Chapter 191: Confirming Wen Yan's Identity
"My lady asked you to raise your head. Don't you understand?" Wen Ruyue's maid immediately shouted at Wen Yan.
Wen Yan seemed to be frightened, her body trembling, and she whispered: "This servant... this servant was afraid of scaring you, my Lord."
Her voice was hoarse and unpleasant, as if her throat was injured.
"What's scary? My wife has seen everything."
The maid rolled up her sleeves and prepared to grab Wen Yan's hair, trying to use force to force her to raise her head.
Wen Yan was so frightened that her body trembled slightly, and then she raised her head in fear.
A sallow face slowly appeared in front of Wen Ruyue.
"Ah... so ugly!" Wen Ruyue screamed and immediately looked away.
What kind of face was that? It was completely devoid of any color, a sickly yellow.
On her left cheek was a huge burn scar, so twisted and tangled that only half of one of her eyes remained.
"I'm...I'm sorry, ma'am. I...I didn't mean it!"
Wen Yan was so frightened that her body was shaking, and she explained in a panic.
In panic, she was about to kneel down, reaching out to grab Wen Ruyue's clothes: "Madam, please spare my life..."
Her maid immediately stood in front of Wen Ruyue, pushed Wen Yan away, and glared at her angrily: "Bitch, you actually scared my wife!"
She raised her hand and slapped Wen Yan in the face.
Wen Yan's feet were unstable and she pushed him back a few steps. Finally, his left foot tripped over his right foot and he fell to the ground with his butt.
The large bangs that were originally used to cover the scar were thrown aside, exposing the ugly scar to everyone.
"ah……"
"hiss……"
Wen Ruyue's personal maids all screamed in fear, and the guards also gasped in shock.
The escorts, on the other hand, didn't react much. They were constantly on the road and had seen all sorts of tragedies.
It's a miracle that she survived such serious injuries.
Wen Yan was so scared that she huddled up in a ball, her whole body trembling, and she kept muttering, "Mrs. Spare me... Madam, spare me.
I will never dare to do that again, I will never dare to raise my head again!"
Wen Ruyue's personal maid Zhu Qing was also frightened.
With a pale face, she scolded Pearl: "What happened to you?
Looking at your clothes, you don’t seem to be a very poor family. How come you can’t even afford a decent servant?
If it's ugly like this, just sell it directly."
When Wen Yan heard the word "sell", she trembled even more violently.
Pei'er quickly stood in front of Wen Yan and begged, "Madam, please spare her.
She has been serving me since she was a child.
When I was a child, I knocked over a candle and set the room on fire. She risked her own life to save me, but her own face was ruined and she became ill and in poor health.
No good family would want her in her current state, and she would end up in a miserable situation...
It was because of me that she was disfigured, madam, please let her go."
Wen Ruyue was extremely disgusted and wanted to say something else, but she saw Situ Ming on the side gave her a look and shook his head.
Wen Ruyue suppressed her nausea and looked at Wen Yan twice before finally snorting unhappily:
"You can stay if you want, but don't let her scare me with this ugly face again."
"Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am."
Pei'er cried with joy and quickly hugged Wen Yan to comfort her, "Don't be afraid, Ugly Mother. Madam is kind and will not drive you away."
Wen Yan then slowly stopped trembling.
Just then, Situ Ming walked towards them.
Situ Ming smiled amiably and asked Pei'er, "It's you who have been following us since last night, isn't it?"
Pearl's face was childish, with tears in her eyes, and she looked like a frightened and helpless little deer.
She nodded and said, "Yes. In fact, we have been following you since the day before yesterday, but at a distance.
We heard some fighting last night and guessed you were in some trouble, so we immediately came to support you.
Unfortunately, we were still a step late.
When we arrived, the thieves had already fled."
Recalling what happened last night, the color on Pei'er's face faded at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Her petite body was also trembling slightly.
"Then why didn't you come out and identify yourself at that time, but instead hid?" Situ Ming asked casually.
Xian'er said, "We really wanted to show up, but we were afraid you would mistake us for robbers, so we didn't dare.
But we were afraid of encountering robbers again, so we didn't dare to fall too far behind.
Sir, we are really not bad people."
Situ Ming changed the topic and started asking some basic questions, such as where they came from, where they were going, and what they were doing.
Pei'er answered one by one according to what she had memorized in advance.
"Why are you still going to Jinyang Prefecture? Don't you know that the drought in Jinyang Prefecture is very serious?"
Pei'er immediately showed a sad expression and said, "How can I not worry.
But my mother took my brother back to her parents' home in Jinyang Prefecture and never came back.
My father and I were worried, so we had to take the risk and come to look for him."
Pei'er knelt before Situ Ming as she spoke, "Sir, please help us and let us follow your team.
I promise we won't fall behind.
We can also share half of our food and water with you.
I still have money. Just name a price, and I'll pay it off even if I have to sell everything I have."
Situ Ming regained his gentle smile and said, "Leave half of the water, and there's no need to divide the food and money."
"Master, do you mean that you agree to let us follow you?" Pei'er cheered immediately, her eyes shining as she looked at Situ Ming!
"We don't have to worry anymore! You are such a kind person, thank you.
Good people will definitely be rewarded! "
Situ Ming smiled amiably and said, "Count your number of people. If everyone is here, we'll set off."
Pei'er waved to Uncle Lin and the others who came over: "My people are all here, good brother, we can set off now."
Good brother!
The muscles in Situ Ming's cheeks twitched.
What the hell is this name!
The team set off quickly.
Situ Ming personally drove for Wen Ruyue.
However, after a while, he got into Wen Ruyue's carriage.
Situ Ming asked her, "Did you see clearly? Is that ugly woman Wen Yan?"
"No! Be it the voice or the appearance, there is nothing similar at all." Wen Ruyue's eyes dodged.
"Really?" Situ Ming didn't quite believe her.
"Really? Are you still not confident in my ability to do things?"
Situ Ming looked at Wen Ruyue deeply and didn't ask any more questions.
Wen Ruyue let out a sigh of relief.
Somehow, Wen Ruyue was very afraid of Situ Ming's eyes, as if he could torture people to death with his eyes.
Fortunately, he didn't ask again. If he had asked again, I would have told the truth.
In fact, she didn't even see the ugly mother's appearance clearly.
She was frightened at the first glance and didn't have the courage to look a second time.
When I confirmed it a second time, I found out that she was just pretending. In fact, her eyes were blank and she didn't dare to focus on the ugly mother's face at all.
But she didn't dare tell the truth to Situ Ming, for fear that he would eat her alive.
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