Li Feng stumbled and almost fell to the ground. She managed to grab the door frame and glared angrily at the fat woman: "Fat woman, what are you doing!" she said as she walked out.

The fat woman spat fiercely and grabbed Li Feng's arm: "You little slut, where are you going!"

Li Feng gritted her teeth and glared at the fat woman: "I'll go beg the Prince to find a doctor for Miss. If Miss keeps burning up like this, something terrible will happen. Do you want Miss to die?!"

"Ha, it's better if she's dead. It's no use begging her. The prince won't find her a doctor. She's practically cursed the prince to death. You still expect him to save her? Li Feng, you must be dreaming!"

If the prince were willing to take care of this woman, the imperial physician wouldn't have just taken her pulse and left.

Now the fat woman has figured it out. She's afraid that this Imperial Physician Jiang took it upon himself to come and check if Lu Xiaoyun was dead, and it's impossible that the Prince sent him.

The young lady's injury couldn't be delayed, so Li Feng broke free from the fat woman and ran towards the front yard.

The fat woman spat at her retreating figure, saying, "Don't you even know who slapped Lu Xiaoyun's bruised face? And you still go to beg the prince? You're all so stupid."

Li Feng was stopped by two guards as soon as he arrived at the gate of Zhu Yu's courtyard in the front yard.

The two guards, with an air of official business, said in an icy tone, "Go back. Without the Prince's orders, no one is allowed to leave Feixue Garden!"

Li Feng knelt down with a thud: "Please, guard, let me see the prince! My young lady has a high fever, and if it continues like this, she will die!"

The guard remained unmoved. Death? Hmph, only death would be clean!

"Get out of here! If you don't leave, don't blame us for being impolite!"

Li Feng took off all the jewelry she could remove from her head, ears, and hands and stuffed it into the guard's hands.

The guards didn't even glance at it, slapping it away with one hand. These pieces of junk wouldn't even be worth pawning, yet they had the nerve to use them as bribes. Besides, serving Prince An, their monthly allowances were quite generous; why would they care about such things?

Inside the study, Jiang Chuan was reporting to her about what happened at the outhouse.

"You said something happened at the outhouse in the west courtyard? What happened?" The voice was neither loud nor soft.

On the surface, Lu Xiaoyun tried her best to remain calm, but little did anyone know, her heart was pounding with anxiety. Oh no, something terrible had happened. Could that little girl have thought Prince An was going to kill her, and then, in a fit of despair, decided to take her own life?

Jiang Chuan secretly glanced at his master, who was sitting upright behind his desk, scribbling something on a piece of paper. He felt that something was wrong. Although the guard had spoken to him softly, the prince was extremely skilled in martial arts and had always had amazing hearing. He should have heard him clearly.

He was somewhat unsure, wondering if the steward's earlier comment about Lu Xiaoyun's maidservant had displeased the prince.

So, he became the punching bag?

Jiang Chuan felt a sudden tightening in his buttocks.

Lu Xiaoyun looked up at the person in front of her and said calmly, "Hmm?"

Jiang Chuan immediately stood up straight and replied, "Your Highness, the guards said that a maid was found unconscious in the outhouse in the west courtyard. After waking up, she somehow went mad."

"Crazy?!" Lu Xiaoyun tried her best to keep a straight face, but her heart almost skipped a beat. Oh no, she had transmigrated to ancient times and driven a woman crazy in just half a day.

Why is this little maid so easily frightened?

How cowardly! Besides, even though her pants fell down, it wasn't because her top was long enough that she saw anything she shouldn't have, except for her bare thighs.

She didn't even see it herself.

Jiang Chuan saw that his prince was frowning deeply and carefully continued, "After she woke up, she kept saying, 'This servant didn't see anything, didn't see anything.'"

Lu Xiaoyun's eyelids twitched again. Oh, what a mess!

The shock caused the brain to react in an emergency, which is why the maid was momentarily disoriented.

Zhu Yu is a ruthless killer, so this little maid probably won't be able to wake up for a while.

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, I have already had my guards throw the person out."

Lu Xiaoyun was startled. Were all the people in the Prince An's mansion this ruthless?

She glared at Jiang Chuan, her face darkening. "Who gave you permission to do this? When did you learn to act on your own?"

Seeing the "Prince's" demeanor, Jiang Chuan felt a chill run down his spine. Wasn't this the usual procedure? How could it be considered acting on his own initiative now? He immediately knelt down and begged for forgiveness: "I know I was wrong, please give me your instructions, Your Highness."

Lu Xiaoyun rubbed her temples: "This maid is a palace maid serving my mother. How can we handle this as usual? Bring her back and find a doctor to examine her."

In reality, the safest approach is, as Jiang Chuanshuo said, to either throw the person out or kill them.

But the person didn't do anything wrong, so why should she take their life for no reason? She's not a saint, but does being a saint necessarily mean killing someone?

Now that he's gone mad, perhaps that's for the best.

Jiang Chuan stood up and looked at "Your Highness" as if he didn't recognize him.

Lu Xiaoyun said, "Didn't you think about what she meant by that? What does 'this servant didn't see anything' mean?"

Jiang Chuan blinked blankly, then seemed to realize something after a long while: "Your Highness, are you saying she saw the assassins from that day? Could it be that she really knows who was behind them?"

Lu Xiaoyun was speechless. What did Zhu Yu see in this little attendant? This maid had only followed Consort Duan into the Prince An's mansion. Did she have some kind of supernatural ability to see the assassin from three days ago?

"Your Highness, do you mean the mastermind behind this is someone from the palace? And that this maid happened to discover them while they were discussing their plan?"

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