After Agil figured it out, she closed her eyes and went to sleep. Her personal guards were all around her, so she had nothing to worry about.
Lu Zheng and Peng Ze were unaware that Agil suspected them, but they also didn't believe that Agil trusted them so much as to think they were merchants from Lange.
The next morning, both sides set off with caution and a sense of probing.
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In Kuncheng, thousands of miles away, Gu Shouxin had already sent people to investigate Madam Peng's past, and he discovered a suspicious point.
Before Madam Peng saved General Peng, she had been abandoned in the mountains by her family for a period of time.
What happened during this period is unknown to the villagers and even their family.
Madam Peng was considered an unlucky person in their village. Her mother died in childbirth when she was born, and her father married a stepmother who treated her badly. When her stepmother was eight months pregnant, she ate the sugar water that Madam Peng served her and went into premature labor, giving birth to a stillborn baby.
Her stepmother sent her to live with her grandparents, where she lived for three years. During those three years, her grandparents fell ill and died one after another.
Her uncle and aunt were no longer willing to take her in. By then, she was old enough to understand things. Her father was a kind-hearted man. His second wife gave birth to a son while their daughter was not at home, so her father wanted to take her home.
Her stepmother resorted to all sorts of tricks—crying, making a scene, threatening suicide, and even taking her son back to her parents' home—but her father was still determined to take her back. He only promised her stepmother that he would give her food, but she would still have to do the chores.
Then she returned to her home, and a few years later she was ten years old, and her stepmother miscarried again because of her.
Her father had no choice but to build her a thatched hut in the village. She lived there alone for three years. Later, a family in the village bought land next to the hut and planned to build a house. However, on the very first day the house was completed and they moved in, their son had an accident.
Her stepmother spread rumors that she was unlucky and a jinx.
The family, whose son had died, vented their anger on Peng Si, who was only thirteen years old. Her father went to mediate, and during the fight, he was hit on the head, which finally put an end to the matter.
Her father was hit like that, and he was paralyzed in bed for half a year before he passed away.
Her stepmother was furious. Her husband was dead, and her son was not even ten years old. How was she supposed to live?
After the funeral was over, she joined forces with Madam Peng's uncles and aunts, as well as the family whose son had died, to make a scene at the village head's office, saying that they had to deal with this jinx who brought misfortune to her father, mother, grandparents, brothers, and villagers. As long as she was alive, no one could live in peace.
The villagers thought about it and realized that made sense, so they responded enthusiastically.
As a result, Madam Peng, who had just turned fourteen, was driven to the mountains. The villagers naturally wouldn't kill her, but driving her to the mountains was no different from killing her, since there were many poisonous snakes and wild beasts in the mountains bordering Yuzhou and Kunzhou.
The villagers thought that Madam Peng would not live more than half a month in the mountains. Unexpectedly, three months later, she returned to the village with a handsome young man and openly asked for her household registration. She was getting married. After learning about General Peng's identity, her stepmother and the villagers dared not say anything more.
Then Madam Peng followed General Peng to Kuncheng, and a few months later she gave birth to Peng Mu.
Because the two had already pledged their lives to each other during those months in the mountains, Peng Mu should have been born at full term. However, due to her poor health, she was publicly declared to have been born prematurely. Only Peng's family knew that the two had already consummated their marriage before their wedding banquet.
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