With her father and brother banished, and her engagement to the marquisate broken, everyone eagerly awaited to see Xiao Jiuyue become a laughingstock.
Facing her frail grandmother, her beauti...
Chapter 141 The Third Prince's Handkerchief
"Your Highness."
"Miss."
Guo Sheng and Jin Wu chased all the way here, and when they saw Xiao Jiuyue and Jun Lie, they ran over excitedly.
"Miss!" Luo Kui's voice was so loud that it startled Xiao Jiuyue's joy at seeing her own people. Luo Kui limped over and the moment he saw Xiao Jiuyue, he threw himself in front of her, hugged her tightly, and said with a choked voice, "Miss, I'm so glad you're okay!"
"Miss, next time something like this happens, please don't abandon me. At least let me stay with you." Luo Kui's tears were like a flood bursting through a dam.
"Pah, pah, pah." Xiao Jiuyue supported her and said, "This kind of thing must never happen again."
"Right, right, right." Luo Kui slapped her lips and said, "It's all my fault for not being able to speak. Miss, everything will go smoothly in the future and you won't encounter such dangerous things again."
"Yeah." Xiao Jiuyue looked at Luo Kui, who was even more embarrassed than her, and asked, "What's wrong with your leg?"
When Luo Kui came over just now, he was limping. Her eyes fell on Luo Kui's bloody arm: "Why didn't you bandage the wound on your hand?"
"Miss, Miss Luokui insisted on not bandaging her wound in order to find you." Jin Wen had barely finished speaking when Luokui pulled him away. Luokui smiled and said, "It's okay, Miss. My injury is nothing serious. Miss, are you hurt anywhere? The carriage fell to the ground and shattered into pieces. Are you hurt anywhere?"
Luo Kui doesn't care about herself, she only cares about Xiao Jiuyue.
"I'm not hurt." Xiao Jiuyue looked at her red and swollen eyes, and the darkness under her eyelids. How could he not know that she must have been searching all night last night.
"Third Master, your back and shoulders are bleeding."
While Xiao Jiuyue was talking to Jin Wu and Luo Kui, Guo Sheng was also checking Jun Lie. Seeing the bleeding wound on Jun Lie's back, he was extremely worried and said, "Third Master, I'll apply some medicine on you."
Xiao Jiuyue looked over and saw that Jun Lie's outer robe was completely stained with blood, but it was hard to see through his dark clothes. Guo Sheng helped Jun Lie to sit down nearby and exclaimed, "Third Master, is your leg injured?"
Guo Sheng squatted down, lifted his clothes, and looked at Jun Lie's legs, which had been scratched at some point. His shoes were mixed with mud and blood, and he couldn't tell the difference between mud and blood.
"Third Master, you don't want to live anymore. Don't you want this leg anymore?" Guo Sheng said anxiously, "Your leg is already injured like this. What if..."
Guo Sheng didn't even dare to mention the bad consequences that followed.
Xiao Jiuyue looked at Jun Lie with complicated eyes. Along the way, she wanted to ask Jun Lie about his injury several times, but Jun Lie always diverted her attention. She wanted to see Jun Lie's wound, but Jun Lie always found something to divert her attention.
Even his legs...
Jun Lie glanced at him and asked in a cold voice, "Guo Sheng, have all the killers been dealt with?"
"They are all dead. We caught two alive, but they had poison in their mouths. After being caught, they committed suicide by biting the poison." Guo Sheng said in a low voice. He glanced at Jin Wu, and his eyes seemed to say: Where is the herbs you promised to collect?
Jin Wu pretended not to see it.
"Third Prince, your health is more important. Why don't you go to the Xiao family to recuperate?" Xiao Jiuyue invited enthusiastically. If it weren't for Jun Lie, she would have been bitten by a snake that had just woken up from hibernation along the way.
Jun Lie raised his eyes and replied, "Sorry to bother you!"
Fu'an Village, the old house of the Xiao family.
"Hurry, go get the doctor." Xiao Jiuyue rode in a carriage all the way back from the mountains, and it was almost dark.
"Miss, the doctor is already in the mansion." Lianxin said in a low voice. Xiao Jiuyue was in trouble and the Xiao family was in chaos. It was the old lady who held herself up and sent them to follow the guards to search in the mountains.
All the people brought by Manager Jin have signed death contracts and will not say much. At the same time, the old lady asked Shi Lizheng and Shi Youmin to keep their mouths shut and not to reveal the news of Xiao Jiuyue's disappearance.
"Are grandma and mother okay?" Xiao Jiuyue asked worriedly.
Lian Xin stammered, "Miss, I'm glad you're back."
Xiao Jiuyue returned all the way home. The moment Mrs. Xiao saw Xiao Jiuyue, she grabbed her hand and fainted.
"Grandma." Xiao Jiuyue directly carried the frail old lady Xiao back to the bed and called a doctor. The doctor said: The old lady is a person who experiences great sorrow and joy. She will be fine if she is taken good care of.
"After the eldest lady got into trouble, the old lady has been holding on. She didn't sleep the whole night yesterday, waiting for the eldest lady to come back." Mother Jiang was filling hot water and wiping Old Madam Xiao's body. "As long as the eldest lady is safe, I'm glad."
"Grandma." Xiao Jiuyue wiped Old Madam Xiao's hands with a handkerchief, then said, "Mother Jiang, take good care of Grandma."
"Don't worry, Miss." Mother Jiang nodded affirmatively.
When I came out of Old Madam Xiao's room, I found out that the beautiful mother had fainted several times from crying. Now that she saw Xiao Jiuyue coming back, the beautiful mother hugged Xiao Jiuyue and cried.
"Mom, don't cry. I'm fine, aren't I?" Xiao Jiuyue said comfortingly.
"Yuer."
"If your father hadn't been in trouble, how could this happen to you?"
"It's all my fault."
The beautiful lady Su said this with self-blame.
"How could that be? Mother is very capable. She invited the doctor, and the Xiao family is not in chaos. All this is thanks to mother." Xiao Jiuyue comforted her. She thought that the Xiao family would be in chaos. Not only did her grandmother and her beautiful mother protect her reputation, but they also brought people to look for her.
Su was sobbing and pulling Xiao Jiuyue, as if she wanted to make sure whether Xiao Jiuyue was injured.
Xiao Jiuyue comforted Su for a long time, and Su finally felt better. However, when Su mentioned this incident, her tears came again.
"Mom, I need to take a shower and change my clothes. I slept in a cave last night and didn't dare to sleep the whole night." Xiao Jiuyue said half-truthfully, and found an excuse to go take a shower.
Only then did Su hurriedly comfort Xiao Jiuyue, preparing hot water and clean clothes for her.
"Lianxin, how is Luokui's injury? Is her foot okay?" Xiao Jiuyue soaked in the bathtub, and the rising hot water swept away her fatigue.
"They are just superficial injuries. There are no injuries to the bones or muscles of the feet. He will be fine after a few days of rest and the swelling goes down." Lianxin didn't sleep the whole night because she was worried about Xiao Jiuyue.
While shaking out her clothes, Lianxin saw a men's handkerchief. She was startled and asked, "Miss, what is this handkerchief..."
Xiao Jiuyue looked back and saw the men's handkerchief. She immediately remembered that it belonged to Jun Lie. She had soaked it in water to reduce his fever, but later she fell asleep in a daze and had forgotten to return it to him.
"The Third Prince will come to our house tomorrow to recuperate. Please ask Chief Steward Jin to clean up the front yard." Xiao Jiuyue changed the subject.
Lianxin looked at the men's handkerchief in her hand, her heart pounding, and she didn't dare to ask: Is this the Third Prince's handkerchief?