships, but there was an emergency situation in the middle. As soon as he thought of this, Ning Sichen didn't say any more, he was not the kind of person who meddled in his affairs.
Shu Qingyue knew her own situation, and she didn't refute Ning Sichen's words.
However, Shu Qingyue's action of pulling the clothes, Ning Sichen still saw it in his eyes.
After a while, she was still trembling there, silently enduring it, Ning Sichen really couldn't stand it, he took off his outermost clothes and handed it to her.
Shu Qingyue hesitated before taking Ning Sichen's clothes, she put the clothes on her body, and there was still a little residual warmth on the clothes that were not thin or thick.
Ning Sichen added a few more sticks of firewood into the fire, and the fire burned even more vigorously.
Shu Qingyue looked at Ning Sichen, who was seriously fiddling with the fire.
His expression is cold, but he is a very real person, but he rarely takes the initiative to express it.
Once you get to know a person, he's less scary.
"Is the general hungry?" After sitting for a while, Shu Qingyue looked around, and found no other suspicious figures, she leaned forward slightly, approached Ning Sichen, and whispered, looking sneaky.
Ning Sichen looked at Shu Qingyue's appearance and was suspicious.
"I've got a few potatoes here." Shu Qingyue said, and really took out five potatoes of different sizes from behind her.
"These potatoes?" Ning Sichen remembered that in the evening, Shu Qingyue took a few sprouted potatoes from the barracks, saying that they were for other purposes, but they actually got here.
"You can't let anyone know." Shu Qingyue told Ning Sichen.
Ning Sichen twisted her eyebrows, she asked him if he was hungry, could it be that he wanted him to eat these potatoes together. Look at those potatoes again, green shoots are growing on the potatoes one by one, like the tentacles of ghosts with teeth and claws, which are a little shocking. She had also said in the morning that the sprouted potatoes were poisonous, and that the two dozen or so soldiers were still limping in their tents because of the poisonous potatoes. Now that she is going to eat these potatoes again, what is going on in this woman's mind?
"The general is scared?" Shu Qingyue saw through Ning Sichen's thoughts at a glance, and he was wary of her expression, as if she was trying to harm him, and she suddenly felt funny.
Ning Sichen was silent.
"After gouging out the buds and eyelets, and then soaking them in water with vinegar, they can still be eaten." Shu Qingyue said and stood up. "You wait for me a moment."
Shu Qingyue dropped a sentence and hurriedly ran to the camp tent, and when she came back, she had an extra basin filled with water in her hand. She sat down again, took off the dagger on her body, and dug out the sprouts and sprouts with her hands.
Busy taking care of the poisoned soldiers all day, Shu Qingyue didn't eat well, she secretly took a few potatoes, just in case she was hungry at night, and used them for supper.
After about a stick of incense, Shu Qingyue fished out the soaked potatoes from the water and buried them in the charcoal fire at her feet.
Ning Sichen sat on the side, watching Shu Qingyue busy there.
Half an hour, Shu Qingyue took out the potatoes that had been cooked.
"Hot, hot, hot," Shu Qingyue picked up a potato, it was so hot, she threw the potato twice with her hand, it was still too hot, and put the potato down again. "Whew, whew, whew," After putting down the potato, she blew her scalded hands hard, and her movements matched her vivid expression, which was also quite funny.
In addition to her calmness when she encounters trouble, she is still naughty most of the time.
After all, Shu Qingyue at that time was only sixteen years old.
"You don't eat?" When the potatoes were cold, Shu Qingyue looked at Ning Sichen, who was motionless, while eating. With something in her mouth, she spoke a little slurred. "It's hard to stay hungry at night. Don't worry, it's no problem, if you want to be poisoned, I will be poisoned first. ”
After Shu Qingyue's several persuasions, Ning Sichen finally took a potato. The potatoes have been dug up to the east and the west, and at this moment, it is a black lump, Ning Sichen is really a little skeptical, can the things in front of him be edible? Looking at Shu Qingyue again, he ate very deliciously, his face was slightly hesitant, he still peeled off the black skin on the outside of the potatoes, and he was suspicious, so he tried it very reluctantly. He swallowed it in one gulp, it wasn't delicious, but it tasted good.
"I didn't lie to you." Shu Qingyue had already finished eating one, she said with a smile.
Her smiling face is not overly flamboyant, just right, which makes people feel very comfortable.
Shu Qingyue is also beautiful, but she is not the kind of beauty that captivates the country and the city, a face that is not outstanding. However, she has a pair of black and white eyes that are unusually clear. Especially at night, her eyes seem to hide thousands of stars, exuding dazzling brilliance.
The flames swayed, looking at Shu Qingyue facing the fire, Ning Sichen was stunned for a moment.
"You'll get them all for you." Shu Qingyue couldn't eat so much, so she gave the rest to Ning Sichen.
Before this, Ning Sichen would never have imagined that he would eat secretly with Shu Qingyue outside the barracks.
She's such an incredible woman.
As the night wore on, the bonfire was still burning.
Shu Qingyue had no intention of going back, there was only one tent in the camp, but it was full of soldiers, and it was impossible for her to sleep in a tent with a group of men. Her original plan was to burn a fire and spend the night outside, but what she didn't expect was that Ning Sichen would come uninvited.
And he, sitting across from her like that, didn't go back.