mtl008 Chapter 204 Tell the truth
Chapter 204 Tell the truth
"Young lady, my younger brother is still young, he...he..."
Whether it was because Honglin was too fierce or because Huani was afraid they would fight, she stuttered a little when she spoke.
"What do you mean 'him'? He doesn't look young anymore, he should be in school. I didn't expect him to be so disobedient and speak so rudely. I really don't know how your family raised him."
"What we call our family is none of your business. It's none of your concern. You ate at our house and now you're criticizing our child. Don't you think that's going a bit too far?"
Upon hearing the voice and those words, Honglin immediately wanted to retort, but before she could speak, she was pulled back.
Hua Niang looked at the newcomer with a look of horror. She had considered countless possibilities, but she never expected to encounter this one.
Seeing that the person had already walked over, Hua Niang immediately showed a big smile.
"Little...little sister, you've finally come out! If you hadn't come out, I wouldn't have been able to live!"
Lin Cai looked Hua Niang up and down. Her hair was messy and her clothes were tattered. She looked like she had been robbed.
"Are you waiting for me?"
Upon hearing these four words, Hua Niang almost burst into tears. She wasn't waiting for someone at all; she was waiting for Buddha.
She didn't know when this person would arrive, where he lived, or what he would do after seeing her.
She hadn't known before, and now that she saw the person, the guilt she felt almost made her unable to smile.
Hearing the two people's conversation, Honglin realized that the person they were looking for was the one in front of them.
She immediately grabbed the flower maid: "Found it, found it! Quickly tell them, I need to go back now..."
"Damn it, this awful place is no place for a human to stay. I need to go back quickly, get into my warm nest, have a nice beauty sleep, and take good care of my skin."
Her skin had become dry and rough from traveling these past few days, and it felt like it was about to peel. She would definitely take good care of it when she got back.
Before Hua Niang could stop her, Hong Lin blurted everything out. When Hua Niang heard what Hong Lin said, she almost fainted on the spot.
Lin Cai turned to look at Hua Niang: "Have you found the person?"
"Notify them?"
"Sister Hua, if you find someone, who should you notify?"
Upon hearing the word "Sister Flower," Hua Niang felt a chill run down her spine. She looked at Lin Cai and gave a dry laugh.
"Hehe, girl, you misheard. That brat Honglin is just starving and doesn't even know what she's saying..."
"Oh, I see! I wonder how many days this lady has been starving? If she's so hungry, why didn't you prepare anything for her to eat?"
She had barely finished asking the question when Hua Niang chuckled twice. Before she could speak, she heard, "Mother, they're lying. They just ate the steamed buns and pancakes that Sister-in-law brought over not long ago, so they definitely aren't hungry right now."
She had never experienced a lie before, only to be exposed the very next second.
Honglin, who was about to go back to get her beauty sleep, also noticed something was wrong this time, and then frowned as she looked at Lin Cai.
"We've come to find you. Someone sent us to find you. Once we find you, we can go back. Do you understand now?"
She had seen a portrait of this person and had memorized his face, so she recognized him the moment she saw him.
Honglin told Lin Cai everything, and Lin Cai looked at her with some surprise: "Why are you telling me all this?"
"Because we can't do anything about you!"
"We're responsible for finding you; the rest is none of our business. But judging from Hua Niang's attitude towards you just now, I can tell what's going on!"
Lin Cai wanted to know what she had figured out, and then she heard, "This woman surnamed Hua is afraid of you."
"She's fearless, she even dares to fight with men, and she's actually afraid of you!"
"I don't know what happened between you two before, but I hope you won't cause her any trouble now, after all..."
Honglin didn't finish her sentence because the flower maid next to her kept nudging her.
She stopped, turned around, and glared at the flower maid: "You don't dare to say it yourself, but you won't let me say it?"
"If you really want to do what they say, then tell me why you shook off the people on the road and went through all this trouble to get here, making yourself and us all look so disheveled?"
As Honglin finished speaking, she pulled her sleeve back: "Don't think I don't know what you're up to. You just want to protect this girl, don't you?"
She had already noticed something was wrong in the first two days after she left, but she didn't ask because she was in a hurry.
After finally shaking off everyone behind them, they had to find each other again to avoid being discovered.
The four of them lived like beggars throughout their journey.
Everyone in the entire Yichun Garden knows that their boss, Hua Niang, is the most exquisite person there.
Whether it's food, lodging, or clothing, the flower maid demands exquisiteness in every aspect.
It doesn't matter how much money is spent, as long as it's exquisite enough, the flower girl can accept it, after all, she has plenty of money, doesn't she?
Yet this person, who clearly carried silver notes, still lived such a wretched life, with not a trace of refinement about him after a few days.
"Now that we've arrived and found her, wouldn't it be better to tell her the whole story and let her make her own decision?"
Hua Niang didn't speak, but her eyes were on Lin Cai. Lin Cai knew who was looking for her, but she didn't expect that person to be so persistent.
"Besides taking me back, did he have any other purpose in sending you to find me?"
"There's still food..."
Honglin said that the rice shops in Longxing County had also been looted, and the entire county was now experiencing a food shortage.
The person gave the four of them a clue, and that clue pointed to Longxing Town.
Hearing this, Lin Cai found it a bit funny. How could the grain lost in Longxing County possibly be here?
If he really does appear here, how can he be sure he'll be in Longxing Town?
Lin Cai thought it was unlikely, but then she thought of something else: the bag of rice that Gu Zhan had carried back.
If everything was looted, where did his bag of rice come from?
Honglin revealed everything. Lin Cai knew that the four women had spent the night in the wild, and she took pity on them because they were dressed in rags and had been hungry all night.
She brought the people back, but before doing so, she sternly warned them that they must not reveal their identities.