"You animal!"
I raised my hand and backhanded him.
Fuck! This bastard!
Selling out his own classmates-what a piece of shit!
If murder weren't against the law, I would have stabbed him to death.
Seeing me slap him, Seventh Master couldn't resist giving him another slap, evening out both sides of his face.
"Come on. Take us into the village."
I gave him a hard shove and made him walk in front.
To keep him from running away, I kept hold of a length of the rope.
Then it occurred to me that tying a rope around someone's body was how you restrained a person. He didn't deserve that.
So I looped it around his neck instead.
Sure enough, Shen Dong didn't dare try anything. Afraid I would stab him, he led us all the way into the village.
It was past three in the morning. A few lights were on in the village, but not many. Most of the houses were dark.
"Point it out again. Where's the midwife around here?"
Shen Dong obediently pointed in a direction, then gave us a detailed description.
"There's an Old Lady here who's very capable. What does she do?"
During the day yesterday, we had been surrounded by villagers. I had told Seventh Master and the others to run first, then stayed behind to cover their retreat. An Old Lady had appeared then and broken my spell.
That Old Lady definitely wasn't an ordinary person.
"You mean Granny He, right...?"
Shen Dong shook his head. "I'm not too sure who she is, but she has a lot of standing in the village. Whenever anyone here gets sick or catches a cold, they go to her for treatment. Even the village chief treats her with great respect."
"That's all I know. I'm away