Chapter 1641 Someone Wants to Open Our Door
Meng Qi walked over to her and handed her a flatbread. "Ahan, have something to eat."
Meng Han looked up, her eyes red, "Brother, I want to go out."
Meng Qi's complexion was equally unpleasant, with very noticeable bloodshot eyes and his clothes were filthy. Hearing his younger sister's words, he let out a long sigh, "Let's wait a little longer, just one more day. If there's no movement outside, I'll go out and take a look."
“But I’m very worried. Father and Uncle haven’t come back yet. We don’t know when those bandits outside will show up again, and we don’t dare to go out to buy food now. If we just stay here and wait to die, I really might as well go out and fight them.”
Meng Qi clenched his fists, and after a long while, patted her shoulder. "Don't talk nonsense. Have you forgotten what your uncle told you?"
Remembering Meng Pei's words before leaving, Meng Han could only suppress the restlessness in her heart, slump her shoulders weakly, and say listlessly, "I understand, I won't act impulsively."
She couldn't say anything, but tears kept falling down her face.
Meng Qi sighed, said nothing more, and distributed the flatbread to the others.
When he reached the corner, he paused and handed the two flatbreads forward.
The two people sitting on the ground looked up, one of them looking at him expectantly, "Archie...I..."
After stuffing the flatbread into her hand, Meng Qi turned and left, unwilling to say anything more to her.
"Archie, Mother knows she was wrong. Talk to Mother."
The voice behind him became urgent.
Meng Qi ignored her and strode back to Meng Han's side.
Watching the two siblings' figures, Tao's eyes reddened as she slumped back into her seat. Everyone else in the secret room turned to look at her, and Tao felt immediately embarrassed, lowering her head to silently nibble on her flatbread.
Seeing this, the others scoffed, their eyes filled with disdain, and turned their heads away. Not one of them was willing to look at her again or say a word to her.
Meng Qi sat down next to Meng Han, took a sip of water, finished his flatbread, and couldn't help but touch the soft sword at his waist.
If... Meng Yunzheng were here, what would he do in this situation?
My father said that his cousin was very capable. At the age of ten, he infiltrated the ranks of his enemy, Gong Qiu. He pretended to be stupid in front of the murderer who killed his mother and sent him to the guillotine.
Now that he had avenged himself, he immediately passed the imperial examinations and became a scholar.
Ten years old. What was he doing when he was ten?
Meng Qi had complex feelings toward Meng Yunzheng, a mixture of jealousy and resentment, but he understood even more clearly that hidden beneath this jealousy and resentment was...admiration.
Shouldn't he be proud to have such an older brother?
The other person even gave him a soft sword. What the other person could do at ten years old, he could definitely do now that he was sixteen. It's just taking care of the people in the secret room, what is that compared to him?
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly heard Uncle Gao's terrified voice from the entrance of the secret passage, "There are people outside, someone wants to open our door."
The people in the secret room were suddenly startled and stood up in unison, gathering in the center.
Meng Qi and Meng Han's expressions changed, and the two quickly walked towards the entrance of the secret passage, and sure enough, they heard some noise outside.
"It's alright, the door is locked from the inside, no one from the outside can open it."
Meng Han asked softly, "Could it be that Dad and Uncle have come back?"
(End of this chapter)
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