Chapter 376: Crossing the Kaiping River

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"You speak well, little brother!" Old Uncle Xiao applauded Xiao Ruo's words, "Feng Liangbi deserves death at everyone's hands!"

Yu Zhengzhong had a piece of advice on the tip of his tongue, but he held it back, planning to keep a close eye on the girl once they were in the military camp, to prevent her from causing trouble.

That night, Old Uncle Xiao made each of them a bowl of coarse rice and wild herb porridge, not a drop of oil in it; calling it wild herb porridge was nearly a misnomer since it was almost all wild veggies with hardly any rice, but Xiao Ruo knew that, for Old Uncle Xiao's household, this was already quite decent fare.

The next day when they were leaving, Xiao Ruo quietly took out a two- to three-pound bag of soybean flour and a dried fish from her space and left them in Old Uncle Xiao's kitchen.

She originally carried a bundle, so the mere addition of a few pounds of soybeans and a dried fish wouldn't have raised Old Uncle Xiao's suspicions.