Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
Lan Ling-Er analyzed smugly.
Sha Labi was worried. “Miss, what if someone dies? Will the young master come after us?”
“What are you afraid of? Even if that woman is bitten to death, can my brother still bear to kill me? Don’t worry, he would not trace it back to us! We only have to take care of their corpses tomorrow morning.”
Feeling pleased, Lan Ling-Er turned off the lights for Sha Labi and went to sleep.
As they slept till after midnight, a hissing noise came within the room. When Sha Labi turned over in her bed, she felt something cool and slippery with her hand.
Instinctively, she flung that thing away, but her hand was bitten by it. “Aaaaaaaah!”
Hearing the screams, Lan Ling-Er turned on the light and saw Sha Labi grabbing onto her arm, shaking her hand in pain.
The two women looked down under the bed. Oh my god! There were a bunch of snakes under the bed! They were slithering all over the place, some trying to climb onto the bed.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!”
How come there are so many snakes?
Lan Ling-Er screamed in terror and picked up a pillow to whack at the snakes that tried to climb up.
And then, the two women hugged each other in fear, standing on the bed and shouting loudly for help.
It was a pity that Lan Ling-Er’s bodyguards were also outside the village stockade and were too far to come to their immediate aid. In the end, their shouts had woken Shen Mengyuan up. She came over to check on them and, after seeing their room was full of snakes, she contacted staff from the hope and charity team.
After the snakes in their room were all caught, Lan Ling-Er and Sha Labi had been so terrified that they had already fainted on the ground.
Lan Ling-Er had been so scared that she had peed in her pants. This was the first time such a shameful thing had happened to her.
In the next room, Xu Xiyan and the two girls did not get up to watch the fun at all. The three of them were sleeping very well.
The next day, they got up at dawn and met Lan Ling-Er and Sha Labi at breakfast. The two of them looked even more wretched than before.
Sha Labi had been bitten by a snake. Although it was not a poisonous snake, it still greatly traumatized her.
Xu Xiyan heard that the two had slept in the car of the hope and charity team last night and they had not dared to go back to the house.
Xu Xiyan exchanged glances with Wandou and Ni Xuelin. They were all thinking the same three words: Serves them right!
Last night, they had decided to return the favor. When the two had fallen asleep, Xu Xiyan, Wandou and Ni Xuelin took flashlights and went to a nearby forest stream to catch a lot of native snakes.
Then, they secretly released them all into Lan Ling-Er’s room, letting them experience the thrill of being attacked by poisonous snakes too.
Now, Lan Ling-Er dared not use snakes again. As long as snakes were mentioned or brought to mind, she would shudder at the thought.
After breakfast, the hope and charity team moved on to the next place to visit children in the mountains.
More than ten kilometers away, in the village of Wagouzi, there was only one dilapidated primary school in the area.
It could no longer be called a primary school; there were just a few mud buildings.
The facilities were very simple. The school didn’t even have desks and chairs and all the children had to sit on the ground.
The hope and charity team came here and delivered the materials prepared for the children to the school.
Xu Xiyan and the others accompanied the children, experiencing the life of a volunteer teacher for a day.
At night, they were assigned to live with different households and Xu Xiyan was separated from her assistants. She was to live in the home of a child named Xiaoyu.
Xiaoyu was a particularly precocious girl and she was only 7 years old. Her father was working away from home and she had to stay at home to take care of her mother who had an eye disease, her mother relying on her for everything. She was a highly motivated learner in school.
Xiaoyu was fine when she was playing with Xu Xiyan and the others during the day, but unexpectedly in the middle of the night, she was crying of a stomach ache and was tumbling around in pain.
Xu Xiyan, who knew medicine, checked the child’s symptoms and concluded that she was suffering from acute appendicitis.
If it was nothing serious, she could cure the child herself. But acute appendicitis requires surgery, and it was imperative that the child be sent to a hospital in a nearby village.