Chapter 3: Killing a Boar Bare-Handed!

Mo Ruyue opened her eyes and was back in this dilapidated little room, only to hear San Bao and Si Bao whimpering softly, “Er Ge, I’m so hungry, my tummy keeps rumbling…”

Er Bao also touched his empty stomach, looked fearfully in Mo Ruyue’s direction, and whispered, “Shhh, don’t wake the bad mother, she’s hungry too… What if she tries to sell us for food again…?”

Before he could finish, he saw Mo Ruyue slowly open her eyes and stare at him expressionlessly, instantly scaring him into sitting on the ground.

Seeing Er Bao like this, San Bao and Si Bao were even more terrified. They looked at Mo Ruyue fearfully, crying out, “Mother… don’t sell us, we… we’re not hungry anymore… we won’t eat anything…”

The Children’s cries made Mo Ruyue incredibly annoyed.

“Cry one more time, and I’ll throw you to the Slave Trader!” Mo Ruyue said coldly, making the three little ones immediately cover their mouths, eyes wide with terror.

She had just experienced the feeling of hunger and knew it wasn’t pleasant. Since Mo Ruyue had decided to stay and live a good life, she couldn’t just watch these little brats starve to death…

She stood up, finding that her body had indeed recovered a bit. So, she would go get some food first.

Mo Ruyue walked around the small mud house and found that these rooms were indeed very dilapidated, especially the tiny kitchen, only a few square feet, where a glance upwards revealed shafts of light leaking through the roof.

She suspected that this part of the roof would leak when it rained, and the kitchen was even more empty. On the chopping board, there were only a few coarse grain steamed buns, which smelled sour.

The vegetable basket only contained a few vegetable leaves, more than half of which had turned yellow…

This little bit of food definitely couldn’t be eaten!

Mo Ruyue glanced at the empty room and the three hungry boys behind the door, eventually deciding to go hunting. This was the fastest solution.

These skinny little boys really needed some meat to supplement their diet…

Otherwise, if they got sick, it would be even more troublesome.

Having made up her mind, Mo Ruyue pulled a roll of rope from the wall and strode towards Er Bao, scaring the three Children into screaming, thinking she was going to tie them up.

“No shouting!” Mo Ruyue snapped, directly grabbing Er Bao by his collar and blocking them at the door, saying coldly, “Are the other two in the mountains?”

Er Bao trembled with fear: “You, are you talking about Da Bao?… Are you going to tie Da Bao up? I won’t let you!”

With that, the timid yet brave little fellow, suppressing his fear, hugged Mo Ruyue’s leg, holding her back and saying, “Don’t you dare hurt Da Bao.”

San Bao and Si Bao saw this and also cried as they hugged Mo Ruyue’s legs, imitating him and shouting, “Don’t you dare harm Da Bao!”

But Mo Ruyue’s beautiful eyes turned cold, scaring San Bao and Si Bao into trembling and falling to the ground, no longer daring to hug her!

Only Er Bao was still struggling, but his eyes dared not meet Mo Ruyue’s sharp gaze…

Mo Ruyue couldn’t really hit a little brat, so she just said with a dark face, “I’m going to bring them back. You take care of your younger siblings and wait for me to return.”

Er Bao was incredulous: “You’re not going to hit Da Bao or abandon Xiao Mei anymore?”

“No.”

Mo Ruyue frowned, her face cold, “But if you don’t let go, they’ll be eaten by wild beasts once it gets dark, and they’ll never come back.”

Er Bao was still young, and hearing such a threat, he immediately let go, his eyes brimming with tears as he pitifully pleaded, “Bad… Mother, you have to save Da Bao and Xiao Mei…”

“Understood.”

Mo Ruyue felt a slight softening at the sight of those misty, wide eyes. The next moment, she scowled, picked Er Bao up, and tossed him aside, “Don’t run around.”

With that, she grabbed the rope and quickly left the house.

Mo Ruyue followed the route described in the book and found her way to the back mountain. By this time, the sun was setting, and the sky gradually darkened, shrouding the forest in a dangerous aura.

In her previous life, Mo Ruyue was an assassin, and tracking and counter-tracking were essential skills. Following the Children’s footprints and some small clues, she quickly chose the southwest direction and headed towards a steep slope.

Before long, she heard a wild beast’s howl, similar to a pig’s squeal, but with an added ferocity and bloodlust.

Mo Ruyue’s eyes narrowed, and she immediately rushed down the slope. A dark brown beast shadow leaped down from the slope, crashing into a not-so-thick Sophora tree.

It was an adult male wild boar, with two curving tusks gleaming coldly, as if eager to find prey to sharpen its teeth…

With a crack, the Sophora tree snapped.

A dusty figure fell, accompanied by a child’s clear cry of alarm!

“Look out!” Mo Ruyue’s expression changed. seeing Da Bao fall under the wild boar’s claws, she immediately picked up a stone and hurled it fiercely at the wild boar’s hoof.

Her eyesight was extraordinary, and her accuracy was naturally evident.

The wild boar let out a pained squeal, instinctively releasing Da Bao due to the intense pain, but the next moment, it erupted with even stronger rage, opening its tusks and biting towards Da Bao.

A moment of life or death!

No matter how brave and calm Da Bao was, he was still just an eleven-year-old child. Seeing the wild boar open its fierce tusks, he instinctively closed his eyes in fear…

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a slender figure pounce forward, directly colliding with the wild boar.

“bad mother!”

Da Bao recognized her at a glance; the one who saved him was actually the wicked stepmother, Mo Ruyue… How could she be here?

And why had she suddenly become so powerful, not even afraid of a wild boar?

Before, this woman

was delicate and would scream loudly even if she saw a snake…

A dark line appeared on Mo Ruyue’s forehead. She lifted Da Bao with a stern face, casually hung him on a tree, and warned coldly, “If you don’t want to die, stay put.”

No sooner had she spoken than the wild boar, which had been knocked off course, returned with murderous rage, wishing it could bite this frail human, Mo Ruyue, to death!

Da Bao’s face changed, and his eyes instinctively filled with tension: “Be careful…”

But Mo Ruyue was not flustered, nor did she run. She even stood her ground. Just as the wild boar was about to pounce on her, she suddenly struck, grabbing the wild boar’s front hooves with both hands and tearing them apart fiercely!

Wild boars have thick skin and tough flesh; ordinary sharp weapons cannot injure them. So Mo Ruyue could only gamble on a burst of instantaneous power, combined with combat skills, to beat the wild boar as a formidable opponent.

When the wild boar could no longer attack at close range, Mo Ruyue suddenly flipped over and rode onto its back.

Then she pulled out the sickle from her pocket, brutally gouged out the wild boar’s eyes, found an old wound on its body, and plunged the sickle deep into it.

After a high-pitched squeal from the wild boar, this troublesome creature finally collapsed, kicking up a cloud of dust that covered Mo Ruyue’s face.

Da Bao stared at Mo Ruyue, his body stiff, as if he didn’t recognize her: “You… you actually killed a wild boar by yourself?!”

Is this still an ordinary farm woman?

An adult male wild boar—even the strongest hunter in the village wouldn’t dare to fight it alone. Usually, several strong men would go together, combined with trap designs, to hunt a wild boar…

Mo Ruyue was previously lazy and foolish, with a weak constitution, falling ill every three days and gravely ill every five… Every day, besides ordering the Children around at home, she would wander through the village, stirring up trouble. When people came knocking on her door, she would cry and beg for forgiveness…

This kind of stupid woman, who bullied the weak and feared the strong, had long reached the point where even dogs disliked her and people abandoned her!

She actually… personally killed an adult wild boar to save him!!!

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