Chapter 1303: Intuition

The men went to study the hot spring, and the three of them took full responsibility for the cleaning here."If we don’t stay a few more days, it wouldn’t be fair to leave after cleaning for so long and making it this spotless," Han Xiangjun sighed. He was a young master who never lifted a finger, yet now he could do anything.

"We’ll go back after a week," Wei Kaiyun said dismissively.

"Hehehe. You can’t make the decision. What you say doesn’t count."

Wei Kaiyun couldn’t be bothered to respond, this guy was really pent up.

Feifei wandered around by herself, feeling uneasy inside.

So she followed her feelings and wandered. This was a palace, taking up quite a bit of space, with many houses, but all the windows had no paper, giving a sense of desolation and decay.

Three boys ran into Feifei, and the little girl refused to join them, choosing instead to continue walking alone.

The further she went, the more secluded it got. Here was all wild grass, which would grow as tall as a person in summer. Looking at the low houses here, they should be the servants’ quarters.

Feifei wondered, how did she end up in this place? She was just following her feelings.

She wanted to turn back, but a part of her was unwilling.

She had never felt like this before; what exactly was going on?

In the end, she decided to check it out. Feifei had already thought it over; what danger could there be here? At most, she’d get a fright.

So she picked up a dead branch from the ground. The wild grass covered the ground, so she used the branch to carve out a path.

Feifei wasn’t very brave, but this time she was just a bit nervous, not scared.

The road wasn’t very long. Feifei arrived in front of a row of houses, looking at the ones with collapsed roofs.

She stood with her eyes closed, feeling drawn to the most dilapidated house.

She carefully pushed open the door, seeing the fallen beams. It’s fortunate the capital hadn’t snowed yet, or else this place would be covered with snow.

Inside, there was only a nearly broken table, a round stool collapsed under it, and a bed. It looked like an ordinary wooden bed.

Feifei frowned, not knowing why she felt drawn to this place.

No, Feifei stared at the bed, feeling that this was it, it should be here.

So she cautiously approached the bed, standing at its side, staring at it.

She was small but strong; should she move this bed?

She tried, easily lifting the bed board, finding nothing underneath.

Dust had already spread all over. Unwilling to give up, Feifei used the branch to scrape around inside, suddenly feeling something blocking her.

Feifei’s branch retreated, finding the point that had blocked her—a seam.

With that, Feifei directly stepped in, wearing rubber gloves. She felt around with her hands.

It really was a board. Feifei became excited, pulling out a knife, inserting it into the seam cautiously prying.

After opening it, it was dark inside, looking quite terrifying.

Feifei took out a flashlight, shining it down, finding steps. Since she’d come this far, she had to go down and see.

Holding a flashlight in one hand and a knife in the other, she carefully descended,

and to her surprise, it was quite clean inside, much better than above.

She took a powerful daylight lamp from the space, immediately seeing the whole small basement.

There were many boxes, all wrapped in what might be oil paper.

Feifei smiled; this was an unexpected fortune.

Without hesitation, she used the knife to pry open a box lid.

Now Feifei was truly smiling ear to ear.

The entire box was filled with thread-bound books.

Feifei put down her things, picked up a book, flipped through it, a true rarity, and placing them like this prevented oxidation. Truly not easy.

She happily put this box away, checked the remaining five boxes, all books.

For Feifei, these were more precious than gold and silver.

The last box contained a smaller box, with a string of keys, a knife, and a letter inside.

Feifei knew she had been out for a long time, so she hurriedly put everything away and left, restoring everything on her way out, especially wiping away the footprints she left with a broom.

Returning to the front, no one was looking for her, and her two brothers and Zhao Xiaoqiang hadn’t returned. Only then was she at ease.

She fetched water herself, took off her coat, and washed herself clean.

"Feifei, what’s this?"

"Mom, I’ll tell you alone in a bit."

Jiang Xinyu nodded. Seeing her daughter was fine, she didn’t worry.

She washed her daughter’s outerwear clean. Then she prepared dinner, making porridge, one egg per person, and salted egg red pickles.

Wei Kaiyun and the others had already cleaned up the hot spring pool thoroughly, even wiping the stones on the ground.

So they planned to try it out with the kids at night.

"Xiao Jiang, this isn’t at home, do we have to eat so blandly?"

"There wasn’t time today, tomorrow morning we’ll steam pork buns."

"That’s more like it."

Jiang Xinyu had already planned, after kneading the dough to leave it by the hot spring, it would rise quickly.

"Would my little princess join us for a hot spring soak?" Han Xiangjun asked Feifei.

"Uncle Han, I’ll go with my mom, you guys go ahead."

"Alright then. We’ll try it out, the sulfur smell is too strong, we’ll need to prepare fresh water later."

Shi Xian and the other two were too young, so Jiang Xinyu brought three basins and two bath barrels for them to soak by the pool, they should be happy.

Tingting shook her head at Jiang Xinyu, "Mom, I’m not going."

"Alright, you don’t go, later you can go with mom and sister."

So, the three men took five boys with them.

"Xiao Li, there’s hot water in the pot, why not take a bath?"

"I won’t, I don’t like baths, I’ll just wash up simply later.

Xinyu, I’m a bit tired, I’ll go rest now." Today, the energetic one went with his dad, so it was much quieter.

It was just her and the Niang San left in the room, but Feifei didn’t want someone else there, so she didn’t say anything.

"Mom, I don’t want to soak in the hot spring."

"Okay, when dad and the others come back, if it doesn’t feel good, I won’t go either."

Feifei laughed, "Even if it feels good, I’m not going; I don’t like it. The skin feels tight and uncomfortable afterwards."

"Alright, if you don’t want to, that’s fine."

"Mom, accompany me to the kitchen to make some desserts."

Jiang Feifei winked at Jiang Xinyu.

"Okay, Tingting, wait in the room while mom and sister make some treats for you."