The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 991 - 225: Pei Qin Dies Young_2

Chapter 991: Chapter 225: Pei Qin Dies Young_2

Li Shun and Zhou Jian saw that he did not believe them, and they said no more. Their general was indeed not here, this General Mansion belonged to General Mo, and only his wife, General Mo’s daughter-in-law, was in the inner courtyard...

Dou He was unwilling to leave, and seeing that Li Shun and Zhou Jian did not leave, he also waited and did not leave.

Jiujiu came back with Xiao Yong after school, "Dad! Mom! I’m back!" He started shouting as soon as he entered.

Dou He looked at her, staring for a good while. This must be Mo Heng’s daughter! That little girl earlier... Even if she was not Han San’s, she must surely be related to him. He wasn’t unmarried, so how could he possibly have a daughter? Is she born out of wedlock? But he’s only fifteen this year, sixteen at most, and that little girl looked about two years old.

The more he thought about it, the more confused Dou He became.

The kitchen brought up newly made hundred-flower pastries and fresh tea, "The lady said these are for entertaining the general."

Mo Heng looked at the delicately shaped round pastries on the plate and gave Dou He a cold glance from his dark eyes.

Dou He, hearing that it was General Mo’s wife who was entertaining, had no interest in enjoying or tasting it.

Li Shun and Zhou Jian picked them up and began eating, having never seen such exquisite pastries before, especially when it was the general who let them eat these, they must truly be something special!

After finishing the meal, Dou He, having gotten no information from Mo Heng, followed Li Shun and Zhou Jian as they left, planning to start with the two of them.

But no matter what he said or what threats or bribes he offered, the two would not yield. Nonsense! Our general is General Mo’s daughter-in-law, strictly watched over by him, and if General Dou were to get any information from them, they’d just wait to be discarded!

Unable to gather any information, Dou He felt somewhat powerless; he could not stay for a few more days, nor could he sit in Mo Heng’s home all day long...

But he was certain that Pei Hansan had not died nor had anything happened to him; he was definitely alive and well.

When he went to see An Liefeng, what An Liefeng thought was different. The Rong Clan wanted them to sign a division agreement and also insisted on detaining Pei Hansan in order to exchange the Seven-pulse Lotus for detoxifying him. Liaodong had over a dozen cities, and the Mortar Barracks didn’t have the formula for just making ammunition; the Emperor was reluctant, so the opportunity to detoxify Pei Hansan was delayed, and he might already be dead.

About the public statement, Pei Hansan was still alive and well, just a coercive method of the Imperial Court. After all, WaCi still had remnants fleeing deep into the grasslands along with the Rong Clan’s Massive Army. Pei Hansan made them dread, and as long as Pei Hansan was alive, they would not dare to commit offenses. The Rong Clan also would not act rashly!

An Liefeng was not the only one thinking this way; many people had suspected that the legendary deity general Pei Hansan had been stealthily killed by the enemy forces, and was no longer of this world, taken by fate in his prime.

Gu Liqi was one of them. If Pei Hansan were not dead, the Chu Army would already be attacking Liaodong and combating the Rong Clan directly, but now they were merely calling for the civilians to donate money and supplies to attack the Rong Clan, without any substantive actions. This incident wounded Great Chu severely, but with mortars and grenades, fighting the Rong Clan would be no problem!

Having fought against Pei Qin, he confidently told Jile Kehan from the Rong Clan, "Our greatest threat, Pei Hansan, is already dead! The Chu People are cunning and devious; those rumors of him being alive are surely false claims released by the Chu People. Otherwise, our people could not possibly have found no information!"

Jile had little regard for the prince of the WaCi Massive Army who had allied with him. Though it was not entirely Gu Liqi’s fault that his forces had been defeated, all three hundred thousand of the WaCi’s iron cavalry had perished. After this setback, it would take decades for WaCi to recover the ability to rise again. However, he wanted to spare his life to fight against the Chu Army, so he kept him. After all, Gu Liqi had battled the Chu Army numerous times. The Rong Clan’s Massive Army had yet to face the Chu Army’s mortars.

Gu Liqi also knew that even his own brother did not believe in his strategy but had instead self-immolated in the Palace of the Chu People, his army of two hundred thousand, except for the more than ten thousand he had led in a breakout, all perished. Jile, although a man of the plains, possessed extraordinary strategic acumen. With the WaCi Massive Army destroyed, the Rong Clan remained unscathed, and he was sufficiently proud. Now, his only choice was to follow Jile Kehan.

When Jile heard the latest news that the Imperial Court of the Chu Nation was causing a stir by deposing the Crown Prince to appoint a new successor, he suddenly began to believe Gu Liqi’s words. Although the Chu People had defeated the WaCi Massive Army, that legendary deity general, Pei Hansan, had already died, and they surely had not yet developed their own mortars and grenades. With internal strife and external threats, was his chance arriving?