Jian Nan went down to the foot of the mountain to fetch back some fresh dog blood from the village. Yin Zi led the group around making turns left and right along the road, finally arriving at a shallow stream. Sensing that Mo'lin and Xiang Qing would soon be arriving, he ordered, "You wait here by the roadside and wait, when they arrive, you'll tell them your foot is hurt and you can't walk. Everyone else will just stay put and follow my orders! Without my order no one is allowed to speak nonsense!"
Following his commands, I quickly snap my ankles causing it to become large and swollen. I then nervously asked, "Is this okay?"
Yin Zi was suddenly fuming with anger, knocking my head and scolded, "I'm asking you to pretend! Just pretend! I never said to actually break your ankles!"
In the distance we see Jian Nan returning, bringing along with him a fresh bag of dog blood. He shouted, "They're almost here, so everyone get into your roles!"
With no time to inform me of what to do, he brought forth a piece of raw ginger and rubbed it onto my eyes. My tears were continuously rolling out from this uncomfortable feeling. He then proceeded to rubbed the ginger onto his own eyes. As I was about to protest, he began crying and then ordered me to follow along with his actions. I didn't dare defy.
Using their martial arts, Bull Devil and Jian Nan transformed themselves into evil-looking men wielding a machete and a long spear. The two surrounded us in the center and constantly turned around to estimate the time of arrival of them.
At about the same time, Yin Zi began to cry out loud, "Spare our lives! Lord, please spare our lives!"
Bull Devil instantly swung his long spear tearing apart the nearby tree, cursing, "There's no use crying! Come…..come with me…..and you can live well and eat well, what's so bad with
that?"
"Not like this, it sounds too fake!" Jian Nan tugged his sleeves several times.
Bull Devil's face turned pink in embarrassment, "How…..how can I lay my hands on my own sister?"
"It's better if you just let me do it," Jian Nan coughed a few times, his expression becoming suddenly obscene. He smirked as he glanced at our bodies, and even reached out to touch Yin Zi's hair. He prudishly said, "There is still a way out if you become my mistress, otherwise, this lord will sell you to a brothel to become a pleasure object to thousands of people!"
His final sentence was very loud, thus attracting the attention of the two people who were currently rushing over here. Mo'lin cooperatively pushed Xiang Qing several steps forward, and shouted, "You shameless bastards! What are you trying to do to these two innocent ladies!"
Xiang Qing glanced over at us, but remained silent. Yin Zi stared at him and cried, "Lord please help us! Please help us!"
Jian Nan dragged Yin Zi away to one side, and then turned to Xiang Qing and scolded him in a malicious tone, "Are you two trying to destroy my good deeds here? If not, then just drag your damn asses away!"
"Okay." Xiang Qing quickly and clearly answered. He grabbed onto Mo'lin and started walking away.
The both of us were stupidly shocked, but soon recovered. Yin Zi began to shout even more loudly, "Lord, how can you just watch us die and not save us! Even if you just save our family's miss, that is fine!"
Yin Zi winked at me so I followed and started wailing.
Bull Devil and Jian Nan both stood still not knowing what to do.
As the two have their backs turned as we quietly discussed what should be done. But surprisingly a dagger had flown towards us and hit dead center on Bull Devil's chest. In a blink of an eye, Xiang Qing had appeared in front of our eyes.
In the human context, his skills were quite good, but unfortunately Bull Devil was a monster that has trained for over 2000 years, his skin and flesh was unnaturally tough. This type of flimsy metal against him was not even a match. He grabbed onto the dagger that had barely grazed him and pushed it an inch deeper into his chest himself, causing him to shed a few drops of blood. This kind of injury was nothing to him, but he pretended to be wounded and cried, "Owww, it really hurts!"
Jian Nan controlled his strength and powers as he sparred with Xiang Qing. Seeing that this battle seemed to be at a stand still, Mo'lin faced the distance and shouted, "Guards! Over here! There are two men over here who are bullying these innocent girls, hurry over here and help us!"
This was our signal for them to withdraw. Jian Nan understood, immediately jumping away from the battle and grabbing onto Bull Devil, he cursed, "You guys have backups? You little bastards just wait and see, when I call all my brothers, you two will be finished!" The two fled right after speaking.
Seeing that Shifu had come to save me, my heart was overjoyed. I almost even laughed out loud. I hurriedly covered my smiling face with my sleeves, and continued to display an image of fear and desperation.
"Are you two ladies unhurt?" Xiang Qing walked towards us, but did not offer his arms to support us.
Yin Zi wiped away his tears, and walked up to give his thanks, "Mister, thank you for your life saving graces."
"How did you ladies get stranded here?" Xiang Qing asked, "The blood on the ground, who does it belong to?"
Yin Zi appeared even more sad, "Our miss belongs to the Hua family, but because of the plague, the officials have blockaded the entire town so no one could leave. The miss' parents died of illness, and had tasked me before dying to bring several men with me to help the miss escape. But due to the miss' beauty, we attracted the attentions of those two shameless beasts…..not only did all of our servants get killed and thrown into the river, but they also wanted to bring us back with them….."
This whole set of lies was carefully arranged by the information Luo Luo had gathered. In truth, there really was a plague in this area recently, and some people had secretly escaped. Since most of the population here has died due to the plague, our identities were naturally difficult to be identified.
After listening to Yin Zi's story, he opened his mouth to ask, "You ladies aren't hurt or anything right? I've been living in the cave for seven or eight years now, and normally I would be cultivating my martial arts so I rarely go out. I do not know of the things that happen in the outside. Miss, please don't be in too much grief, otherwise harm will come to your body."
"Everything is fine, thank you for saving us." Yin Zi once again wiped his eyes and gave his thanks.
"Well, don't worry about it." Xiang Qing turned around and wanted to leave.
"Wai…..wait!" Mo'lin quickly stopped him, "You're leaving just like this?"
"Why can't we go?" Xiang Qing asked, puzzled.
Cold sweat started dripping from Mo'lin's forehead, "How can you just leave these two girls alone on the mountain? What if those two evil men come back?"
Both Yin ZI and I both nodded our heads in unison, "Mister, if you're going to be our savior please do it till the end….."
"They probably won't be returning?" Xiang Qing turned his head in confusion.
"They will!" I joyfully jumped up onto one leg before collapsing again.
Yin Zi pleaded to Xiang Qing, "Our miss has hurt her ankle, so…..so we must think of a way."
This time, Xiang Qing did not hesitate. He walked towards me, carried me onto his warm back, and said, "Miss, please do not fret, I can take care of this problem."
Mo'lin with a smile on his face teased, "I actually thought gentleman would reconsider piggybacking the young lady."
Xiang Qing calmly said, "The journey is long, the other miss appears to be even more weak, maybe you can perhaps carry her on your back."
Hearing this, Yin Zi turned 'shy' and reached his hands forward, and said, "I do not weigh much..."
Mo'lin fell to the ground, and after a long time…..he grit his teeth and carried Yin Zi onto his back to set foot on the road.