This voice, it’s Old Lady Ye’s.
She’s not someone without a sense of propriety; knowing full well that the General and the Little Princess are both with Lian Qiao, she still came rushing here.
It must be something serious...
Yelyu Lie exchanged a glance with Little Jiaojiao, and immediately held her hand, "Don’t panic, I’m here."
The various events of the past few days have filled the little wife with anxiety.
Yelyu Lie knew this, so he was quick to comfort her.
No matter what happens, he is still here.
Even if that fool had mistakenly wandered to Lian Qiao’s place and ended up in his yard, he promised not to let her get hurt.
With his own life, he promised.
His hand was a bit rough, yet incredibly warm.
Wrapping her slightly trembling hand, it seemed to transmit all his energy to her.
Yun Chunnuan let out a long breath and grasped his big hand back, "Mm!"
By the time Old Lady Ye rushed in, the couple was already holding hands and walking to the door.
Old Lady Ye was in a panic and was just about to speak when she noticed there was still the doctor from the Central Plains in the room.
She swallowed her words, trying hard to suppress what was about to slip out.
"General, Madam, this old servant was abrupt, have you two... finished?"
Yun Chunnuan noticed Old Lady Ye’s gaze and knew this matter could not be known to outsiders. Holding the man’s hand, she turned and said, "He Lang, I’ll leave Lian Qiao with you, but you need not care for her alone. Tonight, I’ll arrange for some help to come over."
A threat!
A blatant threat!
He Xuanzhi, originally curious about what major incident occurred in the General Mansion, lost all interest in gossip after hearing this.
He decided!
To leave a few drops of that potion when the Little Princess sends someone over...
Hopefully, it won’t be noticed?
He Xuanzhi thought this through well, and as soon as the couple left, he prepared to take out the potion.
But unexpectedly, the little girl who had scolded him just a few days ago came quickly!
"What are you doing?! The Princess instructed that it could only be used on the Second Concubine’s face! If you dare to steal it, my fists aren’t just for show!"
He Xuanzhi looked at the little girl about his height, weighing if he could handle her little fists...
He came to a conclusion: Bianliao women... are terrifying!
At this moment, Yun Chunnuan, holding the man’s hand, had already followed Old Lady Ye to the fence yard.
Old Lady Ye was truly scared and hovered by the door, not daring to go in.
"General, Madam... whatever you see, you must believe this old servant! This old servant earnestly came to take care of these livestock, just sowed some wild vegetable seeds, this old servant really did nothing, why would it be like this... I truly don’t know!"
Whether from excitement or nervousness, under the oil lamp, Old Lady Ye’s face was flush red; despite the cold weather, sweat beads kept rolling down her forehead.
Knowing it was a problem with the livestock, Yun Chunnuan felt a bit relieved.
She thought Old Lady Ye perhaps wasn’t good at raising these animals and possibly they all died, hence her fear.
If the livestock is gone, they could be raised again, aren’t people more important than animals?
She softly reassured, "It’s okay, if they died, so be it, it’s also my fault for not knowing you couldn’t care for them..."
"What died?! No!!!"
Old Lady Ye realized Madam misunderstood, quickly unlocked the fence yard, and led the General and Madam inside.
Once inside the yard, Yun Chunnuan was dumbfounded.
She exchanged a glance with the Barbarian General, both seeing disbelief in each other’s eyes.
Good heavens...
This yard full of rabbits... there must be dozens, right?
She remembered the Barbarian General only brought back a dozen little rabbits, and a few had died before...
Old Lady Ye wiped her sweat with her sleeve, "Isn’t it scary?! This old servant opened the yard and nearly got scared to death seeing all these rabbits! And this... General, Madam, come quickly!!!"
Old Lady Ye led the two to the pigsty, where six or seven big fat pigs were nearly bursting through the fence!
Last time, Yun Chunnuan saw, only two pigs were big, the others were piglets.
Next, they looked at the sheep pen, the cattle pen... all revealed similar odd sights...
"And here! Madam, come quickly!" Old Lady Ye was so anxious that she momentarily forgot propriety and reached to pull the Little Princess’s sleeve.
Her hand was slapped away by the man’s big hand.
Old Lady Ye: "..."