Day 04: “Fight.”

The next morning we got up early and extinguished the campfire. I have seen many women wake up in the morning looking like a lioness including my mother. However, I suppose it doesn't seem to apply to Li Xiang and Zhao Baiguang. Both still looked gorgeous as hell even after that sleepless night. I turned my head to Liao Yan with the intention to discuss this. Apparently, it turns out he too was surprised by these two amazing girls. Before we continued our journey, Liao Yan and I headed to the river to wash our faces. It would be troublesome if we are sleepy while danger is still lurking around the forest.

Li Xiang said there was a pack of wolves and bears lurking inside the forest. I have gotten a chill just hearing it, how can a man fight those wild animals without a gun?

"Just a few kilometers and we will arrive at a small village.", Li Xiang said while driving the carriage, she tilted her head and looking at my sprained leg, "Let's treat your injury when we arrive.", I nodded and thanked her for remembering my injury which I had accidentally forgotten about. Last night, the pain in my leg tortured me so much until sleeping was quite an ordeal for me. In the end, I used the method of distracting my focus towards something else. It worked quite well for a while and now I have gotten used to the pain.

We walked for another four hours without stopping, and soon we saw a hut from far away. It should be the small village that Li Xiang mentioned earlier. When we arrived at the village entrance, it was really small. There were only a couple of houses, mostly farmer houses, pig cages, and chicken flocking around the streets. Looking everywhere I didn't seem to see any inn around, although there is a small restaurant on the corner. Li Xiang also looked in the same direction and said, "Let's go visit the restaurant over there, perhaps they can provide us a place to stay.",

There was no objection, so we parked the carriage at the corner entrance and entered the village. Although Li Xiang and Zhao Baiguang dress plainly it still fails to hide their charm. When we entered the village, the villagers (mainly males) who were busy doing their activities stopped mid-way and were dazed by the beauty of these two. Do you know what's more interesting? The moment those farmers spotted us, they threw an envious glare or a hostile one. People usually didn't dare to mess with a girl who walks up with a guy. However, since Liao Yan and I looked like soft boys, these farmers dared to be hostile towards us. Liao Yan also sensed their hostility and tugged my sleeve.

"I won't be surprised if there will be a plan for assassination.",

"How so?",

"Jinyun, are you blind? There are no females in this village. It's only a pack of hungry wolves lurking around everywhere.",

Now that he mentioned it, there was no woman in sight. The only females in this village are probably those pigs and chickens, it's really a depressing village.

Liao Yan and I shared a common understanding of this small village and tried our best to ignore the hostility around us. Li Xiang was already moving her delicate hand at the sword on her waist and looking everywhere cautiously, "It seems that we're not welcomed here.", turns out she's taking it the wrong way.

Zhao Baiguang shook her head and said, "Let's just head inside the restaurant, perhaps it's less crowded than here.",

Liao Yan and I nodded in synchronicity, we don't want to cause a ruckus here. Especially when most guys here are holding a sickle on their rough hands. When we entered the restaurant, it was surprisingly nice inside. Although the place was a bit narrow, it's pretty cozy.

"Welcome, please take a seat.",

The waiter was a handsome guy with rough clothes, if he worked at a Starbucks cafe, the place would be filled with many females like a school of anchovies. We ordered some light food for breakfast and treated my sprained leg. Zhao Baiguang asked casually about the village, the waiter explained carefully with a soothing voice as he placed the food on the oak table.

"Psst, Jinyun.", Liao Yan suddenly whispered, "Is it just me, or did that waiter look at you in an... ambiguous way?",

I was busy eating the food and I had no interest in looking around, so I replied, "How should I know? Besides, why are you looking at him?",

"I don't know, it's just... he gave me such bad feelings.",

"He's nothing like the guys outside.",

"I hope you're right.", Liao Yan said and stuffed a dry cake into his mouth.

After having a meal, Li Xiang and Zhao Baiguang said they had something to do and told us to wait at the restaurant. Since we worked for Zhao Baiguang, we couldn't defy her orders and stayed at the restaurant. This is a small village and we're staying in a humble restaurant, so there is nothing much to do.

"Wanna play some games?", Liao Yan suggested.

"Sure, but what?",

"Hold on, I think I brought Uno cards in my backpack… and there it is.",

"Why are you bringing Uno cards to an audition?",

"I was planning to take you to a new cafe near the audition, but it seems like we won't be able to go there for a while.",

Liao Yan shuffled the cards and divide them into two cards, "Let's start with ten cards.",

"Fine by me.",

Liao Yan gave each of about ten cards, I took my part and I saw a 4+ card. Today is my lucky day…

Liao Yan opened the first card and it was number 3 with red color.

"Rock, paper--",

"Scissors!",

Liao Yan threw rock while I threw scissors, so he gets to take the first turn. Liao Yan added number 7 with red color and I added number 3 with blue color.

"Oh, what're the gentlemen doing?",

The waiter who was busy suddenly stood behind me and seemed to be interested in our game.

"We're just playing a card game.", I said.

The waiter just nodded and didn't plan to go away, so I ignored him and focused on the game. Liao Yan who sat in the opposite changed his expression a few times, but the last thing he did was holding out his breath and said, "I think I left something in the carriage, let's go outside.",

I furrowed my eyebrows and complained, "Why didn't you say earlier? Come on, let's finish the game first.",

"No, it is urgent, so let's take the item first.",

"Fine.",

We packed the cards and headed outside, when we walked a bit far from the restaurant, Liao Yan immediately slapped my shoulder.

"Ouch, what was that for?!",

"Didn't you realize what was that waiter do to you?",

"Huh? What are you talking about?",

"He freaking sniffed your hair!",

My eyes opened wider than how they should be, no wonder that waiter didn't move at all behind me, I thought he was interested in our game, but it turns out he was sniffing my hair.

"...Are you serious?",

"I swear in my porn collections.",

"Holyshit…", now this is a serious case.

While we're distressed about the waiter inside, there's suddenly an arrow that flew close by and shocked the chickens around us. We saw there was a paper tied to the arrow, I took the arrow and opened the paper. It was written in traditional Chinese writings that said, 'leave the village and the women with us.' it's clearly directed to our group. Not long after reading the paper, there were three farmers holding a sickle approaching us.

"Give the women to us if you want to stay alive!",

"Or dress as a girl to entertain us!",

Excuse me, what the fuck did they say about? Give the women or dress like a girl?

Now, this time it's personal, I cracked my hands while saying, "Liao Yan, remember our time in high school?",

Liao Yan also began to fold his sleeve up and glare at the farmers, "Very clearly.",

For your information, I talked about the day where we went home together and there was a Pomeranian dog barking and chasing after us. Yes, we're scared of dogs.