Henan Zhong

She noticed his arrival and reverted back to her expressionless face; he noticed this too and smiled. Another silent moment, "Did I hurt you when I asked for your hand from miss Henan, Ying"er?" he called her name with such intimidation that she could not help but to look at him, he was already looking her but there was no more smile.

"No, you did not," she moved her head with intimation of her words.

"Why not?" he simply asked complicated and burdensome question, she don"t have answer of this question, she did not think about it and why he was asking? "Though I have cruel memories but I though you must have reason to ask for it and I wanted to know that reason at that time," she said what she felt.

Her words were transparent to him, he was sure she was not hiding anything.

"You wanted to know and I wanted to tell, I gradually developed adoration for you and I could not hide it from myself, you live here," saying this he grappled her hand and put it on his heart.

She was stunned with his sudden course of action, "I will never make you cry, do you trust my words?" her hand was on his strong chest where she could feel throbbing sound of heart.

"I…I trust," she could only say this and he clutched her in his embrace with strong pa.s.sion.

.........

Queen entrusted the responsibility to look after Henan to one of the n.o.ble turned slave maid Jie Lan temporarily until she find better choice.

Henan had no objection over this.

She was happy for Ying Jun.

Jie Lan and her sister were also shifted to better abode being caretaker of Henan Zhong, she swiftly learned that habits, likes and dislikes of Henan and syndicated with her routines.

Queen could feel the small changes in Henan ways too and she was happy about it.

She went out to meet the family which she rescued but to her knowledge, they left the mansion next day saying that they don"t want to implicate the owner of mansion.

She regretted that she could not visit in time.

She took three to four months to accept the change in her body and change some routines and add some routines…

.......

After four months Lue Zhen went on one weak leave to meet his family.

He was excited to meet them after a long time.

He bought presents for them and reached his house and knocked on the door.

n.o.body came to open the door for him, he slightly pushed the door with concern and to his wonder it was already unlocked. He thought he was concerning pointlessly.

He went in, it was unusually silent inside, and mostly his younger sister and brother would make noise in the house, whether playing or bellowing each other or disturbing mother for something, their shouting, laughter and jumping here and there never stop until night when they go to bed for sleep, why it was silent today? He asked to himself.

He checked every room but no one was there and it seemed that when his family left the house they were in hurry, where have they gone in such hurry? His mind was wreaking measures to fill the blank situation.

"Were they left to attend annual fair of crops harvest where common people could but annual ounces for their families but if this was the case, they must have locked the door.

He choose to wait for them and ask his neighbors tomorrow morning because it was most likely that they went to meet relatives but door lock broke someone else might be a burglar.

He checked the entire house and sat on the bed thinking many things.

Early morning he inquired all neighbors and who only told him that his family disappeared four months ago about which they himself don"t know where they went.

To hear this disclosure, he was speechless, "Disappear? How is this possible for them to disappear? And if yes! Where on earth they gone?" he asked several people but they were oblivious about their disappearance.

Next day he visited his relatives which were four miles away in another State, they were also pointless, and in fact they even don"t know when his family disappeared.

He came back disappointed…

Henan decided to check the house of third family which she saved four months ago and set out at night.

She knocked on the door and promptly reached the other roof to see who would come and open it, she wanted to know whether they came back here or not and if not then who was living in this house now?