After the hero goes crazy

Chapter 215 Homecoming

Yao Wanning's speculation was almost close to the truth.

She thought, if Yao Shouning really had an appointment with the crown prince, since he was going out in the middle of the night, he must have something important to do.

Recently, the only thing that can make Yao Shouning care about is his marriage with the 'God of the River'.

Thinking of this, Yao Wanning's face turned pale, and there was a bit of anxiety in her eyes.

"Was the door bolted when you got up?"

She was very anxious, but her expression was very calm, and she asked Mong Kui what to say.

On the other side, Mong Kui was almost in a panic. At this time, tears flowed again and again, and she couldn't answer her questions because she was so upset.

"Don't cry!" Yao Wanning sternly shouted:
"Answer my question first."

She usually has a gentle temperament and speaks softly when talking with others, and she seldom speaks harshly like this. Now when she straightened her face, she had an unspeakable majesty, scaring Mong Kui into a shudder, and immediately said:

"The latch is all right."

"The door latch was not opened, which proves that people did not go out through the main entrance."

There were two sisters and three maids living in the house. She didn't wake everyone up, so she probably chose other ways to leave the house quietly.

Thinking of this, Yao Wanning's eyes fell on the window on the left side of the room, and told Qing Yuan:
"Go and see if the window is stuck."

Qing Yuan responded, quickly climbed onto the kang couch, took a look, and replied:

"The peg was pushed aside."

There is a movable wooden bolt nailed on the window, which can block the window when it is lowered, and cannot be opened from the outside. Only by starting from the inside can the window be pushed open.

As soon as Qing Yuan finished speaking, several people in the room knew what was going on.

Yao Wanning shouted:
"Don't let the matter leak out, don't tell your wife for now, let's look for it first, and wait."

Yao Shouning went out in the middle of the night, no matter what she was going out for, once the news spread, it would always be bad for her reputation.

Yao Wanning was also worried that Mrs. Liu would be very angry if she knew about it.

Bai Yu and Qing Yuan nodded tremblingly, but Dong Kui couldn't let go:

"But miss, she..."

"Don't worry." Yao Wanning was also very worried, but she had to think clearly about the consequences for her younger sister. After thinking about it, she said:

"Let's wait for another half an hour. If we still haven't come back by dawn, I will notify my parents and go out immediately to find someone!"

While several people were talking, footsteps suddenly came from outside.

Qing Yuan was still on the kang couch, hearing the movement, subconsciously opened the window to look, and then said very happily:
"Second Miss is back!"

These words made the girls in the room breathe a sigh of relief.

Yao Wanning's face showed joy, and Mum Kui ran out of the door. Several people stood at the door, and sure enough, they saw Yao Shouning limping into the yard.

"Miss--"

"Shh."

Yao Shouning pressed his index finger to his lips and gestured for silence.

"Let's talk in the room first." Yao Wanning should have been very happy when she heard her return, but seeing her like this now, she couldn't help feeling tense.

"Bai Yu and Qing Yuan go get some hot water." Yao Wanning suppressed her doubts and ordered everyone:

"Mallow is going to prepare something for the bath."

Only then did everyone notice Yao Shouning's current situation. Her hair was disheveled and her body was covered in mud and blood.

A face was dusty, covered with dirt, and looked extremely embarrassed.

Anyone can see that she is not in a good condition, and there are two traces of tears washed out under her eyes.

"Don't worry about looking for things, Dongkui. Go to the back alley for me. If you see Shizi, then go to Uncle Zheng and ask him to come and inform the General's Mansion to pick him up."

Mong Kui went in without knowing it, but seeing her panicked expression and being affected by her emotions, she was a little nervous, so she nodded in response.

Qing Yuan and Bai Yu went out to fetch water, the room fell silent, Yao Wanning shook Yao Shouning's hand and asked:
"What the hell happened?"

The elder sister's concerned expression and words made Yao Shouning's heartstrings, which had been tensed for a long time, loosen, and then tears flowed:

"We met a monster!"

"What?" Yao Wanning exclaimed a little.

Then, Yao Shouning told about how he and his son went to Dai Wang's tomb last night, accidentally dug up Dai Wang's coffin, and found a demon snake inside.

"...The prince and I killed the monster snake, and then escaped."

She described the process very quickly, but it could be seen from the mess all over her body that the process might not be simple.

Yao Wanning was stiff all over, feeling that there were many doubts in her heart.

But before she could speak, Yao Shouning held her hand instead:

"Sister, when we killed the snake, there was a lot of commotion, which alarmed the soldiers guarding the tomb. Maybe after dawn, the news will be reported back to the capital."

She looked a little anxious:
"This matter must not be leaked."

"Don't worry."

Yao Wanning felt that she was holding her hand tightly, so she patted the back of her hand with the other hand and comforted her:
"No one in the family knows that you went out last night except us."

Even though Yao Shouning didn't say much, Yao Wanning could already see the serious consequences of the matter from these few words, "Don't worry, this matter will not leak."

When she heard this, she nodded her head, her exhaustion could not be concealed, and she even wanted to reach out to rub those dry and red eyes.

Yao Wanning pinched her hand, while she took a veil and gently pressed her eyes, asking softly:
"But how did you meet to go to Daiwang's tomb? Is it the booklet that the prince gave you yesterday?"

"Ah." Yao Shouning sighed, thinking of what happened that night, he was still terrified:
"We suspect that the 'River God' may have been a member of the royal family in the past, and after death, his body was used by evil spirits and turned into ghosts and gods."

Her actions were indeed related to the 'River God', Yao Wanning fell silent.

"So when the prince asked me to meet yesterday, he wanted to explore the tomb of the royal family in order to find out the identity of the 'river god'." She admitted Yao Wanning's guess, and Yao Wanning thought of the book she was reading yesterday. It reads: (generation) Yuanchun Jianxing 7th year.

I didn't know it at the time, but now that I think about it, Yao Wanning guessed that this meant that Zhu Yuanchun (acting king) died in the seventh year of Jianxing.

"you……"

She was a little speechless, not knowing what to say about it.

The younger sister did this because she was branded as a 'river god', and she was afraid that she would lose her life.

But in the middle of the night, she went out of the city with the eldest son to dig the royal family's ancestral tomb, and encountered a monster in the tomb, which alarmed the soldiers of the tomb. No matter what happened, it was extremely dangerous.

"You don't do things like this again."

Yao Wanning's voice was a little low, and that gentle face showed a rare complicated expression:

"Everything may have been predetermined..."

Her eyelids droop:

"I, I don't know how to say it, but I don't want you to take any more risks."

Yao Shouning said lightly about the encounter with the demon last night, but she was covered in blood, and she asked Dong Kui to go out to find the son, it must be because the son was seriously injured.

Even if the two of them killed the monster, they would have gone through a bloody battle.

Even though she didn't see the scene at that time, Yao Wanning was terrified just by these few words:
"If something happened to you last night, what will you tell me, father, mother, and elder brother to do in the future?"

"Stop doing things like that, okay?"

She held Yao Shouning's hand and begged softly.

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I will ask for leave tomorrow, so please don’t refresh~!

(End of this chapter)