Chapter 467: This Is Our Secret

"Help! Help!"

Seeing tomb‑raiding thieves covering the cave entrance with branches, Guo Yanqiu shouted.

The two tomb‑raiders weren't worried at all and let out a chuckling laugh.

"Shout! Raise your voice louder, see if anyone can hear. Let me tell you, when we set off fireworks here normally, no one knows."

Saying that, the two cut more pine branches and placed them at the entrance.

Then they lit them with a lighter, grabbed the leaf‑laden branch, and fanned it forcefully.

Inside the tomb cave, Guo Yanqiu had curled into a corner, crying out of fear.

Smoke quickly spread into the cave, choking Guo Yanqiu so she couldn't open her eyes and she coughed violently.

"Cough cough cough…"

She immediately lay on the ground, trying to press her nostrils to the floor.

But the incoming smoke kept increasing.

"Help! Cough cough cough…"

Guo Yanqiu had never felt so helpless.

Suddenly, the light in the tomb cave brightened, and the branches covering the entrance were lifted away.

Then Lin Feng's voice rang out, "Yan Qiu, it's me, come out!"

"Brother‑in‑law!"

Guo Yanqiu hurried to the entrance and scrambled out.

Seeing Lin Feng, she threw herself into his arms.

"Brother‑in‑law! Wuh wuh wuh wuh…"

She collapsed in Lin Feng's embrace, crying.

"Alright, alright! Stop crying…"

Lin Feng held Guo Yanqiu and began to comfort her.

After a long while, Guo Yanqiu finally stopped crying.

Then her pretty face flushed, and she quickly pulled away.

"Sister, brother‑in‑law…"

Guo Yanqiu felt a bit embarrassed.

After all, Lin Feng was her brother‑in‑law, and being held together just now was quite awkward.

At that moment, Lin Feng took out his phone and called Guo Yanwen.

After the call connected, Lin Feng said, "Yanwen, I've found your second sister… she's fine, she gathered a sackful of herbs… you don't need to come, the forest here is dense, you go back first, we'll return right away… hmm, hmm!"

After hanging up, Lin Feng put down his phone and looked at the two tomb‑raiders lying on the ground.

"What shall we do with these two?"

Guo Yanqiu asked.

Lin Feng remained silent.

Guo Yanqiu added, "How about calling the police!"

While saying that, she slipped her hand into her jeans pocket and realized again that she hadn't brought her phone; it was left at home.

If she had brought the phone, she wouldn't have been smoked.

Had she hidden in the tomb cave and called the police immediately, those two would probably have fled.

Lin Feng shook his head and said lightly, "At most they'll be locked up for a few years and get out; what if they think of taking revenge on you?"

"Then what should we do?"

Guo Yanqiu asked again.

Lin Feng smiled and said, "Easy. Isn't there a bee hive over there? Let them taste a bee sting first."

The huge bee hive was actually what the people of Shuchuan call hanging‑foot bees.

Lin Feng dragged the two under a tree and bound them with the rope they had brought.

A large, elongated bee hive hung down from the tree beside them.

Lin Feng led Guo Yanqiu a short distance away to hide.

A few minutes later, the two tomb‑raiders woke up, discovered they were bound, and shouted loudly.

Lin Feng picked up a stone from the ground and struck the bee hive.

Immediately, a massive swarm of hanging‑foot bees flew out.

They quickly found their targets; hundreds of hanging‑foot bees swarmed the two, delivering a fierce sting.

The two tomb‑raiders screamed in agony.

Guo Yanqiu's mouth gaped in terror, about to shout, when Lin Feng clamped a hand over it.

"Shh, don't make a sound! If the bees are attracted, it'll be trouble."

Lin Feng reminded.

Guo Yanqiu quickly closed her mouth.

The two were stung into "pig heads," their heads visibly swollen a full circle.

Seeing the hanging‑foot bees return to their hive, Lin Feng released Guo Yanqiu, "You go get your sack first; I'll release these two."

Guo Yanqiu nodded.

Lin Feng stepped forward, kicking each of them to death, then tossed the bodies into the tomb cave where Guo Yanqiu had just hidden.

He sealed the nearby stone slab, picked up the two raiders' shovels, and blocked the entrance.

Doing all that took only a few dozen minutes.

Afterwards, Lin Feng threw the shovel far away.

Not far away, Guo Yanqiu covered her mouth, her face full of shock.

She never expected that Lin Feng would actually kill those two tomb robbers.

As for this matter, Lin Feng actually had no intention of avoiding Guo Yanqiu.

This girl also needs to see how cruel this world is.

"Sister, brother-in-law..."

Seeing Lin Feng walk up to her, Guo Yanqiu unconsciously took a step back.

"Are you afraid of me?"

Lin Feng said with a smile.

Guo Yanqiu first shook her head, then nodded.

Lin Feng placed both hands on Guo Yanqiu's shoulders and said, "If I hadn't come today, what would have happened to you?"

Guo Yanqiu widened her eyes.

If Lin Feng hadn't come, she might have been smoked unconscious.

Then the two tomb robbers...

Afterwards, those two certainly wouldn't just let it go; they would have buried her right in that tomb hole.

If things were done cleanly, wiping away all traces, she would have become a missing person.

If it had been Lao San Guo Yanwen who came over, given Guo Yanwen's temperament, he would definitely have rushed over.

Guo Yanwen would definitely not be a match for those two...

Just thinking about it is truly terrifying!

Seeing the fear appear in Guo Yanqiu's eyes, Lin Feng said again, "Even if they were caught and jailed for a few years, once they got out, do you think they wouldn't take revenge on you? So it's still more convenient this way—one fell swoop."

From now on, let's pretend this never happened; besides us, we can't tell anyone—this is our secret, understand?"

Guo Yanqiu nodded heavily, "I understand, brother-in-law!"

"Hiss~"

On the way back, Guo Yanqiu suddenly clenched her teeth and took a deep breath.

Then she stopped.

"What's wrong?"

Lin Feng, walking behind her, asked.

Guo Yanqiu put down her pack, gave a wry smile, and said, "Brother-in-law, I sprained my foot earlier; I only feel the pain now."

When in an emergency, even if injured, it's not easy to feel the pain.

Now that she's relaxed, the pain is felt.

"Let me have a look!"

Lin Feng said.

Guo Yanqiu sat down.

Lin Feng lifted her injured foot, took off the sports shoe, and then there was just a thin sock.

The girl's foot didn't smell; Lin Feng took off the sock and saw that the ankle was indeed swollen.

Lin Feng pressed on it and said, "It's fine, no bone injury; applying some safflower oil for a few days will heal it."

Speaking, Lin Feng picked up her other foot, took off the shoe and sock, and tossed them into the pack.

"Brother-in-law, what are you doing?"

Guo Yanqiu asked.

Lin Feng said with a smile, "You can't walk; I'll carry you!"

Saying that, he turned around and squatted down.

Guo Yanqiu's mouth twitched up; she stood on one foot, then lay onto Lin Feng's back.

Lin Feng supported her with one hand and held a pack of medicinal herbs with the other, heading back.

"Brother-in-law, are you tired?"

After walking a stretch, Guo Yanru asked.

Lin Feng shook his head and said, "You're not heavy; I'm strong, so I'm not tired."

He walked another stretch.

"Brother-in-law..."

Guo Yanqiu called out again.

"Hmm?"

Lin Feng responded.

Guo Yanqiu said, "We took the wrong road."

"When did that happen?"

Lin Feng asked.

Guo Yanqiu said, "A few minutes ago, we should have gone right, but you went left."

"Why didn't you remind me?" Lin Feng said with a bitter smile.

Guo Yanqiu felt embarrassed to say she was dazed, making an excuse: "I haven't been here in a while; the roads are hard to recognize."

Lin Feng immediately turned around and walked back along the way we came.

Ten or so minutes later, we actually returned to the place where Guo Yanqiu encountered danger.

This time we actually followed the route Guo Yanqiu described.

Eh~ I'm back again!

Lin Feng said in surprise.

Could we have run into a ghost wall?

Or maybe they're two new ghosts.

Guo Yanqiu said: "There is also another way: follow this mountain ditch, go forward another li, there is a bamboo grove there; passing through the bamboo grove is the irrigation canal that was previously built; currently no rice has been planted, the irrigation canal is dry; walking in the canal, no matter which way you go, you will surely find the main road."

Good!

Lin Feng nodded.

Lost?

For Guo Yanqiu, who grew up here since childhood, that's impossible!

She just wanted to lie on Lin Feng's back a little longer.