An Accidental Rebirth: The Surrogate Bride - Chapter 146

The noise outside the door was getting louder. It was not a pigeon, but two patrolmen who came to search for a criminal at large!

Luo Huali opened the door a little bit to check, and after he had just closed it, the patrolmen, whose faces were pockmarked with previous zits, kicked it open violently.

“We’re the patrolmen! Get up! Come on! Stand up!” The taller one roared impatiently. He then went straight to the center of the room and threw his blade onto the table with a “bang”.

Without a word, the other patrolman already started searching in the small room. He either kicked or picked up anything he did not like and smashed it on the floor! But for the things he found he liked, he would hide them up his sleeve (if this action could be counted as hiding, not stealing).

The owner of the hotel followed in silently. Obviously, he dared not to show his anger at the tyrannical actions of the two officers. Trembling all over, he did not look at the guests in the room, nor did he dare to explain.

Leaning against the soft pillow, Zixiu did not show a trace of panic on his face when he saw the patrolmen break into the room and steal things like two bandits. He was fearless partly because his senior brother was with him, but more importantly, he was in a bad mood and was indifferent to everything, so it was no wonder that he turned a blind eye to what was happening.

Luo Huali had yet figured out the specific purpose of these officers, but he was sure that they were not sent by Prince Mu to get Zixiu. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been busy with “searching the room” instead of focusing on the people in it. Though he was not happy with the patrolmen’s behavior, he knew it would be unwise to confront them head-on at this moment. Seeing that he was still lying on the bed, Huali hurriedly helped Zixiu, who was wrapped in the quilt, out of the bed and stood aside as the patrolmen’s instruction.

The eyes of the patrolman, who was searching the room, shone brightly when he saw a “beauty” lying on “her” side in bed. However, the moment when the “beauty” got out of the bed and turned out to be a pregnant woman, his arrogance returned to him. He then blinked at his accomplice, who had just stepped onto a stool. The latter immediately figured out what he meant. He growled a few more words at Zixiu and Huali in a threatening tone, and then unfolded the portrait in his hands. “Have you ever seen this guy?”

‘Yu…’ Zixiu, who was standing impatiently, almost cried out when he suddenly saw the familiar face on the portrait. Fortunately, he came back to his senses in time and did not utter a word. Next, a bold assumption popped into his mind: It was so late at night. How come they came out through the wind and snow and searched house to house? Could the portrait he was holding be a… wanted poster?

It was not until this night that Zixiu learned that Yu Xiaohu had been placed on a national wanted list. He was framed as the bandit who had rescued those on death row from the execution ground, the mastermind behind the poising of Prince Mu, and the henchman of Prince Rui! However, before he could think about his family, shortly after the two patrolmen left, he got another piece of shocking news from the letter which a white homing pigeon had brought!

What Luo Huali had worried about came true!

“A bandit?” Seeing the words in the letter, Zixiu jumped up in rage again. “Damn it! Nangong Du, how dare you frame my dad as the bandit who kidnapped Princess Liuxu? You ungrateful asshole, you’ll die in your boots!”

“Zixiu, calm down!” Huali immediately grabbed Zixiu who looked as if he was going to rush out to kill Nangong Du in the next second. “Look at the back of the paper! There are some words on it. Your dad and Liuxu will come back to the Wen Kingdom, and Nangong Du will accompany them…”

“Fine!” Zixiu nodded, clenching his fists tightly. With a fierce look never before seen on his face, he said, gritting his teeth, “Let Yan Lingxiao kill Nangong Du halfway, no matter what means he uses! Tell him if he can’t get rid of that asshole, don’t come to see me again!”

“Er…”

“Write the letter now! Whether it freezes or snows tomorrow, I’m leaving!”

A few minutes later, Huali finished the letter and handed it to Zixiu to review. However, instead of taking it, Zixiu stared at the corner of the bed in a daze, as if lost in thought. After a while, he suddenly looked up and said, his tone full of doubt and anger, “Are the emperor and those officials idiots? How come my dad kidnapped the princess for no reason? Why does no one doubt such a ridiculous thing? Did the Wen Kingdom lag behind the Nan Kingdom for many years and it was so weak and vulnerable that it even became a colony or dependency of the Nan Kingdom? How come its princess was so humble? Her dad was framed, but Liuxu didn’t even have the chance to defend him?”

“So, the truth may be much more complicated than you imagine!” Huali answered in time. Fortunately, Zixiu had finally found that something was wrong. No matter how powerful Nangong Du was, there was no way that he could keep everything under control!

“Complicated?” Zixiu repeated the word and then started cursing again, “Nonsense! My dad has fallen victim to the infighting of those idle bastards! They will know how I’m going to hack the military satellite network of their Defense Department… ”

The military satellite network? Defense Department? Huali was stunned by the foul words and the terms which did not make any sense to him. “Zixiu, you… What are you talking about?

“Nothing!” Zixiu was annoyed. Knowing that he was talking “nonsense” again, he gulped down a full cup of tea sullenly. He then got onto the bed and covered his head with the quilt. “Let’s rest!”

“Hm!” Seeing that Zixiu had calmed down, Huali did not ask him more, but only responded softly. He decided to keep watch at the door as he had done the night before.

Next, Zixiu lifted the quilt and said grumpily, “Senior Brother, if you don’t have any dirty thoughts on your mind, just rest on the bed!” From his tone, Huali could tell how furious he was now!

The next morning, the snow had stopped, but it was still hard and dangerous to drive a carriage on it.

However, Zixiu was determined to leave.

Huali had no choice but to ask the waiter to get them two pairs of antiskid shoes.

After breakfast, they made the final preparations for the long trek. When the soft light of the morning sun slowly rose, they put on their antiskid shoes and set off with their bags on their backs.

When they arrived at the city gate, they were interrogated for quite a long time, which made Zixiu lose his temper again. The anger that had built up in him made him feel like he was about to explode! He had to quicken his pace, or he would be driven mad by what was on his mind! It had been a long time since he felt like this the last time, or maybe he had never felt this way? In the past, he had always been free, careless, and uninhibited. It turned out that he would fly into a rage as well when he was pushed too hard! He suddenly understood why there had been so many uprisings in history: The people were cruelly oppressed, and they had no choice but to rebel! Zixiu had no interest in participating in the boring political struggles that had been repeated countless times in the history of this country, but he might have been passively involved in a terrible plot long ago and become one of the thousands of victims!