Chapter 34: Unwilling

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Li You's outing this time could be described as a full harvest.

There were eight wolves in total, two of which were head wolves weighing over a hundred jin, while the rest were around eighty or ninety jin each, plus half a boar piglet.

Wa Qingyun chopped down some tree branches, tied them together to make three simple "drag-carts," placed the eight wolf carcasses separately on the branches, and they followed the dry stream, moving quite fast along the way.

Around the transition from Xu hour to Hai hour, they returned to the mining area; Wu Nai and the others had already slipped back to Beizhai to sleep, leaving only a few night-watchmen to patrol the night.

They came from the West Pit, making a lot of noise, and soon a bandit on duty, holding a knife, ran over.

Seeing Li You covered in blood, he was startled, but immediately seeing Wa, Liu, and a group of children, he instantly relaxed; upon seeing the many wolf carcasses being dragged, chaos erupted at once.

"Wa Qingyun, you filthy thing, where did you pick up so many wolf carcasses?" Huang Mao'er was stunned and couldn't help swallowing his saliva as he spoke.

"Could it be that you killed them?"

"Oh my dear mother, did you poke a wolf den? We're in for a treat tonight!"

While speaking, the crowd had already taken the rattan whips from their hands and helped drag them toward the wooden shed.

Wa Qingyun and Liu Longjin both smiled without saying a word, merely directing them to pull toward the stone hollow where the miners slept; passing the wooden shed, they had Yu Zhengchun call for Master Qian Chengzhi and his disciple, the lame Liu, as well as Le Baofu and the Guan Baoning brothers; Hei Liuzi also ran off clattering to fetch the Wang and Xing families.

Soon, the miners who had just lain down stood up; seeing the wolf carcasses being dragged, they were instantly shocked, and even Li Qinxiang and Guan Hongxin were frightened; there were eight carcasses in total, and two of them looked like head wolves.

"My goodness, so many, how much meat can we eat!" Gao Conghu instantly thought of eating meat; he had recently been so hungry he had shrunk a great deal.

The large group from the Dang family, hearing about meat, came rushing over with their iron chains clanking at their feet.

Immediately, the place was surrounded so tightly not even water could pass through; some miners, taking advantage of the darkness, directly tore at the two wolf carcasses Li You had chopped into four pieces and stuffed the raw, blackish meat into their mouths secretly.

For a moment, the noise was incessant; at this time, Ma Hao Wang Qiong, who had come with Wu Nai, finally ran over.

Unable to figure out the situation, he drew the single-edged sword in his hand, held a torch aloft, and shouted from afar: "What's going on? Are you planning a rebellion?"

Behind him were three more people, and the crowd instantly fell silent.

When he arrived up close and saw so many wolf carcasses, he looked at Li You in surprise and said: "Li Xianggong, what is going on? Did you come back from the West Slope? Did you kill them?"

"Mm!" Li You nodded with a smile.

Wang Qiong looked at the wolf blood all over his clothes, unable to believe it, yet he had no choice but to believe it; for a moment, he didn't even know what to say.

The slaves and bandits nearby were already impatient.

Gao Conglong, Li Qinxiang, and Guan Hongxin exchanged glances; clearly, they simply didn't believe it. Even Wu Dading looked doubtful; Li You was extremely skilled, but the problem was his timid and cautious nature; he never did anything risky. What was happening today? Killing everywhere? Wiping out an entire wolf pack?

"Brother Wang, is Head Wu around?" Li You said to Wang Qiong.

"No, Brother Nai thought the sleep here wasn't good, so he went back to Beizhai!" Wang Qiong was only twenty-one years old, while Wu Nai was three years his senior.

Li You felt a bit regretful; this Wu Nai was Wu Zhuge's own nephew. Although utterly wicked, at this moment, there was truly a need to socialize.

"Alright then, call your brothers over; let's have a good meal tonight!"

"Really... this... it just doesn't seem right, we still have night patrol duty?" Wang Qiong swallowed his saliva and said hesitantly.

"Night patrol? What night patrol? We dragged the wolf meat to the miners; we'll all eat meat together; who would still run?" Li You said with a smile.

As soon as these words were spoken, the miners and salt slaves instantly became excited; many knelt down, shouting words of gratitude like "Li Xianggong has a benevolent heart," "great kindness," and "immortal god."