Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 398 Fire Dragon Village

"Donkey, run slower!"

As it got darker, I saw several children running barefoot along the roads on both sides.

There were several parents of children following behind, shouting at them to slow down, fearing that they might accidentally fall.

But these children could not hear the adults shouting behind them. They were just afraid that they were running too slowly and could not see the fun.

Not only these children, but also many adults in the village followed and walked towards the village entrance.

By the time the children Donkey, Goumao, Fugui, Wangcai and Tiezhu rushed over, a lot of people had already gathered in front.

"Wow, it's really a tiger!"

The leader, Donkey, stuck his little head into the crowd and looked out. He saw a huge tiger lying on the ground with its eyes shining.

"That's incredible! I only know there are tigers in this mountain. I can hear their roars occasionally, but I've never seen one."

"Yes, if such a big tiger had crawled down the mountain that day, I wouldn't dare to imagine what would happen."

"That Gao girl is really amazing. I didn't realize she had this ability when she first came. What a pity, she's not my daughter-in-law."

Everyone was talking about it, and soon they saw Gao Yuting coming in from the distance carrying a deer. She smiled and handed the deer to Niu Zi and others who were guarding the gate of the village.

"Give it to everyone, but I want to keep this tiger skin. My man specifically asked for it."

Gao Yuting's words made men like Niu Zi happy and jealous.

The good news is that there are many treasures on the tiger's body. Tiger penis can be used to make wine, tiger bones can be used to make medicine, and tiger meat is a tonic.

The one who is jealous is naturally the man that Gao Yuting mentioned, that is, the pretty boy that everyone looks down upon. Apart from being good at needlework, he can't even farm on weekdays.

The last time I passed by, I saw his second uncle working in the fields, and he was sitting nearby reading a book in the sun.

Hey, it's really useless.

But such a loser could actually marry such a great wife. When he went hunting in the mountains, he always caught the prey, even killing tigers.

It really makes people in this village envious.

"Miss."

There is a saying that goes, Speak of Cao Cao and he will appear. At this time, Xiao Ran walked out of the crowd with his hands behind his back, smiling, walked up to the tiger, and looked it up and down.

"Wow, it's so big. This is the first time I've seen a tiger like this. Madam, you are amazing. I said that last night. You should kill the tiger today and skin it later. I will make you a tiger skin skirt."

Xiao Ran praised his wife, and walked around the tiger left and right, looking very surprised, which caused everyone to look at him with contempt.

"Shame on you, Uncle Xiao. You are such an old man, but you still have to rely on your wife for a living. How shameful!"

Adults may not be able to speak up, but the kids like Donkey Egg don’t have so many concerns.

Surrounding Xiao Ran and shouting.

Xiao Ran was startled when he heard this, then raised his head proudly: "Hey, everyone is a baby."

After saying that, he ignored the gazes of Donkey and the other guys, came to Gao Yuting and leaned his head on Gao Yuting's shoulder.

"Hug me, wife!"

"Sigh~~"

When everyone saw this, they all gasped. They simply couldn't look at it straight. They had never seen such a shameless person.

But Gao Yuting seemed to be enjoying it. She hugged Xiao Ran's shoulders and acted as if she was coaxing Xiao Ran like a baby, which made Niu Zi's eyes widen.

I couldn’t help but complain in my heart: “Damn, I want to be a baby too!!”

"Honey, go home for dinner."

"it is good!"

Gao Yuting nodded and bowed to Niu Zi and the others: "Brother Niu Zi, I'll leave these to you."

"Sister Gao, um... please come to the hall later. The village chief wants to see you."

Gao Yuting and Xiao Ran have been here for a week and have gradually become familiar with the people here.

Even the leaders of the stronghold are familiar to him, but the leader of the stronghold is the only one he has never seen.

Upon asking around, it turned out that it wasn't just them who hadn't seen it, many people hadn't seen it either.

It’s just that Gao Yuting acted too ostentatiously, so the village chief had to come out and have a talk with Gao Yuting.

"Got it, I'll go after dinner."

Gao Yuting responded casually, and saw Xiao Ran holding her hand and skipping forward.

It looked like he really treated himself as a baby, which made Niuzi and the others couldn't help but spit at him.

"Still...still...baby...like this..."

Niu Zi imitated Xiao Ran's affectation and fiddled for a few times. When he turned around, he noticed that everyone was looking at him with strange expressions. He was immediately startled and curled his lips: "Ugh, what the hell is that?"

……

"How's it going? Are there any movements from that gang?"

Xiao Ran held Gao Yuting's hand and asked as they walked.

"Well, I could see clearly from the mountain, there were about 600 to 700 people, probably in the past few days, they seemed to be waiting for someone."

"It seems that our second in command is quite capable."

Xiao Ran praised.

Although this second-in-command usually works the fields honestly, his role is actually far more than that.

This guy has a blind eye, but this eye is naturally gifted with magical powers.

Just by looking into the beast's eyes, you can control it and share vision with it.

So on weekdays, the second in command would control a crow and fly around in the mountains and forests.

Gao Yuting is a master at killing, but not a real hunter. However, the reason why she can always catch her prey is because the second in command controls the crows to lead the way for her.

The crow will be responsible for guiding the direction of the prey and the distance through sound. One sound means within ten meters, two sounds mean twenty meters, and so on.

It is because of this that Gao Yuting was able to transform from a female knight into an old hunter.

Otherwise, hunting is not as easy as you think.

In addition to hunting, the second in command was also responsible for patrolling the surrounding mountains and forests. The focus was on observing the movements of the nearby bandits.

Just last night, these bandits finally couldn't hold back anymore.

They began to gather their troops and assembled behind another hill ten miles away from Huolong Village.

Gao Yuting said today that she was going to fight a tiger, but in fact she was just checking the situation from a distance.

The result was just as the second in command had said, there were a total of seven or eight hundred people.

These are a group of bandits who kill without blinking an eye. With so many people, they want to attack Huolong Village. Based on their understanding of Huolong Village, they are afraid that Huolong Village will not be able to hold out.

During this period of time, Xiao Ran and his team have gained a thorough understanding of the village.

The leader, Niu Zi, and the strong men in the village formed a bandit group of about 120 people.

They are considered the backbone of the village, and the rest of the labor force is the elderly.

A thousand households actually only have more than two hundred working people.

More importantly, it is women and children.

Therefore, although the scale of Huolong Village is large, its combat effectiveness is actually not high.

This also explains why those bandits outside would target Huolong Village.

Women, food, and low combat effectiveness, isn't this a perfect fat sheep?

The only thing that puzzled Xiao Ran was that they were unwilling to take action before because of the terrain problem on the Fire Dragon Village side. After all, it was easy to defend but difficult to attack. If they attacked, they would suffer heavy casualties, and then other bandits would take advantage of them.

But now these bandits have all united together. Just as Gao Yuting said, they seem to be waiting for someone.

Combined with what the second in command said before, there was a big shot, Xiao Ran couldn't help but be curious, who on earth wanted to unite so many bandits together? Since he had such great power, why would he go to so much trouble? Wouldn't it be better to just come and persuade the Fire Dragon Village to surrender?

"Let's wait and see. It's not time for us to take action yet."

Gao Yuting didn't take these bandits seriously.

It is unrealistic to kill them all in one breath, but it is certainly possible to scare them to death.

It’s just that the person behind this hasn’t shown up, so if we act rashly now, it would be bad.

"I'm back. Come on, wash your hands and have dinner."

The second in command was standing far away at the door waiting. When he saw Xiao Ran and the others coming back, he immediately waved and shouted.

It can be seen that the second in command looks in good spirits these days. There's nothing he can do about it; he must be eating too well.

Ever since following Xiao Ran, there has been meat for every meal and the food is simply delicious.

This is certainly not the reason why Xiao Ran's cooking skills have improved greatly, but because when he came, he bought a lot of semi-finished products at Guanlin Wholesale Market. Anyway, they would not go bad if kept in the space, so he bought some more.

With the addition of rich seasonings, the taste is okay for Xiao Ran, but for people who have never tasted MSG, it is no exaggeration to describe it as delicacies from land and sea.

After the two came back, the second in command warmly invited them to dinner.

The beef rice is served with some vegetables. The beef is imported beef bought by Xiao Ran, and it is full of aroma.

Each of the three people had a large bowl, put the food on it, sat on the chairs with their bowls and chopsticks, and started eating.

The rice tastes so delicious, it just lacks a clove of garlic.

Halfway through the meal, Xiao Ran looked out the door and saw Donkey Danzi acting suspiciously outside.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran simply shouted at him, "Don't hide, come in quickly, or there will be nothing left for you after you finish eating."

After hearing Xiao Ran's words, Donkey walked in with an embarrassed look on his face.

Xiao Ran directly gave him the remaining half bowl of rice in his hand: "Eat it."

"what……"

Seeing Xiao Ran being so direct, Donkey's little face was suddenly at a loss.

"Uncle Xiao...I...I'm not..."

"Stop talking nonsense and eat quickly."

Donkey swallowed his saliva, looked at the beef in the bowl, and finally couldn't help but held the bowl and started eating. As soon as he took a bite of the beef, he almost cried.

This is the first time I have eaten such delicious meat in my life.

He ate the food clean up in his mouth while holding the bowl. Seeing this, Gao Yuting, who was standing next to him, simply pushed the remaining half of her bowl into Ludanzi's bowl.

"Auntie, I..."

This sudden concern made Donkey's dirty face turn as red as a monkey's butt.

"Don't talk, just eat."

Then he put the bowl aside and said, "When you're done, go wash the dishes. Just think of it as you doing the work for me."

"Yeah, yeah, I get it."

After hearing Gao Yuting's words, Ludanzi felt much better.

"I'll go to the front hall and see what the village chief wants to talk to me about."

After Gao Yuting finished speaking, she stood up and walked out.

As soon as Gao Yuting left, Xiao Ran leaned on a chair beside him and picked up the needle and thread to start sewing.

Donkey Egg sat aside, eating while his eyes wandered around Xiao Ran and the Second in Command.

Finally, he focused his gaze on Xiao Ran and leaned forward and said, "Uncle Xiao."

"Ah."

"People outside say you're a wimp, but I don't think so."

Hearing this, Xiao Ran tilted his head and looked at Donkey's little face: "Why not?"

"I don't know, but you are different from those lazy guys. You must be extraordinary to marry a woman as powerful as Aunt Gao."

"Yeah, that makes sense. Actually, I am a martial arts master, okay? Go wash the dishes and get out of here quickly."

Xiao Ran pinched Donkey's little face and told him to go to work quickly.

This child's mind is very sensitive. How many people can see through such a simple truth?

(End of this chapter)