Chapter 36 The Xu Family Surrenders
An Lei glanced at Pei Shaoling who was sitting in the wooden wheelchair.
Seeing him nod, he quickly jumped down the stairs, grabbed Xu's family and took them to the west wing, his residence next door.
The Xu family, a group of more than ten people, were thrown into the empty house by the hidden thunder like an eagle catching chicks.
"Mrs. Pei, what do you mean? Let us out!"
The door of the west wing was banged on by them.
Pei's mother's heart was pounding because of the beatings, and her face turned pale.
At this moment, Qiao Qiqi smelled a burnt odor at the tip of her nose.
Oh my god!
Her goulash!
When she rushed into the kitchen and saw the pot of black, lumpy objects, her face fell.
It’s such a waste of such a big pot of ingredients.
Helpless, she could only clean the pot and cut the meat again to cook.
"Sister-in-law, my brother asked you to make some food for the Xu family and send it over."
Pei Shaoan's voice came from the door.
Qiao Qiqi was stunned, turned around and asked, "Why? We don't have much food left."
"My eldest brother said that keeping them would be useful. We need to redress the grievances of our mansion in the future, and we need their confessions."
Pei Shaoan explained.
"Yeah, okay, I got it."
Qiao Qiqi nodded.
Since Boss Pei said so, he must have his reasons.
Since you are just going to do it casually, then of course you should do it casually.
Anyway, there are plenty of wild vegetables near this mountain village. After dinner, I can just go and get some.
Thinking of this, Qiao Qiqi continued to busy herself with the dishes in her hands.
In the west wing, Madam Xu cursed the eldest wife of the Pei family while looking at her sons and uncle.
"What should we do? We can't defeat them, and now they want to imprison us!"
Mrs. Xu, all wet, looked at everyone and said, "How are more than a dozen of us going to live in this room?"
"Mom, I think they must have escaped. If we do this or that, maybe we can even redeem ourselves from our crimes and gain merit!"
The eldest son of the Xu family glanced outside the door and said in a low voice.
"No, we finally escaped, how can we do this? The whole family will be killed."
Xu's uncle disagreed, "I don't want to go to that bitter cold place."
"What should we do? We can't just let them lock us up like this, right?"
Mrs. Xu continued to push the door open and said.
"I didn't expect that there was someone with such powerful martial arts skills in the Pei family's eldest branch. It was our attitude that was wrong before. We thought that we could bully the few with our numbers."
Xu's uncle analyzed, "Why don't you give in? I heard that Madam Pei is also a kind person. That way we won't be locked up here and starve to death!"
"Let me surrender?"
Madam Xu was surprised. "I don't want to go. If it weren't for her, I would have been the one marrying into the Marquis' Mansion. Why should I bow to her?"
"Mom! Didn't our dad treat you well? And you still have us children. Can you please not talk about the past?"
The eldest daughter of the Xu family looked at her speechlessly and said, "Let's find a way to get out of this house first. When the rain stops, we'll leave here and find a safe place to settle down."
Madam Xu looked at her two sons and two daughters and nodded helplessly, "Okay, for your sake, I'm willing to give in!"
So, Madam Xu continued to bang on the door, "Mrs. Pei, I was wrong. I was wrong just now. Can you let us go?"
In the corridor, Pei's mother heard Mrs. Xu's voice and looked at her three sons.
"Mom, don't be in a hurry, let them hang out for a while."
Pei Shaoling said softly, then he looked at An Lei again, "Go and see why they can still find this place even though the mountain road is cut off!"
"yes!"
An Lei responded, returned to his room, took his straw raincoat and hat, and left the village.
When Qiao Qiqi brought the food to the table, An Lei came back covered in rain.
"It turns out that they came over from another mountain, not from the bottom."
An Lei explained to Pei Shaoling, "The previous earthquake, coupled with the continuous rain, caused the accumulated water at the foot of the mountain to spread. That's why many people have fled to this mountain. It's not safe here anymore."
"Well, our cave is almost too conspicuous and indeed unsafe."
Pei Shaoling nodded gently, "An Lei, after dinner, go check where the escort team has gone. When the rain stops, we can follow them!"
"yes!"
An Lei responded again.
"Son? Can't we just stay here? Why do we have to go back to the exile group?"
Mother Pei looked helpless, "Then your two brothers will be shackled and forced to travel again."
"Mother, it's unsafe anywhere now, and we can't stay here for long. The only safe place is the bitter cold land in the north."
Pei Shaoling explained, "We'll have to go there sooner or later anyway, so why not just follow the exile team? Don't worry, I've already arranged our own people in the team, and we won't let you suffer any injustice."
Yes, when they were at the Taiping Town Post Station, An Dian and An Lei arranged two more people in the official team.
"Alright! It's up to you!"
Mother Pei nodded and used the serving chopsticks to pick up a piece of beef for Qiao Qiqi. "Qiqi, you've worked hard these days. You've lost a lot of weight. Come on, eat more."
Qiao Qiqi listened from the side and didn't think it mattered.
She also felt that what Pei Shaoling said made sense.
If the Xu family members can come here, other people will also come here, and then this place will not be peaceful anymore.
Pei Shaoling, who was standing by, heard what her mother said and realized that his wife's originally round face had unknowingly turned into a melon-shaped face.
A pair of big eyes stand out on that thin face.
He pinched a piece of beef towards her with a distressed look on his face, "My wife, please eat more. You won't look good if you're too skinny."
Qiao Qiqi was dumbfounded when she saw the bowl full of beef.
They plan to make her gain back the few pounds she had lost with great difficulty?
Fortunately, the fat content in beef is not as high as pork.
Qiao Qiqi calmly finished all the meat in the bowl and smiled politely at them.
After dinner, Qiao Qiqi turned the marinated beef over again.
Judging from Pei Shaoling's expression, they won't be able to stay here for long.
She should wash and dry the beef tomorrow.
Fortunately, she added more salt when marinating it, so it should be flavorful now.
After drying, she makes the braised beef into beef jerky, which can also be stored.
After preparing the beef, she glanced at the west wing opposite, then put on her straw raincoat and hat and went out to pick wild vegetables.
She wanted to make some wild vegetables to make porridge for the Xu family across the street.
It’s good enough to give them something to eat, but as for beef buns or something like that, don’t even think about it.
Soon, she picked some bitter and astringent wild vegetables and cooked a pot of thin wild vegetable porridge.
After putting the wild vegetable porridge into an unused large basin, she called Pei Shaoming to bring it to them.
As for whether they can eat it, it is no longer within my consideration.
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