The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family-Chapter 1144 - 261: Thinking You Die Too Slowly_3

Pei Zongli had suddenly aged and grew haggard, "I just want to bury my wife first, to rest her in peace." He took the silver and hired people to help with the funeral.

Qian Wanxiu was already prepared for burial.

Pei Wenchen said there were no relatives, and since the journey home was long and his family had treated Pei Qin like a goddess, everyone in the village, scared by Pei Qian, ostracized them. Their clan cemetery even denied them burial, so they found a place outside Capital Jingcheng to bury Qian Wanxiu, and they stayed in Jingcheng to mourn.

Soon, Qian Wanxiu’s coffin was taken to a lush area outside the city, with favorable feng shui, and was buried.

Pei Zongli and Pei Wenchen, dressed in mourning clothes, came to the gate of Tiance General Mansion, "Man acts, heaven watches! You now hold high positions of power, disrupting the court and persecuting lives. These wronged spirits will follow you, seeking your lives for revenge!"

"Is that so? You think wronged spirits seek revenge too?" Pei Qin came from the Mansion of General Zhaoyong.

Pei Zongli and Pei Wenchen turned pale with fright when they saw her.

"Pei Qin! You drove my mother to death! She died because of you! You will forever carry the guilt of her death!" Pei Wenchen glared at Pei Qin with eyes red with fury.

"Carry the guilt?" Pei Qin scoffed lightly, "I have fought countless battles, killed no less than ten thousand people, I bear countless lives! Your mother’s death is more than deserved, she would have no place to stand!"

"You... you’re just relying on your military achievements to be arrogant! Do you think those accomplishments absolve you of all the evil deeds you’ve done?" Pei Wenchen gnashed his teeth in anger.

"What evil deeds have I done? You list them for me!" Pei Qin sneered.

Pei Wenchen snorted coldly, "You know in your heart what you have done!"

"If you can’t list them, shall I start with what you two have done?" Pei Qin looked at them mockingly. Not waiting for Pei Wenchen to speak again, she began recounting—from Qian Wanxiu stopping Old Master Qian from remarrying Lady Lian, to the fetus-preserving medicine being swapped, water spilled on the ground turning to ice, the unexplained difficult labor, twins nearly dying from mistakenly consuming rat poison, Lady Lian getting pregnant again, the mistaken consumption of croton causing a miscarriage, one event after another, "Shall I continue in detail with what happened after you moved to Back Mountain Village?"

"You’re talking nonsense! You’ve already tormented my mother, and now you want to harm me and my father?" Pei Wenchen didn’t believe her words, she was just a vile and treacherous woman! Outwardly righteous but scheming and harmful in secrecy.

Pei Qin looked down on them, "Your count is insufficient, maybe you should go home and learn more before coming back."

Pei Zongli had a history; his words weren’t trusted by those who believed in Pei Wenchen and Qian Wanxiu’s innocence. He had a family, yet he married a wealthy lady and did not return home, motivated by greed and malevolence. The reality of the sweet potato reward for them was true! Pei Zongli’s Eighth Rank Preaching was also due to his own corruption and bribe-taking!

Pei Wenchen hated Pei Qin bitterly, and indeed as she said, his count was insufficient. Previously, his mother hadn’t been able to deal with them and he wasn’t allowed to interfere. Now, Pei Qin and Mo Heng held high positions and wielded great power; the possibility of taking them down was even smaller. Thus, relying on their own strength was impossible; it had to be through someone else’s hand, through those high officials, to take them down!

He took up the silver and found Feng Bo.

The whole family enjoyed food and drinks; goods were expensive in Capital Jingcheng, especially during the post-war recovery phase. Feng Bo had little left, and was wholly committed to undertaking a great endeavor, yet had accomplished nothing, had no power, no influence, and no money; nobody was willing to support him. After Pei Qin revealed her identity as a member of Tiance, she was even more heartless and unhelpful towards them, leaving them in greater distress.

After her suicide, Qian Wanxiu left all her money to Pei Wenchen. He handed a packet of silver directly to Feng Bo without asking for anything in return.

Feng Bo weighed the money pouch, then with a cold, mocking smile, he mentioned, "Shen Songming once lived and ate with her."

Pei Wenchen squinted at him for a while, seeing that he indeed couldn’t bear to see Pei Qin and Mo Heng together, "The silver is yours!" If Pei Qin had not refused back then, it would have been Feng Bo who married her by now, and the glory of General Tiance would have belonged to the Feng family, his Feng Bo’s. But all of this belonged to someone else! Pei Qin was still heartless and ruthless toward them, and Feng Bo’s fury and hatred were probably no less than his!

Upon receiving such news, Pei Wenchen started slinging mud at Pei Qin and Shen Songming based on the clues and evidence he had.

If Jiujiu didn’t look so much like Mo Heng, they would have fabricated that Jiujiu was Shen Songming and Pei Qin’s child. But they could make up stories about Xixi, who looked more like Pei Qin—more precisely, plump from eating well, resembling whoever they said she did.

When Pei Qin was pregnant with Xixi, it happened during Mo Heng’s post in Xining Guard, at which time Shen Songming was in Yuanyang County, living and eating together at home. Pei Qin slandered Qian Wanxiu, falsely accused her of promiscuity, and drove her to death. She herself was no different from her mother, a woman bereft of sexual morals! Also, from a young age she was entangled with men from the same village, almost eloping. Everyone in the village knew these things!

Suddenly, many village affairs burst forth, named and clear, even the position of the mole on Zhang Dayun’s face.

How many gifts Shen Songming sent, when exactly he visited Taiping Town in Yuanyang County, even after Pei Qin married Mo Heng, the two of them still kept in frequent correspondence. Shen Songming once made a fuss about marrying Pei Qin and remained single to this day, his love deep and enduring. If Xixi wasn’t his own daughter, why would he have taken such a generous step to flee with his rival’s daughter when Wa Ci invaded! Ignoring even his own parents?

In no time, rumors were rampant everywhere.

Such a romantic scandal from a man’s perspective, but from a woman’s, it is fatal, being a matter of reputation, the most crucial thing for women in this era!

Those with ulterior motives immediately came out to condemn Pei Qin, calling her lacking in femininity! As an ordinary-looking woman, she monopolized the strikingly handsome Mo Heng and yet was promiscuous and unfaithful! She mingled with men all day, unable to even bear a son for Mo Heng! Idling around without doing the necessary, not letting Mo Heng take a concubine, making Zheng Yuehan’s life worse than death, and bringing her entire family to ruin!

Pei Qian, furious, smashed several stools, "Who is trying to harm whom!? This kind of baseless nonsense, this sinister slander, they are all vile! All damn vile creatures!"

"Right, right, right! They all deserve to die! Calm down first! Don’t scare Qinqin!" Fang Liuming embraced her to soothe her.

Pei Qian ground her teeth in anger, "They are all out of jealousy! Jealous and bearing grudges, they stop at nothing to slander! Elder sister shouldn’t have helped these people conquer! We should just mind our own business! Who cares if they live or die!"

"Look at you talk, elder sister didn’t fight Wa Ci for them! Alright! Don’t be angry anymore! I’ll handle this!" Fang Liuming consoled her. Now it was clear there was a collective attack with someone manipulating from behind, aiming to take down elder sister and her husband. He could handle the minor issues and public opinion, but the major matters still needed elder sister’s husband himself to manage.

After appeasing Pei Qian, telling her to respond to all changes by not changing, he and Fang Fu went to find Mo Heng.

Mo Heng was watching Pei Qin teach Jiujiu to make ammunition.

Jiujiu studied very earnestly, never slacking off. With her formidable memory and familiarity with figures, being immersed in such knowledge from a young age, Pei Qin saw her serious learning and taught with more care, mother and daughter isolated from the world, one teaching, the other learning.

Hearing Fang Liuming had come to see him, Mo Heng glanced again at the two of them before turning to go to the study to meet Fang Liuming.

"Brother-in-law! If matters outside keep fermenting, I’m afraid it will be hard to control," Fang Liuming sat down, handing over a sheet of detailed reports from outside. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

Mo Heng took it and glanced at it, "What’s to come has not even arrived yet!"

Brother-in-law obviously had plans. Still, Fang Liuming wondered, "Who hasn’t arrived?"

"Our folks back home, they are on their way," Mo Heng spoke, his eyes dark with lethal intent. They all think Qin’er is dying too slowly.