CHAPTER XXXVIII
"Sister, uncle sent it away."
After a while, Chen Simian's voice came into the room through the crack in the door, Chen Fuyue only then withdrew her smile, and after she wiped the wetness on both sides of her cheeks, and after her voice recovered, she asked, "Chen Qi and Chen Ba, follow along?" ”
"Yes, I have instructed the two of them to follow in secret, and not to show up in front of anyone until they have to."
"But ......" Chen Simian held a note in his hand, which was sent back by Chen Qi with a carrier pigeon when Sheng Chuxuan was there, after seeing the content, she really didn't expect it, she hesitated for a moment, and said: "Chen Qi wrote a letter just now, saying that the girl also followed." ”
As soon as the words fell, the door of the room, which was originally closed, was suddenly torn open, and Chen Fuyue's figure quickly moved to her and asked, "What did you say?" Ji Liu also went?! What is she going to do? ”
"According to Miss Ji, she wants to follow the eldest young master to the capital and see the world." Chen Simian held back the pain in his arm, and after answering in a whisper, he raised his head and looked at Chen Fuyue's crying and laughing expression carefully.
"See...... See the world?! "Follow the team escorting prisoners to the capital to see the world, this kind of thing is not something ordinary people can do, the corners of Chen Fuyue's mouth twitched, she held back her smile, and reprimanded with a straight face: "Nonsense! ”
Chen Fuyue said this, but Chen Simian couldn't say it, she asked silently: "Then ...... next?"
"Go and write a letter to Chen Qi and them," Chen Fuyue bit her lower lip and accidentally tore off two pieces, she sucked the rust-smelling liquid in her mouth, and ordered: "Let's just say that Miss Ji is very likely to be the future grandmother, let them protect Ji Liu like protecting Sheng Li." ”
"Yes."
"Wait," Chen Simian was about to retreat when she received the order, but she stopped her: "Remember that the girl is a woman, you should mainly protect her, right!" Lord protect her, go! ”
"Yes."
After Chen Fuyue heard her retreat, she went back to the room and lay down, pressed her forearms against her sour eyes, and her thin lips, which were still exposed, couldn't help but lift: "It's too similar." ”
At the same time, Ji Liu and the others were in the low forest at the edge of the official road, and the aroma of barbecue wafted in the air.
Sheng Li sat in front of the fire and deeply realized the benefits of bringing Ji Liu, his firm nose shrugged slightly, and his Adam's apple slid up and down: "It's so fragrant!" ”
"yes, it's so fragrant, it turns out that this thing can still be roasted and eaten!"
Attracted by the aroma, the prison officials approached one after another, surrounded Ji Liu and Sheng Li in the middle, they pinched the white-flour steamed buns in their hands, and put them in their backpacks for a whole day.
Sheng Li looked at Ji Liu's wooden sticks strung together, holding eight wooden sticks in both hands, and he asked suspiciously, "How do you know that noisy frogs can eat like this?" "This thing grows in humid terrain, and since the skin is so unsightly, few people choose to fill their stomachs with it.
"In the mountains behind the people's women's house, every May and June, there are a lot of noisy frogs, noisy in the morning, noisy at night, and the people in the village who toss can't sleep well." As soon as she arrived, her ears were filled with a loud noise, and she could guess without looking, that it must be a large number of noisy frogs enjoying the cool outside, and such a delicacy could not be missed.
Ji Liu's eyes were full of satisfaction: "Once the folk girl was angry, she was already in a panic without meat and a widow, they were still noisy, so she grabbed one casually, and didn't dare to take it back to grandpa to see, so she lit a fire in the forest, roasted it directly and ate it, who would have thought that it tasted good." ”
"What if it's poisonous? Don't be so reckless in the future. Seeing that she was bold and reckless, Sheng Li couldn't help but remind her.
Ji Liu received his concern, and took the lead in handing over a bunch of noisy frogs that had already been roasted, and said with a smile: "Is the folk girl so stupid?!" Naturally, I tried them in advance to make sure they were non-toxic before I dared to eat them! ”
"Hmm, how did you try? Next time, Lao Tzu will also discover new food," Ji Liu divided the remaining strings, except for Li Yu, eight people were exactly one string per person, and one of the men bit a noisy frog in his mouth, and he couldn't speak clearly: "Can't you eat this skin?" Hmm, it smells so good! ”
"Uh," Ji Liu was eating with a mouth full of oil, paused for a second, and then continued to devote herself to the food, she said vaguely: "Forget." The folk girl doesn't know if this skin can be eaten, the main thing is that it is too ugly to eat. ”
The minds of a few people are not on how she tries to test the noise of frogs to be non-toxic, one by one eats with oily faces, two for one person, for these big men, it is not enough, at most it is a tooth sacrifice.
At this time, the cold and hard steamed buns carried by the big men played a great role, they roasted noisy frogs, three or two bites can solve a steamed bun, and it didn't take long to consume the steamed buns brought out, burp, leaning on the stake to rest.
Ji Liu is the same, she ate a piece of millet cake, a roasted noisy frog, and she felt full, looking at the corners of everyone's eyes slightly narrowed, drowsy, she proposed: "Big brothers, rest first, and the girls clean up here." ”
"We'll help you with that." Sheng Li's voice woke up the prison officials who were full of food and drink and were about to fall asleep, and they were not lazy people, so they hurriedly got up to help.
If you want to catch a man's heart, you need to grab his stomach first, this sentence is not false at all, after eating the roasted frog made by Ji Liu, several people also got close, one of the big men said: "Sister, call us a big brother, you don't need to be a people's girl every time, a people's girl, listen to the life." ”
"My surname is Lin," the big man surnamed Lin pointed to the two people sitting in front of the fire, maintaining the only light source at night, and said: "These two are brothers, both surnamed Li, you can call them, Brother Li, Second Brother Li." ”
After cleaning the venue, Ji Liu recognized a group of brothers under the enthusiasm of this Brother Lin, and the handsome cheeks of Sheng Li were once again hidden behind the mask by him, but sitting next to him, he could clearly feel his comfortable mood at the moment.
It is said that three women in one play, six men together, it is not too much, a few people chatting and chatting, unconsciously the moon is in the sky, Sheng Li took advantage of the crowd to get together, and arranged everyone's vigil time, and finally, he said: "It's so arranged, the people who keep watch at night must cheer up, everyone sleeps around the fire, and the prisoner car should also be close to the fire, beware of snakes." ”
"Why not me?" After listening to it for a while, Ji Liu couldn't find his name.
Without waiting for Sheng Li to speak, Brother Lin said loudly: "With us here, let your little girl keep vigil, say it's embarrassing to go out, sister, you can sleep in peace, don't worry about these things." ”
"No, I also want to participate, it's good to be able to give you big brothers a little more sleep."
Sheng Li opened his mouth and was about to retort: "But ......"
"You sleep well at night, so that you can better escort prisoners during the day. Besides, I'm not short of time, anyway, I'm sitting in the prison car, and I can catch up on sleep. ”
“...... All right. Sheng Li looked at her expectant eyes, and remembered the roasted frog that Ji Liu had just secretly wrapped in a handkerchief, and nodded in agreement.
He arranged the time period between the first half of the night and the second half of the night, but there was only a stick of incense.
After oversleeping last time, which caused Ji Liu to miss the matter of squatting in Zhu Yue in the grand ceremony, she didn't dare to let go of her mind to sleep whenever there was anything next, so when she became a big brother on the night watch, she shouted softly, and Ji Liu immediately woke up.
The eldest brother finished shouting, returned to his place, lay down on the spot, and soon snored everywhere, blending perfectly into the rest of the sleeping people.
Even so, Ji Liu didn't move, she sat on the ground and waited for about half a pillar of incense before she slowly got up, tiptoed to the back of the prisoner car, gently pushed Li Yu, and shouted in a low voice: "Sister Yu!" Sister Jade! ”
Suddenly being woken up from her sleep, Li Yu was stunned for a moment, and after her thoughts returned, she found that Ji Liu was behind her, hurriedly turned around, grabbed the wooden fence of the prisoner car, gritted her teeth and scolded softly: "What are you doing here?!" ”
"I'm just here to see you off," Ji Liu stared at her blankly, warming the roasted frog by the fire, and at this moment the precious grease was dripping from between her hands, she came back to her senses, and reached out to hand over the thing: "This is what I just left for you, it's still warm, eat it!" ”
Li Yu's skinny arm passed directly through the prison bar, grabbed her wrist, frowned and said, "Don't fool me, remember Liu!" I didn't listen to you last time, and according to your temperament, I won't give up! Don't do stupid things! Come on! I deserve it, you leave me alone! ”
"Heh, let's eat quickly," Ji Liu suddenly said softly, she ignored Li Yu's nervousness, stuffed things into her hands, and sighed: "I still have to go back to Lotus Village to take care of my grandfather, what stupid thing can I do?" It's just that I guessed that the white-eyed wolves of the Li family wouldn't give you a ride, so I came to accompany you through the last section! ”
"Really?"
Ji Liu nodded solemnly, under her repeated assurances, Li Yucai put her mind at ease and enjoyed the rare food with peace of mind, she faced Ji Liu, suddenly remembered what happened before the Twilight Quadruple, and asked, "You haven't said it yet, how did you test the poison?" ”
"......" remembered the willow knot, at that time they were obviously separated by a distance, how could they still remember this stubble! Li Yu looked at her with curiosity in her eyes, so she could only tell her embarrassedly, and her words were vague: "I grabbed one and forced it to bite me." ”
When Li Yu heard this, the thin bones in his mouth fell uncontrollably to the chassis of the prisoner car, and he was stunned and said, "Ah? The words were interrupted by the sound of Sheng Li turning over and his clothes rubbing.
He was especially dissatisfied with the solemn gift he had memorized, and muttered some words, as if he was whispering in a dream. After he was quiet, Ji Liu's stiff body relaxed slightly, she glanced at the incense thread that had been lit on the side, and suddenly found that the incense had burned out, and she was shocked into a cold sweat, and then put her fingers in front of her mouth, "Shhhh After a sigh, his eyes motioned for Li Yu to hurry up and hand over the finished scraps to her to dispose of.
After everything was dealt with, Ji Liu hurriedly went to wake up the next person, and didn't even give the afterglow to Li Yu, who was pretending to sleep, and returned to his original position indifferently, pretending to lie down.
The task of her heart was over, and she looked at the solemn gift that lay beside her, leaving her back, and breathed a sigh of relief, and soon fell into a deep sleep.