Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 472: Only a Fool Wouldn’t Take the Chance to Earn Silver (2)

But the bandit was clearly annoyed by the incessant chatter, and with a loud shout, "Huo Yaotian, let’s see where you can run to!" he lifted his saber and charged fiercely at Yueyue.

Quick, quick, quick, run, Qiqi thought to herself, urging her to run as far as she could.

As Yueyue ran, she dodged the slashing saber. Using her petite size to her advantage, she weaved circles around the bandit, dizzying him until he finally stopped dead in his tracks, staring at a stone on the ground and quietly counting stars.

Facing her, Qiqi smiled lightly and gave his sister a thumbs up, "Sister, you’re truly calm and composed, witty and brave, composed under pressure."

"Stop blabbering and let’s get out of here!" This time, it was the sister pulling her brother to escape.

"He’s already fainted, isn’t he? Quickly, throw the sleeping potion and knock him out. There must be plenty of treasures in this stronghold. Since we’re already on the run, taking some silver to spend would surely count as their good deed," Qiqi urged with excitement, not budging an inch and instead looking eagerly at Yueyue.

Yueyue looked at her brother as if he were an alien, "Big brother, are you feverish? I’ve already used up all my sleeping potion. Besides, we’re trying to escape for our lives here, and you’re still thinking of other things? Should I admire you or scold you? Well, I guess I admire you. Let me do it, and you go first." For the sake of the clinking copper coins and the shiny green and red gemstones, what’s the harm in risking our lives? After all, you can always be a hero again after eighteen years. Our mother always told us that not taking silver when it’s available is foolish, so to carry out our mother’s teaching to the fullest, I’m duty-bound to act.

Qiqi blinked his dark grape-like eyes and frowned, "Why should I go first?"

"Who asked you to be the older brother!" Yueyue pouted, as if it was his duty to protect his little sister.

"...Can I be the younger brother instead?"

"You tell that to our mother and ask her to put you back in the furnace for a redo."

"..." Qiqi closed his eyes for a moment, then reopened them with a glint, embracing his resolve, "If big brother accidentally dies, you must place a bouquet of flowers on my grave."

Yueyue raised a row of question marks over her forehead and parted her lips slightly, "Flowers?" Why not joss paper?

"Right." Qiqi nodded fiercely.

"Don’t people burn paper for the dead?" Yueyue was confused, her brother’s thinking really was strange.

Qiqi looked at his sister with a disappointed face and shook his head in pity, "People burn paper when there’s trouble, of course they buy flowers when there isn’t! Dumb."

"Humph, you’re the dumb one. Didn’t you yourself say to place a bouquet of flowers on your grave?" Yueyue emphasized the words ’on your grave’ with a bite.

"Oh, knowing your petty nature and how you value money over life, without even thinking about it, would you really be willing to spend a few copper coins to buy me flowers? That would be like silver falling from the sky!" Qiqi turned his head to look at the clouds, perhaps checking if silver was about to fall from them.

Yueyue, frustrated yet amused, lifted her radiant little face and shook her finger at her brother, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, this time you’ve guessed wrong, brother. I’ll pull out a few flower seedlings from the Imperial Garden and plant them on your grave so they can bloom every day."

Qiqi widened his eyes and glared hard at his sister, pouting his rosy lips and turning his head toward the bandit, who was gradually coming to.

"What are you looking at, waiting for him to kill us?" Yueyue shouted at her brother in a heightened voice.

Qiqi glanced at his sister, his feet left the ground in an instant, and with a somersault in mid-air, he appeared in a flash, pressing on the bandit’s acupoint, lightly landing, and dusting off his hands, he raised an eyebrow and looked at his sister, whose face had already gone dumbfounded: "How about that! Sister, you should learn this move from your brother!"

Regaining her composure, Yueyue looked up at the sky speechlessly. She didn’t believe this technique was something she could learn without worrying about being laughed at for losing her teeth if she were to speak of it.

The siblings worked together to tie up the last bandit tightly and searched everywhere in the large stronghold, but aside from a few copper coins and scattered pieces of silver on the bandits, they found nothing else.

Yueyue, not convinced, pouted. She had wasted two bags of her medicine powder and nearly lost her life, only to be lectured by her brother and, in the end, found so little silver that it wasn’t even enough to cover the cost of her own precious medicine powder.

Qiqi shrugged helplessly at Yueyue; they had searched everywhere that could be searched, but found nothing.

Yueyue turned her head to look at the stronghold leader, Huo Yaotian, struggling to pick up the large knife on the ground, and positioning the sharp blade at Huo Yaotian’s neck, she said threateningly in her childish voice, "Tell me, where are the gold, silver, and gemstones you’ve stolen?"

Huo Yaotian snorted with laughter, hardly able to believe that the one threatening him was just a little milk-sucking baby.

"Are you going to talk or not? I’m not very strong, so if by chance I cut your major artery, you won’t even have a chance to speak!" The blade moved a fraction closer, lightly cutting through Huo Yaotian’s rough skin, and a bloodstain immediately appeared.

Looking at Yueyue, Huo Yaotian showed his yellow teeth and laughed with a ’hei hei’ sound: "You milk-sucking babe, do you even know how to kill somebody? Want grandpa to teach you?"

Yueyue frowned slightly, seeing how the leader was more extravagant than herself and stubbornly refusing to reveal where the silver was hidden, she was undecided for a moment. She hadn’t killed anyone before and looking at Huo Yaotian on the ground, she felt conflicted.

Qiqi snorted coldly, stepping forward to take the large knife from his sister’s hand: "It’s just killing, isn’t it? Such a simple matter, just a white knife in, a red knife out. Watching your blood slowly drain out, seeing you gradually stop breathing, waiting for your pupils to dilate, your heart to stop beating, proving you’re definitely dead. Am I right?"

Caught off guard, Huo Yaotian looked at Qiqi, not because he was pointing a large knife at him, but because he was surprised that someone so young could speak such cruel words, his heart instantly shrouded in shadow: "Who exactly are you people?"

"Hmph, we are people you cannot afford to provoke. Still won’t tell us where it’s hidden? It seems I have run out of patience," Qiqi said, shaking the large knife in his hand, his gaze fixed on the man on the ground.

The stronghold leader looked back at Qiqi, then gave a bitter laugh: "Even if I gave you all the gold and treasures, you wouldn’t let me go."

Upon hearing this, Yueyue quickly stepped forward, revealing a sincere smile: "Not at all, look at us, such honest people, such adorable people, such friendly people, how could we possibly kill to silence someone?"

Qiqi’s eyelids twitched wildly, his hand holding the knife trembled, inadvertently cutting Huo Yaotian’s face.

"Hey hey hey, big brother, steady on, hey? The uncle is already not good-looking, and now you’ve added a new scar to his face. Do you want to make him so unrecognizable that even his mother wouldn’t know him in hell?" Yueyue looked at her brother grievously.

"Shut up," Qiqi couldn’t stand his sister’s babbling and glared angrily at the thoughtless Yueyue.