Guessing that he would transform into a fox again, he immediately took out the medicine Fanjia had given him the moment he returned to his room.
Just as he was about to swallow it, he suddenly thought of something, restrained his action, and hid the medicine in his backpack.
About two minutes later, a faint red light emanated from the window of the room.
Soon, a slender and petite figure emerged from the room.
As the little fox walked, the bell on the tip of its tail jingled.
After taking a few steps, Bai Lixin stopped and looked back at the spiritual bell. “I need to do something secretly. Can you please not make any noise?”
In the dim light, it seemed that the bell nodded.
When the little fox walked again, the bell indeed made no sound.
He flicked his tail in satisfaction and silently praised the bell behind him.
The bell seemed to hear Bai Lixin’s praise and swayed a couple of times in the evening breeze.
Bai Lixin first arrived at the bamboo forest. It wasn’t large, and considering the time, it was not early. In the pitch-black bamboo forest, there was a person standing there.
Bai Lixin silently moved forward, and finally saw the person clearly.
It was a woman dressed very shabbily. Her hair was messy, she was wearing a patched floral cloth garment that looked worn-out, and her face was dirty.
She seemed to be in her thirties, with rough skin, but the dirt couldn’t completely hide the woman’s originally delicate features.
If properly dressed, this woman should be extremely beautiful.
She sat silently on a stone, staring blankly at a spot, muttering to herself.
Bai Lixin wanted to hear what she was saying so he walked over to her on all fours, and sat down next to her.
Concubine Shu, who was muttering to herself, stopped when she saw Bai Lixin. At first, she stared at the fox next to her in a daze, then, her vacant expression gradually changed.
There were glimmers of water, sorrow, and clarity in her watery eyes.
Concubine Shu reached out tremblingly, and cautiously touched Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin sat still, allowing the woman’s hand to come over, even letting out a coordinated “aoo.”
At certain times, animals serve as good confidants. Some people are reluctant to share certain things with humans but find comfort in confiding in animals.
Seeing the fox’s human-like reaction, Concubine Shu’s emotions intensified.
Her eyes that were already somewhat watery, teared up even more. Finally, with a sob, tears slowly rolled down her cheeks.
“Child, my child, have you come to see your mother?”
Bai Lixin cooperated with the woman again. “Aooao.”
For the sake of solving the case, he would even pretend to be her grandson, let alone a son!
With the fox’s response, Concubine Shu finally broke down. She cautiously held the fox in her arms, securing him like a child. “Good child, I knew it. You wouldn’t abandon your mother. After so many years, you finally came to see me. W
Uuu, wuu.”
She cried, and suddenly her expression changed.
She tightly held Bai Lixin in her arms, and scanned the surroundings vigilantly.
“Child, Mother will definitely protect you well this time. I won’t let that wicked woman touch a hair on you. If anyone dares to harm you, Mother will fight them to the death!”
“Wicked woman, evil people, they are all evil!”
“Come, child, Mother will take you back to the room now. We’ll hide and make sure that wicked woman doesn’t see you. Otherwise, she’ll harm you again.”
Concubine Shu carried Bai Lixin and left the bamboo forest, stumbling into a very dilapidated courtyard.
If it weren’t for the bed that showed signs of being slept on, Bai Lixin would have thought Concubine Shu had randomly entered an abandoned yard.
This courtyard was behind the bamboo forest and was the farthest distance from the main house.
Following the rules of the palace, this place could be considered a cold palace.
The courtyard gate had long been unusable, half of the door had disappeared without a trace, and the other half hung crookedly, ready to fall.
The rooms were overgrown with weeds. When Concubine Shu brought him through the yard, Bai Lixin even saw a few rats digging holes.
The small courtyard was already in such a dilapidated state, and the room door were in no better shape.
Inside the yard was a narrow room with windows covered in torn paper. The door didn’t close properly, and there were four or five holes in the roof.
The environment here was slightly better than those deserted temples in the wilderness.
Bai Lixin looked around and suddenly felt a sense of pity.
According to the young servant, this woman was originally an official’s daughter. With her abilities and insights, she should have had a promising future if she chose the right husband. Looking at her current surroundings, it seemed more like she was left to decay.
In ancient times, having three wives and four concubines wasn’t morally condemned, so it’s not appropriate to judge this situation with modern standards.
However, one thing can be said.
The prince let down Concubine Shu. According to the young servant, the prince publicly claimed to take good care of Concubine Shu, but the current surroundings didn’t seem like it.
Not just taking care of, but it felt more like letting her perish on her own.
The prince didn’t care, the princess didn’t care, and when the servant mentioned Concubine Shu, he directly used the words “crazy and mad.” The fact that a servant could use such terms for his master indicated how little Concubine Shu was valued.
It seems that the princess wasn’t as gentle as she appeared.
Concubine Shu carried the fox onto the bed. As soon as they got on the bed, she placed Bai Lixin on the straw-filled mattress and covered him with a piece of patched cloth.
“This is good, this is good,” she trembled, touching the cloth excitedly, tears welling up as she stared at Bai Lixin. “My child, do you know how hard it has been for your mother all these years? After you left, Mother has been waiting, waiting, and waiting for you. But you never came back.”
“I thought you were blaming Mother, blaming me for not protecting you.”
“Mother was wrong, Mother knows she was wrong.”
“Mother will definitely protect you well from now on, never letting you out of Mother’s sight, and never letting anyone touch you.”
“I won’t let them get close to you, I won’t let them throw you into the river again.”
Bai Lixin listened quietly.
At this point, Concubine Shu’s tearful expression suddenly changed. She frantically knelt on the ground, reaching under the bed as if searching for something.
After a while, she crawled out from under the bed, holding something in her hand.
Since it was nighttime, there was no light in the room, and it was somewhat dim.
Fortunately, the holes in the roof let the moonlight in. Under the moonlight, Bai Lixin saw what she was holding.
It was a voodoo doll.
The doll made of white cloth strips was wearing a dress. Judging by the clothes, it looked like the princess. The back of the doll had birth details, and the front was filled with needles.
Concubine Shu held two silver needles and ruthlessly pierced the doll’s eyes.
“Bitch!”
“Damn bitch!”
“It’s all because of you! Do you know how miserable you made me?!”
“It’s you who killed my child!”
Her eyes were bloodshot, showing intense hatred towards this person.
After a long time, she finally threw the doll on the ground when she was out of breath, and stomped on it forcefully.
‘She hated the princess so much.
Is it possible that the queen killed her child?’
Bai Lixin suddenly fell silent.
Throughout history, betrayal among family members and deceitful schemes were not uncommon within feudal dynasties.
Hadn’t he faced such things in his original world as well?
Even he hadn’t escaped from these absurd situations.
Just when Bai Lixin thought everything was over, Concubine Shu knelt down again, her eyes looking strange as she peeked under the bed.
In the dim space, a gust of wind blew through the open door, making the swaying window frames creak.
“Hehehe.”
Suddenly, a eerie laughter came from under the bed. Then, Bai Lixin saw Concubine Shu taking out another doll.
This doll was dressed in men’s clothing, with dark green fabric and faint patterns.
Because men’s attire looked similar, he couldn’t tell who this doll represented from the clothes.
The birth details were on his back, but probably due to frequent handling, they were tattered, and the writing was already blurred.
A male vodoo doll?
Bai Lixin was momentarily stunned.
Could it be that her child didn’t die at someone’s hands but at the hands of two people?
Or does this person actually represent the prince?
She resented the prince’s heartlessness, so she created a voodoo doll to curse him too?
As Bai Lixin contemplated, the woman moved again.
The number of needles in this doll was twice as many as the female one.
The woman skillfully inserted the needles one by one, cursing continuously.
“It’s you, bastard, you’re also a bastard.”
“The mastermind who pushed my son into the water!”
“All in vain for me treating you so well!”
“Scoundrel, I’ll kill you, I’ll kill you.”
“Why treat my child like this?! What did I do wrong?!”
“Die, die, you die, all of you will have a miserable end!”
Bai Lixin: “…”
After inserting the needles, just like with the previous female doll, the woman stood up again, stamping her foot forcefully several times to vent her frustration.
After completing everything, she tossed both dolls back under the bed to collect dust.
When the woman poked her head out from under the bed again, she mysteriously embraced Bai Lixin and the blanket, saying, “My child, those two people just now, you must recognize them well. They are the worst people in the world. You must stay far away from them in the future.”
“They are bad people,” the woman suddenly lowered her voice and leaned in, “not only did they kill you, but they also killed others!”
“I saw it, I saw it.”
In the darkness, Bai Lixin’s beastly pupils suddenly widened.
Killed others?
Who?
Woman: “Do you know why I went to the bamboo forest? They are buried in the bamboo forest, buried in the bamboo forest, hehehe. They fear retribution, fear ghosts, so they dare not approach the bamboo forest. But I’m not afraid. I know we are friends, we all hate them. Hehehe, they will protect me, and we will seek revenge together.”
“Wuuuu, my child. As a mother, I have no ability to avenge you, wuuu.”
“Hehehe, revenge, revenge.”
“Hahaha, my son is back, back.”
The woman cried and laughed alternately for a while, and who knew how long had passed before she fell asleep, holding Bai Lixin in her arms.
Seeing that the woman had finally fallen asleep, Bai Lixin struggled hard this time and wriggled out of the woman’s embrace.
He shook his fur, shaking off the broken fur that the woman had touched vigorously, and then turned towards the door, ready to leave.
Just as Bai Lixin was about to reach the door, a chilling voice suddenly came from behind him, “Where do you think you’re going?”
Bai Lixin suddenly turned around, only to see that the woman had opened her eyes at some point.
Her eyes, sparkling with light, stared straight at him, “Didn’t I say, you can’t leave my sight for a moment. You can’t go anywhere.”
The woman got off the bed, and besides the watery glint in her pitch black eyes, no other color could be seen. The pupils, connected to the whites of her eyes, had all turned black.
Bai Lixin stared at the woman’s somewhat unusual eyes for two seconds, and suddenly realized that something was wrong.
How could a normal person’s eyes look like this!
The woman chuckled twice and reached out to grab Bai Lixin. Bai Lixin instinctively jumped to the side.
But just as he jumped halfway, Bai Lixin was frozen in mid-air.
The woman did something unknown, and he couldn’t move at all.
The woman slowly approached, and in an instant, she seized the fox’s fate – its nape.
In the next moment, Bai Lixin, was lifted by the woman like she was picking up a child, all dignity lost.
The little fox flailed its limbs in mid-air: “…”
‘Help! It’s unreasonable to bully a fox like this!
If you have the guts, let me go. When I transform, I’ll fight you with my true form!’
