In Love With My Fierce Farming Wife!
Chapter 1317 - 1225: Recent Developments

Chapter 1317: Chapter 1225: Recent Developments

PS: Special note: the character Miaoyu in the previous Chapter should have been Xiren. Dou Dou got the name wrong and would like to apologize to everyone here.

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Xiren’s eyes lit up, and she immediately stopped in her tracks. She was about to speak when a noise came from inside the house.

"Xiren, who are you talking to? Has Ning’er come back?"

It was the voice of Zhou’s mother.

Years ago, when Xiren and Zhou Ning took a fancy to each other, under Mrs. Su-Hua’s arrangement, they got married. Since then, they had welcomed two sons and a daughter, shared a loving marriage, supported and taught their children, and were devoted to Zhou’s mother, which made everyone envious.

"Shh!——"

Hidden in the darkness, Su Pan’er hurriedly whispered to Xiren, "Don’t say I’m here."

Xiren nodded, understanding Su Pan’er’s intention.

She quickly walked to the inner room, successfully blocking Zhou’s mother in the house: "Mother, it’s not that. Your daughter-in-law thought she heard the wind blowing the door open outside and thought it was the husband returning, so I came out to check. It’s nothing, Mother, your daughter-in-law is standing guard here, please go back and rest."

Their voices gradually quieted down, indicating they had returned to the house.

Due to frail health in her early years, Zhou’s mother’s body had aged rapidly in recent years, showing streaks of white in her hair.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Su Pan’er entered and searched a few rooms.

First, she broke into the room she and Qin Yi originally lived in. The room was still kept as it was when they left, bright and clean, clearly having been carefully cleaned these days.

Then, she turned and entered the secret passage. The traps she had set before leaving were intact, proving that no one had been there.

She returned to the room and opened the hidden compartment to retrieve the letters Qin Yi had written to her in past years. After checking that they were all intact, she replaced them exactly where they had been.

"Young lady, your servant has prepared some food for you. Come and have some to fill your stomach."

Xiren entered the room with a tray, her face full of joy.

As she arranged the food on the tray: "Young lady, nothing is more important than eating. Please eat your meal first. Your servant will tell you everything and hold nothing back. There’s no rush for the moment."

The meal was modest, consisting of two vegetable dishes, a meat soup, and a large bowl of rice.

Although Su Pan’er wasn’t hungry, the homely meal still greatly whetted her appetite. She sat down in the chair and picked up the bamboo chopsticks, sincerely praising.

"Xiren, I never imagined your culinary skills had improved so much!"

"If the young lady likes it, your servant will cook for you every day."

Xiren was genuinely delighted and eagerly helped Su Pan’er with the dishes.

Unable to refuse further, Su Pan’er ate a bowl of rice before pushing it away. Xiren wanted to serve more, but Su Pan’er stopped her.

"I’ve had enough. Xiren, come, sit down and talk to me. Have you seen Su Ke recently?"

Upon mentioning Su Ke, Xiren’s eyes reddened.

"Young lady, Young Master Su he..."

It turned out that Su Ke had indeed returned to Luoyan Village recently, naturally receiving a warm welcome from both the Su and Qin families.

Several acquaintances accompanied him, and they had even stayed in this mansion for some time.

"When young master Su lived here, he always stayed in his old room, along with Old Cheng and others who frequented this place. Later, young master Su needed to enter Deicide Mountain, and my master naturally joined him..."

"Wait a moment!"

Su Pan’er suddenly interrupted her, "Are you saying that Zhou Ning also went with Ke’er?"

This time, Ke’er was on a royal mission to Deicide Mountain to collect the remains of Qin Yi’s mother.

This was no small matter, and Su Pan’er had considered early on that Ke’er would likely seek Zhou Ning’s help. She had not expected her guess to be right.

Xiren nodded vigorously, "That’s correct! Young master Su was looking for people familiar with the inside of Deicide Mountain. Thinking it over, if there was anyone who knew Deicide Mountain best, it was probably only my master. Considering the serious nature of young master Su’s task, I let my master accompany him. After they entered Deicide Mountain, I waited here. The first time, they stayed in Deicide Mountain for only a few days before returning, and their looks were all very serious..."

"Do you mean to say, they had come back previously?"

Su Pan’er couldn’t help but interrupt her again.

"Indeed, they had returned. However, when they came back, it was in the middle of the night, and my master instructed me not to disclose their whereabouts, so I never mentioned it to anyone else. Except for you, young lady... I never imagined that upon their return, they would not come back..."

Previously, people had come several times to ask Xiren about the whereabouts of Su Ke. But remembering Zhou Ning’s hasty instructions that night, she had not mentioned it to outsiders.

It was only now that Su Pan’er had come to her personally that she spoke of the matter.

"That night when Zhou Ning returned, was there anyone else with him? What was his look like? And where did he go? Please remember every detail and tell me everything," Su Pan’er asked carefully.

Xiren also answered earnestly.

"That night, my master came back very late, and I had already fallen asleep. Since he frequently went into Deicide Mountain for hunting and occasionally sustained minor injuries which were never of great consequence, their entry into the mountain that time had not drawn my attention..."

That night, Su Pan’er and Xiren talked for a long time before Su Pan’er quietly left her own house, climbed over the fence, and returned to Brother Zhang’s house where she was staying for the time being.

When she returned, the rooster had just crowed for the first time, and everyone at the Zhang Family had not yet gotten up.

Su Pan’er collapsed onto the bed, closed her eyes, and thought carefully about what Xiren had said. She fell asleep unknowingly.

Going to the dock for work at dawn, she found herself frequently distracted.

She had a strong intuition that the answers she was so diligently seeking were at this dock.

But how could Su Ke’s collection of remains at Deicide Mountain be related to this dock? Yet her intuition had never been wrong. What was the connection between the two?

Unable to find the key link inside, did she still need to continue doing labor at the dock?

What on earth could it be...

"Tch, what’s wrong?"

Someone suddenly slapped her shoulder.

Instinctively, Su Pan’er’s shoulder sank, dissipating the force of the slap. She abruptly came back to reality from her reverie.

"Brother Zhang."

"You lad! Are you uncomfortable or what? The last time I passed by carrying a heavy sack, you were daydreaming. I went back and came with another load, and you were still here daydreaming. Now I have come back another time and you still haven’t moved. Do you find this work too tiring and don’t want to continue? You should have said so earlier, Brother Zhang is the easiest to talk to..."

Brother Zhang rambled on.

But he was interrupted by Su Pan’er, "Brother Zhang, you’ve got it wrong. I’m just taking a rest because I’m too tired."