Chapter 9 Anger

"Ah, Brother Chen, keep it for yourself regardless of what you are doing for me," Leng Yiyao pushed Zhou Chen's hand back.

"Just keep it. I don't have much to spend on a daily basis."

"Okay then, I'll keep it for you first."

Zhou Chen was awakened by a loud noise while sleeping at night. He put on his clothes and prepared to go out for a look. At this time, Leng Yiyao also walked out of the room in a daze, "Brother Chen, why is it so noisy outside?"
"I'll go out and take a look; you can continue sleeping." After coming out, Zhou Chen found that the villagers were walking towards him from a distance with torches in their hands. When they approached, Zhou Chen could see that they were the people who had returned from hunting in the mountains. It seemed that they were unlucky as they had shot a wild boar of good size.

Seeing the smiles on their faces, Zhou Chen was happy for them. At this time, Li Ergou passed by the door and glanced at Zhou Chen, "Xiaochen, go to the village entrance, I will give you a few pounds of meat."

“No need, Brother Ergou,” he said and closed the gate. Seeing him closing the door, someone said, “Hmph, you don’t know what’s good for you.” This time no villager spoke up for him, and of course Zhou Chen didn’t care about it.

The next morning, just after Zhou Chen and his friends finished breakfast, someone knocked on the gate. Zhou Chen went out to open the gate and saw that it was the village chief's wife.

"Aunt Wang, why are you here?"
"Why don't you welcome me, Xiaochen?"
"No, please come in," Zhou Chen then realized that he was holding wild boar meat in his hand. Leng Yiyao was roasting fire by the stove and seeing Aunt Wang come in, she quickly offered him a seat, "Aunt Wang, please sit down."

Aunt Wang put the meat aside, looked at Leng Yiyao and said, "Oh, Yiyao has grown into a big girl without us noticing." Leng Yiyao didn't care and turned around to pour him some water.

At this time, Zhou Chen also locked the gate and walked in. Zhou Chen asked directly, "I wonder what Aunt Wang is here for this time."

"Of course I'm here for good things."

“Oh, I wonder what the good thing is?”
Aunt Wang glanced at Leng Yiyao and said, "Yiyao is already grown up. I came here to find a marriage for Yiyao." Before Zhou Chen could say anything after hearing this, Leng Yiyao directly refused and said, "I'm still young and don't want to consider this for the time being."

Zhou Chen smiled and said, "Aunt Wang, you heard it too, so I won't say anything more."

"Don't rush to refuse, do you know who I'm talking about?"
Zhou Chen directly refused, "No matter who it is, since Yi Yao doesn't have this idea for the time being, I won't force him."

Aunt Wang picked up the pork beside her and said, "It's Ergou. This meat was given by Ergou. As long as Yiyao follows Ergou, she will have a good life and will no longer have to suffer with you."

"I don't like Ergou," Leng Yiyao said and went back to her room. Zhou Chen glanced at Leng Yiyao's door and turned to Aunt Wang and said, "You heard it too."

Aunt Wang wanted to say something but Zhou Chen directly refused, "Aunt Wang, I have something else to do, so I won't keep you any longer." Aunt Wang was so angry that she picked up the meat and left.

After Aunt Wang left, Zhou Chen came to Leng Yiyao's door and said, "Yiyao, don't worry, no one can force you as long as you don't want to." Leng Yiyao didn't say anything.

When Li Ergou learned that Aunt Wang had failed, he punched the table in anger and said, "Humph, if you don't accept my toast, then I'll drink for you."

"Brother Ergou, what do you want to do?"
Li Ergou sneered and then whispered something in his ear.

The next day Zhou Chen went up the mountain again. Although he had 600 kilograms of bear meat, Zhou Chen still planned to prepare more meat. He planned to hunt a wild boar or a wild deer and then stop. He would not go out this winter.

As soon as Zhou Chen went up the mountain, several people followed him quietly. Along the way, Zhou Chen also found something unusual. He always felt that someone was following him, but when he turned around, there was nothing.

Two hours later, when Zhou Chen was searching for prey, he suddenly felt his feet lighten. A rope was wrapped around his right foot and he was hung high up. The bow and arrow also fell to the ground.

Zhou Chen turned his head and looked around, and found that there was no one around, so he thought, "What's going on? Why is there a trap here?" At this time, several people hiding behind a big rock saw that Zhou Chen had fallen into the trap and were overjoyed, "Brother Sun is so lucky, he fell into the trap."

"Hmph, let him be ungrateful. Let's go." They did not try to hurt Zhou Chen, but if they left Zhou Chen here alone in such a cold day, he would freeze to death within a day.

Zhou Chen shouted around, "Is anyone there?", but as expected, there was no response.

After the villagers learned that Zhou Chen had gone up the mountain, Li Ergou walked towards Zhou Chen's house. At this time, five or six thugs from the village had gathered at Zhou Chen's house, and the house was turned upside down. The dozen taels of silver that Zhou Chen had given to Leng Yiyao before were also turned out by them.

These thugs were so happy that they found the silver. Not only that, they also wanted Leng Yiyao to cook a few dishes for them because they were hungry.

Leng Yiyao, a weak woman, did not dare to go against them and could only temporarily meet their demands.

Just as they were eating and drinking, Li Ergou walked in, saw them and said angrily "What are you doing here? Get out of here now."

After a few people left, Li Ergou asked with concern, "Yiyao, are you okay?" As he spoke, he took a few steps forward. Leng Yiyao was so scared that she said "It's okay" and then hid in her room.

Li Ergou walked forward and knocked on the door and said, "Yiyao, are you really okay? Those bastards didn't do anything to you, did they? If they bullied you, tell me and I will deal with them for you."

Although the door was locked, it was just a matter of kicking Li Ergou, but he didn't do it.

"Yiyao, you should have a good rest first. I will come to see you in the afternoon." After saying that, Li Ergou left.

After he went out, several thugs surrounded him and asked, "Brother Ergou, we did a good job, right?"
"Well, that's great. Come to my house in the evening and get three pounds of meat each." After a few people left, Li Ergou looked back at Zhou Chen's house and said, "Humph, it will be mine sooner or later."

Not long after he returned home, several more people came to his house. Seeing them come back, Li Ergou hurriedly asked, "How did things go?"
"Don't worry, brother Ergou. There is nothing we can't accomplish when we brothers take action." After hearing what they said, Li Ergou couldn't help laughing, and then gave each of them three pounds of meat.

Zhou Chen returned home late in the evening. As the gate was not closed, he walked in without knocking. When he saw the mess in the house, the first person he thought of was Leng Yiyao.

He quickly called out "Yiyao", and just as he called out Leng Yiyao ran out of the room and hugged Zhou Chen without saying a word, and couldn't help crying.

Zhou Chen patted his back and said, "It's okay, it's okay. Tell me what happened at home. Nothing will happen with me here."

Leng Yiyao hugged Zhou Chen and cried for more than ten minutes before letting him go. Zhou Chen reached out to wipe away his tears and asked, "Okay, now you can tell me what happened."

Afterwards, Leng Yiyao told Zhou Chen everything that had happened today, and that the silver in the house had also been stolen.

Zhou Chen comforted, "As long as you are okay, everything else is trivial. Didn't you say Li Ergou will be here later? I'll be waiting for him here. You go and rest first."

"Brother Chen, you haven't eaten for a day. Let me make you something to eat first."

"No need, you take a rest first and then eat after I solve this problem." After hearing Zhou Chen's words, Leng Yiyao nodded and went back to her room.

(End of this chapter)