Sweet Chief Secretary

Chapter 491 It’s a Little Scary
The next day, Xia Yu got up early in the morning because she made an appointment with Aunt Jiang’s son. They had to make direct payments on delivery before he went to work. After that, he could just go to work then. Xia Yu could not be late.

After tidying herself, Xia Yu opened the door. Shen Yan and Shen Qiang also came out, and they just went out together.

“Sister, Mr. Shen, why don’t you eat before you go out?” Xiao Shuang chased over.

“We’ll go for a walk outside first and come back for breakfast later. Tell your father to prepare the food in advance.” Xia Yu said with a smile. The factory was not far from the farmhouse, so Xia Yu thought they could come back in less than half an hour.

Xiao Shuang nodded with a smile after hearing Xia Yu’s words. “Okay, I’ll tell him right now.” With that, she skipped away.

They just went to the factory and saw a man standing in the doorway and watching around from afar. Seeing them come over, the man hurried to come up.

“Second Young Master! Third Young Master!” Aunt Jiang’s son had met them before, so he knew them. Seeing them with Xia Yu, he said with some embarrassment, “This lady offered to give me money.”

His mother had been sick for so long, and Shen Family helped them pay the medical expenses all the time. He felt a little shame-making to ask Xia Yu for money in front of them.

“I know. Have you brought what I want?” How could Shen Yan not know that he was greedy for money? Since he had promised it to him, he would certainly not go back on his words now.

“Yes. It’s two gold beads.” Seeing that Shen Yan came here not for defaulting or bargaining, Aunt Jiang’s son smiled at once, taking out a small cloth bag from his pocket carefully.

He opened it, and then two gold beads appeared in front of them.

Xia Yu picked up one and had a look at it, seeing the word “ci” on it. Her heart throbbed. She looked at Shen Yan and then handed the bead to him.

Shen Yan took it with his brows wrinkled. Shen Qiang leaned over. He saw the word on it obviously and called out, “Brother!”

“I saw it.” Although Shen Yan’s tone was calm, the expression on his face was quite serious.

Xia Yu called Aunt Jiang’s son aside, transferring the money to him with Alipay. After taking the other bead over, she told him the situation about his mother.

Knowing that they would really treat his mother, Aunt Jiang’s son was quite excited. He thanked Xia Yu a lot and said that he would bring back his mother to live with him after she recovered.

After everything was done, Xia Yu, Shen Yan, and Shen Qiang returned to the farmhouse. “Let’s go back after having breakfast.”

As they had been out for a few days, Xia Yu was really not at ease.

“Well! Okay!” Since they had got what they wanted, it was time to go home early indeed. With these things in their hands, Li Tianci could never prove his innocence even without Aunt Jiang’s testimony.

When they walked and were about to get to a pond ahead, they just heard a splash as if there was something falling in.

They looked up when hearing the sound, and there was really someone falling into the pond. The person grasped the air desperately and sank into the water soon, only leaving some ripples on the surface.

“Bad news! Someone fell into the water.” Shen Yan quickly ran to the pond, running while taking off his coat. He threw his coat on the side of the road, directly jumping down when he was on the side of the pond.

Although it was spring now, the temperature in the morning was still very low. The water in the pond was also very cool. Xia Yu was so worried, standing by the pond and keeping calling Shen Yan’s name.

After a short while, Shen Yan’s head rose from the water. He was dragging the drowning man in his hands and swimming to the shore.

“Shen Yan, come on! Give me your hand and hold me.” Xia Yu reached out, while they were too far away from each other. She could not catch him, getting so anxious.

At this time, the villagers came to help aside after knowing it, and soon they were rescued from the water.

Xia Yu quickly put the coat over Shen Yan, which was thrown away by him just now. She found that his hands were so cold when touching them. Xia Yu was worried that he would catch a cold, asking him to come back to the farmhouse at once to change his clothes.

When coming back to the farmhouse, Xiao Shuang saw that Shen Yan was all wet, coming over and asking with concern, “He fell into the water?”

“Someone fell into the pond just now. Shen Yan was trying to save her.” Xia Yu explained and then said, “Quickly! Open the room!”

“Okay, I’ll do it right now.” Xiao Shuang quickly ran upstairs. When they walked upstairs, she had already opened the door, standing at the door and waiting.

Shen Yan went straight to the bathroom after he entered the room.

Xiao Shuang came over and said to Xia Yu, “The pond in front of our village drowns people every year. The old people say that the drowned ghost is looking for a substitute. My mother never allows my brother and me to play nearby the pond. Who went there early in the morning?”

“It’s a girl with long hair!” Although Xia Yu did not believe in what the old people said, that pond was really very big and deep. It could be really dangerous if those people who were not good at swimming fell in.

If the girl had not met them just now, it would have been too late to save her when the villagers found it and went there. Xiao Shuang’s mother was right to ask them not to go there.

“It is Xiuxiu. She went to fetch water from the pond to water the vegetables. Her foot slipped, and then she fell in. Luckily, Mr. Shen is good at swimming and rescued her. She is now awake.” Xiao Shuang’s mother came over with a bowl of ginger soup.

Xia Yu took it over hurriedly. Aunt Huang said, “Let Mr. Shen drink it after the bath, for fear that he will catch a cold.”

“Thank you!” Aunt Huang went out of the room after Xia Yu thanked her, and she called away Xiao Shuang when she left.

Shen Yan went out after taking a bath. Seeing that he was wearing only a bath towel, Xia Yu handed his clothes to him hurriedly and asked him to put them on.

“I’m not so delicate.” Shen Yan said with a smile. But when he spoke, he sneezed several times.

“See! You must have caught a cold. Go to the clinic to have an injection after a while. It won’t be good if you have a fever.” Xia Yu helped him put on his clothes and handed him the ginger soup.

“I’m fine. I don’t need an injection.” Shen Yan took the bowl and drank the soup up.

Although he said so, Shen Yan began to feel top-heavy after breakfast. Shen Qiang and Xiao Shuang hurried to the nearby clinic to ask the doctor to come over to give him an injection.

After the injection, Shen Yan felt much better. But considering his health, Xia Yu decided to spend one more day here and leave here tomorrow.

Seeing that he looked a little tired, Xia Yu said, “You just have a rest. I’ll leave first. Call me if anything happens.” With that, she left the room.

Shen Yan had a good body constitution. After receiving an injection and having a rest for a few hours, he recovered completely from his cold in the evening. He had dinner with Xia Yu and Shen Qiang downstairs in the dining room.

When they were about to leave after dinner, some villagers just came into the farmhouse. They were the relatives of the girl who was saved by Shen Yan. They came here to thank Shen Yan. Xiao Shuang helped her mother pour tea for them at once. Xia Yu was on the side, too. After taking a few sips of tea, the aunts coming here just now all surrounded Shen Yan with their eyes shining.

“Boy, you look so handsome. Are you married? Do you have a girlfriend?”

“Where is your home? What do you do?”

“…”

They asked Shen Yan one after another more questions than a policeman asked a prisoner.

Shen Yan had a sulky expression and twitched his mouth constantly, giving a wink at Xia Yu at once and wanting her to help him.

“Young man, you look like you’re 27 or 28 years old. My niece is a few years younger than you, and she is a college student…” Before Xia Yu could speak, the aunt said again.

It seemed that she would like to be a matchmaker. Xia Yu found it both funny and annoying.

“Have some dessert, aunt!” Xiao Shuang hurriedly walked over after she found it, handing her the desert to interrupt her words.

“Aunts, Mr. Shen hasn’t recovered completely. Let him go to his room and rest now.” Xiao Shuang tipped a wink at Shen Yan as well as Xia Yu and hinted that they should run away quickly.

It was exactly what Shen Yan wanted. He stood up shortly after Xiao Shuang finished her words. Then he couldn’t wait to leave with an anxious look, which almost made Xia Yu laugh out loud. Young Master Yan who was always calm and composed also had his moments of panic.

Getting back to the room, Shen Yan was obviously relieved. Those people were so annoying and came to propose a marriage just as he had saved a young girl, but what if the person he saved was a man?

“Young Master Yan, you’re really attractive. Just one day has passed, and so many people want to arrange a blind date for you.” Xia Yu said with a smile on the side.

“It is a little scary.” Shen Yan answered and deliberately reached out to pat his chest, which made Xia Yu laugh out loud immediately.

Even after Shen Yan left with Xia Yu, those people still did not give up and began to ask Aunt Huang to be a matchmaker.

“You just stop thinking about it. Mr. Shen has a girlfriend, and it is Miss Xia, who you just saw.” Xiao Shuang interrupted their words.

“He is Miss Xia’s boyfriend? Oh! What a good boy! It is such a pity that he already has a girlfriend.” After a moment of feeling regret, Xiuxiu’s relatives turned their eyes to Shen Qiang, who was still waiting to watch the scene of bustle, and then they asked, “This boy is also handsome. Do you have a girlfriend?”

What? It was too absurd. Seeing that he himself had become their target, Shen Qiang almost jumped up out of fear. He waved his hand immediately and said, “I have a girlfriend. It is really inappropriate. Inappropriate!”

While saying, he walked upstairs and ran away. He almost fell down without heeding which path he chose as he walked in such a hurry, which made Xiao Shuang laugh out loud on the side.

Shen Qiang didn’t mind anything then. He ran back to the room and closed the door, never coming out then.

Xia Yu returned to her room after staying at Shen Yan’s room for a while. Lying in bed, she could not sleep. And she did not fall asleep until midnight.

But it seemed that she vaguely heard a noise in her room after a short while of sleeping. Xia Yu was not sober at this time, just opening her eyes slightly to glance at the room which was a little dark. But with some moonlight coming through the window, she could still see the layout of the room.

After taking a glance, Xia Yu closed her eyes, vaguely feeling something wrong in her mind because there seemed to be a dark shadow beside the cabinet just now, which looked like a person. She was startled in her mind, thoroughly getting sober then. She opened her eyes to look at the cabinet again, but this time she was almost scared out of her wits. A person was just standing beside her bed.

The first reaction of Xia Yu was to scream, but she was afraid that this person had bad intentions, and he would hurt her if her scream drove him mad. It would be better for her to scream after he left her room. In this case, she would be safer. So, she held back the scream in her throat stiffly, with her eyes narrowing into slits.