The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 1016 - 231: Pei Hansan Returns Again_5

Chapter 1016: Chapter 231: Pei Hansan Returns Again_5

As soon as she left, Xie Yi sat in the house, stunned for a long time. Tears streamed down her face as she stared at the dilapidated courtyard. After her eyes had swollen from crying, she clenched her fists, resolutely stood up, and headed for the General Mansion. "I’m looking for the lady of the house."

Zhang Gengshan, seeing her like this, couldn’t help but frown. "Miss Xie, if there’s anything troubling you or any grievances, you could just order the servants. The lady is busy right now."

"I’ll wait then," Xie Yi replied, her face taut.

Zhang Gengshan couldn’t quite understand her intentions, so he let Xue Dong go and pass the message after a while.

After hearing this, Pei Qin washed her hands, took off her apron, and came out. "Let her in!"

She wore a tightly fitting dress robe, styled more like a man’s, and her hair, which she found bothersome, was also tied up on top of her head. She had just come out of the dispensary, still thinking of the war in Liaodong, her expression somewhat stern and commanding.

Xie Yi looked at her, her gaze involuntarily flickering with hesitation, and she lost the courage to speak.

"What’s the matter? Has something happened in your maternal family?" Pei Qin, seeing her eyes red and swollen and her silence, asked her directly.

Xie Yi had wanted to come and lament, but seeing Pei Qin like this, even more unapproachable than usual, sapped her of the courage to say everything. Once her words sank down, she couldn’t open her mouth to say them all at once. She just shook her head, "I’m just feeling upset. I have no relatives, and thinking that from now on the lady will be my kin, who has always been good to me, I just wanted to come and see you."

Is it trouble with the Zheng family that she wanted to cry about? Pei Qin thought, looking at her, only fourteen, "Come in and sit."

"No thanks, just seeing the lady is enough. From now on, I will have a big sister like the lady." Xie Yi shook her head and bowed, "The lady is busy, I won’t disturb you. I’ll go back now."

Pei Qin glanced at the ceiling, still thinking about how she was just a teenager, with no parents, and her maternal grandparents didn’t want them. She came to her because she had been wronged, thinking of consoling her, telling her life must go on as usual. But the girl didn’t want to listen.

"Lady!" Xue Dong brought over some tea.

"Bring me something to eat!" Pei Qian said, taking a cup of water and sitting down.

Xue Dong complied and went to fetch her some food.

Meanwhile, Pei Wendong received Pei Qin’s letter and came over bringing Fang Liuyang. "Big sister asked me to bring Liuyang over."

Old Scholar Fang frowned. "Did Qin say she wants to take Er Lang?"

Pei Wendong handed him the letter.

After reading the letter, Old Scholar Fang sighed deeply.

Fang Fu took the letter and read it, agreeing, "It’s not a solution to keep Er Lang shut away like this."

Fang Liuyang was locked up, and Fang Li and Yang Yulan were still lying injured on the kang; Old Scholar Fang was even more worried that someone would report to officials and take Fang Liuyang away. Fang Li wouldn’t speak, but Yang Yulan wouldn’t side with them.

"Er Lang, I entrust you to you and big sister! Leave the family matters to me," Fang Liuming bowed to Pei Wendong.

Pei Wendong didn’t dare accept the responsibility easily, took Fang Liuyang, left a package of silver for Pei Qian, and together with Chang Yonglin, headed north with Fang Liuyang.

"I haven’t seen Sister Qin in almost a year; I don’t even know if her injuries are completely healed!" Chang Yonglin was somewhat eager, urging them to hurry.

"You can’t take a boat, Liuyang isn’t very good at riding, we can only go slowly," Pei Wendong said, unable to help but despise him, "How can you get seasick!"

Chang Yonglin also wanted to despise himself, but he was indeed seasick. Swimming didn’t make him dizzy, but he couldn’t stand being on a boat, and he vowed to avoid them in the future!

A few days later, he regretted it; their carriage was robbed. In the pitch darkness, the bandits drugged them and robbed them.

The goods they carried, the silver coin on their bodies, and even the horses were all stolen.

"These bastards are probably going to send this soy sauce and pine-flower eggs to the Bastard Emperor in the Palace!"

"The Bastard Emperor killed our General Pei and still wants to sit comfortably on the Dragon Throne, wait until we join the Pei Family Army, and then we’ll bring down that old emperor!"

"Let’s send these pine-flower eggs as a meeting gift to Second General Pei!"

"Along with these bastards!"

Tied up tightly, Pei Wendong and Chang Yonglin, with Fang Liuyang, were taken to be presented to the so-called Second General Pei they mentioned.

But the words they spoke left Pei Wendong and Chang Yonglin exchanging furious glances. General Pei was alive and well, and yet these bandits, under her flag, were inciting revolt. And what about this Pei Family Army, this Second General Pei? What was all this about?