Chapter 40 (1/2)

Chapter 40 My Only Hobby is Women

“Head in that direction.” The fat man laughed and pointed at the gra.s.sy river bank under the bridge.

“How would I get there?” Zhao Lingjun looked left and right for a path downwards, but couldn’t find a safe pa.s.sage down.

But just as Zhao Lingjun asked this question, the tall man forcefully shoved him from behind.

“Ahhh!” Meng Xue suddenly cried out in surprise. With a thud, Zhao Lingjun fell onto the riverbank filled with tall gra.s.s.

“Haha, now do you know how to get down?”

The tall man laughed at Zhao Lingjun who was flat on his back on the riverbank.

The riverbank that Zhao Lingjun fell on was full of soft mud and tall gra.s.s. During his three meters fall, his world turned black and when he hit the ground, he almost died from the impact. Jolting upright after a long moment, Zhao Lingjun gasped for air like a fish out of water, and spat out a mouthful of mud and gra.s.s from his mouth that reeked of a b.l.o.o.d.y taste from earlier. Just as he was about to jump onto his feet and curse, “F*ck your ancestors,” Meng Xue came flying from the bridge to land beside him.

His first reaction was to quickly help her up, and when he saw that she didn’t suffer anything too serious, he breathed a sigh of relief.

“Your girlfriend has such a strong personality. She jumped down herself without me having to push her.” As he was helping her up, the fatty and tall man also leaped off the bridge and landed beside them.

“Bro, you’re fine, right?” the fat man smiling as usual said. “Come, follow me.”

It just so happened to be early summer, the gra.s.s on the riverbank were crazy tall, no less than half a man’s height.

Meng Xue and Zhao Lingjun followed behind the fat man in the waist high gra.s.s, with the tall man trudging along behind them with the two bags.

The riverbank’s soil was moist at places, and as Zhao Lingjun and Meng Xue stumbled through, they would accidentally step into a muddy pit after every few steps. Therefore, not long after they started, both the lower half of their pants were wet and sticky, plastering itself to their legs. With each step they took, it felt like there was a monster licking both their calves with a cold tongue, which was exceptionally discomforting.

But what was truly the most unbearable, was the tall gra.s.s. Due to the sweltering weather, both Zhao Lingjun and Meng Xue wore short sleeved tops, and walking through the tall gra.s.s with their exposed arms felt like getting cut by a small knife, itchy and painful at the same time.

Not long after walking, Zhao Lingjun noticed that Meng Xue’s white arms had numerous scratches from the gra.s.s.

When seeing her arms turn red and her face with an expression full of suffering, a pained feeling rose in his heart for no rhyme nor reason.

“Even if I have to risk my life, I must keep her from harm’s way.” He told himself in his heart, unable to bear the sight.

After trudging in the overgrown riverbank for almost an hour, Zhao Lingjun and Meng Xue’s strength and willpower were about to falter. At that moment, they saw some bungalows along the riverbank.

The fat man laughed and pointed at the houses made of stone slabs that looked like makes.h.i.+ft houses made by farmers who reared ducks and geese. He then said, “Bro, we’re here.”

“Why did they bring us here?”

Zhao Lingjun’s heart was full of doubts as he was pushed into one of the houses.

At this moment, he heard the fat man ask the tall man, “How long do they need before they arrive?”