"Oh, Miss, you're up. Hehe, how was last night?" Zhou Tong asked with a smile after taking a sip of porridge.
Qiu Su nodded calmly, "Very good, thank you for the arrangements, Uncle Zhou."
He Xu glanced over, and Zhou Tong shrugged and continued drinking his porridge. He Xu turned to Qiu Su and said, "There was a chaotic battle at the mountain pass yesterday. Judging from the appearance of the dead, it seems that the officials encountered their enemies."
"Where are the things?" Qiu Su asked.
"There was only one box of clothes and not much silver, so I didn't let anyone take it."
Thinking of the knife wound on the naked man's back, Qiu Su nodded and said, "Report it to the authorities and have them deal with him."
"It's already been reported, Susu, don't worry." He Zhuo brought over a steaming bowl of dog meat. "Susu, are you hungry? It's not good to eat such greasy food so early in the morning."
"Then why are you still cooking!" Qiu Su frowned.
"However, it's not impossible to have a piece." He Zhuo diligently scooped up half a spoonful of fragrant meat broth, and added exactly three pieces of dog meat the size of walnuts.
"How stingy! There's even a bone in it!" Qiu Su swallowed hard, thinking to herself, but her face remained unconcerned.
"You want to eat dog meat again? The blisters on your lips have just healed, and you're making the young lady suffer again, He Zhuo." Aunt Zhou brought over a plate of bitter vegetables, grumbling, "Young lady, you should give up this addiction. You've only been sick for a few days and you're already eating it again. In a few days, you'll be complaining about toothaches and blisters on your lips again. He Zhuo, you're so inconsiderate. Why don't you try to be discreet when you eat it yourself? You have to bring it to the table."
He Zhuo sat down next to Qiu Su with a smile. "It's okay, don't worry if you get a sore throat from eating too much. I have a way to cure toothache. Su Su, eat up."
Qiu Su swallowed again, then picked up a bone from the porcelain basin and handed it to the mountain lord. The mountain lord looked at Qiu Su with resentment but refused to take it.
Aunt Zhou laughed and said, "Miss eats her own food. The mountain lord never eats dog bones. There's half a rabbit left in the kitchen."
Qiu Su glanced apologetically at the mountain lord, then picked up a piece of dog meat and stuffed it into her mouth. The mountain lord grunted twice, pawing at the ground with his front paws, his mood heavy.
"Oh, right." Qiu Su swallowed a mouthful of meat before saying, "The people upstairs are naturally mine, so don't even think about messing with them."
He Zhuo laughed through gritted teeth, "How could that be? I would never bear to harm Su Su's things." Except for men. Anyone who lays their hands on Su Su will die!
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Qingfeng Theater:
A yellow dog that someone has chosen: Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer!
He Zhuo, sharpening his knife: I'm going over there, I'm going over there, I'm going over there!!!
A certain enraged yellow peach: You're asking for it! You're asking for it! You're asking for it!!!
A certain mountain lord, head held high: I'm the safest one!!!
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Mountain Lord, come out and wag your tail!
Mountain Lord: Covering my eyes, I don't know you~~
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4. Two men make a drama...
The naked man wasn't dead; he was alive and well, and had moved into Qiu Su's small building under a mysterious yet tacitly accepted identity. Qiu Su was very depressed, as depressed as Black Whirlwind, who howled every night in the village because he had lost his target. The mountain lord still sneaked out at night, and Qiu Su, adhering to her strategy of playing the long game, didn't stop him. However, his frequent outings these past few days made her feel a tragic sense that the mountain lord was also following the path of the snake and the rabbit.
Without the mountain lord's company in the evening, Qiu Su felt the upstairs room was much emptier, even though there was now a naked man. He could no longer be called a naked man, because now only his hands, head, face, and neck were naked. The naked man had a habit: after eating, he would close his eyes and rest, right there on her bed. Hmm, he seemed completely at ease.
Qiu Su prided herself on being magnanimous, polite, humble, and gentle, so she spontaneously moved the soft couch to the side. Thus, on this spring night, in the uniquely designed little building in the northwest of Qingfeng Village, the room of the village chief on the second floor became what it was like: on the bed, a cold and handsome man in white was resting with his eyes closed; on the couch, a woman in deep purple was looking at the stars through the window with her legs crossed.
"I agree."
Qiu Su's leg, which had been twitching for a while, suddenly stopped, and she tilted her head, saying, "What?"
The man in white lowered his eyes and said, "I agree to what you said before."
"Oh," Qiu Su responded faintly and continued looking at the stars.
"Don't you have anything to ask?"
"..."
"Why did you become a bandit?"
Qiu Su rolled her eyes. "We're not bandits, we're mountain folk. We're officially registered; you can check the Pingcheng Gazetteer at the Pingcheng Prefecture government office. We don't kill, rob, steal, or cheat. We live in harmony with the people down the mountain, and we're all doing well." Uh, so it's not exactly robbery, and it's not exactly theft, right? Right? Right?
"Do you think Qingfeng Village should also change its name? Doesn't the word 'village' sound more proper than 'prefecture'? But there are so many people in the village, calling it Qiu Prefecture? That would be unfair to Uncle Zhou and Uncle He." Qiu Su muttered to herself, then suddenly sat up, listened for a moment, and nimbly jumped off the bed, put on her shoes, and went downstairs.
Qiu Su's face was round with a touch of baby fat, making her look even younger than her actual age. However, she usually walked with a waddling gait, like an old woman, trying to appear mature. No one expected her to disappear so quickly. The man in white was stunned. He propped himself up and sat up, reaching for the cane that Qiu Su had sent him by the bedside. He gritted his teeth and moved it to the bedside, closing the window and looking out through the crack.
The torches that suddenly lit up the village illuminated the courtyard as if it were daytime. He Zhuo hurried forward and asked anxiously, "What are you doing out here? Where's Huang Tao? Why didn't you stop me?"
Qiu Su remained calm with her hands behind her back, coughed, and asked, "What happened?"
Before He Zhuo could explain, Zhou Tong said with a smile, "Don't worry, Miss, it's just a few petty thieves. Hehe, they actually dared to sneak into a den of thieves to steal things..."
"Stealing?" He Zhuo scoffed. "More like stealing people!"
"You brat! What are you saying in front of the young lady!" Zhou Tongwei scolded, tilting his head slightly.
He Zhuo blushed and said to Qiu Su, "Su Su, that's not what I meant."