CHAPTER 33: CHAPTER 33 WILD BOARS ARE ALSO PIGS

Yanchen’s mother was so scared her legs went weak; she quickly shielded Zhou Yanchen behind her. The village head was also so terrified his calves were shaking, and he almost wet his pants. Only Zhu Xiuxiu stood frozen in place, her mouth agape. Countless curses flew through her mind!

"Third Aunt! What’s that black, roly-poly thing running so, so fast?" Xiaosuisui asked. "It looks like a fat piggy!"

Xiaosuisui had always been kept locked up by the Li Family; she hadn’t seen much of the outside world. Of course, even if the Li Family hadn’t confined her, Ling Village had no wild boars for her to see.

Upon hearing her question, Zhu Xiuxiu couldn’t stop the corners of her lips from twitching. My heavens, this little rascal doesn’t even recognize a wild boar, yet yesterday she unhesitatingly said she wanted to eat it?

"That’s a wild boar!" Zhu Xiuxiu exclaimed.

"Oh!" The little girl’s eyes suddenly lit up, sparkling brightly. "Yay, yay! Second Aunt can perform the one-chop pig beheading again!"

Zhu Xiuxiu was speechless. Such a tiny thing with such big ideas, yet completely clueless. "Your Second Aunt isn’t here!" she reminded Xiaosuisui. Oh, my little handful! They were in grave danger now, with a real risk of being gored to death by the wild boar!

The dark, roly-poly wild boar was about to reach them. Only then did the village head and Yanchen’s mother finally remember to run.

"Run! Run fast, run separately!" they shouted in unison.

Only then did Zhu Xiuxiu also remember. Damn it, the wild boar was right in front of them! Shouldn’t she be grabbing her precious little one and running for her life? How could she just stand there chatting, oblivious to the mortal danger!

Lifting her feet, ready to take off, she suddenly heard the little girl in her arms giggle.

"Teeheehee... If Second Aunt isn’t here, Third Aunt, you can do it!"

An arrow pierced her heart. A critical hit of 10,000 damage points! Zhu Xiuxiu’s steps faltered.

Damn it, who was Huo Xing’Er? She was someone just a step away from becoming a Grand Master! And who was she? She could fight three or five strong men, kill chickens and ducks, and was known in the Jianghu as ’Fleetfoot’. But damn, the difference between her and Huo Xing’Er was like heaven and earth!

"Second Aunt isn’t here, but Third Aunt, you are!" Xiaosuisui chirped.

Zhu Xiuxiu was speechless once more.

"Get away, you beast! You’re trying to kill us, mother and son!" Seeing the wild boar ramming their house’s wall, Yanchen’s mother and Zhou Yanchen, who had run some distance, rushed back. The mother and son picked up stones and clumps of dirt and threw them at the wild boar.

The wild boar grunted fiercely, GRUNT! GRUNT! GRUNT!, completely ignoring the stones and dirt clods being thrown at it.

CRASH! A section of the already crumbling wall suddenly collapsed.

"Damn you! I’ll fight you to the death!" Yanchen’s mother’s heart ached terribly. With a despairing cry, she prepared to fight the wild boar to the death.

Xiaosuisui watched, completely puzzled. "Brother Yanchen! Why aren’t you guys killing the pig?"

Zhou Yanchen, clutching a stone just like his mother and ready to fight the wild boar, was utterly baffled by her question.

A pig came to their house. Shouldn’t they do what her Second Aunt did—grab a knife and chop its head off in one swift blow? Second Aunt looked so incredibly cool beheading the pig with one chop yesterday! She hadn’t seen enough. She’d been a little sad about it, but she hadn’t expected to get to see it again today. She just wondered if Third Aunt would look as cool as Second Aunt when she chopped a pig’s head off.

Zhou Yanchen was, after all, only a seven or eight-year-old child. Hearing Xiaosuisui’s words, he forgot the terrifying ferocity of the wild boar that had demolished half their wall last year.

A wild boar is still a pig! What’s there to be afraid of? Just kill it!

The little fellow ran into the house and dragged the pig-slaughtering knife out from under the bed. The half-grown boy, wielding a large pig-slaughtering knife, looked utterly comical.

"Kill the piggy! Brother Yanchen, kill the piggy! One chop to the head!" Xiaosuisui cheered.

Zhou Yanchen held the pig-slaughtering knife, his body trembling slightly. After all, he was still just a child.

Seeing him tremble like that, the little girl almost wished she could take over herself.