Chapter 128 - 125: Defend Mother (Two - s in One)_2
Qian Yijin also came to persuade Cheng Yue by saying, "Mother, don’t be afraid, all the bad people outside have left, and only our family remains. Once you get to the main courtyard, your sisters, aunt, and grandma will always be with you..."
They persuaded Cheng Yue into a room in the main courtyard, which was Qian Xiaoyu’s room. Lady Wei carried Old Woman Qian on her back while Qian Manxia assisted Lady Wu to the room next to Cheng Yue’s, which was the bedroom of the brothers Qian Xiaofeng and Qian Xiaolei.
Afterward, several people split up to prepare, while Qian Yixiu was in charge of repeatedly explaining to the "soldiers" how to fight this hard-fought defensive battle.
At midnight, five masked men who had been hiding earlier in the forest at the foot of the hill behind Huaxi Village moved swiftly towards the west end of the village. Reaching the courtyard wall of a small house, a few men climbed up the wall to look around. One person even mimicked a frog’s croak twice but saw no dogs. Then, they climbed over the wall.
The intruders stood firm, with one man wielding a knife, ready to kill anyone who dared to flee the courtyard. Two others, carrying ropes and sacks, headed toward the left wing room, while the remaining two approached the windows of the inhabited main bedroom and the window of the right wing room, blowing their intoxicating smoke into the windows.
Suddenly, a long howl rang out. The one blowing the smoke in the right wing room must have been doing this for the first time; startled, he inhaled the smoke himself, and collapsed limply to the ground. This mishap proved to be a significant aid to Qian Yijin and the others.
It may sound slow, but it happened in an instant; Dashan had already burst from the straw stack beneath the eaves and pounced on another man who was blowing smoke into a window. The man had just turned around when he felt an immense pain on his shoulder. With a scream, his sharp axe dropped to the ground, and soon he was bitten several times, writhing in pain as he grappled with Dashan on the floor.
At the same time, a flash of red light streaked by as Monkey Brother leaped down from a tree, latching onto the neck of the man standing in the middle of the courtyard. Baring his sharp teeth, he bit off the man’s ear. The pain caused the man to strike backward with his knife. Monkey Brother dodged it and then dug his claws into the man’s wrist. The large knife fell to the ground, and he proceeded to wildly scratch the man’s face and bite the back of his head, causing the man to fall and scream in agony.
Meanwhile, the two who had discovered that the left wing room was empty rushed out just as Qian Xiaofeng had emerged from the straw stack, deftly tossing lime powder onto their heads. While the two men rubbed their eyes, Qian Xiaofeng swung a club at them, and Lady Wei also rushed out from the kitchen, poking their faces with a red-hot poker.
The number of attackers was small, and they had already "lost" one in advance; moreover, these people were really low-level hooligans who did not stand a chance, and White Wolf had nothing to do. Emerging from the straw, it sat under the eaves, ready to pounce wherever needed, but in the end, it wasn’t needed anywhere.