Chapter 63: Holding Back Laughter Until I Get Abs
After dealing with everyone in the Grand Tutor’s Mansion, Mo Ziyuan was just about to tell everyone to leave when he looked around and found that Lin Xin’s figure was already gone. He quickly asked his subordinates nearby: “Where is that young lady just now?”
“Young lady? What young lady?” The subordinate was stunned, then immediately remembered the little girl who had held the fake Grand Tutor hostage. He also looked around in confusion. “She really is gone. Where is she?”
Mo Ziyuan’s heart sank. He knew Lin Xin had deliberately hidden herself, and it wasn’t suitable to stay any longer at this moment, so he had to take everyone back first.
Listening until the sounds of their movements faded away, Lin Xin in the space finally breathed a sigh of relief. She quickly left following the direction she had come from, arriving at the place where she had knocked Meng Yichen unconscious. Seeing that it was already completely dark, she waved her hand to release the carriage. Meng Yichen was still sleeping on the passenger seat.
Lin Xin opened the driver’s door and got in. After getting in the car, she first got herself a bag of bread and a box of milk to eat. Then she used her supernatural ability to cover her body surface with a layer of water film. She tossed a seed of a magic flower under Meng Yichen’s feet and urged it to bloom into a black flower.
Immediately, a foul stench spread throughout the car. Meng Yichen, lying on the back seat, seemed to sense something. He frowned and shook his head a couple of times, then under the effect of the magic flower, fell into an even deeper sleep.
Lin Xin started the car and drove along the road she remembered coming from. At first, she still harbored the thought of watching the fun, after all, the magic flower could infinitely amplify the deepest desires and fears in a person’s heart. Meng Yichen had been plagued by illness for many years and was always afraid of dying! If she could see him with snot and tears, throwing a tantrum about not wanting to die, that would be fun.
However, the result greatly disappointed Lin Xin. Until she drove to the entrance of Willow Forest Village, Meng Yichen only tossed and turned a few times on the back seat, occasionally muttering a word or two, and otherwise slept obediently. It made Lin Xin suspect if she had taken the wrong seed, so she removed the water film at her nostrils to confirm.
Then, the pungent foul stench nearly made Lin Xin drive the car into the ditch by the roadside.
Seeing that the sky was about to brighten, and after inhaling the scent emitted by the magic flower for almost a whole night, Meng Yichen’s memory should have been erased. Lin Xin opened the car window to let the morning breeze carry away the smell of the magic flower in the car.
Once the smell in the car had mostly dissipated, Lin Xin dragged Meng Yichen out of the car. After casually storing the car back into the space, she entered the woods by the roadside, found two relatively sturdy big trees, positioned Meng Yichen in a sitting pose leaning against the tree, then sat down under another tree herself, resting her head against the tree trunk and closing her eyes.
Having not slept for two days and two nights, she was indeed a bit tired.
While closing her eyes to rest her mind, Lin Xin scorned herself. It had only been a few days since leaving the apocalypse, and her body had already become so delicate? Back in the apocalypse, let alone two days and two nights, there was once when she was surrounded by zombies in a gas station supermarket for a full four days and three nights before those zombies left. During that time, she hadn’t even dared to close her eyes.
While thinking about those things from the apocalypse, she pondered how to deceive Meng Yichen. Although sleepy, Lin Xin still kept part of her mind alert.
When the sky was fully bright, Lin Xin stretched and opened her eyes. Seeing Meng Yichen sleeping quite soundly leaning against the tree, she first found a relatively spacious spot to release Meng Yichen’s horse carriage, then walked over and shook his shoulder. “Mister Meng, Mister Meng, wake up. How did you end up sleeping here?”
Meng Yichen was shaken awake. As soon as he opened his eyes, he felt a bit dizzy, and a faint stench drilled into his nostrils. He instinctively frowned, then heard Lin Xin’s voice: “Mister Meng, Mister Meng, wake up. How did you end up sleeping here?”
He suddenly became fully alert. Any sleepiness, dizziness, or stench was thrown to the back of his mind. He abruptly opened his eyes and realized he was not lying on the soft bed in his bedroom, but leaning against a tree in the woods.
“Mister Meng, Mister Meng,” Lin Xin tried her best to hold back her laughter, putting on an anxious expression as she asked him: “Weren’t you heading back to town? How did you end up here?”
“I……” Meng Yichen opened his mouth and suddenly found he couldn’t remember why he was in this place.
He looked around a bit panicked and asked Lin Xin: “Miss Lin, this, this is where?”
Lin Xin looked at him strangely. “This is the back mountain of Willow Forest Village. Don’t you recognize it anymore!”
“The back mountain of Willow Forest Village. How did I get here?”
“That’s what I want to ask you. Didn’t you already leave the night before last? You weren’t seen all day yesterday, so how did you appear here?”
“Is that so? I…… I seem to not remember.” Meng Yichen shook his head, feeling like he had forgotten something very important, but just couldn’t recall it.
Lin Xin carefully observed his eyes and found that he had indeed forgotten their trip to the Capital City under the influence of the magic flower. She put her mind at ease.
“So, do you want to go back to town or rest at my home for a bit?” Lin Xin asked.
“I…… How about I go to your home? Is that convenient?” Meng Yichen still felt something was off, so he thought of going to Lin Xin’s home to see if he could remember something.
“What’s inconvenient about that? But your horse carriage can’t go in; it has to stay outside the door.” Yan Yue turned back to look at the horse carriage that Meng Yichen had tidied up to be both comfortable and clean, and said.
“I know, no problem. It won’t get lost.”
“Alright then, let’s go!” Lin Xin said, picking up a half-person-high bundle of firewood nearby and carrying it on her back, leading Meng Yichen down the mountain.
“Hey, wait, you can put that firewood on the horse carriage. It’ll save a lot of effort!” Meng Yichen called out to Lin Xin.
Lin Xin shook her head in refusal. “This is a mountain path; the horse carriage isn’t as convenient as walking! Besides, your horse carriage looks like a precious thing; putting firewood on it wouldn’t match.”
In the end, Meng Yichen couldn’t persuade Lin Xin otherwise and drove the horse carriage himself, following Lin Xin back to her home.
After opening the door, Meng Yichen frowned upon finding no one at home. “Miss Lin, where is Nan Nan?”
“I had Old Cui take him back to care for him for a couple of days.”
“Old Cui? Why?”
“I went into the deep mountain. It would be dangerous to take him, and I wouldn’t feel at ease leaving him alone at home!”
Meng Yichen nodded. The logic made sense.
Lin Xin chuckled secretly, then asked him before going into the kitchen: “Mister Meng hasn’t had breakfast yet, right? If you don’t mind, eat something here?”
Meng Yichen hesitated, touched his somewhat flat stomach, and nodded. “This is troubling Miss Lin.”
Lin Xin didn’t say anything, turned and went into the kitchen, washed rice to cook porridge. While Meng Yichen wasn’t paying attention, she took a bag of pickled vegetables from the space and poured it into a dish, then fried four poached eggs. A simple breakfast was ready.
After eating, Lin Xin stacked the firewood she carried back in the shed next to the kitchen. While working, she sneaked glances at Meng Yichen, seeing him frown one moment, bite his lips the next, and occasionally sneak looks around like a thief. It made her hold back laughter until her abs hurt.
