29 Dream of the waterfall (1/2)

The roasted meat was finished up without a hitch. They didn't even leave a shred of leftovers for the scavengers.

All was left was a pile of white bones.

”You're good at cooking.” Xue'er commented as they returned to the cottage.

”Thank you, I put a lot of effort for many years before it became this good.” Gan Tian Chi said seriously.

They silently walked along the unmarked roads, but somehow made it back to the cottage.

Along the way, Xue'er was wondering why a man as powerful as Gan Tian Chi would always prefer the simple lifestyle of commoners. He would walk when he could get there in a short while, by using his lightness skills, he would cook food when he did not really need it for subsistence.

He was a profound mystery to her.

But, what she did not understand was that he did everything to feel closer to the lifestyle that had already past. He wanted to have that feeling of the fragility of life, it had been so many years, he was tired of remaining unchanged.

That was something a child her age would not understand.

”Hmm… Not bad.” Gan Tian Chi said as he ran his fingers across the walls and looked at them.

There was not a speck of dust to be seen.

It was as if he was judging the previous cleaning task he gave her.

She did quite well.

”You can sleep here.” Gan Tian Chi pointed at the left room, while he took the one on the right.

[Is there any difference?] She wonders as she walks into the left room, preparing to settle down.

As she walked in, she saw this room for the first time, as she did not take a close look at it while she had been cleaning. It was a small, but spacious room, with a wooden bed, a table, along with many, many shelves that were empty.

It seemed that this room had never been used before. She soon began pondering what she could store on the shelves. After all, there was a lot of space.

She took off her bag and unpacked all of the herbs she had picked along the way, placing them in the shelves after she had sorted them based on medicinal properties.

When she reached the last medicinal herb in her bag, there was only one thing left inside…

The bronze token.

Thinking about it, she had taken this from the army camp a year ago. She felt extremely guilty for causing any unnecessary troubles to that boy, but she really wanted a keepsake from the first time she was away from the forbidden ground and the token was the first thing that caught her eyes.