When Huang Cangcang was lying on the ground, he hadn't realized what was happening. He only felt a gust of wind blowing, and then his vision turned into the dense treetops above the forest and the starry night sky between the branches. After another second or two, he felt the pain in his body.
The others were similar to him. In the blink of an eye, they fell to the ground.
When the last person fell, Su Yi clapped her hands and returned to Huo Jun, her face full of expectation: "Can I eat it now?"
"...Wait two more minutes." Huo Jun looked at her with a complicated expression, and then looked at his little friend on the ground.
Su Yi followed his line of sight and shrugged lightly, "I didn't hit them too hard, just let them lie there for a while, and we'll hand them over to the police after we're done eating."
Huo Jun touched his nose, "Do you want to call the police?"
"Of course," Su Yi leaned over and inhaled the fragrance, and said as a matter of course, "This behavior is so vile, if it wasn't us who encountered it, others would have suffered. In my opinion, if someone does such a thing, the tools used in the crime should be confiscated directly, but now we live in a civilized society, and we can't resort to lynching. We have to hand them over to the police."
The few people who were lying on the ground screaming in pain felt a chill somewhere on their body when they heard her words. They didn't have time to be shocked by why this young sister-in-law was so cruel, and they struggled to get up.
Huo Jun saw their movements, and then looked at Su Yi, who was completely focused and only waiting for the delicious food, with a horrible expression on her face.
He cleared his throat and decided to tell the truth, "No need to call the police, it's someone we know. Why don't you take off your stupid masks?" The latter sentence was said to Huang Cangcang and others.
Su Yi looked over and saw those strange-shaped masks spreading around like liquid, revealing several faces in pain.
"It turns out to be high-tech, no wonder I couldn't take it off just now." As she said that, she turned her
head and asked Huo Jun, "So what are you playing?" Huo Jun grinned as if he had a toothache, "If I say I didn't know, would you believe it?"
"Should I believe it?" Su Yi glanced at him.
"Well..." Huang Cangcang climbed up crookedly and said carefully, "Our boss really didn't know in advance."
He stood far away, leaning against a tree, not daring to come over. He was a little dazed by the beating. He still couldn't believe it. The one who knocked them all down in an instant was really the little girl with a round face and eager eyes squatting in front of him waiting for food?
Aren't they called vases in the music department? When did vases become so hardcore, made of diamonds?
He looked at Jun Ge, who was also squatting and showing off his cooking skills without any excitement, and gave him a thumbs up in his heart. The boss is the boss, with different vision and courage. Of course, his ability to withstand beatings should also be first-class, otherwise, ordinary people really can't afford such a little beauty.
Several people got up, Huo Jun looked up and glanced, "Where's Da Lei?"
"He was called away by the teacher before we set out." Huang Cangcang said with envy. Just now he told the others that Da Lei had bad luck and couldn't go out to play with them. Now it seems that he is not unlucky, but too lucky to be beaten.
However, if he saw that the cute little girl in his formation during the military training was actually so strong that she could crush everyone, I wonder if that wooden-faced guy would jump up in surprise?
Huo Jun introduced them to Su Yi, and Su Yi smiled and said, "Hello, sorry, I hit you a little too hard just now."
Several people waved their hands and said no, no, it was just a joke. Compared with what she heard, confiscating the tools used in the crime, how could a few beatings be considered a heavy blow? Not at all!
The mushrooms were finally ready. Huo Jun knew how much Su Yi ate. It was not enough for her alone, not to mention that there were so many people here for no reason. So he started to chase the guests away: "Okay, you guys go back to the academy."
They had already smelled the tempting aroma. They swallowed their saliva while enduring the pain. Unfortunately, the eldest brother had no intention of sharing some with them. In addition, the young sister-in-law was watching them with a smile, which made them feel guilty. Although they were very greedy, they had to leave miserably.
"Wait a minute," Su Yi suddenly called them and asked, "Will you keep the secret for me?"
She smiled very cutely, her round eyes curved into a crescent. In the past, these people would have been crying out in their hearts, but now they all shuddered and promised to do so.
Su Yi then let them go.
Huang Cangcang and the others no longer dared to salivate over the delicious food. They walked very fast, fearing that they would not be able to leave if they were a step late.
As for the boss? Well... the boss is so tough, there should be no problem, right?
The mushrooms were indeed very delicious. The only drawback was that there were too few of them, which was not satisfying. Su Yi couldn't help but savor the taste after eating.
"There are many other foods here. We can come again next time." Huo Jun said as he packed up.
"You seem to know a lot about food?" Su Yi asked.
He smiled and said, "I have experience living outdoors before."
After packing up the picnic tools, he stood up, looked up and looked around, as if looking for something. After a while, he said to Su Yi, "Do you want to go see the stars?"
Su Yi looked up and saw the shadows of branches everywhere. Occasionally, one or two stars could be seen twinkling in the gaps. "Can we see them here?"
Huo Jun said mysteriously, "I'll take you to my base."
Su Yi followed him with some curiosity. The two of them turned around in the dense forest. Huo Jun seemed to be very familiar with this place. Even at night, his footsteps were not hesitant.
Not long after, they came to a huge ancient tree. The tree canopy covered the sky and the sun. The tree was almost like an island.
Huo Jun led Su Yi to climb up. When they were close to the top, there was a part where the branches became very sparse. A crooked wooden house was built on the branches.
Su Yi bent over and stuck her head into the small window of the wooden house. The space inside was not big, just enough for one person to turn around, but there were a lot of things piled up side by side. It felt like a small nest where squirrels stored supplies and prepared for the winter.
Huo Jun dragged a blanket out of the wooden house, shook it out and spread it on the platform outside the house, sat on it, patted the place beside him, and said to Su Yi, "Sit here."
Su Yi moved over and sat down. She found that the blanket felt a little hard, as if it was the fur of some animal. The edges were also rough, and it felt like a child had peeled it off clumsily.
She couldn't help but turn her head to look at Huo Jun, who was looking up at the night sky.
Su Yi also looked up. The surrounding trees were lush, with only a small space on the top of the wooden house, where a few sparse branches stretched out diagonally. Under the dark shadows of the branches, the starlight became brighter, like a dark plate with tiny gems sprinkled inside.
"Very beautiful." She said.
Huo Jun heard this and said with some pride: "I was the first to discover this place, and you are the second person to come here."
"Did you build the wooden house?"
Huo Jun nodded, and then he remembered something and said as if to save it: "It was relatively small at that time. If it were now, it would definitely be built bigger and better."
Su Yi had noticed it when she just looked at it. The marks around it were a bit rough, not like the products carefully carved by adults. "How old were you at that time?"
Huo Jun thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "Ten years old? Or eleven years old."
"Alone?"
He nodded again.
A child in his teens should be at the age of being spoiled and throwing tantrums in front of his parents, but he appeared here alone.
The closest place to this dense forest with traces of human life is the Royal Academy. The two places are about a hundred kilometers apart. Such a long distance is enough to make this place a paradise for animals.
The night wind blew gently, the leaves rustled in the wind, unknown insects sang in the bushes, and in the distance, the cries of wild animals could be heard faintly.
Su Yi seemed to be able to see the young boy hiding in the treetops, trembling and enduring the terrifying nights.
"Why?" she asked again.
Huo Jun curled his lips, "Just some training methods."
He said lightly, as if he was casually thinking, "Have I told you about my situation?"
Su Yi shook her head. Although she had guessed Huo Jun's life experience, she only knew it roughly.
Huo Jun moved down and lay down on the platform, with his hands behind his head and his calves hanging out. He looked at the starry sky and said, "I am an illegitimate child. My biological father does not acknowledge my existence. My mother's situation is more complicated. She was born to my grandfather and his lover, and she was not accepted by the family. In other words, I am the illegitimate child of an illegitimate child."
At this point, he seemed to find it funny. He chuckled and continued, "It was not until I was eight years old that I was diagnosed with the potential of double S. The door of my grandfather's house was opened to me and my mother. Then it was training, a lot of training, She was anxious to make me good enough, only in this way, I could be recognized by my biological father, and she could step out into the public, instead of hiding in the shadows."
Su Yi listened quietly, and waited until he finished speaking before she said, "It sounds like you have been a poor kid since childhood?"
Huo Jun laughed again, and this time he could hear obvious joy in his voice, "That may not be the case. You know, being unorthodox has its advantages. At least when those young masters and young ladies come to make trouble, I can beat them up and make them cry for their parents. After all, I am a bastard whose father is unknown, and you can't ask me to be polite and reasonable, right?"
"Why do I feel like it sounds even worse?"
"Really?" Huo Jun rubbed his cheeks, thought for a moment, and then said, "Let me put it another way. If I hadn't had those experiences, I wouldn't have been able to enter this school, meet you, or watch the stars with you. Isn't that better?"
Su Yi looked down at him. The two of them were lying and sitting. She was looking down from above, and Huo Jun was also looking at her. The stars in the night sky seemed to fall into his eyes, and his eyes were shining.
He tentatively reached out his hand and held Su Yi's hand hanging on her legs. Seeing that he was not rejected, he squeezed it.
Su Yi's eyes fell on the hands of the two men, and she did not pull her hands away. She only asked when Huo Jun could no longer hide his joy: "So you have been selling it miserably for such a long time, is this your purpose?"
Huo Jun's eyebrows lit up and said: "Selling it miserably? How can a man sell it miserably?"
He was just pretending to be pitiful.