Chapter 421: Chapter 417: Hah, Can’t Take a Joke
Days of licking blood off a knife edge, there’s something to that.
If you’re ruthless enough, decisive enough, then you’re licking someone else’s blood.
If you mix in the underworld with an indecisive nature, you can only wash your neck clean and wait to die.
Licking blood?
There’s no chance to lick your own blood.
The person’s dead.
Xiao Yu doesn’t feel any cruelty in threatening a kid and an old man.
Being too merciful to others is being cruel to yourself.
Mr. Gu Sr. glanced at a scared Cai Xiaowen, then at the half-hearted Wen Ran, and felt darkness in front of his eyes. The road ahead was endless, but he didn’t know where to go.
Averting his face, the old man pitifully fell silent.
Xiao Yu knew that was enough.
No refusal meant cooperation in action.
The tomb robbers soon caught prey, lit fires for roasting and ate and drank their fill, then extinguished the fire; it only took fifty minutes.
After a short rest, the group quickly set off again.
What bothered Wen Ran was that even when Mr. Gu Sr. woke up, his treatment was exceptional.
The tomb robbers treated Mr. Gu Sr. like he was a treasure.
Afraid his old bones were fragile and lacking strength, they specially made a stretcher to carry him up the mountain.
Wen Ran glanced at the tightly bound ropes around her body and raised a point, "Come on, we’ve run deep into the forest, isn’t this cautious approach a bit much?"
Xiao Yu eyed Wen Ran, "What, what do you mean by that?"
Wen Ran grinned, "I can’t escape anyway, why not untie the ropes for me?
After being tied for so long, my arms don’t feel right, they’re sore and hurt."
Seeing Xiao Yu silent, Xiao Quan nervously said, "Sister Xiao Yu, this can’t be a joke, this girl looks inconspicuous, but she’s got some skills."
Xiao Yu raised an eyebrow, "Honestly, I’m curious too about how skilled you really are."
Wen Ran: "..."
Damn it.
She sniffed and started babbling calmly, "How to say it, I think you might have misunderstood my abilities a bit."
"Hmm?"
Xiao Yu’s smile grew brighter, "If you don’t mind, could you trouble yourself to explain this in detail?"
"Anyway, no one knows me here, so I might as well tell you straight.
I did learn some martial arts, but it’s just superficial, looks impressive but inside, barely better than a paper tiger."
She winked at Xiao Yu, "After all, a pretty face like mine, others protect me, that’s enough.
Why bother proving myself, protecting myself?"
Xiao Yu said nothing, while Xiao Quan was at it again, "Sister Xiao Yu, she’s lying! She’s actually got skills, heard she took down several instructors.
If that’s just for show, what are we? We might as well hang ourselves and be done with it."
Wen Ran kept a calm surface while cursing Xiao Quan internally.
Damn, this man must be jinxing me.
Just wait, once I spot a chance for self-preservation, I’ll smash these idiots’ heads, especially this Xiao Quan, I’ll crush his skull first!
"Oh?"
Xiao Yu seemed to hear of Wen Ran’s prowess for the first time, quite curious, "Really?"
Wen Ran cursed internally, acting, acting, a phony.
On the train probing me wasn’t it you, a ghost, eh!
Haven’t you dug up my info enough by now?
Keep asking, just because you have a mouth doesn’t mean you need to use it.
Excited inside, Wen Ran kept a deathly calm face, "Huh?"
She disdainfully looked at Xiao Quan, "Idiot, you really buy this? As a pastime, go and have your brain checked at the hospital."
Xiao Quan was instantly furious, "What did you say?"
"Hey hey hey!"
Wen Ran side-stepped behind Xiao Yu, "See see see, can’t handle it can you, what did I say huh, now you’re angry?"
She peeked out, then turned her head to seriously speak to Xiao Yu, "I must have hit his sore spot, his brain really isn’t right."
To be precise, in this group, besides Cai Xiaowen and Mr. Gu Sr., there aren’t many normal ones.
"Can you explain?"
"Hmm," Wen Ran thought sincerely, "Do you remember the one who finally caught me?
Called Xiao Chengguang, is he a commander or something."
Xiao Quan was vigilant, "We know, so what?"
"That’s the one who told me to act," Wen Ran shrugged, dismissively, "He’s called Xiao Chengguang, the one I’m marrying is Xiao Chenye, all brothers, acting a play, so what."
"Why act?"
Xiao Quan persisted, "Instructors comes for military training, what they do is establish authority for better management of students.
But, by doing this, doesn’t it turn their authority into a joke?"
Wen Ran was discomforted, these men now truly seemed to have brains, casual tricks weren’t fooling them anymore.
"Yes, but, you know, people all have things they don’t want to do but must do."
Wen Ran licked her lips, "On the way here, didn’t you notice?
I’m inherently lazy, wanting to use gambling to avoid military training."
Everyone: "???"
This excuse was a bit absurd, but considering Wen Ran, it suddenly made sense.
Even Cai Xiaowen, who consistently holds the principle of discretion in her heart, couldn’t control herself from crying out.
"What? All fake? You, you went through all this just to skip military training."
"Yeah."
Wen Ran nodded, completely unburdened.
After all, she really did get a week off.
"Originally," Wen Ran gritted her teeth talking about this, "they said I could rest for a month.
In the end, shuffled around, finally I got just a week of rest.
Thinking about it now, I’m full of rage."
Xiao Yu watched the vivid Wen Ran, unable to resist asking one more question, "Why would he help you with this?"
"Simple," Wen Ran bragged, "Right now, I’m the head of the family, if he wants to go home in peace, he surely has to listen to me.
After all, my mother-in-law supports me, if he doesn’t listen, I’ll have her beat him to death with a shoe."
This, matches the current situation well.
No matter how slick you are outside, you go home and obediently act all meek.
"But," Xiao Quan couldn’t resist complaining to Wen Ran, "you’re like this really? Women, long hair but shallow knowledge, acting like this, you’ll impact his career."
Wen Ran turned to scold him, "Mind your own business!"
"But, you..."
"Me me me," Wen Ran provoked, "What’s with me?"
