Aunt Chen is back from the world of cultivation

However, the imperial guards did not believe it at all and burst into laughter upon hearing it:

"This little bastard must have been scared out of his wits! He actually said that he is the biological brother of the young master of the Imperial Master's Mansion. Then I am the biological son of the Grand Imperial Master!"

The little leader of the imperial guards who was holding his collar also laughed loudly, and then slapped Pei Xuan in the face again:

"You're taking me for a fool, aren't you? The young master sent you here personally, and you even said you were the young master's biological brother!"

Pei Xuan was in so much pain that tears came out:

"I really am..."

Before he could finish his words, the imperial guard threw him to the ground and beat him up, cursing as he did so:

"You little bastard! If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will beat you to death!"

In such a situation, Pei Xuan no longer dared to reveal his true identity. He could only hold his head and beg for mercy while being beaten.

Seeing that he was obedient, the little leader stopped, grabbed his collar, opened the door, and threw him into the yard at the second gate.

Now, in order to facilitate supervision, all the masters, big and small, in the Jingnan Marquis' Mansion were driven into the rooms at the second gate of the mansion and lived on the large bunk beds.

There was also someone on duty in the courtyard. After negotiating with the imperial guard who came in from outside, he directly picked up Pei Xuan and kicked open the door of one of the rooms:

"Hey, your brother is back! Let him live in this room with you from now on!"

The room was dark and filled with the stench of feces and urine, but there was no response.

The imperial guards didn't care and just closed the door and left.

Pei Xuan stumbled several times before he found an empty spot and lay down.

Without a quilt, he could only wrap himself tightly in his cloak. He was cold and hungry, and the wounds on his body were painful. It was really unbearable.

After enduring the whole night, he finally waited until dawn the next day and saw the layout of the house clearly.

This is the lowest-ranking servant's room in the Earl's mansion. There is nothing else except a bunk bed and a cabinet.

There were four people squeezed on the small bunk bed, including him and several younger brothers born to other aunts.

The other three were now all disheveled, with wrinkled clothes and snot hanging from their noses.

In addition, there was a toilet in the room, which was filled with a lot of feces and urine, and it emitted a nauseating smell all the time.

"Are we going to live here forever?"

Pei Xuan asked in disbelief.

The third brother Pei Yuan glanced at him coldly:

"if not."

Seeing his dejected expression that day, Pei Yuan sneered,

"I can't stand this. I have to clean the shoes and floors and flush the toilets for the imperial guards later!"

Now that the Jingnan Marquis' Mansion has lost power, the deputy commander of the imperial guards who is in charge of this matter wants to please the imperial teacher and deliberately torments them.

Not only were they not allowed to have servants to serve them, they were also required to be responsible for all the chores of the imperial garrison.

Pei Xuan’s eyes went dark and he almost fainted.

The facts were just as Pei Yuan said. Not long after, their door was kicked open and a rude imperial guard walked in, swinging the whip in his hand and said:

"Everyone get up, but a few young masters are still lying in bed! Go clean up the soldiers' room, or do you want to be whipped?"

Pei Yuan quickly replied:

"Sir, I'm coming!"

Not only him, but also his two other brothers who were two or three years younger than them, did not dare to delay and followed.

Pei Xuan was distracted for a moment, and was a beat slower, so he was whipped by the imperial guards:

"It was you who ran away, right?"

"Today you have to clean the toilets. You are not allowed to eat until you finish!"

As he spoke, he whipped Pei Xuan again and scolded:

"Go quickly!"

Pei Xuan had never been treated so violently in the past twenty or thirty years of his life, and he was extremely scared.

Having been severely beaten yesterday, he did not dare to mention Rong Niang's name for the time being and could only be driven to work in the yard with a well.

There were three hundred imperial guards stationed in the Jingnan Marquis's mansion, half of them slept inside at night, and the other half were on duty. There were three of them in a room, and there were fifty toilets waiting for him to empty and clean.

Pei Xuan felt nauseous from the smoke, and the moment he slowed down a little, the whip fell on his back again.

He used cold well water to wash the toilet bowl, and it took him a whole morning to finish.

I was so hungry that I felt dizzy and dizzy, but was finally allowed to eat.

I thought I could at least have some hot soup and some food, but when I returned to the yard where I lived, there was only a cold, hard steamed bun left on the plate on the ground under the eaves.

Upon asking, I found out that they are now prisoners and can only eat two meals a day.

One breakfast is around 10am and the other is around 5pm.

He finished his work the latest.

Although the others were not much faster than him, the side dishes and soup that went with the steamed bun were all gone, leaving only the steamed bun.

Thinking about how he cleaned the toilet in the morning and looking at the yellow and black steamed bread in his hand, he couldn't eat it at all.

While he was hesitating, he saw a woman with a baby on her back, disheveled hair and wounds on her face and hands, coming over and snatching the steamed bread from his hand.

"what are you doing!"

Pei Xuan tried to take back his belongings, but was kicked to the ground by the other party.

The woman took the steamed bread and ran back into the house.

Pei Xuan was furious and chased after him, shouting:

"Bitch, I'll fight you!"

He couldn't defeat those imperial guards, so there was no reason for him to be bullied by a woman.

However, as soon as he limped to the door, he saw the woman stuffing steamed bread into her mouth with one hand, and holding a stick for hammering clothes with the other hand, staring at him with a defensive and fierce look on her face.

Only then did Pei Xuan see the other person's face clearly.

He was surprised to find that the woman with a fierce face was actually his pampered mother Zhang.

After not seeing her for just a few days, she no longer had the elegance and grace she once had. Instead, she looked like a street shrew. This really shocked Pei Xuan.

While she was distracted, Zhang had already wolfed down half of Pei Xuan's steamed bun.

Pei Xuan came to his senses and tried to grab the remaining half, but Zhang hit him on the shoulder with a stick, causing him to grimace in pain.

Pei Xin, a maidservant who was two years younger than Pei Xuan, saw this and hurried over to pull Pei Xuan:

"Brother, forget it, don't mess with her, we can't beat her!"

Pei Xin's aunt, like Pei Xuan's biological mother, was born a slave. She has always been honest and submissive, and she taught Pei Xin to have the same character.

He kindly told Pei Xuan about Zhang's impressive battle record:

When everyone was first imprisoned, they were hungry for the entire afternoon and night, and the next morning they could hardly eat the crude food brought by the imperial guards.

Only Zhang not only ate her own food, but also ate a lot of other people's food.

By the third day, the rest of the people were becoming too hungry to bear it anymore and began to force themselves to eat the food.

After Zhang finished her own meal, she started to grab other people's portions.

In the past, she was the mistress and had her favorite concubine sister to protect her. Everyone in the Jingnan Marquis's Mansion was afraid of her.

Now, everyone is a prisoner, and no one is afraid of anyone else. Several concubines’ new and old grudges broke out at the same time, and they united to fight with Zhang.

However, apart from suffering a loss in the beginning, Zhang became more and more courageous afterwards, and the five concubines who did not submit to her could not beat her together.

The imperial guards were happy to see these former noble ladies fighting like shrews and didn't care at all, so now no one dared to mess with Zhang again.

"Besides, she also has her own difficulties. Now that she has no wet nurse to serve her, she has to feed Hun'er herself."

Pei Xin advised in a low voice.

Pei Xuan cursed him in his heart for being an idiot. Now everyone was in trouble, and this was the person who had oppressed them in the past. It didn't matter whether she had her own difficulties or not.

However, looking at the size difference between himself and Zhang, and then looking at the stick in the other's hand, he could only retreat angrily.

After dinner, everyone had to chop wood, boil water, clean the house, and wash the clothes that were not washed in the morning.

Because Pei Xuan had escaped before, he was still the main target of the imperial guards.

He was almost ten years old, considered a half-grown man, and was assigned to chop firewood. He was so hungry that he was dizzy and had no aim, and he almost chopped his own feet several times.

For this he was whipped many times, and he was beaten so hard that he could only hold his head and cry for mercy.

In just one afternoon, he had more than twenty whip marks on his body and a string of blisters on his hands. When it was time to eat, he could only barely keep his steamed bread with Pei Xin's help.

This day seemed longer than a month to Pei Xuan.

After finally getting dark, Pei Xuan curled up on the hard and cold bed, feeling the pain and fatigue in his body, smelling the stench in the room, and his hatred for Rong Niang reached its peak.

This cheap sister is so vicious and hateful that she actually came up with such a way to retaliate and humiliate him!

From now on, he will definitely return this humiliation to her double!

But now, he had no choice but to endure.

Yesterday on the road, he secretly hid a few gold ingots in his shoes and avoided the body search by the imperial guards.

After he endured for a few more days, he would find a way to use the money to send a letter to his biological mother to admit his mistake, hoping that she could persuade that devilish sister to release him as soon as possible.

*

Chen Qingzhu, who was placed high hopes by Pei Xuan, didn't care at all about how Rong Niang dealt with him.

After the consecration ceremony, she had been thinking about how to deal with the monk's soul which had not been caught yet.

After so many days, she already had some guesses about its whereabouts.

Ever since the other party ambushed her outside the Imperial Master's Mansion, he has been hiding and has not confronted her head-on again. This only shows that he is not sure of winning against her.

But at the same time, because the other party was in a soul state and could carry out spiritual attacks and mind control, she had no way of finding it with the help of worldly forces.

Even she herself, without spiritual consciousness, could not find her soul.

In this way, you will be very passive when fighting, and it is easy to give the opponent a chance to hide or escape.

Only when she has reached the foundation-building stage and has spiritual awareness can she accurately capture the opponent's position to attack and kill.

Therefore, all she can do now is to improve her cultivation.

It would take too long to follow the routine. The other party was already at the foundation-building stage, and I didn't know what method he used to cultivate.

She couldn't give the other party too much time to become stronger.

Then, it is necessary to accumulate merits in order to quickly break through the foundation-building period.

Nowadays, there are wars and natural disasters everywhere in the world, and there are many opportunities.

But because of the existence of that cultivator's soul, Rong Niang and the others' stay in the capital has become full of dangers.

It is impossible for her to protect them by being on guard against thieves all the time, as this will seriously affect her ability to improve.

After weighing the pros and cons, returning to Nandu is imperative.

The world will soon be in chaos, so it is time to return to Nandu, although it is much earlier than expected.

But what you need to do won’t change much:

They all raised the banner of rebellion and established their own regime.

This must be done with a legitimate reason.

Soon, she thought of a way to break off relations with Emperor Yong'an while gaining many benefits.