Chapter 1231 - 388: Strange Iron Plate
If only one person’s lips were injured, any excuse would do to gloss it over, but when two people were injured at the same time, and in such a sensitive area, anyone with experience could tell what had really happened besides naive children.
Mo Yan, touching her swollen and broken lips, simply had no face to return to the teahouse. Thereupon, she decisively let Xiao Ruiyuan go back alone, and made him tell the others that she was feeling unwell, while she headed directly back to the Scholar Mansion. She planned to stay in the Space for a while that evening until her wound healed before coming out again.
Xiao Ruiyuan really wanted to say that this excuse was full of holes and that no one would believe it; on the contrary, it would be more convincing if he said he had urgent military affairs to attend to and had to leave first. However, seeing that Mo Yan was resolute, he suddenly didn’t want to say it anymore. Since Mo Yan hadn’t thought it through carefully, it was destined that this cover-up would be seen through.
Xiao Ruiyuan was uneasy about letting Mo Yan go back alone, so he hired a carriage and personally escorted her back to the Scholar Mansion. After watching her enter, he returned to the teahouse and repeated the reason why Mo Yan had gone back to the Scholar Mansion early.
"That’s not right, brother-in-law!" Zhenzhen was the first to notice the flaw and expressed her doubts, "Before we went out, elder sister gave each of us a pellet in case we had stomach problems, for emergency use. I saw with my own eyes elder sister putting the remaining pellets into her pouch. If she had stomach problems, couldn’t she just take a pellet and be fine?"
Reminded by Zhenzhen, everyone suddenly remembered the pellet on their waists and couldn’t help looking at Xiao Ruiyuan suspiciously. And with that look, they noticed the conspicuous wound at the corner of his mouth.
If it were just that wound, it might have been nothing, but with Mo Yan suddenly returning to the Scholar Mansion, it was hard not to think more of it.
Facing those odd glances, Xiao Ruiyuan, without changing his expression, said the words he had prepared beforehand, "I was in too much of a hurry earlier and accidentally collided with someone on the way."
"Ah, brother-in-law, who could be so formidable to even make you unable to avoid them?" Zhenzhen exclaimed in surprise, her eyes brimming with admiration for the unknown passerby.