"Bang!"
The carriage wheels made a rather loud thud, leaving Feng Fei somewhat confused. Actually, her confusion stemmed more from the fact that she was currently held in Yuan Jue's arms, the warm, soft breath emanating from him completely...
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Yuan Jue helped Feng Fei sit up straight, looked her up and down, and only after seeing that everything was alright did he turn and leave. In that brief moment when Yuan Jue turned away, Feng Fei's face suddenly turned a deep, alluring red.
As soon as Yuan Jue went out, his face darkened.
There were two people on the ground, dressed in brightly colored clothes, rolling around and yelling while clinging to the arm of someone who was clearly unharmed.
Yuan Jue glanced at the middle-aged man driving the carriage. The man lowered his head and whispered the story in Yuan Jue's ear. After listening to the man's words, Yuan Jue raised an eyebrow. A strange smile played on Yuan Jue's lips as he slowly got off the carriage and walked to the two men still rolling on the ground before stopping.
Those who had been watching the commotion immediately stopped talking when they saw a person who, although somewhat ordinary-looking, possessed an outstanding demeanor, step out of the car. They quietly observed how the situation would unfold.
The two rolling on the ground paused when they heard the surrounding noise subside, but then came an even louder wail.
"Ouch! My arm is broken! It hurts so much!"
"Ah! Brother! My arm hurts too? Shouldn't your legs hurt?"
The person who had spoken earlier paused abruptly, but surprisingly without any embarrassment, switched the arm from his arm to his leg and continued wailing, "Ah! Yes! My leg hurts so much!"
"Pfft!"
Someone nearby couldn't help but laugh out loud, and everyone present burst into laughter. Yuan Jue's lips also curled into a smile.
"Haha...Are these two clowns? They're hilarious!"
"Isn't that right? Could it be that he's not quite right in the head?"
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The murmurs rose and fell, but they did not affect the "plan" of the two men on the ground in the slightest. One of them hugged his leg and the other hugged his arm, shouting loudly.
Hearing the lively sounds outside, Feng Fei couldn't help but get off the carriage. Upon seeing the scene before him, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.
The two men on the ground, one hugging his legs, wore a red shirt with a green floral pattern and pink trousers, while the other hugging his arms, wore a green shirt with a red floral pattern and light green trousers. Both had strange accessories in their hair buns. The man in pink trousers had a small sword-shaped ornament in his hair, with a red flower blooming ostentatiously at the end of the hilt; while the other man in light green trousers had a small green fan in his hair, with several green leaves growing from the handle, making him look extremely comical.
However, the two seemed to have no problem with their outfits and were completely unaffected by others, continuing to do what they were doing as usual.
Yuan Jue saw Feng Fei get off the carriage, so he came up behind Feng Fei and smiled to see how Feng Fei would react.
"Hey! What's wrong with you two?" After watching the two of them howl for a long time, Feng Fei finally couldn't help but speak up.
Hearing someone call their names, the two men on the ground scrambled to their feet and lunged at Feng Fei's legs. Yuan Jue, watching from behind, frowned deeply. In a flash, he appeared in front of Feng Fei and kicked out with both legs, sending the two men flying back.
The two flamboyant brothers were kicked to the ground. One of them got up again, but seemed to know that Yuan Jue was not someone to be trifled with, so he didn't rush towards Feng Fei again. Instead, he sat down on the spot, one hugging his arm and the other hugging his leg, and started crying again.
"You wicked people! The carriage hit us! Not only will you not pay us compensation, but you also kicked us! My leg is broken!"
"That's right! My brother's leg is broken! And you guys broke my arm too!"
"Hey? Weren't your arms and legs just broken by the carriage? How come they've been kicked off again?" A "kind" passerby suddenly pointed out.
The two brothers exchanged a glance and simultaneously changed their tune, saying, "Yes! This carriage broke my thigh (arm), and this person kicked my arm (arm)! Pay up!" The last two words were shouted out, as if they wanted to shake the heavens! However, what they said before was quite ridiculous.
Feng Fei walked past Yuan Jue and squatted down in front of the two brothers. Looking at their rosy complexions, he chuckled and poked the spot where they were hugging. When they didn't react, his face hardened: "How dare you! In broad daylight, you dare to deliberately cause a car accident to extort money from the people! Do you want to be handed over to the authorities for investigation?"
As soon as Feng Fei changed his expression, his imperial aura involuntarily emanated from him. The onlookers all became serious, standing aside with their hands at their sides, no longer speaking or laughing. The two brothers on the ground finally realized that they seemed to have kicked a hornet's nest. Their faces stiffened, and after exchanging glances, they took two steps back. Once they were some distance away from Feng Fei, they suddenly stood up and prepared to run away.
However, they had just gotten up when Yuan Jue, who had been standing to the side, pulled them back. It seemed that these two strong men were like two little chicks in Yuan Jue's hands, and he could move them around without any effort.
The two people being held immediately kicked their legs and screamed, "Help! Murder!"
With a "thump," Yuan Jue threw the two of them to the ground, kicking up clouds of dust that choked the onlookers, causing them to sneeze and cough.
Chapter Twenty-Two: Li Dabao and Li Xiaobao
Chapter Twenty-Two: Li Dabao and Li Xiaobao
The two people who were thrown on the ground coughed repeatedly, choked by the fumes.
The younger brother, with a fan pinned to his hair, leaned close to his older brother's ear, who had a small sword stuck in his hair, and whispered, "Brother! These two are too tough! We can't handle them, what should we do?"
"I don't know either! We can't run away! Should we play dead?" the older brother replied in a low voice, sounding quite convincing.
However, what these two were "whispering" was only what they thought they were saying; everyone around them could hear it clearly. Intimidated by Feng Fei's imposing presence and Yuan Jue's martial prowess, no one dared to laugh out loud, but everyone's face turned red, their heads were lowered, and they were clutching the hem of their clothes tightly.
Feng Fei's inner demons were also laughing heartily: Where did these two clowns come from? They're hilarious!
However, maintaining a serious demeanor, Feng Fei walked back to the two of them, adopting a haughty air: "What are your names? Where are you from? Where are you going? Why are you trying to extort us!"
The younger brother, with a fan in his hair, was about to look up and answer Feng Fei's question when the older brother, with a small sword stuck in his throat, elbowed him, silencing him. The younger brother lowered his head and remained silent. The older brother shouted "Fall!" and the two brothers fell to the ground together, motionless, just like dead men.
If we hadn't overheard their whispered plot, the onlookers might have been completely fooled by them.
Feng Fei's serious expression finally crumbled, her eyebrows curving into a smile, revealing a sweet dimple on her right cheek. As Feng Fei crouched down to wake them, Yuan Jue pulled her aside. Yuan Jue, fearing the two were doing this on purpose, suddenly lunged and grabbed Feng Fei as she approached.
Yuan Jue reached out and beckoned to the middle-aged coachman. After whispering something in his ear, he waved for the coachman to leave. He then crouched down to examine the two people lying on the ground. He suddenly remembered a strange sect that only recruited twins, each pair possessing unique characteristics. These two were very likely from that sect.
Yuan Jue reached out to push his brother's head, with the small sword stuck in it, to the left. Twins from this sect always had a special mark tattooed on the right side of their bodies, usually on their ear, the back of their hand, or their arm. Sure enough, there was a subtle mark on the brother's right ear. It was so inconspicuous that anyone unfamiliar with the sect would never notice it.
If you don't look closely, you'd definitely mistake it for an ordinary mole. In fact, this "mole" has a faint shimmering light, revealing its mysterious nature.
Upon confirming the two men's origins, Yuan Jue couldn't help but smile. Moreover, when his hand brushed against the older man's nose, he discovered there was no breath whatsoever. If he hadn't already known that these two were no ordinary people, he might have been fooled by this trick as well.
At this moment, the middle-aged man driving the car suddenly returned, carrying a wooden basin in his hand. Even from a distance, one could smell a sour odor, suggesting that the basin contained aged vinegar.
The middle-aged man approached Yuan Jue, who nodded to him. Then, carrying a wooden basin, he went to the two men lying on the ground and, without thinking, poured the basin full of vinegar over them. Actually, he didn't pour it entirely on them, but rather around them, though some vinegar was bound to get on them.
The moment the vinegar touched them, the two of them jumped up as if their backsides were on fire, groaning and slapping the vinegar off their bodies.
Feng Fei's eyes flashed with surprise. The two men had jumped about ten feet high, and these two big guys were actually afraid of vinegar! Vinegar seemed to be their natural enemy! Feng Fei stroked his chin, a sly look crossing his face.
Yuan Jue remained silent, as did Feng Fei, who simply followed behind Yuan Jue, watching the spectacle unfold. She was very curious as to how Yuan Jue knew to use vinegar to deal with these two lovable clowns.
Yuan Jue glanced at the two people, and only when their voices gradually faded and they looked at him weakly did he turn and walk towards the carriage. Feng Fei was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Yuan Jue meant, until Yuan Jue reached the carriage and waved to her, then she knew to follow him back to the carriage.
The two brothers stood there, looking completely bewildered. The person who had just had vinegar thrown on them was clearly someone who knew where they came from. Although they seemed a bit slow and silly, they weren't actually stupid! They were just wise beyond their years!
As the two brothers watched the carriage pass by and the surrounding chatter gradually rose, they suddenly heard the particularly powerful man say to them, "You two come along."
A look of joy immediately spread across the brothers' faces. They happily straightened their clothes and started walking behind, their speed not slower than the slowly moving carriage, and their faces showed no signs of fatigue.
The lively brothers, tamed by a pot of vinegar, followed Feng Fei and Yuan Jue around. When they saw Feng Fei and Yuan Jue buying things, they even helped carry them. In the end, they followed Feng Fei and Yuan Jue back to the small courtyard.
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Under the apricot tree in the small courtyard, two people sat around a stone table. A grayish bird flew by, and two burly, flamboyant men stood on the ground (you can imagine the scene yourself...). The seated man was eating rice beans, a local specialty of Qingfeng Town. The bird would snatch a rice bean from one of the seated men's hands and then spit a pit at the two standing men. The two men placed their right hands over their left hands in front of them, their heads slightly lowered, their Adam's apples bobbing up and down, making gurgling swallowing sounds.
Feng Fei couldn't help but roll her eyes, tossed the rice and beans she was about to put in her mouth onto the table, propped her chin up with her left hand, beckoned to the two standing people with her right finger, and muttered, "Sit down, sit down. It's really uncomfortable for you two to watch me eat!"
The two brothers were overjoyed and hurriedly sat down in the empty seats. Not daring to look at Yuan Jue's face, they turned their backs slightly, grabbed the rice and beans from the plate, and put them into their mouths.
Feng Fei squinted at the two who were wolfing down their food, and asked again, "What are your names? Where are you from? What are you doing here? What happened to you? And now you're trying to extort money from us?"
The older brother, with the small sword stuck in his hair, didn't stop moving his hands or mouth at all, yet Feng Fei clearly heard his words: "My name is Li Dabao, I'm the older brother. That's my younger brother, Li Xiaobao. We can't tell you where we came from. We can't tell you where we're going. But we can tell you why we're like this. Younger brother, come here." The last sentence was addressed to his younger brother, Li Xiaobao, who had a fan pinned to his hair.
"Ugh..." The younger brother, Li Xiaobao, hadn't expected his older brother to entrust him with this question and accidentally bit his tongue. However, his hands continued moving, scooping up rice and beans at an undiminished speed. After a while, presumably the pain in his tongue had subsided, Li Xiaobao finally spoke: "Ugh, my brother and I lost our luggage, we have no money, and we've been starving for ten days. We happened to see you two coming out of Zuifeng Pavilion, and we thought you were very rich, so we tried to bully you. But we didn't succeed in bullying you; instead, you bullied us."
Feng Fei raised an eyebrow slightly. "Did we bully you? When?"
"It was when they splashed vinegar on us!" Li Xiaobao, the younger brother, glanced cautiously at Yuan Jue before muttering under his breath.
Damn it, even speaking so softly can vibrate my ears! Feng Fei picked at her ears in annoyance, rolled her eyes, and mentally complained.
These two are really weird. If it were anyone else, only Yuan Jue's two kicks could be considered bullying! But in their case, it's become throwing vinegar and being bullied.
"Alright, then let me ask you, why did you specifically target us? Just because we came from Drunken Wind Pavilion?"
“Of course not…” the younger brother, Li Xiaobao, was about to answer without thinking, but was kicked back by his older brother, Li Dabao. Feng Fei glared at his brother, Li Dabao, with wide eyes: “Li Dabao! What are you doing! Just eat properly! I was talking to your brother, who told you to interrupt! Be careful, or I’ll get the person next to you to throw vinegar at you!”
Li Dabao shuddered involuntarily, shifting his gaze from Mi Douzi to Yuan Jue. Yuan Jue obediently got up and prepared to walk towards the kitchen. Li Dabao's body trembled even more violently, forgetting about Mi Douzi, and hurriedly squatted down to the side, clutching his ears and shouting, "Ah! No! Don't be jealous! I admit my mistake!" His actions of admitting his mistake were so fluid and natural, clearly something he did often.
Although the scene was quite comical, Li Dabao's voice was so powerful that several ordinary little birds perched on the apricot tree were stunned and fell down. Mingfeng's little eyes turned into circles and started rolling. Even with her ears covered, Fengfei still felt a buzzing in her head. Only Yuanjue sat there eating rice and beans with a normal expression.
After finally calming down, Feng Fei shouted, "Alright, I won't throw vinegar at you anymore!" to calm Li Dabao down.
Feng Fei couldn't help but roll her eyes again. She didn't know how many times she had rolled her eyes since meeting these two clowns. "So why did you specifically choose to come to us now?"
The older brother, Li Dabao, was about to refuse, but the quickest-witted younger brother, Li Xiaobao, interrupted him: "When we went down the mountain, Master and I were there. We were going to try and extort some people we liked! You guys just happened to catch our eye when you came out, so we went after you!" Li Xiaobao smacked his lips, grabbed a handful of rice beans, and popped them into his mouth before continuing, "Master was right! If we hadn't seen you, we'd still be starving!"
Okay, okay, that's a good reason! That's quite a powerful one, but, "then why didn't your brother Li Dabao allow it?"
"Oh, because of Master. After we come down the mountain, we can't talk to anyone about anything that happened on the mountain!"
Um, okay! Even if it's not about things on the mountain, where did her question just now mention anything about their mountain? Feng Fei scratched his head, three black lines appearing on his forehead. Their thinking ability is so powerful!
"Did your master tell you: Don't eat food given to you by strangers?"
Chapter 23 Yuanjue's "Prepared" Dinner
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Dinner "Prepared" by Yuanjue
Yuan Jue's sudden voice startled his brothers, causing them to fall silent. They even stopped scooping up rice and beans and chewing them. After a moment's thought about what Yuan Jue had just said, the two brothers immediately spat out the rice and beans they were eating and ran to the side, vigorously gagging with their fingers. A chorus of "Ugh... Ugh..." echoed through the small courtyard.
Feng Fei wanted to bang his head against the ground in despair, and the veins on Yuan Jue's forehead were throbbing slightly. Finally, Feng Fei couldn't hold back any longer and pulled Yuan Jue back. Yuan Jue's lips twitched slightly as he said, "Alright, I was just trying to scare you, and you actually got scared. Your sect is getting worse and worse." The last sentence seemed to be a self-sigh, and Feng Fei and the others didn't hear it.
Yuan Jue's words seemed to work very well. As soon as he finished speaking, the two brothers, Da Bao and Xiao Bao, stopped, looked at Yuan Jue pitifully, and then turned to look at Feng Fei with teary eyes. Feng Fei immediately broke out in goosebumps all over his body. You can imagine two burly men dressed in flashy clothes suddenly looking at you with the cute expressions that little girls usually use... Anyway, Feng Fei already had goosebumps all over his body.
Feng Fei shuddered and quickly turned his head away from the two lovable brothers. He then caught a fleeting smile on Yuan Jue's face, and instinctively knew it was directed at him! Immediately, Feng Fei blurted out, "Yuan Jue! Weren't you going to prepare dinner?!"
Yuan Jue paused slightly, then looked at Feng Fei with eyes full of doting and tenderness. "Okay, I'll go right away." All of Yuan Jue's doting and tenderness appeared as speechlessness and forbearance in Feng Fei's eyes. Well, I admire Feng Fei's lack of tact.