Water Margin: Gao Yanei is actually a Gal Genius

After drinking for a while, the group was chatting and laughing.

Li Yan seemed drunk, squinting as he looked Chen Liqing up and down, saying, "This young lady's figure looks familiar. Take off this veil so your brother can have some fun!" He then reached out to grab Chen Liqing's blue gauze veil.

Gao Jin was displeased and reached out to grab Li Yan's wrist. Although this crazy woman was ill, she was still practically his junior sister, so how could he let her be harassed like that?

Lu Zhishen also glared at Li Yan. He was rather naive and felt that the women around his brother should not be touched by others.

[Chen Liqing's favorability rating: -10.]

Gao Jin caught a glimpse of Chen Liqing's favorability rating out of the corner of his eye, and nearly choked. "Girl, wait a minute! He's the one flirting with you, why are you lowering my favorability rating?"

After regaining his composure, Gao Jin said with some dissatisfaction, "Brother Li Yan, are you drunk?"

"You think this little bit of alcohol can get your Grandpa Li Yan drunk? You two fools fell for my trick!" Li Yan pulled his hand away, stood up, leaned against the low wall, and shouted at the top of his lungs, a smug look on his face.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, brothers. Come out quickly. There are two more maidens today, so you can have some fun."

"Big brother, you've got some impressive skills!"

"I'm dying of waiting."

"The lady is quite nice; the brothers are in for a treat today."

"Where did the monk put the gold bars? And who is this man?"

More than twenty men emerged from the nooks and crannies around the courtyard, each wielding a sharp knife, and walked noisily into the courtyard.

Gao Jin frowned. "It's broad daylight now, and this is the outskirts of Tokyo. How dare you commit a crime here?"

Li Yan arrogantly said, "We've long been fed up with those corrupt officials. After we've done this job for you, we're going to live a carefree life."

The bandits all laughed upon hearing this. They began to chatter amongst themselves.

"That woman with the veil has such a beautiful figure!"

"We have to let our eldest brother be the first to enjoy the soup!"

"I hope no one's going to fight me for that girl next to me?"

"I've got my eye on that girl too! You'd better let me go first!"

"Why should I?" "Because I saved your life!"...

A string of vulgarities came over, making Gao Jin's eyebrows twitch.

Li Yan stood amidst the bandits, saying, "That monk has his gold bars. That man is Gao Yanei; capture him alive and exchange him for the reward money. Those two young ladies' soup belong to my family; anyone who dares to take it from me will face my steel fork's wrath!"

[Chen Liqing's favorability rating: -20.]

"Brother, you stay here and take care of the two women, I'll go..." Gao Jin hadn't finished speaking when Lu Zhishen's snoring started.

The drinks Li Yan brought contained anesthetic.

"How come you're alright?" Li Yan looked at Gao Jin with a puzzled expression, then paused and realized what he meant. "You bastard Gao Jin, you keep talking about brotherhood, but you won't even drink the wine your brother brings! Brothers, let's go! Don't be afraid, he's all alone."

The bandits drew their knives and charged at him.

Gao Jin grabbed a wine jar from the table and threw it at the man in the lead. He then stood up, picked up the monk's staff, and charged into the bandit group. The 62-pound iron staff swung in Gao Jin's hands like a ball of silver light, accompanied by a whooshing sound.

Those brainless thugs, unaware of the danger, rushed in, and four or five men were sent flying, falling to the ground and groaning in pain.

Li Yan, anxiously following behind, shouted, "Are you all idiots? Get around him! How long can he keep dancing? Wait until he's exhausted before you go in!"

Suddenly, the situation became interesting. Gao Jin charged in one direction, and the bandits ran away. When Gao Jin stopped chasing, they followed him.

Like a hyena on the African savanna, it waited for its chance to strike. Gao Jin was now in a bind; he possessed superhuman strength, not superhuman speed.

Seeing the tense situation on the field, Li Yan dragged his steel fork toward Chen Liqing, thinking that he would first capture the woman to threaten Gao Jin into surrendering.

Li Yan reached the locust tree in a few steps, put his big hand on Chen Liqing's shoulder, and said, "Come on, little lady, I'll show you what true pleasure is today."

The delicate head beneath the green veil turned towards Li Yan's large hand. Upon seeing this, Li Yan simply shrugged, "Once you've tasted your brother's flavor, I guarantee you won't want to be a god."

As soon as Li Yan finished speaking, Chen Liqing suddenly stood up and raised her hand to slap Li Yan's face.

Li Yan wasn't annoyed at all. He straightened his back and met Chen Liqing's delicate hand with a sullen smile, saying, "Little lady, you're quite spirited. This is the type I like. I guarantee you'll be so happy you won't want to leave, every night..."

"Snap!" Li Yan's words stopped abruptly. He was determined to use the most vulnerable part of the human body, the cervical spine, to meet Chen Liqing's arm strength, which could wield a forty-pound iron rod.

"That's called being so happy you forget your homeland, you idiot." Chen Liqing looked at the bloody, skeletal thing on her palm with disgust, unable to tell what it was. "Yang'er, go get some wine to wash it off for me."

"What kind of filthy thing is this, daring to call himself 'brother' in front of me?"

The servant brought wine for the young lady to wash. Chen Liqing carefully examined the area and found no residue. She then took out a handkerchief and wiped her hands clean. Only after doing all this did she look back at Gao Jin.

Two more bandits who had been running around Gao Jin fell, but Chen Liqing still raised an eyebrow in dissatisfaction, "Why is this silly brother so reluctant to kill someone..."

"Raising a son..." Chen Liqing opened her jade palm, gesturing for the maid to fetch her a slingshot. It wasn't convenient to carry a bow and arrow in the city, so she usually used a slingshot for self-defense.

The adopted son placed a slingshot made of ox horn in Chen Liqing's palm, the slingshot gleaming like iron after being rubbed. He then took out a money pouch and poured it onto the stone table, from which dozens of flat, round pebbles, each the size of a copper coin, rolled out.

Chen Liqing raised her slingshot, picked up a pebble with her jade-like hand and put it into the cartridge pouch. She squinted and aimed at the bandits surrounding Gao Jin. She stretched the animal sinew to its limit, making a "bang bang" sound.

With a "whoosh," a thug fell to the ground, and only then did the "thud" of the blow reach the human body.

This was repeated several times, and after knocking down several people, the bandits on the other side finally realized something was wrong.

"Brother! What are you doing? That woman is shooting at us with a slingshot, aren't you going to do anything about it?" a bandit shouted as he turned around.

Li Yan stood next to Chen Liqing with his head drooping and a steel fork in his hand, not saying a word, as if he was bewitched by that little vixen.

"Li Yan, are you trying to take it all for yourself?"

"Li Yan, you are...."

Seeing that Li Yan did not respond, the bandits became enraged and were about to attack him when they turned back halfway and ran out of the courtyard.

It turned out that Gao Jin had knocked down six or seven people, Chen Liqing had shot down six or seven people, and only a few people were left when two more were shot down on their way over.

Cowardly bandits have no courage or guts. Seeing that there were only three or four brothers left, they all turned around and ran out of the courtyard. Gao Jin caught up and knocked one down with a swing of his staff, and knocked down another with another slap of his staff.

Seeing that there were still two left, Gao Jin was about to leave the yard to chase after them. Just as he was about to step over the low wall, a burning pain shot through his buttocks, as if someone had hit his wound with a stick.

Gao Jin turned around angrily and saw Chen Liqing sitting by the rock, shaking the horn slingshot in her hand, looking at him through the green gauze.

[Chen Liqing's favorability rating: 40.] When did it rise back up?

"Brother Gao, listen to me, don't pursue a cornered enemy." Chen Liqing's voice wasn't loud, but it was just enough for Gao Jin to hear clearly in the quiet courtyard.

Gao Jin thought about it and realized it made sense. His brother Lu Zhishen was still paralyzed. If he chased after him and another strongman got entangled with Chen Liqing, wouldn't Lu Zhishen's life be over soon?

After taking a few steps back to the stone, Gao Jin bowed respectfully, "Sister is right. I almost messed things up. How could Li Yan..."

As they talked, Gao Jin saw Li Yan's face. His left cheek was sunken, his eye socket was empty, and his cervical spine was twisted at an unnatural angle...

A wave of sorrow, like the feeling of "a rabbit mourning the fox's death," washed over me. How could this crazy woman be so cruel?

"Brother Gao, don't you think I went too far?"

Gao Jin turned his head and met Chen Liqing's smiling face. Looking at the curved corners of her mouth under the green veil, a chill rose from Gao Jin's tailbone.

"No, no! My sister is punishing evil and upholding justice; it's truly gratifying!"