Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 553: Asking for Votes (2)

Feng Xuxu curled her lips. Killing a person was indeed a laborious task. After all that effort and risk, it was just to scout the place. It was truly lackluster.

"Hubby, I’m saying, can we not get it done in one go? Something that’s not dangerous and also swift," she asked.

"That’s not so easy."

"It is."

"What?"

"Poisoning."

Dugu Chen’s eyes sparkled, and he gave a thumbs-up. "That’s a great idea, uh, I’ll go make the poison, you wait." He thought for a moment about his wife’s method, found it feasible, nodded, and stood up to leave.

Seeing him spring into action, Feng Xuxu too rose and followed him to the Alchemy Room.

At that time, the villa was in chaos. The town, the Prefecture Government—every renowned doctor had been summoned by Feng Xi to the villa to cure the Little Crown Prince and the Little Princess. However, one by one the doctors arrived with enthusiasm and left disheartened. Upon careful questioning, it turned out not that they had failed to cure, but that they were not even allowed to see the patients. How could they treat without examining? They were not clairvoyants who could diagnose by mere calculation. Feng Xi was rendered speechless by the rebuke and, dejected, went to see his wife at the ’Lotus Garden’.

"Lady Baihe, please let me see my little sister," Feng Xi pleaded with Baihe, as he and Jiaojiao stood outside the ’Lotus Garden’.

Baihe was also quite helpless, "Young Master Feng, please go back. Neither the young miss nor my master is seeing anyone."

"Go and announce that I wish to see the Empress," commanded Young Master Jueqing, arriving from the outside with a sullen look directed at her.

"Young Master Jueqing, the Empress is seeing no one, no matter who it is."

Young Master Jueqing’s eyes narrowed as he glanced at the somewhat panicked Baihe, then twisted around and walked away. Feng Xi and his wife exchanged a look and, seeing Young Master Jueqing depart, they too left, heads down.

Once they were gone, Baihe breathed a sigh of relief, closed the great door of the ’Lotus Garden’, and returned inside.

As night fell once more, Young Master Jueqing, dressed in black, stealthily crept into the rear courtyard of the ’Lotus Garden’. With a few quick movements, he arrived outside Feng Xuxu’s room. He glanced at the candlelight within and turned towards Qiqi’s room. Just as he was about to push open Qiqi’s door, Wan Hun caught hold of his arm, "Young Master Jueqing, what are you up to in the middle of the night?"

"Let go."

Wan Hun stood firm as a pine.

"You’re a man who left Jueqing Castle."

"I was before, not anymore."

Young Master Jueqing took a deep breath, attempting to calm his emotions, "I wanted to see if the Crown Prince’s poison has been cured."

"The Crown Prince is doing very well." Wan Hun remained ice cold, without a trace of a smile on his face, unwilling even to utter an extra word.

Young Master Jueqing glared at him fiercely before turning on his heel and walking away. When he reached Yueyue’s room, he was blocked by Wan Hun again. Observing his face as cold and foul as his brother’s, he narrowed his eyes and said with an unusual chill in his tone, intensifying the stress, "Is the Princess also doing very well?"

"Yes."

After hearing this response, Young Master Jueqing turned and left, reaching the room of Feng Xuxu and Dugu Chen. He didn’t even need to knock; someone intercepted him. This time, Huang Yi and Xuan Yue were blocking his path. Young Master Jueqing scoffed, "Your masters are doing well, are they?"

Xuan Yue and Huang Yi nodded at the same time.

"And if I were to force my way in?" Young Master Jueqing eyed them, his mind racing with thoughts.

"Only if you can defeat all four of us," they said, as the other two emerged from behind.

Speechless, Young Master Jueqing looked at them, "Something must have happened! The people inside are not actually my cousins."

Di An and the others merely twitched an eyebrow but remained silent.