The Personal Bodyguard of the Female CEO
Chapter 686 - 686 684 The Iron Tree Blooms 10th Update

686: Chapter 684: The Iron Tree Blooms (10th Update) 686: Chapter 684: The Iron Tree Blooms (10th Update) Indeed, Xiong Zi was in a miserable state because of Long Qiuyu’s actions, but he was only injured.

Had it been Wang Dadong, he might have killed the beastly thing on the spot.

Zhou Li Ping couldn’t persuade them to stop and could only cry tearfully, loudly saying to Xiong Zi, “Xiong Zi, quickly apologize to our benefactor.

If you apologize, they won’t hit you anymore.”

It was clear that Zhou Li Ping was truly kind-hearted.

Despite how Xiong Zi had treated her, she still thought of protecting him.

“Do you realize your mistake?” After stomping dozens of times, Long Qiuyu finally stepped on the nearly lifeless Xiong Zi and asked.

However, at that moment, Xiong Zi had great difficulty speaking, and his eyes still held a malicious look.

Long Qiuyu let out a cold laugh and said, “Your bones are quite tough.

Let’s see how long you can last.”

With that, she grabbed one of Xiong Zi’s hands and with a snap, dislocated its joint.

Xiong Zi shuddered in pain and cursed loudly, “F**k your mother!

If you have the guts, kill me!”

A sinister smile passed over Long Qiuyu’s face as she reset Xiong Zi’s dislocated joint.

During the resetting, Xiong Zi let out another scream of agony.

Seeing that Xiong Zi still refused to admit his mistake, a flash of murderous intent passed through Long Qiuyu’s eyes, and she fiercely stepped on Xiong Zi’s knee.

Crack!

Xiong Zi’s knee shattered on cue.

“Ah!

Ah!

My leg!

My leg!” Xiong Zi cried out in pain!

“Now do you know what it feels like to have your leg crushed?

Your sister’s legs were crushed while she was earning money to get you a wife.

She almost got thrown off the train for not having a disability certificate.

Do you even know that?” Long Qiuyu demanded.

“I curse your mother!” Xiong Zi’s tears flowed as he kept on cursing.

Long Qiuyu stomped down again, breaking Xiong Zi’s other leg, and then twisted it viciously several times.

Crack!

Crack!

Not satisfied with just breaking Xiong Zi’s legs, Long Qiuyu proceeded to stomp on both his arms as well, breaking them too.

Xiong Zi finally passed out from the pain.

The villagers who had initially cheered were all scared stiff.

They had only hoped Long Qiuyu would give Xiong Zi a lesson; they never imagined she would be so cruel as to break all of his limbs!

“Girl, stop it, someone could die,” the old man smoking his dry pipe said tremulously.

Long Qiuyu said coldly, “What’s the use of keeping such less-than-beast things alive in this world?”

Long Qiuyu truly wanted to kill Xiong Zi there and then.

“Benefactor, please spare Xiong Zi!” Zhou Li Ping wept.

Seeing Zhou Li Ping, who only had one leg left, Long Qiuyu’s gaze finally softened.

Although killing Xiong Zi could satisfy her anger, after all, Xiong Zi was Zhou Li Ping’s brother.

Long Qiuyu channeled her inner strength into Xiong Zi to heal his wounds, and he quickly regained consciousness.

Xiong Zi was indeed tough, refusing to submit even after Long Qiuyu’s beating, but at this moment, he shed tears.

Because Long Qiuyu had broken his arms and legs, he would be a cripple for the rest of his life.

“I can heal your hands and feet, but can you guarantee you will behave properly from now on?” Long Qiuyu asked coldly.

Upon hearing that his legs could be healed, Xiong Zi immediately exclaimed with a mixture of grief and joy, “I’m willing, I’m willing to reform.

I won’t bully my sister anymore.”

Long Qiuyu nodded and continued to channel her Inner Strength, treating Xiong Zi’s injuries.

The power of Inner Strength was astonishing, especially its effects on ordinary people.

Though it couldn’t bring back the dead or repair completely shattered bones, healing a mere fracture was very easy.

In less than half an hour, Xiong Zi managed to stand up with difficulty.

“An immortal!

This is an immortal!

The immortal has shown their power, everyone quickly kneel and worship the immortal,”

Seeing this scene, the surrounding villagers suddenly knelt down in unison.

Everyone began kowtowing to Long Qiuyu.

This scene left Long Qiuyu somewhat torn between laughter and tears.

In the eyes of these villagers, Long Qiuyu’s slender body was able to lift the two-hundred-pound Xiong Zi, break his limbs, and then heal them so quickly; if that wasn’t the work of an immortal, what was?

Afterward, Xiong Zi became much more well-behaved, calling for his sister and serving Long Qiuyu hand and foot like he was attending to a queen, fearful of angering the “female tyrant” again.

The group decided to stay at Li Ping’s house.

At night, Xiong Zi killed a chicken, and Li Ping personally cooked it, stewing the chicken and frying a few authentic homestyle dishes.

Although the taste was very ordinary, the chicken was a real free-range bird, and the vegetables were homegrown, giving a pure natural feel.

The taste was still quite good.

After dinner, as night fell completely, there was electricity in the village, but hardly any electrical appliances.

The television could hardly receive a few channels, and it was difficult to find a mobile signal, so they simply prepared to wash up and go to bed.

But the difficulty arose.

Bathing in the countryside was simple: just heat up a big basin of water and wipe down with a towel—there was naturally no dedicated bathroom.

Wang Dadong and the other two security guards didn’t mind; they could simply wash up in the courtyard, and it didn’t matter even if they didn’t bathe.

But for Long Qiuyu and Lin Xiao, it was more troublesome.

Especially Lin Xiao, who had been raised in the city from childhood.

After a day of train travel and walking for more than ten miles, the idea of going to bed without bathing was harder for her than death.

Due to the conditions, they made do and didn’t finish washing up until the middle of the night.

The night passed without incident, and the next morning, after breakfast, they set out to start investigating the raw materials.

Iron Tree Village was famous for its production of ironwood.

The iron tree, also known as cycad, is divided into male and female, with male iron tree flowers being cylindrical and female iron tree flowers being hemispherical, making them easy to distinguish.

The flowering of the iron tree has a strong regional character.

In the tropics, after 10 years, the iron tree can bloom and bear fruit every year.

However, due to Huaxia Country’s geographical location, iron trees in Huaxia generally do not bloom.

Only the iron trees in Iron Tree Village bloom annually.

And the Iron Tree Flower was an extremely important raw material in Granny Yangjin’s cosmetics formula.

It can be said that without this raw material, the effectiveness of Shiyan’s cosmetics would decrease by at least half.

This was why the Female CEO sent Wang Dadong to personally investigate the matter.

The group arrived at the Iron Tree Flower processing plant, where the large workshop displayed its former glory.

But now, there were hardly any workers inside, making it seem very quiet.

Logically, because Iron Tree Flowers were very precious and one of the most expensive components in cosmetic ingredients, the villagers of Iron Tree Village should gain a considerable income by picking the Iron Tree Flowers from the Iron Tree Forest and delivering them to the processing plant.

Of course, “considerable” was relative to these impoverished villagers, and in fact, the compensation they received was quite low.

Even so, it was much better than farming at home.

There should have been many villagers participating in picking the Iron Tree Flowers.

But what Wang Dadong saw was merely five or six people.