The Princess's Deadly Daily Life

The sky turned from cloudy to sunny, and several carriages soon arrived at the foot of the mountain.

After saying goodbye to everyone, Li Xiqi got on his carriage and set off back to the manor with his maids and entourage.

Long Qi looked at Li Xiying's departing figure, his facial expression unclear, but he could not hide the loneliness in his heart.

Erlang suddenly patted him on the shoulder and said, "You are really too shy. If someone says you don't have to send them off, you really won't send them off?"

He didn't take it seriously, turned around and got into the car and said, "Since you know how to be stubborn, why don't you have a wife yet?"

Erlang was speechless. When the carriage started, he finally thought of a rebuttal: "Let's ride a donkey and watch the opera?"

It was almost evening when we arrived at the villa. It started to drizzle. The sun had not yet set, but the sky had already blocked out all the sunlight, shrouding it in darkness.

When grandma saw the princess returning to the village, she immediately came to greet her with an umbrella.

Li Xiying got off the carriage and walked under the umbrella of her grandmother. She said with a slightly tired look, "Maybe I sat in the carriage for too long today. I just feel dizzy."

Seeing that the princess did not look well, Grandma said, "Princess, you are tired. I will ask the kitchen staff to prepare some appetizers for dinner. I will also ask someone to light some incense in the room to soothe your mind."

After saying that, she gave a look to Pearl and Emerald on the side, and they left.

Li Xixiao returned to the house. Wisps of green smoke rose from the incense burner. When she smelled it, she felt her mind instantly calm down, and her head no longer sank.

Half an hour later, Pearl and Jade knocked gently on the door, arranged the dishes one by one, and were about to leave.

"Wait." Li Xiying called out to Zhenzhu and Feicui.

The two of them turned around and paused, nodding and lowering their heads. On the surface, there seemed to be no clues, but Li Xiying always felt that something was not right.

Amber beside her was also puzzled, "I wonder if the princess has any other instructions for them?"

Li Xi stood up and looked around the two of them for a long time before asking, "What happened to you today?"

The two maids were inexplicably stunned. They raised their eyes to glance at the princess' expression and immediately their faces turned gloomy.

Pearl couldn't bear Li Xi's probing look and had to push Feicui. Feicui said in a panic, "Sure enough, we can't escape the princess's eyes. She can tell at a glance if there's anything wrong with us."

Amber was obviously startled, and immediately realized what they meant. She had to ask them, "Did something happen in the village these past two days?"

Jade hesitated for a long time before nodding almost imperceptibly.

Li Xixiao immediately lost interest in eating and walked to Zhenzhu again. Seeing that she looked dazed, he ordered, "You speak."

Pearl barely raised her eyes, then lowered them silently, "It seems that the manor has been haunted in the past two days. Since the princess went to a banquet a few days ago, Coral has disappeared."

"Grandma asked people to search everywhere in and outside the village, but there was no sign of Coral." Feicui also added.

The people who heard this were shocked. How could a most well-behaved maid in the village disappear out of thin air?

Pearl's eyes were red. "Shanhu is my best friend. I know her well. She is not allowed to go out of the village. She will not go out with the princess unless the princess agrees. Most of the time, even if she needs something privately, she will ask me to bring it for her when I go out of the village to buy it."

Li Xiying felt that Zhenzhu was right. Shanhu didn't even like to go out of the yard, let alone go out. She only liked to move around in a small area, so how could such a well-behaved woman suddenly disappear?

As she thought about it, her heart skipped a beat...

"Have you looked for ponds, wells... or other places where you might have fallen?" Although she didn't want to think so, she still asked this question to try to rule out this possibility.

Pearl was very surprised and was stunned for a long time before Feicui answered, "No, Coral is a very cautious person and is afraid of water. He often washes clothes by the well and never sticks his head out to look at the bottom of the well. How could he fall in? Besides, there have been people fetching water from the well these days and no one has found anything."

Li Xi saw that they couldn't explain it, and Zhenzhu was in a bad mood, so she couldn't get any clues no matter how much she asked. She immediately ordered, "Call grandma."

The two of them nodded in agreement and left.

In a moment, grandma came and saw the dishes on the table. Li Xi didn't move at all. However, her brows were slightly furrowed, and she looked even more tired than when she first came back.

"Princess, do you want to ask about Coral? Grandma knows that the princess loves these maids the most. She would be worried if anyone disappeared for a few days. That's why she chose not to tell the princess immediately when she returned to the manor. Unexpectedly, the princess found out immediately." Grandma sighed.

Li Xiying watched her grandmother tell the truth. In fact, she already knew everything in her heart. Her voice became heavier, "Pearl and Jade usually ask questions non-stop. But today they both lowered their heads and kept silent. They looked worried. This is abnormal."

The old lady was surprised. How could she not have thought of this? It was all because the maids in the village were straightforward and everything was written on their faces.

"It was grandma who was careless. That coral suddenly disappeared, and the girls were all talking nonsense and thought it was related to ghosts, but there are no evil spirits in the world. I can only guess that she was playing around that day, left the village, was kidnapped or got lost, and didn't come back. When she found the way back, she came back naturally."

Li Xiying looked at her grandmother's lowered eyes. It was obvious that she was not sure, and from her expression one could see that there was a hint of taboo that she dared not say.

How could she not understand what kind of person Shanhu is after all these years? She sighed, "I don't know if there are ghosts in the world, but it is true that people are worse than ghosts. Maybe it's man-made! Grandma doesn't have to think that I can't bear such an assumption and make up stories to comfort me."

Grandma was stunned. She had forgotten that the princess was no longer a child. How could she, who was so smart, be fooled? But the truth would come out one day. How could she hide it then?

"If it was man-made, that person was able to stir up trouble right under the noses of everyone in the village. Perhaps Shanhu is already... in danger." After she finished her analysis, she collapsed and knelt at the table in a daze, without any strength left.

All the answers seem to be covered with a thick veil, making people seem to be able to see clues, but unable to see whether the person opposite meets the guess.

So she was the same, on the one hand she was hoping for luck, on the other hand she was trying to overturn the assumptions she had built up in her mind.

Suddenly, she stood up and pulled Grandma, and waved her hand for Amber to come closer to talk. She pretended to be calm and whispered, "Shanhu doesn't know what to do. From now on, all maids will sleep in pairs at night. Before going to bed, check all rooms and bolt the doors. They are not allowed to go out at will."

Grandma nodded, understanding what Li Xiying meant, and then lowered her head and said, "I'll give the order right away."

Amber was extremely nervous. She turned to look at Li Xiying, feeling uneasy in her heart. After hearing that, she felt as if the surroundings were no longer safe.

Grandma then thought that the princess's safety was the most important thing, so she said, "Then Amber and Daimao will sleep together in the princess's outer room as usual, and make sure to check the bolts and respond promptly if there is anything unusual."

The most frightening thing at this time is that they suspect that there are bad guys hiding in Muyan Villa, and they can easily make Coral disappear from the world, so they may attack other people.

Therefore, Li Xiying told her grandmother directly what she thought of at the moment, and then instructed: "Let the guards in the village take turns day and night to patrol diligently. If they find anything, deal with it in time and tell me."

Grandma wrote down everything, then looked at the cold food on the table and wanted to ask someone to reheat it, but was stopped by Li Xiying.

"I have no appetite tonight, so I won't eat. Just take it away."

After that, the grandmother was afraid that the princess would get hungry suddenly at night, so she prepared the food while saying with concern: "Can you bring a bowl of meat soup to the princess later to warm her up?"

Li Xiying did not answer, but looked through the window at the dusk in the distance gradually turning into vastness.

In the past, she always kept silent, which meant she tacitly agreed. The last time she remained silent was on her coming-of-age day. Even if she didn't want to eat, she would eat some when grandma brought it to her.

Grandma didn't breathe a sigh of relief. As long as Coral wasn't found, all of the above were just guesses. If her guess was right, then the whole village would not be at peace. If her guess was wrong, then these days would inevitably make people worried and unable to sleep or eat.

Amber was praying silently in her heart, hoping that the situation was not as bad as the princess guessed.

Seeing the princess move to the bathroom, he picked up some clean underwear and went with her.

After Daimao and others added hot water and helped her take a bath, the bathtub was filled with steam and the whole bathroom seemed to be immersed in clouds and mist.

The woman shrouded in mist seemed like a fairy from the fairyland, who was banished to the mortal world and was trying to wash away the dust and fatigue.

Daimao thought so as he watched the princess immersed in the hot water in a daze.

For a moment, the mist blurred my eyes, and I didn't even notice my eyes were wet. Finally, I said, "Princess, do you need to add hot water?"