Chapter 318: Admit Defeat
Half an hour later.
The house was bustling with activity.
Jiang Xiaoxiao, Song Moting, and the old man finished their meal.
Now this is real food!
With a warm stomach, their whole bodies felt comfortable.
This was the most satisfying meal they had this week.
If it weren't for those people coming and going, ruining the atmosphere, they could have kept eating for a while longer.
The problem was that the people in the room were already leaning against the walls as they came and went, yet they still kept at it.
"That's enough, time to get to work!"
Jiang Xiaoxiao rolled up her sleeves.
She was mainly in a bad mood, extremely disappointed; who could eat under such circumstances?
Song Moting saw his wife getting ready to go on a rampage, so he happily pulled her sleeves down.
"You, stay here obediently with the old man. It's enough for a big guy like me to handle such things; how could I let you women and children deal with it?"
After speaking, he directly walked out of the cabin and closed the door.
Blocking all view.
Jiang Xiaoxiao was disappointed, "Can't I just watch?"
"No way! Not suitable for children!"
"You... alright, you win!"
The old man gave a thumbs up.
"Girl, the man you found is really impressive. I saw long ago that this young man had some ability. If it wasn't for considering you and the others, he could have charged out alone without any problem. People like him can survive anywhere.
He's genuinely protective of you. You don't know, that day... that day I wiped your face, that look in his eyes! He definitely had murder in mind. If I wasn't pretending to be deaf and dumb, your killing machine of a husband would have started right then."
Jiang Xiaoxiao chuckled.
Indeed, Song Moting was genuinely very protective of her.
He was her man.
A man who treated her as a precious jewel.
Many people treated her like a treasure, Fan Xiuying, the Jiang family, Jiang Lei, Jiang Yue, Jiang Xin, her uncle, grandparents...
Throughout two lifetimes, there was never such a man, who cherished her from another angle and protected her.
Don't think she didn't notice.
When Song Moting took the dried peach, his hand paused for a moment and then said nothing.
He quickly stuffed it into his mouth.
Jiang Xiaoxiao knew her husband well, through the winds and rains they had been through, she knew perfectly well whether she had dried peaches in her pocket.
A lie!
Being able to say nothing, not asking, and peacefully protecting her.
Song Moting was even calmer and more composed than she imagined.
Not many secrets left to hide.
Let them fall away.
Song Moting's affection for her was probably the biggest surprise she received in this lifetime.
In less than ten minutes, Song Moting came in and opened the door, his face radiating joy.
In this moment, the old man and Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't even need words to understand that everyone inside had been dealt with.
The two followed Song Moting directly into the large room. Normally, people were unwilling to go there, unless delivering food, but now their mood entering this room was different.
On the floor were eight people tied up tightly, with eight guns set upright on the ground, supporting each other like a bonfire.
Seeing the three of them enter, Hu Zi lying on the ground was still swearing, though captured, his demeanor remained.
In his mind, this group was just ordinary civilians.
Don't think they caught people, what could they do to them?
Want to send them to the police?
With the mountain snow blocking the road, how could they send them out?
Besides, wait for the snow to thaw a bit, his fellows would come up.
These people had nowhere to run.
Daring to pull such a stunt, did they think they were scared?
These people didn't have great skills, just a bunch of poor common folks, certainly didn't dare to kill.
"You bastard, hurry up and release us, or else when I get you!"
Song Moting didn't even glance at Hu Zi on the ground.
This one probably was used to being a delinquent, still believing he was high and mighty Hu Zi.
Not considering the current situation.
Unaware of how things stand—a stubborn fool!
Jiang Xiaoxiao and the others looked at the eight people on the ground.
Jiang Xiaoxiao, specifically washed her face, tidied up.
After coming down the mountain, she hadn't cleaned up.
Her body was almost stinking, she couldn't stand herself.
Finally, not needing to endure anymore, not needing to hide her whereabouts; she cleaned herself properly, how could she not.
Sitting here, her small face showing, the eight on the ground were stunned.
Oh dear, it's a woman, no mistaking that face; having a man's face would be bizarre.
Beautiful with red lips and white teeth!
Hu Zi was dumbfounded.
"You... a woman?!"
Feeling aggrieved, unexpectedly amidst the group of men was a woman.
Those days, life was grim; if there was a woman, their days wouldn't have been so miserable.
The distraction was right here, now they realized they had been guarding a treasure blindly.
Looking at Jiang Xiaoxiao with ill-intentioned eyes.
Then with a "crack" sound, an arm broke.
Hu Zi winced in pain.
Lifted his eyes to see Song Moting lifting his foot off his arm.
That gaze was freezing, like looking at a corpse.
Chills ran down Hu Zi's spine.
If previously he thought they were ordinary civilians, now Song Moting didn't fit his impression of the hunter Xiao Song; there was definitely a shift in demeanor.
Especially with the skill earlier, one could take down eight of them alone, though they were weakened from diarrhea.
Yet they had guns, to take them all down wasn't child's play.
They weren't dead, for the most part just weak from diarrhea; not fully incapacitated.
With such skill, if he was merely a hunter, who'd believe it?
"Release us, we'll go down the mountain right away, definitely not block your way."
Hu Zi, seeing the chill in Song Moting's eyes, grew frantic.
If they encountered some fugitive or something, then it's a disaster.
Judging by their attire, staying in the deep woods for quite a while.
Normally, nobody dwells in the deep forest, just like them sneaking in for mischief.
Any normal person, who'd stay here?
Someone tougher than them, remaining in the deep forest; thinking about it, could suggest who they were.
They must have committed crimes, why else be here.
Hu Zi naturally couldn't avoid surrendering now; not surrendering meant death.
Now they were less concerned about wanting to kill; afraid of being killed.
Jiang Xiaoxiao chuckled, the words were quite amusing, thought they were fools!
Letting them go, expecting them to return for vengeance?
Leaving problems unsolved led to future troubles, they weren't fools.
In this icy world, sending them out meant certain death; pushing them was a fight to the death.
Such things wouldn't be done by them.
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