CHAPTER 359: CHAPTER 334: TOUGH NUTS

Yu Xiaolian sat cross-legged on the bed, resting her chin and spacing out for a while.

She thought that even if she loved a man very much, that love would never exceed the love for her biological parents. Maybe it’s because she had worked as a forensic doctor for several years, seen too much life and death, the warmth and coldness of human nature, or maybe she is just that kind of person.

She indeed had a liking and fondness for Su Jingchen, but such feelings were actually reserved, and she had always kept a clear-minded caution against Su Jingchen.

She roughly understood the reason for Su Jingchen’s anger, but asking her to devote herself wholeheartedly to a man or completely trust a man was impossible for her; she had always most trusted herself.

Even when she agreed to the marriage with Su Jingchen, Yu Xiaolian held a mindset of observation and assessment.

She remembered her former colleagues saying she lived too sensibly and might have been married off if occasionally acting on a romantic impulse, but she couldn’t just decide to be impulsive in love. Facing men, she always had unexpected rationality. She had actually tried her best to act in front of Su Jingchen, but still ended up angering him.

Yu Xiaolian thought about it for a long time and decided not to comfort Su Jingchen. After all, she is a girl and hasn’t thrown a tantrum, yet he, a man, got angry.

If she asked Su Jingchen who he would save if she and Su Dafu fell into the river?

Surely...

No way, Su Jingchen doesn’t have a good relationship with his dad, so he might really forsake his dad to save her.

What if she and Su Jingyue fall into the river together, whom would Su Jingchen save?

No need to think, Su Jingchen would definitely save his precious brother.

Everyone has someone more important in their hearts, why ask such troubling questions? Asking her to choose between returning to her parents and staying with him, it only shows the narrow-mindedness of Su Jingchen’s question, huh!

This so-called Great Liang’s number one strategist, I think is more like number one drama queen.

Yu Xiaolian pulled the quilt over herself, ready to lie down when suddenly a fragrance invaded her nose. She took a fierce whiff. What’s this scent?

Darn it, Yu Xiaolian quickly covered her mouth and nose, this might be Seductive Fragrance.

As soon as the fragrance dispersed, the door latch was pried away with a knife from the outside. Yu Xiaolian hid in the bed curtain, holding a large watermelon knife.

Dang it, this was actually a shady inn.

She had stayed in this inn more than once before without noticing any problem. She even thought the shopkeeper and the staff were quite simple-minded.

Yu Xiaolian held the watermelon knife high over her head; she planned to slice whoever entered first and talk later.

If she couldn’t slice, she would then hide inside her secret space.

No, she could hide inside the space, what about Su Jingchen?

Oh dear, she possessed the Longevity Gu, impervious to poisons, while Su Jingchen might already be fainting from the fragrance, at others’ mercy.

Yu Xiaolian couldn’t care about anything else, she shouted loudly, "Su Jingchen, Su Jingchen..."

It’s over, no one responded to her call.

Yu Xiaolian’s shout scared the two who were entering the room, they thought the person inside had already fainted but didn’t expect a loud shout, caught off guard, they were too stunned to move.

Neither of them knew martial arts, they had thought that this young lady must have been knocked out by the smoke and dared to enter. Now, this girl didn’t succumb, leaving them a bit flustered.

"Dad, things have come to this, it’s no use not doing it now," said the son looking at his trembling old dad, then rushed toward the bed with a rope.

The innkeeper had actually never done such nasty things before, the reason they targeted Yu Xiaolian was that last year his son accidentally trespassed into the Prince’s Tomb at Mang Mountain and was caught and imprisoned by the government. To spend money to draw his son out, he wasted all the ancestral savings.

Though they had this rundown inn, it didn’t earn much throughout the year. Today, seeing Yu Xiaolian and Su Jingchen so young, traveling alone in a carriage drawn by two horses without any adults by their side, they got crooked thoughts.

Not to mention anything else, just those two horses and that spacious carriage like a small house were worth more than two hundred taels. If they succeeded with this plan, all the previous savings would be returned.

Two youngsters, one a delicate girl, another looked like a gentle scholar, young with no servants, traveling extravagantly. They might have eloped secretly, taking such people was the best choice. If they disappeared quietly, their family would just think the two were hiding and enjoying life together, wouldn’t even report to the authorities.

Besides, they had just seen that scholar walk out with a sullen face, leaving only the girl inside the room, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The bed curtain was abruptly lifted, Yu Xiaolian hadn’t been polite, she swung the knife, cutting one of them unexpectedly.

The arm bled profusely, but before they could wail, the second cut came fiercely.

The father and son screamed in fear and fled.

But just as they ran to the door, they were kicked back inside by the white-clothed little scholar and pinned down.

Seeing Su Jingchen unharmed let Yu Xiaolian breathe a sigh of relief.

Su Jingchen gave the innkeeper father and son a thorough beating, stacking them like a pile and stomped on them, while Yu Xiaolian lit the oil lamp.

By this time, the commotion had already alarmed the family living in the backyard. The innkeeper’s old mother and wife supported each other, trudging through the snow, heading here.

Those living in the adjacent room opened the door, glanced in, and then retreated, shutting the door tightly.

The innkeeper cursed his son, "Even that neighbor isn’t knocked out, what kind of narcotic did you buy, didn’t knock out anyone."

Knowing this, it would have been better to drug the soup noodles; this Seductive Fragrance is useless at all.

The son, just painfully beaten by Su Jingchen, being pressed under the chubby father, felt suffocated, barely squeezing out a sentence, "Weren’t you the one who went next door to blow it, it didn’t work, why blame me?"

The innkeeper was furious, "You blew it, didn’t work either, eh?"

Turns out the inn only had three guests, all detoxification experts, unbelievable, obviously his son’s narcotic was flawed.

"Where did you go?" Yu Xiaolian, first placing the watermelon knife into the space, then questioned Su Jingchen.

Su Jingchen shook a small jug in his left hand, "Suddenly wanted a drink!"

Yu Xiaolian rolled her eyes, "You’re not allowed to drink anymore!"

Su Jingchen returned and saw Yu Xiaolian being bullied by two men, his heart already pained, "Okay, no more!"

Su Jingchen finished speaking, smashing the untouched wine jug on the innkeeper’s head, causing bleeding.

Yu Xiaolian wasn’t satisfied, she rushed forward to mercilessly kick the wicked father and son, "Shady inn, bullying your aunt, huh? Making you bully your aunt, making you bully your aunt..."

"Aunt, we were wrong, wrong...

Will you be generous and spare us?" The old innkeeper felt his spine about to break from the stomping scholar.

He truly understood now the meaning of never judging someone by appearances; these two seemed like golden children but were not as weak and easy to bully. This pretty scholar was a martial artist, this delicate smiling young lady swung a knife without batting an eye.

The innkeeper regretted so much, thinking this pair would be the easiest to rob, only to find out they had chosen the toughest targets.