I quickly collected my smile and said, "Was I wrong? What's next?" Xiuxiu hummed a sound, with an expression of not wanting to speak. I thought to myself, this little lady is being stubborn at the critical moment, so I thickened my skin and said, "Isn't it enough that I admitted I was wrong? When we get back to Hangzhou, I'll treat you to dinner."

  Xiu Xiu raised an eyebrow and said, "I'm not a fool."

  I scratched my nose awkwardly, thinking of Old Lady Huo's matter, and always felt a bit guilty towards Xiuxiu. I immediately rubbed my nose again and said, "Then I'll invite you to drink." Xiuxiu blinked slyly and said, "That's settled then." My heart skipped a beat, why did I feel like I'd been cheated? Just as I was thinking about it, someone next to me suddenly burst out laughing, with a hoarse voice, patted my shoulder and said, "Young Master Wu, drinking with Miss Xiuxiu, aren't you asking for trouble?"

  I was slapped by his big palm and almost fell down, is this guy a bull? I quickly turned my head to look, and found it was that old Mao. On the way here, he always liked to chat and talk nonsense, although he called me Little Wu Ye, but there was no respect in his tone at all. I smiled bitterly: "Brother, next time you want to slap me, please give a shout, I can't take it."

  Old Mao snorted and said, "I say you're so pale and tender, staying at home with your little wife is good enough for you. Why are you following our Ninth Master? The things he does would scare you to death if I told you." He didn't notice Xiao Hua's face had turned cold, and continued speaking on his own: "I'm an honest man, speaking honestly, truly, I don't think much of you. Although our Ninth Master also has a pretty boy face, but Ninth Master is far more masculine than you. You're so useless, getting robbed even to the point of losing your pants. If it were me, I'd shoot him with my gun until he's riddled like a beehive."

  Xiao Hua has stood up, her face as black as a pot, and then slowly lifted her foot. Under my gaze, she kicked Lao Mao far away with one kick.

  "Son of a bitch, who kicked me! Ah——! Old Mao's face turned 180 degrees, like a silly dog, his butt fell into the snow, and he walked towards the cave with a smile on his face, rubbing his waist. Xiaohua slightly moved her wrist and said faintly: 'From now on, without my order, if you dare to say another word, I'll let you become a beehive.'"

  Lao Mao hastily covered his mouth and made a silly face beside me. I found it amusing and said to Xiaohua, "Brother Jiu is indeed skilled at flattering those below him."

  Xiao Hua glanced at me and frowned, saying: "Don't be ridiculous."

  I exchanged a glance with Xiuxiu, and she sat down beside me, whispering: "Ever since this meeting, he's been acting strange, as if everyone owes him five million." I saw Xiaohua had already started to meditate, so I also whispered in her ear: "Do you know what happened to Hua'er?"

  Xiuxiu closed her mouth, her eyes shining brightly, and said in a low voice: "About the matter of their family, I don't know much, but I've heard some rumors. However... he never wanted to say it, and I had to pay a price to get it out of him. If you want to know, you can, but..." She rubbed her fingers together and looked up at the top of the cave.

  I glanced at her and said lightly, "I'm not marrying him as a daughter-in-law, what's it to me?" I finally understood that Xiaohua would still be called Jiejiu Ye, and I, Wu Xie, was just an ordinary person. This life, we were destined to take different paths. If something really happened to him, I could help out, relying on my relationship with him, not saying die for him, but at least go all out.

  But if he can't help with what's going on, then I'm just messing around for nothing. Since Xiaohua doesn't want to say anything, there must be his own considerations.

  Xiuxiu suddenly became anxious, shaking my shoulders and asking strangely: "Ah, Wu Xie gege, where's your curiosity?"

  I nodded my head and said, "After the rain, it's already flooded to death." Xiu Xiu looked at me helplessly, then looked at Xiaohua who was meditating with her eyes closed, and sighed, saying, "In just one year, you've all changed."

  I smiled and took a deep look at her, saying "same to you". Xiuxiu's expression changed, she flicked the scattered hair behind her ear and lightly laughed: "Don't mention that, I'll continue telling you, where was I just now?"

  She jumped over the topic and said: "You've landed on a flat e-book."

  Xiu Xiu said: "Oh, right." Then, Xiu Xiu described their subsequent experience.

  After entering the cave, Lao Mao led the way in front, Xiuxiu was in the middle, and Xiaohua followed behind. The tunnel was very narrow, and the three of them had to crawl forward on their bellies. The air circulation was poor, making it feel very oppressive.

  It was very dark in the cave, and the light from Xiaohua's flashlight was almost blocked. All Xiuxiu could see in front of her was Lao Mao's shoe soles. A wave of foot odor drilled straight into her nose, making Xiuxiu grit her teeth in anger, thinking that she would have to make Lao Mao wash his feet thoroughly once they got out. Before she could finish the thought, the person in front suddenly disappeared with a whoosh.

  At the same time, a miserable cry came from the front, and Xiuxiu was startled. She quickly raised her head and met a pair of eyes emitting green light staring at her. In the dim light, a mouth with yellow teeth and drooling saliva appeared.

  Xiuxiu was shocked, but she had been trained since childhood and reacted extremely quickly. The next moment, she pulled out the dagger from her chest and before she could even react, her shoulder was suddenly clutched by a pair of iron arms. It turned out that something at the other end of the cave had grabbed her shoulder and was pulling her forward. Apparently, Lao Mao had also encountered the same thing just now.

  Xiu Xiu let out a loud cry and swung her dagger wildly, but the space was too narrow and she couldn't swing her arm freely. In her panic, she didn't even know if she had stabbed anything, and those arms seemed to be made of iron, not feeling any pain at all. They grabbed onto Xiu Xiu's shoulders and pulled hard, just as Xiu Xiu thought she was done for. But then her foot was suddenly grasped by a hand - it was Xiao Hua.

  Then, a tug-of-war unfolded in the narrow tunnel, with Xiuxiu in the midst of it, as if she was about to be torn apart. Both sides had immense strength, and her exposed skin was scorched with pain. Just then, something passed through from under her armpit.

  Xiuxiu lowered her head and saw the black muzzle of a gun staring back at her, scaring her into turning her head away. "What are you going to do?" she cried out, her voice echoing in the cave, round and round, sending shivers down her spine.

  Xiao Hua let out a low growl: "Turn your head." Xiuxiu subconsciously turned her head, and then a loud noise exploded beside her ear, causing her eardrum to ache. The tip of her nose was suddenly filled with the smell of gunpowder. At the same time, a hot liquid splashed onto her face, and the hands that had been gripping her shoulders suddenly disappeared.

  The gunshot echoed for a long time, and Xiuxiu's ears were buzzing with a loud hum, she couldn't hear any sound anymore. After a while, she swallowed her saliva and said softly: "Xiaohua..." Xiaohua responded with an "en" and asked in a low voice: "Is that thing gone?"

  Xiuxiu trembled as she wiped the blood from her face. To be honest, she had seen many bloody scenes before, but this was the first time she had truly come into contact with it herself. The little girl's heart was still very shocked, and she stood there for a while before answering: "Let's go."

  "Keep moving forward," Xiaohua said. Xiuxiu was on the verge of tears, clutching her dagger tightly in one hand and staring intently ahead, afraid that another pair of eyes would suddenly appear, which would really scare her to death. As she crawled out of the cave entrance, her foot touched a cold surface. At this moment, Xiaohua also came out of the cave entrance, and the flashlight's beam instantly illuminated the inside of the cave.

  Xiu Xiu lowered her head and looked down at her feet, it was snow, a thin layer of snow.

  How can there be snow at the bottom of such a deep cave? She quickly gestured to Xiaohua to shine her flashlight upwards, but the top of the cave was also sealed off. Then where did this snow come from?

  The two of them exchanged a glance, and Xiu Xiu said: "Mao DeGui is gone."

  On the ground, there was a string of crimson bloodstains. Xiaohua held a gun in one hand and tossed a small pistol to Xiuxiu, saying softly, "Follow me, if you get caught, I won't be responsible for saving you." Xiuxiu heard this and got angry. Originally, because of the old lady's matter, there was already some estrangement between the two families. Adding on what happened earlier, the little girl was scared after all. Hearing Xiaohua say that, she let out a cold snort and walked to the front, saying coldly, "Same here, if you get caught, I won't be responsible for saving you."

  Xiaohua didn't say anything, following behind Xiuxiu as they walked out. This tunnel was a bit long, and the entire way was covered in a layer of snow with chaotic footprints on top. The two of them followed these footprints carefully all the way, only to discover that this tunnel was an upward slope. After walking for about several hundred meters, they suddenly emerged from the cave entrance.

  Outside was a ravine, the ground piled with thick snow, one foot deep to the knee. At this time, it was already daylight, and when I looked up, the sky only showed a thin line, with steep cliffs on both sides, hundreds of meters high, surrounded by snow-capped peaks, all white as far as the eye could see, not even a single dead tree or blade of grass in sight. Xiao Xiao had only looked around for a few circles when she felt her eyes getting dizzy. This time, she was in such a hurry to chase that she didn't even bring goggles.

  Xiaohua was also surprised to look around the environment, and then said: "It's a rift valley. We passed through that tunnel and came inside." Xiuxiu rubbed her eyes and said: "Such a big crack, how did we not discover it before?" Xiaohua shook her head and said: "Let's go forward and take a look." Then the two of them started walking with difficulty in the snowy ground. When they walked halfway, Xiuxiu suddenly felt something was off. She looked down at the ground, frowned and said: "It doesn't feel right... there are no marks on the ground at all. Is it possible that thing didn't come here?"

  Xiao Hua frowned, he had actually discovered it early on, but that tunnel only had one road, and once out of the cave entrance, it was this fissure. Where else could that thing go except here? He nodded and said, "Be careful."

  Xiuxiu's anger in her heart dissipated, she looked at Xiaohua and said: "I shouldn't have lost my temper with you just now."

  Xiao Hua's mouth curved up in a hint of a smile, saying: "Miss Huo, you know that's all." Xiuxiu sighed and said: "I've also heard about some things that happened to the Ye family this year. Although the power of the Huo family is now in my brothers' hands, I still have some connections. If you consider me a friend, don't hesitate to ask for help when you need it. The way you are now... everyone knows something's off. I'm really worried about you."

  Xiao Hua smiled and stroked Xiu Xiu's hair, saying: "Little girl has grown up and knows how to care for others. Recently, some things have indeed happened... but I can handle them." After finishing, she coldly laughed again, saying: "I didn't get the title of Jiu Ye for nothing, if they really provoke me, I'll make sure to send them back home." Xiu Xiu felt relieved and was about to speak when suddenly her eyes widened as she stared at something in front of her. She then pulled Xiao Hua's sleeve and whispered: "Quick, quick look."

  Xiao Hua followed Xiu Xiu's line of sight and saw that in the midst of the heavy snow, a group of people appeared and disappeared among the swirling snowflakes. At this time, deep in the snowy mountains, who could it be? Could it be Sanba and others waiting outside? How did they end up here?

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