Chapter 343: Chapter 345: Dugu Wu, It’s Okay to Cry When You’re Sad
Feng Bailing came to her senses, opened her eyes, and as she turned around, she saw Dugu Wu standing behind her.
He threw her a handkerchief, and Feng Bailing hurriedly cleaned her hands with it.
Unknowingly, Feng Bailing had spent an entire hour by the fish pond.
Her fingers were slightly pruned and turning pale.
Sadly, apart from the scene involving Chen E, she did not witness any other murder scenes.
Chen E was killed because she carried the Dragon Seed, and judging by the surrounding environment, it must have been springtime then.
The other victims must have died even earlier.
“Didn’t you go to the Ministry of Revenue?”
Feng Bailing was puzzled.
“The military provisions and salaries are sufficient. The Ministry of Revenue has some spare time now.”
Dugu Wu looked out over the fish pond.
“There’s a corpse in there, my wet nurse.”
Feng Bailing was startled.
“Among those six corpses, there is one missing a finger, she is my wet nurse. I encountered dystocia when I was born. Because of my heterochromia, I was not acknowledged and was abandoned at the burial ground. I was fortunate enough to be picked up by a female beggar. She had just given birth not long before and her child died from a difficult labor, which made her distraught and somewhat insane, resulting in her family casting her out. She picked me up off the streets when she happened upon me and sustained me with her milk. When I turned one, Prince Shun found me and acknowledged me as his son, bringing both me and her into the palace. The Empress Dowager granted me legitimacy, but the Princess Consort Shun was unwilling to let me enter Prince Shun’s Mansion. I stayed in the palace, and so did she, serving as a nanny, and everyone called her Nanny Ying. Later on, one day she suddenly disappeared, I had people search for her, but she could never be found.”
Dugu Wu said calmly, facing the fish pond.
He didn’t have many memories of that woman.
Yet the first to offer him warmth was this nameless beggar woman.
He didn’t know if she died resentfully.
Last night, he had a dream.
He dreamt of her sitting in a horse carriage, getting further and further away.
His younger self wanted to chase after her.
Unexpectedly, today at the palace gate, he saw that very horse carriage, identical to the one in his dream.
Without hesitation, Dugu Wu stopped that horse carriage.
“If possible, I’d like to give her justice. In my memory, she treated me much better than Lady Dugu.”
“Dugu Wu, people can cry when they are sad.”
Feng Bailing hesitated for a moment, then suddenly stepped forward and wrapped her arms around Dugu Wu.
He called his mother, Lady Dugu.
Dugu Wu’s body shook, and he felt the soft and warm embrace of the woman.
Not since he was born. Nanny Ying would occasionally tell the Empress Dowager that when she found him, he was extremely hungry yet did not cry.
He did not cry even when they were surrounded by stray cats and dogs.
He did not cry when Lady Dugu abandoned him.
He did not cry when Prince Shun died.
Feng Bailing was the first person to tell him that it is okay for people to cry when they are sad.
He should have pushed her away. He had no time to wallow in sorrow with this woman.
But her embrace was surprisingly warm, and he did not want to push her away.
Footsteps reached Dugu Wu’s ears.
“Up ahead, are those Prince Wu and Princess Consort Wu?”
They heard the gentle voice of Dongfang Mosheng as he and Dongfang Li approached.
Dongfang Li looked somewhat upset. Ninth had provided quite a few useful clues, and he was just about to show off in front of Feng Bailing when, to his surprise, he stumbled upon the loving display of the couple.