Chapter 590 - The Maids Good-for-nothing Relatives (1/2)

It was a Buddha hall, the closest to her courtyard, where Shao Yanru asked Qiu Yu to meet. There were two lights hanging at the door of the medium-sized Buddha hall. In the dark night, the two lights looked inconspicuous.

When Yujie helped Shao Wanru to walk past here, Shao Wanru couldn’t continue walking. She reached out to press her foot and looked at the Buddha Hall with some hesitation.

“Miss, let’s go inside for a rest. It’s inconvenient for you to continue walking with your foot injury!” Yujie reached out to support Shao Wanru and said. Although Shao Wanru, who leaned most of her body on Yujie, staggered slightly, no one would discover them in the dark if the one didn’t notice them.

Moreover, there was no one else around.

“It’s so dark inside, and we didn’t bring a light!” Shao Wanru looked at the half-closed door and said.

“Miss, it’s okay to sit inside since we just want to have a rest without doing anything else. If you are afraid, I can tell you a few stories. After you refresh yourself, we will leave!” Yujie supported Shao Wanru and advised.

Moving her foot in a pigeon-toed pose, Shao Wanru could only say after thinking for a while, “Well, let’s sit for a while!”

“Yes, let’s sit for a while. Rest assured, Miss!” Yujie said and helped Shao Wanru into the dark hall. They disappeared in the dark.

A man in black flashed past. Glancing at the hall, he sneaked into the hall nimbly through the door without making any sound.

How could they, two girls spending most of their time in the inner courtyard, notice him? As the man in black thought, he leaned over the cross beam of the hall and looked down. However, he did not notice that another dark figure as light as smoke followed him into the hall and hid on another cross beam.

It was very dark in the hall. Shao Wanru didn’t feel like continuing going forward after taking a few steps with Yujie’s help.

Yujie helplessly helped Shao Wanru to sit down on a stool, which they found behind the gauze curtain. She could hear Shao Wanru’s heavy breathing in the darkness.

Yujie didn’t know it was caused by fear or the pain in Shao Wanru’s foot.

There were layers of gauze curtains hanging in the front of the hall, but there was still space in the corner of the hall. After helping Shao Wanru sit down, Yujie sat casually on an edge of the gauze curtain she pulled over.

She grew up in a temple, so she felt at ease here.

After sitting down, she said with a smile, “Miss, what kind of story do you like?”

“Whatever delightful!” With her breathing becoming steady at the moment, Shao Wanru said softly after thinking for a while.

“Well, let me see. Oh, I got one. Would you like the story of a top scholar and his wife?” Yujie asked with a smile in a voice, which was particularly crisp in the darkness.

“Okay. Tell me!” Shao Wanru said in a voice, which sounded soft and light in the hall.

“Well, I’ll begin now. Listen carefully…” Yujie also said in a low voice. With only the two of them in the hall, it was quiet with no echo, which made the atmosphere more terrifying in the dark.

Yujie talked slowly in a low voice. Probably because she had to recall something, she stopped and thought for a long while from time to time. During this period, neither of them talked. Fortunately, Shao Wanru listened very carefully and didn’t interrupt Yujie even when Yujie stopped talked.

In fact, the story was boring and seemed to be made up of bits and pieces. What was more, Yujie couldn’t make it up at once, so she had to think about it carefully. It was just a story, which could only deceive some ignorant Misses.

Both of the two men in black on the cross beam didn’t take it seriously.

Suddenly, there came some footsteps from outside the hall, which immediately broke the silence here. The person walked hurriedly and was obviously coming here. The maid stopped talking immediately. The two of them seemed to be a little flustered. The maid stood up and came up to her master.

With no light in the night at the moment, it was reasonable for the two girls to panic.

The door of the hall had not been closed since they came in. At the moment, as it was pushed further, a man strode in and walked straight ahead.

Walking to the Buddha statue in the midst of the hall, he took out a combustible paper roll to enable him to see what was in front and light up a small Buddha lamp.

A place in front of the Buddha statue was lit up at once.

The man in black looked at the man below cautiously. At this moment, the man below had his back to him, so it was hard to tell who the man below was for the time being.

The man below did not look back and just looked at the Buddha statue in front of him quietly with his hands clasped behind his back without moving.

The man below didn’t come to meet the Fifth Miss Shao? The man in black looked at Shao Wanru and Yujie, who hid behind the gauze curtain in the corner. A beam of dim light enables him to vaguely see Shao Wanru and Yujie holding each other nervously. Shao Wanru didn’t act like a Miss coming to meet a man in secret. The man in black was confused!