Chapter 46: Eating secretly and exercising after meals are very important.
"Why don't you eat?" Zhang Liu turned his head to spit out a fragment towards the shore. Out of the corner of his eye, Zhang Liu saw the two people who were stopping eating. He asked in confusion, "Are you full?"
"No..." Qin Rushuang looked at her plate and Anya's plate. Two-thirds of their plates were made up of oyster meat, and the rest were made up of kelp roots. Then she looked at the other person's bowl and saw that most of it consisted of kelp roots, and even the oyster meat was still in fragments. "Zhang Liu, you shouldn't do this when it comes to food," she said in a very low voice.
"Haa?" Zhang Liu was stunned for a moment, and his eyes suddenly fell on the fruit on the ground with a guilty look. He had only picked up five in total now, and after eating the first piece, he could only eat two in a row before giving the remaining two to Qin Rushuang and Anya. Did Qin Rushuang catch this scene of him stealing food beforehand? Damn, he thought Anya was warming herself with the fire and Qin Rushuang was weeding her body, so they didn't even notice him! Many thoughts flashed through his mind, and Zhang Liu coughed twice and said, "This... how should I say..."
He spoke hesitantly, thinking he had been caught stealing food, and he was so embarrassed now that he didn't know what to say.
"You're a boy; you should eat more!" Qin Rushuang's words stunned Zhang Liu.
"That's right! If you need help, tell me what to do." Anya's words left Qin Rushuang stunned.
Zhang Liu looked at Qin Rushuang in surprise, Qin Rushuang looked at Anya in surprise, and Anya looked at Zhang Liu anxiously. The three formed a strange cycle.
In the end, when Anya was still feeling shy, she poured half of the oyster meat in her bowl into Zhang Liu's bowl, then rushed into the cave a few steps and said, "I'll be on night watch for the second half of the night; I'm going to sleep after eating!"
Zhang Liu looked at his filled bowl speechlessly, and then Qin Rushuang beside him also recovered from the shock.
Many thoughts flashed through her mind, but in the end she showed a gentle smile on her face and said, "Classmate Zhang Liu, Classmate Anya is right; you need to eat more."
Qin Rushuang extended her chopsticks to pick up the kelp roots in Zhang Liu's bowl, then poured half of the oyster meat into his bowl.
"But… I already said I would take care of you!"
The shell seemed slippery, so Zhang Liu did not dare to avoid the behavior of the two people. But he also explained very seriously, "I can still feel full if I eat this kind of kelp, but you girls are already weak. If you don't eat more protein-rich foods, what will happen if something goes wrong?"
Qin Rushuang didn't say anything with a guilty expression on her face; she just looked at Zhang Liu with tenderness in her eyes.
From inside the cave, Anya complained sadly, "My body is not weak! Do you want a fight?"
"Okay." Faced with the kindness of the two girls, Zhang Liu remained silent.
"Thank you." Qin Rushuang whispered her thanks beside him.
"Huh?" Zhang Liu looked at her strangely, but his mouth was full of clams.
"I'm much better now, so I'll stay tonight for the first half of the night, and Anya will stay for the rest of the night." Qin Rushuang looked at the pond about half a meter away from the fire and said, "I just shouldn't let the goat come to drink water, right?"
"No!" Zhang Liu shook his head decisively and said, "I have to stay awake for the first half of the night."
In Qin Rushuang's confused eyes, he raised a wooden stick with a stone tied to the front and waved it twice, saying, "Yesterday, the sheep came to drink water in the middle of the night. If I encounter it again and it dares to come,
Zhang Liu added with a smile on his face, "Get ready to eat mutton tomorrow morning!"
Although fighting a large mammal like a goat requires great risk, Zhang Liu considered that goats eat grass anyway, so it shouldn't be too much of a risk and is safer than fighting a wolf. He could still consider gambling on this opportunity to turn the bike into a motorcycle.
Qin Rushuang did not speak; she just looked at the "War Hammer Staff" that Zhang Liu was holding in silence.
"Zhang Liu, do you know how to use this?" At this moment, Anya's voice came from the cave again. Even though she said she was going to sleep, after hearing the voices of the two people below the cave, a small head still popped up to watch. Now looking at the weapon in Zhang Liu's hand, she said, "Do you want me to teach you two moves?"
"You?" Zhang Liu looked at Anya and was immediately speechless. What can this little girl teach me?
"I'm from the Kendo Club!" Anya walked out of the cave, quickly ran to the firewood pile, and found a wooden stick that was more than half its length. After holding it in her hand and weighing it several times, she said to Zhang Liu, "Would you like to try sparring?"
Zhang Liu was speechless; he did not expect Anya to be so serious.
"I'm serious." Anya looked at Zhang Liu's silent expression and explained in a very serious tone, "The swordsmanship I learned is all defensive and counter-attacking. Although they are all designed against humans, there are also some techniques that will help. If you learn some of them, you can be safer when you go to a plane wreck alone."
"Ah… okay." Zhang Liu nodded and felt that simple exercise after a meal was a good choice, so he asked, "How should I learn?"
"It's just a regular slash. Just cut me off." Anya waved the long wooden stick in her hand gently, then clasped her hands in front of her body in a classic fighting stance. Then she looked at Zhang Liu and eagerly added, "Take a stick; don't use that on me!"
Anya was also speechless. Why does this idiot want to hit her wooden stick with a stone?
"Okay!" He scratched his head in embarrassment, then lowered the hammer stick in his hand. Zhang Liu also picked up an ordinary stick from the firewood pile, walked over to Anya, and held it upright with one hand.
Qin Rushuang was sitting by the fire, eating jiabao fruit, and watching Zhang Liu and Anya's "after-dinner exercise."
"Cut it," Anya said, as, in the eyes of a girl like her who trained in kendo, Zhang Liu's behavior of holding the wooden stick in his right hand at this moment is truly stupid.
It doesn't matter if the left side is wide open; the holding position is not correct. But she didn't say anything to prompt him. Instead, she looked at Zhang Liu very seriously, waiting for the other party to attack.
"Oh! Then be careful!" Zhang Liu raised the wooden stick, tried his best to restrain his strength, and then swung it in the air in front of Anya. In his mind, this was just a farce, as he could play with Anya for a while and then make her sleep.
Anya did not answer Zhang Liu; she only leaned forward, then extended the wooden stick in her hand decisively, making a blocking gesture.
"The clear sound of wooden sticks hitting each other exploded onto the shore." Zhang Liu immediately felt pain in his thumb and had to pull the stick out of his hand. He looked at the wooden strips on the floor in confusion, then looked at Anya, who was slowly turning around to adjust her position, feeling a little confused for a moment. What has happened now? Why did my thumb suddenly hurt?
"The way you're holding it is wrong. Without the handguard, the thumb can't be at the top alone. This will make the grip unstable, and the weapon will be swept away" Anya threw the wooden stick in her hand, took Zhang Liu's hand, and began to explain in detail how to hold the wooden stick. She also took the initiative to walk around behind him, hugged Zhang Liu, and began to teach him step by step.
Zhang Liu continued to make a good teaching voice of, "Oh, ok, aha aha."
Beside her, Qin Rushuang, who was still smiling at the interaction between the two at the beginning, began to lose the smile on her face. There seemed to be something wrong with the situation, and suddenly an idea came to her mind.
Anya's tone was very serious at first, but now she started to let Zhang Liu grab her from behind, then hold her hand and "look for the corner" to learn. After carefully watching Anya's rapid breathing while being held in Zhang Liu's arms, Qin Rushuang suddenly understood.
This girl…
Although she felt extremely uncomfortable, she had to admit that Anya was actually teaching useful things at the moment.
"I'll go to sleep first. I'll be on duty at midnight today. Zhang Liu, remember to call me." After walking up to the two of them and saying a simple word, Qin Rushuang turned around and left.
Zhang Liu also realized that he seemed to be holding Anya in his arms...
"Ah… classmate Anya, I'm so sorry..." He quickly let go of Anya, then apologized again and again.
Anya was very angry that Qin Rushuang had ruined a good thing, but she was still more worried about what Zhang Liu said: "What did you call me just now?"
"Anya...oh no! Anya! Anya! It's Anya!" While Zhang Liu apologized again and again, Anya also went up to the cave and lay down next to Qin Rushuang.
Through the firelight outside, the two of them could see each other's expressions. Anya's face was full of dissatisfaction, while Qin Rushuang smiled gently.
As for Zhang Liu, he stood next to the fire and began to practice the technique Anya had just told him about how to effectively attack the waists of large animals.
A bright moon appeared from the east, and as it brought a cold light, the voices in the entire wilderness fell silent as well.
Night 4 has finally officially arrived.
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