"I understand what Hua'er means." The man's thin lips curved slightly. She was thinking the same thing as him. Growth is fastest under real combat. Flowers in a room cannot withstand the wind and rain.
"Thank you, Zichen. I'll leave my third brother in your care." Su Hua finally felt a great weight lifted off her shoulders. On the battlefield, swords and spears have no eyes, and with Zichen's men watching over things, she could feel a little more at ease about her family.
"Between you and me, there's never any need for thanks." The man smiled and waved his hand. "Go back quickly and ask Elder Xue to make more medicine for Sanhu's injuries. There are bound to be bruises and sprains on the battlefield."
"Okay, I understand." Su Hua nodded in agreement.
Old Xue hates the heat. These days, apart from sleeping in the wooden house, he eats, drinks, and relieves himself at home. He often takes Su Dalang into the mountains to collect herbs and make medicine, and there must be quite a lot of liniment for injuries.
However, in addition to wound medicine, she also needed to prepare some life-saving medicine for Su Sanhu in critical moments.
Back home, the whole family sat in the main room. The atmosphere was a bit stiff. No one knew what Su Baishi and Su Sanhu had said, but both of them had red eyes. The others also looked unwell, even the two little boys, Su Dalang, were listless.
Meanwhile, thirty miles away, in the remote Black Mountain, a boy was throwing a hundred-pound wild boar into a snake den at the bottom of a cliff. Almost as soon as the boar landed, hundreds of vipers as thick as hemp ropes swarmed around it.
The snake opened its mouth, its forked tongue flicking in and out. In no time, the wild boar was mostly devoured, and the silent forest was filled with the soft crunching sounds.
Beside the boy's feet lay a narrow-mouthed, deep-bellied bamboo basket. Inside the basket, a black and white viper was repeatedly banging its head against the basket, its tiny, beady eyes sending chills down the spine.
"Stop struggling. Who told you to be the ugliest? My master is going to be ugly today." The boy saw the bamboo basket overturned by the impact, picked it up and was about to put it on his shoulder when he was suddenly met with bright red snake eyes. His baby face immediately wrinkled up.
"That's not right. This viper seems to have eaten two bandit leaders from the Black Mountain before. How could Master eat such disgusting stuff? Whether it's roasted or stewed, it's repulsive."
"No, no, I need to go to the mountains and catch another clean snake."
The boy looked disgusted, then opened the bamboo basket and poured the contents into the snake hole. However, the viper poked its head out of the basket, its beady green eyes darting around. Instead of jumping into the snake hole, it wrapped its tail around the basket and stood upright, trying to bite the boy's wrist.
Just as the snake's tongue was about to touch his skin, the boy swiftly slammed the snake and the bamboo basket to the ground.
He stepped on the viper's vital spot, saying, "You ugly snake, you really don't know what's good for you. I was going to spare your life today, but you didn't take it, and now you dare to come out and scare people..."
Halfway through his sentence, his eyes suddenly lit up—it was startling!
Yes, this snake has eaten people. The master doesn't need it, but he can.
He hadn't walked the dog properly, so he had to be the one to chase it away. Otherwise, Danfeng probably wouldn't want to talk to him for the rest of his life. The boy smiled, gently knocked the snake unconscious with a palm strike, and reached his hands towards the snake's mouth...
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