Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 386 Xiu Yang’s Experience (5)
"Thank you, princess, thank you." Luo Mama opened her wrinkled chrysanthemum face joyfully, grinning as she expressed her gratitude.
Feng Xuxu glanced at her and stood up to leave.
"Princess Mei, will Prince Mei treat our Xiu Family well?" Xiu Yang crawled out and urgently called out to Feng Xuxu just as she was about to leave the back courtyard.
Feng Xuxu turned around. Although she did not know why Xiu Yang would say such things, she nodded firmly, "Prince Mei and I will never do things like a dead rabbit being cooked by its hounds."
"Remember what you said, or I won’t let you go even if I become a ghost."
Feng Xuxu slightly furrowed her brows, not understanding why Xiu Yang would say such things, and was about to step forward to ask when Huang Yi, who was next to Dugu Chen, came over. By the time she turned back, Xiu Yang had already disappeared.
As she got on the carriage, she felt very dejected, gently leaning on Dugu Chen’s shoulder, closing her eyes, and scenes involving Xiu Yang flashed through her mind intermittently.
Some feelings of emotion, some of relief, for she had met him, and not that cold-hearted, ruthless person.
Thinking of Xiu Yang’s experiences, she muttered to him sullenly, "If you dare to betray me, I will never let you go."
Dugu Chen arched an eyebrow, supporting Feng Xuxu’s chin with a single finger, looking into her eyes with utmost seriousness, "I, Dugu Chen, hereby swear that if one day..."
"Don’t, I trust you." Feng Xuxu hurriedly covered his mouth, not wanting to hear those vows.
Dugu Chen pulled down her soft little hand, holding it tightly in his, and looked into her eyes, "Wife, if there comes a day when I betray you, I shall be ground to dust and scattered, forever unable to reincarnate."
Feng Xuxu smiled through her tears, nestling in his embrace, quietly listening to his strong heartbeat.
Upon returning to the mansion, Feng Xuxu ordered someone to send Xiaoxi to the servant quarters and summoned the Mansion Physician for treatment. She kept Yingsu, asking to be informed after Xiaoxi awoke, as Xiaoxi might know something about Xiu Yang’s situation.
As evening approached, Xiaoxi woke with a start, looking around at the unfamiliar surroundings, her face filled with panic.
"Xiaoxi, this is Prince Mei Residence, and I am the Princess’s personal maid," said Yingsu as she saw her very frightened, even terrified, initially thinking it was the unfamiliar environment causing it, but half a moment later, her fear persisted.
"Xiaoxi, Xiaoxi?" Yingsu saw her muttering to herself, not hearing clearly. She approached to pull her over, but Xiaoxi let out a shriek and violently pushed Yingsu away, curling up in a corner.
"Go away, don’t, leave us alone." Flailing her arms, she adamantly refused to let Yingsu come closer, her mouth continuously screaming those few words. Yingsu felt something was wrong, got up to secure the door, and quickly walked towards the back courtyard to report to the princess.
Upon hearing this, both Feng Xuxu and Dugu Chen frowned deeply and immediately went to Xiaoxi’s room. Dugu Chen was worried and followed along, fearing Xiaoxi would harm Feng Xuxu in her agitated state.
"Xiaoxi, look at me, I am Feng Xuxu." Feng Xuxu softened her gaze as she stood a few steps away from the bed, looking at her.
Xiaoxi timidly looked up and, in a daze, saw a beautiful fairy tenderly looking at her. She cried out, rushing into Feng Xuxu’s arms, "Fairy, take me with you, I don’t want to live anymore, and yes, take my lady with me too."
Dugu Chen’s face turned ashen as he watched her frantically cling to his wife. Just as he took a step forward, his wife glared him back. Seeing this, Dugu Chen sulkily pursed his lips and stayed put, gazing at her with a wistful look.
Yingsu was even more confused on the side, Fairy? The Princess indeed looked very gentle and beautiful, but not like a fairy. How could anyone see the Princess as a fairy? Perhaps Xiaoxi had lost her mind?
With this thought, Yingsu quietly looked on, vigilantly watching Xiaoxi, fearing any outburst might harm the Princess, which would be a crime for which she could die a million times and still not appease the Prince’s anger.
"Alright, I have already taken you away, see for yourself, is this place the same as where you used to live?" Feng Xuxu said, seeing Xiaoxi’s excessive shock and slowly consoling her.
Xiaoxi looked around and shook her head at Feng Xuxu.
"You see, aren’t the people here different too?"
After looking at Dugu Chen and Yingsu standing behind Feng Xuxu, she timidly nodded at Feng Xuxu.
Half an hour, an hour, until two hours had passed, Feng Xuxu emerged from Xiaoxi’s room with an ashen face, contemplating the words Xiaoxi had just said to her. Feng Xuxu felt an impulse to kill someone, yet at the same time, her heart ached for Xiu Yang.
"Wife, I will enter the palace tomorrow to get the Noble Consort out." Even if not for the sake of Xiu Yang being one of his subordinates, but also for the sake of her whistleblowing, he had to rescue Xiu Yang.
Feng Xuxu shook her head, her voice carrying a trace of sadness, "When I took her out of the palace today, she didn’t want to leave. She said that if she lived for him, she would die in the palace as well." 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
Dugu Chen was also at a loss for words. He looked down at his wife, "Then, should we tell Xiu Bingxi about this?"
"Tell her what? That her sister has to accompany those eunuchs who can no longer be regarded as human every night, or that her sister is humiliated by those guards in rotation, or that those guards, for the thrill, made her sister do things with those beasts..." I just can’t say those things.
Feng Xuxu shivered at the thought, wondering how Xiu Yang could have endured it all.
"Chen, tell me, does the Emperor really know nothing about all this?"
