CHAPTER 381: CHAPTER 383: A MASTER HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

Several people from Prince Mu’s Mansion fixed their gaze and saw a beautiful woman with a delicate little boy.

Princess Consort Mu and Ms. Zhou did not recognize the newcomer, but Princess Anyang did.

"Feng Bailing, what are you doing here at Yunshui Temple?"

As soon as Princess Anyang saw Feng Bailing, she hated her so much that her teeth itched.

She had been "poisoned" at Prince Shun’s Mansion, and afterwards, she was sure that Feng Bailing was behind it.

But considering the prior incident involving Feng Xiaoli, Princess Anyang didn’t dare to make a scene and had no choice but to swallow this bitter pill.

After she returned to Prince Mu’s Mansion, the more she thought about it, the angrier she got. She found the sight of Princess Mingyue, who had come from Prince Shun’s Mansion, increasingly displeasing, and she didn’t spare any details about Princess Mingyue’s misdeeds in front of her own mother. After Ms. Zhou suffered a miscarriage, the family discussed and decided to divorce Princess Mingyue.

"Yunshui Temple opens its doors to worshipers. If you can come, why can’t I? If I hadn’t come, I wouldn’t have known how you slander Mingyue behind her back."

Feng Bailing sneered.

"Mingyue caused me to lose my grandchild. My son lost his son. That is a fact. There’s no slander in that. You people from Prince Shun’s Mansion have the nerve to come to Yunshui Temple to offer prayers, aren’t you afraid of divine retribution?"

Princess Consort Mu spat toward Feng Bailing and her son.

This Feng Bailing, she had heard of her reputation; an unchaste woman, pregnant before marriage and even had her engagement annulled.

Like people, like home. What good daughters could be raised by a household like Prince Shun’s Mansion.

"Oh my goodness."

Princess Consort Mu had just spat when she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her forehead.

On her forehead was a large bump.

Princess Consort Mu focused her eyes and saw a wasp circling around her.

"Hornets!"

Princess Consort Mu was so scared that she held her head.

But just as she grabbed her head, she felt another sharp pain in her butt.

The "hornet" had stung her again.

Princess Anyang and Ms. Zhou hurriedly came over to help drive it away.

But the more they chased, the more hornets there were around.

The women were stung so badly that they ran about in panic, their nannies and servants crying and screaming.

"Aren’t these parasitic bees?"

Feng Bailing recognized the swarm of hornets. Compared to ordinary hornets, these "bees" were larger and more ferocious.

Ordinary hornets die after biting someone, but this swarm of "bees" became more aggressive at the sight of blood. In the end, the people from Prince Mu’s Mansion scattered and had to hide inside the temple.

"Mother!"

Dugu Xiaojin was quick-witted and, taking advantage of the chaos among the ladies, snatched the little baby over.

"Isn’t that the parasitic bee I gave you?"

Feng Bailing had presented Dugu Xiaojin with parasitic bee larvae after returning from Ka City.

She had not expected that in just a few days, the little one would hatch so many parasitic bees.

Dugu Xiaojin had a nervous look on his little face, afraid that his mother would scold him for taking matters into his own hands.

He hung his little head, as if to admit it.

Seeing him like a wronged little quail, Feng Bailing laughed heartily and showered praises on Xiaojin’s "feat."

"Well done. For those people from Prince Mu’s Mansion, they should be stung until even their own mothers won’t recognize them."

Dugu Xiaojin, upon hearing this, his eyes lit up, and he too started chuckling.

In Feng Bailing’s arms, the infant intermittently let out a few weak cries.

"Why does the child’s cry sound so weak? I remember last time at Prince Shun’s Mansion, her cries were much more resounding."

Feng Bailing noticed something off about the cry of the baby girl in swaddling clothes and hurriedly went to find Princess Consort Shun with the infant in her arms.

In a guest room at Yunshui Temple, Princess Consort Shun, furious, kept complaining of chest pains. Beside her, Princess Mingxia was seated in company, while Princess Mingyue cried with swollen eyes, her face also bearing an unhealed slap mark.

Princess Mingyue did see her daughter, but she simply couldn’t get close to her.

She wanted to take a glance at her daughter but was grabbed by several nannies beside Princess Consort Mu and slapped across the face. Princess Mingxia and Princess Consort Shun could only watch indignantly.

"It infuriates me to death. That Princess Consort Mu, how dare she hit someone? No, we must get Dugu Wu over here. We, the people of Prince Shun’s Mansion, cannot allow others to look down on us."

"Queen Mother, please don’t trouble big brother anymore. I’ve seen him up early and back late these past few days, busy with the Ministry of Revenue. At this time, we shouldn’t allow matters of the inner court to drag down big brother."

Princess Mingxia couldn’t help but say.

"Not find him? Then who? Go find your third brother who’s nowhere to be seen, or Chunchun?"

Princess Consort Shun saw that her son Dongfang Chun had disappeared without a trace, thinking he must have run off to play with Feng Xiaoli again.

In the vast Prince Shun’s Mansion, when people came to bully their way in, there was not even a man in charge, which made Princess Consort Shun both angry and anxious.

"Self-reliance is better than depending on others; doesn’t the Princess Consort understand this truth after living all these years?"

Just as Feng Bailing walked in with a smiling face,

Princess Consort Shun was about to reproach her for her lack of respect when she saw the swaddled infant in Feng Bailing’s arms, looking somewhat familiar.

"Ah Ning!"

Princess Mingxia exclaimed sharply, rushing forward to hold her daughter.

"Sister-in-law."

Upon seeing Feng Bailing, Princess Mingxia’s face was also full of joy, as if with Feng Bailing’s arrival, all problems could be solved.

"The child seems to have been fed medicine and is drowsy. She’s probably been hungry for a whole day. You take care of her for now."

Feng Bailing checked the baby and found she was not ill, just a bit too hungry.

The group from Prince Mu’s Mansion hadn’t paid any attention to the little girl, leaving her only in the nannies’ care.

Those nannies, seeing Princess Mingyue divorced, did not pay much attention to the child. Annoyed by her crying, they simply fed her some sleeping medicine.

"How can he treat our child like this just because she’s a girl?"

Princess Mingyue looked at her daughter who had visibly lost weight, crying and wiping her tears.

She had thought that even if the Princely Heir of Mu lost affection for her, he would at least treat their daughter well. However, it now seemed that the man not only favored the new over the old but also valued sons over daughters; he simply couldn’t care less about his own biological daughter.

"Cry, cry, cry, what’s the use of crying. We should think about how to go back; otherwise, Ah Ning might be tormented to death in the future. Listen to me, go kowtow and apologize to Princess Consort Mu and that Ms. Zhou."

Princess Consort Shun sighed.

"It would be better to let her take Ah Ning out the door, turn left, where there’s a well. Mother and daughter could jump into the well together; at least we could find their bodies and give them a proper burial."

Feng Bailing sat down and took a sip of tea.

"Feng Bailing, do you curse people like that?"

Princess Consort Shun muttered.

"I’m just telling it like it is. How could Mingyue, an ordinary person, stand a chance against Ms. Zhou, who wields the Wenhua Seal?"

Feng Bailing chuckled dryly.

Wenhua Seal?

Ms. Zhou!

All the women in the room were stunned.

"Mother is right. That Ms. Zhou, she is a strong wielder of the Wenhua Seal. Although she hides it well, I can sense it just by looking at her."

Dugu Xiaojin also chimed in, revealing that not only had he noticed, but the Queen Mother had also discovered it.