After crossing, I was forced to hold on to my thighs and build a kingdom

Since we have been open and honest, we must work together.

At this point, whether she likes it or not, she and the man in black in front of her are grasshoppers tied to the same rope - no one can escape!

Jin Chu glanced at the man's left abdomen. The bleeding was no longer there, but the dark red bloodstains on his clothes reminded him that this man had been seriously injured not long ago.

When he first fainted, she thought that the man would be seriously injured if not dead, but she didn't expect that he would wake up in a short time and move flexibly and agilely, which made Jin Chu couldn't help but sigh at the man's strong physique and tenacious vitality.

But even so, you bastard, you can't lead me around in circles like a headless fly, right?

After passing the crooked tree for the third time and looking at the setting sun, Jin Chu finally couldn't continue to be a puppet.

She stopped and found a rock to sit on. She put down the bamboo basket and shook her arms. Then she lowered her head to rub her sore calves. Finally, she weakly asked the man in front of her, "Young man, may I ask where you are going?"

The man in black paused, turned around, and said with a hint of embarrassment, "This place is mountainous and densely forested, and it's also your hometown. Where can you find a place to stay? I think you should know this clearly, right?"

At this point, the man had to admit that he had overestimated his ability to find the way and underestimated the difficulty of navigating the forest.

"Oh—" Jin Chu dragged out a long, meaningful tone, pointing at herself and explaining to him half-seriously, "I'm afraid I'll disappoint you, young man. A few days ago, I accidentally fell and injured my brain. Now, apart from knowing who I am, I've forgotten everything else!"

She first stared at the crooked tree, then turned to look at him with a half-smile, "So where on this mountain is there a place to rest? I don't know any more than you do, young man."

The man's aura suddenly became threatening, and his dark gaze shot towards him as if it were real. However, Jin Chu just shrugged and looked back nonchalantly.

She was a newcomer who had just arrived and was climbing the mountain for the first time. It was true that she was not familiar with the environment. Why should she pretend to be strong just because of what he said?

As for whether this man believed her or not, what did it have to do with her? She had only said that she would cooperate, but she hadn't said that she would do her best!

Meeting the girl's indifferent look, the man couldn't help but clench his fists, but finally couldn't resist and looked away. In terms of shamelessness, he was no match for her.

He knew this little village girl was as cunning as a fox, but he hadn't expected her to be so naughty and stubborn! She clearly refused to lead him, yet he couldn't do anything about it.

Jin Chu was actually very innocent. She was obviously telling the truth, but anyone who heard it would firmly believe that it was a big lie. But she couldn't explain it and felt aggrieved. However, when she saw the black-clad man's depressed but unable-to-express attitude, she suddenly became unkindly happy.

The man suppressed the tightness in his chest, said stiffly, "In that case, then continue walking with me!", and changed direction without looking back.

Jin Chu was well aware of the principle of knowing when to quit, so he grinned at the man's tall back and followed him.

Every failure makes you wiser. This time the man did not run as fast as before. He walked and stopped, looked around, and finally found a stone house halfway up the mountain just before the sun set.

Jin Chu observed with great interest this more than ten square meters, a veritable "stone house".

Except for a narrow and sturdy thick wooden door wrapped with iron sheets, the rest of the structure is made entirely of various stones.

There is a row of small stone holes on the upper left side of the front of the stone house, which probably serve as windows, and a tall chimney stands on the roof on the right.

This was probably built by hunters from nearby villages, so they could rest when the weather was bad, or put some prey they couldn't bring down the mountain with them when they had a good harvest.

The man had already walked to the door. He grabbed the copper lock on the door and looked at it, then took out the dagger, as if he was going to break the lock by force.

"Wait!" Jin Chu hurried forward to stop him, "Young man, are you going to break the lock by force?"

The man glanced at her and pushed the dagger towards the lock again, implying: It is just as you understand.

Jin Chu couldn't help but hold his forehead, "You and I are already taking advantage of this place tonight, why do we have to break the lock?"

"If you don't want to remove the lock, do you have the key?" He turned around and said sarcastically, "Or are you planning to use the sky as a blanket and the ground as a mat, and sleep in this icy snow all night?"

"That's not the case. I'm not so stupid as to sleep in the snow when I have a house." Jin Chu didn't care about the man's ridicule. She glanced at the dagger in his hand and praised him sincerely, "Young man, this dagger is cold and thin. I think it should be a good tool to cut iron like mud. As the saying goes, 'Why use a butcher knife to kill a chicken?' It's a pity to use such a treasure to cut this mottled brass lock!"

"What do you want to do?" the man asked bluntly. He had already experienced the shamelessness, fickleness, and ability of this little village girl to anger people to death! At this moment, he didn't want to say a word.

"Of course it's unlocking." Jin Chuhun didn't care about that cold face and still smiled brightly, "But instead of violent unlocking, why don't we try a gentler method?"

After saying that, she walked around the stone house and finally came to an inconspicuous stone on the right side of the stone house. She fumbled around and fumbled, and unexpectedly she found a thin strip of something wrapped in oil paper. When she opened it, she found it was a brass key.

She raised the copper key and motioned the man to try it. Sure enough, there was a "click" sound and the copper lock opened.

The locations where farmers keep their keys are actually similar, in front of the windows, under the eaves, and around the houses. This arrogant man must be surrounded by servants, so it is normal that he doesn't know these things.

"You're quite clever." Facing the girl's smug smile, the man said this reluctantly.

"Thank you." Jin Chu clasped his fists and smiled. Having solved the long-standing accommodation problem, Jin Chu, feeling relaxed, suddenly felt mischievous and continued to tease, "Young man, please don't be so violent all the time. Otherwise, it will be difficult for you to marry a beautiful wife in the future!"

"You're talking about getting married to a strange man. Are you really a girl?" The man looked at her helplessly, and there was an inexplicable hint of exasperation in his mellow voice.

"No, no, no!" Jin Chu stretched out his index finger and shook it, retorting seriously: "How could the young man be a stranger? Could it be that the young man forgot?" Jin Chu approached the man in black and kindly reminded him: "You and I hugged each other when we first met! The young man even touched my--"

"Shut up!" The man's pupils suddenly shrank and he subconsciously took two steps back, as if the girl next to him was a monster, which made Jin Chu laugh so hard that he hit the ground.

After a long while, Jin Chu finally stopped smiling. She leaned her slender and fragile neck towards the man and said, "Actually, what I want to say is that the young man also touched me---here!"

Looking at the scar on the girl's slender neck, the man felt a faint sense of apology. As if to suppress his inner emotions, he scolded her fiercely, "You're crazy and shameless! What kind of parents would raise a girl like you?"

Thinking of his original body's parents who passed away early, and thinking of his own parents whom he would never see again in another time and space, a huge sorrow surged in his heart. Jin Chu immediately stopped smiling and no longer had the heart to joke.

After a long pause, she slowly said, "I'm afraid I'll disappoint you again! My parents are both dead, and I've grown up through the wind and rain."

The implication is that her "madness and shamelessness" has nothing to do with her parents.