"Hey, kid, has anyone ever told you not to stare at girls casually?" Second Young Master Li raised his eyebrows.
"Even if our family starves to death, we won’t sell my sister. You can forget about that!" Li Xing’an responded bluntly.
Mu Yuanxiu’s handsome brows raised slightly, "I never said I wanted to buy your sister!"
He pulled the arrow from the leopard’s eye and walked away with big strides.
The boy was thin in stature, but his steps were resolute.
Li Yuzhu shouted loudly after him, "Hey, mister..., we caught the leopard together, you are part of it too!"
If it weren’t for him distracting the leopard, she wouldn’t have had the chance to throw the bamboo stick.
But Mu Yuanxiu acted as though he didn’t hear, and continued walking forward without looking back.
Entering the forest, he cleared away the weeds covering the trap.
The weeds had been cut down some time ago and were dried out.
Plenty of sharpened bamboo spikes were sticking up from the dirt in the trap.
Mu Yuanxiu removed them one by one and laid them flat.
"So you were prepared. Is this trap meant to catch leopards?" a girl’s voice said from behind him.
Mu Yuanxiu turned around to find the little girl from earlier. She was crouched at the edge of the trap, her bright black eyes blinking as she watched him work.
He didn’t respond, continuing with his work.
Li Yuzhu laughed and said, "If you hadn’t risked distracting the leopard, my bamboo stick couldn’t have pierced it. So you are part of it, let’s split it fifty-fifty."
Mu Yuanxiu removed all the bamboo spikes and climbed out of the pit.
He dusted off the dirt on his body and said indifferently, "You caught it yourselves, no need to split."
After speaking, he picked up the bow placed on the ground and turned to leave.
Li Yuzhu ran up to block him, "Wait a minute." She looked up at him, "Hey, kid, I don’t like taking others’ spoils of war, what’s yours is yours. Besides, yesterday I borrowed a bowl of corn mush from you, I need to repay that too."
Mu Yuanxiu chuckled slightly, "Kid? Little girl, you actually called me a kid?"
Li Yuzhu moved a few steps closer, raised her head, and stared wide-eyed at his neck.
"You haven’t grown an Adam’s apple, and your voice hasn’t changed, indicating you’re still in the second growth phase. So your age can’t be over 14, what else are you but a kid?"
Mu Yuanxiu, "..." With a grim face, "No matter how young, I’m older than you! Little girl!"
He raised the bow and arrow in his hand, aiming it directly at Li Yuzhu, "Little girl, haven’t your brothers taught you? Stay away from strangers? Huh? Now, immediately, get away from me!"
Li Yuzhu, "..." He’s actually lecturing her?
Does she need a lesson?
"Alright then, won’t bother you!" Li Yuzhu waved her hand at him and turned to walk back.
At this point, Mu Yuanxiu turned around and looked at Li Yuzhu.
The little girl’s figure was slender and small, but she walked rather quickly.
Before long, her figure disappeared into the depths of the dense forest.
Mu Yuanxiu kept watching the direction in which Li Yuzhu vanished, eyes deep with thought, until she was completely out of sight, and then he turned and left.
Second Young Master Li and Li Xing’an, with combined effort, dragged the leopard back.
The leopard was very heavy, causing both of them to be drenched in sweat.
"Why hasn’t our third sister returned? And why is Xiao Ni so slow?" Second Young Master Li asked as they walked, glancing back.
"Do you think she’s got stomach troubles?" Li Xing’an scratched his head, "No toilet paper, what to do?"