After Rebirth, She Becomes the Revenge Queen
Chapter 42 - 041: The Child Has Grown Up, Harder to Deal With

Chapter 42: Chapter 041: The Child Has Grown Up, Harder to Deal With

"I have all the time in the world, and my guards have surrounded this place. Even if you know martial arts, there’s no way you can escape. If you don’t want to talk, then I’ll accompany you till the end."

Pei Zhan spoke slowly, then turned his head slightly to take a sip of tea.

Fu Zhen thought he wasn’t so adorable when he was a child.

If she had known he would be so troublesome now, she would have pinched his chubby cheeks every day as a child and drawn ten big turtles on his face!

But now that things have come to this, avoiding it is not a solution.

Moreover, he is a big hero who has recently made great achievements in the northwest, someone of high power and authority. There’s no good in being targeted by him.

Most importantly, she didn’t want this matter to create misunderstandings between her and the Liang family.

So she said, "Great General, what I told you that night was all true."

Pei Zhan frowned as he glanced at her.

Fu Zhen continued, "I do have some connection with Miss Liang, but it’s not directly through me; it’s through my mother."

Pei Zhan squinted.

"That’s right," Fu Zhen said earnestly, "The Great General is known for his integrity and reputation, and some things shouldn’t be casually spoken about. But because of this misunderstanding with the Great General, I have no choice but to lay it all out."

"You probably don’t know that one night before the incident, Miss Liang encountered something strange in the alley next to the Liang Mansion, and while she was avoiding it, my mother reached out to help her."

Pei Zhan unconsciously sat up straight, his eyes burning into Fu Zhen as if trying to bore holes into her, clenching his hands as if using force.

Fu Zhen didn’t expect him to take it so seriously, but his next words made her regret that she had no way out.

"Which night? What kind of strange affair?"

He spoke each word very softly, as if afraid to disturb something.

Fu Zhen said, "It was a murder case that happened in the alley. However, the Great General probably hasn’t heard of it, because apart from Miss Liang and my mother, perhaps only the murderer himself knows about it. There were no rumors about this case on the streets afterward."

This matter indeed is secretive and strange, definitely not to be spoken about recklessly, but first of all, the Pei family’s reputation was trustworthy, and Pei Zhan and Liang Chen had known each other since childhood, having fought bloodily in the northwest for years, so their friendship grew deeper and deeper. Hence, Pei Zhan’s character should be reliable as well.

If Fu Zhen couldn’t offer sincerity to explain her strange behavior in his eyes, what happened outside the Liang Mansion couldn’t be resolved.

It was because of the strangeness of this matter that its weight was apparent.

Of course, he may not believe it, because even she said outsiders had no idea, which might imply that she made it up.

And even if she knew that Xu Yin was also aware of this matter, but Xu Yin repeatedly asked her for that murder weapon, there must be something else involved behind it. If she went to him, he wouldn’t admit it either.

The key is, at that time, Pei Zhan was on an expedition to the northwest, unaware of the events in the capital city.

But besides confessing Liang Ning’s connection with Mrs. Fu, she had no other way to explain her behavior.

"Which day was it?"

Pei Zhan’s voice sounded again.

Fu Zhen paused momentarily and said, "It was on the night three days before her death."

She hadn’t expected him to actually listen.

The chaos in the northwest originally began when an enemy nation launched a massive attack after the founding of the Great Zhou, exploiting the transition between new and old military generals.

In those years, many founding generals sent to the northwest to resist the enemy died or were injured in battle under the enemy’s formidable iron hooves due to the severe injuries sustained in earlier battles. Among them were Liang Ning’s two brothers who sacrificed themselves successively.

Many young generals, who were not yet ready, were ordered to rush to the frontier.

Several members of the Pei family also sacrificed themselves in succession, and Pei Zhan’s elder brother perished in the same battle as Liang Qin.

So that year, the young Pei Zhan took over his brother’s mantle and went to the battlefield, while Liang Ning was escorting her brother’s body back to the capital, just as Pei Zhan left the capital.

Fu Zhen was certain Pei Zhan wouldn’t know about this matter, not only because it was extremely peculiar and secretive but also because two weeks before Liang Ning was harmed, the court had just received a military report: Pei Zhan, commanding for the first time, had recaptured three cities.

Of course, the bad news was that he was also seriously injured, which led to Liang Chen taking over his command during Pei Zhan’s recovery and Liang Ning following orders to pray for blessings at Baihe Temple.

She thought that someone completely unaware of the situation in the capital wouldn’t easily believe her.

If he believed it, then it would be easy to handle.

"Which alley?" Pei Zhan asked again.

Fu Zhen said, "Do you know the place where the Vice Minister Xu of the Ministry of Rites lived before his rise?"

Pei Zhan’s eyes were deep and unreadable.

Fu Zhen continued, "It was in the alley leading from the Liang Mansion to the Xu family."

Pei Zhan fell silent.

His profile against the window appeared even more severe.

Fu Zhen also didn’t know what he was thinking, having never been close to him, and she couldn’t figure out his thoughts.

She only hoped that after revealing this, he would completely believe that she had no ill intentions toward the Liang family.

"What did she see that night?"

Fu Zhen weighed her words and said, "This I do not know. Only Miss Liang would know. My mother wasn’t on the scene at that time."

These six years may have been a long time for others, but for Liang Ning, it seemed like a moment. Before closing her eyes, she was Liang Ning, and after opening them, she became a wandering soul dead for six years, so she’s naturally very clear about that night.

But if she revealed it just like that, it would sound too false, so naturally, she had to feign ignorance.

She had once been wholeheartedly devoted to many people then, like the old military doctor, like the soldiers on the battlefield, and like Cheng Chili and them. It’s just that Xu Yin had a particularly pitiful experience among those people and was intertwined with her for a particularly long time.

On a battlefield where life and death separations were almost daily, she held life in great reverence, hoping that her small power could change and save some people.

But she ended up failing miserably with Xu Yin, and now she couldn’t again trust an outsider unreservedly based on intuition.

Even if the person in front of her was from the Pei family, her trust had limits now.

Pei Zhan also said nothing, his eyes lowered, and he slowly took another sip of tea.

This made Fu Zhen sense some trouble.

When she used to coax him as a child, he would often look this way, eyes downcast, silent, with an "I’ll not listen no matter what you say" demeanor until she pinched his cheeks—

Years passed, and the boy grew up, becoming less easy to handle!

But she couldn’t stay here any longer; she still had to go to Taishan Hall to thank Mr. Li and request people from him.

Until the guards around Mrs. Fu and Fu Jia were in place, she would remain uneasy!

Once the worries were resolved, she could focus her energy on dealing with the Xu family. Surely there was no time to play with kids?

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