Chapter 2

Chi Xu looked at the woman in front of him with disdain. She was dirty and her hair was messy, like a beggar. The only thing that looked acceptable about her was her face.

It’s just this face…Chi Xu frowned tightly, seeing it again, how unlucky.

At the same time, Yu Huai also realized that the man in front of him was definitely not from Yujia Village. As for his other identities, Yu Huai was not very interested.

“Friend, don’t get me wrong. I’m from Yujia Village down below. My parents wanted to sell me to the old cripple in the village, so I came to hide in this mountain. We have no grudges against each other, so let’s just go our separate ways.”

The man chuckled without saying anything, and the air was quiet for a long time. Yu Huai could feel that the man in front of him was definitely looking at him, and his burning gaze was about to make two holes in his body.

It took a long time for the pressure on Yu Huai’s forehead to release. She breathed a sigh of relief, and then she heard the man’s extremely disgusted and even a little disgusted voice: “Go away.”

Hiss…his fist is hard.

Yu Huai looked up casually, and the moment he saw the man in front of him clearly, his eyes lit up and he looked quite handsome.

The man looked at her with slightly drooping eyelids. His eyes were narrow and sharp under his single eyelids. The bones on his face were obvious. His thin lips were slightly pursed and a little pale. What was more noticeable was the scar that ran diagonally downwards next to his cheekbone. Judging from the size, he must have been injured by a weapon sharper than a dagger.

But Yu Huai had seen countless people and had seen no less than thousands of patients. She knew from the man’s face that he was a playboy and was probably very good at playing with women. She sighed in her heart, thinking that there was no shortage of playboys at that time.

The man waved the Browning pistol in his hand and said frivolously, “Why don’t you get out of here? Do you want to stay here with me?”

Chi Xu naturally noticed the surprise in the women’s eyes. Nine out of ten women showed this expression, and he had long been accustomed to it and found it boring.

Yu Huai took a step back and shook his head. “No, I’ll leave now.”

She turned around and ran deep into the woods. After taking two steps, her steps slowed down. The man must have been bitten by a snake. The wound on his leg didn’t look poisonous, but it had become inflamed and infected.

He must have a fever now. He was probably bitten by a snake, either the Jade-plate Elaphe or the White-striped Elaphe. Although it is not fatal, according to the current medical level, if he delays any further, his leg will probably be lost.

But…what does this have to do with her?

The man had just held a gun to her forehead.

After Yu Huai left, Chi Xu put the pistol behind his waist and shook his head. He recognized the snake that bit him. It was a kind of rat snake and was not poisonous. He did not take it seriously and wanted to get down the mountain as soon as possible. He did not expect that the smugglers from Jiangning City were so determined to follow him to the mountain. He was indeed careless this time and brought fewer people with him. Several of them had already died.

Since 1982, when the country recognized the individual economy, the big piece of fat meat of smuggling trade has been pounced on by several hungry wolves. This grandson of Yin Xingye… wait until he goes down and can’t be killed.

He looked up at the sky and thought that if he hid in the mountains for another day, the people who came to pick him up would probably arrive in Qingping County, and he would go down then.

Chi Xu sat down on the spot, not daring to light a fire. He felt waves of coldness in his body. He closed his eyes and kept thinking about things in his mind.

It was almost eight o’clock in the evening when the sound of leaves crunching underfoot came from not far away. Chi Xu opened his eyes, quickly pulled out a pistol from his waist and aimed it at the dark shadow in the darkness.

Yu Huai slowly walked out of the darkness, raised the two blades of grass in his hand, and said loudly, “Let’s talk about a deal.”

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Chi Xu leaned against the tree, his eyes like a knife cutting into Yu Huai’s body, and his voice was full of teasing, “One hundred yuan?”

Yu Huai sat cross-legged opposite him and nodded, looking calm and composed. “Yes, it’s not a loss, is it? I promise you can keep your leg.”

The man scoffed, “She’s just a peasant girl from a village down below. How can she have the nerve to speak such big words?”

Yu Huai didn’t get angry and smiled back at him: “Your leg must have been bitten by a Jade Plate Cobra. At first, it was just red and swollen. You didn’t take it seriously because it wasn’t poisonous. The wound was not treated, so it became infected. The redness and swelling became inflamed and suppurated. That’s why you have a high fever now. If you delay in the mountains any longer, even if you are strong and healthy, you will be half dead.”

Chi Xu once again looked at the slovenly woman in front of him who looked no different from a beggar, “Do you know medicine?”

Yu Huai smiled, revealing two small, pointed fangs. “I don’t understand, but after living near the mountains for so long, I’ve become accustomed to seeing these snakes.”

She didn’t intend to say that she knew medicine. Wouldn’t it be too strange for a worthless girl who was about to be sold to know medicine?

Chi Xu laughed again, leaned forward, and slid his fingers across her face. “I thought you came back because you couldn’t bear to leave me. You only want money, not me as a person?”

Yu Huai shuddered violently. This man was indeed good-looking, but at this moment he was still thinking about the things between men and women. Yu Huai didn’t need to be so blinded by lust.

It’s not like she hasn’t had boyfriends before, at least three, after all, she was quite pretty, but Yu Huai always put career over personal feelings, otherwise he wouldn’t have stayed up late to the point of sudden death. Even if they were doing that in bed, she would put on her pants and leave without looking back when she received a phone call.

Yu Huai laughed dryly twice, “Just give me the money, I still have some self-awareness.”

The man leaned back against the tree trunk, pointed the loaded pistol at her, and his eyes turned sinister. “You’d better not play tricks on me.”

Yu Huai curled his lips, responded, and took down the torn package behind him. There was a mess of broken things inside. Chi Xu took a look and frowned again. What a rubbish.

Yu Huai took out a small knife. This was the knife that her two younger brothers used to sharpen pencils. It was probably not very sharp, but seeing that this person had good endurance, it should be okay for her to cut people a few more times.

Chi Xu frowned even tighter, his voice filled with disbelief, “You want to take this thing?”

Yu Huai nodded sincerely, “It’s okay, you see it’s not rusty, I can just burn it for you.”

Chi Xu let out a light click of his tongue and pulled out a dagger from the other side of his waist. The dagger was no more than a foot long, and the handle was wrapped in some kind of leather. It felt delicate to the touch and had a unique texture. Yu Huai clicked her tongue in her heart. She was right about the man. This man was rich.

Yu Huai started a fire, poured the water in the kettle into the tattered little pot on his back, tore up one of his inner clothes, threw the strips of cloth in to boil, and picked up the food with his chopsticks.

“I’ve cleaned it all up, don’t worry.”