Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 377 Poisoning (4)

Xiaobai shook his tiger head, "Ow... There’s nobody in the room."

Dugu Chen put the child next to Feng Xuxu, "Send me out, I’m afraid the wet nurse will harm me." If the wet nurse was really dead, the clues would have been cut off.

Feng Xuxu nodded, looked at the girl sleeping in her arms, and also placed her on the ground, "Xiaobai, keep an eye on them. Once they wake up, play with them for a while. If they get hungry, feed them Spiritual Spring."

"Alright, sister." Xiaobai wagged its tail, guarding by the side of the two children.

With a flash, she and Dugu Chen left the space, arriving outside the wet nurse’s bedroom.

Furious, Dugu Chen kicked the door open. There was no movement inside, and the two exchanged glances. Dugu Chen stepped in front of Feng Xuxu, cautiously entering the room to check the situation.

On the bed lay a sleeping wet nurse, while another curled up on the ground, occasionally groaning softly.

"Come out." He called out angrily, and the hidden Xuan Yue appeared from the shadows.

"Master."

"Treat the one on the ground and take the wet nurse on the bed to the dungeon as well. Make sure to find out who the mastermind behind the scenes is." His face darkened, eyes glaring fixedly at the person on the floor.

Xuan Yue looked at both the person on the ground and the one on the bed, picking up one with each hand and swiftly taking them to the dungeon. The dungeon hardly ever lay idle lately.

"Chen, have a thorough search of the Residence too, and see who brought the poison in." After the initial panic, Feng Xuxu’s mind was much clearer.

He stretched out his arm and embraced her, "I will check. This time, no matter who it is, I won’t let them off."

Feng Xuxu lifted her head, looked at him for a moment, then spoke softly, "What if it’s him?"

"I’ll make no exception." He could tolerate him attacking himself, but he absolutely couldn’t bear him hurting his own children.

"Good." Turning her head towards the moon outside, if not for the Spiritual Spring in the space, her two children might have left her forever.

Both of them entered the space, looking at the sleeping faces of the children, sitting quietly through the night without sleep. Only when the sky brightened did they leave the space together. The children remained inside; Feng Xuxu couldn’t rest assured to have them appear outside until the situation was resolved, the shadow in her heart lingered.

Feng Xuxu led Tian Yi and Di An to start cleaning up Prince Mei Residence, while Dugu Chen went to the dungeon with Xuan Yue and Huang Yi.

"Prince." The dungeon guard saw Prince coming towards him with a murderous look and immediately stood up straighter than usual, his voice resonating more robustly.

Dugu Chen, with a grim face, walked straight past the guard.

"Speak, who made you poison them?" He grasped the wet nurse’s jaw fiercely, his teeth clenched as he spoke harshly.

Liu, the wet nurse tied to the frame, trembled with fright, tears streaming down her face.

"Torture her." Losing his patience, Dugu Chen’s eyes were cold as he stared at Liu, the wet nurse.

Xuan Yue emotionlessly picked up a silver needle from the table and slowly approached Liu on the frame.

"Prince, I’ll talk, I’ll talk." Frightened, Liu, the wet nurse, her eyes swollen from crying, knew she was doomed ever since she had been saved from ingesting rat poison last night.

"Speak." Xuan Yue put down the silver needle, glaring fiercely at the cursed young woman.

Choking back sobs, she began to speak intermittently, "They took my man and child. He said if I didn’t poison the Princely Heir and Commandery Princess, they would kill my child and my man."

"Who is ’he’?" Xuan Yue pressed further.

Liu shook her head, "It was a servant in the Residence."

"How do you know your child and your man are in his hands?"

"They showed me the little clothes I stitched for my son; I recognize them, they were indeed stitched by me." Her eyes wide open, she nodded vigorously, afraid that Xuan Yue wouldn’t believe her, and added another sentence.

"Was the poison also provided by that servant?"

"Yes, yes, it was."

"Do you remember what that servant looks like?"

"I remember."

"Was the drug in Nurse Xu’s teacup put there by you?"

"Yes."

"Did she know you poisoned the Princely Heir and Commandery Princess?"

"She didn’t, but she seemed suspicious. That’s why I put the sleeping potion in her water cup."

"Were all these drugs provided by the servant?"

"Yes, yes, after I told him Nurse Xu was suspicious, he gave me a packet of medicine saying it would put someone to sleep for an entire night, undisturbed by thunder, and I gave it to her."

Xuan Yue turned back to his master, "Master, I shall take her to identify that servant."

"Yes, go. After that’s done, investigate Liu, the wet nurse’s family."

"Yes, master."

As Xuan Yue took Liu away, he turned to Huang Yi and said, "You go to the princess. Assist the princess in thoroughly searching the Residence; don’t even overlook a single corner or spare a cat." Dugu Chen narrowed his eyes, a vein throbbing on his forehead. He would never allow such a thing to happen again.

"Yes, master."