Chapter 39: Encounter with Bandits on the Road

  Feng Xi Yao looked into the distance and indeed saw that the noise of people's voices was getting louder, with many people coming and going. Ye Ping Yu took her over there, then found a small food stall.

  The snack stall wasn't very clean, but looking at the spotless Feng Xiyao, Ye Pingyu walked to the seat in front of her and used his sleeve to wipe down the stool on the ground for her.

  Seeing him like this, Feng Xiyao said embarrassedly: "Ye Pingyu, that's wearable clothes, how can you use it to wipe the stool? I have tissues on me, let me help you wipe it!"

  Ye Pingyu smiled and sat down with a plop, saying: "I don't need to wipe it, you wipe it again yourself!"

  Feng Xi Yao looked at him and frowned: "Ye Ping Yu, you're also a person who has received higher education, how can you not care about hygiene at all!"

  Ye Pingyu smiled and said: "We rural people often come to this snack stall to eat, who cares about hygiene? Besides, the snacks themselves are not very hygienic!"

  When Feng Xiyao heard Ye Pingyu still speaking reasonably, she glared at him and said: "Rural people should also pay attention to hygiene, Yanjing also has snacks, don't think I haven't eaten them before!"

  Ye Pingyu smiled and didn't explain, instead letting the owner of the snack stall serve them two bowls of congee, a few more fried dough sticks, and two steamer baskets of buns. Feng Xiyao heard this and said they couldn't eat that much, but he just smiled and said: "Don't worry, we can finish it all! If you can't, I'll help you!"

  Upon hearing that, Feng Xiyao couldn't help but laugh and took a glance at him. She felt that he was fine in every way, just a bit unhygienic, but she didn't know that being hygienic also had its conditions. In this small place of Qingyun, even if one were more hygienic, what difference would it make? It wasn't like they had the same conditions as Yanjing City.

  Before long, porridge, fried dough sticks and steamed buns were served, and Ye Pingyu started eating them in big mouthfuls. Feng Xiuyao, on the other hand, was slowly savoring her food, occasionally glancing at his eating posture, and couldn't help but laugh again in her heart.

  In just a few minutes, Ye Pingyu had finished his own share of baozi and youtiao, while Feng Xiuyao hadn't even eaten half of hers. Seeing him wolfing down the food, Feng Xiuyao smiled and pushed her own share in front of him, saying "Help me finish it!"

  To be honest, Ye Pingyu's stomach was not full at all. He wanted to take some more buns, but he was afraid that Feng Xiuyao would say he was a glutton. He also wanted to help Feng Xiuyao eat, but she didn't say anything. Now, as soon as he said this, she smiled and said: "You're full, are you? If we can't eat enough, we'll take some more. After all, I'm the host!"

  Feng Xi Yao chuckled and said: "I'm full, you eat the rest, don't waste it!"

  Ye Pingyu looked at her and asked: "Are you really full?"

  Feng Xi Yao smiled and said: "Can you still be deceived by this? Eat it, I'm full after drinking the porridge!"

  As soon as she said that, Ye Pingyu was no longer polite and quickly brought over the buns and fried dough sticks that Feng Xiyao hadn't eaten yet. In a short while, they were all gone, but he still didn't feel quite full. However, he really couldn't eat any more in front of a girl, so he had to hold back a bit.

  They were eating in front of the snack stall, but they never thought that a young man with an empty stomach had been eyeing them. After finishing their meal, they stood up and prepared to leave.

  Going back along the original road, it only takes about ten minutes to get back to the Tao Ran Da Hotel, which is not too far. This time, Ye Pingyu let Feng Xiyao walk in front of him, and he walked behind her, but Feng Xiyao still walked side by side with him, looking very intimate, which made him feel a little embarrassed.

  The two of them continued talking as they walked and after a while, they arrived at the entrance of a small alley. There were few people on the road, and the two of them kept walking forward just like before.

  At this moment, they suddenly heard a loud shout: "Halt! Hand over your money!"

  The two of them were startled and quickly looked to the side, only to see a thin young man holding a dagger with an evil gaze towards them, obviously intending to rob them.

  Feng Xi Yao let out a sharp cry and retreated behind Ye Ping Yu, who was also startled. He had never encountered such a situation before and didn't think that the security in this urban area would be worse than in rural areas. In broad daylight, they were robbed! It's as if what you fear is what happens. Before coming here, he was worried about Feng Xi Yao's safety, thinking nothing would happen, but now they had encountered robbers.

  He took a look at the hijacker, and Ye Pingyu's first thought was Feng Xiuyao's safety issue. Since the other party only wanted to rob him of his wealth, he would satisfy him for now. However, he didn't have much money on him because he had left most of it in the hotel room, only bringing some loose change out to eat breakfast.

  Watching the bandit's every move, Ye Pingyu took out some loose change from his pocket, probably only over twenty yuan, and stretched out his hand to the bandit: "I only have this much money on me, if you want it take it away. We all come out to make a living for wealth, not to use knives and guns. Can't you put down your knife and talk?"

  Ye Pingyu politely negotiated with the hijacker, but the hijacker didn't care about him. Seeing that Ye Pingyu had little money in his hand, he looked at Feng Xiuyao who was hiding behind Ye Pingyu and said: "She also takes out all her money!"

  "I don't have any money on me!" Feng Xiyao popped out and said a sentence, but quickly shrank back.

  Ye Pingyu said: "She didn't bring any money on her, we only have this money, you see we are also poor people, you take this money and leave, we won't call the police!"

  The bandit didn't believe him, took a step forward with his dagger and said with a glint in his eye: "You're also poor? Trying to cheat the ghost? Look at her clothes, so good, can she not have money? I'll search her body!"

  The bandit looked at the clothes Feng Xiyao was wearing and didn't believe she had no money on her, thinking of searching her body, but Feng Xiyao was wearing a skirt and indeed had no money on her. If he searched her now, it would be molestation, not just robbery, but also attempted rape. Ye Pingyu's priority now was to ensure her safety, how could he let the bandit succeed?

  Ye Pingyu let Feng Xiyao hide behind him and faced the hijacker, saying: "She really doesn't have any money on her. If you really want money, can we go to the hotel to get some?"

  The kidnapper heard that both of them were staying in a hotel, so they must be rich, but he wouldn't fall for it and follow them to the hotel to get the money. So, he started to slowly close in on them, making Ye Pingyu move aside, ready to search Feng Xiuyao's body. Feng Xiuyao was terrified, hardly daring to breathe.

  Just as he was about to harm himself and Feng Xiyao, Ye Pingyu's heart was afraid, but at this time he also had to go all out. Moreover, he had been practicing martial arts with his grandfather since childhood. Although the opponent was holding a knife, it didn't look like he was stronger than him. As long as he seized the opportunity, he might be able to defeat him in one move!

  The bandit saw that the two were very frightened, and his courage grew bigger, the hand holding the knife was no longer pretending to slash, but instead directly rushed towards Feng Xiyao, with a lustful expression on his face.

  As he momentarily relaxed, the dagger's tip was pointing straight down, and Ye Pingyu suddenly kicked his wrist with one foot. Then, a painful cry was heard from the hijacker, and the dagger in his hand fell to the ground. His face showed obvious pain, and he looked at Ye Pingyu in terror.

  He never thought that Ye Pingyu would dare to resist, and even more so, he didn't think that Ye Pingyu's kick would break his arm. Seeing him in pain and terror, Ye Pingyu didn't think twice, and took Feng Xiyao with him as they ran, ensuring that Feng Xiyao was safely brought back to the hotel.

  The two ran for a while, Feng Xiyao couldn't hold on and shouted to stop. Ye Pingyu stopped and looked back, only to find that the hijacker hadn't followed them at all. He probably didn't dare to follow either. Only then did he let out a sigh of relief: "What a close call!"

  Feng Xi Yao was also frightened, patting her chest and saying repeatedly: "Ye Ping Yu, the security in your place is too bad! Coming out to have breakfast can even encounter robbers. Uncle Ping didn't do a good job with security here!"

  Ye Pingyu also panted and said: "This place is close to the bus station, with a large floating population, and many thieves, it's not Commissioner Ping's fault that the security is not well managed!"

  Feng Xi Yao looked at him and said, "You're actually speaking well of your administrative officer now. I'll have to tell Uncle Ping about this and let him explain it!"

  As soon as she said that, Ye Pingyu hastily begged: "Feng Xiao... Feng Xiuyao, can you not tell Director Ping about this? If Director Ping knows you encountered danger here, he will definitely be very angry. Going there to eat snacks was my idea, I'm the one who brought you here, don't I have some responsibility?"

  Feng Xi Yao's expression changed, she hadn't considered this aspect of things. Thinking back to Ye Ping Yu bravely fighting off the thugs earlier, she hastily asked: "Ye Ping Yu, you didn't get hurt just now, did you?"

  Ye Pingyu looked at his own legs and said: "I'm fine, but I think that hijacker might be injured. He was screaming pretty badly just now!"

  Feng Xi Yao carefully helped him take a look and found that he was indeed not injured, only then did she put her mind at ease. She looked back again and said: "This bandit is really hateful, giving him money but still not leaving, if it wasn't for you, I would have been in trouble!"

  Ye Pingyu said, "Actually, this bandit is quite pitiful. He didn't get any money and instead got beaten up by me. If he had just taken the money and left earlier, that would have been fine. But unexpectedly, he still dared to harass you, so I had to ensure your safety and fought him off. I don't know how badly he's injured!"

  As soon as she thought of Ye Pingyu protecting her, Feng Xiyao was moved to say: "Ye Pingyu, don't have sympathy for bad people anymore. Thank you so much just now, the other party had a dagger and didn't expect you to knock him down in one go!"

  Ye Pingyu hehe smiled and said: "He doesn't know that I've been practicing family skills since I was a child, if he knew that I've been practicing family skills, I estimate that he wouldn't dare to rob us!"

  "What is a Practitioner's Child?"

  Ye Pingyu smiled and said: "I've practiced martial arts before. My grandfather taught me, he's a grandmaster of martial arts!"

  As soon as she heard that his grandfather was a martial arts master, Feng Xiyao excitedly said: "Really? Then we can go find your grandfather and ask him to teach us some self-defense martial arts!"