Grandpa Yun and the others recognized Gao Pengcheng's voice. Their feelings were somewhat complicated.

Gao Pengcheng was a prison guard, and his arrival meant that more people were being exiled here.

If it's a bad person, that's fine, but if it's a good person...

Grandpa Yun sighed inwardly. "Jinhui, go hide next door for a while."

"Okay." Xiao Liu had just handed him the fake face; he hadn't even gone through the formalities yet.

After Ye Jinhui went next door, Old Master Yun led everyone to welcome Gao Pengcheng.

When Gao Pengcheng saw that Old Master Yun had come out to greet him personally, he quickly ran over and took Old Master Yun's arm. "Old Master, Old Madam, why did you come out in person? If you do this again next time, I won't dare to come to your house again."

Grandpa Yun looked at Gao Pengcheng and said, "You've taken care of us all the way, we remember it. Was the journey smooth?"

"It went quite smoothly." He's not as incorruptible as you.

"Come inside and sit."

"Okay." Gao Pengcheng helped Grandpa Yun into the house while glancing at Sisi. "Did your mother give birth to a younger brother or sister?"

"younger brother."

"That would be great."

"Hmm. Where are the others?"

"The others have gone to wash up. I've come to invite you, Old Hei, the old master, the eldest master, the second master, and the third master to go for drinks."

Sisi looked at Gao Pengcheng and smiled, "How can I let you treat me? I'll treat you."

"I'll treat you. We've made so much money following you, we have to treat you to a meal."

Initially, Sisi pulled Gao Pengcheng and the others into doing business together. Gao Pengcheng and the others continued to do business with Sisi, and the dividends they received from Sisi were much more than the money they earned from the government.

Sisi had been bringing them along on her business trips for several reasons: first, to thank them for their leniency; second, to gather information from them. Although they were small-time people, they still had their own channels of communication; and third, they were local bigwigs in Beijing, and having them around would save her a lot of trouble in the city.

Some of the news that Lao Bai brought back came from them.

Sisi gave Gao Pengcheng a smile. "Then I won't stand on ceremony with you."

Gao Pengcheng looked at Sisi and smiled, "If you keep being so polite to me, I won't go into business with you."

"That won't do. Old Bai already told me that you've helped him a lot."

"It's nothing. By the way, when I set off, I asked Lao Bai if he wanted me to bring you something. Lao Bai said he wanted me to tell him a hundred 'you little ingrate's' for him."

"Old Bai said you tricked him into going to the capital and then abandoned him. Old Bai said if you don't go to the capital to see him, he'll redeem a bunch of women and let you support them."

Sisi laughed as soon as she heard that. "Let him redeem them all he wants. I'll raise a hundred of them even if he redeems them."

"Hahahaha... No way, he wants to taste it every day..."

Seeing that Gao Pengcheng was about to say something inappropriate for children, Old Master Yun quickly coughed twice. "Ahem, well? Whose family did you bring here this time?"

Gao Pengcheng finally realized what was happening. It was all Xiao Liu's fault; she didn't act like a child at all, making him keep forgetting that she was still a child. "I was so happy to see Xiao Liu that I accidentally blurted it out. Um, I'm here to escort the Ding family."

"The Ding family? Which Ding family?"

"The Ding family. By the way, were the Ding family related to your family by marriage before? I seem to remember that you had a granddaughter who married into the Ding family."

Grandpa Yun and the others all looked towards Yun Qingyao.

Yun Qingyao is the second daughter of Sisi's third grandfather, and the sixth in line.

Sisi looked at Gao Pengcheng and said, "That's right. My sixth aunt used to be Ding Ruhai's daughter-in-law. How are the Ding family members doing?"

"It's alright, three women died in prison and two children died on the road."

Sisi glanced at Grandpa Yun and the others, as well as Yun Qingying and the others. "How pitiful. How old are those two children?"

“One was three years old, and the other was four. They were lucky to have met us. We didn’t cut off their food or beat them, otherwise a few more would have died.”

Yun Qingyao became increasingly frightened as she listened.

She is a woman.

Her daughter is only three years old.

If she were to take her daughter and be exiled with the Ding family...

The rest of the Yun family were also shaken by what they heard.

They knew that the prison guards would grope female prisoners, and they knew that exile would result in death.

But since it didn't happen to them, they always felt it was something very far away.

Now that it's happening to people they know, they feel completely different than before.

Yun Qingyao wanted to know who the three women and two children who died were.

But what good would asking do?

Besides, she's no longer a daughter-in-law of the Ding family.

Sisi looked at Yun Qingyao and said, "Sixth Aunt, what do you think those two women from the Ding family who lost their children would think if they saw my little cousin, who is so fair and chubby? Do you think they would find her cute?"

"..."

"Tell me, what do you think the women in the Ding family who have lost their daughters or daughters-in-law would think if they saw you looking so radiant?"

"..."

Grandpa Yun closed his eyes briefly. "Stay away from the Ding family in the future, especially Qingyao."

Everyone agreed.

Yun Qingyao not only agreed but also said she would take good care of the child.

Gao Pengcheng sat for a while, chatted with the Yun family for a bit, and then said he was going out for drinks.

Grandpa Yun didn't want Gao Pengcheng to spend too much money. "You and Xiao Liu go, we won't go, we have things to do."

Gao Pengcheng tried to persuade him a few more times, but Grandpa Yun insisted on not going. "Alright, then we'll go. I'll come see you again when I have time."

"good."

After Sisi and Gao Pengcheng left, Old Master Yun told the others again not to linger around the Ding family before letting them go.

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