The grass flies back quickly and leaves quickly, after all, it is for the retirement life of the rest of his life.

"Huh!" Shang Hongxiu breathed a sigh of relief as she sat on the stone bench.

"What happened just now?" Shang Hongxiu asked with fear in her tone.

"Do I need to tell you this? You know it very well. You've already died once."

"So it was all true..." Shang Hongxiu murmured to herself as she looked at the edge of the small cliff.

I also confirmed the rope in my memory, and it was still there exactly as it was.

Seeing Shang Hongxiu staring at the bundle of hemp rope, Bai Qingge said, "You don't want to try it again, do you?"

Shang Hongxiu shook her head, "You can definitely save me."

"Yeah." Bai Qingge did not deny it.

"It even has the ability to kill the grasshoppers and eliminate the harm to the people."

"Yeah." Bai Qingge still expressed affirmation.

"So?" Bai Qingge asked.

"What will it take for you to help me?"

It seems that Shang Hongxiu is very clear about her situation.

"I won't help you directly this time. You have to escape on your own."

"This time?" Shang Hongxiu noticed the key words in Bai Qingge's words.

"You who understand this world through storybooks should know that peerless masters will go through a series of tests when selecting their successors." Bai Qingge said meaningfully.

"Is this your test for me?"

"That's right, but don't worry, even if you fail in the end I will still get you away safely. Now you can focus on the exam, right?"

At night, cool breezes rushed into the cave.

The kerosene lamp on the table had long been extinguished. Shang Hongxiu, who had been awakened by the cold, was shivering and groping in the dark for a flint or some warm clothes.

But unfortunately, she didn't find anything decent after searching the entire package.

"Really? This is the only extra help you can get. You'll have to figure it out on your own after this."

The mysterious man's helpless voice rang in her ears, and then she felt herself being pulled into a warm bed.

"It's furry. Is this a fur coat?"

But it felt like this size was even bigger, wrapping her entire body inside.

Shang Hongxiu curiously reached out to touch it. It had body temperature and was still moving!

No, this should be breathing...

Shang Hongxiu was shocked when she realized what was going on. What could such a big animal be?!

Even the tigers in the mountains are not this big.

"If you keep touching me with your claws, you'll stay here alone in the wind all night." Bai Qingge spoke every word with a hint of gnashing of teeth.

She didn't want to become like this, but who knows how to make it work under the current circumstances.

"......sorry."

Shang Hongxiu silently retracted her claws and placed them on her thigh. The soft hair swept across the back of her hand like a brush, making her shudder.

Unknown things in the darkness are always more terrifying. Shang Hongxiu shrank her neck into the soft hair.

What could this feeling of being wrapped up, feeling safe and warm be like?

Shang Hongxiu fell asleep while thinking, until she was woken up by the singing of birds in the early morning.

"Well......"

She reached out her hand to support herself, but found the wall was hard and cold. She opened her eyes and looked at the cave that was in full view.

"It's gone..." She hadn't seen what it was yet, and there was some disappointment in Shang Hongxiu's eyes.

"Are you too decadent? You didn't think about anything the whole night and just slept." Bai Qingge's dissatisfied voice sounded in Shang Hongxiu's mind.

Shang Hongxiu felt a little strange after hearing this. Although the mysterious man kept nagging in her ear, his tone did not fluctuate much.

Just as the other party said, he might be a peerless master who is looking for a disciple to inherit his mantle.

Even when I chose such a stupid method as using a hemp rope to escape, the other party only had some intention to stop me, but that was just some intention, because the other party didn't even open his mouth to stop me.

Now he actually showed her this tone, could it be that last night...

"According to my estimation, Cao Shangfei will be back in three days at the latest. Have you thought of a plan to deal with it?"

When the most important thing at this stage was mentioned, Shang Hongxiu's thoughts were also drawn back.

Shang Hongxiu stood up, stretched her arms and legs, then opened the package on the stone table.

The dry food that Cao Shangfei mentioned as enough to last for 10 days was just a dozen sweet potatoes and a bag of fried flour the size of a woman's fist.

Even if it's just a few years old, this is not enough food for 10 days.

There were originally a few pieces of pastries, which Cao Shangfei used to please Shang Hongxiu.

Perhaps in his opinion, such behavior can move a woman to tears.

"You can only eat it raw in this state."

Not to mention that there was nothing to start the fire, there was nothing in the cave that could burn.

There was mud when I took a bite, so I just managed to eat one for breakfast.

"Now that you're full, you should think of a solution, right?" Bai Qingge reminded again.

"Gu~~~~" The roar of 'General Du' was so loud that it even echoed in the cave.

"..."

Seeing this lack of urgency, she began to wonder who was kidnapped.

Am I the one who was kidnapped?

She shouldn't have told Shang Hongxiu before that she would cover for her even if she failed to escape.

Shang Hongxiu blushed shyly and waved her hands repeatedly to deny, "I'm not really hungry either. I've already started thinking of a solution."

"Forget it, it's better to work after you're full. Wait for me for a while."

Half an hour later.

A raging flame rose in the damp cave.

"You can't put it in now, it will burn." Bai Qingge stopped Shang Hongxiu from throwing the sweet potatoes directly into the fire.

Only after the fire was extinguished did Shang Hongxiu carefully place two sweet potatoes into the red-hot ashes and cover them.

"Thank you. You said you would only help me this once. I'm sorry, senior, for making an exception for you."

After yesterday, Shang Hongxiu's respect for Bai Qingge rose several levels.

"It's just a little firewood. It's not much help."

Compared to using her body to keep warm, this is really nothing. If she didn't want to experience life better, she could turn raw sweet potatoes into cooked sweet potatoes without firewood. But that would be too boring, wouldn't it?

Laziness drives human progress, but when life is surrounded by technology and people reach a real standard of living with nothing to eat or wear, they will find that something seems to be missing in their life.

It took her a while to realize that her life lacked the flavor of life.

"So sweet, so hot, whoosh—"

Although you can taste the sweetness of raw sweet potatoes by chewing them slowly, it is true that hot cooked food is more soothing.

The scorching warmth passed through her fingers, causing Shang Hongxiu to wipe her eyes with her back turned, although she didn't know who she was turning her back to.

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