After Hu Yong informed Ming Yan of the matter, Hu Que was punished, and the punishment was severe.
After dozens of lashes, he collapsed to the ground.
"I can't understand it!!" Hu Que shouted.
It was clearly him and Jie Ling who planned to slander Si Yan's younger brothers, so why did the outcome turn out the other way around?
Where exactly did things go wrong?!
"Si Yan hit me! It must have been Si Yan who hit me!" Hu Que cried uncontrollably. "She even slandered me! She made me suffer so many lashes! Even Lord Ming Yan doesn't like me anymore!"
Hu Yong applied medicine to Hu Que.
"When has Lord Mingyan ever liked you?"
"You!" Hu Que was so anxious that he almost sat up, but almost instantly screamed in pain.
"Don't mess with Si Yan. You're not strong enough to mess with him." Hu Yong slapped the medicine onto Hu Que's back with a stick, and Hu Que almost fainted from the pain.
Hu Que lay down, "But she's not from Black Tiger City."
Hu Yong: "Didn't you realize that the master is trying to win her over?"
Hu Que's eyes widened: "She's so thin and weak, why would you want her, sir?"
Hu Yong pressed down again: "You're so skinny and weak, barely any meat on your bones, and we still managed to get you here lying down. Tell me, are you convinced or not?"
Hu Que gritted his teeth.
In fact, Hu Yong was unaware that someone had previously beaten him up, and Hu Que suspected that the person who beat him up was Si Yan in disguise.
If we're talking about Si Yan, this male is intelligent and also quite good at fighting.
So, he really had nothing to complain about...
But I'm a little unwilling to accept it.
After all, they were abused so badly.
"Don't go to Jie Ling's place either," Hu Yong said. "You should have realized that the girl doesn't have feelings for you. She just wants you to run errands for her."
At this point, Hu Que was utterly frustrated: "She's taken a liking to Si Yan, but Si Yan hasn't taken a liking to her. It's infuriating."
He can't beat her in a fight, and he can't outsmart her. The female he likes still likes him.
The defeat was too complete.
...
The three children pushed Si Yan into the room.
Bei Ji was overjoyed: "Mother, we hunted some meat, we'll cook it for you!"
Si Yan could tell that the three kids were quite proud of their achievements today.
She was generous with her rewards, praising each of the three children one after another.
Finally, she called Dong Chi, Xi Qing, and Bei Ji to her side.
Dong Chi was a little awkward: "You naughty female, what are you trying to do?"
Si Yan complained, "You called me 'Mother' so well before, but you have to call me 'bad female' all the time."
“It sounds natural,” Dong Chi said matter-of-factly.
Si Yan burst out laughing.
Dong Chi didn't deny that her mother was much, much better than before.
"Today, I will teach you how to control fire," Si Yan said.
"Control the fire?" Dong Chi, Xi Qing, and Bei Ji asked in unison.
Si Yan: "I have taught you how to use fire, but there are actually many more techniques for using fire than this. Today I will also teach you how to start a fire, how to prevent the flames from spreading, what things are easy to ignite and what things are not, what will burn and what won't."
Three pairs of eyes, one red in the east, one blue in the west, and one clear in the north, were fixed intently on her. Flames flickered within those three eyes. Fire was something sacred to them.
"I'll teach you how to start a fire first." Si Yan took out a few things she had for starting a fire. "You've seen this before, it's a lighter. There's only one of these, and once it's used up, it's gone. It's very convenient, but it's just a consumable."
After saying that, she took out something from the side: "This is a magnifying glass. On a sunny day, you can put some wood chips under the magnifying glass. The magnifying glass will focus the light and concentrate the temperature, which can ignite the wood chips."
Then, she took out two more stones: "These are flints. Smell these stones."
Si Yan handed the stone to the three children, and they all smelled it.
"Remember its appearance and taste. When you need to start a fire in the future, find this kind of flint and rub it like this."
Si Yan sharpened a flint on the wood shavings and then lit a fire. She then extinguished the fire.
"Did you understand?" Si Yan asked.
The three children nodded in agreement.
Si Yan said, "There's also the most basic method: making fire by friction. Like this, you dig a hole in this piece of wood, put some sawdust in it, and start a fire by rubbing it together. But this method is rather clumsy."
The three children nodded repeatedly.
Si Yan pushed the things to them and said, "We probably won't be leaving today. We still have some time this afternoon. You don't need to learn how to start a fire with a lighter. You can work out the other three together."
The three children quickly took away the lighter, flint, and wood for making fire by friction, and began to learn how to start a fire.
Si Yan watched and gave instructions, teaching them which things were easily flammable and which were not. She also taught them how to control a fire, keeping it contained and how to extinguish it with water and sand if a fire broke out.
In this world, fire is so mysterious and sacred that when the three children came into contact with and controlled the flames, it was as if they were performing a miracle.
Si Yan stared intently at Xi Qing, who was wearing a silver mask.
Because he was injured by fire, Xi Qing was terrified of flames. Now, when facing flames, he no longer fears them, but instead feels a sense of excitement at being able to control them.
Si Yan smiled with relief.
**
It was that annoying female voice: "Father beast."
The male's anxious voice said, "If you want to talk to me, don't do it here! The Second Miss is right here!"
"Her. Ha, she's just an idiot. She's clearly an idiot, yet she has such a beautiful face. She's clearly a useless piece of trash, yet the female mother still loves her so much!" The female's voice was filled with jealousy and hatred as she kicked her hard.
"Serves him right for being an idiot. Father, don't worry, it's safest for us to talk here."
Si Yan felt the pain of being kicked, and she reached out to the female for help, confused: "Sister, sister...it hurts, Yan Yan hurts..."
Perhaps because it was a dream, Si Yan couldn't see the faces of the two people clearly.
The female kicked her again: "Sister? Don't call me sister. I don't have a sister like you. It's disgusting!"
Si Yan heard the male comforting the female, then the female angrily exclaimed, "Why, why?! Bai Feng, such a perfect male, is being offered to her by the female mother! What do I lack compared to this idiot? What do I lack?!"
"I'm not reconciled! They're both daughters, yet she gets the perfect male, while I'm left to feed the snakes... Father beast, I'm not reconciled!"
As she roared, the female shouted angrily, "It's all because of you! It's all because you don't get the mother's favor! Even though this fool's father is dead, the mother still loves her father the most!"
"I don't believe in fate, I don't believe in fate. I want to trade my life with hers."
"I want her to be fed to the snakes, and I want to become Bai Feng's partner in her place! Hahahaha!!"
The plot suddenly changes, and the scene appears in Si Yan's previous dream.
The female threw her into the snake pit.
The dream continued.
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