Exile with Storage Space: Family Fortunes in the Barren Lands-Chapter 719 - 0672: Guoguo’s Nightmare (2)

Guoguo looked at Second Madam Baili and sweetly said, "Okay."

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Playing time always passes quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it was night.

The Baili Mansion was decorated with lanterns everywhere, filled with laughter.

Old Madam Baili was even happier, and had someone invite performers to set up a stage and sing at the mansion, the joyous music echoing throughout.

To please the children, Second Madam Baili had simple riddles written on the lanterns.

Baili Rui only needed to think briefly to figure them out.

The prize was the lantern itself.

Baili Xin was young and couldn’t read, looking on with frustration.

Worried Guoguo might not be able to read either, Baili Rui shared his lanterns with the two little girls.

Guoguo held the pomegranate lantern from Second Madam Baili in her left hand and the rabbit lantern from Baili Rui in her right, smiling happily, as if the unpleasant events from earlier in the day hadn’t happened at all.

Madam Baili’s two sons also came to the second house to admire the lanterns, each winning five or six lanterns to take back.

Madam Baili dismissed it with a curl of her lip, "It’s just a few lanterns; what’s there to be happy about?"

Her two sons ignored her dissatisfaction and joyfully discussed the lantern riddles.

Madam Baili was so angry she fell into bed.

Her husband Baili Dalang and Baili Ju kept praising the second house’s choice of wine today.

She felt even more unsettled in her heart.

With her husband and sons siding with the second house, what future could she have?

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The lantern event at the Baili Mansion continued into the night, and only then did servants and masters return to their rooms to rest.

Baili Rui and his sister Baili Xin continued their routine of sleeping with Guoguo every night; the three children insisted on staying together.

They laid together on the kang, talking until their eyelids drooped before reluctantly closing their eyes.

Guoguo’s two lanterns were hung in front of her kang.

She couldn’t sleep, staring at the lanterns until the little candles inside burned out, finally allowing her eyes to close.

That night, she had a dream.

A bad dream.

She dreamed that her brother Li Jing was sent away by the Xue Family, his fate unknown, and assassins constantly appeared where they lived, preventing them from going further to find food.

Before long, her aunt died of starvation.

Soon after, her older aunt Li Yuwen and second aunt Li Yu En also died.

Then, her grandmother passed too.

Her grandfather, father, and uncles were always subject to assassin attacks.

Mu Yuanxiu often helped them, but he was later captured.

She was sold by the Xue Family to a childless daughter-in-law of the Luo Family.

That daughter-in-law disliked her for being a female baby and threw her away, and finally, she ended up in Chai Eying’s hands.

Unfortunately, Chai Eying died young, and then the Luo Family daughter-in-law found her again and sold her into Qian Hong Lou.

It was a filthy place that consumed people.

When she jumped off a building trying to escape, Baili Rui happened to pass by and rescued her, bringing her to Liangzhou City.

But Yu Wen Zan, who was favored by the Xue Family, targeted the Baili Mansion in Liangzhou City...

Liangzhou City, blood like a river, bones like a mountain.

Her Brother Rui...

"Brother Rui!" Guoguo woke up from the nightmare, shouting loudly.

In the middle of the night, the shout was extremely piercing.

It startled Zhou Zhaodi awake.

Zhou Zhaodi groped her way over to hold Guoguo in her arms, "Guoguo?"

"Auntie, Brother Rui!" Guoguo’s body trembled, her voice quivered, she clutched Zhou Zhaodi’s arm, crying and shouting, "Auntie, Auntie save me..., Uncle save me..."

Zhou Zhaodi was confused, "Guoguo, Mr. Rui is asleep, Third Madam and Yuanxiu are in the room next door, what’s wrong with you? Did you have a nightmare?"

"Auntie, Auntie..." Guoguo clung to Zhou Zhaodi, sobbing.

Zhou Zhaodi couldn’t console her, and worried that her crying would wake Baili Xin and Baili Rui, she softly urged, "Guoguo, lie down first, I’ll go and call Third Madam."

But at this moment, the room’s door was pushed open, and Li Yuzhu entered holding a candle stand, "I heard Guoguo crying, what’s wrong with her?"

Li Yuzhu placed the candle stand down and walked over to the kang.

Seeing her, Guoguo turned and reached out her arms.

Li Yuzhu tenderly held her, "Why are you crying so much?"

"Third Madam, let’s have Guoguo sit with you in your room for a while, we can’t wake Young Master Rui and Miss Xin." Zhou Zhaodi glanced at the bed and whispered.

The guest room they were in was narrower than Baili Rui’s parents’ room, but Baili Rui and his sister insisted on squeezing in to sleep together, and Second Madam Baili didn’t mind, agreeing to it.

If Baili Rui was woken up and didn’t sleep well, Second Madam Baili would definitely blame her, so Zhou Zhaodi was a bit worried.

Li Yuzhu also realized this, worried about waking the siblings.

She carried Guoguo outside, "Guoguo, go sleep with Auntie."

Guoguo glanced back at the peacefully sleeping Baili Rui, then leaned her head against Li Yuzhu’s chest, remaining silent, softly inhaling.

Zhou Zhaodi took the candle stand and escorted them to the neighboring bedroom. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

Mu Yuanxiu was also awakened, he wrapped a cloak around himself and stood at the bedroom door, when he saw Li Yuzhu bringing Guoguo in, he walked to Li Yuzhu’s bed, lifted the quilt, "It’s cold, quickly get Guoguo under the blanket."

Li Yuzhu held Guoguo, and the aunt and niece lay side by side.

Zhou Zhaodi placed down the candle stand and left.

Mu Yuanxiu closed the door, walked to the bedside, sat down, and gently asked, "Why is Guoguo crying?"

Guoguo stretched her little head out, leaning against Li Yuzhu’s side, and looked at Mu Yuanxiu with her big, bright eyes, "Uncle, sit here."

She pointed to the bedside.

Mu Yuanxiu smiled slightly, "Alright."

He wrapped his cloak tighter and sat at the edge of the bed.

Li Yuzhu cuddled Guoguo, "Go to sleep, Guoguo."

Guoguo blinked as she looked at them, "Auntie, Uncle, Xue Family are bad people."

Li Yuzhu sighed inwardly and held Guoguo closer, "Let’s not mention them anymore, go to sleep, Guoguo."

Since the Xue Family left the Li Family, the whole family hadn’t mentioned them in front of the children.

Guoguo was less than a year old at the time, Li Jing was only two years old, telling such young children that their mother is a bad person was incomprehensible to them and would only burden their hearts.

What kind of person the Xue Family is, the Li Family believed these two children would find out when they grew up.

Indeed, Guoguo, just two and a half years old, already understood the nature of the Xue Family.

Mother and daughter hadn’t met in two years, and the Xue Family didn’t even try to soothe Guoguo, causing the child to cry out that she is a bad person and have a nightmare, showing the Xue Family’s cold-heartedness.

"Auntie, Uncle, the Xue Family wants to kill Brother Rui’s family, they want to harm people! They help Yu Wen Zan hurt people, they’re bad people!" Guoguo gasped for air, clutching Li Yuzhu’s arm tightly, and tugged at Mu Yuanxiu’s sleeve.

Li Yuzhu was both shocked and angry, how could this child know about Yu Wen Zan?

What had that wicked woman from the Xue Family said to her to scare the child so much?

Mu Yuanxiu held Guoguo’s small hand gently and said, "Don’t worry, Guoguo, nothing will happen to Young Master Rui’s family."