The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 916 - 204: Not Biological_2

Chapter 916: Chapter 204: Not Biological_2

Fang Fu nodded. If they could capture both people and bring them back, then Dalang, with Qianqian as his wife by his side, could focus solely on developing Baoning County without distractions.

Zhang Gengshan, limping, hurried into the courtyard. "Madam! A letter has arrived!"

Pei Qin watched his approach, quickly took the letter from him, and tore it open. It was from Fang Li and Yang Yulan, which immediately caused her eyebrows to furrow. After glancing over it, she tossed it aside with an impatient tone, "Understood!"

Zhang Gengshan caught a glimpse of her expression and couldn’t help but chuckle to himself. Madam finally began to worry about the young master! Clearing his throat, he took out another letter from his chest, "Madam! There’s another letter from the young master!"

Pei Qin glanced over, "Zhang Gengshan! I’ve heard of a miraculous technique that can cure a leg. Would you like to try it?"

"... What... what kind of miraculous technique?" Zhang Gengshan asked, feigning ignorance with a stiff scalp.

Pei Qin bared her teeth. "It involves breaking the leg bone, then securing it with screws and rejoining it."

Before the year’s end, she had taught Zou Xing and his brother Zou Fu how to make various screws and ironware. Those screws were equally sturdy when used in wood, and now the house even had a small cart assembled without completely using screws.

Zhang Gengshan shuddered all over and forced a giggled, "Mad... Madam! I think the feeling of a lame leg is quite nice! Really!" He quickly offered an apologetic smile and presented the letter with both hands.

Pei Qin swiftly opened it. It contained only a few hurried and brief sentences from Mo Heng, stating that he had the situation under control, nothing alarming had occurred, and that they were waiting to slowly take over Xining Guard. He hadn’t used bombs or guns, instructing Pei Qin not to make them carelessly, not to show them to others easily, and to be wary of Xiao Yi.

"Madam! What... what did the young master write?" Zhang Gengshan asked, an itch in his heart. He couldn’t understand those curved and twisted scribblings.

Pei Qin hmphed, not telling him, and instructed him to check whether Pei Yuan had arrived.

Zhang Gengshan could only guess from her demeanor that the young master was not injured. Dragging his leg, he went out again.

To the people of Xining Guard, Mo Heng was an outsider. Even though he came from the Mo family, he had long been expelled from the family records. To the people of Xining Guard, he was nothing more than a frail outsider hoping to control the guard with his machinations, as if they would grant him such an opportunity!

Despite some people following him, Mo Heng needed to demonstrate his own strength and take the lead to earn his followers’ respect, to deter the people of Xining Guard, to establish his own power, and to seek authority.

Riding on his horse and looking towards the southeast, the place of his longing, Mo Heng’s pale lips fondled an old-fashioned handgun. If Shen Songming could conceal the use of bombs, preferring to be injured himself and owing Ji Bingchu a life-saving favor, then he could do the same! Qin was his, and even if his wings were not yet fully spread, he was determined to protect her sky. Once he pacified Xining, Qin along with Jiujiu and Xixi could join him!

"Master! Your wounds have not healed, and it’s about to snow," Feng Wei reminded him, noting the time was almost upon them. Even if they waited another half an hour, they wouldn’t be able to see Madam.

Mo Heng coughed twice, placing the old-fashioned handgun into his waistband, still looking in the direction of home. He shouldn’t have returned before the new year. Although it momentarily quenched his longing for her, it only intensified his thirsting homesickness. And the one who could quench his thirst was afar.

"Master! There may be a disturbance from Wa Ci again," Feng Wei warned in a low voice. It was precisely the time to cleanse Xining Guard—if Wa Ci chose this moment to strike again...

Mo Heng looked once more before turning his horse to return. With the Lantern Festival coming, only she and the children were left at home; he wondered how they were coping.

Xiao Yi’s suggestion was to make lanterns. "The lanterns for sale outside are too ugly! We will draw and make our own!"

Pei Wendong was uninterested; they had tried making lanterns once before, which had been suggested by Yang Boyan, leading to his near approach to the Third Sister and causing her humiliation and heartbreak.

But Jiujiu was very excited, "Mom! Let’s make lanterns too!"

"I’ll teach you how to paint lanterns," Pei Qin flicked her small head.

Jiujiu pouted and muttered quietly, "Mom is so lazy!"

"Hm?" Pei Qin looked over.

Jiujiu hurriedly flashed a smile, "Mom! If Dad were at home, it’d be great! He would definitely buy me many lanterns!"

"Your dad probably has already forgotten about you!" Pei Qin quipped.

"Why would Dad forget about me?" Jiujiu didn’t understand; she hadn’t forgotten about Dad.

Pei Qin began to fabricate, "Because you’re not his real child!"

Hearing this, Jiujiu’s eyes widened in shock, instantly thinking of Er Gouzi from the village head, whose mother said he was picked up from a ditch, to be sent to his birth mother, leaving Er Gouzi crying miserably. Jiujiu hurriedly tugged at her mother’s hand and asked, "Mom! If I’m not born of Dad, then am I born of my godfather?" If she were born of her godfather, that... she would just go to her godfather then.