Chapter 732 - ncounter Baique on the Way
Chapter 732 Encounter Baique on the Way
They decided to travel with Hou Yuetian’s group so that they and Hou Yuetian’s group could take care of each other on the way and they could get some help after entering the Nation of Dongxia.
Qinghu understood this, and so did she.
Therefore, she had to make it clear to Hou Yuetian that they decided to travel with his group as they wanted some help in the Nation of Dongxia, but it did not mean that he could ask for whatever he wanted.
Lin Mengya knew that he was not this kind of person, but people weren’t what they seemed, and she could fully trust no one other than Qinghu.
“Well, as companions during this journey, we don’t have to be so particular about this. I’ve had enough rest, let’s hit the road,” Lin Mengya said.
Hearing this, Qinghu showed a complacent smile and glanced at Hou Yuetian with obvious disdain.
Well, he had lost the bet, so he had to consent to Hou Yuetian’s request.
But Lin Mengya was so fascinating that she talked Hou Yuetian over with only a few words.
Lin Mengya nodded at Hou Yuetian, and Qinghu helped her into the carriage.
After settling Lin Mengya down, Qinghu turned around, gazed at Hou Yuetian, who was dejected, and said, “You’d better not have any feeling for my sister. She is meant for someone else. Although the man is a jerk, I have to admit that he suits my sister better, while you don’t.”
Qinghu blurted out Hou Yuetian’s feeling that even he was not sure of.
Did he have feeling for her? Hou Yuetian was suddenly aware that his feeling for her was not necessarily so strong that he considered her as the only woman he wanted to marry.
But after weighing the pros and cons, he thought she might be the most suitable candidate for his wife.
Moreover, when Su Qingge said that she was likely to be able to recuperate her health, even Hou Yuetian could not deny that actually he was joyful.
He just didn’t expect that her brother pointed out his feeling for her even before he made sure of it.
Freezing for a moment, Hou Yuetian subconsciously had an aversion to the man Qinghu mentioned.
“Marriages are predestined. Sometimes the one you meet earlier may not be the perfect match for you. Brother Su, your sister is talented, proficient in medical skill, elegant and gentle. She is indeed a good candidate for wife. But I, Hou Yuetian, am not pushy. If your sister and I are meant to be together, please don’t get in our way,” Hou Yuetian said.
Hearing his words, Qinghu rolled his eyes at him and left him behind, while thinking how he dared to brag about that.
If Long Tianyu learned this, Hou Yuetian might not even be able to leave Dajin, as Long Tianyu got jealous easily.
Qinghu instinctively stole a glance at Lin Mengya, who was sitting peacefully in the carriage behind him, wondering if Lin Mengya was born to be a femme fatale that one and another men fell in love with her.
Lin Mengya was confused about what Qinghu had talked with Hou Yuetian so that both of them glanced at her with different looks in their eyes.
Too lazy to find out about it, Lin Mengya narrowed her eyes and began to leaf through the book she scanned and stored in the Shen Nung system last night.
However, just as she was concentrating on reading, from the corner of her eyes, she caught a glimpse of a dark figure pouncing towards her carriage from the bushes.
Not to mention Lin Mengya, even the coachman seemed to be startled.
“Who is it?!” He immediately stopped the carriage, jumped down, stared warily at the person pouncing on them and asked.
“Don’t, don’t kill me!” Hearing the trembling voice, Lin Mengya poked her head out of the carriage curiously.
She took a closer look, only to find that it was a young woman about 18 or 19 years old who stopped her carriage.
Despite the woman’s innocent face, there was a hint of fear in her watery eyes.
Nevertheless, glancing at the woman’s slightly bulging belly, Lin Mengya was immediately sure that she was married.
“Where are you from?” Lin Mengya asked.
They were in the middle of nowhere.
Although they were about to arrive at the main road, it was still a very desolate place.
The woman about five or six months pregnant, who was dressed in rags with her face covered with dirt, looked in a mess, which aroused Lin Mengya’s suspicion.
“Miss, please save me! I’m from Niuxin Town not far from here. Unexpectedly, I was kidnapped and taken to the temple for the Mountain Deity by a group of people three months ago, and they, they attempted to kill me and take my baby out. If the Mountain Deity had not blessed me, I wouldn’t have been able to escape two days ago and both my baby and I would have been killed!” After finishing speaking, the young pregnant woman burst into tears.
Niuxin Town? Wasn’t it the place where they managed to escape last night?
After thinking for a while, Lin Mengya instructed someone to help the pregnant woman up and felt her pulse under the supervision of Qinghu.
After making sure that the woman was just an ordinary pregnant woman, who felt a little uncomfortable after suffering a great shock, she believe what the woman said.
“Where is your husband’s family? Who kidnapped you? Did you see them?” She asked.
Watching the gentle and amiable Miss in front of her, the pregnant woman involuntarily let down her guard and said, “In fact, my husband’s family has moved out of Niuxin Town a few months ago. I stayed in the town with my mother-in-law as I just got pregnant with an unsteady condition at that time. Three months ago, that group of people broke into my home at night. My mother-in-law… was beaten to death by them, while I was abducted. I don’t know those people. Miss, please do me a favor and take me to the county.”
After saying that, the young woman started sobbing.
Learning her story, Lin Mengya could not help feeling sorry for her.
After she talked it over with Qinghu, the two of them decided to take the young woman with them perhaps at the thought that with the young woman’s testimony, the government was more likely to deal with those people in the temple for the Mountain Deity.
After inviting the young woman into her carriage, Lin Mengya took out her clothes and gave them to the young woman so that the young woman could change her clothes.
With the pregnant woman in the carriage, the caravan slowed down.
In the relatively confined carriage, the young woman, who was dressed in clean clothes now, smiled at Lin Mengya gratefully before sitting down cautiously opposite Lin Mengya with her hands on her belly.
Lin Mengya, who was closing her eyes and resting her mind, did not seem to have noticed the curious gaze from the young woman.
When Lin Mengya opened her eyes occasionally, she just made eye contact with the young woman for a second and nodded at her.
They didn’t talk too much.
Seeing Lin Mengya was easy in her manners, the young woman became bolder.
She looked curiously at the girl in front of her up and down with less shyness and fear in her eyes.
Lin Mengya suddenly opened her eyes and met the young woman’s clear eyes.
The latter immediately panicked and tried hard to cover up her real identity.
However, Lin Mengya said softly with a gentle smile, “Back in the inn, I wondered why I smelled the scent of osmanthus hair oil out of an old man in his sixties. Now I realize you disguised yourself as the old man, didn’t you?”
The young woman suddenly screamed and subconsciously sniffed her clothes, but she didn’t smell the scent of osmanthus hair oil at all.
Seeing Lin Mengya’s mocking look, she gritted her teeth remorsefully.
“No wonder our chief described you as a cunning and extremely intelligent lady, First Miss of the Lin Family. I had to disguise myself, because if I try to approach you rashly, you will definitely see through my identity. Please forgive me generously, Miss Lin.” The young woman apologized to Lin Mengya naturally with hands folded and raised in front of her face.
Lin Mengya just nodded and let it go.
Staring at the young woman in front of her, Lin Mengya thought that she had felt the young woman’s pulse and found the young woman was pregnant indeed.
But she was not sure whether the chief the young woman mentioned was an enemy or a friend, so she considered the chief as a threat.
“Don’t worry, Miss Lin, I mean no harm. I’m pregnant indeed, and I was almost deprived of my baby. But I did all this at our chief’s behest, as the members of the Blood Hall have been collecting fetuses under orders not only in Niuxin Town but also in other places. They, who are extremely cruel, used a secret method to remove the fetus along with the pregnant woman’s womb. I thought I was proficient enough in martial arts to handle it with ease. Unexpectedly, I almost fell into their trap last night. If you hadn’t attracted their attention, I’m afraid I would have been killed now.” The young woman told the whole story.
However, hearing her words, Lin Mengya showed a serious look.
What did the Blood Hall want to do with the fetuses in the wombs?
“No matter who your chief is, since you’re pregnant, you shouldn’t risk your life. I’ll take you to a safe place. After that, you’d better take care of yourself,” Lin Mengya said indifferently.
No matter how important the young woman’s task was, it could not compare with her baby.
The young woman smiled magnanimously and stroked her belly with her hands.
She said, “No eggs can remain unbroken when the nest is totally ruined. Miss Lin, Baique will keep your words in mind. But I’m wondering how you saw through my disguise.”
It turned out that her name was Baique.
Watching Baique smiling, Lin Mengya cooled down.
After all, this was Baique’s business, that had nothing to do with her.
Lin Mengya turned around to enjoy the scenery outside the window, while saying, “You did a good job in disguise. But when you stood up from the chair, you didn’t look like an old man in his sixties. You acted like an old man at other times, but just acted like a woman when standing up from the chair. When you got in the carriage just now, you acted the way you did that day, which aroused my suspicion.”
In fact, people used different muscles when subconsciously performing a certain movement.
As a physician, Lin Mengya certainly could tell which muscles were used, but common people could not.