Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 714 Grand Finale (18)

"Master." Xiu Bingxi hurried forward, supporting him, with a face full of worry.

Xiu Bingxi waved his hand, wiped the blood from his mouth with his sleeve, said nothing, and twisted back to his own bedroom. The butler sighed at the sight before him, waved his hand, and called everyone to clean up all these burnt items. When dawn broke, they would also clear away the charred garden and start rebuilding it.

With a heavy ’slap,’ Feng Xuxu’s hand came down hard on the table. Her narrowed eyes and heaving chest were symbols of the anger she felt at this moment.

"All the mulberry saplings have been burned?"

Xiu Bingxi, kneeling on the ground, nodded shamefully.

"You don’t even know who burned them?"

Xiu Bingxi, with his head hung low, nodded more heavily.

Feng Xuxu laughed in exasperation, "Do you have anything to say?"

"Your Highness, I already have some leads. I earnestly ask for some time from Your Highness, and I will certainly drag out the mastermind behind the scenes."

Feng Xuxu looked coldly at Xiu Bingxi on the ground. She slowly stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the big tree not far away, standing quietly. Xiu Bingxi quietly lifted his gaze to follow, but at this moment, he couldn’t read the emotions of Her Highness. His heart was even more frightened, like a bucket being swung around, unsettled.

Looking at the tree outside, she thought calmly for a long while. She could roughly guess who had set this fire, but she couldn’t understand why. He clearly knew that the Mulberry Garden was a property of her palace, yet he dared to send someone to destroy it. It showed just how bold this person was—a mere rich merchant daring to behave this way, brazenly challenging her authority. It seemed he was tired of living. "Hmph, you could have chosen the wide and easy road, yet you insisted on provoking me. Since you don’t wish to live, I shall grant your wish, and let you know what it means to be unable to live or die, what true regret is."

"You go back first. You know what to do. In a few days, I will send someone to deliver a new batch of mulberry saplings to you. As for this matter, just mention it a bit in the Mulberry Garden."

"At your command."

Feng Xuxu, with her back to him, waved her hand. Seeing this, Xiu Bingxi got up, bowed, and silently left.

Not long after Xiu Bingxi departed, Dugu Chen hurried back. He entered the side hall and saw his wife standing by the window, staring blankly outside. He walked up behind her and placed his hand on her shoulder, "My lady, I have heard about it too."

Feng Xuxu slowly turned around to look at him, smiled faintly, and said, "Husband, I don’t understand. What kind of power emboldened him to lay his hands on my property?" She stood by the window, thought for a long time, but still couldn’t grasp it, her confusion only deepening.

Dugu Chen, with furrowed brows, looked puzzled at the person in his arms, "Does my lady mean to say that he has someone behind him?"

Feng Xuxu, suspecting as much, nodded, "Yes."

"Zi Weijiang is already the richest man in Luo County, who else could be more powerful, more advantaged than him?" Dugu Chen pursed his lips, quickly reviewing the important families in the Capital City in his mind to see who could possibly be the person behind Zi Weijiang.

After pondering for a while, a clear figure appeared in their minds. Feng Xuxu and Dugu Chen looked at each other in surprise, and simultaneously said, "Nangong Xiu."

"So, my lady also suspects him."

"Aren’t you suspecting him too?"

"Yes, indeed. According to the spies in the Nangong Residence, there was a quarrel in the study between Nangong Xiu and his father not long ago, and the content of their argument is rather intriguing."

Feng Xuxu asked curiously, "What was the content?"