“I dreamt that my great-grandfather married a sixteen-year-old girl.”

Feng Chan laughed upon hearing this. "Nonsense. Your great-grandfather would never do such a thing. If your great-grandfather really married a young girl, that girl would definitely use witchcraft."

"That's what I think too. My great-grandfather marrying a young woman was more unexpected than the sun rising in the west."

"Yes. Did you hear that the Ding family married off a concubine's daughter to Zhang, the fur trader, as his second wife, and you thought your great-grandfather would also marry a young girl?" Zhang, the fur trader, is almost sixty years old.

"Maybe. Is the Ding family starving?"

"Yes. The men in the Ding family have no skills, don't want to do manual labor, and don't want to be shop assistants. So what else can they do but sell their daughters? Fortunately, the Ding family still has some sense of shame and didn't sell her directly to a brothel. Your sixth aunt is lucky she didn't make a mistake, otherwise, who knows what would have happened to Fei'er in the future?"

“If my sixth aunt were to make a mistake, my great-grandfather would never have let her take Fei’er back. My great-grandfather was just confused about loyalty to the emperor, but he was clear-headed about everything else.”

...

Meanwhile, Sisi was chatting with her mother while listening to what Ning Yirong was saying to others.

On the other side, the leader was both shocked and bewildered.

What was astonishing was that someone actually managed to sneak into his house.

What's the meaning behind this person's words?

"Young hero, are you sure you haven't mistaken me for someone else? Young hero, I am a man."

Ning Yirong ambushed the leader while he was asleep, wanting to see his true reaction.

The leader's reaction told him that he wasn't the heartless one.

If that heartless person didn't even ask him if he had mistaken her for someone else, that heartless person would just drug him, then beat him so badly that even his parents wouldn't recognize him, and then pretend not to know him and ask him why he attacked her?

Ning Yirong threw the leader onto the kang (a heated brick bed). "How many of you are there now? What is your relationship with the magistrates of Dongshan County and Xishan County?"

The leader's eyes flickered. "I'd like to have something to do with them, but all they want is to use my brain to curry favor with their superiors."

Ning Yirong smiled. "I am Commander Ning's son."

The head of the gang was stunned upon hearing this. "You're Commander Ning's son?!"

"Um."

"So...so you want to use us to curry favor, or..."

Ning Yirong looked at the leader and said, "Then it's up to you to choose. If you say you're a bandit, then I'll have to take your head and go claim credit."

The leader gritted his teeth. "Have you been watching me all along?"

"If I had already set my sights on you, would I need to ask you what your relationship is with the magistrates of Dongshan County and Xishan County?"

"Then why did you suddenly come?"

"I want to see what the female bandit who steals men every day looks like?"

The leader: "..." They've really outsmarted themselves. "I can't make that decision; I have to ask someone else."

"Alright. Go ask them, I'll wait for you here."

"Aren't you afraid I'll run away?"

"These things require mutual consent."

Then you said you'd use my head to curry favor. "I'm leaving."

"Um."

After the head of the gang left, the head guard emerged from behind a pillar. "Young Master, you're just going to let him go like that? Aren't you afraid he'll come back with his men and kill us?"

Kill me? He doesn't have that ability. "My father only has me as his son. If they kill me, my father will dig up their family's ancestral graves."

Sisi thought to herself: You're not counting on your father to avenge you; you've calculated that they won't do it. Besides, with your abilities, they can't kill you at all.

As expected, the magistrates of Dongshan County and Xishan County had no intention of being enemies with Commander Ning. Not only did they not want to be enemies with Commander Ning, they also sought his protection.

In chaotic times, whoever has troops is the ancestor.

The men under their command were a rabble, no match for the elite troops under Commander Ning.

The people they have are only good at dealing with ordinary people.

Although Ning Yirong did not find the person he was looking for, he felt that the trip was not in vain.

Little did he know, if he hadn't come, Sisi would never have known his surname or name.

Now that's great, he's told Sisi everything about himself.

If he knew, he would be furious and would point at God and ask if God did it on purpose.

Why do you have to point to God and say, "I only threatened you a little, and you gave that heartless person this ability, allowing him to hear what I say tonight? Doesn't this suddenly put me in a very passive position?"

Am I really your son?

Why are you so petty?

Time flies, and half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

Over the past six months, Ning Yirong has been recruiting people while searching for Sisi.

Unfortunately, several of them turned out to be the wrong ones.

Ning Yirong was very upset.

Sisi was very happy.

If you had made me do this and that in your past life, I would never acknowledge you.

Sisi is eight years old now.

Thirteen can walk now.

Grandpa Yun was strolling in the courtyard when Sisi came over, leading Thirteen by the hand. "Great-Grandpa, the new emperor is dead."

"..." You little rascal, couldn't you have at least given us some build-up? "How did he die?"

"She was poisoned to death." The new emperor wasn't just ruthless towards her great-grandfather.

"Where is the Seventh Prince?"

"He died too."

"Dead too?!"

"That's right." Those who wanted to become kings for themselves had long wanted to kill the two brothers.

Old Master Yun closed his eyes briefly. "How did the Seventh Prince die?"

"He was killed by a stray arrow."

Grandpa Yun looked up at the sky. It had finally come to this. "Take Thirteen and go play somewhere else. Grandpa wants some peace and quiet."

"good."

Sisi turned around and took Lao Hei and Shisan to the small village where Wang Liu and Zhao Qi were being held.

Wang Liu and Zhao Qi were the new emperor's men. After the new emperor ascended the throne, he sent them to pick up Old Master Yun and kill Sisi and the others. After being captured by Sisi, they have been farming in the manor ever since.

Sisi didn't come even once during that time.

They thought Sisi wouldn't show up.

Unexpectedly, Sisi reappeared.

Wang Liu and Zhao Qi were a little surprised.

Zhao Qi looked at Sisi and asked, "Why are you here? Is something wrong?"

"Hmm." Sisi looked at them and said, "The new emperor has been poisoned to death. Do you want to die for him or follow me?"

Wang Liu and Zhao Qi: "..." Haven't we been working for you for a long time? Or is it that this little girl never intended for them to farm at all? Is having them farm just a temporary measure? Is it just because the new emperor is still alive and it's not good to be too conspicuous?

Zhao Qi voiced what everyone was thinking: "What do you mean by 'fighting with you'?"

Sisi gave him a smile. "It means whatever I do, you all do too."

Zhao Qi: "..." If you get married, we'll all get married too?

Thirteen: "Yes. Be good, listen to me, and you'll get candy."

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