Chapter 715 Putting Her Guard up


    While cooking the fish, Flora said to Natalia beamingly, “The fish in the pond are all bred by me. The


    meat is delicious. Tonight, I’ll treat you to my best dish.”


    Natalia smiled and thanked her out of courtesy. She helped her get the fish ready, then lit the fire and


    began to cook.


    But she had never cooked with fire before, and she was not good at controlling the fire.


    Thus, Flora spared her from these chores. Yet, seeing that Natalia was eager to help, she told her to


    wash the vegetables instead.


    As Natalia was on the task, she heard Flora ask, “By the way, howe you and your friend ended up


    here? I forgot to ask you yesterday.”


    Natalia puckered her lips and put the freshly washed vegetables on a basket on the side.


    Secondster, she replied, “We came here for sightseeing. Our car turned over in an ident and we


    fell out.”


    Flora turned around and looked at her in surprise.


    “Geez! How dangerous that was!”


    Natalia just smiled.


    “But I saw you were carrying a parachute that day.”


    Natalia froze.


    She felt perturbed.


    “Oh, how poor my memory is! Why could I forget that?” she thought in annoyance.


    She lied again, “Well, we were going to do skydiving that day. That’s why we drove toward the


    mountaintop. But we had an ident on our way.”


    As if frightened by that thought, Flora mped a hand over her chest.


    “Good Lord! Young people like you are too reckless with their lives. Why do you love such a dangerous


    and thrilling sports event?”


    Momentster, she asked, “So you came here only with your friend? Do you have otherpanies?”


    Gazing at Flora, Natalia instinctively lied. “We also came with a man. But I don’t know where he is at


    the moment.”


    “A man?”


    “Yes.”


    Flora then fell silent.


    Her brows knitted slightly. Natalia couldn’t figure out what she was thinking about.


    She had no idea why Flora asked her so many questions. But since she was in a strange ce and


    had been hunted by some killers, she had to put her guard up.


    She knew lying to her lifesaver was not what a person of integrity should do.


    Even so, she was aware that she should never rx vignce against evildoers. Plus, she was in a


    foreign ce that she knew nothing about. To protect herself, she had to resort to lies.


    A long whileter, Flora forced a smile and said, “If your friend is still alive, she must also be looking for


    you. Do you want us to help you look for her?”


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    Natalia smiled faintly and said, “That would be good.”


    After that, Flora posed a ton of questions.


    She asked about her friend’s appearance, her job, age, and family members.


    The more detailed her questions were, somehow, the more uneasy Natalia became.


    As a result, she subconsciously lied about her life.


    She told her only half of the truth.


    Flora seemed astonished when she learned that Natalia was already a mother of two.


    “You’re already a mother?”


    Natalia nodded. “Yeah. Can’t you tell?”


    She thought it was a given.


    Flora frowned a little and clicked her tongue. Shaking her head, she said, “No, you don’t look like a


    mother at all.”


    Then, she remarked with emotion, “Girls in big cities like you don’t age as fast as we do. Those who


    are approaching 30 may still look like 18-year-old girls. If you didn’t speak, I’d thought you just


    graduated from college.”


    Natalia smiled but didn’t reply.


    As they chatted like this, the dinner was ready.


    When it was getting dark, they heard footsteps from outside.


    The children who followed Natalia around were dismissed since Flora came back.


    Thus, the footsteps they heard at this time must be made by Flora’s husband.


    Sure enough, when the two came out of the kitchen, a brawny man with dark skin strode in from


    outside.


    “My man is back!”


    Flora hurried over with joy. The man greeted her, then rested his eyes on Natalia, who was standing


    behind Flora.


    The man’s eyes slightly brightened up.


    “Who is thisdy…”


    “She is Seven. She came here for sightseeing with her friend. But their car turned over on the way. I


    saw her lying in the field, so I brought her back.”


    As she spoke, she attentively drew the man to sit by the table, took over his coat, and dusted it. Then,


    she said, “You must be hungry. I bring dinner out right away.”


    The man waved and said, “No rush. The boy’s uncle hase here. I gotta go see him in a moment.”


    Flora was taken aback by this.


    But the next moment, she put on a big smile.


    “OK. Then we’ll wait for you toe back before we have dinner.”


    The man nodded. His eyesy on Natalia again.


    Perhaps this was Natalia’s imagination, but she felt that the gaze the man gave her was too piercing.


    He was wantonly eyeing her with a kind of shrewdness that she couldn’t understand.


    Then, he chuckled and said, “You’re here for sightseeing? That’s bold. You and your friend are lucky to


    have met us. If not… ”


    Natalia’s nerves tensed as she heard him talk about her friend.


    “You saw my friend?”


    The man fetched out a pipe from his back and stuffed some tobo in it. He lit it and took draws as he


    said, "Of course, I saw her. She’s pretty. One of her legs is broken. She is now resting in that boy’s


    uncle''s. Just wait for some days for her injury to heal. Then, you can go see her.”


    Natalia perked up at once.


    But she got a bit worried as well.


    She hastily said, “I don’t need to wait for her to recover. I can go there to see her right now.”


    The man narrowed his eyes. He sized her up as he took more draws.


    A momentter, he slowly shook his head.


    “You can’t. That vige doesn’t allow outsiders to enter. They’ve already made an exception for your


    friend. They won’t do that again.”


    After a short pause, he said in a lower voice, “You’d better wait for some time.”


    Now, Natalia had learned where Nancy was, but she couldn’t go check on her.


    How could she stand that?


    She immediately became anxious. "Why won’t they let outsiders in? As you can see, I''m all alone. I''m


    not a threat. You have no electricity or any modern ways ofmunication, so I can''t possibly send


    any messages out. Then why are you still guarding against me?"


    The man was clearly dazed for a moment by her remark.


    For a moment, the room was silent, except that the tobo was burning in his pipe with some faint


    noises.


    It was so quiet that one could have heard a pin drop.


    A long whileter, the man finally spoke, “Fine. Now that you insist, I’ll take you to meet his uncle. If he


    agrees, you can go check on your friend.”


    Natalia secretly sighed in relief.


    Shepressed her lips. After some hesitation, she still said, “Thanks.”


    The man didn’t say anything. Yet, the look he gave her carried a trace of derision.