Chapter 66: Money for Work
There were imperial guards guarding all the gates of Ningguo Mansion. Ning Fengluan had no choice but to crawl out through the dog hole near the mourning hall.
Then he ran for his life for nearly two quarters of an hour and arrived at the General's Mansion.
She knocked on the door knocker loudly.
"Open the door! Open the door quickly! I'm your cousin!"
Before she came of age, she spent most of her time in the General's Mansion. Because her grandmother and uncles loved her, the servants of the clan treated her as their own daughter.
In the past, as soon as he heard her footsteps, he would come to open the door for her.
No need to knock at all.
Today, I knocked for a long time but no one answered the door.
She raised her right foot and angrily kicked the door: "Where are all the people?! If you don't open the door, I'll sell you all to mine illegal minerals!"
The door suddenly opened, and she kicked in vain, almost falling to the ground.
After steadying himself by the door frame, he was about to start cursing when he saw Zong Hebai standing at the door, and he almost swallowed back his curse words.
"Fourth uncle, the Imperial Guards suddenly came to our Duke's Mansion to ransack our property, and I barely managed to escape!"
She said hurriedly.
"My mother said that the Zong family has a red book and iron certificate that can save our lives. Can you lend it to us?"
Zong Hebai looked at her steadily, a sarcastic smile appearing at the corner of his lips.
"Why didn't I realize your face was so big before?"
Ning Fengluan: “?”
"Lending the Red Book and Iron Certificate that my father risked his life for to you beasts? Oh, how dare you."
"What beast?"
Ning Fengluan was stunned.
"Fourth uncle, what are you talking about?"
Zong Hebai glanced at her right hand and sneered, "Don't tell me you don't know yet, you are the bastard born from the affair between Ning Zeming and Zhong Shi."
With a "boom", Ning Fengluan's mind seemed to explode as if by thunder.
"What, what bastard? Where did you hear that rumor, Fourth Uncle? I'm your niece. I was brought to the Zong family on the third day after I was born. Fourth Uncle, you watched me grow up."
"Your father told me himself."
Zonghe Baidao.
When his niece was asking questions, he was lying on the table next to him. How could it be considered that Ning Zeming told him in person?
"It's no use trying to quibble."
Ning Fengluan: “!!!”
Dad told him? When did it happen?
Suddenly remembering the time when Zong Hebai asked for a birthday gift, she suddenly realized that it was at that time!
It was a lie to her that she needed money to fill the hole!
She quickly changed her words, "Fourth Uncle, I didn't know about this. You've raised me for so many years and invested so much effort in me. Don't you have any feelings for me at all? How could you bear to see me suffer?"
Zong Hebai sneered, "Emotion? When I think of you being cherished like a jewel by us, while my dear niece lies alone in a mass grave, waiting to die, I want to rip your tendons and throw you into the pile of dead bodies, so that you can go through what she went through. Do you want such a relationship?"
Ning Fengluan's face turned pale.
"It has nothing to do with me. I was just a child then..."
Zong Hebai said sternly, "If it weren't for your innocence, do you think you could stand here peacefully?"
After saying that, he pushed the door hard, closed it, bolted it, and turned to leave.
Ning Fengluan stood there in a daze.
She repeated his last words over and over again, her face gradually filled with fear.
Could it be that... my grandmother was paralyzed, my mother went blind, my father died suddenly, the Duke's Mansion was ransacked... this series of events were not accidental?
Before he could think about it, the Royal Guards came after him.
"She's here!"
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The Ningguo Mansion collapsed with a loud bang.
Ji Changqing added another piece of his "house-confiscation record".
Every afternoon, Feng Qingsui could hear people talking while walking his dog along the bank of the inner river.
"From the Earl's Mansion to the Marquis' Mansion, now even the Duke's Mansion has been copied. Who will be copied next?"
"This kind of greedy and treacherous aristocratic family should be completely confiscated. How many people have been forced to death by the Ningguo Mansion in order to cultivate land? When people refuse to sell, they find ways to lend them money at high interest rates, forcing them to sell all their land and even sell their children and themselves into slavery. Or else, they set you up to die unjustly in prison, and half of your land will be confiscated, and half will go to the Ningguo Mansion."
"It's not enough to sell yourself into slavery, you also force people to dig for illegal mines. Who knows how many people are buried in the mines."
…
After she learned from Aunt Xu that Zong was a kind-hearted person, she guessed how Zong persuaded the kidnappers to let her go, and then pretended to be a genius to successfully get the account books of the Ningguo Mansion.
Speaking of which, before she came to the Ji Mansion and pretended to be Ji Changfeng's widow, the three families she wanted to pretend to be distant cousins of were all of the same character as the Ningguo Mansion.
These princes and nobles, despite having hereditary titles and generous fiefs, were not satisfied and always wanted to use the power in their hands to wantonly plunder the people's land and force them into slaves, refugees, and bandits.
Now, less than 10% of them have been liquidated.
Ji Changqing really has a long way to go.
"Fortunately, I came to the Ji Mansion."
She thought to herself.
Otherwise, I don’t know how many families I would have to offend to get my revenge.
The big black dog suddenly stopped.
"Woof woof!"
She looked forward and saw a woman with a big belly sitting on the ground not far away, her face full of pain.
Seeing her, the woman pleaded in a pitiful voice, "Girl, my legs are suddenly weak and I can't stand up. Could you please help me get home? My home is in that alley, the fifth one down."
She pointed to a small alley not far away.
"I'll pay you, help me, okay?"
Feng Qingsui handed the leash to Wuhua.
Go forward and help the woman up.
His right hand casually rested on the woman's wrist.
The pregnancy is real, the fatigue is fake.
"Okay, I'll help you back."
She gave Wuhua a look.
Wuhua understood what he meant.
He caught up with her, led the dog, and walked towards the alley with Feng Qingsui, supporting the woman.
After walking about ten meters into the alley, they stopped at the gate of a courtyard. The woman took out her key and opened the door, saying, "Just help me back inside. Thank you so much. The Buddha will bless you."
As the three people and the dog reached the patio, the door slammed shut.
Six men holding long knives rushed out from the inner room and surrounded them.
The woman broke free from Feng Qingsui and Wuhua, took out a dagger and pointed it at Feng Qingsui's neck.
"If you know what's good for you, put your hands up and stand still."
The big black dog barked and jumped towards the woman's wrist.
"Dead dog!"
A man swung his knife at the dog's belly.
Wuhua dragged the woman over and threw her over. The man quickly put away his knife and fell to the ground holding the woman.
The other men rushed to attack with their knives, and some took the opportunity to spray drugs to kill the victim.
Feng Qingsui chuckled and responded.
In less than ten moments, the woman and the six men were thrown to the ground and tied up.
Feng Qingsui put the dagger that the woman had just used against her on her neck.
"You only have one chance to answer. Who ordered this?"
The woman hurriedly said, "Young lady, please spare me! My brothers and I are here to do this for money, and we don't know who the other party is."
"What business?"
"Lure the girl, knock her unconscious, and send her to a flower boat on the night sea."
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