The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 542 This Lifetime is Completely Ruined (12)_1

Chapter 542: Chapter 542 This Lifetime is Completely Ruined (12)_1

The people of Old Pei’s House were in turmoil, Qian Wanxiu, anxious and on edge like a cat on a hot tin roof, waited for two or three days. Yet no one was brought to the County Government Office, and she almost wished she could storm over to see where Pei Qin had taken the person.

Seeing the Sun Quanliang family carrying food baskets into the workshop, delivering food once a day, the Kong’s mother family knew the portions were enough to keep one from starving, but not enough to fill anyone up.

Qian Wanxiu could no longer sleep soundly.

A thunderclap boomed suddenly.

Startled, Qian Wanxiu cried out before realizing it was only a dream.

On the second day of the second lunar month, Pei Yuan soaked the leftover New Year’s steamed buns, mixed the batter, and fried pancakes and cured meat.

Pei Qin, smelling the deliciousness, really wanted to eat it, but the greasiness of the fried cured meat was too much for her; eating too much would leave her uncomfortable and unwell.

"In a few days, we’ll have elm seeds to eat." Mo Heng still remembered she always ate seasoned foods until she had her fill each year.

When Pei Wendong and Chang Yonglin returned from their studies, they picked a small handful of fragrant toon buds, "Right by that family’s kitchen window, they had just sprouted, we picked them all. Enough to fry with a bowl of eggs!"

The tender red shoots, full of toon aroma, fried together with eggs into a bowlful that was almost entirely consumed by Pei Qin.

Fang Liuming’s mood also began to lighten, and he ate half more steamed bun than usual. He hadn’t eaten well for days.

Just when Qian Wanxiu couldn’t take it anymore, Mo Heng had rumors spread that the person had run away.

Hearing the person had run away, Qian Wanxiu heaved a sigh of relief and couldn’t help but snicker with triumph.

The blisters on Pei Zongli’s lips also slowly subsided.

"We stop when we catch the person," Mo Heng instructed Feng Wei.

Feng Wei complied. His master was a man who dealt with big matters, yet now... Watching him go to the study with a smile, his young wife had just gone there to practice calligraphy, Feng Wei sighed silently and turned to carry out his master’s orders. They were short-staffed and he needed to be clever to catch the person.

By the time the letter from the Qian family arrived, Qian Wanxiu finally realized that Pei Qin didn’t actually catch anyone, it was just a bluff to scare her. If they really had caught the person, even with a privately set prison, after two days, they should have been brought to the Government Office to identify her. She smashed several teacups in anger.

As a result, her actions against Fang Liuming also came to a halt.

Sun Xiujin’s hatred, however, grew more intense by the day, and with her left hand, she wrote a small note and tossed it to Zhang Shiqian.

Zhang Shiqian was shocked to see the crooked handwriting on the note, "Pei Qin is pregnant before marriage, more than four months along!?" A moment of doubt, but then he believed it to be true. Pei Qin’s marriage had been odd. Previously everyone thought she would marry Shen Songming, even if as a concubine, she would be entering an aristocratic family; the Shen family had power and authority. But her sudden marriage, not to Shen Songming but to this Mo Heng, was so abrupt. Such a swift marriage not only signaled the support of a young gigolo but also a pregnancy she could no longer hide, which forced her into a hasty marriage!

Zhang Shiqian’s life was ruined because of Pei Qin, and thinking of how she had them rotting in jail with torture brought nothing but smoldering hatred to his heart. He felt regret for a moment and, holding that piece of paper, he wasn’t sure if he should use it.

He couldn’t resist in the end, and took the note to Zhao Junchao.

Zhao Junchao was trying to figure out a way to sit for this year’s imperial examinations to remove the tarnish from his name. When he heard the news that Pei Qin had rushed into marriage due to an unmarried pregnancy, he became excited, "Is this information reliable?"

"It should be. I just don’t know who threw me this note," Zhang Shiqian nodded.

Zhao Junchao snorted disdainfully, "She has offended too many people. There are plenty who wish to see her fall and suffer!" One old Pei’s House, one Pei Qin, had destroyed him like this, he swore to repay them a hundredfold! He wasn’t in a hurry with Old Pei’s House; he would start by dealing with Pei Qin, that vile woman!

"What do you plan to do? She’s married to that little pretty boy now, and she’s got more people around her. I heard someone came to assassinate her and wasn’t successful; it was that pretty boy who took the hit for her, and that’s why she married him," Zhang Shiqian wanted to join in the revenge but also felt fear in his heart. The trauma from his previous imprisonment had left a deep impression.

Zhao Junchao chuckled with disdain, "It’s too easy with someone pregnant! As long as she leaves the house... No! We have to wait. When she’s seven months along, we’ll make her give birth to the little wretch in her womb. A five-month marriage, a birth, and when her reputation is utterly shattered, then we can properly deal with her!"

Zhang Shiqian agreed, "I’ll follow your lead!" He then told him about Li Baoxiang breaking his right arm and being unable to sit for the imperial examinations.

"With his scholarly abilities, even with additional tutoring, he wouldn’t pass! But what a shame for his sister; she was hoping Li Baoxiang would pass the exams with flying colors so she could marry into a wealthy and prestigious family, and now it won’t happen!" Zhao Junchao recalled Li Baolian with a disdainful and ambiguous smile.

"Sister Lian is in Taiping Town! I heard she wants to marry Fang Liuming, that wench Pei Qin’s cousin!" Because of this, Zhang Shiqian’s hatred grew even deeper.

"You wanted to marry her, didn’t you?" Zhao Junchao said, gesturing him closer with a beckoning hand.

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