Chapter 428 (1/2)

“Why don’t you eat it?”

Lin Mengya , who was the last to sit down after finishing her business, looked at her family members and asked.

“Uh… of course we are waiting for you. Cousin, why don’t you try it first? After all, you’ve worked hard.”

Qiu Yu flattered her with a smile, but refused to get some porridge for himself.

They had seen how Lin Mengya cooked. She had not only put peach blossoms in it, but also put some dark stuff she got from somewhere in it.

Therefore, perhaps no one dared to enjoy tasting the porridge.

“You have no taste! It’s a reckless waste of grain. Honey, give me a spoon, and I’ll try it first.”

In fact, Lin Mengya was worried about the bitterness of the peach blossoms, so she, who had a sudden inspiration, dug up the preserved fruit Baishao brought for her from the carriage.

Honey apricots and white sugar red bayberries must made porridge sweet and sour.

Baishao stared at her Master with concern, for fear that her Master would have a food poisoning.

As the lid was lifted, the pink-white almond blossoms fit the white porridge well.

Unfortunately, the dark preserved fruit without any treatment looked quite scary.

Lin Mengya filled a large bowl and ate with appetite.

“Look, I’m still alive. It’s not poison. You’re too suspicious.”

Giving those ignorant people a hard look, Lin Mengya continued gobbling down the sweet and sour apricot porridge.

“We should have a try.”

After making sure that the porridge was really edible, Qiu Yu cheerfully told everyone to have a try.

Despite the poor appearance of the porridge made by Lin Mengya, Long Tianyu almost handed his bowl to her without thinking.

“Good, my elder brother does have a vision.”

Lin Mengya smiled and filled Long Tianyu’s bowl with porridge. However, just as she intended to pass it, her hand collided with another hand.

“Ouch!”

The miserable scream attracted everyone’s attention.

The hot white porridge sprinkled on a slender hand, but most of it was poured onto the ground.

Lin Mengya looked at the bowl with regret, because it contained the biggest preserved fruit she picked for Long Tianyu. But now, it was wasted.

“Sorry, I’m really sorry. I… I didn’t see you…”

She talked in this panic-stricken tone again. Looking at Sumei’s panic-stricken face, Lin Mengya seemed to feel that she had gone too far and scared her.

“It’s okay. Have you been burned?”

Sumei shook her head desperately, but there were tears in her watery eyes.

Hongyu was concerned about her sister anyway. She immediately took her sister’s hand and wiped it carefully. Watching Hongyu showing great concern for her, Sumei did her utmost to restrain herself.

Lin Mengya felt apologetic. So she quietly ordered Baishao to take out the medicine for scald she brought.

“Obviously she was blind. Besides, this porridge is not that hot. She’s so fragile.”

Xiu had disliked Sumei since she got on the carriage.

Others concentrated on eating and did not see it, but she saw it clearly.

It was not an accident. Sumei deliberately reached out and collided with Lin Mengya’s bowl.

She didn’t know why Sumei did that to Sister Yuan and found her disagreeable to the eye.

“Can you stop it? Xiu, I don’t know what my sister has done to you. Since you got in the carriage, you have talked harshly to her. Now obviously my sister has got scalded. Why bother making such sarcastic remarks again? If she has dissatisfied you, I apologize to you on behalf of her. Can you be a little kind to my sister in future?”

Hongyu finally failed to hold back her anger and said to Xiu impolitely.

She considered Sumei a timid and obedient girl. Even if Sumei did not accept her as her sister, it was because of her.

However, Xiu kept making sarcastic remarks against her sister. She had said nothing about it before, because she didn’t want to trouble others.

But now, Xiu had gone too far!

“I consider myself polite enough. Hongyu, you are blind, but I am not.”

Xiu did not give in. She looked down on Sumei who pretended to be pitiful.

The two of them were about to quarrel. In desperation, Lin Mengya had to drag Xiu aside and managed to let everyone finish this meal.

“Why are you hostile to Sumei ? I consider her just an ordinary girl. What has she done to you?”

Lin Mengya lightly touched Xiu’s forehead with her finger and said reproachfully.

It was no wonder Hongyu lost her temper. Since they got out of Square Town, Xiu had kept making sarcastic remarks against Sumei and giving her a cold shoulder in the carriage.

Xiu glared at Sumei coldly in anger before whispering.

“She’s not a good person as you imagined. When we were caught together, I had a chance to run away. However, she reported it to those kidnappers. Moreover, I got plenty of poisons when I was just caught. I thought she was a good person, so I told her about it secretly. Unexpectedly, she told those kidnappers about it, so I was unable to find a way out.”

Before learning the causes and consequences, Lin Mengya did not expect that Sumei, who looked pitiful and innocent, turned out to be such a person.