During this period, Xu Que clearly looked haggard and worn out, and even showed countless signs of despondency.
Ha Gang and Pingyao were completely different from Xu Que in terms of their energy and spirit. They both lived in the same tribe, so why was there such a big difference?
On the other hand, Xu Que has indeed been beaten a lot by the villagers during this period, and Ha Gang and Pingyao have also been affected to some extent.
At this moment, Ha Gang and Ping Yao ran up to Xu Que, who was sitting in a daze, with smacking lips. They held half of a mosquito repellent device woven from moxa sticks and leaves into a braid shape, lit it, and stood not far from Xu Que.
Xu Que wrinkled his nose: "Mugwort! I visited my grandma's house in the countryside when I was very young, and she used this to repel mosquitoes at night! I especially love the smell of this! It feels refreshing and invigorating, like it clears the lungs and opens the orifices. After smelling it for a while, you feel refreshed and relaxed!"
"Really? I really didn't know that mugwort had so many benefits!" Hearing Xu Que's somewhat exaggerated statement, Ha Gang and Ping Yao couldn't help but pick up the braided mugwort standing on the ground and began to examine it carefully, occasionally bringing it close to their noses to smell it.
When Ha Gang and Ping Yao felt that the mugwort wasn't burning well, they would hold it in their hands and keep circling it in the dark to help it burn.
"Okay! That's good! Now I'll put it here, and no mosquitoes or other bugs will bite you anymore!"
A gentle breeze blew by, and Ai Bian flickered in the darkness like a super firefly, with moths occasionally flying into the flame and getting burned with a crackling sound.
Xu Que carefully observed Ha Gang and Ping Yao's every move from beginning to end: "Why are you becoming more and more like a little girl? I'm talking about your personality!"
"What about your ambitions? What about your dreams? And your ambition to rule and conquer the earth? I remember how majestic and domineering you were when you first came to earth, but now... I really want to ask, what exactly has time done to you?" Xu Que asked curiously and incredulously.
"What? You sound like you want to conquer the world? Rule the earth? Exploit all living things on this planet? Do you mean I've dragged you down? Or caused you trouble?" Ha Gang and Ping Yao said with sullen faces and pouting lips, slightly displeased.
"No! No! How could I possibly blame you?! I was just curious and asked casually! I didn't mean anything by it! I think your current personality is better! It's just that you're too thin! Your constitution is too weak and you're prone to getting sick. In this dirty and chaotic tribe, I'm worried that you'll get sick even more easily! It still makes me a little uneasy!" Xu Que said sincerely to Ha Gang and Ping Yao.
"From now on, I can only raise you as my daughter! After observing you carefully, I feel that you are pure and kind-hearted, and quite lovely! Your lively, simple, and enthusiastic personality has touched me. You have rekindled my hope for life, making me, a decadent man who has been deeply poisoned by reality and persecuted by the tribe and has almost lost interest in life..."
"How about we find a secluded place and live in seclusion?" Xu Que suddenly smiled, his eyes crinkling into slits.
Why go into seclusion?
"After we go into seclusion, we can get two or three cows or donkeys, and then we can farm, raise chickens... have a bunch of kids... In short, I'll fetch water while you water the flowers, you'll cook while I take care of the kids... that would be wonderful!" Xu Que closed his eyes and began to daydream or rather, to plan ahead.
"Uh..." Ha Gang and Ping Yao were speechless. They just longed for this peaceful life too.
“We’re a tribe now, so even if we don’t go into seclusion, not many people will bother us, and not many people know us! So I don’t think there’s any need to go into seclusion! As for having children, look at my physique, do you think I can have children? It’s more like the child is having me!” Ha Gang and Ping Yao said half-jokingly.
Xu Que glanced at Ai Bian, which was burning and emitting smoke, then looked back at Ha Gang and Ping Yao: "Starting tomorrow, I'll go hunting! I'll try to catch two rabbits and two pheasants every day to make chicken soup for you to nourish your body! I'm counting on you to have a baby!"
Ha Gang and Ping Yao just smiled and didn't say anything.
Just as Xu Que, Ha Gang, and Ping Yao were in a brief silence, feeling awkward, a palm-sized brick was suddenly thrown from the darkness, either in front or behind them. A few seconds later, a series of thuds followed, and Xu Que was hit on the head and back by the brick and clod of earth more than once or twice.
"Ugh! It's those scoundrels again! They've really gone too far! What's with them sticking to me like this? I've been getting beaten up for almost a whole month now! They really hold grudges! No wonder they're so poor, they're petty and short-sighted, they deserve to be poor!" Xu Que had nowhere to vent his anger, so he started cursing fiercely in front of Ha Gang and Ping Yao.
Ha Gang and Ping Yao chimed in, "Exactly! These guys are really going too far! We've been letting them off easy for over a month, and they still aren't satisfied with the beating! Honestly!"
Before Ha Gang and Ping Yao could finish speaking, another round of dust and debris erupted from Xu Que.
Ha Gang and Ping Yao were so angry that they picked up some broken tiles and old shoes from the surrounding area and threw them hard in the direction from which the clods of dirt kept coming. As they landed, Ha Gang and Ping Yao clearly heard a person in the darkness who was responsible for throwing the clods of dirt yell.
“Did you see that? Did you hear that? I hit one of them! I think we shouldn’t always run away. If we do, we’ll only get beaten up every day. We need to learn to fight back. As long as we fight back hard, these people who secretly throw dirt at us in the dark will start to respect us!” Ha Gang and Ping Yao said.
Ha Gang and Ping Yao looked at Xu Que's head again to see if he had been hit by clods of dirt or bricks like a few days ago, or if he was bleeding.
Ha Gang and Ping Yao immediately noticed the small wound on Xu Que's head.
Just as Ha Gang and Ping Yao were preparing to clean the wound on Xu Que's head from being hit by clods of dirt, another wave of dirt attacks came from the darkness.
Xu Que was so dizzy from being hit by the powerful clod of earth that he was like a chicken that had been beaten so badly that it couldn't even stand up straight.
"Run! If we don't run, these almost barbaric people will kill us with this head and these stones!" Xu Que said to Ha Gang and Ping Yao, then picked them up and ran away!
Ha Gang, Ping Yao, and Xu Que have now found a way to deal with these troublemakers who secretly throw clods of dirt and other things when it's darkest.
"From now on, I will never run away again! I have to go to the base first thing tomorrow morning, that abandoned base of my house, to see if there are any weapons of mass destruction like guns and cannons!"
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