Chapter 156: A Meal of Dumplings



I rushed up to the second floor and saw Yunwen lying on the ground. Song Yingchun was holding a wooden stick with blood on it, and Bai Lu was holding a stone in her hand, intending to hit Yunwen. I judged that it would take less than one or two seconds for her to hit me. Such a heavy stone could be used to kill people. I didn't think too much about it. After running a few steps, I immediately used the force to jump forward.

I fell to the ground and lay on top of Yunwen, and the stone hit my back mercilessly. It felt like it was going to pierce my spine, and the force was so strong that I almost couldn't breathe. My lungs were greatly impacted, and I couldn't recover. It took me several seconds to recover.

Song Bailu was stunned at first, then she said with her eyes wide open: "Zhou Bo, I was just about to look for you. I know you want to kill my sister. I can't let you live. You two dogs and bitches should die!"

"Go to hell, go to hell!" Yingchun also shouted.

I saw that Song Bailu not only did not stop, but picked up the stone again and smashed it on my head. Fortunately, my lung function recovered, and I coughed, but when I heard the strong wind, I predicted that Bailu was swinging his arm diagonally downward, intending to hit the back of my head. I couldn't avoid it, otherwise Yunwen under me would be smashed to death.

So I hurriedly blocked it with my right hand, and with a bang, my entire wrist bone felt shattered, and it was extremely numb and painful. This guy really didn't know how to control her strength. Unfortunately, she was mentally disturbed and had no sense of propriety. Therefore, when she hit me, she had already exposed her weakness, which was that she was too close to me and did not predict the distance of my arm span.

Before the next round of attack came, I grabbed her trouser leg with my left hand and pulled it hard. She fell to the ground, holding the back of her head and groaning in pain. Yingchun's stick attacked me again, but using weapons against a martial artist was the stupidest thing to do.

I have been too familiar with the sound of the stick and its movement trajectory since I was a child when I attended the Sanda class in the village. So much so that just by hearing it move, I can tell which road it will block, its final direction, its strength, and even its speed. I can have a subconscious judgment of it.

Bang!

I was able to catch the incoming stick with just three fingers of my left hand. I raised my head and said to Yingchun, "I told you to stay in the water, but you started to disobey me when I saw you disappear? It seems that if I don't punish you and give you a few beatings, you won't know how to behave as human beings."

Yingchun pulled the stick hard, but she couldn't move it. After all, it was in my hand. Even if she used her tenth level of strength, it would not be enough.

It was just getting dark, not yet night. Before I went down, I specifically told them not to go ashore, and Bailu and Yingchun agreed. But in the blink of an eye, they saw I was gone and went ashore immediately. They became crazy and started to act recklessly, which made the situation worse. I shouldn't have let them be affected by the poisonous miasma and act recklessly.

But it was because of their independent thinking that Yunwen almost lost her life again!

So, I pulled hard with my left hand, and with a loud bang, Yingchun's hand loosened immediately, and I took the stick from her. She rushed towards me with a ferocious face. I stood up and swung the stick diagonally downward. With a bang, there was a dull sound between the stick and the flesh. She immediately covered her lower back and screamed in pain.

"I told you not to listen!" I hit him in the same place again, using a method similar to when he beat me with a feather duster when I was a child.

"Ah! It hurts!" Yingchun screamed and cried in pain.

When Bai Lu heard the sound, she also forced herself to get up and came to deal with me. I had already heard the sound and there was another bang, hitting her below the lower back. She held her back in pain and bit her lip.

"You're not allowed to act on your own! You're trying to kill people!" I hit them twice on the lower back.

Bang bang bang bang!

The Song sisters were beaten all over the place. They lay on the ground, holding their hands and not daring to move. They burst into tears. I didn't want to show them any mercy. I scolded them, "Get into the spring immediately, or I'll continue beating you until you wake up."

The two sisters limped downstairs crying, and then I heard a splash. I sighed and helped Yunwen up. She was still in shock. I comforted her for a long time, then picked her up and brought her to the bed. She cried with grievance and held me for a long time, not wanting to let go for a moment.

I kept comforting Yunwen until the middle of the night. I heard the Song sisters shivering in the cold downstairs. I felt sorry for them. Yunwen also looked embarrassed and asked, "Zhou Bo, do they have to stay in the water all the time? The night breeze is cold and it's easy to get sick."

"They just wanted to kill you and me, and we still care whether they get sick or not?" I said angrily.

"After all, it wasn't intentional, so it's still understandable." Yunwen comforted me.

Seeing her sincere pleading for them, I softened my heart and said, "I brought back some herbs. You can try to see if they can be used as medicine and give them to them. I think it may be effective."

Yunwen nodded, smiling sweetly. Although the wound was serious, the charm between her eyebrows could not be hidden. Suddenly, she kissed me again, but this time it was on the right cheek. It was really fair on both faces. There was another refreshing feeling. She bowed and said with a smile: "I should thank you for saving me just now."

I smiled and said foolishly, "Shouldn't I repay your life-saving grace with my own body?"

After saying that, the whole air was frozen. What the hell was I talking about? It was too frivolous.

Unexpectedly, Yunwen chuckled, leaned close to my ear, and whispered: "If you don't give up..."

After saying that, she winked at me, then smiled charmingly, picked up my backpack and went downstairs playfully, leaving me standing there alone, not knowing whether she was joking or serious.

Afterwards, Yunwen tried to boil the rhizomes of the devil's claw flower and gave it to Bailu and Yingchun. They seemed to feel much better and went ashore to dry their wet clothes and bodies by the campfire. They were shivering. Seeing that they were much more normal, I told them what I had encountered down there, and everyone finally understood what was going on.

Flowers that grow in an environment with the aura of the Yinxi Pot for a long time will inevitably carry evil spirits. Therefore, those ghost claw flowers are the products of this environment, and their pollen is highly toxic. The poisonous miasma formed will stimulate people's brain nerves just like the Yinxi Pot, causing many neurological problems. In mild cases, hallucinations will occur, and in severe cases, nervous disorders will inevitably occur, and gradually major neurological and mental problems will occur.

There was just one thing I didn't tell them, and that was the incident in which the wooden man was twisted in half by the monster in the underground river. I was afraid it would cause them nervousness and affect the effect of the drugs. But when I thought about it carefully, I couldn't help but feel scared. The flowers in the environment there were so evil, what kind of species would grow there?

After Bai Lu recovered a little, he limped to make a dinner to make up for today's mistake. Yunwen also went to help, but when they saw the leftover food, everyone fell silent. They opened a can and took out the few beef, chopped it and the even rarer wild vegetables into stuffing, mixed it with flour, rolled out the dough, made dumplings, boiled water in the pot, and put the dumplings in to eat.

It’s a pity that there is no balsamic vinegar or something like that, so I can only use dry ingredients, add sansho pepper and flax oil, which is not an authentic way of eating it.

There was a gurgling sound of boiling water in the pot, and then a delicious smell wafted over, a mixed aroma of flour, meat and vegetables, making people drool.

When the dumplings were taken out of the pot, Yingchun hurriedly picked up some food from the pot, fearing that others would snatch them away. She stood still the whole time because some parts of her body were swollen from my beating, so it was convenient for her to pick up the dumplings.

There was only one plate in total, and everyone was half full but happy. Mainly because when eating together around the pot, it seemed that the grudges were much less, and they could sit together like a family.

This meal of dumplings is really good value for money. Not only is it delicious, it’s also heartwarming.

"You two sisters go to bed. Yunwen and I will keep watch. You've been soaking in the water all day, so take a rest." I said.

Bailu nodded, knowing that I was on guard against them going crazy again and threatening me, He Yunwen, so she took Yingchun upstairs. But when going upstairs, she seemed to want to say something to me, but finally shook her head and said, "Good night."

Holding the bowl of lamp oil, he limped up the stairs.


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