Chapter 444: Is there, isn’t there (2/2)
No way, right?
After all her efforts, Su Xiaoyu couldn’t help but feel disappointed. Still, it was hard to get a closer look with Zhao mama walking back and forth behind Han Yunxi. She looked again a few more times, but saw nothing.
Is there really nothing?
Su Xiaoyu wanted to get closer, but Lil Thing took this chance to land on her head! It had just come back from playing until the sight inside the room stunned it. When it saw Su Xiaoyu crouched in a corner, it realized that she was the one who hurt Mama Yunxi.
That damned girl deserves to die!
As soon as Lil Thing landed on Su Xiaoyu’s head, it started stomping and scratching furiously, even biting at the girl’s skin. Soon enough, Su Xiaoyu’s hair was in a mess as it pulled and pawed at her head.
Badly frightened, Su Xiaoyu cried out, “Esteemed wangfei, save me, ah! Save me! Yu’er didn’t do it on purpose! Sobsob…”
“Esteemed wangfei, Yu’er is begging you, have mercy! Sobsob…save me, ah, sobsob…”
It had to be said that Su Xiaoyu’s acting skills were top-notch. Her crying was nothing to scoff at either, filling her face with tears and snot. She didn’t even bother throwing off Lil Thing, but curled up into a pathetic ball and sobbed wretchedly on the floor.
Han Yunxi glanced over. The last person she wanted to suspect was Su Xiaoyu, a child who was only seven and a half years old! But right now, she was the most likely suspect! Today’s burn was way too fishy!
“Esteemed wangfei, save me! Esteemed wangfei…”
“Sobsob, I didn’t do it on purpose, I really didn’t!”
Su Xiaoyu huddled up on the ground, wailing her heart out as she rolled and thrashed about. Lil Thing didn’t let her go but pulled out a pawful of hair. Zhao mama had no idea that the exploding stove wasn’t an accident. She hadn’t put two and two together either, so she only felt her heart soften at the sight of the tortured child. “Esteemed wangfei…” She wanted to ask for mercy on behalf of Su Xiaoyu, but hesitated when she realized she was hard-put to escape disaster herself.
“Lil Thing, keep an eye on her. I’ll deal with her myself!” Han Yunxi finally spoke up. Things had already come to this point. Despite that, she kept a tiny thread of hope that the girl she took in was really nothing more than just a “child.”
Lil Thing immediately stopped to sit on Su Xiaoyu’s head. Just wait!
Su Xiaoyu didn’t dare to move, much less check Han Yunxi’s back again.
Han Yunxi laid herself over a low couch nearby, and Zhao mama hastened to cover her lower half with a quilt. She’d been burnt, but she couldn’t catch cold right now. Baili Mingxiang was urgently treating the injuries with medicine. She had learned quite a bit herself when esteemed wangfei was waiting on her, so she was qualified for the task. Su Xiaoyu remained lying on the ground and ended up convinced that Han Yunxi didn’t have any birthmarks on her back.
Baili Mingxiang was wholly concentrated on treating the silent Han Yunxi. At this moment, Zhao mama saw the samples of charcoal on the study table and finally understood everything. She fell silent as well. Leisurely Cloud Pavilion was supposed to be the freest, most relaxed place in the Duke of Qin’s estate. But now the air was filled with an abnormal tension and so heavy that it made it hard to breathe.
Soon enough, Baili Mingxiang finished treating the two wounds without Zhao mama’s help. Zhao mama looked towards Su Xiaoyu instead, and her eyes dimmed at the sight of the little figure in a heap on the ground.
“Esteemed wangfei, both of the burns have been treated. There’s still a few more patches of red skin. They’re not serious, but we should probably treat them with medicine, too,” Baili Mingxiang said dutifully.
“Mm,” Han Yunxi said simply.
Baili Mingxiang applied medicine to some of the more obvious red patchesbefore carefully inspecting the rest of Han Yunxi’s skin from shoulder to base. When she saw a bit of red at the base of her back, she carefully lifted the quilt for a better look.
But the sight only made her suck in a cold breath!
Heavens, how can this be?