He came. (Part Two)
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Realizing that something was wrong, Meng Huan stopped wringing the water out of his clothes, hid his fingers back into his sleeves and kept his head down, looking like he didn’t dare to speak.
Echul took dry letter paper and ink from the inner layers of his clothes and, with the loud clunk of a knife being embedded into the table, they were slammed onto the surface of the table. He looked down at Meng Huan darkly, “You still can’t copy the seal?”
Meng Huan felt that if he said that he had not learned it yet, his fingers would probably be cut off, so he nodded. “Yes, I can, but…”
“Then draw it right now!”
Echul took the knife into his hands, clenching hard onto the handle as a ferocious pressure surged up.
Meng Huan swallowed the second half of his sentence back into his stomach and sat down at the table. Because of the cold, his hand was constantly shivering. As soon as he picked up the brush, the tip trembled, splattering the watery ink everywhere.
The grooves in Lin Bozhou’s seal used for anti-counterfeiting were too special to be recreated through carving, so they came up with the idea of painting the seal. However, this was a delicate task. Seeing Meng Huan’s hand shake like a leaf, Echul knew that it was unlikely they could make a copy of the seal today.
However, Meng Huan remained focused as he lowered his head and carefully drew it out.
“…”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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He blotted out the seal with the red ink.
A faint dizzy feeling struck his brain, driving him to rest his chin on the table. However, when he woke up again, a sharp pain pierced his brain, and he felt the skin all over his body emitting heat, like it was on fire.
Before, he always felt cold, now he felt warm.
Because he was burning with fever.
Slumping on the table in a daze, he could barely keep his eyes open. At the first light of day, the group of outlanders also woke up one after another. The old man hurriedly entered from outside. “Not good, they’ve begun door-to-door search in the city. I reckon they will reach our door very soon. We must find a way out of the city as soon as possible, otherwise, we will breathe our last breath!”
The atmosphere became very silent.
They could not find a way out of the city, they were completely out of options.
Solving this with brute force was impossible. If they were to break through the gate by force, the group of heavily armed brocade-clad guards and capital army would stab them full of holes. However, if they were to wait in this room, the door-to-door search would definitely uncover them in no time.
In the dead silence, this group of outlanders felt despair.
But someone’s eyes moved to Meng Huan standing to the side and they suggested, “Why don’t we cut off one of his ears first and send it to Lin Bozhou, demanding that he open the city gate, or else we will kill his wife?”
Disoriented, Meng Huan glanced at the speaker, not speaking because his mouth felt like a desert.
“Not possible,” Echul propped up his upper body on the table, hunching over. “You do not understand Lin Bozhou. He would never agree to such a childish condition. Even if he did, he will put a spoke in our wheel behind the scenes, making it impossible for us to escape his grasp.”
Smirking, he sneered, “Moreover, the Han people in power are very arrogant. Even the most gorgeous beauty will be a mere plaything in their eyes. It is sheer nonsense for him to make sacrifices for a plaything.”
Meng Huan really had to admit that Echul had really grasped the ugliness of the feudal imperial dynasty.
But what Echul didn’t know was this is a romance novel, and if they did resort to this method, maybe Lin Bozhou really would lose his mind and let them escape—it was just that Meng Huan would get an ear cut off.
Many thanks to Echul that Meng Huan could keep both ears for the time being.
Meng Huan’s nose stung as he kept his breathing slow while he quietly listened to their conversation, but he could not hold back a couple muffled coughs.
After being heard, the old man approached and checked his pale face. “Not good, he’s sick now, too.”
The clansmen were at the limit of their patience. One said, “That is even more reason why he cannot come with us, he will only slow us down! Why not just kill him now and throw his corpse out? The forces at the gate will surely become weaker after Lin Bozhou finds his body.”
These people would suggest anything in order to save their own necks.
But no sooner had the man suggested this, he was stabbed in the abdomen, and his blood began to gush out. He gawked, as if he couldn’t believe his eyes.
Echul’s face was stained with the fresh blood that had just spurted out. He pulled out the bloody knife and placed it on the table with a dark and volatile expression. “I must keep him alive! If anyone suggests killing him again, don’t blame me for being merciless!”
The stabbed man fell to the ground, before a terrified silence shrouded the room.
They could not understand why Echul would kill his own clansman for an outsider.
Meng Huan raised his head as a numbness spreaded from his chest to his back, accompanied by a feeling of indescribable fear. In the whole house, the dim lights flickered slightly and the silence made everyone’s hair stand on end.
The heat of blood permeated.
Echul closed his eyes and said, “I have figured out a way to escape.”
Everyone fixed their eyes on him, none of them spoke.
Echul sat back in his chair and picked up a handkerchief to wipe the blood off his cheek. His words were effective on the group, equivalent to an order. “The one who killed the restaurant owner will turn himself in.”
After saying that, he fixed eagle-like eyes on Meng Huan. “And you, write a letter to tell Lin Bozhou that you escaped on your own accord and were not kidnapped.”
That way, the connection between Jurchen and Meng Huan would be untangled. The government office would relax their guard after arresting the prisoner and there would be no more reason to conduct a door-to-door search. As for Lin Bozhou, he would have something new to be concerned about.
Lin Bozhou would ponder whether Meng Huan had escaped on his own accord or was kidnapped.
If Meng Huan escaped of his own volition, perhaps he had left the city that same day, making the heavy guard on the city gate unnecessary. This would give them breathing room, and after staying in the city for a few more days, Echul and Meng Huan could seize the opportunity to escape.
However—
His clansmen muttered to themselves, “So, our lives will be given up? Turning ourselves in the government office will surely stop their search. But we…will definitely die.”
The candle flickered quietly in the room.
I am burning with impatience! I really want LB to come save MH super fast! 😭
The runaway wife plot is inevitable 😭😭 Please let there be some sort of secret code that Meng Huan can do! Maybe he can do that thing where you have to put the paper over a candle to see more words!!
Even death won’t save these fools… Hang in there huan huan 😭
lol that reminds me, what stage of literacy is huanhuan at right now?
I thought the same 😅 well he can always write using modern language but will LB able to read it 🧐
Oh no 🤦😅 Echul’s bad luck keeps getting worse haha
Thank you
Delirious Huan Huan: Husband, how do you write ‘kidnapped’?
So funny 🤣
😭😭😭
Babe, try to write in simplified Chinese!!! Maybe your husband could understand it
Thank you for your translation 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
What to do now? D:
Thank You for the new chapter ♡⃛(꒡ε ꒡ღ)
Hoping that he can rearrange the words so if you read just the words on that side it will say he’s been kidnapped…or something.
So i’m understanding right, that after HuanHuan copied the seal, he actually smudged ink over it to make it unusable? Otherwise it’s too much of a risk to leave the copy in the hands of these dogs
Yes, after he confirmed he could do it, he destroyed the evident/ his work.
Thanks very much for the chapter
Aaaaaahhhhhh?!!!!!!
I’ve caught up!!!!!!!
omg left off on such a cliff hanger when will the next chapter be released waiting eagerly