Chapter 260 - The Bai Family's Fall (1)
Chapter 260 – The Bai Family’s Fall (1)
Lin Xiaofei was sitting in the bed when she heard her door being pushed open. Bai Lu and Jing Chu filed in, carrying a basin of lukewarm water and clean cloth. It seemed that they had come to clean her wound.
"Milady!" Bai Lu exclaimed at once when she saw her young miss sitting up on the bed and awake.
Lin Xiaofei saw the maid was about to jump forward and probably hug her so, before the maid could do that, she said, "Put down the basin of water on the ground and stand two steps away from the bed."
Bai Lu blinked hard and scratched her nose embarrassedly. When she first saw a bloody Lin Xiaofei being carried around by Qu Xing Xu, her heart couldn't stop tightening with worry. It was the first time that she saw her young miss bleeding so much and wondered what exactly happened and what if the duke didn't happen to be around? Would they no longer be able to see their young miss?
Shaking her head and tossing these thoughts far away from the back of her head, Bai Lu helped Jing Chu, the other maid, to tend to their young miss' wound.
After a long time, they tightly wrapped the gauze around her arm. Lin Xiaofei, seeing how worried they were staring at her and her arm, finally sighed, "I'm alright. This wound isn't anything to be worried of. It's just a little cut and won't be any danger to my life."
"But… is this place really safe? Young miss even got injured when the duke is around." Bai Lu couldn't stop herself from asking.
It could be said that the young maid's question was right. Even when they were inside the Lin residence, the most dangerous event that happened in their lives was when Pring Jing tried to covet Lin Xiaofei. But other than that, there wasn't anything that was worthy of their worry that was caused by other people.
But when they arrived at the Qu residence, their young miss not only had to be targeted by assassins, but she also had to be careful around some people. Was it really a good thing for their young miss to marry the duke?
Lin Xiaofei's eyes hung down and sighed in her heart. She couldn't really blame these two young girls to be worried about these things when it's their lives that was at stake here.
However, these should already be within their expectations.
"Do you remember what I told you last time?" she asked them and before they could answer her question, Lin Xiaofei added, "I told you that serving me will be dangerous. I gave you a choice. To leave or not to leave my side. But instead, you two are willing to drink a cup full of poison just to stay by my side."
"When we stayed inside the Lin residence, you think we were safe being kept hidden inside our walls. But the truth is… we're not. There are several wolves hiding in the dark, waiting for their chance to take a bite, but fortunately, they weren't able to do so because we're no longer inside the Lin residence." Lin Xiaofei continued.
The maids have said that there weren't any dangerous people inside the Lin residence, but the truth was, a week after she got transmigrated into this body, the two madams of the Lin residence sent a man to defile her honor and reputation. They wished to drive her to the edges of the cliff and take a step backward to never rise again.
If Xiaofei hadn't got into this body and the real Lin Xiaofei stayed, who knows if this body could even survive in a world filled with schemes and cruelty like this?
Besides, the dangers that they may face from now on might be the lightest one compared to the dangers that every person in the slums faced.
Once the maids left, Lin XIaofei got up from the bed and took a cloak to cover herself. Using the other door in the back, she left the courtyard and went to the basement where Yu Fangzhu was kept.
While she was walking towards that place, she felt someone following her. She stopped walking and called out, "Who's there!"
Was it another assassin sent out to her?
She looked around and saw three guards standing not far away from her. After learning that she couldn't single-handedly fight against a well-trained assassin by herself and without risking her life, she decided to be careful from now on. Although, she still preferred fighting by herself.
And if this assassin was too foolish to come after her now that there's guards not too far away from her.
Just as she was thinking that the person following her would be thinking through his life choices and disappear, a black shadow flashed and when she turned around, she saw Gu Yan silently standing there.
"You…" She widened her eyes at the sight of Gu Yan who appeared without a sound. "Since when did you…"
"I have been following you, milady." Gu Yan supplied.
"Where's your master?" Lin Xiaofei asked.
Gu Yan replied, "He took a trip to the Bai mansion."
Bai mansion?
"Why would he go there?" Lin Xiaofei asked, not understanding the reason why Qu Xing Xu had to go to the Bai mansion when his wife just suffered blood loss and even had her life attempted by an assassin.
Suddenly, Lin Xiaofei wondered if Qu Xing Xu was lying to her when he said that he didn't care about the Bai family or that young lady from the Bai family.
When Gu Yan saw her face changing ever so slightly from normal to having a crease between her brows, he somewhat thought that she might be overthinking things and thus, he clarified by saying,
"Master went to the Bai mansion to make them pay back for what happened to milady. Please do not worry and just wait for the good news that the Bai family will no longer bother you." Gu Yan told her.
A blush appeared in Lin Xiaofei's cheeks, embarrassed by the fact that her thoughts were laid bare before this old guard.
"Wait… what did you just say? The Bai family was behind yesterday's assassination attempt?" She asked him.
Gu Yan grimly nodded his head at her.