Chapter 40: Just Want to Save My Sister (Two in One)

Hearing her call out her name accurately, Xu Shuishui finally confirmed one thing.

She knew who he was.

She was coming to see him.

"Second sister..."

Xu Shuishui's little face was covered with tears. He cried "Woo wow", threw himself into her arms, hugged her slender waist, and burst into tears.

It was as if he wanted to cry out all the grievances he had suffered over the past six months.

But as he cried, Xu Shuishui regained his senses. He pushed Xu Shanshan away with his hands and feet, choking and saying, "Why did you come to me? Are you planning to take revenge on me and my sister because the Xu family is in decline?"

Does she have to be so vindictive?
Xu Shuishui felt a tightness in her heart when she thought of her strange behavior just now, and the sight of Tu Ye and the others covering their eyes and howling like crazy.

Xu Shanshan was not surprised to see that the other party treated him like a scourge.

It was normal for him to have this reaction, as the original owner hadn't treated him well at the beginning.

She pretended to be a good sister in front of others, but bullied the younger one behind his back and took her punching bag out. Fortunately, this child inherited the Xu family's fine tradition of being kind and generous, and did not bear grudges, complain, or add insult to injury.

Otherwise, if the original owner wanted to escape from the Xu family unscathed, the fortune teller would have to go and fetch him in person.

Although the two elders of the Xu family do not favor boys over girls, Xu Shuishui is naturally sweet-mouthed and well-behaved, and he is also a son born in old age. He has been brought up in love and pampering since childhood. Only the original owner with his devilish temperament could abuse and insult him behind his back.

"I already know what was right and wrong back then. You don't need to be so defensive," she said gently.

Xu Shuishui didn't believe it: "What exactly are you going to do?"

"That year, you used the ancestral jade pendant of dragon and phoenix to tell my fortune and asked where the lost tiger puppet was. Do you want to change the fortune and tell it again?" Xu Shanshan asked him.

When Xu Shuishui was about three or four years old, she was tricked by the original owner into giving away the most important ancestral jade pendant to the original owner. Later, the two elders of the Xu family found out about it, and they flew into a rage and beat her up.

Of course, since this matter can become a sinful debt, it cannot be such a small matter.

The jade pendant was later exchanged for money by its original owner. The pawnshop owner recognized the "Xu" seal engraved on the jade pendant and guessed that it belonged to the Xu family. Thinking that the Xu family was rich, he became evil-minded and intended to blackmail the Xu family.

The Xu family didn't know who was behind this, but in order to get back their ancestral jade pendant, they had no choice but to pay money again and again.

The pawnshop owner was delighted by the Xu family's generosity and their cowardly attitude of not reporting to the police despite their excessive demands.

He thought he could just make a large sum of money and run away, so he bribed a group of desperate criminals and planned to kidnap the Xu family's most beloved youngest son and drain the Xu family dry.

Unexpectedly, an accident occurred during the kidnapping process.

Xu's grandfather brought Xu Shanshan's cousins ​​to visit and happened to see his grandson being forcibly kidnapped at the door. He hurriedly chased after him.

As they were relentless in pursuit, the pawnshop owner and the desperadoes feared that their plot would be exposed, so they led them to a remote mountain road, where they killed them all and stole all the valuables in the carriage.

It was also because Xu Shuishui was lucky that he slipped away when they were not paying attention. While escaping, he accidentally rolled down the hillside and was successfully found afterwards, saving his life.

Later, Xu Shuishui developed a high fever and forgot many things, so naturally the matter of the stolen jade pendant was left unresolved.

Xu Shuishui really couldn't remember anything. Fearing that it would upset his young mind, the second son of the Xu family even concealed the incident at his maternal grandparents' home from him.

"You want to tell my fortune?"

"I studied this. If you have any doubts, you can tell me what you are thinking and I will tell you a fortune."

It's really strange.

Xu Shuishui had no idea why things had turned out like this.

Not long ago, he was trapped in the abyss of suffering and felt that he could not survive. But now, those evil people who persecuted him have become crazy and can no longer beat him, and he...

He half questioned and half relaxed while discussing fortune-telling with the "Second Sister" who once hated the entire Xu family...

It all seemed like a dream, not real at all, very unreal.

He asked in a mysterious way, "Can you calculate how my elder sister is doing now?"

Xu Shuishui was a carefree and naive young master a year ago, but over the past year, his mind has grown rapidly and he knows a lot of things. It's just that he is too young and does not have enough intelligence and strength to solve these problems.

The eldest sister once said that as long as he lived well and grew up, he would be able to avenge their Xu family one day.

But he also knew that his eldest sister had placed all her bets on him and she had never thought that she would be able to leave Black Island alive.

Xu Shanshan seemed to have expected him to ask this question. She looked at the stone forest in front of her and said, "The rocks are jagged and the water is winding. She is still alive, although she may not be living well. But the two obstacles are stacked together, and the danger is compounded. Soon, she will face a life-threatening situation and be in imminent danger."

Xu Shuishui didn't quite understand, but he caught the key point: "You mean, my elder sister is in danger, right?"

"That's understandable."

He suddenly became anxious: "I have to go save her... No, my elder sister said that I must not go to the underground to look for her, otherwise she will never let me see her again, what should I do?"

Xu Shuishui did not doubt the truth of Xu Shanshan's words. For one thing, he had already had a premonition in his heart and had made the worst-case plan. Her words just happened to confirm it.

Secondly, he didn't think much about anything else. He just felt that his second sister must have learned some skills. Otherwise, if she wanted to teach her butcher a lesson, they would be the ones who would be in trouble.

"You might as well ask me for help." Xu Shanshan suggested to him in a friendly manner.

He looked at her and felt that this face was so unfamiliar. He clearly recognized it as "Xu Shanshan", but the longer they spent together, the more he felt like he had recognized the wrong person.

She looked down at him, her deep and unfathomable eyes shining with light, like layers of spreading sea water, drowning people in it.

"Really? I want to save my elder sister, will you help me?" He spoke as she wished.

Xu Shanshan raised her thin lips slightly: "Of course."

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When Xu Shanshan and Xu Shuishui came out of the stone forest, many people in the mine who noticed them widened their eyes.

They looked behind the two men but saw no signs of pursuit.

Weird.

Strange.

Didn’t Master Tu already say that he would teach this ignorant little girl a lesson?

What's wrong?

How come she came back so perfectly fine, as if nothing had happened?

Just when they were completely confused, Mo Han, Fang Yingjie, and a group of soldiers came running over.

He looked very anxious, as if he was here to rescue someone... The prisoners in the mine were observing him with sly eyes, making all kinds of guesses in their minds.

When they saw that Xu Shanshan didn't even have a scratch on his body, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

"Weren't you taken away by someone? They didn't do anything to you, did they?" Mo Han still asked worriedly.

She asked: "You went to see Fang Yingjie?"

"Ah, yes." Mo Han hesitated.

"There's no need to mobilize so many people next time." After that, she said to Fang Yingjie, "I'm going to the basement."

Fang Yingjie actually knew that nothing would happen to her, but in order to show off, he naturally had to take the trouble to make this trip.

Seeing that she was accompanied by a dirty child with his head down, he understood that Xu Shanshan had found the youngest son of the Xu family, and there was still one left in the basement.

In fact, it is not difficult to arrange this, but some things need to be explained in advance: "Do you really want to go? It is... much more chaotic in there than on the ground. Those people have been operating underground for many years. Not only are they eccentric and weird, they are also extremely united and fierce..."

He watched her reaction as he spoke. Seeing that she showed no hesitation or fear, he said gently, "Thanks for reminding me, but I have a reason to go."

Fang Yingjie couldn't persuade her, so he had to lead the way himself. He thought that if a big fight broke out, at least he would be there to calm the situation.

Mo Han thought for a moment and said, "I'll go with you."

Xu Shanshan did not comment. Fang Yingjie was not sure what the relationship between Mo Han and Xu Shanshan was, so he did not say much.

To go underground, there is no direct staircase or circuitous passage. One must take a small boat from the coast and sail into the water cave.

I saw the cave was winding and rippling, with water and rocks indistinguishable, one section was bright and the other was dark. There were many caves in the cave, and the caves were connected to each other, so the roads were truly extending in all directions.

If no one leads you, you might really get lost.

Any sound in the silent cave would be infinitely amplified, and the "splashing" sound of the stirring water attracted many people in the dark.

They stood in the darkness, not knowing what kind of eyes they were looking at the people on the boat with, but they did not act rashly because they saw Fang Yingjie, dressed in an officer's uniform and carrying a sword.

"This underground floor can accommodate hundreds of people. Those who are usually driven to the outside are new prisoners, and the ones who go deeper are the cruel criminals who have been in Black Island for quite some time. Although it gets colder the deeper you go, there is a stream inside, and people are unwilling to give up even if they get hurt."

"The strong prey on the weak. There must be a leader of the prisoners in this underground, right?"

"Of course there is. A man named Lou has been here for only a year, and he killed the original one. He is only in his twenties. I heard that his background is unusual. Not only is he resourceful, he is also ruthless."

Since entering the island, Xu Shanshan has vaguely sensed a strange, dormant atmosphere spreading silently. She looked at the sky above the island. The gray clouds were suspended there like a pool of stagnant water, about to fall but unable to, revealing an impending storm.

"How is the defense of your Black Island?" she asked suddenly.

Ever since he knew that Xu Shanshan had the ability to make accurate judgments, he would sometimes repeatedly ponder whether the words she said contained double tones.

"Master Xu, what do you mean by this?"

Xu Shanshan spoke as if he was chatting with him casually: "If this guy named Lou joins hands with the guy named Yao Qi above and incites the entire Black Island forces to riot, will you soldiers guarding the island have the strength to resist?"

Fang Yingjie said bluntly: "No, but they dare not."

They had thought about this matter a long time ago, so why weren't they afraid that the people from Black Island would escape from prison?
"Without a big ship, they can't escape the island at all. If people outside find out that they are rioting, they will be completely abandoned in the middle of the sea and starve to death."

There is nothing to eat on this island to keep them alive.

After hearing this, Xu Shanshan didn't say anything else.

But when Fang Yingjie looked at her profile, he felt uneasy.

Impossible, he consoled himself.

These prisoners dare not act recklessly. They have been well-behaved and abided by the rules for so many years. It is impossible for them to suddenly riot and escape from prison.

During the conversation, Mo Han led Xu Shuishui behind, not saying a word, but listening to their entire conversation.

In the past two days, he did not notice the change in his mentality and did not deliberately provoke brutal people to seek death.

Instead, he always focuses his attention on Xu Shanshan.

very curious.

Curious about what was happening to her that was out of the ordinary.

And this "curiosity" was stronger than ever before, making him unable to help but follow her.

They went deeper and deeper, and the light became darker and darker. The shimmering water reflected on the black rock walls. A few people tied the boat to the shore. When they stepped onto the stone steps, a chill ran from the soles of their feet to their backs.

This underground place is really cold and gloomy. If people stay here for a long time, they will definitely suffer from rheumatism and bone pain, among other things.

Fang Yingjie wiped the coldness off his arm and shouted to the four dark tunnels ahead: "I know you are all here, hurry up and call the guy named Lou out."

The echo faded away, and he was unwilling to take another step inside.

At this time, a voice came from inside.

"Master Fang, what do you want to do with our Master Lou? He has been busy with his beautiful wife recently, I'm afraid he doesn't have time to come out to greet you."

Then, ambiguous laughter came one after another in different corners, just like countless mice hiding in dark corners and moving around quietly.

After hearing this, Xu Shuishui rushed out as if she had exploded.

"You bad guys, return my sister to me!"

Xu Shuishui shouted loudly with red eyes.

The child's childish, angry shout temporarily suppressed the other noisy voices, but soon they started to stir again.

"Hey, this kid looks familiar. Do you think he is Xu Shanshan's brother?"

"It seems so. At that time, I was thinking that I had never eaten such a tender child before, and I didn't know whether it was delicious or not. It's a pity that his sister sent him away, so we didn't have the blessing."

"Why did he come back again? Did he regret it and want to be our food reserve? Hahaha..."

Those dirty words reached Xu Shuishui's ears, making him so angry that he trembled all over.

This time, Xu Shuishui did not hide or get scared. Instead, she glared at them with hatred: "Give my sister back to me! I'm not afraid of you!"

A child's stubbornness can sometimes break through all fears.

If it were usual, Fang Yingjie would not bother to meddle in these trivial matters, but Xu Shuishui is Xu Shanshan's younger brother after all, so he naturally cannot stand idly by.

A murderous look flashed across his face, and he shouted, "If you don't want to be hungry for the next month, the last thing is..."

But before he could finish his threat, Xu Shanshan waved his hand, and countless "floating dust" rose up silently and coldly in the darkness, and all the dirty things hiding in the dark were pushed out at once.

Some people rolled down the stairs like a ball, some fell flat on their faces, and some were like a stack of people, bumping into each other and finally falling down with bruises and swollen faces.

The prisoners appeared in public in a state of disgrace and humiliation, and no longer had the swagger they had in the dark.

Xu Shanshan looked down at them and said with a smile: "He won't listen to you guys' nice talk, so let me take over."

"What are you-"

puff--

When the rude man was about to "spray shit", he saw the whole head flying up, and then blood splattered, and a black round object fell to the ground, "wheeling" and spinning, and finally stopped there.

The air seemed to be sucked out all of a sudden, and everyone was so frightened that their faces turned pale and their tongues became stiff.

"And I never like to talk with my mouth."

(End of this chapter)