Liuhe Divine Art is worthy of being one of the top divine arts, and its regeneration speed is also first-class.
After Zhao Changhe meditated for several hours, his Qi had basically recovered by half. He couldn't leave, but at least he could take things out of the ring.
He let out a long sigh, opened his eyes, and saw the stars and the moon shining brightly in the sky.
It's night again.
There was a crackling sound of a bonfire coming from the front. Sanniang was squatting in front of the flames, wrapped in her coat, grilling a large shrimp on a skewer. No one knew when she had caught it.
His slender body was wrapped in his loose clothes, and the sleeves covered his entire palms, with only the fingertips slightly exposed, which looked very cute. The way he squatted there roasting food was also very warm to look at.
"Awake?" Sanniang seemed to sense his gaze and said without raising her head, "Wait a minute, the shrimp will be ready."
Zhao Changhe asked, "Haven't you finished eating the fish yet?"
"Isn't it boring to eat only fish?" Sanniang would not tell him that she caught the shrimp on purpose because she didn't want him to do all the work and wanted to show the value of her existence. Her ribs hurt when she caught the shrimp.
Seeing that the shrimp was almost done, he handed it over and said expectantly, "You didn't eat much fish, you must be hungry, try this."
Zhao Changhe took it and took a bite.
I also felt that although there was no seasoning, the taste was surprisingly not bad.
Perhaps seafood is something that most people eat directly after blanching. It tastes good if it is fresh and does not necessarily require any other seasonings.
"Delicious." Zhao Changhe ate all the shrimp in a few bites and said with a smile, "It tastes better than the fish I grilled."
Sanniang smiled with eyes curved in circles: "Of course! You don't know how to cook at all! Just baking requires some skills!"
Seeing her very proud look, Zhao Changhe thought it was adorable, so he smiled and said, "Of course, she is the boss lady, so she must know a few tricks. Hey, I mean, the boss lady..."
"what?"
"I've eaten so many things in your restaurant. Is this the first time you've made them yourself?"
Sanniang said with a straight face, "No."
Zhao Changhe asked curiously, "Which one did you do?"
"I have personally peed on the sweet-scented osmanthus wine that Huangshaji drinks."
"… "
Sanniang asked, "Hey, how are you recovering?"
"You can get your things now..." Zhao Changhe took out a bottle of medicine, took a pill himself, and gave another to Sanniang: "It's for internal injuries and restoring your vital energy. Your meridians have been numbed, so this is the right thing to do."
Sanniang ate it and then looked at his ring eagerly, as if she was expecting him to take out some treasure.
Zhao Changhe slowly took out another new piece of clothing: "Change the one that smells like the sea."
Sanniang grabbed the clothes with satisfaction, what a smart guy, this is exactly what I wanted.
Zhao Changhe didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Treating your wounds is not as important as whether your body stinks, right? Woman.
The next moment, his eyes widened.
Sanniang took off her coat in front of him as if nothing had happened, revealing her white and trembling body. She immediately put on a new coat to cover up her body.
Zhao Changhe swallowed subconsciously.
Sanniang glanced at him and said with a half-smile: "Your medicine is really good. My dislocated hand is basically fine after resting for so long. The most I can't do is use too much force, and my ribs don't hurt that much anymore. You also gave me medicine to regulate my meridians and restore my Qi. I can feel the signs that my meridians are starting to recover. The effect is very good."
Zhao Changhe was stunned and said, "Well, isn't that great?"
Sanniang smiled and said, "It means you won't be able to bully me soon."
Not soon, which means you can still eat it now while it’s hot.
The air unconsciously became quiet for a moment. The crackling sound of the bonfire and the sound of the surrounding waves were audible, and the night seemed even quieter.
Sanniang tightened her clothes, hugged her knees and sat by the campfire, watching the flickering flames in silence.
Zhao Changhe always felt that in this kind of night atmosphere of a single man and a single woman, Sanniang was a young mature woman and not a shy girl, so he always felt that she would not object if he hugged her, since they were adults...
But I endured it again and again in my heart, and finally suppressed it. The relationship has not reached that level... Is a one-night stand or a hookup necessary for me now
Besides, Sanniang was a very complicated person, so how could I know that my so-called feeling was not an illusion? Strictly speaking, I could even say that I didn't understand Sanniang at all, even though we had known each other for a long time.
Zhao Changhe turned his head and saw that the water that had been trapped by the jade box lid had just filled up the lid. He took it off and handed it to Sanniang: "Sanniang, I have water this time, do you have a story?"
Sanniang looked up at him with a strange expression, and after a while she said, "You obviously have wine."
Zhao Changhe: “…”
Yes, now that my true energy has recovered, I can take out the wine gourd.
He took out a wine gourd and handed it over: "Here."
This was all taught to me by you, the Four Symbols. Chichi, you wouldn't mind giving this wine gourd to Sanniang, right
Sanniang took it without hesitation. To Zhao Changhe's surprise, she did not raise the mouth of the gourd as he had imagined. Instead, she put her red lips directly to the mouth of the gourd and gulped down a big gulp.
Zhao Changhe subconsciously reached out his hand, then put it down.
Sanniang put down the gourd and breathed a sigh of relief: "What's with that expression on your face? Do you think my saliva has stained the mouth of your gourd?"
Zhao Changhe didn't know how to answer, so he could only drink his water obediently, feeling strange and puzzled.
After the clear water entered her stomach, she felt refreshed. Then she heard Sanniang say leisurely, "My mother was a bandit brother of Ying Wu a long time ago. She was the third in line and much older than Ying Wu."
Zhao Changhe thought to himself that a story was about to begin.
I always thought that Sanniang's father was Yingwu's old brother, but after all this time I found out that she was my mother. I was falling into a misconception.
Who says women can't be bandit brothers
"But my mother and Ying Wu didn't share the joys and sorrows for long. She was from Jiangnan, and she was not used to being a bandit in the west. Besides, she was a girl, so it was inconvenient for her. After she had practiced the eighth or ninth level of Xuanguan, she said goodbye to her old brother and planned to return to Jiangnan to be a local tyrant."
Zhao Changhe nodded. It can be said that Sanniang's mother was not very loyal in this matter, but it is understandable. It is indeed not so suitable for a woman to be a bandit. There are only so many people in the world who can hide the secrets. Generally, if you have the strength of the eighth or ninth level of the Xuanguan, you are a local tyrant who dominates the local area. Why would you be a bandit if you can return to the prosperous Jiangnan
Sanniang said, "At that time, the Dragon King Hai Pinglan declared himself king in Jiangnan. My mother returned to her hometown and somehow ended up getting involved with him."
Zhao Changhe: "...your father is Hai Pinglan."
"Yes, I took my mother's surname." Sanniang said, "The reason why the Four Elephants Sect opposed Xia Longyuan is actually closely related to each person's background. For example, your Qing'er's family is a surrendered general from the previous dynasty. You know that Xia Longyuan has never trusted the Huangfu family. And Chi Chi's mother was a princess of the previous dynasty, and she herself is a princess of this dynasty. Although Hai Pinglan did not become a king, he was still a separatist prince, so I can be considered a princess of a fallen country."
"Princess Club, what is this... Where's Suzaku? Whose princess is this?"
"Hehe, I won't tell you. Go ask it yourself."
"… Let's talk about your business. I think you are being disrespectful to Hai Pinglan by his first name."
Sanniang took another sip of wine and said slowly, "Hai Pinglan destroyed his country and fled overseas with the rest of his people, becoming a pirate. He was seriously injured at the time. In name, he was the pirate leader, but in reality, it was my mother who was the second in command and managed the pirates. I was only two or three years old at that time, and I grew up as a pirate until I was a teenager. A little girl pirate would be called the third in command when she grew up."
Zhao Changhe: "I thought the three bosses were a partnership... turns out it's actually a family business."
I thought to myself that this is how you developed your wild and cool temperament. I can understand that, but why did you become like this later
"Because the so-called leader is just a title given by the pirates themselves. We didn't name ourselves that. Someone called himself the Dragon King." Sanniang laughed sarcastically, "Anyway, you can't be a pirate for life. Once you have a stable base, you will always have children and various families. My mother led people to expand the base and build defenses. Gradually, the islanders around came to join us and formed the prototype of a small country, which is Penglai. People say that the king of Penglai's surname is Yuan, but that's because the information is not smooth and the impression we have is from the early years."
"I see."
Sanniang said: "It took more than ten years to establish this country. I have been leading the team for a long time. Hai Pinglan has been injured all the time and has hardly done anything. It is not surprising that outsiders think the king's surname is Yuan. When it was passed on to the mainland by word of mouth, other homophones may have been used. In fact, there was no country at that time..."
Zhao Changhe understood: "According to this view, after Hai Pinglan recovered from his injury, he seized power and founded a country?"
"That's right. Anyway, my mother is dead. The cause of death is a mystery. I'll tell you in detail later. Anyway, I didn't know whether he killed her at the time. Some old brothers felt that something was wrong, so they helped me escape and resumed my old business as a pirate. The old man with curly beard you saw was Hai Qianfan, the most loyal guard commander of Hai Pinglan. He left in anger over this matter and respected me as his master."
Zhao Changhe looked at Sanniang with a strange expression. After all this time, you turned out to be the Pirate King.
"In order to be less conspicuous, they still call me the Third Master, but it's useless." Sanniang smiled and said, "It wasn't long before they were surrounded and suppressed. Isn't it ridiculous? When my mother was a pirate in the early years, there were many small countries on the sea, but there was no 'official' capable of organizing a suppression. Now there is one, from a country founded by myself."
Zhao Changhe: “…”
"We suffered heavy losses in several encirclement and suppression operations. At that time, I felt that I was the one who harmed everyone. If I were gone, they would break up and live in small countries and islands, where they could live out their lives in peace. So I quietly left at night and went to join the bandit brotherhood that my mother had always cared about."
Sanniang sighed when she said this: "I was on land, so where could I find the Bandit Brotherhood for a while? I could only go back to my hometown in Jiangnan and live there for a while, and search in secret. One day, I saw a woman wearing a firebird mask fighting with the eldest daughter of the Tang family... Excuse me, I felt that they were pretty weak at that time, so I told them to stop fighting, you can't kill anyone like this..."
(End of this chapter)