Under the snow, Song Nan moved several bundles of pine needles and long grass back and forth from the pine and fir forest under the cliff, raised another fire at the entrance of the cave, surrounded these pine needles and dead grass with moisture and baked them until dry, and then simply cleaned up the dry manure and stones on the cave floor, and spread a thick layer of hay and pine needles.

"It's warm, you can't catch a cold tonight, you have to sleep warmly, and you'll be comfortable tomorrow morning."

Liu Yuerong silently watched Song Nan busy, her face was as usual, but the emotion in her eyes couldn't be hidden, many years ago, when she was a little girl, she had an illness, and the two brothers took care of themselves so meticulously, but that was a long time ago.

"By the way, dinner hasn't been settled yet, so it's not possible to go hungry." Song Nan got up and scratched his head and muttered to himself, looked at the dim sky outside the cave, and walked out.

Liu Yuerong said softly: "It's dark outside, and it's covered with heavy snow, where is there anything to eat, just be hungry, let's talk about it tomorrow during the day." ”

Song Nan smiled and said: "That's not possible, you need to eat to recuperate, and I can't miss three meals a day, there seems to be nothing in the wind and snow in the mountains, but in fact, there are still a lot of edible things, I'll go out and take a look." ”

Song Nan carried the short knife and went out, and after a while, her footsteps rustled away, Liu Yuerong looked at the jumping bonfire and was stunned, I don't know how long it took, she suddenly woke up from her contemplation and found that Song Nan had not come back yet.

Turning his head to look at the sky outside the cave, it was already pitch black, and he couldn't help but panic in his heart, and hurriedly stood up with the help of the cave wall, and almost fell down with a dizziness on his head; Gritting his teeth and holding on to the cave wall, he moved to the entrance of the cave and looked out, where there was a sound in the dark and dreary mountains, the snow fell silently, and there was silence in all directions.

Liu Yuerong's heart was cold, Song Nan still left, he was a court official, he was kidnapped by himself, how could he not find an opportunity to escape, he was already merciful to himself when he was sick and weak; An inexplicable disappointment welled up in my heart, but at the same time, I felt a sense of relief.

There was a pop sound at the bottom of the cliff, Liu Yuerong was startled, a trace of ecstasy surged in her heart, and she hurriedly shouted to the bottom of the cliff: "Lord Song, is it you?" ”

Song Nan's voice came from not far away: "It's me, damn it, I stepped into a snow hole and fell, huh?" How are you standing here? Come in and lie down, it's terrible to get a cold. ”

Song Nan appeared at the entrance of the cave with snow on his body, his hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes were covered with snow, and he was holding a black thing in his hand, gasping and appearing in the firelight at the entrance of the cave. Liu Yuerong forcibly hid the joy in her heart, turned around and sat down in the cave, looking up at Song Nan.

Song Nan stomped his feet and patted himself for a long time, and then patted the snow off his body, walked in with a smile, and said with a smile: "I said there is food, the ancients said well, there is never a shortage of food in the world, what is lacking is the eyes that find what to eat." ”

Liu Yuerong said in her heart: Which ancient person said such a thing.

Song Nan sat on the hay with a smile, and opened the dry grass package in his hand, revealing the things inside, Liu Yuerong looked at it with wide eyes for a long time, but she didn't see what it was, Song Nan smiled: "The mountain is delicious, I haven't seen it." ”

"What's that?"

"This is the winter bamboo shoots, this season is the time when the winter bamboo shoots are plump, I think there should be this thing in the bamboo forest, and I really dug out three after digging for a long time, but it is too little, but it is absolutely delicious."

"So what?" Liu Yuerong's eyes were bright, and she pointed to a few other muddy things and asked.

"This is called kudzu, and it is also a mountain delicacy, originally this thing needs to be ground and boiled before eating, but we don't have this condition, so it is also delicious to roast and eat, just like roasted taro."

Liu Yuerong was surprised, Song Nan was obviously a senior official of the imperial court, and he was so young, how could he know so many things, making a fire and making a bed to find these foods that he had never seen before, he looked very handy and relaxed, and he didn't look like a pampered son.

Song Nan started to cook, buried the kudzu root in the charcoal fire and baked, and at the same time peeled and sliced the winter bamboo shoots and put them in the bamboo tube, added snow water and hung them on the bonfire to steam, and after the cooking, he finally clapped his hands and said: "Okay, just wait to taste the deliciousness, the fly in the ointment is that there is no meat, just now I found a few mouse holes in the bamboo forest, there must be mice in them, but I think you don't like to eat mouse meat, so I didn't put that effort." ”

Liu Yuerong hurriedly shook her head and said, "I don't eat mice." ”

Song Nan smiled: "I know that if you don't eat it, it's actually quite delicious." ”

"Have you ever eaten a mouse?" Liu Yuerong asked in surprise.

"Not only rats, but also bats, green worms, grasshoppers, earthworms, I have eaten them all." Song Nan said with a smile.

Seeing Liu Yuerong showing a look of surprise, the expression on her face was quite cute, under the light of the fire, a full moon blushed face, small eyebrows and mouth, delicate facial features, but a beautiful woman, I couldn't help but take a few more looks.

Liu Yuerong didn't notice Song Nan's eyes, and said softly: "I don't believe it, you are a big official in the imperial court, how can you eat these things, if you want to say that the common people don't have to eat in the famine year, you have heard of eating rats, snakes and tree bark." ”

Song Nan smiled and said, "Do you think I was born with a golden key?" I'm just from a poor family in Ulju, and my status is even lower than that of ordinary people. ”

Liu Yuerong was stunned and said, "How come? ”

Song Nan said: "I am a maidservant, my mother is a small maid of a big family, and after giving birth to me, she was kicked out of the house, I was born in such a family." ”

Liu Yuerong was silent for a long time, and said in a low voice: "I'm sorry, bring up your sad past." ”

Song Nan laughed and said, "What sad past? I don't think it's sad at all, it's all false about my background, it's right to work hard, and it's in vain if you can't grasp it no matter how high the starting point is, there is a way for heroes to don't ask where they come from. ”

Liu Yuerong pondered for a long time, and said in a low voice: "What you said makes sense, I guess, the brothers of your sect are definitely not as high as your official position, they must be inferior to you." ”

Song Nan looked at Liu Yuerong's bright eyes and smiled: "That's natural, but people's success is not necessarily measured by official position, money, glory, and ordinary life can't be said to be failure; But for me, I like power, money, and beautiful women. ”

Liu Yuerong said in a low voice: "You are very frank. ”

Song Nan said: "I know that most people will say that I am shameless, but I am not ashamed, because I came by the struggle within the rules, I was promoted and made rich without making the people suffer, I did not rely on the people to be promoted, this is my bottom line, so I dare to say it loudly." ”

Liu Yuerong said softly: "Are you alluding to the righteousness of my two brothers?" ”

Song Nan Zhengse said: "There are many disadvantages in the Ming Dynasty, but there is still something to be done on the whole, it is not that the bad ones are useless, but the bad ones are only a small part; At this time, what to use to save the people from fire and water, and to create chaos under the guise of Tianxingdao, is actually against the will of the people, at least against the will of the majority of the people; Those who use the so-called "save the people from fire and water and do the right thing for heaven" as a pretense are actually just trying to achieve their personal goals. ”

Liu Yuerong said in a low voice: "I know, brother, they are for their own selfishness and have caused a huge disaster. ”

Song Nan looked at Liu Yuerong and said: "You have such knowledge, which means that you are not an ordinary woman who does not understand right and wrong, and you are not them, so you don't have to blame yourself." ”

Liu Yuerong sighed lightly and said, "But they are my own brothers after all." ”

Song Nan also sighed, silent, the cave was suddenly silent, and the wet wood in the bonfire made a cracking sound after it was burned, which added to the silence in the cave.

Suddenly, Song Nan came back to his senses and exclaimed, "Oops, the kudzu is almost baked." After that, he rummaged through the charcoal ash with a wooden stick and took out four or five black kudzu roots, and Liu Yuerong also woke up in shock, smelling the smell of burnt paste at the end of her nose.

Song Nan carefully dried the charcoal ash on the kudzu, and when he took it in his hand and poured it left and right until it was not too hot, he pinched the two ends and gently broke it, but when he saw the yellow-orange-orange-golden kudzu flesh exposed, the aroma suddenly filled the cave.

Song Nan laughed and said: "The heat is just right, but I didn't expect the outside to be scorched, but the inside is just in the heat." ”

Liu Yuerong involuntarily cooed in her abdomen, she was so ashamed that Song Nan didn't realize it, stretched out her hand and handed it over, "Eat, eat, see." ”

Liu Yuerong stretched out her hand to take it and took a bite gently, only to feel that the sweetness was soft and glutinous with a fresh medicinal smell, and her mouth was full of fragrance, and she couldn't help but praise: "It's delicious." ”

Song Nan smiled, got one for himself, the two sat and ate together, and after a while, the kudzu root was swept away, the two looked at each other with crossed black hands, and suddenly laughed at the same time, it turned out that the lips of the two were all stained with black burnt skin, like two old men with big beards.

The winter bamboo shoot soup is also wonderful, the winter bamboo shoots are delicious, the bamboo tube is boiled and the bamboo fragrance is soaked into the soup, the soup of a bamboo tube is boiled into a faint white, Song Nan and Liu Yuerong drank half a tube.

After drinking, Liu Yuerong actually burped delicately, which made Song Nan laugh secretly; After eating and drinking, sleepiness hit, Liu Yuerong was still sick, extremely weak, lying down on the hay, but she couldn't sleep.

Liu Yuerong is worried about how to sleep, the two of them can lie side by side in the cave, and the hay shop laid by Song Nan is also a double position, but how can she sleep with him?

As she hesitated, she only heard a soft sound from the rope, Liu Yuerong looked up, but saw Song Nan holding a pile of hay to the entrance of the cave and laying it out, just curled up on the narrow ground at the entrance of the cave, and after a while, there was a slight snoring sound.

Liu Yuerong was moved in her heart, but she felt that she couldn't go, and struggled for a long time before falling asleep in a daze.