Chapter 500 (2/2)
He Yi nodded her head, but her tiny hand trembled when she took the knife from me. She looked like she could explode from nervousness at any point.
“Do you really want to kill it?”
When I saw that she was about to beat a quick retreat, I hurriedly shook my head and said, “Okay, it's like this. Just raise your cleaver up in the air and separate this chicken's head from its neck with a swift chop. Just think of it as killing those chickens in the Floating Ice City's Wild Pheasant Ridge. That's really all there is to it…”
He Yi gave me a rather dumbfounded look as she retorted, “Then does that mean that I can hit this chicken with a Green Wave Slash…”
“Do as you will…”
He Yi smiled and took a long look at the chicken. She closed her eyes and raised her cleaver in the air, quietly saying, “Little Chicken, I really don't want to kill you, but the uncles need to have something to go along with their wine, so I'll have to do you wrong here! I hope that you'll be a human in your next life! I hope that you'll be the son of a rich man like Li Gang…”
Thwack!
The cleaver fell and bit into the neck of the chicken with a dull thud. My eyes widened with shock. He Yi didn't chop down hard enough to sever the chicken's neck, but she managed to successfully cut the ropes binding it. In the next instant, the half-decapitated chicken leapt into the air and started flopping around frantically.
I immediately ran up and grabbed He Yi before running backwards. I was deathly afraid that some of that wildly-spurting blood would fly onto her. Beiming Xue and Murong Mingyue furiously backpedaled as well. As we ran for cover, Beiming Xue commented with a smile, “Waaah, the wild chicken event has ended in failure! Our party got wiped…”
He Yi giggled at those words. “I didn't use enough strength.”
When I turned around, the chicken was still flopping on the ground. It was just refusing to die.
We had no choice but to wait for it to finish moving around, so we sat there and watched the dying chicken flop for nearly half an hour! Murong Mingyue was quite dumbstruck by how long this process was taking. She exclaimed, “If we don't finish it soon, we can use this chicken to cook supper!”
“Charge!”
I rushed forward, my cleaver flas.h.i.+ng in the air. The wild chicken finally bade this cruel world goodbye.
I chopped off its head, plucked its feathers, and gutted it with a practiced ease. As a child who grew up in a farming village, I had seen and done such things many times. In fact, I could even slaughter a pig if I had to!
……
We returned home and tidied up the two guest rooms with air conditioners before we started cooking dinner. None of the girls really knew how to cook so we had no choice but to hand the ingredients to the third aunt and let her work her magic.
My courtyard was bustling with activity in the evening, and the smell of food and wine wafted in the air.
My father and third uncle had gotten as drunk as lords and we rolled them into bed before eleven.
I walked up the stairs to go to one of the guest rooms. When I stared at both the rooms, realization suddenly struck me. I turned around to look at the three freshly-bathed girls and said, “There are two guest rooms with air conditioning, but the beds aren't very big. There's no way that three of you are going to be able to share a bed. If that's the case, how should we split the rooms?”
Murong Mingyue replied. “I'll sleep together with Eve. I need to protect her from you, Lu Chen! You'll eat her up if I'm not looking!”
“Why would I do that, d.a.m.n…”
I looked at He Yi and Beiming Xue. “Fine then, I'll share a room with Beiming. Beiming Xue will take the bed and I'll just roll out a mattress and sleep on the floor.”
“Mmm, that works!”
……
The night was quiet and still and I could hear the crickets weaving their nocturnal song.
“Big bro?”
Beiming Xue turned to look at me as she said, “Have you fallen asleep yet?”
“Nope.”
I turned to look at her, only to discover that this girl was only wearing an oversized pyjama s.h.i.+rt. She leaned over the side of the bed and the collar of her s.h.i.+rt hung loose, revealing the round borders of a pair of snowy mounds. She didn't seem to realize this either and she continued to lean over the bed, her round, perky b.u.t.t rising in the air slightly. She shot me a smile as she said, “I can't sleep, what do I do…”
“Do try to go to sleep!”
“Oohh, how about you tell me a bedtime story, big bro?”
“Do you want to hear a lewd one?”
“No!”
“I don't know any other stories…'
In the end, Beiming Xue didn't dare listen to my story. After all, we were both bachelors sharing a room and telling a lewd story in the middle of the night would be nothing less than throwing a match on some dry hay.
……
I finally heard the soft sound of Beiming Xue's breathing after a long time had pa.s.sed. The little girl had finally gone to bed. It was also at this time that I heard some footsteps coming from the balcony. I stood up and got dressed before opening the door. As the door swung open, the first thing I saw was He Yi's exquisite face illuminated by the moonlight. It was a sight that stole my breath away. She gazed at the lamplights coming from the distant village and I couldn't tell what was on her mind.
“Can't sleep either?” I asked.
“Mn.”
He Yi nodded her head and smiled. “Yeah, I can't seem to fall asleep for some odd reason. In a few hours, Heavenblessed's servers will be up again and the two major missions in Wind City and Vanished G.o.d City will be done as well. We definitely won't be able to get the first few server rewards for promoting to our fifth cla.s.s promotion if that's the case.”
“That's fine, the prizes aren't great either…”
“Mmm, so are we going to go back home tomorrow morning?”
“Up to you.”
“Okay…”
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