Shen Qingwu was stunned and subconsciously took a step back. Looking at the person kneeling on the ground, he said in disbelief, "Sister Wu?"

Didn’t you say you were leaving the village and heading south?

The people who suddenly appeared in the courtyard were Wu Cuicui and her two children.

"Miss, I know I was wrong. Please give me another chance. I will never hide anything again. I am willing to sign a death contract." Wu Cuicui said as she kowtowed heavily to Shen Qingwu.

Looking at the person who suddenly appeared, Shen Qingwu was a little overwhelmed.

"Before Liu Genshu and I came to the General's Mansion, someone asked us to monitor the General's Mansion. Our parents and children were all under their surveillance, and we had no choice."

"But they have never asked us about anything related to the General's Mansion in these years."

Wu Cuicui didn't care that there were other people in the yard, and was afraid that Shen Qingwu would drive her away, so she confessed anxiously.

"If I hadn't received a sum of money from them every three months, I would have thought they had forgotten about us."

Wu Cuicui told Shen Qingwu everything that had happened over the years. She took out the silver note that the man had given her from her bag and handed it to Shen Qingwu.

Shen Qingwu is the most noble person she knows, and she needs Shen Qingwu's protection.

"Now that Liu Genshu has divorced me and my children are with me, I have no worries. I beg for your protection, young lady."

Wu Cuicui asked her two children, who had never seen the world and were standing stupidly behind her, to kneel down and kowtow to Shen Qingwu.

Shen Qingwu digested it for a while, his thoughts a little confused. He walked around them and threw the roast duck in his hand to Ah Heng who was watching the show behind the sycamore tree.

Wu Cuicui's two children followed Shen Qingwu's gaze and opened their mouths in surprise. Such a delicious roast duck was actually fed to wolves?

"How do I know that you are not a spy this time?" Shen Qingwu looked at the mother and her two children kneeling on the ground after a while.

This development was something she had not expected.

"I swear on the lives of my two children that if I dare to betray you in the future, I will be struck by lightning." Wu Cuicui was eager to prove her loyalty.

"Miss, I already knew about Sister Wu before she left..." Sun Wang came out with tea and whispered to Shen Qingwu.

Sun Wang and Wu Chunxiang both noticed that Wu Cuicui was absent-minded and hesitant to speak in the past few days.

On the morning of the second day after that rainy night, Sun Wang talked to Wu Cuicui and persuaded her to confess.

Later, when Shen Qingwu was driving people away and Sun Wang was helping Wu Cuicui and her husband pack up their things, he knew the truth and couldn't bear it, so he gave them some advice.

Without much suspense, Liu Genshu agreed.

"It was my idea to divorce my wife..." Sun Wang confessed.

Shen Qingwu looked at him in surprise, "What's your idea?"

"Sister Wu will pretend to go south and try to shake off anyone who might be following her. Then, disguised, she will come to Kyoto to meet you. Brother Liu will wait for their next move."

"If they didn't make a move and knew Sister Wu was in the General's Mansion, they might try to contact her later. In that case, there would still be a chance."

"I know that Miss deliberately drove them away in order to find out more about them. Please forgive me, Miss. I have been with Sister Wu and her husband for many years and have developed some affection for them, so I took the initiative to save them."

Sun Wang put down the teacup, took a step back and knelt down in front of Shen Qingwu.

During the years he stayed in the general's mansion, Wu Cuicui took care of him like an older sister.

Knowing that Wu Cuicui was forced and had not done anything harmful to the General's Mansion, he took the risk to help her.

"What you said really makes everything clear to me." Shen Qingwu frowned slightly.

She was in a complicated mood at the moment. She couldn't say that she didn't like it, but she definitely didn't like it either.

"Please punish me, miss." Sun Wang said.

"Miss, it was all my begging..." Wu Cuicui saw Shen Qingwu frowning, and hurriedly knelt forward to beg for mercy and take over everything.

Shen Qingwu raised his hand to stop him, "Don't try this in front of me."

Shen Qingwu took a sip of tea.

She has always known that the future can be changed, and the life trajectory predetermined in the destiny book will change because of some people and some things.

"Awang is right. In that case, you and your son should stay here and sign the death contract." Shen Qingwu turned the teacup. "Awang, go prepare the contract."

After Sun Wang left, Wu Chunxiang, who had been hiding under the corridor, came over with red eyes. "Sister Wu, I didn't expect you to be this kind of person!"

Wu Cuicui lowered her head in shame.

"Your two children are not young anymore and have their own ideas. Can you make decisions for them?" Shen Qingwu took out a porcelain bottle from his sleeve and asked casually.

"We all listen to mother and the eldest lady." The frightened Liu Hong and her brother kowtowed to Shen Qingwu.

Shen Qingwu snapped her fingers, and Ah Heng and Ah Huan ran to her happily, stretching their heads to ask for a pat.

"The consequence of betraying me is to become their food." Shen Qingwu raised his eyes and looked at the three people on the ground.

Human nature is very complicated, and she doesn't want to gamble.

After pouring three black pills the size of soybeans from the porcelain bottle into the teacup, Shen Qingwu looked at Wu Cuicui.

Wu Cuicui reached out her hand without hesitation, stuffed one into her mouth without waiting for Shen Qingwu to speak, and swallowed it hard.

Shen Qingwu narrowed his almond-shaped eyes slightly, "After taking this medicine, you need to take the antidote every thirty days, otherwise you will die from the pain all over your body."

Liu Hong and Liu Qiang both hesitated.

"You are a person with weaknesses. If they can control the children to threaten you for the first time, there will be a second time." The sound of a tiger's roar was mixed into Shen Qingwu's low voice.

Wu Cuicui suddenly felt a sharp pain in her heart, and her whole body seemed to be squeezed by the wind blowing from all directions, making it difficult for her to breathe.

After just a few breaths, Wu Cuicui was drenched in sweat.

"I would never dare to betray the young lady." Wu Cuicui recovered and crawled on the ground.

Shen Qingwu looked at the brother and sister, "You have no choice but to obey me. As long as you don't do anything to betray me, the General's Mansion will protect you for the rest of your life."

"Be obedient." Wu Cuicui also looked at her two children and urged them.

The two children stretched out their trembling hands weakly and helplessly.

…

"Something happened, something happened..."

After dinner, Shen Qingwu was enjoying the cool air in the yard. Two birds flew over his head and chirped non-stop.

Shen Qingwu paused as he fanned himself with a fan.

"Men in black broke into Liu Genshu's home and hacked Liu Genshu's father."

"The people sent by Chu Guannan stopped them in time, but they were defeated and then committed suicide by taking poison, and the clue was cut off."

Shen Qingwu started waving the round fan in his hand again, and his doubts seemed to be resolved.

Her actions ultimately changed the fate of the Liu family.

…

At night, Chu Guannan climbed over the wall again.

"Sorry, we couldn't catch the person." In order to show his sincerity, Chu Guannan put down the first two silver bills.

"You seem to have known this for a long time?" Chu Guannan looked at the person who was fiddling with the Nine Rings. She didn't seem surprised.

Shen Qingwu hummed, and suddenly said, "Xie Enyu, the second son of the Xie family, is your man?"