bookrandom Chapter 58: Learning the Cause of the Original Owner's Death
Chapter 58: Learning the Cause of the Original Owner's Death
Before going to sleep, Meng Fuqing used vines to move the things in the villa to the front yard. The villa had more than a dozen rooms. She first tidied up the hall, kitchen and two of the rooms. The huge yard only took up a small part of the open space.
Materials are categorized and stored for easy retrieval later.
After bustling around for a while, Meng Fuqing entered the villa's hall. The hall was decorated in an antique style, magnificent and opulent. Even though it had been temporarily used as a warehouse, it seemed to have no effect, remaining spotless.
She looked up at the dazzling chandelier overhead, lost in thought. Was the interior design really this complete? Could a villa like this even have electricity?
She looked around and found the switch on the wall. She went over and pressed the switch, and the room, which had been somewhat dim, instantly became bright.
Meng Fuqing: ...
The upgraded spatial devices are quite complete. Since there's something called space now, she's no longer curious about where the electricity comes from.
Just as she was about to head to the kitchen and bedroom, she heard what sounded like strange noises coming from outside.
As she emerged from the space, she opened the window and looked out. There was no moon tonight, and the courtyard was pitch black.
Just as he was about to activate his supernatural power to move the vines, a dark figure appeared in front of the window.
Before Meng Fuqing could unleash his killing move, the dark figure whispered, "Meng Fuqing, it's me."
Xie Jin?
Xie Jin, dressed in black, almost blended into the night outside the window. Meng Fuqing withdrew the dagger that had been drawn from its sheath and whispered, "Let's talk outside."
She put on the winter clothes that Shan Qiyu had made for her and climbed out the window.
The moment her feet touched the ground, Xie Jin pulled her close around the waist and whispered, "I apologize for the intrusion."
Before Meng Fuqing could react, he was suddenly lifted into the air.
Meng Fuqing was somewhat bewildered. This world even had internal energy and lightness skills? Even with her overpowered cheat ability, she couldn't fly.
Before long, they stopped in an open space not far from Meng Fuqing's house.
After Meng Fuqing stood still, Xie Jin took a step back, crossed his arms and leaned against a tree, and quickly said, "Meng Linlang came to me today to surrender. She told me some things she knew and wanted me to protect her family when war breaks out."
Meng Fuqing was taken aback. How could Meng Linlang so easily tell Xie Jin the secret that she could foresee the future?
She stared at Xie Jin with a strange expression for a while, and a bold guess came to her mind... Could Xie Jin be the male lead? Otherwise, where would Meng Linlang's trust come from?
So that's why she framed her when she saw her talking to Xie Jin? Was it because she was jealous?
Xie Jin felt extremely uncomfortable under her gaze. "You..."
"Did she tell you what your relationship with her is?" Meng Fuqing wanted to find out before deciding whether to continue seeing Xie Jin.
After all, for cannon fodder characters, getting close to the male and female leads is the beginning of their misfortune.
Xie Jin was completely confused. "She has nothing to do with me."
Recalling Meng Linlang's words, Xie Jin's expression turned cold.
The three characters 'Emperor,' 'Madman,' and 'Death' on that piece of paper refer to him—ascending the throne, becoming a tyrannical and insane ruler, and dying in his lifetime.
This is what Meng Linlang foresaw.
Noticing that Meng Fuqing's gaze was still on him, Xie Jin lowered his eyes. "I don't trust her. I used some tricks to get some information out of her. If she doesn't want to depend on me, she only has one choice left—death."
Upon hearing this, Meng Fuqing instantly cleared up her previous assumptions; it was good enough that this person wasn't a villain.
She knew almost everything about her own family, and she didn't want to pry into Xie Jin's privacy, so she asked about the thing she was most concerned about at the moment: "Did she say when the war would break out?"
Xie Jin glanced at her sideways before saying, "Next year, she's not sure right now. She said many things have changed."
Meng Fuqing was not surprised by this answer. She said, "Thank you for informing me in time, young master. I hope that when your men meet up with you, you can have my sister pass on a message to me. Thank you in advance."
Xie Jin was quite surprised, "Don't you want to know what she said?"
"I've pretty much guessed what's going on with my family, so what else is there for me to know?"
"The cause of your death." Xie Jin's gaze was complex.
A moment later, Meng Fuqing realized that it was the original owner's cause of death.
Tell me about it.
"She said that you became mentally impaired after injuring the back of your head. The Lin family was unwilling to take you as a concubine, so your father sold you to Li Si of the Li family. You died before the war started, and you should have died at the hands of Li Si."
Xie Jin felt very complicated when he said these things, always feeling that the Meng Fuqing that Meng Linlang spoke of was a completely different person from the Meng Fuqing he knew.
The Meng Fuqing he knew seemed to never allow himself to get into that kind of situation.
Meng Fuqing lowered her eyelashes and gave a curt "Oh" without any emotion. "Thank you for letting me know. Is there anything else?"
Xie Jin didn't expect her reaction to be so calm. He paused for a moment and then said, "And what if the city falls? What will your destination be?"
Meng Fuqing was taken aback: "You've stayed in Mengjia Village for so long, wasn't it to hide among the villagers so you could go to a safe place if war breaks out? Wouldn't it have been better to just follow you then? Did I guess wrong?"
Xie Jin and his men are capable of disguise, and following them would be far more beneficial than harmful to her and the villagers of Mengjia Village.
Xie Jin: ...Not bad.
He suddenly felt it was a bit stupid of him to come and tell Meng Fuqing all this in the middle of the night; he could have just informed Meng Ranran.
Seeing that he looked somewhat troubled, Meng Fuqing thought for a moment and then said, "Why don't you tell me? In case it's not on our way, we still have somewhere to go."
Xie Jin didn't want to tell her anymore.
"It's on my way. My men should be able to meet me in the next couple of days. I'll let your sister know when I get the news. Do you need me to take you back?"
"No need, it's just a few steps." As he turned to leave, Meng Fuqing paused and asked, "Do you have any sleeping pills? The kind that make you sleep for two hours. I won't take yours for free, I'll buy them myself."
Xie Jin hesitated for a moment, then finally asked, "Do you need any manpower?"
"No need." Thinking of something, Meng Fuqing looked at him warningly, "Don't order your men to follow me. If I find out, don't blame me for being ruthless."
Xie Jin: ...
He placed a packet of medicine in Meng Fuqing's palm, then turned and walked into the night.
Seeing his generosity, Meng Fuqing accepted the gift without hesitation. When she looked up, she saw Xie Jin disappear into the night in the blink of an eye, and she couldn't help but feel a little envious.
I wonder if she's still old enough to learn kung fu.
Meanwhile, Meng Linlang tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep.
Having failed to obtain the Spirit Spring Space, and with her parents no longer believing in her, she truly didn't know what to do in the face of the impending war and locust plague.
After much thought, she thought of Xie Jin.
She believed that everything she foresaw was priceless, more valuable than Meng Fuqing, and thus wanted to use it as leverage to seek protection from Xie Jin.
In her dream, Xie Jin was an enemy of her and her husband. If she could stay by Xie Jin's side, she could gather information and prepare to bring him down in the future.
Who knew she was so careless, and even more so, she didn't expect Xie Jin to use such dirty methods. He directly drugged her and managed to extract some information from her. When she woke up, Xie Jin had already left, leaving only his subordinates.
The scarred henchman coldly told her, "Behave yourself, and you and your family will live."
Although she had achieved her goal, she felt inexplicably terrified, sensing a threat in those words.
Meng Linlang felt that all the decisions she had made, after personally verifying them, deviated from her expectations, but she didn't know how to correct them.
She had only one thought that she was absolutely certain of—she would not provoke Meng Fuqing again before she met her husband.