Traveling through time and space to become a child, supporting the family by catching fish and shrim

Chen Lang walked out of the study and saw Pei Ming standing outside the room. Suddenly, the past that Li Qing had told him emerged in his mind.

Pei Ming saw Chen Lang staring at him in a daze, frowned, and said, "Is there something you want to tell me?"

Chen Lang quickly retracted his gaze and said, "No."

Pei Ming sighed, walked over, patted Chen Lang on the shoulder, and said, "You said you... have nothing better to do than write those messed up poems."

Chen Lang was also helpless: "I didn't expect this poem to reach the emperor's ears."

"Do you know who submitted it?" Pei Mingdao.

Chen Lang shook his head.

"Ling Zhen," Pei Ming said, "first he gave this poem to the Duke of Zhao, who then presented it to Your Majesty."

Chen Lang gritted his teeth and said, "Damn... No wonder Ling Zhen laughed so arrogantly when he was arrested. It turns out he was waiting for me here."

"But General Pei, I have something I don't understand."

Pei Ming said: "Ask."

Chen Lang asked seriously, "Just because of the three words 'Longwu Shame', the Emperor gave me such a heavy responsibility as accompanying the princess on her marriage...Isn't that a bit too much of a joke?"

"As someone who has never been involved in anything like this, and suddenly being given this important responsibility, isn't the Emperor worried that I might mess things up?"

"And why does Duke Zhao think that if I submit this poem, His Majesty will punish me?"

Pei Mingdao said, "Duke Zhao is doing this because he wants to use this poem to attack Scholar Xiao. There's a consensus in the court right now that Scholar Xiao is behind you."

"As for Your Majesty... ahem... I don't know."

Chen Lang rubbed his brows and said, "It seems that Scholar Xiao is having a hard time in the court. Even a poem is used to attack him."

Pei Ming said calmly, "Don't worry about Scholar Xiao. He's been in the officialdom for so many years, he wouldn't take such a small attack seriously."

"You should think about yourself."

Chen Lang said dejectedly: "This has already become a foregone conclusion, what else can I think about?"

"General Pei, do you think it's too late for me to go back now and run away with my wife and daughter?"

Pei Mingdao: "I will be the one responsible for arresting you then."

"If we can't catch him, the Duke's entire family, my entire family, and the entire family of everyone you know will die."

Chen Lang was shocked and said, "It can't be that cruel, right?"

Pei Mingdao: "Don't believe it? You can try it."

"Let me be frank with you. If you run away, I will catch you no matter where you are."

Chen Lang sighed: "Just pretend I didn't say anything."

"Farewell."

Seeing Chen Lang's extreme depression, Pei Ming softened his tone and said, "Don't be too pessimistic. Director Li will be of great help to you when he comes in a few days."

Chen Lang asked, "Director Li...who is that?"

"You'll understand when you get here." Pei Ming said, "Now go home, settle your family affairs, and wait patiently for the arrival of the wedding procession."

"The Duke will take good care of your family."

Chen Lang asked, "Is it care... or surveillance?"

Pei Ming said, "Boy, I know you're angry, but don't take it out on the Duke."

"Let me tell you this, if the mission fails, the Duke will do his utmost to protect your family."

Chen Lang said no more, bowed, and said, "Student, take your leave."

After Chen Lang left, Zhu Sui'an came to the back garden of his home.

The wife, Mrs. Pan, was watering the flowers here, with several maids accompanying her.

Zhu Sui'an waved her hand and asked the maids to leave.

When Mrs. Pan heard the noise, she looked up and saw her husband striding towards her.

Pan saw a hint of undisguised anger in Zhu Sui'an's eyes, and felt inexplicably panicked.

"Husband, what's the matter?"

Zhu Sui'an slowly clenched his fists hidden in his wide sleeves and said calmly, "From today on, Chaoying will eat at the same table with us."

Pan's face changed suddenly.

Zhu Sui'an smiled coldly and said, "I never thought that the woman who has eaten from the same pot for most of her life would actually be from the Imperial City Bureau."

Pan said anxiously: "Husband, please listen to my explanation, I am not..."

Zhu Sui'an said: "You don't need to explain, because Chaoying's identity has been exposed long ago."

"Pei Ming told me that he once suspected that there were spies from the Imperial City Bureau around you, but after some investigation, he found that all the maids and servants were innocent."

"Pei Ming would never have imagined that the Imperial City Division's spy was you."

Seeing her identity exposed, Pan's anxious mood gradually calmed down and said, "Husband, you are wrong about one thing."

"I am not from the Imperial City Bureau. I am just doing errands for the Emperor."

Zhu Sui'an gritted his teeth and said, "Is this the reason why His Majesty agreed to let you come back?"

Pan said, "As the pacification envoy of Qinzhou Road, you refused to go to Qinzhou Prefecture and stubbornly stayed in Linshui. Furthermore, when His Majesty asked you to send Kuan'er and me to the capital, you didn't hesitate at all."

"With such behavior, how can you expect the entire court to trust you? How can you expect His Majesty to trust you?"

"The lesson of Li Shirong is right there for everyone to see."

The muscles on both sides of Zhu Sui'an's cheeks trembled continuously, and he said, "We are husband and wife, and you spy on me. I don't blame you."

"But why did you tell His Majesty that Chaoying was living at home?"

Pan smiled, a somewhat sad smile: "Zhu Sui'an, if you want to take a concubine, or even a wife, I won't object."

"But this woman cannot be Feng Chaoying!"

"She is your sister-in-law, the woman who led the biggest rebellion in the history of the Great Yan Dynasty!"

Snapped!

Zhu Sui'an slapped Pan in the face.

"Shut up, shut up!!"

Pan covered her face, a trickle of blood even trickling from the corner of her mouth, but her eyes were filled with mockery: "Why, are you so angry because I exposed you?"

"Zhu Sui'an, do you know how I've been living these years? Do you know?"

"Now that things have come to this, I will obey your will, whether to kill or to chop me up."

Zhu Sui'an turned around suddenly and said, "I won't kill you, but I don't want to see you again."

"Go back to the capital, and never come back to Linshui in this life."

"Don't even think about serving His Majesty anymore. You can just stay here and not leave."

"I have consulted His Majesty about letting you return to the capital, and he has agreed."

After saying this, he strode away.

Pan collapsed on the ground, breaking down and crying: "Zhu Sui'an, you are such a heartless and unfaithful man. I curse you and that woman to have a miserable death for the rest of your lives!"