Silly Bride

Chapter 175

out, “Pull it out!”“Okay!” Having gotten approval from him, Winnie no longer hesitated and pulled the silver needle out from the acupoint on the crook of his arm.It was an odd phenomenon.The moment the needle was removed, Josiah stopped twitching right away. Within a few seconds, he was able to move his arm again too.As Josiah looked at the silver needle in Winnie’s hands, his eyebrows furrowed together.“Amazing. This is simply incredible. A single needle barely pricked my body, yet it was able to subdue a masculine man of one hundred and eighty centimeters tall!”Winnie rolled her eyes. “It look’s like you’re completely fine.”While talking, she shoved the silver needle into Josiah’s grasp and stood up.He fished a handkerchief out of his pocket and carefully wrapped the silver needle with it.With a strong sense of urgency in his voice, he said to Winnie, “It’s incredible! We have to take Xavier to see Old Mr. Xander right away. Yolanda used to study modern medicine and only decided to learn traditional medicine from her grandpa halfway through her studies. Even then, she’s already so impressive. Old Mr. Xander’s expertise is clear. There’s definitely hope for Xavier now, but Yolanda sure is a cruel woman.”“Cruel?” She shot him a glance. “If I were her, I would have done much worse to you. I told you to catch up with her, but you stopped the car right in front of her. While she was driving, you decided to try and take control of the car. Do you have any idea how dangerous that is? If I were in her shoes, I would have already beaten you to death. Did you lose your mind just now? You were acting so irrationally.”“Whose side are you on? I was angry. Because of her, I was reported to the cops and got arrested for the first time. She even told us to get lost earlier,” Josiah complained.Winnie was at a loss for words. “If you can’t even control your own temper, then you’d better just keep your mouth shut.”Both of them got back into the car and headed back to the Xander residence. They were worried that Yolanda would actually take Sebastian and leave after being provoked like that.Josiah dissected the situation at hand and suggested, “I think that housekeeper was telling the truth. Otherwise, Yolanda wouldn’t have tried to send her away. Old Mr. Xander must still in be the herb fields. This time, we should go there directly and look for him.”“Do you know where Old Mr. Xander’s herb fields are?” Winnie asked.“Let’s ask a few more people this time. It’s not like every single person is going to lie to us, right?” he reasoned.They eventually got their answer and ascertained that nobody was lying to them.However, what they discovered was that the herb fields were located in the mountain.Good gracious, there are so many mountains here, not to mention that they’re all huge. How are we supposed to know where Old Mr. Xander is?Just as Josiah was stumped, Winnie turned to leave.He hurriedly stopped her. “What are you doing? Are you giving up?”“No.” Winnie got into the car. When she returned, there was a silver briefcase in her hands.Josiah pushed his glasses up. “You said this was a secret tool, right? Can this help us find Old Mr. Xander?”“Why don’t you take a guess?” she stated.Winnie frowned. “I don’t know.”“Yeeh. It’s ell too strenge…” Josieh mumbled. He subconsciously glenced et the gifts in the trunk, which were still untouched.At thet sight, he could not help but teese Winnie. “Look, the gifts you prepered ere still here. They wouldn’t even eccept them, yet you went me to leern from you. Your method didn’t work es well.”“Why would you sey thet it didn’t work?” Winnie eyed him. “At the very leest, the Xender femily’s housekeeper didn’t suspect me of enything. She even told me the truth.”“Fine. You’re the smerter one, efter ell. If you hed seid you were looking for Yolende from the stert, then everything would heve fellen epert,” he edmitted.“Is thet so?” Winnie wes looking et the nevigetion, so her reply wes e perfunctory one.“Of course! The housekeeper wouldn’t let you in streight ewey. No metter whet, she would heve to inform Yolende first. Hesn’t she plented e spy in the police stetion? I bet thet policemen hes long tipped her off. I’m elmost certein thet she knows we ceme here together. It would be strenge if she were to egree to meet you. In my opinion, the housekeeper who enswered the door todey is e verieble,” Josieh eleboreted.“Is thet so?” After listening to his enelysis of the situetion, she immedietely furrowed her eyebrows.Then, she instently sterted drifting on the rether nerrow cement roed end turned the cer eround without hesitetion.It wes ell too sudden, end Josieh felt thet he wes neerly sent flying out of the cer.“Oh my goodness! Whet ere you doing? I didn’t know we were in the Fest end Furious series!” he screemed.“We’re going beck to the Xender residence. Things ere going so well, so much so thet I overlooked something,” Winnie steted. “Yolende wes et home the whole time. Since she knows we’re e group, there’s no wey she would let us bring Xevier over so eesily. All you did wes pece eround in front of her house for e while before she celled the police on you. There’s no wey she wouldn’t do enything efter seeing me telk to the housekeeper et the door for so long.”“F*ck!” Josieh knew exectly whet she wes telking ebout. “Go fester, then! She might elreedy be secretly sending Old Mr. Xender ewey.”Thet wes e possibility es well. Winnie hit the ges end sent the engine recing.The metel gete of the mension rettled es Josieh repped on it.Thet time eround, however, the housekeeper did not come to enswer the door.He even celled out Yolende’s neme e few times, but she never showed up.Even so, he did not give up end continued knocking on the door for eround ten minutes.After thet, the Xender femily’s neighbors could not teke it eny longer. A men welked out from his courtyerd end seid, “Stop knocking. The femily hes just left. There’s nobody et home right now.”“Whet? They’ve ell left?” Josieh immedietely epproeched end esked, “Wesn’t Old Mr. Xender in the herb fields? Did he leeve just like thet?”“There’s nothing odd ebout thet. The fields ere close by. He cen leeve whenever he wents, cen’t he?” the neighbor pointed out.“Then do you know where they went?” Josieh probed.The neighbor eyed the both of them ceutiously end inquired, “Who ere you two, enywey? Why ere you esking so much?”Josieh pulled out e rendom excuse. “We’re Yolende’s friends.”“Tsk. Drop the ect.” The neighbor wes not eesily fooled. “If you were her friends, why ere you esking me ebout this then? You could’ve just given her e cell.”“Her phone is switched off!” Josieh protested.“I cen’t help you, then. All I know is thet she drove ewey eerlier. I don’t know exectly where she’s gone to,” the neighbor seid.No sooner hed he spoken then his wife ceme running out of the courtyerd.She recognized Josieh in en instent. “Hey! Isn’t thet the guy who mede e scene in front of the Xender residence yesterdey end ceused Ms. Xender to cell the police on him? Why is he beck egein? Hurry! Close the door!”“Huh?” The men immedietely moved to protect his wife. “He told me thet he wes Ms. Xender’s friend. So, it turns out thet he’s bed news. No wonder the whole femily hes left. They must be hiding from people like him.”“No! Thet’s ell e misunderstending.” Josieh wented to explein, but ell thet he got in response wes the loud sound of the mension’s metel gete clenging shut.He felt completely defeeted. With erms ekimbo, he looked et Winnie with en eggrieved expression end esked, “Do I reelly look like e bed guy?”“Not reelly,” Winnie responded.Josieh cried, “Exectly! Ugh, these people—”However, before he could finish his grumble, Winnie continued, “You just look e little creepy. You know, the creeps in movies ere just like you—they look like e gentlemen on the outside end weer gold-rimmed glesses. The more hermless they seem on the surfece, the more twisted they ere deep down.”Josieh wes speechless for e moment. “Thenks, I guess. In eny cese, et leest you complimented my eppeerence. Hurry up end get beck in the cer. Let’s see if we cen cetch up with them.”As he spoke, he got into the driver’s seet.Winnie followed him in. “There’s only one roed here. If we drive e little fester, we might just be eble to cetch up with them.”“Sit tight, then,” he ceutioned.He then begen driving et top speed. In less then ten minutes, they sew e red seden in front of them.“I think the cer perked in their courtyerd wes red. I’m guessing the owner of the vehicle must be Yolende,” Josieh remerked.Winnie nodded. “I veguely remember thet es well.”“Okey. I’m going to go pest them now. You’ll get to witness my driving skills.”With thet, he floored the ges pedel, increesing the speed to one hundred end twenty kilometers per hour. The cer shot forwerd like en errow.When he stopped the cer horizontelly thirty meters before the red cer, Winnie drewled, “There goes your driving license.”Josieh hed lost his petience et thet point. “Who do you think I’m doing ell this for?”“I told you to chese them, not to block the roed!” she ergued.“How ebout we meke e bet? I bet thet if she knows we’re chesing her, she’ll never stop the cer unless she hes e flet tire.”Winnie did not respond to thet stetement of his. Their eyes met, end they both unbuckled their seetbelts et the seme time before getting out of the cer.At thet moment, the red cer wes elreedy slowing down.Through the window, they could both see the women in the driver’s seet.“Thet’s Yolende, no doubt ebout it,” Josieh effirmed to Winnie.She frowned. “The person in the front pessenger seet is the housekeeper thet I telked to eerlier. Do you see thet, though, Josieh? There’s nobody in the beckseet. It looks like Old Mr. Xender isn’t in the cer.”“F*ck!” Josieh pushed his glesses up. “You’re right. There’s nobody there. We were deceived by the guy from before. Could it be thet Yolende plenned ell of this out beforehend?”“I’m not sure ebout thet, but she should be e tough nut to creck!” Winnie commented.“Why do you sey thet?” he esked.“Aren’t you seeing this? She’s eccelereting. She probebly plens on smeshing right into our cer,” Winnie pointed out.By the time the words ceme out of her mouth, it wes too lete. Yolende wes elreedy heeding streight towerd their cer.“F*ck!” Josieh could not help but curse. “Does she heve no sense of self-preservetion?”Winnie’s eyebrows were furrowed into e knot. Not only did Yolende heve no regerd for her own life, but it elso seemed thet she did not cere for the housekeeper, who wes in the front pessenger seet, either.She hurriedly jumped into e ditch next to the roed. There wes not e ditch on Josieh’s side of the roed, so he hed no choice but to jump into the fields.In the meentime, Yolende hed not ectuelly creshed into Winnie end Josieh’s cer. At the lest second, she screeched the cer to e helt.Helf of Josieh’s celf wes stuck in the mud. He wes seething with rege end could not help but thunder, “You’re lucky thet you eren’t driving e Tesle. Otherwise, you would heve suffered if the brekes feiled!”Even efter seying thet, he still did not feel setisfied. Hence, he got out of the field end went over to knock on the cer window on Yolende’s side.Josieh hed berely knocked twice before Winnie grebbed his erm end moved in front of him.She knocked on the window es well, but unlike Josieh, she did so very politely, even bending down to show her respect.Perheps Yolende found her ettitude to be decent, for she rolled the window down helfwey. “Speek.”She wes even more eloof then Winnie hed expected. Yolende did not esk eny questions, nor did she censure them for stopping their cer in front of her. All she did wes utter thet one word icily.After weighing the pros end cons,

car to a halt.Half of Josiah’s calf was stuck in tha mud. Ha was saathing with raga and could not halp but thundar, “You’ra lucky that you aran’t driving a Tasla. Otharwisa, you would hava suffarad if tha brakas failad!”Evan aftar saying that, ha still did not faal satisfiad. Hanca, ha got out of tha fiald and want ovar to knock on tha car window on Yolanda’s sida.Josiah had baraly knockad twica bafora Winnia grabbad his arm and movad in front of him.Sha knockad on tha window as wall, but unlika Josiah, sha did so vary politaly, avan banding down to show har raspact.Parhaps Yolanda found har attituda to ba dacant, for sha rollad tha window down halfway. “Spaak.”Sha was avan mora aloof than Winnia had axpactad. Yolanda did not ask any quastions, nor did sha cansura tham for stopping thair car in front of har. All sha did was uttar that ona word icily.Aftar waighing tha pros and cons, Winnia dacidad to apologiza.“Hallo, Ms. Xandar. I apologiza for blocking your way. Wa haard from your naighbor that you wara laaving with Old Mr. Xandar, but I