Chapter 428 Pick a Quarrel Deliberately
“Why don’t you eat it?”
Lin Mengya , who was the last to sit down after finishing her business, looked at her family members and asked.
“Uh… of course we are waiting for you. Cousin, why don’t you try it first? After all, you’ve worked hard.”
Qiu Yu flattered her with a smile, but refused to get some porridge for himself.
They had seen how Lin Mengya cooked. She had not only put peach blossoms in it, but also put some dark stuff she got from somewhere in it.
Therefore, perhaps no one dared to enjoy tasting the porridge.
“You have no taste! It’s a reckless waste of grain. Honey, give me a spoon, and I’ll try it first.”
In fact, Lin Mengya was worried about the bitterness of the peach blossoms, so she, who had a sudden inspiration, dug up the preserved fruit Baishao brought for her from the carriage.
Honey apricots and white sugar red bayberries must made porridge sweet and sour.
Baishao stared at her Master with concern, for fear that her Master would have a food poisoning.
As the lid was lifted, the pink-white almond blossoms fit the white porridge well.
Unfortunately, the dark preserved fruit without any treatment looked quite scary.
Lin Mengya filled a large bowl and ate with appet.i.te.
“Look, I’m still alive. It’s not poison. You’re too suspicious.”
Giving those ignorant people a hard look, Lin Mengya continued gobbling down the sweet and sour apricot porridge.
“We should have a try.”
After making sure that the porridge was really edible, Qiu Yu cheerfully told everyone to have a try.
Despite the poor appearance of the porridge made by Lin Mengya, Long Tianyu almost handed his bowl to her without thinking.
“Good, my elder brother does have a vision.”
Lin Mengya smiled and filled Long Tianyu’s bowl with porridge. However, just as she intended to pa.s.s it, her hand collided with another hand.
“Ouch!”
The miserable scream attracted everyone’s attention.
The hot white porridge sprinkled on a slender hand, but most of it was poured onto the ground.
Lin Mengya looked at the bowl with regret, because it contained the biggest preserved fruit she picked for Long Tianyu. But now, it was wasted.
“Sorry, I’m really sorry. I… I didn’t see you…”
She talked in this panic-stricken tone again. Looking at Sumei’s panic-stricken face, Lin Mengya seemed to feel that she had gone too far and scared her.
“It’s okay. Have you been burned?”
Sumei shook her head desperately, but there were tears in her watery eyes.
Hongyu was concerned about her sister anyway. She immediately took her sister’s hand and wiped it carefully. Watching Hongyu showing great concern for her, Sumei did her utmost to restrain herself.
Lin Mengya felt apologetic. So she quietly ordered Baishao to take out the medicine for scald she brought.
“Obviously she was blind. Besides, this porridge is not that hot. She’s so fragile.”
Xiu had disliked Sumei since she got on the carriage.
Others concentrated on eating and did not see it, but she saw it clearly.
It was not an accident. Sumei deliberately reached out and collided with Lin Mengya’s bowl.
She didn’t know why Sumei did that to Sister Yuan and found her disagreeable to the eye.
“Can you stop it? Xiu, I don’t know what my sister has done to you. Since you got in the carriage, you have talked harshly to her. Now obviously my sister has got scalded. Why bother making such sarcastic remarks again? If she has dissatisfied you, I apologize to you on behalf of her. Can you be a little kind to my sister in future?”
Hongyu finally failed to hold back her anger and said to Xiu impolitely.
She considered Sumei a timid and obedient girl. Even if Sumei did not accept her as her sister, it was because of her.
However, Xiu kept making sarcastic remarks against her sister. She had said nothing about it before, because she didn’t want to trouble others.
But now, Xiu had gone too far!
“I consider myself polite enough. Hongyu, you are blind, but I am not.”
Xiu did not give in. She looked down on Sumei who pretended to be pitiful.
The two of them were about to quarrel. In desperation, Lin Mengya had to drag Xiu aside and managed to let everyone finish this meal.
“Why are you hostile to Sumei ? I consider her just an ordinary girl. What has she done to you?”
Lin Mengya lightly touched Xiu’s forehead with her finger and said reproachfully.
It was no wonder Hongyu lost her temper. Since they got out of Square Town, Xiu had kept making sarcastic remarks against Sumei and giving her a cold shoulder in the carriage.
Xiu glared at Sumei coldly in anger before whispering.
“She’s not a good person as you imagined. When we were caught together, I had a chance to run away. However, she reported it to those kidnappers. Moreover, I got plenty of poisons when I was just caught. I thought she was a good person, so I told her about it secretly. Unexpectedly, she told those kidnappers about it, so I was unable to find a way out.”
Before learning the causes and consequences, Lin Mengya did not expect that Sumei, who looked pitiful and innocent, turned out to be such a person.
Nevertheless, it was understandable that one had to give in temporarily in a difficult situation.
“What’s more, she keeps saying that she is an innocent girl and afraid to be implicated by her sister. At first, she was the one who turned to her sister and made herself known to her sister! We were taken to the brothel where her sister was. Unexpectedly, on the night she was sold, she managed to find her biological sister and begged her sister to rescue her with tears. But now she turns against her sister. She’s such a double-faced person!”
The truth turned out to be this.
Lin Mengya looked towards her companions.
If what Xiu said was the truth, Sumei should desperately want to leave Huichun House.
In that case, why did she insist following them?
“Do you think that Sumei has another purpose?”
In fact, Lin Mengya was also suspicious of Sumei’s words and deeds.
Nevertheless, after thinking it over, she still failed to figure out what Sumei’s purpose would be.
“In my view, she takes a fancy to your elder brother. Haven’t you seen that? She had a pain in her hand a moment ago, but she’s smiling sweetly at your elder brother at the moment.”
Xiu said angrily. When she was locked up, she had been trapped by Sumei.
As a girl with a hot temper, Xiu couldn’t bear to watch her pretending to be pitiful at the moment.
Lin Mengya glanced at Sumei, but shook her head after thinking for a while.
“I don’t think it’s that simple.”
What happened in Huichun House had taught her a lesson.
You couldn’t judge people by their appearance. In particular, she had also found a clue just now.
Sumei was not as simple as she looked. It was actually no big deal that Sumei collided with her and made her drop the bowl, so she would definitely not blame Sumei.
However, Sumei tried hard to pretend that she felt great pain but held back her feeling.
She seemed to provoke Xiu deliberately.
“This kind of person should have been kicked out long ago. Otherwise, even I’ll be sick of watching her keep attaching herself to elder brother Yuan!”
Did she keep attaching herself to Long Tianyu? Lin Mengya was a little curious.
Apart from anything else, although Long Tianyu looked pretty handsome, he was particularly indifferent towards others.
If she were Sumei, who wanted to find a backer, even a husband, she would at least consider Qiu Yu, who was easier to hook up with.
Watching Long Tianyu’s indifferent att.i.tude, she still refused to give up. Could it be love at first sight?
Lin Mengya had some thoughts in mind, but had no evidence at all. In that case, she might put on a show with Sumei.
” Xiu, do me a favor.”
After she whispered a few words to Xiu, Xiu nodded with a smile at once.
“Rest a.s.sured. I will do a good job. You can count on me!”
After finishing speaking, Xiu bounded to others. Watching Xiu’s back, Lin Mengya showed a weird smile at the corners of her mouth.
This time Sumei would have a hard time.
It was nothing romantic to stay overnight in the wild.
In the temporary tent, Baishao, Xiu and Lin Mengya lay side by side in the thick quilt and didn’t feel cold.
There was a warm fire at their feet and men on sentry duty outside in turn. With Long Tianyu and Qiu Yu around, Lin Mengya, who was a fake man, could naturally sleep all night.
However, Lin Mengya couldn’t fall asleep. She looked through the door of the tent at the moon in the dark, thinking about something.
“Master, are you thinking about your family?”
Baishao asked quietly. Although she had always been waiting for her Master to return on this way, she could feel that what her Master did was extremely adventurous.
Fortunately, her master had brought her out. If her master had brought Baiji or Baizhi out, they would definitely scream and cry all the time.
“Hmm, kind of.”
In fact, Lin Mengya was in a chaotic mood.
During this journey, she had seen numerous things that she had never seen in the Capital City.
Her mood had changed a lot silently.
Sometimes, she envied Xiu who was straightforward. The more she understood, the more she had to consider.
” Baishao, what is your dream?”
As soon as Lin Mengya began to talk, she found that she began to inquire into someone else’s dream like w.a.n.g Banbi (A Chinese singer who had always asked contestants about their dreams in a music show).
Nevertheless, her current life was indeed a bit confusing.
She had striven to get prepared for leaving Prince Yu’s Mansion, but what about now? She didn’t like to deceive herself. If she could leave Long Tianyu now, she might not be able to do that without the slightest hesitation.
“Dream? What is a dream?”
Baishao looked towards her Master with puzzlement. No one had ever asked her this question since her childhood.