84 Gunshots at midnigh (1/2)

”Liuyuan, don't you go running out by yourself again these days.” Xiaoyu said in the pitch-black room, ”How am I going to answer to your brother if something happens to you?”

”Don't worry, I won't do it again,” Yan Liuyuan promised. Recently, he had gotten increasingly trustful of Xiaoyu because she continued caring for him even though she had the opportunity to leave him behind.

As he was running a high fever several days ago, Xiaoyu could have just taken the money and left, but she did not do that.

While he was sleeping, there would always be a fresh and cool towel wiping his face and armpits to keep his temperature down. Yan Liuyuan even heard a gentle singing voice that felt like a warm ocean and reminded him of a child being held in its mother's arms.

Yan Liuyuan had never experienced any of these feelings before. Even though Ren Xiaosu also provided him with a lot of warmth and care, it felt like he was always chasing after his elder brother. It did not feel like an embrace.

”OK.” Xiaoyu felt reassured after hearing Yan Liuyuan's promise. She thought of something and said, ”Since you've recovered from your illness, you have to attend class tomorrow to catch up.”

Yan Liuyuan paled at the mention. ”Big Sister Xiaoyu, surely that's unnecessary. My brother isn't around anyway!”

”That won't do.” Xiaoyu said, ”It'll be my fault if Xiaosu comes back and finds out that you've fallen behind on your homework. He told me before he left.”

”When did he tell you that?!” Yan Liuyuan wailed, ”I never heard him mentioning anything about it at all!”

Xiaoyu giggled while lying on the bedroll. ”Anyway, I don't care. You must be obedient.”

Yan Liuyuan lost the will to argue as he stared at the ceiling, but there was a slight smile on his lips. At this moment, he heard someone jump into the courtyard, and it was not just one person!

Xiaoyu also heard the sound. But the usually gentle and timid Xiaoyu took out a bone knife from under her pillow. She clenched her teeth and said, ”Stay still!”

In the dimly lit room, Yan Liuyuan could see Xiaoyu trembling a little. They both knew that someone leaping over the yard's wall at such a late time must have come with evil purposes. But as Ren Xiaosu was not around, Xiaoyu felt that she should bear the responsibility of protecting Yan Liuyuan.

A second later, three burly men kicked open the door to their room. Two of them tried to hold Xiaoyu against the ground while the other man stabbed at Yan Liuyuan, who was lying in bed with a bone knife.

Although Xiaoyu was also holding a bone knife, her strength as a woman was a lot weaker compared to that of an adult man.

When one of the burly men jumped her, he let out a groan like he had been stabbed by her bone knife. However, the other man kicked it out of her hand!

Yan Liuyuan looked at them with the aid of the moonlight. In that instant, he recognized that these three men were some of the idlers in town. He had never unexpected they would target the school!

Perhaps they thought Ren Xiaosu had earned some money after opening the clinic some time ago. Furthermore, Ren Xiaosu was not in town at the moment, so they started getting ideas to commit a crime.

Xiaoyu was very cautious whenever she spent any money during this period. Every time she bought her groceries from the market, she would haggle over the price for a long time. She would even resort to picking wild vegetables so she could pretend she was broke.

However, Yan Liuyuan needed nutrition when he was ill. In the end, she still bought some meat, and that attracted the attention of others.

This was what was scary about a home without a man. Although Yan Liuyuan was also a man, he was too young to be intimidating to others.

As Yan Liuyuan and Xiaoyu likely had a lot of money with them now, not even the thought of this being a school could hinder the robbers from targeting them.