Chapter 101 It’s okay if it tastes bad

Xu Qingcheng and Xiao Mingxuan had always been at odds, and at this moment they were glaring at each other like fighting cocks. In his anger, he subconsciously picked up the wine glass on the table and drank it all. After drinking it, he belatedly stared at the glass for two long moments and suddenly fell silent.

Liuyuan: "..."

If the occasion wasn't inappropriate, he would have wanted to beat this pighead to death.

Xihe blinked her eyes and resigned herself to her fate as she went to look for the detoxification pills in the space. Fortunately, she found one in a corner. It seemed to be a defective product left over from one of her medicine refining sessions.

Xihe was silent for a while, then secretly stuffed the medicine into Liu Yuan's arms, the meaning was self-evident.

It doesn't matter if it tastes bad, she won't eat it anyway~

Liu Yuan glanced down casually, then put the medicine into his sleeve.

As night fell, the sound of a few crows cawing could be heard outside, which seemed particularly terrifying in the dark.

Ning Jiang glanced outside and said, "It's getting dark and difficult to travel. I guess your guests and their companions won't arrive until tomorrow. Why don't you stay at my Dafengzhai today? That way, I can show my hospitality."

Xihe quietly tugged at Liu Yuan's sleeve and thought to herself, "Don't stay, let's go!"

Unexpectedly, Liu Yuan turned a deaf ear to him, pulled his sleeves out of the little girl's arms, and responded with a smile, "Then we have Lao Ning, the head of the family. However, the child is still young and afraid of the dark at night, so there is no need to arrange for him to live separately. He can just live with us."

It's natural for children to be afraid of the dark, so Ning Jiang agreed without giving it much thought. "Of course, of course. Please come in, my dear guest."

The four of them were placed in a courtyard. Before closing the door, Xu Qingcheng glanced outside and shook his head. "There are people, but they're far away."

The fake smile that Liu Yuan had been wearing all afternoon suddenly disappeared without a trace. He rubbed his face, stood up, poured a cup of tea, and extinguished the incense burner beside him with his backhand.

Soon, wisps of green smoke floated out from the gaps in the incense burner.

"You're really careful. You know something about the incense." Liu Yuan put down the cup, stood up, walked over to Xu Qingcheng, and said straight to the point: "Open your mouth!"

Xu Qingcheng didn't understand why but subconsciously opened his mouth and a pill was thrown in. Liu Yuan raised his hand to close his mouth and pinched his neck, and the pill went down his throat.

Xihe's mouth opened slightly, her face filled with shock.

She was originally worried about how the strange uncle would explain the pill, but she didn't expect it to be so simple and crude.

sharp!

Xu Qingcheng swallowed something unknown, but didn't think of asking.

After Liu Yuan finished dealing with the trivial matters, he slumped down in the armchair. The non-stop work all day had almost worn him out. "Tell me, what did you find out?"

Xihe handed over the piece of "gold" and said, "Uncle Weird, look."

Liu Yuan pinched it and took a bite. The sweet taste exploded in his mouth, but he spat it out in two moments.

"sugar?"

Xihe nodded, "It's just candy, and that whole box is full of it, there's no real one."

Liu Yuan had a sharp mind and immediately figured out the key point. He snorted coldly, "What a trick to lure someone into a trap."

The little girl climbed onto the soft couch beside her, dangling her little feet. "That's what my brother said too~"

Xiao Mingxuan was suddenly called out. He looked up and saw that the little girl had started sucking her thumb again. Resigned to his fate, he went over and pulled her hair back. "Zhao Xihe, I told you not to suck your thumb, but you pulled my hair. Now you're sucking your thumb again. Are you asking for a beating?"

The little girl pouted, looking extremely aggrieved. Liu Yuan was happy to watch the fun and was too lazy to stop her.

It's rare to see this little fox suffer a loss, isn't it a joy?

Seeing that no one was helping her, and even Xu Qingcheng, who wanted to show affection to her, was stopped by Liu Yuan's eyes, Xihe was completely defeated. "I didn't want to do this either, but... I couldn't help it."

I want to cry when I think of Xihe. She has a six-year-old body but a core that is hundreds of years old. But I don’t know if it’s because of the influence of her body, some baby movements emerge unconsciously.

As she spoke, Xihe began to pull her hair subconsciously again, and the bun that she had tied with great difficulty was messed up again.

Xiao Mingxuan took several deep breaths before resigning himself to his fate and pulling the man over. He tied his hair again and said, "If you dare to pull my hair again, I'll tie your hands!"

I still remember the first time Xiao Mingxuan tied Xihe's hair. The unfamiliarity was still fresh in my mind. Now that he's done it so many times, his technique is incredibly skilled, and he can easily tie two buns in no time.

The little girl shook her head, not at all calm. "Uncle Weird, since you already know, why don't we leave?"

"Leave?" Liu Yuan didn't dare to use anything in the room. The wine flask on his waist was almost empty. He took the last sip and threw it aside. "There are so many people outside. If they want to get out, do you think you two little ones can do it, or do you think a useless person like me can? Isn't this courting death?"

Hearing Liu Yuan call him a "useless person", Xu Qingcheng frowned in disapproval, "Don't say that about yourself!"

Liu Yuan snorted, too lazy to argue.

Turning around, the little girl also had a stern face and said seriously, "Don't talk about yourself like that!"

Liuyuan: "..."

After being lectured by an old man and a child at once, Liu Yuan suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and his nonchalant aura became more obvious. "You two are almost done, let's get down to business, why are you dragging me into this?"

The little girl turned her head and left the other person with an angry look on her back.

Liu Yuan felt embarrassed and said awkwardly, "Okay, let's get back to business."

Then he said, "The reason I agreed to stay is because we can't get out with just a few of us. We need reinforcements."

"When will the reinforcements arrive?" Xihe felt a little sleepy, and leaned back habitually, lying in Xiao Mingxuan's arms.

"We're already there." Liu Yuan also imitated Xihe and found a soft pillow to lean on. The soft pillow greatly relieved his sleepiness. "I guess they've already infiltrated by now?"

Xu Qingcheng opened the window a little, glanced toward the southwest, and then nodded, "We're almost there."

They are not fools, why wouldn't they leave a way out for themselves?

On the surface, there were only four of them, but secretly, half of their reinforcements were ambushed within a hundred meters of Dafeng Village. If they still hadn't emerged by nightfall, that group would disguise themselves and sneak in to rescue them.

“So fast!”

They only went up the mountain in the afternoon, and reinforcements had been arranged by evening.

"We have to hurry. We can wait, but Ning Jiang can't." Liu Yuan snorted coldly, "First the knockout drug, then the knockout incense. If my estimate is correct, they will make their move tonight."

"Uncle Weird, did you know long ago that they were bad guys?" Xihe thought Liu Yuan was amazing. She knew some things with the help of the Divine Tree, but Liu Yuan seemed to have known it for a long time and secretly took away half of the reinforcements that were supposed to go to the secret room in the jungle.

"It's just a guess, but there's no evidence."