Chapter 10: How Can He Have Such Strength?
Seeing Ye Jiamai’s eyes shining with excitement throughout, Yu Luo and her father couldn’t help but silently smile and nod in agreement.
“Alright, alright—wherever we go, even if food is scarce, what we really lack is medicine.
With that, Mother, having the medicine means we need to fear nothing!”
Suddenly, a voice rang out above the three of them, startling them so that all three trembled and looked up: “Blathering on—what are you doing? Aren’t you all supposed to be sleeping? What do you plan to do?”
They saw Yu Yingying looking down at them from above, her body shivering from the cold, with an expression of confusion on her face.
“Oh! I understand now!”
Understand what? The three exchanged puzzled glances. Before they could figure out what Yu Yingying intended, she suddenly ran toward Wu Dahai!
“Commander Wu, stop sleeping—someone’s trying to escape!”
Yu Luo! Is this Yu Yingying out of her mind?
Ye Jiamai! Is Yu Yingying suffering from delusions?
Yu Haojie! Surely Yu Yingying must be a complete idiot!
Furious at the commotion caused by Yu Yingying’s shout, Yu Luo’s anger surged like wildfire! “Yu Yingying, are you looking for a beating or what?”
She sprang up from the ground and charged toward Yu Yingying. No sooner had she started to speak than she raised her hand and delivered a slap straight to Yu Yingying’s face!
That slap—ever since their first meeting, Yu Luo had been waiting to give that stupid girl a taste of her own medicine. Now, having held back for too long, she could no longer tolerate it.
“What do you think you’re doing? Are you asking for death?”
Yu Luo’s slap landed, and Yu Yingying, stunned, stood there covering her burning, stinging cheek, her eyes wide with disbelief as she glared at Yu Luo!
Before Yu Yingying could recover, the entire main branch of the Yu family suddenly surged toward Yu Luo!
In the silent night, with the cold wind howling and the clanking of iron chains echoing, nearby birds were startled into flight!
The first to charge were the two sons of the main branch, Yu Xiaoran and Yu Xiaoxuan! With a single tiptoe on the ground, even though their legs were bound by chains, nothing could stop their fierce protective anger for their sister.
In a flash of light, the two of them charged right up in front of Yu Luo and simultaneously delivered a palm strike aimed squarely at her chest!
Such speed was something Yu Luo’s modern soul had never witnessed before.
Just as she was about to retreat, a figure suddenly blocked her path! Before she could recognize whose familiar nape it was, Yu Luo saw two figures being forcefully thrown out, landing with a loud “bang” on the ground.
“Father…”
Seeing Yu Haojie—who had barely thrown two punches—nonchalantly send the two young men flying, Yu Luo was utterly dumbfounded! Not only was Yu Luo stunned, but everyone who had just awakened was also mouth agape, staring in disbelief at Yu Haojie.
In the silent night, everyone was so shocked by Yu Haojie’s two punches that they forgot how to react.
Then the old matriarch’s sharp, elevated voice brought everyone’s focus back: “Yu Haojie, you damn fool—you actually dared to hit our precious nephews! Are you asking for death?!”
Even Wu Dahai and all the escorting officials turned to look at Yu Haojie, their eyes filled with astonishment and disbelief—none of it less than that shown by any member of the Yu family.
Is this the famed useless wretch, Yu Haojie? Is this really the softie they used to bully—Yu Haojie?
Yu Zhengqing snapped back to his senses and quickly approached the two sons who had been flung out. After inspecting them, he was shocked to discover that Yu Xiaoran and Yu Xiaoxuan were both spitting blood and had fallen unconscious.
“Yu Haojie, what are you trying to do? How can you be so ruthless with your own nephews?”
Hearing Yu Zhengqing’s words, the entire Yu family rushed to the two brothers, completely forgetting the grievances Yu Yingying had just suffered from her slap.
When they saw the blood at the corners of the brothers’ mouths and their unconscious states, Yu Hui sprang up, storming angrily toward the standing Yu Haojie!
Seeing the fury in Yu Hui’s eyes, Yu Luo quickly intervened, pulling the stunned Yu Haojie aside and standing in front of him:”What do you think you’re doing?!”
“Get out of my way—if I don’t consider you a little girl, I’d just slap you again right now!”
Looking at Yu Luo locked in a standoff with Yu Hui, a startled Ye Jiamai immediately rushed forward. “Old man, are you trying to take revenge for your grandsons? Are you going to beat your son as well?”
“Ye Jiamai, I am your father-in-law. Don’t force me to slap you too!”
As Yu Hui spoke, he raised his hand to push Ye Jiamai, but Yu Haojie reached out with both arms and pulled both mother and daughter behind him, raising his eyes to meet Yu Hui’s furious glare.
“Father, don’t forget we’re on the road of exile now. This isn’t the Guo An Marquis Mansion, and you’re no longer a marquis!”
“You…”
Just as Yu Hui was about to assert his authority and put Yu Haojie in his place, Wu Dahai could no longer bear it. Sitting against a tree trunk, he spoke coldly, his eyes filled with disdain for Yu Hui. “What’s the matter? Does each of you not have the decency to consider me at all? Are you really that eager to fight?”
Seeing his own grandfather looking so dejected, Yu Yingying suddenly recalled what she was trying to do earlier and hurriedly shouted at Wu Dahai. “No, it’s because they were secretly plotting an escape just now!”
Yu Luo: “…”
Yu Haojie: “…”
“Heh, let him run if he wants. He’s your own uncle—how can you not tolerate his success?
Clearly, you’re not a good sort. Get back!” Wu Dahai finished speaking, and his whip suddenly cracked in his hand, lashing out directly at Yu Yingying!
Yu Yingying, completely unprepared, found that trying to report only got her beaten instead!
The whip struck her instep, causing her to jump in pain. The clanging of her chains echoed as she turned and ran off crying.
Though the Yu family of three believed that Wu Dahai was not one to be led by the nose, they were still somewhat surprised to see him casually go after Yu Yingying.
Yu Haojie: “Commander Wu, we have no—”
Wu Dahai: “Enough! Go to sleep! Anyone who keeps shouting will be sent back to gather firewood. Tomorrow, we’ll reach Liangdong City. Once the carriage is taken away, you’ll have to travel on foot. If you don’t sleep properly, tomorrow you’ll be getting whipped. If you delay my escort schedule, I’ll make sure each one of you ends up with nothing to eat but your own regret.”
Wu Dahai’s words were aimed at Yu Haojie, but everyone could hear—it was meant for all the Yu family. Ye Jiamai, holding her husband and daughter’s hands, returned to the fire and lay down once more.
Yu Luo: “Father, why did you have so much strength just now?”
Yu Luo still couldn’t understand—Yu Haojie, the original version of which was a feeble coward, had suddenly become as if blessed with supernatural strength! The two punches he had thrown earlier—what he had witnessed with his own eyes, those two young men being flung away—still echoed in his mind.
