Chapter 189 - My Husband is Still the Best (1/2)

“My husband is still the best…”

Jiang Yuning was moved to tears.

Lu Jingzhi watched as Jiang Yuning gobbled down the food greedily, as if she had been starving all along. “Slow down. Eat slowly.”

Both of them had already decided to take a different route down the mountain today. The route that they had planned on taking would be on the opposite side of the mountain. This side of the mountain would challenge both of them physically as they make their way down.

After eating her breakfast, Jiang Yuning quickly cleaned up before she grabbed her backpack and followed after Lu Jingzhi.

Jiang Yuning had initially thought that hiking down the mountain would be easier with Lu Jingzhi, but she was wrong. Lu Jingzhi stuck to his promise and was very strict with her.

His footsteps were way quicker in comparison to Ku Jie’s and at this time, he was like an emotionless machine.

Jiang Yuning’s feet were full of blisters from the hike and her feet began to hurt because she had to walk faster to catch up with Lu Jingzhi.

However, despite her pain, Jiang Yuning did not complain at all but she merely followed after Lu Jingzhi quietly.

Eventually, both of them came upon a river and there was no way for them to get across.

Lu Jingzhi took his backpack off before he passed it to Jiang Yuning. He then pointed at a large rock by the river bank and said, “Go there and rest for a little while.”

“What about you?”

“I am going to cut down a tree to make a bridge,” Lu Jingzhi replied briefly before he took a survival knife out from his boots.

“I will go with you,” Jiang Yuning responded before she placed her backpack down and ran after Lu Jingzhi.

“You do not need to use a lot of force or strength to do it.”

“I got it,” Jiang Yuning replied confidently. This was because Ku Jie had already taught her how to use her intelligence instead of strength to obtain wood in the wild.

However, she was really weak in comparison to Lu Jingzhi.

In this aspect, all men were naturally stronger than women. Jiang Yuning thought that it was very unfair.

After a short while, they had already chopped down five tree trunks to make into a bridge. Lu Jingzhi used his survival knife to scrape one of the barks of the tree trunk before using it to tie the five trunks tightly together. Then, he placed the tree trunk across the river.

“Let’s go,” Lu Jingzhi said as he kept his survival knife and signaled for Jiang Yuning to follow after him. However, at this time he suddenly noticed that Jiang Yuning’s shoes were already soaking wet and that her ankles were red and swollen.

Though he had already promised to be strict with her, he could not help but to feel his heart ache when he saw her ankles.

Therefore he crouched down in front of her before he said, “Sit on my lap.”

“It is okay…my shoes will dry on its own later.”

Lu Jingzhi grabbed Jiang Yuning and sat her on his lap before he removed her soaking shoes from her feet and started examining her ankles.

“You should not be wearing your shoes when it is soaking wet like this.” After that, Lu Jingzhi looked around him before he sat Jiang Yuning down on a rock. “Sit here and wait for a moment. We will dry your shoes before we start walking again. I will also use this opportunity to teach you how to dry your shoes more effectively in the wild.”

After speaking, Lu Jingzhi went around collecting pebbles to build a simple cooker in order to boil some water with some smaller rocks in it.

After the water started boiling, Lu Jingzhi use two sticks to pick up the hot stones before placing them into Jiang Yuning’s shoes.

“If you use this method, you can easily accelerate the evaporation of the water in your shoes. Do you understand now?”

Jiang Yuning nodded her head immediately. “Second brother, your teaching methods and your way of doing things are completely different from my brother’s.”

Ku Jie was very good at making use of the terrains and natural resources that nature had to offer, whereas Lu Jingzhi was very skillful and intelligent.

Ku Jie had derived his knowledge and skills from his previous mountaineering and camping experience, whereas Lu Jingzhi gained all his knowledge and skills from his training and time in the army.

“This way, you can fill in the gaps easily,” Lu Jingzhi replied as he looked at Jiang Yuning’s feet again.

Since Jiang Yuning was already originally very fair-skinned, the bright red blood stains of the wounds on her ankles appeared very obvious.

Lu Jingzhi quickly cleaned her wounds and after struggling for a while, he finally revealed how much his heart was aching to see her in pain. He put her feet down before he said, “You had better rest for a little longer before we continue our journey down the mountain.”