Chapter 43: Is Xie Chen’s little lover in the team?
On the contrary, Xiangying was extremely calm.
She grabbed Jie Chen's hand and sucked out the poisonous blood for him.
After a dozen times in a row, until she felt it was almost done, she rinsed her mouth with salted water again.
Jie Chen looked at her blankly, with surprise that could not be concealed in his thin eyes.
"You...do you know what you are doing?"
"What else can I do, of course, save you."
After Xiangying finished speaking, she raised her head, her phoenix eyes calm and calm: "It's not terrible to be bitten by a poisonous snake, just suck it out and it will be fine."
Then she tore off a section of his sleeve and tied it to his injured palm.
When people around them saw this, they also noticed that the relationship between Xie Chen and Xiang Ying was very unusual.
Even if it didn't matter before, now the prisoner Xiangying has a life-saving favor for the supervisor.
Jie Chen pursed his thin lips and stared deeply at Xiang Ying's movements.
Why is this woman becoming more and more difficult for him to understand?
I used to think that she was so dissolute that she could even ignore her children.
But now after getting along with her all the way, she seems to have changed as a person.
There is love and righteousness, and grudges are clear.
Regardless of his own danger, he gave him drugs...
After Xiangying was bandaged, Jie Chen pulled his hand back.
"I'll do it myself next time, so you don't have to take such risks for me."
Xiangying saw that his tone was pretending to be cold, but the eyes under the mask were already a little loose.
She spread her red lips, lowered her voice and asked lightly: "Who said I took risks for you? Didn't you remind me to be careful first? Why, you are only allowed to care about me, and I am not allowed to help you?"
If Jie Chen hadn't reached out directly to grab the poisonous snake on her shoulder, he wouldn't have been bitten.
After Xiangying said this, Jie Chen's ears exposed outside the mask turned red.
He glanced away unconsciously: "No one cares about you."
At this time, Captain Jia and his men pushed through the crowd and came in, questioning Xiang Ying aggressively.
"Why didn't you allow archery just now? Just because of your kindness as a woman, we killed a prisoner, so many snakes, and almost everyone was buried with you!"
Xiang Ying said coldly: "The reason why archery was not allowed at that time was to protect Mr. Lin. As for why Feng Meiren died, you shouldn't ask me, but ask others."
Her phoenix eyes looked at Xiang Qianqian, who was not far away. The other party seemed to feel her gaze, and he hugged his knees and lowered his head in fear.
Jie Chen turned sideways, blocking half of Xiang Ying's body.
"She did the right thing."
"Supervisor! You can't be too partial to her."
Halfway through his words, Captain Jia noticed that Jie Chen's eyes were full of warning and sharpness, and he swallowed the rest of his words reluctantly.
Jie Chen took the people to leave, and at the same time asked the soldiers to patrol and check everywhere to prevent snakes from getting into the food and grass.
As soon as he left, Taoxue rushed over with the other two children and hugged her.
"Mom, it was really scary just now!"
"How can you face the female snake by yourself? What if you get eaten? Call me for help next time, you know?" Xiang Yuanxiao's soft little face was pretending to be as serious as a young adult.
Xiangying's dark eyebrows stretched and her laughter was sweet.
She stretched out her hand and pinched Xiang Yuanxiao's soft, white face: "I will call you next time."
Xiang Yuanxiao nodded with satisfaction, but in his eyes, he obviously felt that Xiang Ying would not give him any peace of mind.
The male snake and some dead little snakes were originally going to be thrown away by Bingzou and the others, but Xiangying took them over.
The skinny monkey came to her side curiously and watched Xiangying cut open the snake neatly, scrape the internal organs, remove the snake's gall, and cut off the meat piece by piece.
"Hey, you are really not afraid of snake meat being poisonous, and you still want to eat it?"
"Snake venom is secreted from the venom glands. When cutting open, be careful not to puncture the venom glands. Naturally, they are not poisonous."
As she spoke, she raised a piece of snake meat with her bloody jade hand and handed it to the thin monkey's mouth: "The raw snake meat tastes very delicious. Do you want to try it?"
The thin monkey waved his hands repeatedly and took a few steps back: "I don't dare to suffer without happiness."
Xiangying smiled. Of course, she didn't eat either.
Instead, he handed it to Lin Lingxiang and quietly handed her a small bag of yellow rice.
"Look for an opportunity, make porridge yourself, put some snake meat in it, and give it to the old man to drink. It will have a miraculous effect on the old man's health."
Lin Lingxiang was a little scared when she learned that it was snake meat, but took it gratefully.
"Thank you, Princess. I will work harder to serve His Highness the Crown Prince and help you share your burden."
Hearing this, Xiang Li next to him raised his gentle and clear eyes and silently glanced at her.
Xiangying's phoenix eyes narrowed and she smiled: "As a family on the road to exile, you're welcome. Brother, don't you think so?"
Xiang Li was startled when he was called. Lin Lingxiang's soft eyes looked at him. He nodded slightly: "Yes, a family."
The remaining snake skin was spread out by Xiangying, dried on the stone, and finally sewn together to make a snake skin sunshade cloth.
She used the snake gallbladder as medicine and fed some to Xiang Li. She kept the rest for Xie Chen.
However, when Xiangying went to bed at night, as soon as she closed her eyes, she felt someone testing her breath.
She opened her eyes and saw the children.
Xiang Xiuxiu, who still had his little hand under her nose, quickly retracted his hand.
"Eldest brother, second brother, mother, she is still alive!"
Xiangying sat up and rubbed her sleepy eyebrows: "What are you three doing if you don't sleep at night?"
Xiang Yuanlang's tone was cold and he held his shoulders with his small hands: "Xiuxiu is afraid that you will be bitten by a snake during the day but doesn't know it. The three of us are taking turns to keep vigil."
Xiangying almost laughed out loud.
"It was your uncle Jie Chen who was bitten, not me."
Xiang Xiuxiu's voice was soft and pitiful: "He is not our mother, we only care about you."
These words were instantly sweet to Xiangying's heart.
She pulled her daughter into her arms and patted her: "Don't worry, I'm really fine. I'm still breathing through my nostrils. Stop making trouble and go to sleep."
The three little ones lay down around her.
Xiang Yuanlang and Xiang Xiuxiu both closed their eyes. Xiang Yuanxiao still reminded him like a little adult: "If you feel uncomfortable, you must tell me and don't show off."
Xiangying hummed twice and nodded perfunctorily: "Okay."
Apart from anything else, Xiang Yuanxiao likes to worry so much at such a young age. It’s really his destiny to be the eldest brother!
Wake up the next day.
As the exile team set off, Xiangying sat on the separated wooden cart with her feet crossed as if she were on vacation. She was holding ice-cold sweet water in her left hand and a meat bun in her right hand.
She basked in the sun while eating, not to mention enjoying herself.
At noon, the whole team stopped to rest by the stream, but Xiangying asked Taoxue to set up a big pot to cook rice.
She quietly walked to the stream, pulled out a fish from the space, and then held it up pretending to be happy: "Look what I caught in the stream?"
Taoxue exclaimed: "The eldest princess is so amazing!"
Everyone was shocked, where did such a fat fish come from in this clear stream?
They didn't even see any shrimps or crabs.
Xiangying asked Taoxue to clean the fish, and then she put the whole fish into the pot and cooked it, and threw in the fungus and bamboo shoots that were not eaten last time.
After a while, the fragrant fish soup smell wafted out.
Xiangying invited Lin Lingxiang and the Seventh Princess to drink together. On a hot summer day, the drink was dripping with sweat and extremely enjoyable.
Seeing that they were eating so well, the other prisoners also went to squat by the stream to see if they could catch anything.
Only Xiang Qianqian was sitting alone in the distance, feeling weak from hunger.
Lieutenant Jia stood beside her at some point and sneered: "Did you see that? You obey the rules. Big sister like you doesn't follow the rules very much. How can she still look like an exiled prisoner? She is simply the little lover raised by the supervisor in the team. Go! ”
"You should consider my suggestion carefully and make an appointment with Qi Fengyi at midnight tonight. I will not miss out on your benefits."
Xiang Qianqian said nothing, but stared straight at the bowl of fish soup in Xiang Ying's hand.
(End of chapter)