Almost half the people in the castle had already left.
The water in the fountain was reflected in the sunlight. Feng De got off the carriage and walked inside. After walking around the winding corridor, he walked into the living room.There's a spring heater on here.
The glazed lamps were beautiful.A slender figure sat on the sofa. Her long black skirt made her appear thinner. Her feet were bare on the floor, and one of them was wrapped in gauze.
Seeing her, Feng De couldn't help but frown.Shi Xiaonian sat on the sofa. The outline of her face was slightly sunken and extremely thin. She held the phone in her hand as she listened to Luo Qi's reprimand her.
Luo Qi scolded and cried.
"Why can't we find it even after sending out so much manpower and resources? No matter what happened, I have to find Gong Ou and bring him back to me! Otherwise, you wouldn't have such a good life! "
Luo Qi continued to curse and hung up the phone.
"…"After the phone call, Shi Xiaonian did not say a single word as she just sat there.
She sat for a long time, then stiffly replaced the receiver, her eyes unfocused.
"Miss Xi, we still haven't found any news."
Feng De said while standing in front of Shi Xiaonian.
In these five days, he would repeat these words to Shi Xiaonian whenever he saw him."…"
Shi Xiaonian sat there silently.
A maid walked over with a tray with steaming hot food on it. Seeing that, Feng De could not help but ask: "Miss Xi, you have not eaten."
In these five days, Shi Xiaonian had only slept once, and it was because he could not bear to watch any longer, he had to put several sleeping pills into the milk before she slept.The food was even worse.
He was extremely thin.
"Housekeeper Feng." Shi Xiaonian sat there, staring blankly at the ground, "Why do you think I want to stop the car?""…"
Feng De frowned, he had heard this words many times over the past few days.
"I clearly didn't feel good that day and kept having the feeling that something bad was going to happen, but I went to stop the car. If I had been guarding there, then nothing would have happened to Gong Ou." Shi Xiaonian said, as if she was talking to herself.
"Miss Xi, this has nothing to do with you. Young master does have some skills, but he was still taken away by that commercial vehicle."
Feng De said.
"Why would I stop? I shouldn't have."
However, Shi Xiaonian acted as if she did not hear it, and continued to mutter, looking very thin.
She didn't believe in kidnapping at all, she thought that Gong Ou was just feeling too sad. He needed to hide from the crowd for a while.
But five days. A full five days.She didn't believe he would let her go for five days. He wouldn't.
Something must have happened to him, but she couldn't imagine what would happen to him.
Feng De frowned and squatted in front of Shi Xiaonian, then stared at him and said, "Miss Xi, please don't be like this. If you fall right now, how will I explain this to him when young master comes back?"
Hearing that, Shi Xiaonian's eyelashes trembled slightly as she lowered her eyes to look at him, "Don't worry, I won't fall. I won't let Housekeeper Feng hold on to this situation alone."
She won't fall.Because she was still waiting for Gong Ou to return.
"It's good enough that Miss Xi can think like this. Previously, the old master and the young mistress had gone into seclusion, but now that the young master is missing and the media has leaked the news, they will send someone over soon. " Feng De said, "I am afraid that Miss Xi will more or less suffer, but no matter what, I will definitely protect you for Young Master.""I know." Shi Xiaonian nodded.
"So you have to be more alert and eat more."
Feng De said.
Shi Xiaonian did not become stubborn and nodded her head. She took a bowl of rice from the maid's hands and used a pair of chopsticks to scoop the rice into her own mouth without making a sound. She chewed and swallowed the rice a few times without tasting anything.Feng De stood up from the ground and said, "Then I'll be going."
Shi Xiaonian looked at his figure and asked, "Housekeeper Feng, have you spent all your money again?"
Gong Ou had not filed any legal documents before, they were not even married, so she could not touch his assets.
Finding people would require a large amount of manpower and resources, and money was something that was extremely urgent. The people of Gong Jia had yet to send anyone over, and thus all of the money was for Shi Xiaonian and Feng De.
All of Shi Xiaonian's money had been used up."Money is a small matter. Miss Xi, I still have a few businesses under my name, but I just happen to be in a bad mood this year, so I took the opportunity to take them away. " Feng De said calmly.
"No."
Shi Xiaonian immediately rejected her offer and stood up from the sofa, handing the tableware over to the maid and said, "I have already arranged the jewelry and some clothes and bags, there will be someone coming over to take care of them, it's a cash settlement. If it's not enough, Port of Heaven has two houses under my name, we can change hands immediately. "The set was bought for her by Gong Ou, and the set was bought for her by Xi Family.
"Jewelry?" Feng De was shocked, "Those are all things Young Master bought for you."
"I'm fine." Shi Xiaonian raised his hand, and the diamond ring on his ring finger lit up: "I only have this one, I can sell the rest.""Miss Xi …"
"Before the people from the Gong Jia arrived, I think this amount of money was enough to support me, so I can't touch the roots of the Housekeeper Feng. "Go ahead. I know that there are many checkpoints waiting for you to clear them. Leave the money to me. Once you have the cash, I'll bring it over to you." Shi Xiaonian said.
"Alright, Miss Xi."Feng De nodded, then turned and walked out.
Shi Xiaonian stood at the center of the living room and lowered her eyes to look at the ring on her ring finger.She knew that Gong Ou would come back sooner or later.
So she wouldn't cry.
Tears were the most useless.
"Miss Xi, you have only eaten a few bites, a little bit more, right?" The maid came up to her and tried to persuade her."I'm full. I'll go count the jewelry."
Shi Xiaonian said indifferently, she walked towards a hall at the side. Inside the hall, a servant was wrapping up many jewelry and other things like a bag, many of the jewelry that she had never worn before.Seeing her coming over, the servants all raised their heads and looked at her with more or less sympathy in their eyes.
When the Young Master wasn't here, the entire Gong Jia was in his most unstable condition. It was quite a pitiful sight for the Miss Xi to be so thin right now.Shi Xiaonian lowered her eyes as she looked at the jewels. Suddenly, she thought about the first time Gong Ou had given her a ring, but she didn't want it.
An overweeningly arrogant man.
Always so arrogant.
Therefore, she believed that no one could trap him. Regardless of whether it was a kidnapping or an accident, he would definitely return.
"Miss Xi, someone has come."Feng De returned.
Shi Xiaonian turned her head, only to see Feng De bringing over 10 men in suits in, all of them looking courageous, some of them with bruises on their faces, or their hands with long wounds, looking somewhat sinister.
Shi Xiaonian looked at Feng De doubtfully, and Feng De pointed to the blue-eyed man in the lead and said, "This is Peter, one of Young Master's men."
"Is there any news about Gong Ou?"
Shi Xiaonian was instantly overjoyed.Hearing that, all the people lowered their heads, the leader Peter looked at Shi Xiaonian and sighed, and said, "I'm afraid, we are not here to bring good news to the Miss Xi."
"…"
Shi Xiaonian stood in place and carefully savored these words, thinking through them word by word. Then, the jewelry box she had just picked up fell from her hands, a pair of sapphire earrings dropping to the ground.
She now resisted all the bad news.
Really.
Shi Xiaonian led them into Gong Ou's study room. She felt her legs go weak, so she sat down at the desk where Gong Ou used to sit.
"Bam."
As soon as she sat down, the dozen or so men dropped to their knees and lowered their heads to her, hands on their knees.They were all in the attitude of begging for forgiveness.
"…"
Shi Xiaonian looked at them in a daze. If she wasn't sitting down, she would have already fallen to the ground.
Feng De indicated to her several times.Shi Xiaonian didn't even speak as she just sat there in a daze. She really wanted to choose not to listen, wanted to deceive herself.
After a long time, she finally said, "What is it? Tell me."
No matter how bad it was, it should still be like that, right?
But if that was the case, what should she do? If Gong Ou really left her, what could she do?
"When Miss Xi and I broke up, Mr. Gong ordered us to investigate Miss Xi's background." Peter knelt on the ground, bowed his head and said, "At that time, we would have started to infiltrate into the Xi Family."
"Are you guys talking about the Xi Family?"
Shi Xiaonian suddenly understood.
Since they weren't here for Gong Ou, she heaved a sigh of relief. She would rather Gong Ou didn't have any news, and didn't hear any bad news.
"Yes." Peter nodded, "We found out later that the Mr. Gong did not transfer us away and thus, we stayed in the Xi Family. A while ago, Elder Xi was arrested at the border. Mr. Gong ordered us to investigate the whereabouts of the Elder Xi in secret. "
"…"
Shi Xiaonian was stunned, so it turned out that when Gong Ou returned back to the country to fix the N.E. system's loophole, he did not forget to send people to save her father.
No wonder he said he was tired.
He wanted to be so busy, to be able to do everything by himself, how could he not be tired?No matter how strong a person was, they all had a fragile side.
"Just two days ago, we found out that Elder Xi's arrest was just a pretense. Elder Xi was secretly imprisoned." Peter said."What?"
Shi Xiaonian stood up in shock.
Father not arrested, but imprisoned? Whose captivity?"At that time, the Mr. Gong was already missing and we were unable to report it to him. We knew that the Mr. Gong's intention was to save him, so we acted on our own and went to save him." Peter knelt on the ground, paused for a moment, and lowered his head, apologetically saying, "But, this seemingly careless secret prison is surrounded by layers upon layers of people. We were unable to save the Elder Xi, so we came here to beg for forgiveness."
Shi Xiaonian stood there, her lips trembling and her voice stuttering, "What, what do you mean you can't, can't be saved?"Hearing that, the group of people immediately kowtowed, "We let Miss Xi down. During the process of rescue, Elder Xi was shot to death, we only have 12 people left to rush back."
Chapter end
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