Chapter 30...
Chapter Thirty
What should you do if a stranger appears in your home?
Of course, we can't just let it go like that. If we can do it ourselves, we should do it; if we can't, we should call the police and let someone who can do it take over.
But at this critical moment, the two women in trouble were frail and weak, so they couldn't do it that way. Especially for Hua Fangling and Yao Anhui, who were particularly afraid of their lives, their first reaction was to stay far away.
Hua Fangling and Yao Anhui took off running without hesitation.
"Huihui, where are you going?" She had just turned around, lifted her leg, and hadn't even had time to run when she bumped into a military wife.
At this moment, Yao Anhui and Hua Fangling were like frightened birds. When their path was blocked, they immediately took several steps back. Regardless of whether this person intended to appear or not, they did not intend to let anyone get close.
After taking several steps back, Yao Anhui finally had the mind to observe the person who had come, and discovered that it was Guan Xier, who was also a military wife, but she did not usually interact with Hua Fangling and Yao Anhui.
Almost instantly, Yao Anhui and Hua Fangling both noticed something was off about this person.
Yao Anhui's first reaction was that this person's attitude was wrong, because she was not very familiar with Guan Xier. They would nod and greet each other when they met, but they were not at the point where they could call each other by their nicknames. Secondly, this person had a faint, almost imperceptible osmanthus fragrance.
The first two points were enough to make Yao Anhui wary of her, but the third point, which is also the most important, is that because of her childhood experiences, Yao Anhui is very sensitive to people's emotions. She did not see any closeness in the other person's calm and unwavering eyes.
Unlike Yao Anhui, Hua Fangling grew up in a peaceful era and was not very sensitive to people's emotions. However, Hua Fangling was a girl who loved beauty. She was good at makeup and had excellent skills. She was also an author with a very creative mind.
Hua Fangling wasn't familiar with Guan Xier; they were just nodding acquaintances. But at first glance, she felt that Guan Xier's facial expression was very stiff when she spoke, as if her face had been slapped too many times by high technology and couldn't move.
Hua Fangling wasn't against scientific beauty treatments, but as an author with a very imaginative mind, after the spy incident and the stranger entering her home that Yao Anhui had just mentioned, the coincidence of Guan Xier's appearance and her stiff face made it impossible for her not to think of disguise.
It's worth noting that Hua Fangling follows several makeup artists on social media, who can completely transform a person's appearance with just makeup. She also has a special effects makeup artist who makes it hard to tell the difference between the real and fake.
In conclusion, both Yao Anhui and Hua Fangling immediately began to pay attention to other details about each other.
This observation revealed a significant difference. Yao Anhui immediately noticed that the other person's hands had large, rough knuckles, indicating that they were hands that were used to manual labor, completely different from Yao Anhui's soft, fair hands.
However, Guan Xier came from a good family. She was a city girl, pampered by her father and brothers. The man she married treated her well and was known in the family compound for doting on his wife. Yao Anhui had a strong impression of her slender, fair hands.
Hua Fangling's focus was different from Yao Anhui's; she was looking at the other person's hair. Guan Xier was definitely the envy of all bald girls. As a former bald girl herself, Hua Fangling's only impression of Guan Xier was her long, shiny black hair, so thick that it could rival the hair of two Hua Fanglings.
The person in front of her also had a lot of hair, but the texture was different; it was frizzy and rough, and Hua Fangling definitely didn't like it.
Despite all the inner monologues Yao Anhui and Hua Fangling had, it all actually took only three or four seconds to complete.
"Huihui, sister-in-law, what's wrong with you? Why are you looking at me like I'm a ghost?" This person was unaware that he had been exposed and was still trying his best to imitate Guan Xier's voice.
Hua Fangling and Yao Anhui exchanged a glance and then looked at each other: "It's nothing, we were just scared by you. Why do you walk so quietly? You scared us to death."
"Exactly, people can scare each other to death. My heart almost stopped."
"I'm sorry, Huihui, I didn't mean it. How about I treat you to a meal as an apology?" said the fake Guan Xier.
"Then let's forget it, we have things to do." Everyone knows she has problems, and even someone with a screw loose wouldn't dare eat her food.
"Yes, yes, we have something to do, so we'll be going now." Hua Fangling said, then grabbed Yao Anhui and ran off, not caring what the fake Guan Xier's reaction was.
"Hey? Huihui, where are you going? Wait for me, I'm coming too." The fake Guan Xier chased after her for a few steps, but Yao Anhui and the other girl ran even faster.
Fortunately, after chasing for a short distance, the fake Guan Xi'er stopped catching up for some reason.
"What do we do now? Shall we go back to the health center?"
"Let's go find Lu Yuanqing and the others. We need to tell them about this as soon as possible. Who knows what this fake Guan Xier's purpose is? The family compound is full of women and children. What if something happens?"
"Huh..." Yao Anhui suddenly sniffed hard: "What's that smell?"
Looking around, I realized they had run to the vicinity of the bathhouse. There was a public toilet not far from the bathhouse, and the smell was truly indescribable.
"It stinks! Someone must have eaten too much and got an upset stomach." Hua Fangling pinched her nose. "I can't stand it, let's go."
"No, besides the stench, there's also a metallic smell." Yao Anhui sniffed hard, then turned her gaze towards the bathhouse: "Is anyone there at this hour?"
"I don't know... You mean there's a rusty smell in the bathhouse? Could someone have fallen and bled in there?" Hua Fangling certainly knew what a rusty smell was.
"Shall we go in and take a look?" Yao Anhui asked.
"What if there's danger?" The fake Guan Xi'er is still in the family compound; they just arrested a few spies yesterday.
Hua Fangling hesitated for only two seconds before saying to herself without giving Yao Anhui a chance to answer, "What if it's a human life? Forget it, let's go in and take a look. They say saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. I'll definitely be reborn into a better family in my next life."
As Hua Fangling muttered to herself, she pulled two spray bottles out of her overalls and gave one to Yao Anhui: "Take this, let's go in and take a look together. If there's any danger, spray it out."
The two of them were incredibly audacious, daring to go into the bathhouse to check the situation even in this predicament. Hua Fangling even remarked on how farsighted she was in making those work pants.
Even Yao Anhui took a few more glances at it. It was great that these clothes and pants had many pockets, which meant they could hold more things. She even thought about making a few pairs of pants like these when she got back.
The bathhouse was quiet and empty, but the closer they got, the stronger the smell of rust became, and Yao Anhui and Hua Fangling's expressions grew increasingly serious: Could something really have happened?
The bathhouse was eerily quiet; something had indeed gone wrong.
The family compound's bathhouse was quite nice, with two pools, one large and one small. When Yao Anhui came in, she saw a person lying on the ground in the small pool, with a pool of blood on the floor, and the smell of rust was coming from there.
"Is she still alive?" Hua Fangling's legs trembled. It wasn't that she was weak; she was afraid of blood, and it was already quite remarkable that she managed to stay upright.
"I'll go take a look." Yao Anhui was also quite scared. She wasn't afraid of blood or death, but she was afraid of people dying in front of her.
Yao Anhui walked over shakily and found Guan Xier lying unconscious on the ground, blood everywhere, but she couldn't see where the wound was. She trembled as she checked her breathing and finally breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that she was still breathing.
"Thank goodness, I'm still breathing. I was so scared." Yao Anhui patted her chest; she had just been holding her breath, and now her chest was a little sore.
"What do we do now?" he asked Hua Fangling, turning to her.
“We definitely can’t move her in this situation. We don’t know how to do this, and moving her could easily cause further injury. Let’s quickly notify the doctor to come and save her.” Hua Fangling had this much common sense.
Yao Anhui stated that she would absolutely not cause any trouble.
"Let's go, let's hurry and ask the soldiers on guard for help." With their small arms and legs, they can't outrun others, let alone fight them. It's better not to cause trouble.
However, in order not to alert the enemy, just like a few days ago, we need to secretly find someone to help us, just in case that fake Guan Xi'er becomes desperate and hurts the women and children in the family compound.
However, they were quite lucky this time. Before they even reached the soldiers on guard at the entrance of the family compound, they ran into Lu Yuanqing and Shen Wenkang, who had come together, not far after they came out of the bathhouse.
Upon seeing their husbands, Yao Anhui and Hua Fangling were on the verge of tears. What kind of constitution did they have? They had just apprehended a spy the day before yesterday, and before they even entered their own home today, they had encountered a murderer.
"Brother Qing." Yao Anhui's voice trembled slightly, making Hua Fangling's heart flutter. This beautiful woman had this side to her. Just now, she was calling Lu Yuanqing by his full name in front of her, but why was she calling him Brother Qing in such a sweet voice in front of Lu Yuanqing?
Yao Anhui's complexion was truly appalling; her pale face, red-rimmed eyes, and even her voice sounded unusually weak, clearly indicating that she had suffered a grievance.
"Huihui? What's wrong? What happened?" Lu Yuanqing worriedly took Yao Anhui's hand, only to find it ice-cold. Even when she feigned poisoning and fainted two days ago while arresting a spy, Yao Anhui's hands weren't this cold. Lu Yuanqing was extremely anxious: "What happened? Why are your hands so cold?"
Shen Wenkang was also frightened. He knew his wife well. Hua Fangling was never a coward. She had been able to calmly come up with a solution even when faced with dangerous situations like encountering spies. But now, her face was pale and her legs were trembling as she walked.
Shen Wenkang's face was even paler than Hua Fangling's at that moment: "Lingling, are you injured?" Shen Wenkang practically flew over to her.
"Wow... Wen Kang, there's so much blood! Guan Xi'er is dying inside." Hua Fangling is genuinely squeamish about blood. She was terrified by a car accident scene when she was very young, and she would faint whenever she saw a large amount of blood. She was just putting on a brave face in front of Yao Anhui, but even in her broken state, Hua Fangling still remembered the fake Guan Xi'er, so she spoke very softly.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'll go save her right away." Shen Wenkang is a typical soldier of this era, taking the country, society and people as his own responsibility. Therefore, although he was very worried about Hua Fangling, he still wanted to save her as soon as possible.
"No..." Hua Fangling quickly pulled him aside and explained the situation.
“...That’s how it is…” Hua Fangling explained the situation.
Yao Anhui spoke more, after all, the situation at home was also dangerous. Who knew what was hidden there? In any case, she dared not go home for the time being.
So, Yao Anhui and her companion, who had just returned home from the health center, were sent back to the health center. Lu Yuanqing and Shen Wenkang, who had just finished their work, didn't get to go home to rest either, and went back to work.
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