Chapter 278 - 278 Someone, Help!

278 Someone, Help!

Princess Liuying was caught off guard and stumbled forward toward the stream not far away.

She was so frightened that her expression changed. She panicked and almost fell into the stream, but managed to stabilize herself.

Before Princess Liuying could let out a sigh of relief, Dumby, who had climbed up a tree and was waiting for an opportunity, immediately aimed at Princess Liuying’s head with the slingshot in his hand.

The monkey skin on the slingshot was perfectly straight. Dumby narrowed one of his eyes, licked his lower lip with his tongue, and released the pebble in his hand with a smack.

The pebble broke through the air and hit the back of Princess Liuying’s head. Princess Liuying let out a blood-curdling scream that was comparable to that of a pig being slaughtered as she fell headfirst into the bone-chilling stream.

Princess Liuying lay in the stream and struggled with all her might. She trembled as she screamed, “I, I don’t know how to swim, I don’t know how to swim! Someone, help!”

“Dumby, run!” Gu Lin urged Dumby, who was on the tree. After Dumby slid down the tree trunk, Gu Lin quickly pulled him and Rong Han out.

Before Rong Han left, he did not forget to look at Princess Liuying who was still struggling in the stream.

Princess Liuying lay in the stream and felt like she was about to drown!

She struggled frantically until her hands touched the cold and hard pebbles in the stream.

Princess Liuying immediately stopped struggling. She knelt on the ground, propped up the pebbles with her hands, and sat up abruptly.

Soon after, she realized that the water in the stream was not even half the height of her body. She was kneeling in the water, and the stream water was only at her waist!

When she thought of how she was still struggling in the water just now, Princess Liuying immediately felt extremely ashamed and hurriedly looked behind her.

However, the three children had already fled long ago. Even the ghost that was chasing her had disappeared without a trace.

“Ah-choo!” Before she could react to what had happened, a gust of cold wind swept over. The bone-piercing coldness and the fright just now caused Princess Liuying to be completely exhausted. It was not easy for her to climb out of the stream. After taking a few steps, she fainted from exhaustion.

On this side, the three little children ran wildly. When they met the bloody ‘ghost’ again, they all ran over with smiles on their faces. “Uncle Nine!”

The ‘ghost’ had taken off Cao Duo’s clothes. He took off the hair cover covered in blood on his head, revealing his handsome face.

The man’s bearing was extraordinary. It was Nine, right?

Reaching out to hug the three children, Nine hurriedly said, “Don’t be so happy. Let’s go back and talk after we find Lingbao and Xiaohua.”

The three cubs all had smiles that could not be dissolved. They nodded and followed Nine, quickly returning to the village chief’s home.

The two teams successfully met up and escaped back to Rong Zhan’s residence at the fastest speed.

Nine finally felt relieved after leading the five children back to his room.

He let the five children enter first. Nine followed closely behind, locked the door, and lit the oil lamp on the table.

The light from the oil lamp illuminated the five children’s small faces. Their eyes were filled with sly smiles. They looked at each other, and then laughed at the same time as if they had made an agreement.

“Hahahaha, I’m dying of laughter! Lingbao, Xiaohua, you didn’t see how pathetic that ugly monster was when she fell into the stream! She was flopping in the shallow water and said that she didn’t know how to swim. Hahaha!” Dumby held his stomach and laughed so hard that tears were streaming down the corners of his eyes.

“Hahahaha, when that maid was touched by Xiaohua, she was so scared that she fainted. Even when we smeared chicken blood all over her head, she did not notice it at all!” Lingbao was also laughing so hard that her little face turned red, and her pair of eyes were smiling like crescent moons.