A Good Country Wife-Chapter 644 - 637_1

"Madam, Madam, Haishi has woken up." Since Haishi was an outside male and a servant in the household, Lin Yue, though concerned, could not stay by his side all the time. Furthermore, Doctor Zheng had said he wouldn’t wake up so quickly, so she had no choice but to return to the courtyard first. She instructed people to watch over Haishi and to inform her immediately once he awoke.

"He’s awake, then let’s hurry over and take a look." Haishi was in trouble and Master Xue had been abducted. She still had no news of the other guards who went out with them, so how could Lin Yue be at ease? She had been restless the whole time. In the more than three years since she came here, except for the time when Zhao Erhu was seriously injured while hunting in the mountains and some minor accidents, life had been rather smooth. This was the first time such a major incident had occurred, and it even involved potential loss of life. What was most important was that she still had no idea who the enemy was, even at this moment.

"Haishi, you’re awake; how do you feel about your injuries? Doctor Zheng said you have lost a lot of blood but didn’t suffer any vital injury. As long as you recuperate properly, there shouldn’t be any major problems, so he left earlier. If there’s anything uncomfortable, you must speak up immediately. I will send someone to the city to fetch Doctor Zheng right away." When Lin Yue entered, Haishi had just finished taking his medicine. He had insisted on going to find Lin Yue, but lacking the strength, the little servant taking care of him had said that the madam would come, so Haishi lay still, though in his heart, he truly felt an urgency. Upon seeing Lin Yue, he immediately tried to get up. freewebnσvel.cøm

"Madam, my injuries are not severe, it’s just that I don’t have much strength for the moment, and that’s why I didn’t come to report to you immediately." The first thing Lin Yue did upon arriving was not to inquire about what happened but to show concern for his health. Haishi truly felt comforted, thinking that he was indeed following a good master.

"Lie still and don’t move about. Although the injuries to your body are not life-threatening, they are still deep. Pay extra attention and don’t move around to split the wounds open again. You can talk lying down. Since it has happened, worrying is useless."

"Thank you for your understanding, Madam. I am useless, unable to protect Master Xue, and even several brothers were captured along with him by those men in black. I am ashamed to face you, Madam. I originally wanted to fight those men in black to the death, but then I thought if I also met with an accident, there would be no one left to bring the news. Madam would not know what happened to us, so I decided to fight my way out." Haishi spoke of the events on the road, his face filled with self-reproach and dejection. He had indeed been determined to fight the men in black to the death.

"Who are those men in black? Why did they intercept you, and why did they capture the guards as well?" Lin Yue found the actions of the men in black to be very strange. It was one thing to abduct Master Xue, but it was quite another to capture the guards as well. They should not have done that if they were following common sense.

"I don’t know who those people are, Madam. They were all dressed in black and had their faces covered. They only asked if Master Xue was in the carriage when they came up to us, and didn’t say anything else before they started the attack." Haishi also found the incident to be very odd, and though he had encountered bandits before, these people were clearly different.

"They seemed to have come specifically for us. But there were very few who knew of Master Xue’s itinerary. I don’t know how those men in black found out. They were lying in ambush on the road, and each of them was exceptionally skilled in martial arts. The brothers I took with me are also skilled in martial arts, but they stood no chance in the fight and couldn’t even strike back. Only I could barely manage to fight off a few and break free, but even so, I was seriously injured."

"So it was like that. Did they really not reveal anything about their identity, or did you overlook something? Think carefully, see if you’ve missed anything, and tell me the sequence of events again in detail. Let’s see if I can pick up on something different." Lin Yue’s brow was deeply furrowed, as the situation was more difficult than she had imagined. However, she believed that once something was done, there must be flaws and indications that would be revealed. If it came down to it, she was even willing to go to the scene of the incident to search for clues.

"Yes, Madam," Liu Aniu responded as he immersed himself in the memory, recounting the events down to the precise details without omitting even the tiniest of details he could think of.

The more Lin Yue listened, the deeper her frown became, as she too couldn’t detect any flaws. The only certainty was that the group wearing black were not from Xin’an City. After all, each of these men in black was so skilled and executed their plan proficiently. It seemed more like they were private guards or death warriors nurtured by some aristocratic family or a large clan; there was no household in Xin’an City with such capabilities.

Beyond Xin’an City, the Jiang Family had not offended anyone, and most of their business affairs were in cooperation with the Jiang Family or the Princely Heir of the Marquis of Zhenbei. All the above-board dealings were carried out by the Jiang Family and the Princely Heir of the Marquis of Zhenbei. If there was anyone they could be said to have had conflict with, it would have been Princess An, Prince An of the Fourth, and the old rival of the Jiang Family, the Zhang Family. But because of the conspiracy case, whether it was Prince An of the Fourth, the Princess, or the Zhang Family, they had all been dealt with by the Emperor and shouldn’t be seeking trouble with her. So who could have abducted Master Xue and the others? Could it be that those people were simply targeting them because of business disputes? It was very difficult to be certain just by guessing.

Lin Yue was lost in contemplation when a burst of inspiration struck her mind, "Haishi, you said those men in black asked if Master Xue was in the carriage, which means they spoke, did you hear their accent clearly, can you tell where they are from just by their accent?"

With this reminder from Lin Yue, Haishi, who had initially overlooked this detail, suddenly remembered, "Madam, I’ve remembered now, the leader of the men in black spoke with an accent from the Capital City, I can’t be wrong, it was definitely an accent from the Capital City. Before I came to serve the Zhao Family, my former master was a branch of a family from the Capital City. I have been to the Capital City several times, so I can distinguish that the person had an accent from the Capital City. That means that the people who abducted Master Xue and the brothers are actually from the Capital City. How could this be?"

Haishi was shocked by his own guess; he hadn’t thought of it earlier, but once he speculated, the result was truly unexpected. No matter how he thought about it, he couldn’t imagine why the men in black were dispatched from the Capital City. Having been with the Zhao Family for a considerable length of time, he was quite familiar with the affairs of the Family, which is why he was so surprised, "Madam, our family doesn’t seem to have any entanglements or conflicts with anyone in the Capital City, how can this be!?"

Haishi’s words confirmed Lin Yue’s speculation, which was even worse than no confirmation at all. Lin Yue felt a heavy weight in her heart.