“The food is ready!”

Seeing that Lu Ze and Pei Qian looked at each other with hostility, Lin Suisui couldn’t just stand back and watch anymore. She coughed and temporarily broke the stalemate.

“Madam Liu is a good cook.”

Pei Qian took the soup bowl from Lin Suisui and looked at the milky white soup. Before he even tasted it, he praised her.

Lin Suisui chuckled. “You haven’t eaten it yet. How do you know that my culinary skills are good?! Perhaps it looks good, but it actually tastes terrible!”

“It’s a feast for the eyes! A delicious-looking dish has already won 40 to 50 points. As for the rest, it’s often not that important.”

Pei Qian wasn’t embarrassed to be exposed. Instead, he looked even more calm and more harmless than Lu Ze, who was sitting beside him.

Perhaps because of Lin Suisui’s interruption, Pei Qian became much less hostile and much more relaxed than when he was talking to Lu Ze.

However, Lu Ze and Lin Suisui couldn’t let their guard down just because of this.

This meal looked extremely sumptuous, but Lin Suisui almost had a stomachache.

Lin Suisui only heaved a sigh of relief after sending off Pei Qian, who had eaten his fill and left in satisfaction. She turned to look at Lu Ze, whose expression wasn’t much better than hers, and complained in a low voice, “Why do you think he came today?!”

“I don’t know. Anyway, he wasn’t really here for dinner!” Lu Ze stared in the direction Pei Qian had left in. After a long time, he said in an impassive tone, “According to the date, we should be able to reach the base in less than a month.”

At that time, they would really be able to escape!

“Forget it. It’s good that we know that he doesn’t have good intentions! Along the way, no matter how unwilling we are, we can only swallow our anger!”

Lin Suisui frowned and sighed. Then, she helped Lu Ze clean up the mess from cooking dinner. When she saw the two wine jars on the ground, her frown deepened even more and she turned to look at Lu Ze. “He came with wine this time. Perhaps he wanted to get you drunk and get information out of you?!”

“Just this jar of wine won’t make me drunk.”

Lu Ze patted Lin Suisui’s shoulder to reassure her. Then, he took the soup pot from her hand as he instructed in a low voice, “Go to the carriage and rest. I’ll clean up.”

It was already dark. He was worried about letting her go to the stream alone to wash the cooker in cold water.

“I’ll accompany you.” Lin Suisui wasn’t sleepy yet, so she wanted to accompany Lu Ze.

Seeing that she was in good spirits, Lu Ze didn’t stop her. He drew a piece of wood from the bonfire and used it as a torch. Then, he walked towards the stream with Lin Suisui.

“I really couldn’t tell how well-rounded you are.”

Lin Suisui squatted on a rock by the stream as she held a torch for Lu Ze. Seeing Lu Ze wash the dishes and the pot skillfully, she couldn’t help but chuckle and praise, “I thought a man like you would think that men should refrain from helping out in the kitchen.”

“When we’re fighting in the outside world, if we follow this rule, we’ll all starve to death.” Lu Ze sneered. “These words are said by those pedants!

Just treat it as a joke. Don’t take it seriously!”

“Didn’t anyone take care of you when you were fighting in the army?!”

Lin Suisui tilted her head. She vaguely remembered that she had assisted in the military camp as a military doctor in the past. However, at that time, not to mention the high and mighty generals, even small sergeants who led a hundred people had servants!

Lu Ze was the crown prince of the East Palace. If he had led the army previously, he couldn’t have been worse off than those generals in the military camp, right?!

“When we go out on an expedition, if we go deep into the grassland or face the enemy in the desert, who can take better care of ourselves but ourselves?!” Lu Ze placed the washed bowl into the clay pot as he answered Lin Suisui’s question. “If we’re unlucky sometimes, it’s normal to stay out in the wilderness for ten days or half a month without bathing. Why would we be so picky?!

After we finished eating the dry rations and drinking water we brought, in order to survive, we couldn’t care less about the other things. In fact, at the most difficult time, we even drank our own urine to quench our thirst!”

Lu Ze stood up and handed the clay pot to Lin Suisui. Then, he took the torch from her and led her back.

However, this time, Lu Ze stopped and reached out to pull Lin Suisui behind him.

“What’s wrong?!” Lin Suisui, who had a hunch that something was wrong, didn’t dare to move. She cooperatively shrank behind Lu Ze and lowered her voice. “Did we encounter wolves again?!”

In the north, everything was good except for the abundance of wild wolves and hyenas! At night, there were green lanterns outside the camp from time to time. These were all wild wolves attracted by the refugees!

Fortunately, there were many people in the refugee camp and there was a bonfire. The wolves didn’t dare to approach, but they were unwilling to give up. Therefore, they stubbornly guarded outside without leaving.

They were just waiting for those people to run out of the refugee camp so that they could eat them!

Lin Suisui subconsciously thought of this possibility. Although she had experience dealing with wild wolves and jackals before, she still instinctively felt nervous and afraid when she thought of those cunning and terrifying beasts.

“Do you hear human moans?!”

Lu Ze tilted his head and tried his best to distinguish if the moan that had just entered his ears was real or an illusion.

Hearing Lu Ze’s question, Lin Suisui didn’t dare to be careless. She cooperated with him and tried her best to investigate the surroundings. When she listened hard, she really heard some strange sounds.

“Over there.” Lin Suisui tugged at Lu Ze’s sleeve and pointed at the bushes on her left. “It seems that the sound came from there.”

“Follow behind me, just three steps away. Don’t get too far, and don’t get too close.” Lu Ze turned around and whispered to Lin Suisui about what to do next as he walked in the direction of the commotion.

Lin Suisui followed him carefully. She had taken less than six or seven steps when she keenly smelled blood.

After walking another ten steps, just standing by the bushes, they could clearly see someone lying in a pool of blood…