Su Muge felt so cold as if she had been thrown into ice and snow and shivered.
“Cold, so cold …”
Xia Houmo looked at the skinny girl shivering in his arms and slowly reached out to hug her.
“Well…”
Feeling the warm temperature of Xia Houmo, Su Muge hummed comfortably and stayed in his arms with a comfortable position.
Xia Houmo put his thick palm gently on her thin shoulder. On touching her, he felt like getting an electric shock and held her more tightly into his arms.
The moment when her small face pressed against his chest, he felt a warm current flowing towards his heart.
It seemed nice if he could hold her like this forever.
…
Su Muge felt a little bitter in her mouth and frowned uncomfortably. Gradually, she recovered her consciousness.
“Look, she wakes up.”
“Well!”
Feeing a pain in the point between her thumb and forefinger, Su Muge slowly opened her eyes.
On opening her eyes, she caught sight of the cold and handsome face of Xia Houmo. “Your, Your Royal Highness …”
Seeing her wake up, Xia Houmo moved his eyebrows. “You’re awake.”
Su Muge sat up with the support of her hands and immediately caught sight of Guima coming with an elusive smile. “Lucky you. If I hadn’t saved you in time, you would have died already.”
Su Muge was stunned for a while and immediately expressed her gratitude as if she didn’t know him. “Thank you for your help.”
Guima laughed. “There is no need to thank me. I will let you pay me back. The poison in your body has basically been detoxified. Take the detoxification pills for at least three more days so as to expel the remaining poison.”
After coming to her sense, Su Muge abruptly thought of something and lifted the quilt to get out of bed.
Xia Houmo frowned. “Where are you going?”
“My mother, I’m going to find my mother.”
“I have already sent people to look for her. If anything is to happen, it has happened. It’s too late for you to go now.”
At the thought of Eighth Princess’s words in the hunting field, Su Muge put on an even gloomier look.
“Your Royal Highness, we’ve found her.” Donglin came into the cabin and whispered.
Xia Houmo nodded with a cold look. “Your mother has been found. Don’t worry.”
Learning that the Zhao was fine, Su Muge exhaled a sigh of relief secretly. “Thank you, Your Royal Highness.”
“Eighth Princess said you were attacked by a beast in the hunting field. What’s the matter?”
At the thought of the scene, Su Muge couldn’t suppress her anger. “At that time, I went into the hunting field with Eighth Princess…” She described the situation briefly. The more Xia Houmo heard, the sullener he became.
Xia Houyin, how dare you?!
“However, I don’t think the one who poisoned me is Eighth Princess.” With various thoughts in her mind, Su Muge hesitated whether to tell Xia Houmo the person she saw.
Looking at her thoughtful look, Xia Houmo knew she must have concealed something from him.
“Who is it?”
Anyway, she had been on the same boat with Xia Houmo, so there was no need to hide from him. “The man looks very much like the Emperor.”
The man she saw before crawling out of the wooden house was very similar to Xia Hourui! At that time, she even thought it was Xia Hourui!
Xia Hourui narrowed his eyes. “Like the Emperor …”
“Yes, I’m quite sure of that.”
“I see.” Xia Houmo stood up after speaking. “Let’s go.”
Su Muge was confused for a while. Let’s go? Where to go?
Seeing her not tend to leave, Xia Hourui looked back at her. “Why? You want to spend the night here?”
“No.” Su Muge followed up with two steps but was stopped by Guima halfway.
“I haven’t finished my words yet.”
Looking at Guima, Su Muge felt a headache. “Yes, please?”
Guima looked her up and down with scrutiny. “What? You don’t remember me? I’ve already saved you twice. Do you treat your savior like this?”
As for the previous incident, Su Muge decided to pretend to be ignorant. “I don’t know what you mean, My Lord.”
Guima put on a stern look. “Ungrateful woman! I shouldn’t have saved you!”
“What are you waiting for? Don’t you want to leave?” Xia Houmo urged in a low voice.
Su Muge grinned at Guima. “I’ll definitely repay you, My Lord. See you next time.” After finishing her words, she walked past him.
Xia Houmo had already seated on the horse.
Su Muge paused, wondering if she had to walk back to the villa.
“Come up.” Xia Houmo reached out his slender and big hand to her.
“Your Royal Highness, It’s improper for men and women to be so intimate.” If they were seen sitting on the same horse together, they might get into unnecessary trouble.
Xia Houmo withdrew his hand indifferently. “Then you can run after the horse.” After finishing his words, he rode the horse heading for the path ahead.
Running after the horse!?
There was still some poison remaining in her body. If she ran back to the villa, her blood flow would be accelerated and the poison might relapse. So she would rather be discussed and commented!
“Your Royal Highness, wait for me… Ah!”
In a flash, Su Muge had already firmly seated on the saddle.
With a slight movement, she could feel the temperature of Xia Houmo.
In order to make less contact with him, Su Muge could only straighten her body and clutch the reins in her hands tightly.
Feeling her slightly stiff body, Xia Houmo raised the corner of his mouth slightly and raised the horsewhip in his hand to whip his horse. “Hang on!”
“Oh!” Su Muge cried in a low tone and stumbled into Xia Houmo’s arms. Feeling the heated temperature on her back, she was eager to sit up, but the horse’s speed was so fast that she couldn’t even sit steadily on the horse, let alone sitting upright!
Damn Xia Houmo! He must be on purpose!
After a long and bumpy journey, they finally arrived at the back door of the Imperial Villa.
Xia Houmo held her waist with his strong arms and flew into the villa.
“Your mother has been sent to the courtyard assigned to the Su family.”
Su Muge was anxious at the thought of Zhao’s unknown situation. “Thank you very much for your help today, Your Royal Highness.” She said very sincerely. If it had not been for Xia Houmo, she would have been dead now.
“Rest assured. I’ll give you a chance to repay me.”
Su Muge said goodbye to Xia Houmo and walked into the villa. As it was getting darker, more and more guards were patrolling.
“Who is it? Who is over there?”
Su Muge came out of the darkness and lowered her eyes, “I’m from Su Mansion of Lord Su, Su Lun. I accidentally got lost after a walk. I don’t know how to go back.”
“The guest room of Lord Su is behind the front garden. It’s getting late. Miss Su, you’d better go back soon in case of any danger.”
“Thank you.”
Su Muge followed the direction of the imperial guard and found the courtyard. Before she came in, she heard Zhao’s cry.
“Sister, don’t be sad. The King of Jin has entered the forest to look for her. There will be news soon.” An comforted her in a gentle voice.
“Well, stop crying! So unlucky!”
When Su Muge walked to the door, the maids guarding outside were startled.
“The eldest Miss, Miss is back!”
Hearing the movement outside, the people in the room promptly fell silent.
In an instant, the door of the room was opened and Zhao came out with red and tearful eyes from inside. At the sight of Su Muge standing outside, Zhao rushed over and hugged her in her arms.
“Mumu, you’re finally back. I’m so terrified.”
Su Lun and An followed Zhao to come out and were both startled to see Su Muge intact standing outside.
Su Jingwen was stunned at first and revealed a malicious look.
How did she come back? How could she come back?!
If An hadn’t pulled her, she would have rushed up and interrogated her.
Su Lun didn’t expect Su Muge to come back safely. “Well, it’s nice to be back after all. Everyone is tired today. Go to rest.”
“Yes.”
Su Muge glanced coldly at An and Su Jingwen. Meeting Su Muge’s eyes, An took a step back subconsciously.
An secretly calmed herself down. Did this bitch find out anything?
Su Muge held Zhao into their room.
“Mother, where did you go this afternoon?”
Hearing her words, Zhao frowned and Taozhi beside her said quickly, “Miss, we heard that someone was injured and was lifted out from the women’s hunting field. The eldest Madam was afraid that it might be you, so she went with me to take a look. However, we found nobody after arriving there and we got lost.”
“Somehow, Madam and I went into a forest and couldn’t get out. Suddenly, a black bear came out of the forest. The bear was as tall as two of us. It’s so scary.”
Su Muge clenched her fists in her sleeves. She could imagine how dangerous the situation was. “Fortunately, I heard from the elderly that we should climb up the tree if we met black bears. Hence, we survived and waited for the rescue of the imperial guards.”
Zhao grew up in the countryside from an early age and was not so delicate. It was quite normal for her to climb trees and mountains when she was young. If any lady growing up in a deep boudoir encountered such an accident, she must have lost her life.
At that time, Zhao heard from those madams that someone was injured and took the initiative to go there. Therefore, it would be difficult to find out any clues.
But according to Su Muge’s intuition, this matter must be associated with An and her daughter!
And Xia Houyin! To be honest, she didn’t have much hatred with Xia Houyin at all. She was just emulous. If Xia Houyin hadn’t been instigated, she would have been too vicious.
But if there was someone behind her, Su Muge couldn’t think of anyone else except for Concubine Qin.
“What else had happened today?”
Hehua poured two cups of tea for the mother and the daughter before saying, “I heard that Second Prince was seriously injured by black bears to protect the Emperor while hunting.”
Su Muge raised her eyebrows slightly. “Second Prince is seriously injured?”
“Yeah, I heard the Emperor was very angry.”
As soon as her last word came out, a little maid ran to the door outside. “The eldest Miss, Miss, the Emperor sent a messenger here to let you hurry to Jing’an Palace.”
