Chapter 728 Meng Pei and Song Xin Meet

Meng Pei's family runs a security escort agency. They were transporting goods to the capital that time and planned to rest in the capital for two days before returning home.

He lived not far away at the time, and in his half-awake state, he heard a commotion, so he got up and followed the flow of people this way.

Then I met Song Xin.

In fact, Meng Pei had met Song Xin before. When he was a teenager, he went out on a cargo escort mission with his uncles for the first time. Back then, he was young and impetuous. When he encountered robbers, he fought with them. After they escaped, he chased after them despite his uncles' advice.

As a result, he got separated from his uncles and lost his way. He had no money on him and when he finally arrived at the city gate of the capital, he couldn't get into the city at all.

Left with no other option, he had to ask someone to help him go into the city to find his uncle and send a message.

He was not only disheveled, but also covered in blood from his fight with the bandits. No ordinary person dared approach him, let alone deliver a message for him. What if this man was a villain? What if he was a traitor, and the message was merely a way to contact his accomplices?

No one was willing to help him. Meng Pei was exhausted and hungry, and he almost fainted while huddled at the foot of the city wall.

Song Xin was on her way back from working at a farm outside the city, urged by her parents, when she saw him looking like he was about to die. He was a boy about her age, and she mustered up her courage to hand him half a steamed bun.

Then, she helped Meng Pei deliver the letter.

What happened back then left a deep impression on Meng Pei. He had thought about finding her to repay her, but Song Xin hadn't left an address, or even told him her name. When she delivered the letter, she only said a few words in a hurry before leaving. The uncle who met her passed away a year later.

From then on, only Meng Pei knew what she looked like.

Therefore, when Meng Pei saw Song Xin again, even though she looked extremely thin and disheveled, he recognized her at a glance.

Clearly, Song Xin no longer remembered Meng Pei.

After escaping from the Liu residence, she was in a panic and only thought about running to places with fewer people.

But she was too tired, and being pregnant, she was so exhausted that she was unsteady on her feet and bumped into Meng Pei.

Seeing that the other person was tall and strong and was a man, Song Xin regained some composure in her panic and tried to escape again with all her might, but Meng Pei grabbed her.

Song Xin struggled, and Meng Pei quickly explained that he was not a bad person and even called out her name.

Song Xin then realized that the other party was the boy from back then. She had nowhere else to turn, and at this critical moment, the man in front of her, whom she had helped once, became her last lifeline.

She begged Meng Pei to take her away so that the Liu family wouldn't find her.

Although Meng Pei didn't know what had happened to her, how could he refuse when the person he had been thinking about for four years was clinging to his arm so helplessly?

Song Xin fainted, and Meng Pei carried her away from the vicinity of the Liu residence.

He had been searching for Song Xin for the past few years, so after his father passed away, he took over the escort agency and intentionally set the destination of his escort missions in the capital.

Therefore, Meng Pei was quite familiar with the capital, and even had a close friend there.

He didn't want to take her back to his lodgings, lest the other镖师 (bodyguards/escorts) from the same镖局 (bodyguard agency) he was traveling with saw her, so he took Song Xin to his friend's house.

That friend lives alone, which is convenient.

When a friend asked about Song Xin's situation, Meng Pei didn't want to say much.

(End of this chapter)