Appointing a General as a Concubine: Where Can General Xiao Escape?

Chapter 168 It turns out he was just pretending to be crazy

In Suqiyuan, Xiao Mo had just laid down when she heard a noisy sound coming from outside the courtyard.

She frowned and sat up, put on her cloak and planned to go find out what was going on. As soon as she opened the door, she ran into Shen Yun who was also woken up.

"Yun, what's going on?"

"I don't know. I just got up too." She yawned and straightened her clothes.

"Let's go and take a look." Xiao Mo closed the door and pulled Shen Yun and walked quickly towards the source of the sound.

In the courtyard hall, Xiao Wenbo sat in the main seat with a gloomy face, while Lin was pressed aside by two maids.

Murong Shu knelt in the hall and explained the circumstances of Lin's disappearance.

Xiao Mo heard Xiao Wenbo's slightly angry voice from a distance: "Don't you know she's already unconscious?"

"I know. Because I know, I sent people to watch over her day and night. I..."

"That's enough! I know she's done something wrong to you before, but she's learned her lesson. As the mistress of the house, you actually retaliated against a lunatic. I'm afraid I'll be embarrassed if I tell anyone about it!"

"No, sir, I don't..."

Murong Shu raised her head with anxious eyes, and the way she tried to explain made Lin beside her laugh.

She chuckled, and everyone present thought she was going crazy again, so they ignored her.

But Xiao Mo saw the fleeting smugness and cunning in her eyes.

Xiao Mo frowned slightly, then relaxed and smiled softly.

"What's going on? It's so noisy late at night that no one can rest."

Everyone turned around when they heard the voice, and Xiao Wenbo's originally arrogant attitude immediately subsided when he saw her coming.

"Mo'er was woken up too?"

"Well, with such a big commotion, I must be deaf."

Xiao Mo came to Murong Shu and looked at her in surprise: "What happened to mother? Why is she kneeling on the ground?"

Before Murong Shu could say anything, Xiao Wenbo interrupted her with an unhappy tone.

"As the mistress of the house, she couldn't even take care of a lunatic. She let Lin run around outside the courtyard in the middle of the night wearing only thin clothes. Do you think she should be punished?"

Xiao Mo laughed in her heart when she heard this, and glanced coldly at Lin who was standing beside her.

"Father, you are wrong. Mother, as the head of the family, has assigned enough people to look after Lin's family without neglecting them for even a moment.

When Lin disappeared, where were the maids in her house? If you want to punish someone, you should punish these people, right? "

As she spoke, she bent down to help Murong Shu up from the ground and added again in a joking tone.

"From my daughter's perspective, my father is punishing my mother out of revenge, right?

Regarding Lin's disappearance, you did not punish any of the servants outside the courtyard or the maids inside the courtyard.

You caught your mother kneeling in front of everyone, everyone laughing at her. Why did you do this? To vent your anger on Lin?

The more she spoke, the colder she became. Xiao Wenbo was so angry that his face turned red and his veins bulged: "You rebellious girl! You, you..."

He stood up, holding his chest, but lost his balance and fell back onto the chair.

Murong Shu rushed over, supported him, and gently helped him breathe.

"What are you talking about, Mo'er? Don't be rude to your father."

Xiao Mo rolled her eyes at both of them and glanced towards Lin.

Just now, when she finished saying those words and Xiao Wenbo was so angry that he stuttered, she clearly saw the worry flashing in her eyes.

Oh! Sure enough, this woman is pretending to be crazy.

Xiao Mo knelt on one knee, pretending to apologize to Xiao Wenbo, but in fact she was scoring twice.

"I grew up outside and was taught to speak my mind. If what I said just now has upset you, I will take it back."

Xiao Wenbo was breathing heavily and pointing at her for a long time without being able to utter a complete sentence.

"you you……"

Xiao Mo cupped her hands and bent her waist slightly, then stood up after a perfunctory gesture.

"Come here! Arrest the man who's on guard tonight in Aunt Lin's yard and give him twenty lashes of the cane."

Seeing that no one present had any intention of taking action, she chuckled playfully.

"It turns out my words are meaningless in this mansion. Yun, bring me my whip. I'm going crazy tonight too. Let's see how many people can withstand it."

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other and then got up and grabbed the maid who was guarding Lin's bed tonight.

Xiao Mo looked at her fair face, her eyes trembling with fear. She couldn't bear it and finally turned her face away.

"Forget it. I'm not the one in charge. Go and ask Madam for forgiveness."

The maid kowtowed in gratitude, because she knew that according to Murong Shu's habit of disciplining servants, she would never be punished for a mistake like hers.

Xiao Mo turned around and looked at Xiao Wenbo again.

"Since the servants at home have such poor insight, for the safety of Aunt Lin, I'd better ask His Royal Highness Prince Chen to borrow some secret guards."

As she spoke, her deep eyes flashed with an ambiguous light, staring straight at Lin: "If we had strictly guarded it like this, what happened tonight would not have happened."

Everyone was stunned when they heard this. Xiao Wenbo slammed the table and stood up, glaring at her angrily.

"Is there no one left in my Prime Minister's Mansion? We have to rely on an outsider."

He had never liked Qi Minxiu in the first place, because he always felt that it was Qi Minxiu who ruined his chance to get close to the prince.

Now that Xiao Mo said this, he felt even angrier.

Xiao Mo pretended not to notice his anger: "My daughter is about to marry Prince Chen, how can you say he is an outsider?"

Xiao Wenbo held his breath and coughed violently, which scared Murong Shu.

Murong Shu hurriedly patted his back and tried to calm him down.

She glared at Xiao Mo unhappily, then turned to look at Shen Yun: "Hurry up and help the young lady go down to rest."

Shen Yun suppressed her smile and walked to Xiao Mo with a serious face: "Miss, let's go back."

Xiao Mo glanced at Xiao Wenbo with disdain, then glanced at Lin indifferently, and then left in a swagger.

After returning to Suqiyuan, she did not rest immediately, but sat at the table and drank tea.

Shen Yun sat next to her and poured herself a cup.

"Miss, I think there's something fishy going on with the Lin family."

Xiao Mo raised an eyebrow and looked at her: "Oh?"

"Look, the first time you said something that angered the Prime Minister, she was obviously nervous. It was a conditioned reflex.

When she realized something was wrong, she immediately switched back to her crazy self, so I think she was kind of pretending."

Shen Yun carefully recalled Lin's expression at that time and looked at Xiao Mo seriously.

Xiao Mo pursed her lips and nodded gently: "You guessed right, she is probably pretending."

"Since she was pretending, then what happened tonight was intentional."

Xiao Mo gently pinched Shen Yun's face: "When you fall in love, your brain becomes smarter."

Shen Yun brushed her hand away and rubbed her face: "I've always been smart, okay? Besides, who said I was in love?"

"No? Then what were you doing the night you didn't come home?"

When this was mentioned, Shen Yun became angry: "Nothing, we are discussing business now, how are you going to deal with Lin's matter?"

Xiao Mo collected her thoughts and frowned as she thought for a moment, "She must be meeting someone when she goes out in the middle of the night. Ask someone to keep an eye on her. Unless she's really crazy, there will definitely be another time."

"Okay, then what you just said about borrowing secret guards from Prince Chen, is it true or false?"

"What do you think?" Xiao Mo raised her eyebrows at her.

Shen Yun nodded, not quite understanding: "I understand."