Chapter 78 – Acupoint Sealed
In an instant, the rain drenched Yan Xiaosi, making her look like a drowned rat.
Seeing her face covered with rainwater and her hair and clothes soaked, Ms. Zhong wanted to take off her broken bamboo hat to shelter Yan Xiaosi from the rain.
Yan Xiaosi was quicker, grabbing her hand, “Mom, I’m already soaked by the rain. Wearing the hat won’t help me now, you keep it for yourself.”
“Then you should go inside and change your clothes quickly.”
Ms. Zhong anxiously urged her to go inside.
“You both should go inside. Standing in the rain won’t help me at all. I’ll come down when I finish fixing the roof.”
Long Hao’s authoritative voice, mixed with the sound of rain, came from the roof.
Under his authority, Ms. Zhong subconsciously wanted to step inside. But Yan Xiaosi, unafraid, stood tall and proud in the rain, loudly asking Long Hao, “Can you really fix such a dilapidated roof? Don’t fall off the roof and become disabled without fixing it, then our family will have to take care of you.”
Intending to make Long Hao come down from the roof quickly, she deliberately made her words heavier.
Long Hao frowned on the roof, thinking that Yan Xiaosi had a foul mouth. He put down the straw in his hand and waved his hand sideways in Yan Xiaosi’s direction.
Yan Xiaosi felt a surge of air burst from Long Hao’s fingertips. It flew towards her and suddenly struck her chest.
Before she could figure out the situation, she felt a dull pain in her chest.
“Long Hao, damn you!”
Realizing that Long Hao had given her a slap from a distance, she was so angry that she wanted to curse, but when she opened her mouth, she found that she couldn’t make a sound.
This wasn’t a slap from a distance; it was the legendary acupoint sealing from a distance.
She squeezed her eyebrows bitterly, pouted, and stared at the perpetrator on the roof with dead eyes.
Long Hao ignored her strange expression and instead said to Ms. Zhong, “Your little brat is annoying, take him inside and don’t disturb my work.”
Was he talking about her?
Yan Xiaosi couldn’t speak, staring at Long Hao, so angry that she bit her lip.
She was just worried about the man falling off the roof, and that’s why she said that. He just couldn’t appreciate her good intentions.
“Oh, alright.”
Under Long Hao’s imposing demeanor, Ms. Zhong didn’t dare to say no. She agreed, then pulled the soaking wet Yan Xiaosi to go inside.
“Xiaosi, let’s not cause trouble for Young Master Long.”
Although Yan Xiaosi was angry, she had no choice but to nod her head and follow Ms. Zhong inside to change clothes.
About half an hour later, the thunder stopped, the rain became lighter, and Long Hao had fixed the roof so it no longer leaked. He came down from the roof, soaked to the bone.
Yan Xiaosi, unable to speak for half an hour, was suffocating. Seeing Long Hao coming down from the roof, she rushed to block his path.
Ms. Zhong, Yan Shuqin, Yan Shuxue, and Yan Shuyun rushed over together. At first, Yan Xiaosi didn’t say a word, and Ms. Zhong, Yan Shuqin, Yan Shuxue, and Yan Shuyun all thought she was sulking at Long Hao. It wasn’t until Yan Shuqin spoke to Yan Xiaosi, and Yan Xiaosi tried to make a sound but couldn’t, that the four of them finally realized that Long Hao had done something to Yan Xiaosi.
Ms. Zhong could see that Long Hao didn’t intend to harm Yan Xiaosi. Seeing him standing there, drenched, she politely asked, “Young Master Long, what did you do to Xiaosi? Why can’t she speak?”
“Brother Long, it’s raining so heavily, and Xiaosi was worried about you falling off the roof. She might have been a bit harsh in her words because she was anxious. Please don’t take it to heart, she’s just a child.”
“Brother Long, please don’t blame Xiaosi.”
Yan Shuqin, Yan Shuxue, and Yan Shuyun followed Ms. Zhong in speaking up for Yan Xiaosi.
Yan Xiaosi, on the other hand, stared at Long Hao, the culprit, with wide eyes.
Long Hao’s gaze swept across Yan Xiaosi’s face, then at Yan Shuqin, Yan Shuxue, and Yan Shuyun, and he couldn’t help but sigh.
“How could siblings be so different?”
As he spoke, he reached out and unsealed Yan Xiaosi’s mute acupoint.
Yan Xiaosi felt a sudden relief in her chest, took a deep breath, and immediately cursed at Long Hao, “Damn you, you think you’re so great being able to seal acupoints from a distance.”
As Yan Xiaosi of the 183rd Army Field Force, she had never experienced such humiliation.
Seeing her angry and dissatisfied face, Long Hao raised his hand. Fearing that Long Hao would seal Yan Xiaosi’s mute acupoint again, Ms. Zhong quickly pulled her aside and advised, “Xiaosi, Young Master Long has been fixing our roof in the pouring rain, and he’s soaked. Don’t hold it against him. Let him come inside, wash his face with hot water, and dry his clothes.”
Yan Xiaosi was initially grateful to Long Hao for fixing the roof in the heavy rain, but after he sealed her mute acupoint for so long, her gratitude vanished.
Blocked by Ms. Zhong, she angrily went into the house and threw herself on the broken wooden bed inside.
Ms. Zhong gave a signal, and Yan Shuxue and Yan Shuyun followed her into the house.
Yan Shuxue entered the room, glanced at Yan Xiaosi lying on the broken wooden bed with her head covered, and smiled gently. She walked over and lifted the quilt from Yan Xiaosi’s head, “Xiaosi, are you still mad at Brother Long?”
“I’m not mad. I just won’t bother with someone who resorts to underhanded tactics in secret,” Yan Xiaosi replied while shifting her body. After moving to the innermost part of the broken wooden bed, she yawned and waved at Yan Shuxue and Yan Shuyun, “Second Sister, Third Sister, my bed is wet, so I have to squeeze in with you. You should come up too.”
In the pitch-black room next door, Long Hao listened to the conversation between Yan Xiaosi, Yan Shuxue, and Yan Shuyun, grinding his teeth in annoyance.
That little brat dared to call him a villain who used underhanded tactics in secret.
However, when Yan Xiaosi shared a bed with Yan Shuxue and Yan Shuyun, he didn’t doubt Yan Xiaosi’s gender for a moment. It was normal for siblings to squeeze in together in such special circumstances.
In the kitchen, Yan Shuqin was heating water for Long Hao, while Ms. Zhong found a broken iron pot with only half a side left. She poured some charcoal into the pot, lit it, and brought it to the room where Long Hao slept.
“Young Master Long, I’ve prepared a charcoal fire for you. Please dry your clothes by it.”
“Thank you, come in.”
Long Hao’s voice came from inside the room, and only then did Ms. Zhong push the door open and bring in the brazier.
Shortly after, Yan Shuqin brought in some hot water.
Long Hao wiped his body with the hot water and sat in front of the brazier to dry his clothes. It wasn’t until dawn that his clothes were finally dry. In the next room, Yan Xiaosi, Ms. Zhong, Yan Shuqin, Yan Shuxue, and Yan Shuyun squeezed onto one bed. Because they were so tired in the first half of the night, they slept soundly in the latter half. Not only did Yan Xiaosi sleep deeply, but Ms. Zhong, Yan Shuxue, Yan Shuqin, and Yan Shuyun also slept heavily.
The next day, the sky cleared up after the rain, and the family of five woke up to find the sun already high in the sky.
“Oh, it’s so late!”
Looking at the sunlight on the broken wooden window, Ms. Zhong quickly stood up, ready to get up and cook. “Young Master Long must be exhausted from fixing the roof last night and must be starving now. I need to get up and cook as soon as possible. Qin’er, Xue’er, you two sisters should get up and help too.”
