Chapter 713 - Chapter 713: Impossible…
Chapter 713: Impossible…
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Thus, the man did not ask.
Instead, he quickly drank the tea in his bowl and quickly stood up with a smile. “It’s getting late. I have to hurry back. Otherwise, I won’t be home before dark.” As he said that, he even deliberately smiled at Yu Hongyan, “I’m really sorry about just now. I just asked one more question. I didn’t expect you to misunderstand.”
It was as if Yu Hongyan wanted to immediately chase him away.
Yu Hongyan felt guilty and thought that she was overthinking things.
Xue Yifu and Li Hehua were also very embarra.s.sed. They didn’t know what to say, so they just said that they should send him off.
This person naturally didn’t let Xue Yifu and Li Hehua send him off. He even had an extremely awkward look on his face as he walked away quickly.
Yu Hongyan felt even more guilty with this.
Xue Yifu and Li Hehua also knew that Yu Hongyan only wanted to protect their two precious children. Regardless of whether she was overthinking things, they couldn’t say anything to Yu Hongyan.
What Xue Yifu and the others didn’t know was that this person only looked like he was leaving the village. Seeing that he had left Xue Yifu and the others’ line of sight and didn’t see anyone else in the village, he hurriedly took a detour from a small path beside a thatched cottage to the back, all the way to the wall of Xue Yifu’s backyard.
This person was afraid of being discovered. When he was about to reach the wall of Xue Yifu’s backyard, he tried his best to not make a sound. He wanted to climb up the wall to check, but it was too eye-catching, so he quietly peeked out to check the situation in the backyard. He saw a servant girl reading a book in the corridor of the few small houses in the backyard. Through the wide open window of the small house in the middle, he could see three servant girls holding an embroidered thing and smiling as they showed it to a woman sitting on the brick bed. The woman’s hair was half tied up, and her face was as white as snow. She was a beauty.
She was prettier than all the women he had seen before.
She was even more beautiful than the consorts in the palace.
This person immediately felt strange.
How could there be such a beautiful woman in this farmhouse?
She doesn’t look like a peasant.
As for the rest, there didn’t seem to be anything special, so this person didn’t investigate further.
It was not good to go back and ask Xue Yifu and the others. This person started to look around to see if there were any children who were alone in the village. He asked the children.
Children usually said whatever they wanted, which was very different from adults.
Coincidentally, there was a child playing with a top at the door of his house. There didn’t seem to be any adults around, and there didn’t seem to be anyone around either. He went over and played with the top first. He got close to the child and was even happier when he saw the child. He clapped his hands and said that he played well. Only then did he ask who the good-looking woman was.
This child was indeed innocent. He obviously told the truth, “She’s Xue Yan’s cla.s.smate’s sister. I’ve never seen her before. She’s always cooped up in the small house behind Xue Yan’s house.”
“Why is his cla.s.smate’s sister here?”
“Because she’s pregnant! I heard from my mother that in order to study abroad, that cla.s.smate sold his house. When that sister came back, she had no place to stay. She used to stay in an inn. Later, he wrote to Xue Yan and asked her to come and look for Xue Yan. So she had to stay at Xue Yan’s house for the time being.”
“Why is that sister back? Shouldn’t she have a husband?”
“Something happened! She was the only one at home. My mother said that there was no hope for her to live on like this. She probably has to wait until the child in her stomach is born and grows up before she has hope. So she came back to look for Xue Yan’s cla.s.smate. Also, what is hope?”
“Do you know the name of that cla.s.smate?”
“I don’t know… But I think his surname is Xiao..”