The woman had not been in the water for long, so Ning Cheng removed the iron from her body and casually pressed his hand on her abdomen a few times, a few mouthfuls of river water were spat out, and the woman opened her eyes.
“Ah ……” seeing Ning Cheng she shrieked in shock, and then closed her lips tightly.
“Just rest yourself and then go back on your own.” Ning Cheng re-tied the branch that had moved and said as he leaned on Little Caller’s broken quilt.
Although this woman had been thrown from the painting boat into the Qin River, she was obviously not a woman of the wind and moon. Ning Cheng took one look at her palms and knew that despite her looks, her palms were rough and she should be someone who did rough work. People in the Wind and Moon did not have such rough palms. It was because of this that Ning Cheng told her to go home. As for anything else, he couldn’t help right now. He himself hadn’t thought about what to do now.
To Ning Cheng’s surprise, the woman did not thank Ning Cheng at first, but instead asked, “Is this the residence of King Qin He?”
“King Qin He?” Ning Cheng asked in confusion, this was the residence of the little caller, how could it be the Qin He King?
Little Screamer’s hey voice came out, “Big brother, I am the Qin River King, I live above the Qin River and watch over the entire Qin River day and night, am I not the Qin River King.”
As he spoke, Little Shouting Flower had quickly scurried up, and in his hands he was still clutching two somewhat hot buns.
“Big brother, here, this is what I got ……” Shoving the two buns stained with handprints into Ning Cheng’s hands, Little Screamer licked his lips before he dropped his gaze on the woman.
He wasn’t surprised that there were women in the water here, he had pulled up several of them himself. So when he saw this drenched woman, he did not ask Ning Cheng how this woman had come to be. There was no need to ask, he knew that Ning Cheng had rescued her from the Qin River.
“Huh, you are ……” said the little caller in astonishment as he recognized who this drenched woman was.
The woman smiled faintly, as if it was not her who had just been thrown into the water, and nodded to Little Caller before standing up and bowing to Ning Cheng, Wen Yin thanked big brother for saving her.
“A show of hands ……” Ning Cheng waved his hand, “Little caller, you know her?”
“Of course, she saved me once. Every time I stole a bun from Ji Po, I was always unbeatable. Only once I was too careless and was seen by Ji Po. Sister Wen Yin took out a copper coin and said that she had bought it. Big brother, although Ji Po is careless, he is extremely strong looking, in case he catches me stealing his buns all the time, I will be dead ……,” the little caller was still having heart palpitations.
“You said you often go to steal Ji Po’s buns and have never been caught?” Ning Cheng asked, puzzled.
The little caller puffed out his chest, “That’s for sure, what am I, the King of Qin He ah, out of the hand can be agile.”
Ning Cheng had lost his cultivation and did not actually feel hungry, he handed the bun to Little Caller, “I’m not hungry, you can eat it yourself. But I suggest you go and thank Ji Po next time.”
The little fellow had wanted to put off the bun, but after hearing Ning Cheng’s words, he asked in confusion, “Why? If I have to go and thank Ji Po, wouldn’t Ji Po know that I stole his buns?”
Ning Cheng sneered, “You think people don’t know that you stole someone’s bun? Even if they don’t know about it once, they will know about it the second or third time. Just this little skinny body of yours, you also want to steal someone’s buns unnoticed?”
“Ah ……” The little caller froze, he didn’t expect that he had cast Ji Po’s bun and Ji Po had already known about it. If so, how could he still have the face to meet Ji Po.
When Ning Cheng saw this expression on the little caller’s face, his face sank as he remembered Cao Cao from the Three Kingdoms era.
Cao Cao and Chen Gong had fled to Lu Bo Xie’s house to escape the government’s pursuit. In order to entertain the two, Lu Bo Xie had gone out to buy wine, while his family had killed a pig to receive them. Unexpectedly, the sound of sharpening a knife woke Cao Cao, who was paranoid and thought he was going to kill him, so he killed Lü’s family.
On his way out, Cao Cao met Lu Bo Xie returning from buying wine. Although he felt remorseful, he was afraid that Lu Bo Xie would return to see his family dead and take revenge on him, so he killed Lu Bo Xie too.
At that time, Cao Cao was perhaps not afraid of revenge, but of facing something so difficult to repay that it made him feel uneasy.
Of course, this may have been made up by the author, not to mention that the killing of a pig for hospitality was a bit outrageous, and pork was not something noble for hospitality in the Han Dynasty. What is more, the sound of the pig squealing during the killing would have been known to the neighbours, and Cao Cao was still on the run at the time.
Ning Cheng did not want Little Caller to escape his favour; Little Caller was still very kind by nature. In fact, there was only a thought between good and evil. If Little Screamer had escaped this favour, his character might have developed in a distorted way in the future.
He has always followed the principle of repaying kindness with kindness and revenge with revenge. If he does not even dare to face the kindness, what is the difference between him and an animal?
Wen Yin suddenly said, “A few buns are just a few, maybe Ji Po won’t even take it to heart ……”
Ning Cheng frowned slightly and was about to speak when he suddenly saw a harsh shout coming from him, followed by a sturdy youth rushing towards Qin He.
Only before that youth could rush to the Qin River, he was struck in the back with a slash and fell to the ground on the spot.
“Brother ……” Wen Yin, seeing this scene, burst into anger and cried out miserably, and tried to rush over, only she stood up too quickly and the bridge hole was short, and was instantly knocked unconscious.
“Ji Po?” The little screamer called out in shock and trembling.
“He’s Ji Po?” Ning Cheng looked at the youth who was bleeding from his back and had fallen to the ground and muttered to himself. He then had a look at the fainted Wen Yin and fully understood what was going on.
“Big brother, let’s hurry and save him.” Little Caller also became anxious, as Ji Po, who was covered in blood, was already being dragged, towards the Qin River.
Ning Cheng sighed, even if he wanted to save Ji Po, he couldn’t go out now, going out at this time would be tantamount to sending him to his death. There were good people like Ji Po and Wen Yin in this place, and there were equally vicious people.
“How is your wateriness? How about closing your breath?” Ning Cheng looked at Little Caller and asked.
Little Caller patted his chest again, “I am the King of the Qin River, even if I were to catch ginseng fish in the Qin River, I would have no problem. Underwater, I can dive for a long time.”
“That’s fine, then, you immediately dive to where Ji Po is about to fall into the water and drag him down under the water. The first time you do so, slap a punch at this spot of his and bring it here.” Ning Cheng said as he taught Little Caller how to knock Ji Po out. Not only would this punch knock Ji Po out, it would also stop the bleeding on Ji Po’s back for the time being.
Little Caller immediately said, “I know, later on you drag Ji Po up ah, I don’t have the means to get him up to the bridge hole.”
Just as Ning Cheng had predicted, not long after Little Caller dived over, Ji Po, who was covered in blood, was thrown into the water.
Little Caller’s comprehension was not bad, so he easily dragged Ji Po into the water, knocked him out with a punch, and pulled him back from the bottom of the river by diving.
Several of the men who had thrown Ji Po into the Qin River saw that Ji Po had sunk with only some blood and water, they all laughed, didn’t even bother to look at him and turned around and left.
They would definitely not dare to save him, who would dare to save a person who was thrown into the river by the Young Master of Thousand Elements? Unless they were tired of living.
Wen Yin had already woken up, and with a slight delay, she remembered what had just happened, and immediately rushed out in another desperate attempt.
Ning Cheng tapped her shoulder, “You don’t want to live, if you go out now, everyone will be a dead man.”
Immediately, Wen Yin understood the meaning of Ning Cheng’s words and suppressed her voice as she cried.
A few water bubbles flooded up under the bridge hole, and Ning Cheng knew that the little caller had swum back. It looked like this Little Caller had really not been bragging, his wateriness was not a cover. Even if he didn’t have leg pains and went over to bring Ji Po back now, he would only be this fast.
Ning Cheng was at the edge of the bridge hole, reached out and pulled Ji Po into the hole, and Little Screaming Flower climbed up from the edge with ease.
“Brother ……” Wen Yin saw Ji Po, who was pulled up by Ning Cheng, and pounced over in surprise.
Ning Cheng gave Ji Po a few pats on his body and Ji Po woke up. The knife wound on his back looked ghastly, but in fact it was not that serious. The person who had slashed the knife was not considered to be an expert, and as Ji Po was running forward, plus his clothes blocked some of the damage, he did not hurt his muscles and bones.
“Wen Yin, are you alright?” Ji Po had completely forgotten where he was and the two men hugged and sobbed with joy.
“Big brother, I’m not bad at water, am I?” The little caller gleefully grabbed the bun he had put down earlier and took a bite out of it.
Ning Cheng nodded, “Not bad indeed.”
Only then did Ji Po and Wen Yin both remember Ning Cheng and Little Caller, and the two of them hurried over to thank them. Neither of the two siblings were good with words, and only after talking for half a day did Ning Cheng learn that Ji Po’s original name was Mi Ji Po, and the woman saved by Ning Cheng was called Mi Wen Yin.
The little caller was very stinky and waved his hand like Ning Cheng, “It’s all just a small thing, just doing it by hand. I’ve eaten many buns from Brother Ji Po and you haven’t said anything once, it’s so appropriate to save you today.”
Ji Po opened his mouth for a while before he said, “I know you were stealing my buns, and you knew that for a long time?”
The little caller’s face reddened and his mouth stuttered a little.
Ning Cheng looked at Ji Po and asked, “Who told you about your sister being thrown into the water at the Qin River?”
“It was Brother Ban, he and I are neighbours. If it wasn’t Brother Ban, tell me ……”
Ning Cheng interrupted Ji Po, “Why did that Ban brother of yours want to harm you?”
“Harm me? If he hadn’t told me that Wen Yin had been taken away and given to Young Master Qian Xing, I wouldn’t have known about it at all ……” Ji Po had a sturdy look, but his head was just a bit ill-advised.
The little caller pooh-poohed, “Ji Po, my elder brother meant to tell you about this matter, you simply can’t save your sister, but come to die. You see, if we weren’t here, you would have been dead long ago. What is this called? That’s right, killing with a borrowed knife.”
Mi Wen Yin also understood, “Brother, Ban Bo is really trying to harm us ……”
Ji Po finally understood, and immediately gritted his teeth and cursed, “This beast dares to harm me, Wen Yin being taken away might also be done by this beast, I won’t kill this beast ……”