The boar kept backing away, then spun around and bolted.
And as it ran, it even tripped and fell a few times.
It wasn’t that it could literally understand Lin Xi’s words, but it got the general idea.
The old man hiding behind a tree was completely dumbfounded.
It was like you could see a face full of question marks on him.
Only after a while, when Princess Consort Le walked over, did the old man ask a bit nervously, "You two are... people, right?"
Lin Xi: "..."
Do I not look like a person?
Princess Consort Le couldn’t help but burst out laughing. "Uncle, of course we’re people!"
"Or do we not look like it?"
The old man subconsciously nodded, but immediately shook his head again, still looking shaken. "That’s not what I meant."
"I was just too shocked just now!"
Princess Consort Le held back her laughter and walked up to him, glancing over his injuries. It was just some scrapes, nothing serious.
It was just that his ankle seemed a bit sprained, so walking was somewhat inconvenient.
After that, Lin Xi helped the old man up, and the group headed toward the main road.
On the way, Lin Xi and Princess Consort Le figured things out.
The old man was a local. He’d wanted to go into the mountain to pick some mushrooms, but ended up running into a wild boar—and a Boar King at that.
As soon as the Boar King saw him, it went berserk and charged him.
Later he figured it out: the Boar King probably thought he’d barged into its territory, so it attacked.
Normally, wild boars don’t actively attack people unless you really piss them off.
Lin Xi and Princess Consort Le didn’t say much about that.
The old man reflected on it himself.
In the future he shouldn’t leave the main road or go deep in alone.
No matter how you put it, life is precious; it’s not something a few mushrooms can compare to.
By the time they’d helped him down the mountain, the old man’s ankle was pretty much fine.
He had Lin Xi to thank for that.
Not long after Lin Xi started helping him walk, he’d given the old man a restorative massage.
Besides, the old man’s ankle injury hadn’t been very serious to begin with.
So it made sense that it was okay now.
"So Uncle’s actually loaded!" Lin Xi and Princess Consort Le exchanged a look, then turned to stare again at the brand-new Land Rover in front of them.
This Land Rover had to be at least over a million.
The old man opened the door and got in.
When Lin Xi and Princess Consort Le were about to leave, the old man refused to let them.
He insisted on dragging the two of them to his home as guests.
To him, even a drop of kindness should be repaid with a spring, let alone a life-saving grace.
There was another reason too: the old man felt these two young people were anything but ordinary.
Princess Consort Le actually wasn’t that young, but on the outside she still looked like she was only in her twenties.
On the way, the old man had also asked what their relationship was.
Princess Consort Le had answered that they were siblings.
The old man didn’t say anything out loud, but his face showed a bit of doubt.
After all, Lin Xi and Princess Consort Le didn’t look alike at all.
But then again, siblings who don’t look much alike are everywhere.
The old man was also a sensible person.
He didn’t ask how the two of them had heard his cries for help, or why they happened to be nearby.
Of course, with his years of experience, he could tell they weren’t bad people.
If they weren’t bad, then there was no problem!
So he immediately invited them over to his home as guests.
If they’d been bad, he would’ve given them some money afterward as thanks.
As for other things, like inviting them to his home, that simply wouldn’t have happened.
The old man was a very steady driver, and quite fast too. It took them about an hour from the scenic area to arrive in front of a standalone villa.
Lin Xi just gave it a glance and knew right away this was definitely a luxury home!
In terms of scenery and environment, the villa he and Bai Bing had bought couldn’t compare at all.
It’s just, why would someone this rich still go alone into a deserted part of a scenic area to look for mushrooms?
That didn’t quite add up.
After all, getting someone to go out and buy some wild mushrooms would be easy.
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