Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 383: Xiu Yang’s Encounter (2)
"Here they come, here they come, who is it that won’t let people sleep in peace?" she said, huffing and puffing.
Feng Xuxu was outside the hall listening to what sounded like an old nanny speaking, feeling even more strange in her heart. Even a favored servant wouldn’t be so lax; wouldn’t they fear offending someone of high status in the palace? Xiu Yang was born into a noble family and should understand this principle. With confusion in her heart, she quietly took note.
The heavy doors creaked open as an old nanny stepped out, yawning and puffing out her breath, arching her brows and glancing at Feng Xuxu and her two servants: "So early in the morning, you come knocking on the door. Don’t you know we had just gone to sleep?"
"How dare you!" Mei Lenglei scolded, furiously after knocking for quite a while and hearing nonsense. His anger flared at the nanny’s disrespectful words, "A mere butler dares to refer to herself as ’I’ in front of the princess. You old witch, do you wish to defy your superiors?"
As soon as the Moon Fairy Palace butler heard it was the princess, her legs trembled, and she knelt down with a thud, frantically kowtowing, "Princess, spare my life, I deserve to die, I was blind to not recognize you, Your Grace. Please, have mercy on me."
Feng Xuxu glanced at the person on the ground and walked into the palace, with Mei Lenglei grabbing the old nanny by the collar and dragging her inside as well.
Walking through the silent palace, looking around, they discovered not a single soul, not even Xiu Yang’s maids were in sight.
"Where is the princess?" An unease suddenly surged in his heart as he turned to look at the kneeling old nanny.
The old nanny wiped the sweat from her forehead, swallowing nervously with trembling lips, "Reply...replying to the princess, the master...she’s not here."
"Speak, where did the princess go? Where are the people from Moon Fairy Palace?" Zhu Lengqing kicked the person on the ground, asking her sternly.
The old nanny stood up, straightening her body, then began to kowtow fiercely again. When asked anything she would shake her head persistently, avoiding speaking.
Seeing that the nanny would answer other questions but remained silent on anything related to the princess, Feng Xuxu glanced at her sideways, stood up, and moved to push open the doors of the side chamber. There was no one inside, a layer of dust had settled on the tables. Turning, she walked to the bedroom, which was in disarray, a dark stain on the floor, and the cup on the small tea table still in place, the tea inside evaporated, leaving behind the dry leaves.
Feng Xuxu closed her eyes for a moment to compose herself, then turned and stepped out of the bedroom, stepping on the old nanny on the floor: "Speak, or I’ll take you back to my estate and deal with you slowly."
"Princess, spare my life, I truly don’t know. I am a butler of the palace; you do not have the right to take me out of the palace. The emperor would not allow it," Although she begged for mercy, the old nanny knew deep down that she belonged to the palace staff, and any misdeed by one of them would be managed by the Central Palace, or in its absence, by whichever wife holding the Phoenix Seal.
Feng Xuxu sneered, noticing the old nanny wasn’t so foolish after all. Her boldness suggested someone had her back.
When the old nanny saw the princess remained silent for a long time, she thought her words had an effect and felt secretly pleased, lifting her head, only to meet the princess’s amused gaze and quickly lowered her head again.
Feng Xuxu bent down, pinching her chubby chin, forcing the woman to look at her, arching an eyebrow, "Disrespect towards me, defying a superior, threatening me, tell me, how many heads do you have to chop off? Or do you think that the emperor would offend me on your behalf?"
