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Thus, a rather strange scene appeared in the tavern.
In the middle of the scene was an eight-foot-tall Bearded Man with a fierce face.
He was holding a fox cub in one hand.
He was feeding goat milk to the cub in one hand. His expression was calm and his technique was skilled and experienced. He was comparable to a professional nanny in a large family who had been taking care of children for 30 years.
The surrounding drinkers were stunned. They recalled the appearance of the big man's fierce dog who had protected Li Xunhuan near the tavern.
They lowered their heads silently and did not dare to comment.
On the other side of the same table, Li Xunhuan had always been satisfied with wine in the tavern. He did not care about what Li Yue and Tie Chuanjia were doing.
The fox cub was finally properly settled.
The boy was unwilling to accept Li Yue's money.
He could not be persuaded.
Li Yue could only think of other ways.
The girl's gaze passed through the tavern.
From the residual snow on the street to the pedestrians passing by, she finally stopped on the icicles on the eaves. She clapped her hands.
She smiled at the boy.
"Since the ice and snow are so hateful,
Do you want to take revenge? "
"How do we take revenge?"
"Sell them."
Without waiting for the boy to respond, Li Yue pulled him and ran out. She first dragged Zhu Er out of the alley in West City.
She also packed the buckets, baskets, knives, and small stools from Zhu Er's house.
Then, the three children came to the vicinity of West City.
Li Yue took off the cloak she was wearing.
She spread it on the ground as a stall.
The boy was responsible for drawing water and digging ice.
Li Yue was responsible for thinking, and Zhu Er was responsible for carving ice. The three of them had a clear division of labor and openly started a business of selling ice sculptures.
When the ice sculptures made by Zhu Er were filled with cloaks and baskets, Li Yue recalled the promotional slogans in the modern world and made a summary. She opened her mouth and shouted,
"Come and take a look! Don't miss out on this! All the ice sculptures in this stall are on clearance sale for three copper coins!
Whatever he chose, it was only three copper coins!
You won't lose out if you buy, you won't be tricked!
Visiting friends, coaxing girls, teasing children, and dating Prince Charming was a must!
Good luck is just around the corner … "
Ice sculptures were not considered rare. What was rare was the appearance of the ice sculptures. Each of them was strange and lifelike, and the little girl who was yelling was eloquent and cute. When passersby passed by the ice sculpture stall, they would stop for a moment. When they took another step, their money bags would shrink a little, and they would have a small toy made of ice in their hands.
Some peddlers were envious of the three children's business, so they imitated them and started selling ice sculptures. Most of the sculptures were made according to Li Yue's stall.
Although the ice sculptures they sold were not as exquisite as those made by Zhu Er, they were cheaper. Some of them even mixed in other small toys to sell and give away, so they more or less got some customers.
Li Yue saw that there were more and more peddlers selling ice sculptures in the West Market, and the copper coins in her stall were piled up into a small pile. She promptly asked Zhu Er to stop and prepared to pack up and leave.
Zhu Er lowered his head and carried the baskets on his back. Li Yue tried to pick up her cloak. Just as she bent down, someone suddenly stood in front of her.
The person who stood in front of Li Yue was naturally the taciturn boy. He tightly held the iron plate by his waist and confronted the hooligans surrounding their stall.
Li Yue's heart warmed. Looking at the hooligans, she felt that they were inexplicably familiar. Behind her, the little fatty Zhu Er was the first to tell her who the hooligans were.
"Long, Long Dragon."
"You know that we are Long Dragon, yet you dare to set up a stall without paying!
Hand over all your money!
If you don't, we'll use you as collateral! "
The peddlers nearby all lowered their heads and pretended that nothing had happened. Obviously, this was not the first time they had encountered a Long Dragon asking for protection fees.
Li Yue looked back at Zhu Er in surprise, then her gaze fell back on the hooligans.
Even the leader of this group of people was dead, yet they still hadn't disbanded and turned over a new leaf. Instead, they came out to extort protection fees. Dogs really couldn't change their habits.
Bah, bah, bah. These hooligans were dogs, but she wasn't. Moreover, Tie Chuanjia and Li Xunhuan were in the tavern nearby. Facing this group of repulsive people in front of her, Li Yue's heart didn't waver at all. She even wanted to laugh a little.
The little girl took a deep breath and immediately sank her Qi into her Dantian. She was ready to summon the Iron Protection God. Before she could speak, the boy in front of her had already made his move.
Li Yue saw a black shadow appear in the air. The belt and pants of the leader of the hooligans had already been separated. The boy backhanded a few more times, and the pants of the rest of the hooligans also fell to their feet.
In broad daylight, a row of adult men were taking a stroll in the downtown area. This scene was so unsightly that people couldn't bear to look at it. Some of the frightened crowd had already shouted.
The hooligans who were provoked by the screams were panicked. They scrambled to pull up their pants as if they were competing.
Because the boy was taller than Li Yue, part of her vision was blocked. Li Yue didn't see the most unbearable scene. When she poked her head out from behind the boy, the Bearded Man who had heard the noise had already protected the three children behind him.
Accompanied by a burst of earth-shattering cries and a few muffled sounds of heavy objects falling to the ground, the hooligans were once again beaten to the ground by Tie Chuanjia.
After beating up the hooligans, the Bearded Man picked up Li Yue from behind and let the little girl sit on his shoulders.
Looking at the bare buttocks all over the ground, Tie Chuanjia felt that it was really indecent. He stretched out his large palm and tried to cover the little girl's eyes. Instead, the little girl grabbed his wrist.
"Uncle Tie, if we let these hooligans continue to act recklessly, they will find trouble with us sooner or later.
I have a way to solve this once and for all. "
Although Tie Chuanjia didn't know what Li Yue was planning to do, he was willing to cooperate with the little girl to be the bad guy.
The Bearded Man moved his joints a few times and deliberately lowered his voice. "Little Miss, killing so many people in the downtown area isn't easy to clean up the aftermath."
The little fatty, Zhu Er, said in a timely manner, "I know how to make Corpse Dissolving Water."
The boy grew up in the wilderness and was accompanied by wild animals. He knew the law of survival better than anyone else. Therefore, he really thought that Li Yue, Zhu Er, and Tie Chuanjia were prepared to eliminate the future trouble. Rubbing the metal piece in his hand, he looked up at Li Yue and said, "It's better to kill them.
It'll save us trouble. I'll do it and return the favor. "
The hooligans who were lying on the ground were groaning in pain. After hearing the conversation between the two of them, they didn't even dare to breathe loudly. The group of strong men all trembled like a sieve.
Li Yue was already laughing in her heart, but she still forced herself not to laugh out loud. She coughed lightly and spoke with some hesitation.
"It doesn't seem right to kill them all, right?
No matter what, it's their fault for not leading the way. If you want to find trouble, you should look for their leader first.
By the way, where's your leader? "
The hooligans didn't dare to say a word. Tie Chuanjia cracked his fingers and there was another cracking sound. The middle-aged man who was closest to Tie Chuanjia didn't even raise his head and quickly responded.
"Old … no, no, no, our old leader was killed a few months ago. The new leader is a soft-footed shrimp. He usually doesn't do anything, but he immediately went crazy last month. None of us are willing to submit to each other. Although we still have the name of the Long Dragon, we all have our own camps and don't cooperate with each other.
A few days ago, we had a fight with our brothers on another street for territory. "
Li Yue thought for a while and raised her eyebrows at the middle-aged man. "So you're the leader of these people now?"
"This … I don't dare, I don't dare …"
"Since you lack a leader, what do you think of me being the leader?"
"Young lady, please don't ask us …"
Before the word "happy" could leave his mouth, the middle-aged man felt something cold on his neck. He was afraid that his head would be separated from his body, so he hurriedly kowtowed to Li Yue.
"Young lady!
You can be the leader!
That's great! "
"But why did you look so reluctant just now?"
"Why would I?"
The middle-aged man rolled his eyes and immediately squeezed out a smile. "It's our good fortune to have a fairy-like young lady as our leader. Why would I be unwilling? I'm just happy!"
As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, his brothers hurriedly chimed in. Li Yue clenched her fists and tried her best to hold back her laughter. She kept telling them to gather their brothers when they went back. They would meet in Xi City tomorrow to discuss how to unify the Long Dragon.
None of the hooligans objected. They all nodded in agreement.
After the hooligans and the crowd dispersed, Li Yue realized that Zhu Er was looking at her with a strange gaze. When she looked back, Zhu Er quickly looked away and muttered something.
Li Yue wasn't interested in guessing what her friend was saying. She patted Tie Chuanjia's shoulder and gestured for him to put her down. Then, she divided the money for the ice sculpture into three portions. She gave one portion to the boy and the other two portions to Zhu Er.
The boy didn't raise any objections to this method of distribution. Instead, he started to worry about Li Yue's safety.
"Although they're flies, there are too many of them. They'll suck blood. If you want to catch them all, it might backfire."
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Li Yue wiped her face when she heard this. This new friend of hers was good at everything, but he was a little too serious. Even now, he still thought that she was going to annihilate the entire family. Which part of her looked like such a cruel person?
She tried her best to explain to the boy that she really wanted to unify the Long Dragon as the boss. In the end, the boy said, "It's natural to annihilate the entire family after occupying the territory." This made her speechless.
An explanation was a cover-up, and a cover-up was the truth.
In order to avoid making things worse, Li Yue didn't continue to explain.
Seeing that it was getting late, the boy prepared to leave the city and go home. Before they parted, Li Yue remembered that she hadn't officially exchanged names with him. Thus, she hurriedly introduced herself to the boy.
"My surname is Li Yue. What about you?"
"I … I don't have a name … You can call me Hoodlum."
"Okay, A … Eh?!"
His back was straight, and his thin lips were pursed into a line. The pair of eyes that were comparable to obsidian in the past no longer had the slightest bit of light, leaving only a deep and silent darkness.
The boy reminded Li Yue of the granite buried under the snow outside the pass. Cold, hard, and cold, he was indifferent to everything in the world, including himself.
Li Yue didn't ask how the boy's mother was doing. She knew about Bai Feifei's illness, so how could she not guess her ending? Deep in her heart, she let out a silent sigh.
A woman who had been treated with gentleness by the years, who had never left a trace on her face, had withered silently like a flower blooming in the wilderness.
In Li Yue's opinion, Hoodlum didn't have any bad debts with her.
From the day the two met, in addition to the jade pendant and information that Bai Feifei had given, strictly speaking, Li Yue still owed him something.
Although Li Yue had explained to Hoodlum again and again, Hoodlum was not moved at all. He didn't say a word and stubbornly guarded Li Yue's side.
The little girl originally wanted to analyze the facts with the boy, but the Bearded Man gently shook his head at the little girl. In that instant, she understood what Hoodlum was thinking.
After the boy lost his loved one, the intense grief made him feel at a loss. He didn't know where to go.
And the connection between him and Li Yue allowed him to find the person who had fallen in love with him in a short period of time.
It wasn't for a place to stay, but for a peace of mind.
It was also from that day onwards that Hoodlum followed Li Yue like a shadow. When Li Yue went to school, he would guard outside the school. When Li Yue went to work in Long Dragon, he would wait in front of the steps of the main hall. When Li Yue went home to rest, he would wait on the eaves of the Li residence.
For three days in a row, Hoodlum didn't eat, drink, or sleep. His face quickly became pale.
No matter how she tried to persuade Hoodlum, he wouldn't listen. Li Yue was helpless. She could only find Li Xunhuan and have the latter hit the former's sleeping acupoint.
Tanhua Lang pressed down. The boy's body swayed, and he fell to the ground with his sword.
Before he hit the ground, his body was picked up by Tie Chuanjia and brought to the guest room. Li Yue picked up the boy's sword and followed behind.
This time, the doctor who was invited to take Hoodlum's pulse was the same old doctor who treated Bai Feifei last time. As soon as he entered the room, he frowned when he saw Li Xunhuan. When he saw Li Yue, he frowned again. When he saw Hoodlum, he directly slammed the medicine box on the wooden table. His face suddenly became very long, but he still didn't forget to place his fingers on Hoodlum's wrist.
"What's wrong with you guys? Is it fun to have a heart disease?
Forget about the older one. With his martial arts, he can suffer for 20 or 30 years without a problem. What's wrong with the younger one? You're so young, yet you're thinking so much. You're taking advantage of your youth to court death. Are you afraid that God will forget to punish you? "
The old doctor talked non-stop. Li Xunhuan didn't notice Li Yue's expression. He only thought that the old doctor was reprimanding him and Hoodlum. His face was full of bitter smiles.
Li Yue didn't know how to answer directly. She could only beat around the bush and change the topic.
"Doctor, Hoodlum definitely hasn't rested for more than three days. How is his body?"
The old doctor hated patients who had a heart disease the most. Not only did they not want to live, but they also ruined his reputation as a doctor. Therefore, he was particularly rude when he answered.
"Little girl, don't worry. He won't die."
"Thank you for your hard work, doctor."
Uncle Fu led the old doctor to the next room to write a prescription. Li Yue carefully tucked in Hoodlum's quilt. In the end, she habitually touched Hoodlum's forehead. When she felt that his temperature didn't rise, she turned around and prepared to leave. When she raised her head, she saw Li Xunhuan with a complicated expression.
Tanhua Lang looked like he wanted to say something but stopped. He looked like he didn't know where to start. He and Li Yue looked at each other for a long time. In the end, he was defeated.
"Xiao Yue, that … Although it's said that those who are young will admire their parents, and those who are lecherous will admire their parents … But you … You … You're still young. There are many things … You don't understand, so —"
Li Xunhuan's words were very difficult to say. But before he finished, Li Yue had already understood his meaning. The little girl crossed her arms and teased Li Xunhuan.
"Uncle Li, are you worried that I'll bring back a child bride?"
"Cough cough cough cough — Xiao Yue, you're a little girl. Don't be so … so …"
Tanhua Lang pondered for a long time. He didn't know which adjective to use. Li Yue put her hands on her hips and laughed.
"Oh my, Uncle Li, if you retire from Jianghu in the future, you can consider writing a novel when you have free time. After all, you have talent, writing skills, experience, and a rich imagination that others don't have.
As for a child bride, Uncle Li, you don't have to worry too much. I'm a person with very high requirements. I won't casually bring back just anyone to be the wife of the Gang Leader. "
Although he knew that Li Yue was digging a hole, Li Xunhuan couldn't help but follow her wishes and continue to ask.
"Then … What are Xiao Yue's requirements?"
"It's very simple. The person has to be fair, beautiful, and gentle like water. The person has to be tall, slender, and have legs below the neck. Of course, these aren't the decisive conditions.
For me, the most important thing is that the person has to be a real man. He has to be a good man. He has to be able to do laundry, cook, embroider, and make soles. He has to be able to walk the dog, take care of the children, grow flowers, and tell jokes … "
The more Li Xunhuan listened to Li Yue's description, the more familiar it sounded. He felt that the little girl had her eyes set on someone he was familiar with. She was just short of giving him a betrothal gift. He was still wondering who this person was when Li Yue revealed the answer without any suspense.
"Yes, that's right. It's best if he's like Uncle Tie!"
Tanhua Lang, whose heart was in turmoil, flipped to the Mariana Trench: "…"
Tie Chuanjia, who pushed open the door and only heard the last sentence: "…???"
"Do you think I'm joking, Uncle Li? I'm serious."
Li Yue walked to the burly man's side and held one of his large palms. When she felt the rough calluses on his palm, she raised her head.
"When I grow up, I want to marry someone like Uncle Tie!"
Tanhua Lang was speechless. He couldn't find the words to respond to Li Yue. He held his forehead as he felt a headache coming on.
Tie Chuanjia, who was originally confused, smiled when he heard this. He bent down and combed the little girl's messy hair. Then, he smoothed the little girl's collar.
"When Little Miss grows up, Uncle Tie will also be old. However, Uncle Tie will help Little Miss to keep a lookout.
In the future, the one who can match Little Miss will definitely be a handsome young man who will treat Little Miss well wholeheartedly. "
Li Yue pursed her lips. She originally wanted to ask what would happen if she fell in love with a girl, but when she looked into Tie Chuanjia's eyes, she didn't have the courage to continue talking nonsense and make Tie Chuanjia angry.
She still had to go to school tomorrow morning. There were servants guarding Hoodlum, so Li Yue couldn't be of any use here. She obediently went to her room to review her homework.
Hoodlum slept for a day and a night and still didn't wake up. Fortunately, his body's signs were basically normal, and there weren't any sudden critical situations.
On the afternoon before the day of rest, Li Yue finished her homework in school early. After returning home and greeting Tanhua Lang and the others, she wandered to Hoodlum's room.
The youth was still unconscious, but she didn't know who he was dreaming of. His hands were clenched into fists, his thick eyebrows were tightly knitted, and his pale lips were slightly opened, as if he was murmuring something.
Li Yue waved her hand to signal for the servant to bring in a basin of hot water. She sat by the bed and carefully observed the youth's exposed hands.
Perhaps it was because he had been making a living in the Wasteland for many years, but the youth's hands weren't as slender and soft as those of his peers. Instead, they were rough like Tie Chuanjia's, which was proof that he had been ravaged by fate.
Li Yue tried to pry open the youth's fists. She used all her strength but couldn't make the other party loosen up at all. She could only choose to give up.
After a while, the servant came in with hot water. Li Yue moved aside so that the servant could wipe Hoodlum's sweat. After the servant finished the corresponding nursing work, she nodded to the servant and let him rest and eat first.
Waiting was a test of one's patience, especially when one was guarding a person who would wake up at any time.
Unfortunately, Li Yue's patience was far from the average level of this era. Before she came to the Hoodlum's room, she forgot to bring the newly bought story book. She also didn't want to call the servant to stop him from resting. With nothing to do, the little girl began to study the Hoodlum lying on the bed.
Li Yue first gently pressed the youth's hard arm. The other party didn't respond, so she stretched out her finger and poked the youth's eyebrows.
When she retracted her hand, Li Yue inadvertently touched the other party's eyelashes. Those eyelashes were as thick as crow's feathers, scratching her fingertips and making them itch.
She couldn't help but hover her whole palm directly above the youth's face. She imagined the appearance of the youth's parents by covering and eliminating the possibility of her hand moving to the youth's eyes. Another rough hand had already grabbed her wrist.
Ordinary people would be embarrassed if they were caught red-handed doing something stupid. Li Yue had been tested in her two lifetimes, so naturally, ordinary people couldn't compare to her.
Facing the Hoodlum's gaze, she didn't feel guilty at all. She smiled and greeted the other party as if nothing had happened.
"You're awake, Hoodlum."
"The pig is calling me?"
"Yes, it's calling you!"
"So you're a pig."