Transmigrated as a Stepmother: Time to Bring the Family to Prosper!-Chapter 284 - 283: The Greatest Concealment Is in the City
Ah Wang gazed into the distance, where there were only layers upon layers of mountains. Everything from the past seemed so far away from this small mountain village, like a dream.
He often doubted whether he had really experienced those things in the past, whether he had met those people.
It was only when he saw the scars on his body that he dared to be sure, oh, it was all real.
Later, his mission failed, the Holy Empress discovered the ambush early on, and just before he was about to gain the honor of dying for his master by taking poison, she knocked the poison out of his hand and let him go.
"She actually let you go?"
Ah Wang nodded woodenly, having been taught since childhood to give everything, including his life, for his master, he still couldn’t understand why someone would let a Death Warrior live.
"The Holy Empress said thanks to me, she now had another leverage against Prince Feng. I didn’t even say whose person I was, yet she was very certain. She also said that people shouldn’t live their whole life for others, but should live for themselves, and told me to go wherever I wanted but never to return to the Prince Mansion."
And so Ah Wang never did return to the Prince Mansion, because he couldn’t let the Holy Empress truly catch hold of his master’s leverage.
He wanted to find a place to die, but the Holy Empress sent her most powerful expert to accompany him all the way.
Recalling this, Ah Wang let out a helpless sigh, "I never knew it could be so hard to even want to die."
"Later, instead, the Prince sent many Death Warriors to kill me and silence me. I still don’t know why, but I started to flee, and eventually ended up next to your Zijing Mansion."
The reason he came to Kaiyang County was simply that he was temporarily staying in the neighboring mansion, and later due to poor harvests, he was forced to follow the fleeing refugees to find a living here.
Before coming to Kaiyang County, he was already living a life of hiding and dodging, but there had been no assassins chasing him for more than half a year. Perhaps they thought he had fled too far to be a threat, or perhaps the Prince had more important matters to attend to and forgot to send people to kill him.
But the Prince, with his extraordinary memory, would surely remember this traitor and send people to kill him again.
"You’ve been keeping an eye on that fool Liu Ji for a long time, haven’t you?" Qin Yao said confidently.
Ah Wang nodded, indeed that was the case.
When he arrived in Kaiyang County, he learned about Qin Yao from the mouth of other villagers. Based on his experience from fleeing for two years, the most reliable way to hide one’s identity was to stay beside a powerful local.
This is called hiding in plain sight.
In the past two years, he has worked as a guard for a local powerful figure, as a master chef in a famous restaurant, and as a bouncer at the largest gambling house in the south. He has eaten food from different homes, worn clothes from different people, and seen the world in all its forms, and his mindset is no longer the same as when he fled the Capital City.
Now he just wants to live, live for himself.
Although he still doesn’t know what the future holds, every day he lives for himself feels meaningful.
After listening to Ah Wang’s story, Qin Yao was dazed for a long time before she gathered her wandering thoughts.
In fact, she wasn’t that different from Ah Wang, both just wanted to live each day well for themselves.
Qin Yao asked, "What if you bring trouble here, what about the villagers?"
"And, with those people you met before, do you have to tell each one of them your true identity?"
Ah Wang shook his head, "You’re different from them, I only told Madam."
He added, "They act discreetly, they’ll only come for me, the villagers won’t be affected."
"But my family will be!" Qin Yao said sternly.
Ah Wang lowered his head, "Sorry Madam, if you don’t want me to stay here, I’ll leave at once. Just pretend you never heard what I just said."
After saying that, he got up and ran!
His handsome, charming, and dashing master had said that Qin Yao had a peculiar temperament, and anything harmful to her she would snuff out in the cradle!
Qin Yao’s eyes turned cold in an instant, she darted forward, grabbed his left shoulder.
Ah Wang was startled, he twisted to break free while persuading, "Miss Qin, killing me won’t do you any good."
In just the time it took for this one sentence, the two had exchanged dozens of moves. Ah Wang felt a small shock inside.
He had known she was strong, but didn’t expect her to be this strong, many times the oppression brought by the Holy Empress’s top expert!
Even more stunned by her control over strength, sometimes strong, sometimes weak, effortless, preventing him from escaping.
During the day, Qin Yao had already tested Ah Wang several times, but Wang Mawu’s people were really too weak, there wasn’t even a chance for Ah Wang to make a move.
Now that she made a move, she found that his martial arts were exquisite, every move had its form, and each was clean without any frills, instantly dispelling the idea of killing him.
Keeping him to be a martial arts instructor for the children was also feasible, especially since there was indeed a shortage of personnel in the household now.
"Who said I was going to kill you? Liu Ji brought you back, you’re family, I was just calling you to come back, why did you run!" Qin Yao said, blatantly lying.
Yet it worked on Ah Wang, the offensive stopped, unprepared, he was pressed down by Qin Yao with a "Mount Tai pressing the top," into a human-shaped pit on the ground.
Dust flew around, almost choking Qin Yao herself.
Ah Wang’s face, pressed and deformed, was shocked to the point of having no expression, stunned.
Behind came a creak sound.
The door opened, Liu Ji limped out, leaning against the wall, stood at the door, rubbed his eyes, thinking he had seen wrong, rubbed again, then inhaled sharply!
"...What are you doing?" He originally wanted to question, but it came out as a weak inquiry without any momentum.
Qin Yao instructed Ah Wang not to run away again, patted her hands and stood up, calmly replied, "None of your business."
Turned around, elegantly went back to the room to sleep.
Liu Ji was so angry his lips trembled, did they take him for a fool, he saw them lying together with both eyes!
Ah Wang, still apprehensive, got up from the ground, dusted himself off, and walked over to Liu Ji, politely asked, "Master, are you going to the privy? Allow me to carry you over."
Looking at Ah Wang’s dust-covered, so ordinary that he would be lost in a crowd’s face, Liu Ji snorted, his doubts disappeared instantly.
The shrew wouldn’t choose him and pick an ugly man, would she?
But on the way to the privy, he couldn’t help but confirm repeatedly, "Did you really fall?"
Ah Wang answered earnestly, "There’s a pit at the door, I didn’t notice it."
"Is there a pit?" Liu Ji planned to go check it out first thing the next morning.
As a result, early in the morning, he heard Sanlang and Si Niang repeatedly exclaiming "ouch".
"Mother!" Si Niang, holding Sanlang, climbed out of the pit, while rubbing her knee in grievance, angrily reported, "There’s a big pit at the door!"
Liu Ji was awakened by the noise, hurriedly rushed out of the room to check, there truly was a half-finger deep pit, even human-shaped?
"Ah Wang!" Liu Ji shouted at the top of his lungs, "Go to the back mountain and dig some soil to fill the pit!"
After hearing Ah Wang’s response, he rushed to Qin Yao’s door wanting to ask something.
But as soon as he started, he immediately covered his mouth.
Because he suddenly remembered a saying: the more you know, the sooner you die!
So better go back to the room and sleep again, he’s injured after all ~ (proud face)
