The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family-Chapter 629: The Crime of Annihilation (4)_1

Pei Qin looked at the prison cart on the wooden frame and curved her lips into a smile, "I’ve lived for so long, yet I’ve never experienced this contraption. Today seems like a good day to give it a try!"

Mo Heng grasped her hand, tightened his grip, then let go, and both of them entered the prison cart together.

"Elder sister! Elder sister!"

"Elder sister..."

Pei Qian and Pei Wendong couldn’t help but cry.

"Look at you, what sort of spirit is that, crying like this! Just wait for me at home!" Pei Qin snapped, then urged the Deputy General who was escorting her, "Sir! It’s getting late, isn’t it time we set off?"

The Deputy General couldn’t help but frown; in his time at the Ministry of Justice, he had captured many people. There were those who cried out their innocence, those who refused to go, those who surrendered willingly, but he had never seen anyone urge the prison cart to move, "Set off!"

At his command, the prison cart carrying Pei Qin and Mo Heng began its journey.

Pei Qian was crying so much that her eyes were red and swollen, staring fixedly at the prison cart.

Old Scholar Fang, Grandma Fang, Lady Yu, and others who had rushed over watched the prison cart leave from a distance, their faces ashen.

Meanwhile, the villagers in town were in an uproar, utterly shocked. Poison in the soy sauce!? And it poisoned a consort in the Palace, no less. Even if Pei Qin had the audacity, she wouldn’t dare poison someone in the Palace with a hundred times the courage! What in the world was going on? Why were they carting someone off in the prison cart?

The soldiers left behind coldly herded Pei Qian and Pei Wendong back to their home for detention and supervision.

Old Scholar Fang wanted to have a look and say something but wasn’t permitted to.

Grandma Fang collapsed to the ground crying, "Oh heavens, open your eyes and look! Why do you always persecute my family’s little children? Heavens... Qinqin and the others are wronged! They’re wronged!"

Heaven didn’t care who was wronged or not.

Besides, the order came from the Emperor. With the consorts in the Palace poisoned, whom could they cry to for injustice? Who could they plead for justice from?

Even Old Pei’s House jumped when they heard the news.

Lady Chen, with eyes fierce and questioning, grabbed the messenger Grandma Miao, "Is what you said true? That wretched Pei Qin was really taken away by the prison cart!? What about those little wretches, were they not beheaded?"

"How can it be fake, everyone in town saw it! It was that... what’s it called, some ministry or other, anyway it was the Imperial Court’s people who came to arrest them! Poisoning the soy sauce means poisoning the Emperor himself! Now they’re done for!" Grandma Miao sighed.

Lady Chen smirked with a gloomy delight, "Finally... finally! Heaven has finally opened its eyes! That little whore has walked herself into this mess! Daring to poison the soy sauce in the Palace, this time, all of her whole brood of little wretches will be beheaded! Their entire family is going to be exterminated!"

Grandma Fang immediately became worried, "Could this implicate us? Quickly, find the letter of disownment! Our families are officially estranged! Those girls have nothing to do with Old Pei’s House any longer! We can’t let ourselves get dragged into this mess!"

Seeing her hurriedly going inside to look for the letter of disownment, Old Pei said nothing but knitted his brows. Poisoning the soy sauce supplied to the Palace, even he didn’t believe Pei Qin could do such a thing. She didn’t have the courage, nor would she risk the lives of her entire family, nor was she so foolish. There must be some trickery afoot, someone was playing a sinister game, wanting Pei Qin dead.

Previously, there had been an attempt on Pei Qin’s life, and the villagers had suspected that it was his family who had hired the hit. It seemed that the person behind these sinister plots was probably the same one who wanted Pei Qin dead. Since the assassination didn’t succeed in killing her, now this move was certainly fatal; with Pei Qin taken away, it was likely she wouldn’t return.

As for Pei Qian and Pei Wendong back at home...

No sooner had Pei Qin and Mo Heng been taken away than Magistrate Huang arrived in Taiping Town with his men, inviting the soldiers over for tea, and sending them to the Government Office to rest. In Liu’er Alley, he directly took Pei Qian and Pei Wendong into custody, saving himself the trouble.