Pampered Consort of the Fragrant Orchard

“Boom—”

One of the walls of Du Yunhan's house suddenly opened up and Du Xiaoli walked out from behind it. Looking at Zhong Meiqing, she said, “Second Aunt, you are remembering things wrong, are you sure that those two children of yours are Father's biological children?”

When Du Xiaoli and Du Xiuheng and a group of men in black came out from the secret passage, it startled both Du Yunhan and Zhong Meiqing.

“Du Xiaoli, why are you here?!” Zhong Meiqing looked at Du Xiaoli in shock.

“Xiaoli, why have you come back?!” Du Yunhan had guessed that Du Xiaoli might be on her way back after he heard she had gone missing, but he hadn’t expected Du Xiaoli to come back so quickly!

“Father, I knew you were imprisoned, so of course I had to rush back, or else I would have let a tiger run our house, and risk countless lives across our family.” Du Xiaoli and Du Xiuheng came in front of Du Yunhan to protect him.

At this moment, the siblings had not realized that Du Yunhan had not actually been poisoned.

“Hmph, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find you two siblings, but you ran back to die on your own. That's just as well, you’re saving me the trouble of having to go looking for you!” Zhong Meiqing sneered. “Master, now that they're all back, do you want to consider your concubine's proposal? This is your only chance to live.”

“Do you want Father to kill his only children?” Du Xiaoli sneered.

“Only children? What's going on?” Du Yunhan asked as he sat up from the bed.

“Father, you're not poisoned?” Du Xiaoli and Du Xiuheng asked, eyes bulging when they saw Du Yunhan get up.

Zhong Meiqing's gaze was also shocked. If all of this had been a pretense by Du Yunhan, then why was he doing this and what was he playing at?

“No.” Du Yunhan replied afterward, “Xiaoli, what did you just say– my only children– what do you mean?”

“Of course I mean it literally!” Du Xiaoli says, “It's better to ask Second Aunt about this.”

Du Yunhan got up from the bed, looked at Zhong Meiqing who was inching towards the door and interrogated, “You tell me, what does this mean?”

Zhong Meiqing did not answer and instead ran outside, shouting, “Someone come! Someone come!”

Du Xiaoli and Du Xiuheng had already noticed Zhong Meiqing's movements, but they thought that if they went outside to fight, there would be more space, so they wouldn't have to break things in the house. So when Zhong Meiqing went out, Du Xiuheng followed after her.

Du Yunhan drew his legs up and was about to go and ask for clarification, when he was grabbed by Du Xiaoli and said, “Father, are you sure you don't want to put on some clothes before going out?”

Du Yunhan looked down and realized that he had only his pajamas on and hurriedly went to the closet to get a set of clothes to put on.

Seeing his flustered appearance, as if he was afraid that Zhong Meiqing would run away if he were a second late, Du Xiaoli face palmed and said, “Take your time to put them on, she's definitely waiting for us outside.”

When Du Yunhan and Du Xiaoli went out, they indeed saw Zhong Meiqing waiting for them in the courtyard, confronting the people Du Xiuheng had brought out.

“Hmph, since you guys came here today, no one can think of leaving alive! Go!” Zhong Meiqing didn't seem to intend to give Du Yunhan the chance to open his mouth and ask her anything, and commanded the people behind her.

Because it was already the last and most critical minute, Zhong Meiqing also guessed that someone would try to save Du Yunhan and go to the palace to save the Emperor, so she had arranged for skilled people early in the morning. It's just that they hadn’t expected that the ones leading the way would be Du Xiaoli and Du Xiuheng.

Zhong Bolin had sent a lot of people to the Prime Minister's Manor , so Du Xiaoli was surrounded as soon as they came in. Now that they knew there was a situation here, most of the people flocked here.

The people behind Zhong Meiqing attacked Du Xiaoli and the others when they heard her order. The people who followed Du Xiaoli and the others to this place were all Du Yunhan's own people, all carefully trained by Du Yunhan, and were definitely strong enough to fight– even one against ten.

Luo Qi, Mu Shan, and Mu Shui also followed and joined the battlefield. These ordinary soldiers were just ripe melons and fruits in their eyes, standing no chance!

Although Du Xiuheng's martial arts couldn't compare to Du Xiaoli's, it was still excellent compared to the average person. Previously, no one knew that he practiced martial arts, so seeing him with a long sword in his hand, dealing with opponents in a single move, it still surprised Zhong Meiqing a little.

But what surprised her the most was Du Xiaoli, because her martial arts were obviously quite a bit more powerful than Du Xiuheng's, and she was protecting Du Yunhan in his surroundings, so that all the people who approached him couldn't even get close.

The guards kept pouring into Du Yunhan's courtyard. The corpses that had fallen on the ground had almost covered the courtyard floor, and the position was slowly shifting outward from Du Yunhan's courtyard.

Right in the midst of the clamor over here, a few silhouettes sneaked into Du Manor’s firewood room.

“Is it here?” One of them asked.

“Yes.”

“Then let's go in.”

“Mother, it's so noisy outside, is someone coming to rescue us?” Du Xueqi and Xie Yu snuggled up to each other in the cold firewood room. Hearing the sounds of fighting outside, Du Xueqi asked breathlessly.

“Yes, soon we'll be able to get out.” Xie Yu hugged Du Xueqi and slowly patted her back as if she was lulling her to sleep.

“Mother, I want to eat meat.” Du Xueqi pouted her mouth and said.

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