Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 461 Running Away From Home (1)

"Brother, why do I feel like there are some unfriendly eyes watching us?" Yueyue blinked her big eyes rapidly, looking towards her brother.

Qiqi pursed his lips. It was always like this; she’d call him brother when there was trouble, and call him little brother when there wasn’t, all while batting those big eyes and pretending to be ignorant. Hmph, that face must have deceived countless oblivious palace maids and eunuchs—probably even she couldn’t count how many times: "Yes, right behind you, about fifteen meters away, by the side of the flower pond."

Yueyue pouted and fiddled back and forth with her little fingers, her brain whirring rapidly as her eyes occasionally drifted towards her elder brother. Suddenly, she revealed a sly smile.

Dugu Qi watched his sister’s sweet smile and unconsciously took a few steps back until his back leaned against the stem of a flower, only then did he come to a stop, his gaze piercing as he stared at his sister, not daring to even blink.

With her eyes shimmering like a haze yet brilliantly clear, Yueyue observed her brother’s expression. Her small mouth split into a big smile, revealing little white teeth and two dimples appeared on her cheeks as she reached forward and grabbed her brother’s hand, and then ran off in an instant.

Feng Xuxu watched the two little ones intently, but in the blink of an eye, they had disappeared. Just as she was about to step forward to catch them, someone embraced her from behind. Smelling the familiar scent, she knew immediately who it was. She chuckled to herself, having been fooled by the little ones again.

"My lady, what are you doing?" Dugu Chen released Feng Xuxu, took her hand, and slowly strolled through the Imperial Garden with her.

Speaking of just moments ago, Feng Xuxu couldn’t help but smile wryly and shook her head: "I just saw our son and daughter hiding by the flower pond. They probably ran off the moment they saw you coming."

"Haha, my lady, Tian Yi came to me just now to tattle," Dugu Chen recalled Tian Yi’s face drawn with a blue turtle, and how, no matter how much Tian Yi tried, he couldn’t wash it off, and had to seek him out reluctantly.

"Was he tattling on the son or the daughter this time?" Feng Xuxu was used to receiving complaints daily over the past half year, too numerous to count.

"It was Yueyue, of course. She couldn’t beat Tian Yi so she used a drug to knock him out, then painted a turtle on his face with some potion she concocted herself. Then she quietly ran off."

Feng Xuxu’s eyelids twitched violently, those two little rascals were really lawless. It seemed like she really needed to discipline them soon.

"My lady, you might as well save your efforts. Before you even try to discipline them, they would have long escaped," Dugu Chen said sympathetically to his wife.

Feng Xuxu bit her back teeth tightly: "I refuse to believe I can’t deal with them."

Dugu Chen patted her shoulder, glanced at the two little figures hiding in the distance, and said with a faint smile, "Let them be. The Imperial Palace isn’t that big. They’ve explored the whole palace since they learned to walk. They must be bored to the extreme to play pranks on Tian Yi."

Upon hearing their father defending them, both little ones couldn’t help but nod furiously, as if to say ’Exactly, exactly, we’re just so bored, that’s why we’re looking for fun’.

"You spoil them too much. No, this can’t go on; they’re becoming completely lawless. They’re about to rip off the roof. This time, I must teach them a lesson they won’t forget," Feng Xuxu raged. A small tree won’t grow straight if it’s not pruned; without discipline, they will surely turn out spoiled. She has to straighten these two nearly crooked trees.

Dugu Chen also felt innocent, mouthing an "oh" as if to say, did he really spoil them? It seemed not. All he did was secretly let them go when his wife wanted to punish them, or maybe snitch on them now and then. Apart from that, he really hadn’t done much else.

Seeing his wife seemed serious, he cast a survival-blessing glance towards the two little ones hiding not far away.