Silly Bride novel (Winnie and Xavier)

Chapter 174

“I was in a rush just now, so there are a few details I haven’t cleared up with you yet. It’s rather inconvenient for me to sit in the back right now,” Winnie explained.

“Oh.” Josiah let out a sigh silently. He thought that something was up with himself since he still felt nervous.

He had already come around, telling himself that Winnie was the wife of his good friend. Thus, he could not and should not harbor any feelings for her.

In an attempt to divert his attention, he changed the topic. “What’s in this briefcase of yours?”

“Huh?”

“What is it?” Josiah inquired and could not help but turn to glance at Winnie as he felt that her tone was off.

As expected, she was frowning. “Were you daydreaming just now? I asked you a question. Didn’t you hear me?”

“Eh?” Josiah was rather shocked. “You asked me something?”

“I did,” she affirmed.

“Oh gosh.” He smacked himself on the head. “I didn’t hear you at all. Can you repeat yourself?”

Winnie stated, “I asked you whether you’ve asked around with the townspeople here. Yolanda said that Old Mr. Xander hasn’t been able to move freely as of late. There’s no way that nobody but she has seen Old Mr. Xander, right?”

“Oh, that?” Josiah hit the steering wheel. “I didn’t have time to ask around yesterday. I barely managed to exchange a few sentences with her before she had me escorted off to the police station.”

“I see. In that case, you can go and ask around nearby while I talk to her later.”

“Sure. Leave it to me.”

The car arrived at the destination in no time.

Even though the Xanders were said to live in seclusion, their residence was not located in an especially remote area.

Yaleview was also known as a mountain city and the city of medicine due to its mountainous landscape. Hence, one could see hills all around them with a lift of their head even though they were in a bustling urban area.

Since it was a mountainous area, there were a lot of wild herbs to be found. Winnie presumed that was why the old traditional medicine practitioner, Sebastian Xander, chose that place to live in seclusion.

mansion. There were two stories, as

distance of roughly a dozen meters to the left and right side of the mansions

were mansions as well, and the neighbors’ front courtyards were either filled with all kinds of greenery or vegetables. However, the Xander residence’s

before opening the door

she had hidden the briefcase she brought with her under the seat with no intention of taking it with her, Josiah could

This is a

you want me to give you the car keys, then? You might need

took the keys from

the car on opposite sides. Winnie

put those in

were sleeping at the time. It’s no surprise that you

man’s face. “Most of the time, other people are the ones asking me to do things for them. I haven’t asked anyone for a favor before, so I don’t know

a bigger fish,” Winnie teased. “You should keep that

them went separate

gone to seek information while Winnie knocked on

outside the iron gate for long

seemed to be

everyone around here, but I haven’t seen you before,” the housekeeper interrogated Winnie in a fluent Yaleview

standard speech, but Winnie was already

at speaking it, she could completely

my friends. He’s from a poor family, so he wasn’t able to thank Old Mr. Xander properly back then. Now that I am capable of doing so, I decided to

Winnie spoke, she raised her hands to show the

in and see Old Mr. Xander? If not for his heroic actions, my

had quite a good attitude. With that, she switched to using their country’s standard speech, though it sounded a bit unnatural. “Old Mr. Xander saved quite a few people last

one with dysentery. His name

that child! I remember him. He was indeed in quite a severe condition when he was brought here. It was because of his family being poor that he was unable to get treated at the most critical time. How is he doing

concern, ma’am. He’s doing well right now. In that case, could you go in and let Old Mr. Xander know about my visit?”

afraid that won’t be

busy

after them in the herb fields. He’s got no time to greet you. Old Mr. Xander has saved many people over the course of his life. If every one of them had someone come to express their gratitude, then he wouldn’t have time for anything. He’d have to stay at home welcoming

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