kvmb Chapter 433 Hong Hua is injured and reveals his feelings
Chapter 433 Hong Hua is injured and reveals his feelings
The sky was filled with stars, and in the dark and howling forest, only a ball of fire was jumping. The dry firewood made crackling sounds, and from time to time, one or two birds and beasts could be heard humming nearby.
Old Zhou held a wine jug in his arms, sat cross-legged on a tree branch, and looked up at the starry sky above his head, seeming to be lost in thought.
At the root of the tree, Honghua suddenly woke up from a nightmare and broke out in a cold sweat. After she came to her senses, she loosened her clenched fists and slowly sat up.
"Awake?" Just as Honghua was looking at the fire in front of her blankly, Lao Zhou's lazy voice came from above her head.
"Cough cough..." Honghua looked up at Lao Zhou on the tree. He was about to speak, but when the words reached his throat he began to cough and wheeze.
"The palm strike today has injured your lung meridian. You should rest more and talk less." Old Zhou turned over and jumped down, handed a water bag to her and instructed.
"Did you heal my wound?" Honghua asked Lao Zhou after he calmed down after drinking two sips of water.
When she woke up, she felt a flow of true yang energy in her body. Although she was coughing and wheezing, her chest no longer hurt like before she fell into a coma.
"If you die, how can you find medicine for your sister?" Old Zhou glanced at her, curled his lips and was about to jump up the tree to sleep again, but suddenly heard the other party's inexplicable words:
"You saved me, I'm grateful, but you wouldn't have saved me for no reason. You're all the same, you just want to get some benefits for yourself."
"Don't talk nonsense, woman! What benefit can I get from you when you are almost dead? Okay, okay, stop talking, just continue..." Old Zhou didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and couldn't help but snorted. He thought that her injuries had not healed yet and her mind was not fully clear yet. When he was about to persuade her to rest, he suddenly found tears sliding down from the corners of her eyes, which made him stunned for a moment.
Honghua ignored Lao Zhou who was standing beside him, but chuckled and muttered to himself:
"When I was young, I trusted people too easily. Whenever someone said they wanted to help me, I was ecstatic and thought I had met a noble person. Later, I realized that undeserved blessings and innocent gains were either baits from God or traps set by the world. Although I am now middle-aged, my beauty in my youth brought me a lot of disasters. But I was powerless at the time and had no choice but to surrender myself. Later, I joined the Poisonous Insect Valley and learned how to use poison. I went back and slowly tortured to death those beasts who had used me as a plaything. I watched them wailing in pain, kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, and shedding their last drop of blood in despair. I enjoyed the joy of revenge, which was really satisfying! Oh, by the way, there was another one who, perhaps because he was getting older and less courageous, was scared to death before the knife even cut into his flesh. Hahaha..."
Honghua's weak but creepy and sinister laughter broke the silence in the forest. She laughed but found that Lao Zhou remained silent, so she stopped laughing too. The hatred in her eyes faded away and gradually became dim and even sad.
Old Zhou still stood there with a frown on his face, saying nothing. He lowered his eyes to look at Honghua who had suddenly become quiet, not knowing what to say. Upon learning of her miserable past, he couldn't help but feel a bit of sympathy for her.
"I don't believe any man would save me out of kindness. Just tell me how you want me to repay you." After Honghua recovered, he turned to look at Lao Zhou beside him and said coldly.
"Hmph, you vicious woman, you change your face so quickly. You said you trusted me, Old Zhou, just in the daytime, but only half a day later you started to make malicious speculations about me. What? Just because you met some men who are worse than beasts, you think all men in the world are like that? Then you really have lived these forty years in vain! Forget it, just consider it as I saved an ungrateful and ungrateful wolf!" Just as he was feeling sorry for the woman's past experience, the other party's cold words seemed to pour a basin of cold water on Old Zhou, instantly pulling him out of his overflowing sympathy. He immediately pulled down his face and snorted coldly, then sat on the other side of the old tree and sulked.
"Since you already know that I'm the master of the Poisonous Insect Valley, are you still willing to help me find medicine?" Honghua could tell that Lao Zhou was angry, but she didn't know how to respond, so she just smiled bitterly for a moment, looked back and asked.
"Madam, please understand that I, Old Zhou, will follow you to find medicine not out of helping you. What does your identity have to do with me?" Old Zhou closed his eyes and snorted again.
From the very beginning, he guessed that this vicious woman was not a good person. Today, although he was surprised to hear that she was the leader of the Poisonous Insect Valley, he thought it made sense. Apart from the people of the Poisonous Insect Valley, who else in the world could be so poisonous that people couldn't guard against them?
"That would be the best. I, Honghua, won't have to owe you this favor." After hearing what Lao Zhou said, Honghua was not annoyed, but smiled with relief.
"Honghua? But it is rumored that the master of the Poisonous Insect Valley is named Huayu? Which one is true and which one is false?" As Lao Zhou spoke, his anger subsided, so he began to ask curiously again.
"There is no true or false." Honghua coughed lightly again, then said in a calm voice.
"What kind of answer is that?" Old Zhou rolled his eyes and smacked his lips when he heard it.
"Honghua was the name my grandfather gave me. He hoped that I would have a beautiful and glorious life. Later, when he passed away, everything I did in southern Xinjiang was dishonorable, so I naturally didn't dare to use this name. Until I was being hunted down, I used this name again and sent my sister Xuanyu to Yingmen to seek refuge in order to protect myself and to keep her alive." Honghua looked up at the stars in the sky, sighed softly, and then spoke slowly, her moist eyes flashing with light, she seemed to have seen her long-lost grandfather in the starry sky.
Although Honghua and Xuanyu are sisters, they are 20 years apart in age. Her parents gave birth to her when she was 15 years old, and then she lived away from home for many years. She lived with her grandfather since she was a child. Under the protection of her grandfather, she lived a carefree life until she was old enough to get married. But on the day of her wedding, her grandfather was accidentally pushed off a tall building by her husband and fell to death. After mourning for her grandfather for a year, she was also driven out by the whole village as a jinx...
"No wonder the leader of Shadow Sect still called you by this name after he learned that you were the master of Poisonous Insect Valley." After hearing what Hong Hua said, Old Zhou suddenly realized.
"For a long time, apart from my sister, only Yingmen knew that my name was Honghua and Huayu." Lao Zhou's words brought Honghua back to his senses from the past, and he responded casually.
"But how can there be such a cruel sister as you in this world? Don't you know what the Shadow Gate is? You actually pushed your own sister into the fire pit with your own hands." Old Zhou couldn't help but feel indignant for Yan Yu.
When he saw Xuanyu's extraordinary martial arts skills in the past, he thought she was a gangster, just like Master Li had guessed. Only today did he find out that she was actually from the Yingmen.
Honghua did not refute Lao Zhou's curse. She lowered her eyes again with guilt, but there was no other way under the circumstances at that time. Her parents were gone and she was also being hunted. She really could not take care of her younger sister.
"If that's the case, you and Yingmen should be allies. Why did you become mortal enemies? And what about Miss Xuanyu being poisoned?" Seeing that Honghua didn't say anything, Old Zhou didn't think much about it and continued to ask.
Today's conversation with Youmei had been heard by Old Zhou in its entirety. Honghua simply stopped hiding it and told him everything in detail, from beginning to end, about what had happened between the two sisters and Yingmen.
It was late at night, the wind was cold, and the firewood in the fire was about to burn out. Old Zhou had strong internal strength, so he was not in trouble, but he was worried that Honghua was still weak from the injury and could not stand the cold night wind, so he looked for some dry firewood from all around while listening to the other party's statement.
Honghua was moved when she saw Lao Zhou adding more firewood for her, and her guard against him gradually weakened.
“So that’s how it is…” After Honghua finished speaking, Lao Zhou finally realized that he had solved a lot of his doubts. However, there was too much information and his mind was confused and disorganized for a while. So he just kept mumbling and nodding, not knowing where to start.
"Starting tomorrow we have to speed up our journey and leave Xiyue Country as soon as possible before Youmei reacts." After a long speech, Honghua was already exhausted, and he said lazily with drooping eyelids.
"You deceived the leader of Shadow Sect?" Old Zhou understood immediately.
"We can't completely lie to him. The scorpion venom does need to be neutralized by the antidote and forced out by internal force, plus breathing exercises for three days. But if we tell him it only takes three to five days, it will naturally be disadvantageous to us." Honghua was exhausted and could not bear it any longer. He yawned and said hurriedly before leaning against the tree roots and falling asleep again.
"It's hard for you in such a critical moment..." Old Zhou nodded in agreement. When he was about to praise Honghua for her courage and carefulness, he saw that she had fallen asleep. He stopped talking, stretched, and lay down on the spot.