Since the soft approach did not work, it was time for hard coercion. He reached out and pointed at Fox Wolf, “Don’t you push me. If you refuse to say it, I’ll pry your mouth open in ways you can’t imagine!”
The fox wolf looked at the Aries coldly, ”You may try!”
Things had progressed to this point where there was basically no room for any further maneuvering. Aries had not expected to be faced with such a challenging problem once they had just arrived at Kiara Cloud Mountain.
What to do?
Was it really necessary for favonovel.com to knock down Fox Wolf and then pry his mouth open with those special methods?
By looking at Fox Wolf’s determination and fierce eyes, it was clear that favonovel.com was not someone who was willing to simply concede and open up.
Thomas patted Aries on the shoulder at this moment. He took a step forward and said to the Fox Wolf, “It is indeed our fault that the two of us came uninvited, trespassed into your house, and injured the wolves you kept.”
“It’s not sincere to just apologize, so…”
Thomas changed the subject and said, “Let’s make a deal. As a token of my apology, I’ll help you in completing one task. Then we’ll buy your intelligence with money, how about that? ”
Fox Wolf sneered, “Don’t you understand human language? I told you two to get lost!”
Thomas answered calmly, without becoming enraged, “Don’t you want to hear what I could help you with?”
“I have nothing for you to help with!”
“Really? Will you still chase me out if I say I can heal the woman’s asthma in the room?”
That single sentence made the Fox Wolf’s eyes change dramatically. He looked at Thomas in amazement.
“Did you enter the room?”
“No.” Thomas said, “However, as soon as I stepped into this courtyard, I heard a woman coughing, which sounded like it had been going on for quite some time. Plus, I could roughly guess based on the contents of the basket you were carrying, which had all the herbs for asthma.”
Fox Wolf looked at Thomas incredulously and asked, “Are you a doctor?”
Thomas nodded, “Yes. We have come to inquire about the whereabouts of the thousand-year mushroom, as well as to help a friend who is sick. So, now we have a deal, can we make it?”
Fox Wolf stared at Thomas for a few seconds, then stepped past him, “Follow me.”
Thomas and Aries immediately followed.
They pushed open the door of the backyard and walked in until they came to the innermost house. When they opened the door, all they saw was a haggard, long-haired woman half-lying on the bed. She was coughing hard and appeared to be on the verge of dying.
Fox Wolf said in a calm tone, “She is my wife. Since childhood, favonovel.com has had this disease, and it has become more and more serious in the past few years. She had seen hundreds of doctors and traveled to major hospitals around the country. The family’s savings had been depleted, but favonovel.com illness had not been cured.”
Thomas had now understood the situation, “So you came to Kiara Cloud Mountain and picked herbs to cure her? You’re selling intelligence to pay for your wife’s medical care?”
Fox Wolf said, “The herbs I picked can only barely sustain favonovel.com life and are incapable of curing favonovel.com illness. The money earned is a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of treating the disease.”
After hearing this, Aries’ animosity towards the Fox Wolf vanished.
Although Fox Wolf’s tone was calm, one could feel his deep despair and helplessness from his eyes and movements, as well as his sympathy for his wife and contempt for his own incompetence. It was visible to anyone. In a way, Fox Wolf was even greater than favonovel.com was. He had given up a good life for his wife and was seeking an opportunity to live in such an off-the-beaten-path place.
This was not something that the average person could do.
Aries said, “Those wolves, they are the ones you keep to watch over the house, right?”
The Fox Wolf replied affirmatively, “Yes, I have to go out every day to harvest herbs, and I am not at home most of the time. That is why I have raised more than twenty wolves to guard and protect my home in case some miscreants break in and hurt my wife.”
Aries couldn’t help but be stunned.
Others were keeping dogs to protect their homes, but favonovel.com was actually raising wolves to protect his home. He was really cruel.
