"Mom! What have you been eating behind my back?"

Huo Xiaolong came out after smelling the aroma. The child was probably still asleep, rubbing his eyes as he spoke.

"Why are you awake, Long'er?"

Cen Ang hugged the little dumpling into his arms, took an empty bowl, and put two pieces of meat in her bowl.

"It smells so good!" Huo Xiaolong exclaimed.

"Sister, don't spoil her. What kind of child doesn't sleep at night?" He Yi said, feigning anger.

"Oh dear, Mother!"

The little girl was tugging at her sleeve and acting cute again, making her mother's feigned stern face laugh.

"You guys went out for late-night snacks and didn't even invite me!"

"Okay, eat quickly, it'll get cold soon. But don't eat too much, or it will be hard to digest, and your stomach will feel uncomfortable tomorrow morning."

He Yi picked up the bowl, dipped it in sauce, and fed the meat to her daughter.

The group ate until midnight. Huo Xiaolong slept with Cen's mother that night.

The woman hugged her and turned to speak to Zhang's mother.

"Find two people to deal with that spy in the room."

Zhang's mother was stunned. Where could she find someone in the middle of the night? She couldn't possibly drag those masters out of bed, could she?

At this moment, Huo Xiaocheng, who was preparing to go home to sleep, said...

"Auntie, Erhei and I can take care of it for you, no need to trouble Aunt Zhang to find someone."

The burly, dark-skinned boy nodded behind him. Ever since Erhei came to the Huo family, he had been hanging out with Huo Xiaocheng every day. Erhei listened to whatever Huo Xiaocheng said.

Cen Ang nodded, turned on the hidden door, and said...

Go ahead.

"Wow! Mom! There's another door inside!"

Huo Xiaolong looked at Cen Ang with admiration and said, then she continued to ask...

"Mom, can I go in and take a look?"

The woman shook her head and said...

"No, you should go to sleep."

The little dumpling pouted and reluctantly got into bed.

Erhei and Huo Xiaocheng walked through the long, dark passage. The candlelight on the walls flickered intermittently, sometimes making a "poof" sound, which was somewhat frightening.

The two walked to the innermost part and saw the spies the boy had captured earlier that day.

The bearded man lay on the ground with a black cloth covering his eyes. Next to him was a bucket of water with a strip of cloth on top. Every now and then, a drop of water would drip into the bucket, making a dripping sound.

Every inch of his exposed skin was unhealthy.

The bearded man thought

As a spy, he was prepared to be captured and subjected to all kinds of torture; he accepted everything physically, but he never expected...

From the moment his eyes were blindfolded and he was enveloped in darkness, his psychological defenses began to crumble.

Erhei took the wooden bucket away and asked...

"Xiao Cheng, where do we put this guy? Is he alive or dead?"

"It should be alive, since it doesn't seem to have any fatal injuries."

The boy stepped forward to check the bearded man's breath; the man was ice-cold and lifeless.

"Dead," Huo Xiaocheng said.

"How could he be dead?" Erhei asked. Although he hadn't been practicing martial arts for long, he could tell that the man's external injuries weren't fatal.

"Scared to death"

Huo Xiaocheng removed the black cloth covering the man's eyes, revealing his wide-open eyes, his face filled with terror, and his mouth still slightly agape.

"Huh?" Erhei was a little confused.

How could someone be scared to death? What did Cen's mother do to him? A woman, capable of scaring someone to death!

Erhei shuddered and said

"Well... let's get to work."

His voice trembled slightly. He should stop being so loud and boisterous in front of the girls at brothels; their mothers could scare someone to death.

The two boys carried the body out of the hidden door and, under the cover of night, went to the deep mountains outside the county and buried the body in a secluded corner.

On the way back, Erhei finally couldn't help but ask.

"Xiao Cheng, I haven't spent much time in the Great Yan before. Are all the women here so ruthless? Sometimes when I go to restaurants, I hear scholars talking about how barbaric the Xiongnu women are. But I feel like our girls are much wilder than the Xiongnu!"

The burly young man was a little afraid to look at Huo Xiaocheng's face. If he said that the girls in the border town were wild, wouldn't that include his mother, his sister, and the girls he liked?

However, he didn't intend to explain that it was indeed included.

Huo Xiaocheng looked up at the moonlight, thought for a moment, and said...

"I don't know about other places, but the girls in our little corner of the world are probably all pretty wild."

The boy didn't think "wild" was a bad word; he believed it described a free-spirited, unrestrained, and rude nature.

Putting aside their personalities, none of the women in the family are easy to mess with. Even his crybaby mother is like a wasp stinging you when she's unhappy.

Besides, is it really so bad to live like a gentle and refined woman from Jiangnan?

Is it enough to live like a well-bred lady from a prominent family in Beijing?

Only the weak want you to be gentle, and to stand up for them when they are being bullied.

You are a gentle person

He didn't want the women around him to live like that.

He hoped that his mother and her sister would always be like this, immediately retaliating when wronged and taking action against injustice.

I don't care if others call me barbaric or wild.

Only your enemies would want you to be weak.

The burly, dark-skinned boy scratched his head, puzzled as to why his good brother, who always valued family, wasn't angry or scolding him.

"It's fine as it is," Huo Xiaocheng said.

Erhei nodded. It was good; at least they wouldn't be bullied anymore.

Two bright and carefree young men, flashing their white teeth, hurried home on horseback.

————Pingyang County Government Office

"Lord Wei, we arrived yesterday evening, but we haven't received any reply from our people. You promised to take good care of our tribe's spies, so where are they now?" said a tall man wearing a cotton-padded coat and fur jacket.

After Wei Ci sent his men to deliver a message to the Xiongnu priest, a group of tall, strong men arrived from the grasslands yesterday. They broke up their ranks and entered Pingyang County in batches. The leader went straight to the county government office early the next morning.

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