Chapter 686: Sending Noodles
Chapter 686: Sending Noodles
She opened another pocket and took out some patched, washed-out old clothes.
He said to the princess, "Put this on for a while, or your clothes will attract too much attention."
The princess, her mouth full of buns, agreed vaguely.
While continuing to stuff buns into her mouth, she took the old clothes that Ni'er handed her and prepared to change into them.
After carefully disguising themselves, the two looked like an elderly couple.
On the way, Nier specially bought a donkey cart that looked quite shabby, and piled the cart with some food that she bought at a low price.
Nier held the reins and led the donkey cart slowly forward, while the princess sat upright on the donkey cart, leisurely enjoying the scenery along the way.
In this way, they walked for three days at a leisurely pace, and finally successfully bypassed numerous obstacles and arrived at the village closest to the enemy.
Here, they continued to pretend to be passers-by, walking towards the woods near the enemy as if nothing had happened.
As they walked, Nier suddenly turned around, stared at the princess, and asked softly, "Are you scared?"
The princess's eyes were firm, and she answered without hesitation: "With you by my side, I am not afraid at all."
After receiving the princess' response, Nier smiled slightly, and her worries were slightly relieved.
The two continued walking forward and soon entered the woods.
After entering the woods, Nier did not approach the enemy camp directly, but stopped at a distance and carefully observed the movements around her.
At this moment, her eyes happened to fall on the cook with a big mole on his face.
I saw the cook standing by the river, washing vegetables with great concentration.
Seeing this, Nier came up with an idea. She imitated the call of a pheasant, her voice clear and loud.
The unique cry immediately caught the cook's attention, and he walked over curiously.
Seeing this, Nier quickly put the pheasant in her hand on the ground and pretended to be trying to catch it.
After the pheasant was placed on the ground, it began to run around.
The cook looked carefully and saw that someone dared to compete with him for the pheasant. He immediately ran over and pounced forward at lightning speed.
At that moment, the cook's hand gripped the pheasant tightly like an iron clamp, preventing it from escaping.
"Pheasant! I haven't eaten it in a long time." The cook was very happy to catch a pheasant. He simply drove the two people away, "You two, leave now! No one is allowed to approach here!"
Ni'er hunched her body and pretended to be very old.
Her voice had become hoarse and deep due to the medication she had taken in advance, just like the voice of an elderly person.
"Could you please be kind, young man?" Nier said tremblingly, "My wife and I were on our way to see our daughter, but we were robbed by some bad guys on the way."
"The old lady accidentally fell, and her leg still hurts. I was thinking of catching her a chicken to nourish her. Can you please be flexible and give me half a chicken?"
The old woman played by the princess uttered two "ouch" sounds at the right time, and the sound sounded a little miserable.
When the cook saw how pitiful the two old men were, he couldn't help but feel a little pity in his heart.
He hesitated for a moment, but finally gritted his teeth and put the pheasant he had just caught back into Ni'er's hands.
"This chicken is for you," the cook said, "but you can't go any further. You must avoid this place."
Ni'er took the pheasant and was so moved by the cook's kindness that she didn't know what to say for a moment.
After a while, she said to the cook gratefully, "Thank you, young man, you are such a kind person. But you just said we can't leave here. Why is that?"
The cook turned around and pointed, explaining, "This place is very close to the military camp, so we can't go past."
Nier patted her ears gently and said a little embarrassedly: "Oh, my ears are not working well. Can you speak louder?"
Seeing this, the cook raised his voice and repeated, "That's the military camp over there. We can't get through."
"Oh, I see."
Nier nodded, then turned around and took a bag from the car.
"Look, young man, I can't accept your things for nothing. This was originally intended for my daughter. Since you are so kind, I will get you a bag."
"Don't be disgusted. This is made from flour ground from wheat we grow ourselves. It may not look as good as the flour sold outside, but it tastes absolutely first-rate! My daughter loves my steamed buns. She can eat three of them in one meal!"
As Ni'er spoke, she took out a steamed bun from her bag and handed it to the cook first, then gave another one to the "old woman" whose stomach was rumbling.
"We've come a long way and we're hungry now. Please don't laugh at us." Ni'er said a little embarrassedly.
The cook looked at the "old woman" who was chewing the steamed bun intently, and thought: She has eaten it all, the steamed bun must not be poisonous. And seeing how she eats it with relish, it must taste good. Why don't I try it too?
So the cook hesitated for a moment, but still took a bite of the ordinary-looking steamed bun.
However, after taking a bite, he was stunned by the taste of the steamed bun.
"This is so delicious!" the cook couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
Nier carried a bag of noodles, slowly walked to the cook, and put the noodles on the ground.
"This is for you," Ni'er said lovingly to the cook, "and here's a bag of steamed buns, too. Take them home and steam them, they'll taste even better. These steamed buns must be made with our flour to be delicious."
The cook was chewing a steamed bun. When he heard Ni'er's words, he quickly stopped chewing, waved his hand and said, "No... No, I can't take so much food from you."
Seeing this, Ni'er pushed the flour bag in front of the cook without saying anything and said firmly, "Why not? You gave us a pheasant, which is already very valuable. Take it quickly, otherwise I will feel uneasy."
The cook looked at the flour bag and steamed buns in front of him, hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded and said, "Then...then I'll take it."
Seeing this, Ni'er smiled delightedly and said happily, "Oh, that's right, keep it. By the way, thank you for telling us we can't go there."
"Then let's go first."
The cook said to the two elders in a friendly manner, "Hey, I can't leave for too long. There's a big tree not far ahead, and there's a trap under the tree. You must be careful and try to avoid it. Don't step on it accidentally."
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