The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 1093 - 248

Chapter 1093: 248

But this time, when she mentioned Mo Heng and Pei Qin, Mo Er didn’t give her a favorable response as usual. "I’ve already laid down the rule. Anyone from the Mo family must give way and not act recklessly! Where did you throw my words?"

"Dad! It’s not that we didn’t make way, it’s that Mo Heng and Pei Qin are out to get us! Now they’ve even targeted the Marquis Mansion Yongchang!" Lady Mo complained with dissatisfaction. Seeing his stern and composed countenance, she added, "Dad doesn’t know, Luo Zhen was removed for no good reason, and the newly appointed Jiang Dahai might be bribed by them. All that the Zheng family wanted was an arrangement for concubinage, but they ruthlessly charged someone with the crime of being a spy for the Rong Clan, stripping a whole family to the bone at the Five-City Soldiers and Horses Troop! So merciless and brutal; when they target us, who knows what means they’ll resort to!"

Mo Er was not afraid in the least and just answered indifferently, "If the Mo family stays out of it, he wouldn’t dare to provoke the Mo family intentionally."

Lady Mo, remembering the past events, her eyes flickered before she continued, "And what of Luo Zhen’s position? Now that he’s been schemed against, someone’s taken over the post of Deputy Commander. Can it be that he’s really willing to be a vanguard and carry the banner to the frontier?"

It took a while before Mo Er replied, "Go under General An Liefeng’s command then."

If now Luo Zhen had only to turn to Pei Hansan, since he acts alone and doesn’t meddle with the affairs of the Imperial Court, and it’s rumored that he’s very close to Mo Heng, then his only option would indeed be to take refuge under General An Liefeng’s command. General An Liefeng is the Grand Marshal of the Army and a veteran of two dynasties, a man of upright and open character, not someone like the newly promoted Mo Heng could compare with.

Poor old General An doesn’t yet know that Pei Hansan is a woman, and he awaits anxiously at the border, hoping for her to lead troops over soon! The Rong Clan is utterly shameless, cunning and malicious! They hang a truce talisman one moment and use the civilians of Great Chu as human shields the next. The soldiers’ anger and hatred are almost impossible to contain.

Zheng Yuehan couldn’t take it anymore either, shouting loudly that she was not a spy for the Rong Clan but that she went to seduce Mo Heng!

"That woman Pei Qin is barren now! She can’t bear sons, has faded in her beauty, and still blocks others from having children!?"

"She’s just jealous of me, taking her revenge! Even if she ruins me, there will still be more beauties and maidens continuing to come forth!"

"That worthless person who can’t bear sons will have to step aside sooner or later! Someone will definitely replace her!"

"What status does that country bumpkin have to be the General’s Wife!? She’s totally unworthy of General Mo!"

Zheng Yuehan couldn’t hold back any longer and let all the curses out, one after another.

Second Madam Zheng also screamed her curses, "That ferocious and venomous mean person! She’ll die of illness sooner or later!"

Since they were not spies for the Rong Clan, Jiang Dahai gave them a lesson and allowed the Zheng family to take them back home.

The young master of the Yao family, who was betrothed to Zheng Yuehan, had been waiting since early morning. When he saw the people from the Second branch returning, he went straight to their door to break off the engagement and demanded the return of the betrothal gifts.

Second Madam Zheng refused to return the gifts and Second Old Master Zheng made even more of a fuss to not annul the marriage, insisting that the Yao family had to marry Zheng Yuehan, "Engaged is engaged, do you think you can just back out whenever you want!?"

"Zheng Yuehan is of unclean character, her behavior indecent, not fit to be a daughter-in-law of our Yao family! If you don’t agree to break off the engagement, we’ll see you at the Government Office!" The Yao family was almost furious to death; they never imagined that by agreeing to such a marriage, they would also end up losing face entirely.

After a huge commotion, Eldest Madam Zheng assertively brought out Old Lady Zheng to withdraw from the engagement and return the betrothal gifts.

Second Madam Zheng couldn’t contain her hatred; because she had insulted a woman ordered by the Imperial Court, she had received a beating with the plank and now cursed Pei Qin without naming her, calling her a money-wasting broodmare who only gave birth to daughters and couldn’t have sons and wouldn’t tolerate others, a jealous woman who violated the ’seven outs’!

"Three men make a tiger", though many did not believe it, such news spread like wildfire.

Pei Qin munched on a big peach, "I’m nearly becoming a hermaphrodite! Pei Hansan gets praised to the skies, adored by a horde of women, and there are even more who respect and admire him. Pei Qin gets cursed out, a horde of women wish for my quick death, and there’s another bunch eager to step on me and teach me a lesson. Sooner or later, they’re going to drive me to psychological distortion."

"Why don’t you take a wife, General." Jun Suxue looked at her and said.

Pei Qin’s mouth twitched, "That..."

Seeing her misunderstanding, Jun Suxue lowered her eyes, then looked up again, calm and gentle, "I heard that the youngest daughter of the Mo family’s fourth branch is as beautiful as an angel, extraordinarily talented in literature, and extremely cherished by Sir Mo and Lady Mo, and she also admires the General."

"Daughter of Mo Dun?!" The one born from that malicious stepmother of Mo Heng?!