EBE Chapter 216 Wild Vegetable Soup
Chapter 216 Wild Vegetable Soup
Fei Xi's anxious shout had barely left her lips when a dark shadow, accompanied by a gust of wind, flew towards her like an arrow.
Fei Xi reached out and steadily caught Grandpa Luo as he flew towards her, gently placing him on the back of the silver dragon. She turned to look at Junior Brother Ji, only to see him quickly grab the dragon's claw after tossing Grandpa Luo to her. The moment their eyes met, his originally cool and aloof face suddenly transformed into a warm and gentle smile.
Fei Xi felt a warmth in her heart, and the anxiety she had been carrying finally subsided.
She raised the corners of her mouth slightly, about to return the smile, when she saw a dark figure rushing towards her like a gust of wind.
Fei Xi reached out and caught it again. Upon closer inspection, she saw Dongfang Rui staring at her with a look of terror on his face.
Fei Xi didn't notice the awkward yet frightened expression on Dongfang Rui's face after he recognized her.
She looked in the direction from which it had been thrown. Cui Chou was holding Yu Heng in one hand and grabbing the dragon claw on the right with the other. His eyes and brows were full of a defiant look that said, "What can you do to me?"
Fei Xi snorted, too lazy to bother with this childish old man. She sat up straight, placed Dongfang Rui aside, and then stopped paying attention to what was happening behind her.
In the blink of an eye, the silver dragon moved with lightning speed, traversing the long staircase and bringing everyone back to the ground.
At this moment, the sky outside gradually darkened, the wind stopped and the sand calmed, the afterglow of the setting sun gradually faded, and twilight deepened.
As the sun sets, it is the time of encounter with demons.
Silver Dragon placed Fei Xi and the others by the lake and shook off the people on its claws.
Fei Xi gestured for it to hurry up, and the silver dragon understood. With a long roar, it twisted its body and disappeared into the gray clouds.
"Little girl, where did you provoke this dragon?" Cui Chou steadied himself, holding his knife, his eyes darkening, his rough voice sounding like a casual question.
Yu Heng, who had been casually tossed to the ground, had a somber face and a complicated expression. But upon hearing Cui Chou's question, Yu Heng's eyes instantly turned fervent, and he stared straight at Fei Xi.
This is a dragon, a legendary dragon!
if……
Fei Xi's lips curled up, but her eyes were as cold as ice as she slowly scanned her surroundings.
Junior Brother Ji was helping Junior Sister and Elder Luo to lean against a tree. Although Dongfang Rui and Yu Heng were lying on the ground unable to move, their eyes were fixed on her with intense passion.
Fei Xi did not respond to Cui Chou's question, but instead took out the antidote for the ineffectiveness-inducing powder from her bosom.
She walked over to her junior sister and Grandpa Luo and carefully applied the antidote to their faces.
Turning her head, she saw that Dongfang Rui and Yu Heng were still looking at her. Fei Xi paused slightly in putting away the medicine bottle, but her expression remained unchanged as she walked up to the two men and sprinkled the powder on their faces respectively.
“Brother Dongfang, Lord Yu, if I’m not mistaken, the poison you’ve been afflicted with is the Depletion Powder of Qiu Shuying, the traitor of the Peach Blossom Sect. That Boss Qiu is probably in cahoots with Qiu Shuying. We don’t know whether he’s alive or dead. Let me first detoxify you. Later, we can talk about your experiences after entering those doors.”
Fei Xi's open and frank demeanor made it difficult for Yu Heng to determine whether she had any connection with the dragon.
Was it just a coincidence that the dragon saved them, and that he guessed wrong?
Fei Xi didn't care about what others thought. After delivering the antidote, she remained calm and composed, continuing to do what she was supposed to do.
As dusk deepened, the current situation in the Kingdom of Us was unknown, but the desert night was fraught with danger, making it an unsuitable time to travel.
Moreover, since entering the temple, everyone has been tormented and has not had a moment of peace.
Everyone was exhausted and starving, and all they wanted was to find a place to rest.
Fei Xi took the firewood that Junior Brother Ji brought and built a campfire. She then instructed Junior Brother Ji to find the pottery jar that was offered in front of the goddess statue.
Ji Zhongxuan casually filled a jar with lake water, which Fei Xi then took and set up a stand to boil water.
Perhaps because a dragon appeared, all the birds and beasts that I had seen when I arrived had disappeared, and there were no fish in the lake either.
After Junior Sister and Grandpa Luo were able to move, Fei Xi asked Grandpa Luo to help watch the fire, and then instructed Junior Sister and Junior Brother Ji to go and pick some fruits and wild vegetables to eat.
After making the arrangements, she walked towards Cui Chou alone.
When the swordsman saw her approach, his eyes remained completely unmoved, and he didn't even raise an eyebrow. He held his Aoxue Blade and stared at Yu Heng not far away with an inscrutable expression.
Yu Heng was still young, and when his enemy stared at him like that, the murderous intent that he couldn't hide in his dark eyes surged forth.
But this bastard had just saved him, and although he could move now, he couldn't immediately repay kindness with enmity. He could only console himself that the bastard had lost his weapon, and the current situation was unfavorable for him; it was just that the bastard had escaped death by sheer luck.
Seemingly sensing what the young official was thinking, the swordsman scoffed, his voice low but extremely insulting.
Yu Heng couldn't stand the mocking laughter any longer. He clenched his fists, ready to fight back, when a figure conveniently stepped between them.
"Lord Cui, thank you for saving me earlier. My master always said that a person should repay kindness, otherwise he would be worse than a beast. I have no other skills, but please allow me to do my best to help with Lord Cui's injuries."
Fei Xi spoke politely, but her actions showed no mercy as she pushed Cui Chou to the ground and tore open his clothes.
Yu Heng was momentarily stunned by this audacious act and involuntarily took a step back.
Appearances can be deceiving. Even seemingly gentle and delicate young girls can be so fierce these days. In his eyes, Cui Chou, who frequently persecuted women, seemed like a burly, helpless woman who had given up resistance and was being abused.
Yu Heng couldn't bear to watch the jarring scene. He lowered his head and pondered the meaning behind Fei Xi's words, feeling that she was insulting him.
Thinking back to that time in the main hall, the person who abducted Fei Xi must have been Qiu Shuying. Then, recalling the grave mound next to Cui Chou when they met, he understood what Fei Xi meant by "repaying a debt of gratitude."
Yu Heng snorted coldly, sat back down, closed his eyes, and began to circulate his internal energy to heal himself.
As for Fei Xi, the reason she came to treat Cui Chou was truly solely to heal him.
His tanned chest was covered with scars of varying depths, the most striking of which was a sharp centipede scar that ran deep from his shoulder to his abdomen, as if he had almost been cleaved in two, giving an idea of the risks he had faced.
This wasn't the first time Fei Xi had seen it. After glancing at it, her gaze slid from the chest to the waist and abdomen.
Cui Chou had two main injuries: a palm wound to his chest and a mace wound to his abdomen.
My calloused fingertips traced the firm, full curves of my muscles, feeling the sudden tension beneath the bulging texture.
With a "snap," her pectoral muscles jerked, and a sweet voice commanded in an annoyed tone:
"Relax!"
Cui Chou almost blurted out a curse. If it weren't for the girl's innocent eyes and serious expression, he would have felt like he was being taken advantage of.
Fei Xi was incredibly annoyed. How could Cui Chou, a veteran of countless battles, act like a naive virgin, reacting so strongly to her touch?
She wanted to carefully examine the extent of the injury to his meridians so that she could better treat him with acupuncture later, but wherever her fingertips touched, the muscles there tensed up like hard iron.
Hearing the water in the earthenware pot boil, Fei Xi simply left everyone behind, went to the campfire, and used the boiling water to sterilize the torn fabric.
After Fei Xi finished treating Cui Chou's wounds and administering acupuncture, Junior Brother Ji and Junior Sister Ji returned with two bags of food.
In his pocket were fragrant pears, grapes, fist-sized figs, and some wild vegetables such as bitter herbs.
Fei Xi's eyes lit up when she saw the bitter greens and figs. She first blanched the wild greens in freshly boiled water with a little salt, then let them cool and placed them on leaves in a container of water. Next, she peeled the figs, boiled water, and put them into a ceramic jar that was about 7% full.
Once the water boiled again, the sweet aroma of fruit filled the air. Fei Xi put all the blanched wild vegetables into the earthenware pot, sprinkled them with salt, and then immediately removed the pot, using the heat from the broth inside to thoroughly cook the vegetables.
Dongfang Rui took the rough wooden bowl that Fei Xi handed him; the two willow branches served as simple chopsticks.
A handful of vegetable leaves floated in the wooden bowl, and beneath the clear broth were two soft, mushy fruits whose original shape was no longer recognizable.
Dongfang Rui came from a humble background, and when his family was poor, he had even resorted to wild vegetable soup to stave off hunger. Now that he was hungry, he didn't expect the wild vegetable soup in front of him with an unfamiliar fruit to taste any better.
However, it smelled sweet, so he gritted his teeth and gulped down a big mouthful.
The first taste on the tongue is the sweet aroma, and the smooth, mellow soup instantly soothes the emptiness in the body. Then comes the fresh sweetness of the vegetable leaves, without any trace of the bitterness of the wild vegetable soup I've had before.
Ignoring the fact that it was too hot to drink, Dongfang Rui spun the bowl around and gulped down the soup in a few big mouthfuls. Even his breath carried a faint fruity aroma.
Then, he picked up the wild vegetables with his chopsticks. The wild vegetables were tender, delicious, sweet and juicy. If he didn't recognize the wild vegetables in the bowl, Dongfang Rui would have doubted that the wild vegetables he had eaten in the past were not the same variety as the ones in front of him.