Chapter 165 - LongAn: Mysterious Girl (2) (1/2)
Xiu talked to one of the guards to let them stay together for a little while. They did that because the other entourage took too much space and they needed them to share some space for them. They could find some other place to rest, but their horses were already in bad condition and they didn't want to push them any harder.
The guard passed the question to one of the maidservants and she whispered to the woman who wore a with veil and covered her lower face. Yao Ling ȧssumed that the woman was their leader. When the woman gave her agreement, her subordinates efficiently moved and quickly gave way to them.
Yao Ling accidentally met the woman's eyes and she was mesmerized by the beauty of them. The color of her eyes was mystique grey and it was a quite rare color. Yao Ling was startled for a few moments before composing herself, but she couldn't stop staring at the woman's beautiful eyes. The eyes... seemed familiar to her, but she couldn't recall where she had seen them.
Yao Ling snapped out of her thought after a few moments when Yao Ying nudged him and whispered. ”What are you doing? It's impolite to keep staring at the woman!” He reminded her. Yao Ying indeed found the woman beautiful, but why was his wife seemed to be mesmerized by her? He shook his head in defeat. It was hard to decipher a woman's mind.
Yao Ling blushed in embarrassment. She looked at the woman once again and nodded her head while smiling and greeting her. Yao Ling couldn't really see the woman's mouth, but guessing from her big round eyes that turned into a delighted crescent moon shape, it seemed like she was smiling back at her.
After that, they didn't converse with each other. They were practically only strangers who accidentally met. They did their own business --- both parties were eating and resting, but they didn't mix themselves with each other and only talked among themselves. They would continue to stay that way if it wasn't because of the appearance of another group of ȧssassins.
The number of ȧssassins was more than before, but the body posture of the ȧssassins was different from theirs. It seemed like they weren't Shu people. They were bigger, taller, and burlier. It seemed like... they were Han people? Yao Ling never saw them personally, but she read a few books about them and it matched the descriptions.
She furrowed her eyebrows. Why would the Han people come this far? Her eyes landed on the woman in the white veil and felt curious about her identity.
”Not again,” Yao Ling murmured to herself. They didn't even take a glance at them, their eyes were solely on the woman in the white veil. It seemed like the ȧssassins' target wasn't them this time and Yao Ling's guess was right --- they targetted the other party.
One of the ȧssassins talked in a loud voice, ”Gu Niang... if you follow us quietly, there won't be any fight and bloodshed. If you are resisting, then we have no choice but to kill everyone present.” His words were directed at the woman who still sitting leisurely --- undisturbed by the ȧssassins' appearance. Yao Ling quite admired her bravery.
The woman didn't talk, but the maidservant beside her answered on her behalf. ”Our Gu Niang won't be going with you! If you want to take her, it will be over our dead bodies!” The maidservant said in a decisive tone.
Yao Ling squinted her eyes. It seemed like this maidservant wasn't an ordinary one. Under such pressure, she didn't even flinch and calmly talk on behalf of her master. If they compared the maidservant to Xiao Yu, they could see the difference. In the normal household, the maidservants tended to maintain their innocence and their gut wasn't big --- just like Xiao Yu. It seemed like the other Gu Niang's household was a big and complicated one --- probably bigger and messier than Wang Fu.
The ȧssassin seemed to dislike talking to a mere maidservant. ”I'm talking to your master!” He said in an angry voice. ”In what position should I talk to you?”
”In what position... my master should talk to you?” The maidservant retorted back. ”A mere useless ȧssassin?” The maidservant asked mockingly, then added one more thing, ”My master is too majestic to talk to you!” The maidservant talked back to the ȧssassin mercilessly. Hmph! Only a mere ȧssassin but his arrogance made her angry.