We rode quickly and arrived at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain. The sky was already turning yellow. As the sun set in the west, the afterglow dyed the white clouds with layers of red clouds, as beautiful as burning clouds. Birds returned to their nests. Occasionally, some birds flew across the twilight sky, returning to their nests.
In the dense forest, Xue Xichen turned over and dismounted, put a small shade in front of her eyes with her palms, looked into the distance, turned around and said to Feng Qingge, "It's dusk. Shall we go up the mountain now?"
Feng Qingge let go of Jueying and let Jueying wander around and eat the tender grass. He said, "If you don't go up the mountain, do you want to spend the night at the foot of the mountain?"
"Gulu——"
Her stomach screamed in protest, and Xue Xichen blushed instantly. She touched her hungry and flat stomach, pouted her little mouth, and mumbled dissatisfiedly: "I'm hungry!"
"You! Little greedy cat!"
Feng Qingge gently scratched Xue Xichen's small nose, and said with a fond smile: "We will go up to the mountains to hunt game and cook dinner for you!"
"What about Xiaobao and Jueying?"
Xue Xichen turned around and saw Jueying and Xiaobao bending down to eat tender green grass. She said, "The mountain road is rugged and the trees are dense. It is inconvenient to take Jueying and Xiaobao up the mountain."
"No problem! Jueying understands human nature, so let them stay at the foot of the mountain and wait for us."
Feng Qingge leaned over and whispered into Jueying's ear. Jueying seemed to really understand Feng Qingge's words and poked Feng Qingge's palm with her head. Feng Qingge let go of Jueying and turned around.
Realizing that Xue Xichen was talking softly to Xiaobao, seeing Feng Qingge looking at her, she straightened up and said calmly: "You can go!"
"Walk!"
Feng Qingge stretched out her hand towards Xue Xichen, and Xue Xichen took it. Feng Qingge led Xue Xichen up the mountain. The two of them walked up the winding mountain road, occasionally bypassing the vines and gravel on the ground.
Feng Qingge paid close attention to the movements around her, looking for prey that could be caught. Xue Xichen walked along the mountain while paying attention to the wild plants in the grass. She picked a bright red fruit, put it in her mouth and bit it.
It tasted very sweet. She picked another one and handed it to Feng Qingge. She bit the fruit and said to him: "Here you go! Don't worry, it's not poisonous!"
Feng Qingge took it and had no doubt about Xue Xichen's words. She opened her mouth and bit into it, "Xichen, you must be familiar with the common sense of survival in the wild after following Xiao Liuyue for so long."
"You want to ask me how to tell which of these fruits are poisonous and which are not?"
"No! Xichen, I just think that you are very good at surviving in the wild. You know much more knowledge than ordinary women. It is not like knowledge in books, but more like practical applications. It shows that you have experienced a lot."
Of course! As an agent, the first thing she learned was to survive in the wild. After so many years of training, how could she still be as immature as a fledgling girl?
"Feng Qingge, you're not bad either!"
You are a noble prince, but you know more about wilderness survival than I do. It can be seen that you have experienced more than me.
"There's a hare over there, I'll go over there!"
"I'll wait for you here. I'll pick some wild fruits and bake them later."
"good!"
After kissing goodbye, Feng Qingge chased the hare. Xue Xichen found a flat and spacious place, made a fire with stones, picked up some wood nearby and piled it in the stone circle, took out the fire stick and lit it.
She cut some hard branches to make a grill, then used thin branches to string wild fruit racks and roasted the fruits on the grill.
While the fruit was still unripe, Xue Xichen picked up some wood nearby. Feng Qingge returned with five hares. He had gained a lot from his trip. Xue Xichen threw the fruit to Feng Qingge to bake and went nearby
Looking for spring water. When she came back, Feng Qingge had skinned and disemboweled the hare and cleaned it. Xue Xichen washed the rabbit meat, spread it with her own spices, skewered it on branches and grilled it on the fire.
Feng Qingge handed the roasted fruit to Xue Xichen and took the barbecued rabbit meat from Xue Xichen's hand. Xue Xichen took a hot fruit and took a bite. It was sweet and delicious, and the taste was sweeter than the raw one.
She handed the rest to Feng Qingge, who waved her hand for Xue Xichen to eat by herself.
Xue Xichen ate two fruits and the rabbit meat was cooked. Feng Qingge handed the roasted rabbit to Xue Xichen and picked up the other ones to continue roasting. Xue Xichen put down the fruit and tore off a rabbit leg with great pleasure.
After eating one, she tore off the other and handed it to Feng Qingge. Feng Qingge roasted the rabbit and said, "Eat it yourself!"
“Eat! It tastes good!”
After saying that, Xue Xichen held the rabbit leg and handed it to Feng Qingge's mouth.
Feng Qingge took a deep look at Xue Xichen, opened her mouth with a smile, and enjoyed Xue Xichen's service, feeling very good.
The two of them fed each other and quickly wiped out the two rabbits. Feng Qingge continued to roast a few more rabbits, while Xue Xichen lay lazily on the grass and looked up at the starry sky hidden by the dense jungle, breathing in the air.
The aroma of rabbit meat makes me feel sleepy.
"It turns out that the sky in the capital can be so blue..."
Following Xue Xichen's gaze, the night sky was bright, like blue satin, with twinkling stars and brilliant colors. It was a beautiful scene that had never been seen in the capital. Feng Qingge also sincerely sighed, "The weather on Phoenix Mountain is refreshing, better than
The capital is indeed many times more beautiful."
"No matter how beautiful the night sky in the capital is, it always feels like it's shrouded in dark clouds. It's not like the sky on Phoenix Mountain, which is so refreshing and clean..."
Hearing the hint in Xue Xichen's words, Feng Qingge said: "It's not that the sky has changed, but that people's hearts have changed."
"yes……"
Xue Xichen sincerely lamented, "Kyoto is an important place that brings people solemnity and solemnity, brings people depression and depression, and has a strong political atmosphere, which is not what I like. I only love this high-altitude and bright place..."
"Xichen!" Feng Qingge interrupted Xue Xichen's words, her eyes showing seriousness, "Xichen, is the atmosphere in the capital really making you so hard?"
Is it hard? It doesn’t count! It’s just that she has too many painful and sad memories in the capital. The capital is her sad place, and she really doesn’t want to come back.
I don’t want to come back...but I have to come back...
"Qingge... you won't understand... After being used to being a wandering cloud and a crane, no one wants to be the canary in the cage again..."
Canary in a cage?
Feng Qingge frowned and asked seriously: "Xichen, when you move into the palace, do you feel like a canary in a cage?"
"..."
Xue Xichen was silent and did not answer. It was not that she was unwilling to answer, but she just did not want to answer. Because her affirmative answer would definitely make Feng Qingge unhappy. And she did not want to make Feng Qingge unhappy.
Although Xue Xichen didn't answer, Feng Qingge already knew the answer from Xue Xichen's expression. Her mood suddenly became dark and heavy, and she roasted the rabbit meat in her hands silently without making any sound.
The wood crackled and burned, the mountain wind blew by, and the flames swayed left and right, casting shadows of the trees. Feng Qingge's face was hidden in the half-light and shadow, and there was an indescribable mystery about it.