Nan Yu silently cut the last piece of at and threw it into the basket.
Then she looked up at him, "What you said is too fake. Next ti you want to scare soone, rember to add a story about a wild beast eating a person; otherwise, it’s not convincing."
Ren Xingzhou: "... You don’t believe it?"
Nan Yu looked at him, "Do you think I would believe such a clumsy lie?"
Ren Xingzhou fell silent.
Nan Yu washed her hands and turned back to him, "Brother Ren, what do we do next?"
Ren Xingzhou glanced at the at in the basket, took a carrying basket from inside it, put the basket back in, and then hoisted it onto his back.
"Nan Yu, follow and rember the way. Tomorrow, you will co to feed it by yourself."
Nan Yu followed behind him, "Okay."
After walking a few steps, Ren Xingzhou couldn’t let it go and looked back, "Are you really not afraid?"
As Nan Yu walked on the mountain path, she told him, "I’m not even afraid of people, let alone wild beasts."
Ren Xingzhou saw her clear, calm eyes, as if there was nothing in this world that she feared.
"Nan Yu, I find you quite interesting, nothing like what the lady said about you."
Nan Yu paid attention to the mountain road underfoot as she followed behind him.
"What did the lady say about ?"
Ren Xingzhou eyed a side path and ducked into the woods.
"The lady said you have a terrible temperant, rebellious and disobedient, a troublemaker, and that you often bullied Miss Qingqing. But looking at you now, you seem to do your work diligently and are quite obedient."
Nan Yu lightly laughed upon hearing this, "Aren’t you afraid I’m just pretending?"
Ren Xingzhou shook his head, "Though I haven’t t many people, those eyes of yours don’t deceive. You’re not that kind of person."
Nan Yu slightly pursed her lips, thinking of Nan Qingqing’s fox-like eyes, "Maybe eyes can deceive people, too."
Ren Xingzhou still shook his head, "Eyes can’t lie to people."
Nan Yu moved through the woods, with specks of sunlight from the gaps in the leaves falling on her shoulders.
"Brother Ren, that’s because you haven’t seen eyes that can deceive, so you say that."
Ren Xingzhou, hearing her conviction, looked back at Nan Yu and saw her smile tinged with bitterness.
He beca curious about what Nan Yu must have been through to utter such words.
Soon, they arrived at the deepest part of the dense forest.
The surroundings were unusually quiet, with mottled light and shadows falling on the damp ground, and the air was filled with a moist scent.
"We’re here."
Ren Xingzhou’s voice broke the silence.
He set down the carrying basket, took out the basket, and chose an open space to place it.
Then, he turned back to Nan Yu and said, "Go hide in that clump of grass."
Nan Yu, puzzled, squatted in the nearby bush and saw Ren Xingzhou take a whistle out of his pocket.
Then she saw him blowing the whistle, with rhythmic notes piercing the sky.
As soon as he finished, he quickly climbed the nearest tree and perched high up.
Nan Yu was about to speak when she saw Ren Xingzhou put his index finger to his lips, gesturing for silence with a ’shh’ motion.
She pursed her lips and continued to squat quietly in place, staring intently at the at in the center.
Suddenly, she heard the rustling of leaves nearby.
Sothing was coming!
Nan Yu imdiately heightened all her awareness, watching the central spot even more vigilantly.
Whoosh——
The leaves in the distance started to shake more and more discernibly.
For a mont, she thought she saw a flash of white.
But it disappeared just as quickly.
While she was confused, suddenly the clear rustling of leaves was heard beside her.
Nan Yu’s neck tensed up, and a sense of danger flooded her nostrils.
She turned around quickly, her pupils shrinking.
A massive white creature appeared before her eyes, just within an arm’s reach.
"Roar!"
The giant white lion leapt towards her with a bound.
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