By the Luo River.
Riding the moonlight, Jiang Ning leaped several times and returned from the rocky shoal to his own courtyard.
He went to the kitchen.
Jiang Ning immediately caught the wafting aroma from within, along with the crackling of burning firewood.
Creak—
With the sound of a hinge turning, Jiang Ning pushed open the kitchen's wooden door.
"Big Brother?" Jiang Ning was slightly taken aback when he saw the man cooking in the kitchen.
Jiang Li's lowered head suddenly jerked, and his body shuddered.
Clearly, Jiang Ning's voice had startled him.
Then he turned around and saw Jiang Ning standing in the kitchen doorway.
Jiang Li immediately grinned. "Little Brother!"
Then his expression shifted slightly as he asked, "What happened to you, Little Brother?"
The clothes Jiang Ning wore were soaked through by lake water, droplets constantly falling from all over his body.
Because he had stopped there, a puddle had formed on the ground at the kitchen entrance.
Hearing this, Jiang Ning smiled faintly.
"It's nothing. I just went into the water to practice my saber, so my clothes got wet."
Jiang Li immediately breathed a sigh of relief. "So that was it!"
Then he promptly stood up. "You've practiced for so long, Little Brother. You must be hungry! I've kept the food warm. Hurry and eat while it's hot!"
"Alright!" Jiang Ning nodded, his expression calm.
Yet his heart was touched.
At that moment.
Jiang Li lifted the pot lid, and a wave of steam rose at once as the fragrance of the food abruptly filled the entire kitchen.
Grrr—
At the smell of the food in the air, Jiang Ning's stomach began to rumble as well.
A moment later.
Watching Jiang Ning dig into the food like a starving tiger, Jiang Li finally felt at