After his wife and daughter died tragically, the scumbag prince's hair turned white overnight

After saying that, she turned back to the room, dragged Gu Xiaoxiao back to the bed like she was holding a rag, and pressed her hard on the bed.

"I let you scream, I let you scream."

Before Gu Xiaoxiao could recover from the severe pain in her injured left hand, she was pressed hard on the bed and cried even harder.

"Stop crying, I told you to shut up, didn't you hear me?"

Chuntao gritted her teeth and covered Gu Xiaoxiao's face with a pillow.

Until Gu Xiaoxiao's struggles weakened and her crying became weaker.

She suddenly woke up and quickly took away the pillow.

In the dim room, Gu Xiaoxiao's little face turned purple from holding back her anger.

"I...I just want you to shut up. Who...who made you cry all the time?"

She glanced around guiltily.

She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that there was a cold gaze staring at her.

I remembered some rumors in the mansion that the young lady's mother was dead.

She couldn't help but shudder.

After confirming that Gu Xiaoxiao was still breathing, he left in a hurry after saying, "I'll teach you a lesson this time, don't scream in the future."

Shen Muxi stared at Chuntao's back as she ran away with red eyes.

She didn't float to Gu Xiaoxiao's side until Chuntao was out of sight, and looked at her daughter with pity.

As if this could alleviate her daughter's pain.

Chuntao squeezed so hard that Gu Xiaoxiao's finger joints soon became red and swollen.

Maybe I'm really hungry.

With her trembling left hand, she tried to pick up the bowl with a little porridge left on it that had been spilled.

Tried several times, couldn't get it to work.

Shen Muxi swayed his body several times following Gu Xiaoxiao's movements, wishing he could take her place.

But no matter how many times she tried, her translucent soul could only pass through the porridge bowl and Xiaoxiao.

Suddenly, Gu Xiaoxiao screamed "Wow" and vomited all the porridge she had drunk.

Shen Muxi's expression changed, "Xiaoxiao, what's wrong with you?"

Gu Xiaoxiao lay on the side and vomited out all the porridge she had just drunk with great difficulty.

Only then did Shen Muxi realize that the bowl of porridge had turned orange and moldy.

She was shaking with rage, but she was unable to help her daughter.

As a ghost, she couldn't even scare someone at night. She was unwilling to accept this!!

Her emotions were so volatile that she didn't even notice that a blood-red tear had slipped from her eyes and disappeared in an instant.

...

The other end.

Zhuifeng received Gu Shi's order and wanted to confirm the identity of the owner of the back figure.

However, when he walked up to the two of them, he realized that his master had recognized the wrong people.

Can...

Come here.

And that dress was indeed the one Shen Muxi wore when she was in Danyang...

In order to find out the truth, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and interrupt the two of them, "Excuse me, may I ask this young lady, where did you get this dress from?"

The woman whose back was similar to Shen Muxi's identity immediately crossed her arms and looked at Zhuifeng warily.

"What do you want to do, you scoundrel?"

The tall man who had been smiling at the woman like the sun just a moment ago immediately stood up, took a protective stance, and held the woman in his arms.

The two were about to leave.

Zhuifeng still wants to catch up.

"What do you want to do with my wife?"

The tall man immediately got angry.

"If you dare to offend my wife again, I will report you to the authorities immediately."

Although the man in front of him was dressed simply and like a farmer, his words and actions did not seem like those of a peasant at all.

In this imperial city where one kick could kill three high-ranking officials, Zhuifeng became more cautious.

"I don't mean to disturb you, I just want to ask where this girl's clothes came from. To be honest, my sister and I were separated when we first arrived in the capital.

On the day we were separated, my sister was wearing this dress. It was made by my mother herself, spun and dyed. There is only one set of it in the world..."

When talking about the touching parts, Zhuifeng even had tears in his eyes.

As if moved by him, the young woman tugged at the man's sleeve.

The man sighed silently.

"Actually, we're new to your place, so we don't know the intricacies of it all. This set of clothes was sold to us along with a bundle by a man with a scar on his face. We don't know anything else."

Zhuifeng's eyes lit up.

"Where is the person who sold you the bag now?"

...

at dusk.

on the street.

Once again, the stall vendor denied the answer.

Pei Wang looked at the carved wooden bracelet on his hand thoughtfully.

The carvings are not very exquisite, but the material used for the wooden bracelet is Danyang's unique purple birch wood.

Danyang has always been a place for exile of criminals, so it is impossible for the money to flow into the capital from the hands of merchants.

All the evidence points to Prince Rong's Mansion.

Pei Wang's guard, Du Zhong, stepped forward and whispered, "Sir, do you still suspect that the female corpse is related to the Rong Junwang Mansion?"

Pei Wang neither nodded nor shook his head. "For someone to keep this bracelet so preciously close to his body, it must be a treasured possession of its owner. I heard that the wife that Prince Rong married in Danyang was deeply in love with him."

Suddenly.

He seemed to sense something and turned to look at the Prince Rong's Mansion in front of him.

Today, he went around in circles relying on his intuition, but still couldn't leave the Prince Rong's Mansion.

Du Zhong continued in a low voice, "Prince Rong went up Mulan Mountain a few days ago."

Pei Wang narrowed his eyes slightly and said nothing.

Du Zhong continued, "According to the clues from the Jingji government office and the patrol camp, the bandits who appeared in Mulan Mountain used the same method to torture and kill women as the bandits in Yueyaao.

But if they were bandits, their actions were as if they had been professionally trained, extremely orderly..."

Pei Wang raised his hand to interrupt Du Zhong and said, "Go back to the government office in Jingji."

...

Not long after Pei Wang left, Zhuifeng appeared hesitantly at the other end of the street.

He learned from the two men that the clothes were sold to them by a butcher.

It took him most of the day to find the butcher.

result...

The butcher's words almost killed him.

According to the butcher, he threw the bundle down after he saw a woman getting into another man's carriage.

When she threw it down, the woman said she was going to "abandon her husband and daughter," leaving the bag behind to create the illusion that she had fallen to her death...

But no matter how he thought about it, he felt it was unreliable.

As for other matters, Zhuifeng couldn't guarantee how well he knew his wife, but when it came to matters concerning his young lady, Zhuifeng thought he knew her very well.

Back when they were in Danyang, Shen Muxi had already protected the young lady as if she were the apple of his eye.

The conditions in Danyang were difficult, but she could always think of ways to find various foods to improve the meals for the young lady and other people in Prince Rong's Mansion.

Even though they later lived like commoners in Danyang and their days were tight, the people in Prince Rong's Mansion never went hungry.

She carried the livelihood of the entire Rong County Prince's Mansion on her thin shoulders. Even so, she still had to deal with the difficulties posed by the old County Prince's wife from time to time.

For the sake of the young lady, she endured it again and again. After all, the young lady was well-behaved and sensible and couldn't live without the lady.

Therefore, Zhuifeng felt that no matter how angry the lady was, she would never abandon the young lady.

But the butcher was very sure of what he said...

Zhuifeng dare not jump to conclusions.

Back in Danyang, his right hand was cut by a rusty knife and the wound became infected. All the doctors concluded that even if he recovered, he would become disabled.

If it weren't for the lady finding medicine for him, he would have become a cripple long ago.

He must remember this favor for the rest of his life.

The lady's whereabouts are currently unknown.

All he could do was stay in Prince Rong's Mansion and protect the young lady.

Just as he made up his mind, a slender hand with light calluses gently patted his shoulder, "Brother Zhuifeng."

...

"What took you so long? Where's that woman?"

When Gu Shi saw Zhuifeng coming back with a sad face, he thought Shen Muxi was still angry, and a hint of impatience flashed in his eyes.

"He may not be very capable, but he has a great temper."