Chapter 44 Xiao Beiheng's Habit
Shen Yuexi saw Leng Shuang standing there with his back to her and quickly looked around.
The toilet backed onto the courtyard wall, and the other three sides were surrounded by brick walls with a pavilion-shaped roof. The only way out was through the wall. But the wall was three meters high, and she couldn't climb it.
However, a row of tall poplar trees planted outside the wall gave her inspiration.
"Big Bear, make me a ladder. Just long enough to get over this wall."
In the blink of an eye, a ladder appeared in her hand.
She quickly leaned the ladder against the wall and climbed up carefully.
Just as I stepped onto the second step, Leng Shuang's voice suddenly rang out:
"Are you ready?"
"I'm going to poop! It's too fast." Shen Yuexi yelled outside, "Can you please stop asking questions?"
After hearing this, Leng Shuang folded her arms and waited there without saying anything else.
Shen Yuexi climbed onto the wall, bent over, pulled the ladder up, and then placed it on the other side, lowering it to the ground. She hid the ladder among the bushes in the corner of the wall. Then she looked up and surveyed her surroundings in the moonlight.
Beyond the wall was a garden, filled with flowers and trees, emitting a subtle fragrance. In the center, a stone table and bench could be vaguely seen. A cobblestone path meandered through the garden, leading to a corner gate.
If my guess is correct, this is the back garden of this mansion. If you open the corner door, you should be able to reach the street outside.
She was overjoyed and tiptoed along the path towards the corner gate.
Even if the corner door had a lock, it wouldn't be a problem for her. She could just use the universal fabrication machine to make some iron items.
When she reached the corner door, she reached out and touched it, and sure enough, she felt an iron lock.
"Big Bear, make it for me..."
She was thinking about what to make when a voice suddenly rang out from behind her: "Madam Pei, why aren't you sleeping so late?"
The sound came so suddenly that Shen Yuexi was so frightened that she almost jumped up.
She turned around and immediately saw the elegant and graceful Xiao Beiheng standing before her, with a dangerous smile on his face.
"Ah... I... I suddenly felt a little bored, so I came out for a walk. Your Highness, can't you sleep either?"
She put her hands behind her back, turned around with a wry smile to hide the embarrassment of being caught red-handed.
Both sides knew it, but no one pointed it out.
Xiao Beiheng shook his head and said:
"I go to bed on time every night. It's just..." He glanced at Shen Yuexi, "I just fell asleep, and it seemed that a maid called me, so I just came out to relax. What a coincidence, I didn't expect Madam Pei to not rest either."
He spoke sincerely, but Shen Yuexi felt as if thousands of horses were galloping through her heart.
It turns out Leng Shuang really didn't lie to her.
If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have howled like that.
"Yes... yes, that maid who woke up the prince... Alas." She lowered her head and sighed.
Xiao Beiheng smiled faintly and said vaguely, "There are many servants in the mansion, and some maids often shout. This prince has long been accustomed to it."
Shen Yuexi nodded.
From this perspective, the prince's tolerance of servants made him a considerate master. Thinking back to when he killed the bandits, he was decisive, brutal, and merciless. This surprised her somewhat.
"Madam Pei," Xiao Beiheng walked to the pavilion, pointed at the stone table in the garden, and called Shen Yuexi, "Talking while standing is not the way to entertain guests. Let's sit down and talk."
Shen Yuexi knew she couldn't escape from Xiao Beiheng's watchful eyes, so she walked over and sat down on a stone bench. It was a summer night, and the stone bench was still warm from the sun all day.
The two had just sat down when there was a sound of clothes rustling in the wind on the wall, and Leng Shuang appeared on the wall.
Shen Yuexi looked at Leng Shuang on the wall in surprise.
This maid is actually a martial artist. She climbed a three-meter-high wall without a second thought. Even without Xiao Beiheng, it would have been difficult for her to escape from this person.
When Leng Shuang saw Shen Yuexi, she put away the anxious look on her face. She immediately jumped down and quickly walked over to the two of them.
Shen Yuexi was a little nervous and embarrassed, not knowing how to face Leng Shuang.
I thought she would scold me for running away. Unexpectedly, Leng Shuang didn't even look at her. Instead, she knelt straight in front of Xiao Beiheng.
The garden suddenly became so quiet that it seemed as if no one was there.
Shen Yuexi looked at Leng Shuang and suddenly found that Leng Shuang was trembling slightly, as if she was enduring great fear. Her heart suddenly jumped, and for some reason she had a bad premonition.
Because of her escape, Leng Shuang will be punished by the prince.
But from what Xiao Beiheng said just now, it seemed that he was quite tolerant towards the servants, so Leng Shuang shouldn't be scared like this.
Did she misunderstand something?
Thinking of this, she also became nervous.
Although Leng Shuang was the maid responsible for guarding her, Shen Yuexi knew that she was only following orders and there was no grudge between them. If Xiao Beiheng wanted to punish Leng Shuang for this, she would not be happy to see it.
She looked at Xiao Beiheng again and found that Xiao Beiheng was sitting there leisurely, without even glancing at Leng Shuang.
"Madam Pei, I heard that your husband was attacked by bandits and was wounded by an arrow?"
The question was asked casually, but Shen Yuexi still sensed something unusual.
This matter could not be hidden from Doctor Hua and Lin Kui. Lin Kui wanted to buy the prescription, so he naturally wanted to know the details of the person who sold it. Doctor Hua mentioned her and Xiao Zhuo's story between the lines.
Since everyone knows it, there is no need to hide it, so I replied:
"Yes, but after being treated by Dr. Hua, I'm healed now."
"How many days ago was the arrow shot?" Xiao Beiheng seemed very interested in this matter and kept asking.
"Three days... or four days, I can't remember."
Shen Yuexi was a little confused. Why would the Prince of Qi be interested in this matter?
Xiao Beiheng sighed in surprise, shook his head and said, "What a pity."
She was even more confused. What was Xiao Beiheng regretting? So she asked with a smile, "What is your Highness regretting?"
Xiao Beiheng didn't respond to her. He just stood up suddenly, turned to Leng Shuang and said, "Haven't you made up your mind yet?"
Leng Shuang suddenly touched the ground with his forehead and kowtowed three times to Xiao Beiheng.
Xiao Beiheng nodded slightly, turned to Shen Yuexi and said with a smile: "Madam Pei, it's late, please go back to your room and rest."
After saying that, Xiao Beiheng took the lead and walked towards the moon gate exit of the back garden.
Shen Yuexi didn't understand the meaning of the interaction between the two, but this was a matter between the master and the servant. As an outsider, she had no right to interrupt. She still had this self-awareness.
There's an 80% chance that Xiao Beiheng's punishment is to make her kneel here for a night.
She glanced at Leng Shuang, then followed Xiao Beiheng towards the exit.
But when she got close to the Moon Gate, she suddenly heard a sharp and miserable cry from behind her. It was far more miserable than the cry she had made when she pretended to have a stomachache in the house.
She suddenly stopped and turned to look.
Leng Shuang knelt there, her whole body twitching, her right hand tightly gripping her left wrist, blood spurting out from the broken part of her left wrist.
In front of her, a dagger shining with cold light was stuck in the ground. The moonlight reflected by the dagger illuminated the bloody severed hand on the ground.
Shen Yuexi was horrified.
She finally understood what Xiao Beiheng meant by "I've long been used to it."
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