Country Maiden: Fields and Fortune

423, Assassin (1 more)

She suddenly understood why Li Hengyi had developed an aversion to food.

Even though he was hungry, even though he wanted to eat, the sight of food would evoke disgust, and eating would lead to vomiting. Over time, this turned into an eating disorder.

She couldn’t afford to have an eating disorder.

Rourou came out, holding a teacup in her hand.

“Miss, please have some tea!” Her eyes were full of worry and care.

“Thank you!” Xie Zhinuan stood up, took the teacup with both hands, and looked towards the gloomy sky, “It’s getting dark and quite cold outside, go inside!”

Rourou nodded.

When she returned to the dining table, Xie Zhinuan forced herself to drink a bowl of soup.

Then cradled Xie Yi and fed him his meal.

Xie Yi lifted his eyes to look at Xie Zhinuan with concern several times.

The adults thought he didn’t understand and spoke about the assassination attempt on Xie Zhinuan in front of him, thinking he was too young to comprehend, but in fact, he understood it all.

He understood everything.

His mother had nearly been killed by an assassin, but she defended herself and ended up killing that person.

She felt guilty, troubled.

He was worried, but could not express it. He could only hold his mother tightly and obey her words.

Seeing her son so tender-hearted, Xie Zhinuan smiled softly and gently.

For her son’s sake, she had to stay strong, didn’t she?

All she hoped was that such incidents would never happen again.

Injuring someone was one thing, killing someone… she just couldn’t come to terms with it.

If there was no need to make a move in the future, then she shouldn’t.

With that thought,

Desiring nothing else to eat, she went to the kitchen herself, took a clay pot, and began to cook porridge personally.

The two kitchen maids were stunned and wanted to help, but Xie Zhinuan shook her head in refusal, insisting on doing everything herself.

With a spoon, she gently stirred the porridge, and when it was ready, she ladled it into a bowl, brought it to sit under the eaves of the kitchen, stirred it with a spoon, and began to eat, little by little.

It started to snow!

Snowflakes fluttered in, and Xie Zhinuan put down her spoon, reached out to catch a snowflake, and watched it melt in her palm, ending up as a drop of water which she rubbed away lightly, vanishing.

Just like that assassin…

She mustn’t think about it, mustn’t keep thinking about it.

Xie Zhinuan warned herself thus.

Rourou stood not far away, her eyes brimming with worry, but she knew that only Xie Zhinuan could pull herself through this, no one else could help her.

Xie Zhinuan poured the porridge into her mouth.

She had to study medicine even harder, to save more people. Perhaps only then could she make up for the emptiness and sudden realization in her heart.@@novelbin@@

Inside the inn

The woman looked at her son on the bed, delirious and burning with fever, and after much hesitation, she took a long sword and left the inn.

She knew what her husband was doing, and it was precisely because she knew that she felt more anxious and restless.

She stealthily approached Xie Mansion.

Xie Mansion was quiet and serene.

But as she drew near, she felt someone watching her, sending shivers down her spine.

Frightened, she quickly turned around, and there was someone standing behind her.

“Who are you?” Xie Zhinuan’s voice was deep.

She had never thought that climbing onto the roof was as trivial as playing a game.

Having discovered someone sneaking in, she had intended to get onto the roof, and with a light push with the tip of her foot, she leaped up there.

Faced with someone who might have come to assassinate her again, she didn’t strike.

She still couldn’t control her martial arts and didn’t know how to use it well; she feared that one move would cut a person in two.

The woman felt a chill down her back and slowly turned around to see a woman in the falling snow, cloaked in red and her little face hidden within her hood, “I, I…”

“No matter who you are or what you’re doing here, please leave immediately; otherwise, don’t blame me for being rude!” Xie Zhinuan spoke again.

Her tone was a few degrees colder.

Instinct told her that this woman was connected to the assassin.

Chapter 425