10: Chapter 10 Sleep well, why are you up?

Night had fallen. Outside the straw shed, the cold wind howled like ghosts and wolves.

Inside the straw shed, the campfire emitted a dim red glow, and the dry wood occasionally crackled with a "pop" sound...

Two shadows were cast against the dilapidated earthen wall...

Bai Yuhe lay panting on Qin Feng's sturdy chest, her tone so seductive it seemed as if it could drip water. "Brother Feng, I feel like I'm falling more and more in love with you."

"Is that so?" Qin Feng looked at the delicate beauty with a faint, mocking smile, casually wrapping his arm around her slender waist. He laughed, "I thought that, having followed Chen Xiaodao, Sister Bai would have long become numb to such battles."

"Oh, why bring him up? How annoying."

Bai Yuhe feigned annoyance, nuzzling into Qin Feng's embrace. Her large, watery eyes blinked, and her tone seemed casual, but it carried a strong sense of probing. She said, "Brother Feng, where exactly did you get these spirit tangerines? I've never heard of such good things near the lower-tier Servant District."

Here it comes! Qin Feng sneered in his heart. From the moment she proactively approached him, he knew clearly that she had an ulterior motive. Having previously defeated two Menial Laborers with such ease, it was evident that she was absolutely a man-eating flower!

The force application technique, speed, and ruthless precision Bai Yuhe had used earlier were definitely not something an ordinary lower-tier Menial Laborer could possess. Her cultivation was at least at the fourth stage of the Mortal Realm, and crucially, she had also Cultivated a leg technique...

Whether one is fierce or not depends on their leg technique, Qin Feng calculated rapidly in his mind.

Although he had used the Marrow Cleansing Pill provided by the System to forcibly raise his cultivation to the third stage of the Mortal Realm overnight, his biggest fatal flaw was having nothing but brute force! He had no Martial Skill, no finishing moves, and not even a decent weapon.

If he were to fight to the death against a ruthless character like Bai Yuhe who knew Martial Skills, his chances of survival would be slim. Moreover, there was likely a mad dog like Chen Xiaodao hiding in the shadows. A direct confrontation meant death; he could only win through wit!

"Sister Bai wants to know?" Qin Feng deliberately lowered his voice, a flash of perfectly timed mystery and greed appearing in his eyes.

"I do. I'm your person now, so how could I not care about your affairs?" Bai Yuhe looked up, her eyes sparkling, her breathing involuntarily quickening.

Qin Feng rolled over and said slowly, "The place is a good place, but it's too remote and too hidden. I won't hide it from you, there are at least a thousand spirit tangerines in that place!"

"A thousand?!" Bai Yuhe trembled violently, her voice changing pitch due to extreme excitement.

What was the concept of a thousand spirit tangerines? Even at the cheap price Qin Feng was selling them for, it was a terrifyingly huge sum of money. It was enough to purchase a courtyard and buy spirit fields! One step to heaven, from then on becoming someone above others, a Middle-tier Servant!!

"Yes, at least a thousand. All of them are good stuff that has been growing for thirty years." Qin Feng's lips curled into an arc as he continued to dangle the enticing bait.

Bai Yuhe's eyes turned completely red. She grabbed Qin Feng's arm and said eagerly, "Husband! Then what are we waiting for? Let's get more out to sell as soon as possible! You can't carry much by yourself, I'll go with you, and we'll clear out all the fruit. With this money, we can finally leave this hellhole!"

"In the future, we'll buy a courtyard, and I'll dance for you every day and have a bunch of children for you..."

"No." Qin Feng shook his head decisively, his expression becoming grave. He said, "You saw it today, I've already been targeted. Although those two punks were beaten away, there's no guarantee that more people aren't watching my tracks in the dark. Going now would be inviting a wolf into the house. We must lie low for a while."

"How... how long do we have to wait?" Bai Yuhe was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan; with so much money left in the wilderness, she couldn't wait a single moment.

"Wait a few more days, until things are more stable. Then we'll go." Qin Feng pondered for a moment and held up seven fingers. "Seven days. After seven days, I'll take you with me, and we'll clear out that place as quickly as possible."

"Seven days..." Bai Yuhe bit her red lips and instantly bloomed with an extremely seductive smile. "Alright, I'll listen to you. As long as I can be with my husband, I'm willing to wait however long it takes."

As she spoke, her red lips slowly moved closer to Qin Feng. With the temptation of a huge sum of money from a thousand spirit tangerines, Bai Yuhe felt she could still give more...

Outside the straw shed, in a muddy ditch less than ten zhang away from the broken wooden door. The cold wind scraped by like knives. Chen Xiaodao was curled up in a pile of withered grass, his lips purple from the cold, his whole body shivering uncontrollably.

But colder and more painful than his body was his heart! He had been squatting here since dusk. That dilapidated wooden door of the straw shed couldn't block out the sound at all, and the joyful sounds of the two talking were like red-hot daggers, fiercely stabbing into Chen Xiaodao's heart, and then cruelly twisting twice!!

"Slut... stinking bitch, adulterous couple!!" Chen Xiaodao's eyes were bloodshot, his teeth grinding with a "clacking" sound. His ten fingers dug deeply into the frozen, stiff soil, his nails curling back until they bled.

Every time he heard the sounds from inside the room, his body spasmed uncontrollably. He wished he could rush in right now with his mountain-cleaving firewood chopper and hack this pair of dogs to death! But he couldn't! For a huge sum of money that could allow him to turn his life around and become a Middle-tier Servant, he had to endure! Only by enduring what others cannot, can one become someone above others!

It was deep in the night... "Creak—" The broken wooden door was carefully pushed open a crack from the inside. Bai Yuhe was draped in a wide hemp garment, poking half her body out to look around, then she tiptoed out and casually pulled the door shut behind her.

She wrapped her clothes tighter and walked quickly to the muddy ditch. "Come out." Bai Yuhe lowered her voice, her tone filled with coldness and impatience.

"Swish!" Chen Xiaodao stood up abruptly from the grass pile, his eyes full of bloodshot veins staring fixedly at her, his chest heaving violently. Looking at Bai Yuhe's rosy, glowing complexion and the undisguisable charm between her brows, he was nearly driven mad with jealousy.

"Did you find out anything?!" Chen Xiaodao gritted his teeth, squeezing the words through his teeth.

Bai Yuhe looked behind her, confirmed it was safe, then said softly, "Yes, I found out clearly. The kid said the place is extremely hidden, and there are at least a thousand spirit tangerines left!"

"A thousand?!" Chen Xiaodao's rage was instantly extinguished by more than half by these three words, replaced by uncontrollable ecstasy. He was going to get rich, this time he was really going to make a fortune!

"Where? Did he say where?!"

"No." Bai Yuhe rolled her eyes. "That kid is very sharp. He was targeted by two Menial Laborers today, so he's afraid of attracting attention if he goes now. He agreed with me that in seven days, he will take me with him."

"At that time, you just need to follow quietly behind. Once we find the place, we'll strike directly!" Bai Yuhe made a throat-slitting gesture.

"Seven days?!" The ecstasy on Chen Xiaodao's face instantly froze, the veins on his forehead bulging again. He grabbed Bai Yuhe's arm and growled, "You mean you still have to sleep with that brat for seven days?!"

"So what?" Bai Yuhe forcefully shook off Chen Xiaodao's hand, glared at him with annoyance, her face full of disdain and complaint. "Do you think I want to? Isn't it because you're useless?"

Being scolded head-on by Bai Yuhe, Chen Xiaodao instantly felt like a deflated ball, but the humiliation in his eyes grew even stronger. After Bai Yuhe finished complaining, she didn't notice the change in him at all and continued to complain, though there was a hint of a smile in her eyes. "You don't know, I don't know what kind of medicine that kid took, his body is like a monster. Do you think it's easy for me?!"

This sentence was simply the last straw that broke the camel's back! Chen Xiaodao was so angry that smoke was coming out of his nostrils, and his internal organs felt like they were being burned through by the fire of jealousy. His own woman, praising someone else to his face?! It sounded like a complaint, but listening closer, what was the difference between that and showing off?! A kind of extremely twisted rage rushed to his brain.

"Slut, I'll let you know how powerful I am right now!" Chen Xiaodao's eyes spat fire as he lunged forward, wanting to regain his lost dignity in the wilderness.

"Slap!" Bai Yuhe mercilessly slapped him across the face. The huge force directly sent Chen Xiaodao stumbling, nearly falling into the muddy water.

"Are you crazy?!" Bai Yuhe's beautiful eyes widened in anger, her gaze terrifyingly cold. "That kid in the room has very sharp ears. If you ruin things and the money from the thousand spirit tangerines goes down the drain, I'll kill you first!"

Chen Xiaodao covered his swollen cheek, biting his lips hard, a trace of blood flowing down from the corner of his mouth.

"Don't waste time, I'm going back." Bai Yuhe straightened her messy clothes and instructed, "Remember, come and watch every day for these seven days. Don't lose track when we set off. When we really start to act, it must be foolproof."

After saying this, Bai Yuhe twisted her water-snake waist and turned to walk towards the straw shed. "Creak—" The door closed.

Chen Xiaodao stood alone in the cold wind, looking just like a stray dog. He was trembling all over with anger, his nails digging into his palms.

After a long while, he took a deep breath of cold air and desperately comforted himself in his heart: "It's okay, it's okay, wearing a green hat isn't scary! What's scary is being known by others. As long as no one knows, it's all a small matter. Once I get the thousand spirit tangerines and kill that kid. No one will know about this..."

With an Ah Q-style twisted mentality, Chen Xiaodao spat a mouthful of bloody saliva onto the ground and turned to disappear into the darkness.

In the room of the straw shed. The campfire was about to go out, with only a few weak embers remaining.

Bai Yuhe pushed the door open extremely carefully and walked lightly to the hay bed. She was just about to take off her outer garment and crawl into the quilt.

In the darkness, a pair of eyes, bright to the point of being frightening, opened without warning.

"Why are you getting up?" Qin Feng's flat, cold voice rang out abruptly in the deathly silent straw shed.