Before Su Xiaofeng could find him, he simply closed his eyes and pretended to faint.
Little did he know, when Xiaofeng came out, she didn’t even give him a look.
Gu Yecheng didn’t look at him either; it was as if he were invisible.
"Young Madam, are you alright?" Zhao Youqian approached, unaware that Xiaofeng had been robbed. If no one had called him to check out the nearby area, he would have been completely in the dark about the incident.
"I’m alright," Xiaofeng came out and looked at the scenery. At this time, darkness prevailed, and no beautiful scenery could be spotted, "This place is also within the boundaries of Shihe Village."
"This is Lower Shihe Village, my place is Upper Shihe Village." Regardless of upper or lower, the village was impoverished.
"These people really lack judgment, going around in circles and still ending up here. It seems I have quite a fate with Shihe Village." First, she had encountered Zhao Youqian, then she wanted to visit to admire the landscape, but close to reaching the Imperial Capital, she was robbed and brought here directly.
"Indeed," Uncle Dog smiled and stepped forward, "It’s good that you’re alright, Miss. I was really worried something might happen to you."
"Uncle Dog, I’m fine, thank you for the red sweet potatoes you roasted for us earlier; without them, I wouldn’t have had the strength to deal with them." The sweet potatoes were delicious, very soft and very sweet.
"You do have a taste for them. Our land here really does produce red sweet potatoes with a unique flavor, particularly sweet and soft." Uncle Dog had great confidence in the red sweet potatoes of their village, "But if we’re being honest, that’s about the only thing our village has to offer. You’ve seen it, with all these small hills and the perennial lack of rain, it’s unsuitable for growing grain, so every household mainly plants red sweet potatoes. However, these little things aren’t worth much, not to mention exchanging them for money, or our village wouldn’t be this poor."
Putting it nicely, their village belonged to a small town under the Imperial Capital, but here it was destitute, with the villagers barely subsisting.
"By the way, are you planning to head back now? If you are, stop by my home and take some red sweet potatoes with you. They’re good for making porridge or simply steaming." Uncle Dog was a warm-hearted person.
"Sure, then I’ll take you up on that offer, Uncle Dog."
Watching everyone preparing to leave, with no one concerned about himself, Zhao Hu became anxious, "Bro, bro, you can’t leave. What am I going to do if you go?"
Uncle Dog glanced at him and said to Zhao Qinghua nearby, "Qinghua, let’s move him to his house, and I’ll find a barefoot doctor to take a look at him tomorrow."
Going to the hospital was definitely out of the question, as no one in the village had the spare money to save him.
"Bro, you can’t just ignore me," seeing Uncle Dog walking away, Zhao Hu looked at him with pitiful eyes, "Bro, from now on I will listen to you, I won’t cause trouble for our neighbors. Bro, you can’t ignore me, otherwise, I will starve to death." Zhao Hu knew well that the villagers didn’t like him; they would rather he died or left their village sooner rather than later.
If he ended up bedridden this time and his brother ignored him, he would just have to wait for death.
"You won’t starve to death," Uncle Dog spoke softly.
"Bro, I want to sleep at your house, I don’t want to stay here, there are so many snakes in this room," Zhao Hu got anxious as he remembered the snakes from before.
Uncle Dog naturally also thought of the snakes that had slithered into the room earlier. Strangely, those snakes had left on their own. With that in mind, he turned to Xiaofeng with an embarrassed smile, "Miss, you saw the snakes earlier too. Would it trouble you to have your people help me chase them away? As much of a ruffian as he is, he’s still the only blood relative of my uncle’s family, and I can’t just stand by and watch him die."
If those snakes were to return, Zhao Hu’s life would indeed be at risk.