Chapter 408 Discovery
Just as she was about to continue, there was a sudden movement at the entrance of the cellar.
The next moment, Huang Xinran quickly stood up and quietly walked to a corner she had seen before and hid there.
Sure enough, not long after, Boss Ji was seen walking into the cellar.
Of course, Huang Xinran didn’t actually know who the person was, but the dark shadow with its back to her soon appeared in her sight.
Boss Ji walked into the cellar with an oil lamp and soon went to the fork where grain was stored, where he started busying around.
Huang Xinran held his breath from the very beginning, and even forced his spiritual power to seal all the pores on his body in order to reduce the risk of being exposed.
Speaking of this, I have to digress.
Many people think that if they want to hide from someone in a place like a cellar, they just need to hide themselves. But in actual operation, it is a fact that will be exposed every minute. Everyone has body odor, but the difference is that everyone's body odor is different and the degree of emission is different.
Especially in such a closed environment, any negligence would lead to being discovered and then losing one's life.
Does Huang Xinran have body odor?
She herself didn't actually know what her body odor was like, but what was certain was that in such a closed environment like the cellar, any old man would notice something was wrong.
For example, now, Boss Ji, who had already taken the food, was planning to leave, but suddenly, his nose moved, as if he smelled a faint fragrance in the air, and he stopped.
He frowned, held up the oil lamp and slowly walked towards the back of the cellar, taking every step carefully.
Every time he came to a fork in the road, he would stop and check it carefully. When he came to the fork in the road where furs were stored, he even turned over all the furs.
Finding nothing unusual, he slowly walked back with the oil lamp.
Every step I took was taken with extreme caution.
Huang Xinran watched him slowly approaching her step by step, feeling even more flustered, as if her heart was hanging in the air.
As the distance between the two of them shortens, I believe that soon, Boss Ji will discover her whereabouts. By then...
Just at this moment, faint voices were heard from outside.
Boss Ji seemed startled, he stopped and listened for a moment.
Huang Xinran also took advantage of this rare opportunity to mobilize the spiritual power that enveloped her body. Her entire figure slowly transformed in the air, becoming almost exactly the same color as the stone wall behind her.
This method is comparable to that of a chameleon.
Huang Xinran also came up with this idea in a hurry. He didn't know if he could fool the other party.
Of course, she was also prepared. Once discovered by the other party, she would naturally strike first.
With only Boss Ji around, she was still confident that she could defeat the opponent.
She was afraid that San Ya outside would find out and join her other brothers to deal with her, which would definitely expose her. She was not sure she could deal with so many people at once.
The people outside the cellar seemed to be talking.
After listening for a while, Boss Ji focused his attention on the cellar again. He took the oil lamp and quickly checked the remaining two forks, but he found nothing.
I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Well, I am so suspicious..."
Boss Ji laughed and shook his head. He raised the oil lamp and was about to leave when suddenly he stopped.
Following the other person's gaze, Huang Xinran's expression suddenly changed.
At her feet, there was a half-eaten cake. The cake was a dry noodle and mixed grain cake. San Ya forced it into her hand when she came in because she was afraid she was hungry. She only ate half of it and saved the other half for the evening. Unexpectedly, it rolled out while she was moving just now, and it happened to fall at the feet of Ji Lao Da, and was discovered by him.
Boss Ji bent down and picked it up, looked at your piece of dry bread, and suddenly laughed softly.
"That little girl, no wonder she's so nervous."
Boss Ji seemed to have found the answer he thought was right. He relaxed completely, picked up the oil lamp, turned around and strode away.
The footsteps faded away quickly, and soon there was a muffled sound from the cellar entrance. It was the sound of a stone slab being put down.
He left and he was safe.
Huang Xinran relaxed and simply integrated himself into the surrounding environment. In such a short period of time, the little spiritual power that he had accumulated with great difficulty was consumed again.
It seems that I really can't be lazy!
She no longer cared about anything else and sat down cross-legged again to continue meditating.
On the other side, as Boss Ji put down the slate, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.
When he turned around, he saw San Ya staring at him nervously. He couldn't help but think, and handed the food he brought out to her: "Take it! Remember to make it thicker, don't let people think that I, the Ji family, am stingy."
"Got it, big brother."
San Ya quickly agreed and went to deal with it.
Boss Ji stared at the cellar entrance under the stone slab, without stopping, he left quickly.
After her eldest brother left, San Ya collapsed with a cold sweat all over her back. She was almost scared to death just for a moment.
It’s no wonder that she is so timid and afraid. It’s really...her brothers are not the kind of people who care about brotherly love.
The reason why she was called San Ya was because she had two older sisters and three younger sisters. Unfortunately, they are all dead now.
She will never forget the scene when she was a child and saw through the dense jungle that her second brother was "bullying" her second sister.
This village is a cursed village. There are more men than women in the village. Even though there are still many women in the big house, in fact, most of those women were captured from outside.
When she was very young, she didn't know the difference. The reason why she knew it was because of that woman. That woman treated herself as a daughter and the second sister as a maid. She even treated the second sister as good sisters because they were close in age.
It was that time that my second sister's crying not only attracted me, but also attracted that woman.
Seeing the second sister's ferocity, the woman rushed forward like a madman, and beat the second brother desperately, and even cursed the second brother and called him a beast.
But how can she be a match for her second brother?
Soon, she was slapped in the face by her second brother and passed out.
Soon afterwards, the woman was sent away by her brothers, and she never saw him again.
As for the second sister, the one who loved to laugh, make cookies and tease her, fell ill overnight.
It's more like being stupid than being sick.
Apart from giggling, all she did was eat.
San Ya didn't mind her second sister becoming stupid. She would always secretly hide food and then secretly give it to her second sister.
But she never expected that just a little thing like a nest of eggs would actually cause her second sister to lose her life! The eldest brother found out that the second sister was cheating and actually killed her with his own hands!
That was when she changed.