Chapter 13 Like a weakling
Chapter 13 Like a weakling
"Knockout drug?" Huo Yuanruo was immediately happy. He took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, poured a pill into it and swallowed it. Then he took a big bite of the chicken leg. He felt so satisfied. Then he said incoherently, "I thought it was something poisonous. Junior Master, you just scare me."
Li Mulan was speechless when she saw this. She rubbed her forehead with a headache and said, "You are wasting my detoxification pills like this."
Huo Yuanruo looked nonchalant, "It can detoxify, so what's the waste?"
Li Mulan's mouth twitched slightly. Haha, it's not a waste. This small detoxification pill is only one thousand taels of gold... She was so angry that she picked up the teacup and wanted to drink it all, but she found that the tea was also filled with knockout drug, so she had no choice but to put it down.
Chu Jie quickly handed over a water bag, which was given to him by Sister Qingyu today, and he hadn't finished drinking it yet.
Li Mulan rubbed his head with satisfaction, "Our Xiaojie is still the best, unlike a certain unfilial nephew who only knows how to eat."
Huo Yuanruo paused for a moment after hearing this, then moved his buttocks, changed his posture and continued eating. The junior master uncle was really becoming more and more nagging, even though he was obviously two years younger than him.
Qingyu patted Li Mulan's arm gently, "Okay, don't be angry. What should we do now? Leave or..."
Li Mulan's eyes turned slightly. "When we first entered the village, we also looked for two families, but the lights were on but no one opened the door. I doubt the villagers of this village..."
"Are they all dead?" Chu Jie's eyes widened in shock.
Qingyu rubbed his head and said, "Not necessarily. He may be controlled."
Li Mulan looked at Chu Jie, "Xiao Jie, I saw that you didn't seem to want to touch the food just now, did you find something?"
Chu Jie was a little embarrassed. "It was that lady. Her hands... were very strange."
Li Mulan's face was full of interest. "Oh? What's so strange?"
"She is obviously so old, with wrinkles all over her face and gray hair, but her hands look very young."
"Is there anything else?"
"And she has a scent that only young women wear. The way she walks is also strange. She doesn't look like an old woman anyway."
Li Mulan looked at him without saying anything and motioned for him to continue.
Chu Jie pursed his lips. "When we first came in, her two sons didn't look like farmers. They had obvious calluses on their palms, as if... they had been holding knives all year round. And, Sister Lan, don't you think it's strange that there are only three of them in this big house, mother and son? The two sons look quite old, but they haven't married yet? And the clothes they are wearing are either too long or too short, and they don't fit them. And..."
"Anything else?" Li Mulan looked at him with satisfaction.
"The three of them don't look alike at all. Although I know that not all relatives look alike, but those two brothers, one is so tall and the other is so short... their faces are not similar at all..."
"Hahahaha..." Li Mulan laughed out loud, "I didn't expect that Xiaojie, at such a young age, could already read faces. That's amazing."
Chu Jie was a little shy, and his ears turned red. "Sister Lan, you asked me to say it."
"Yes, you said it very well. I am praising you." Then he looked at Huo Yuanruo with some disdain. Seeing that all his thoughts were on eating, he felt a little disappointed and slapped him. "You only know how to eat. Look at Xiaojie."
Huo Yuanruo was puzzled, "Uncle Junior, why did you hit me? I didn't say anything."
Chu Jie couldn't help laughing when he saw this and silently turned his eyes away.
"You have been traveling with me and my master for so many years, but apart from your appetite, you haven't made any progress at all. Look at you, you are not even as good as a child."
Huo Yuanruo was not convinced, "Master praised me for my improved skills years ago, saying I am a good candidate."
"What's the use of just being good at martial arts? You're just a fool without a brain. If you meet someone a little more cunning, you won't even know how you died."
Huo Yuanruo hesitated. He had been scolded by his junior uncle for a long time, but she said that he was not even as good as a child. That... He looked at Chu Jie a little aggrieved. He was like a little weak chicken. He could kill people with one punch. How could he be so powerful?
Qingyu immediately tried to smooth things over, "Well, everyone has their own strengths. Yuan Ruo's strengths are not here, so as a junior master uncle, don't talk about him."
Of course Li Mulan knew it, but she just felt uncomfortable seeing the boy eating so happily.
"What do you say now?" Qingyu asked gently.
Li Mulan's eyes were firm. "Since we have encountered them, we can't just ignore them. We should at least know whether the other villagers are still alive. If they are alive, saving them can be considered a good deed. If they are not, then we can't let these three people live. It can also be considered as revenge for these innocent villagers."
"Don't you want to report to the police?" Chu Jie wondered.
Li Mulan flicked his forehead and said, "This is Mobei, a notoriously barbaric place. The officials probably can't control it, and they won't come to control it."
Chu Jie was puzzled, but Li Mulan didn't want to explain too much to him. After all, there were too many twists and turns here.
"Then I will go out to investigate later, and Yuanruo will stay to protect you." Qingyu was always the first person to help Li Mulan solve problems.
Li Mulan nodded and said, "Look at the remaining half of the food and eat some first. Don't waste it." If they don't eat it now, it will probably go into the stomach of Huo Yuanruo, the glutton.
Qingyu took out a porcelain bottle, poured out a pill for Chu Jie, and took another one herself.
Chu Jie looked at the pill in his hand and knew that it was the detoxification pill that Huo Yuanruo had just taken, but... he had to take medicine just to eat? This... really puzzled him, "Sister Lan, don't you need it?"
Li Mulan waved her hand nonchalantly, "I'm not afraid of poison."
What a joke! Li Mulan had been tortured by the old phoenix in the Divine Doctor Valley for many years. She had taken so many medicines and taken so many medicinal baths. She had used so many rare medicinal herbs and poisons. She had long been immune to all poisons. As for her current physique, the old phoenix had boasted about it in front of his master.
After finishing the meal, they looked at each other.
Huo Yuanruo yawned, "Oh, I feel sleepy after eating. Junior Master, Sister Qingyu, I'm going to sleep first."
The three people not far away could hear the loud voice clearly. Their eyes sparkled and they smiled wickedly.
"Okay, let's go and rest. Why do I feel so sleepy today? I guess it's because we've been traveling so hard."
"Xiao Jie, follow Yuan Ruo."
"Okay, Sister Lan."
When leaving, Li Mulan whispered in Huo Yuanruo's ear, "Xiaojie is with you, you better be careful."
"I see. Junior Master is really biased. You weren't that nice to me before."
Li Mulan slapped him on the back of the head again, "Stop talking nonsense."
Huo Yuanruo was angry but dared not say anything, and left feeling aggrieved.
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