The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family-Chapter 628: The Crime of Annihilation (3)_1

"...Is it that Ms. Liangsan who previously attempted to assassinate our elder sister!?" Pei Yuan slowly calmed down, as long as they had a suspect, they would do anything to ferret out the person defaming and secretly harming them, and clear their names!

"I’m not certain. But we can confirm after we get there! The key is the situation at home, what you all...

Pei Qin had arranged for her in detail.

Pei Yuan nodded as she listened, "I will, elder sister! I definitely will!"

Seeing Pei Qin’s pale face, breaking out in cold sweat, she reached out to embrace her before letting go to greet Old Master Zhao and Madam Zhao, then hurried back home.

"Elder sister!" Pei Yuan chased after her, calling out with red-rimmed eyes. freēwēbnovel.com

Pei Qin turned back, waved at her, boarded the carriage, and, together with Mo Heng, left in the evening light.

Watching the carriage disappear into the twilight, Pei Yuan felt as if her heart went away with it.

When she got home, Chang Yonglin had already been sent away. Looking at Pei Qian and Pei Wendong, Xiao Yong, and a few others sitting in the room waiting, the nanny was coaxing Jiujiu to sleep. Pei Qin turned and entered the storeroom, fetching a pile of inconspicuous stick-like objects from a broken box.

"Elder sister! What are these..." Pei Wendong asked as he looked at the pile of insignificant-looking objects.

Pei Qin scanned the area outside the room, then squarely addressed Pei Wendong and Pei Qian without ignoring Xiao Yong, "These are bombs. Once you pull the string and throw them into a crowd, they explode, killing as many as they hit."

All three widened their eyes in shock, gasping for air. Where did elder sister get such things!?

"I made them myself," Pei Qin replied to the three of them.

It was only now that Mo Heng found out that the objects Shen Songming had procured for her, which she was toying with locked in her room, turned out to be these ’bombs’. Such a powerful weapon, once it emerged...

Hearing him take a breath, Pei Qin just glanced at him and continued speaking to Pei Qian and the others, "If push comes to shove, use these to save your lives."

This was their ultimate safety net, and Pei Wendong didn’t wish to ever need to rely on these potent bombs.

"If anyone dares to come, I’ll blow them up with the bombs!" Pei Qian clenched her teeth, being the eldest at home, she would protect her family at all costs! Even if it meant risking her life, she would safeguard her home!

"Unless absolutely necessary, do not use them," Pei Qin didn’t intend to bring firearms into this world, but if someone dared to provoke them time and again, she wouldn’t mind giving them a taste of her bombs first.

Pei Wendong also realized the gravity of the situation and nodded earnestly.

"Sister Qin, with me here, I won’t let anything happen to our home!" Xiao Yong assured her.

Patting him on the shoulder, Pei Qin smiled and said, "That’s why I didn’t ask you to go home! Please take care of everything here at home!"

Xiao Yong nodded emphatically.

The officials from the Ministry of Justice arrived swiftly, bringing with them arrest warrants and the Emperor’s decree; the soy sauce workshop was immediately shut down, and all soy sauce products were meticulously inspected by the officers who accompanied them, especially the soy sauce and paste intended for the Palace.

No irregularities were found, but everyone in the Palace who consumed the soy sauce had fallen ill with chronic poisoning. Pei Qin and Mo Heng, along with Pei Qian and Pei Wendong, were apprehended on the direct orders of the Ministry of Justice, bypassing the Department of Justice in the process.

Pei Qin watched coldly as they sealed off the soy sauce workshop, "My Lord! Even if it were true, the mastermind could only be me, this ’grown-up’. Capturing the little kids at home is pointless. You might as well detain them in the house, forbidding anyone from entering or leaving. Wait for the orders from above: behead whom you must, exile whom you must, release whom you must. Wouldn’t that be more convenient and less trouble?"

The instruction had been to apprehend their entire family, but did not specify to bring everyone to the capital. The Deputy General who came to arrest them left some guards behind, with Pei Qian, Pei Wendong, Xiao Yong, Jiujiu, and a few others under house arrest, "No one may enter or leave! Pei Qin, Mo Heng, you are to be escorted to the capital immediately!"