"Miss, it's all done."
As night fell, the palace maids who had gone out to purchase things for Qionghua Palace returned before the palace gates closed. Cui Tao was able to leave the palace on the pretext of adjusting the recipe for the "cake shop" and successfully returned to Xue Linglong.
Xue Linglong's eyes lit up when she heard what she said.
He grabbed Cui Tao's hand and asked, "Did you hand that thing over to Shen Feng personally?"
"Miss, I handed it to the prince personally." Cui Tao lowered her eyes and replied, pulling her hand back which was a little painful from being grabbed.
After hesitating for a while, he still said, "Miss, the prince looks very different now than before..."
"What's the big difference?" Xue Linglong was stunned for a moment and frowned.
The last time they met, the image of Shen Feng rushing into the Ling family's villa came to mind. At that time, even though the Second Prince was disheveled and a little embarrassed, he still looked much better than that coward Shen Feng.
Could it be that Shen Feng is even worse now?
For a moment, Xue Linglong couldn't help feeling a little nauseous.
However, when he thought of Concubine Ling's cruelty and ruthlessness, the feeling of nausea was instantly suppressed. Forget it, it is better to live a miserable life than to die. Instead of living with my head hanging on my belt here with Concubine Ling, it is better to let Chen Feng get me out first...
This can be considered as the last contribution of Chen Feng.
It was worth it for her to give birth to a daughter for Chen Feng.
Thinking of her daughter, Xue Linglong was distracted for a moment and felt a little bitter in her mouth.
"Cui Tao, when you left the palace this time, did you find out...the whereabouts of that little girl?"
"No..." Cui Tao lowered her head, not daring to look at Xue Linglong's expression.
It wasn't that she was afraid of being punished by her master, who was no longer as powerful as before, but she was afraid that if she thought about the poor little master any more, she would feel guilty.
That day, the Ling family villa was in chaos.
When Xue Linglong was brought into the palace by Concubine Ling, she had no idea that she had a young daughter who was not even a year old and needed to be taken care of.
Concubine Ling naturally would not be considerate enough to think about this.
The Ling family would not be suckered into raising a child for Xue Linglong outside the palace.
On the day Xue Linglong was taken away, her maids who had lived with her in the Ling family's villa were driven out of the villa. Xue Linglong and Chen Feng's daughter, who had just learned to crawl, was no exception.
The previous time when Chen Feng came to the villa and caught them in bed, it was so ugly.
Xue Linglong's maid didn't dare to go directly to the Jinyang Marquis' Mansion, so she had to take people to find Xue Linglong's brother's house first.
In theory, there would be nothing wrong with letting the little girl be raised in her parents' home and taken care of by Xue Linglong's former personal maid.
But somehow, he just disappeared...
Not only the little girl who is not even one year old.
Even Xiutao and Bitao, who stayed in the Xue family to serve her, disappeared without a trace!
Xue Linglong only found out about this a few days ago when she secretly returned to her parents' home while helping Concubine Ling inspect the progress of the theater construction.
But her brother and sister-in-law refused to admit that they were the ones who got the person killed.
It was said that the Xue family provided the maids with good food and drink, and also provided the "young lady" who should not have lived in the Xue Mansion at all. They never restrained them. It was most likely that the two maids took the "young lady" away and sold her when the mansion was not paying attention.
Xue Linglong didn't believe this statement at all!
She secretly guessed that it was most likely her brother and sister-in-law who sold Xiutao, Bitao, and her daughter, who was not even one year old but was very cute.
It's a pity that she couldn't find any evidence.
She didn't even dare to make a big fuss because Concubine Ling did not allow her to visit her parents' home without permission.
Xue Linglong herself didn't even dare to launch a massive search for the lost child.
The maid Cui Tao naturally didn't dare to do that.
A child less than one year old, having lost the protection of both parents, has no idea what he will experience.
Cui Tao didn't dare to think about it, nor did she want to think about it.
…
The night deepens.
The noise from the Yuchang Marquis Mansion in the east finally died down a lot.
In Qifeng Courtyard, on the swing entangled with withered vines, Chen Feng dismissed the servants and sat there in a daze.
Holding a handkerchief in his hand.
It was just the most ordinary plain cotton handkerchief, which servants in wealthy families would not even bother to use.
The handkerchief looked ordinary, but if you looked closely, you could see that there were two things embroidered crookedly on it with light-colored thin threads.
It was difficult to make out that they were a pair of birds with their pointed beaks facing each other.
A hint of reddish-brown blood could be seen in the finest parts of the stitches, staining the white handkerchief. Even though it had been rubbed and washed, marks were still left.
Without anyone telling him, he knew who had made the handkerchief.
A few years ago, before he married Wei Yunlan, he just met that lively and enthusiastic person and was attracted by her unique feeling.
In just over a month, they went from knowing each other to becoming familiar with each other and then falling in love, and they have become inseparable.
When their love reached its peak, he made a promise to her that they would be together for the rest of their lives.
For him, she also tried things she was not good at. She cooked for him and also picked up needle and thread to embroider a handkerchief for him.
But she was really not good at needlework. The pair of mandarin ducks she embroidered were so crooked that it was impossible to recognize what they were. She also pierced her eyes with her fingers, and blood dripped onto the handkerchief several times.
He remembered that at that time, he felt very distressed when he saw her quietly embroidering the handkerchief.
The pity and love in my heart deepened, and I felt that she was indeed different from other women.
Even if she was not good at housework, she would not let the maid do it for her. She would embroider by herself even if it hurt her fingers. This embroidery is not just a handkerchief; it is clearly a true heart.
It's been many years since I saw such a handkerchief again.
All the past events came flooding back to Chen Feng’s mind.
But the love I had at the beginning could no longer be felt, and when I looked at the blood on the handkerchief, I felt only ridicule.
He held a handkerchief tightly in his palm, as if to vent his anger, and rubbed it until it was wrinkled like a lump of pickled cabbage.
Just then, footsteps were heard in the yard.
Chen Feng raised his eyebrows, "Didn't I tell you that no one should bother this prince? Get out!"
"Master, Madam is calling you over..." the servant said with gritted teeth.
"Madam, please be sure to invite you over. Please don't embarrass me."
This is the servant who always follows Shen Feng.
Seeing that he seemed to be walking unsteadily, Shen Feng guessed that he must have just been punished by Qin.
If he couldn't be brought to the main courtyard right now, this servant would probably be beaten and scolded again...
With a sigh, he stood up from the swing.
"Forget it, I'll go over and take a look."
"No need to wait on him."
In the main courtyard of Jinyang Marquis Mansion.
The flowery decorations of the past are long gone, and in the huge hall, only a pair of vases remain to fill the space, while the other objects have long been pawned.
Without those decorations, the room seemed even emptier.
Qin was sitting at the head of the table, and when she saw Shen Feng walk into the room.
He picked up the teacup at hand and was about to smash it down.
He raised it high, then paused, and then put it down carefully.
There aren't many of these top-quality official kiln products left in the palace. If we smash one, it'll be one less!
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