After living a new life for my neighbor's grandmother, I traveled through the book again
Chapter 37: Feudal to the core
Tong Jia was already prepared. If the situation went wrong, she would take Tao Junle into the RV and, while the people outside were confused about the situation, she would scatter all the medicinal powders given by Meng Po, such as sleeping pills, itching powders, and forgetfulness powders, except for those for curing diseases and saving lives.
In a critical moment, ensuring the safety of himself and Tao Junle is the top priority.
Because there were continuous gunshots in the school, the two were taken out of the school, and there were people watching all the way.
Although there were few onlookers, they were all innocent.
In order not to hurt these innocent onlookers, Tong Jia and Tao Junle did not resist on the way from the school to the Pei family villa.
When they were about to reach the Pei family villa, the He brothers came back and saw the two of them tied up with ropes. They hurried over to ask what happened.
Tong Jia was worried that they might reveal Pei Yingxue's information, so before the two of them could ask, she shouted, "Student He, please help me call the police.
My brother and I went out to buy things and when we returned to the dormitory, we saw the eldest son of the Pei family lying on the floor of my dormitory covered in blood.
He was killed by a bullet in the temple. I am just an ordinary poor student. How could I get a gun?
The housekeeper of the Pei family said that he would take me to the Pei family and let the master of the Pei family deal with me.
But I know nothing. Please, for the sake of our friendship, go to the police station and tell them about it. Have the matter investigated thoroughly and clear my name. Don't let the Pei family lynch me... Woohoo...
If there is no other way, just let my brother go first. He is still young and was scared by what happened just now.
Please..."
As she said this, she was about to kneel down to the He brothers. Tao Junle followed her. The He brothers tried to stop her separately, and a small paper ball fell into the hands of He Zhicheng who was trying to stop Tao Junle from kneeling.
Tong Jia nodded to the two brothers, signaling them to rest assured.
Then, Butler Pei appeared.
He glared at Tong Jia viciously, signaled his two men to find something to cover Tong Jia's mouth, and quickly took him away from the trouble area.
Then he said to the He brothers with an expressionless face: "This is our Pei family's family affair, please don't interfere."
Because he didn't know what was written on the paper ball that Tao Junle stuffed into his hand, and was worried that his impulsiveness would cause an accident, the always impulsive He Zhicheng clenched the paper ball in his hand tightly, said nothing, and let He Zhishu pull him away from the street.
In fact, due to the fire accident at Pei's house in the early morning, the number of people on the street is now less than half of the usual number.
But everyone has to support their families, and there are many businessmen who have to set up stalls to make a living.
After Butler Pei and his companions had left, a vendor selling seasonings said, "That girl is truly pitiful. I don't know how she offended the Pei family. This trip is likely to be dangerous."
“How do you know she is just pitiful and doesn’t deserve it?
What if she was the one who killed the eldest son of the Pei family? Shouldn't she be the one who paid for his life?" said a customer who was selecting spices and waiting for the vendor to grind them into powder.
The peddler looked around, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
Later, perhaps unable to hold back, he leaned close to the customer's ear and whispered in his ear while giving the customer change: "My brother is helping out at the police station and has been putting out fires all night.
He just came home when I was setting up my stall this morning.
He said that they carried the eldest son of the Pei family out of the fire scene and sent him to the Pei family villa.
How could a person who was burned by fire in the middle of the night run away in high spirits?
"What Butler Pei said... Alas... That girl probably has no way out."
The He brothers, who were standing there to calm themselves down, looked at each other and quickly found a blind spot in the alley to hide in and look at the paper ball.
Written on the paper ball were the words: [Protect yourself, don't be impulsive, protect yourself and your parents.]
"Brother, what does this mean?" He Zhicheng thought there was some secret trick on the paper ball, but he didn't expect it was just this sentence. If he had known earlier, he should have stopped the man.
He Zhishu took the paper ball and read the words on it again.
Said: "Let's go find Gao Chong first. She has been in school and should know more details."
"What happens next?" He Zhicheng had no idea at the moment, but he was very sure that Gao Chong did not have the ability to rescue people from the Pei family, so he especially wanted to know what He Zhishu's next plan was.
He Zhishu didn't answer, but dragged his silly brother towards school.
The He brothers were anxious to find Gao Chong to discuss things.
Tong Jia and Tao Junle, whose mouths were stuffed, were taken into the Pei family villa.
The so-called villa of the Pei family is actually a three-in-one courtyard in the suburbs of Tianjin.
Maybe because no one had lived here for many years, the Pei family just settled here temporarily. It looked shabby from the outside, and messy inside, as if it had not been tidied up.
Tong Jia thought that by coming to the Pei family villa, she would be able to meet Pei Yingxue's father.
But that didn't happen. Butler Pei directly locked her and Tao Junle in the cellar in the second courtyard.
Because they didn't know what they would face next, Tong Jia and Tao Junle snuggled up to each other and closed their eyes to rest.
There was no sunlight in the cellar. Tong Jia didn't know how long it had been before the cellar door opened and the person who came in was Butler Pei.
He untied the ropes on Tong Jia and Tao Junle's hands. No, to be precise, he untied the rope on Tong Jia's hands, but did not let go of Tao Junle.
Not only did they not let him go, they also tied Tao Junle up with ropes.
During the tying process, Tao Junle cooperated very well.
Just as he bent down to tie the rope, Tong Jia sprinkled a handful of sleeping pills, knocking both Butler Pei and Tao Junle down.
After bringing Tao Junle to the RV, Tong Jia took the silenced pistol and returned to the cellar. He shot Butler Pei directly in the temple, which was considered as a euthanasia for him.
Unsure if there was anyone else outside the cellar, Tong Jia shouted at the entrance, "What happened to you? Why did you suddenly collapse?
Is there anyone outside? Come in and see, Butler Pei has fainted.
Afterwards, the four burly men who brought her and Tao Junle back entered the cellar one after another.
Tong Jia, who was standing in a hidden place, gave the four people another handful of drugs and knocked them down.
After making sure that there was no one else outside the cellar, Tong Jia came out of the cellar, closed the door, and pressed the large water tank that he had just taken away from the dormitory door against the cellar door.
After taking care of things here, Tong Jia carefully peeked out through the rockery.
The entire Pei family was immersed in grief.
There was a coffin placed in the center of the main house, and Pei Shixun, the eldest son of the Pei family, should be lying inside.
But all those crying at the funeral were women. Except for the servants, there was not a single man in the entire yard.
This situation is very strange.
Tong Jia discovered that the servants in the yard were probably in a hurry when they left the Pei family, so their clothes were not uniform. The only thing that was uniform was the maids' hairstyle.
She neatly tied her hair into a bun like the maids, painted her face black appropriately, and then followed a maid holding a tray out of the second courtyard and went to the first courtyard.
In addition to the gatehouse, kitchen, utility room and dining room, the back house also has a reception room.
The male owner of the Pei family, Pei Yingxue's father, was meeting guests in this living room at this time.
The guest he was meeting was the Fuso official who had taken a fancy to Pei Yingxue.
At this moment, they were inside, waiting for Butler Pei to bring Tong Jia over so that the official from Fuso could "inspect the goods".
The maid that Tong Jia followed entered the kitchen with a tray, and a few minutes later she went to the living room with another tray.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when she opened the door, Tong Jia met the culprit behind the recent farces.
One is bald and the other is bald. They are obviously not from the same country, but maybe because they are in similar situations, they look quite similar at first glance.
However, from the way they were dressed, one could tell their nationalities at a glance.
Perhaps because he had been waiting for too long, the Fuso official became impatient and smashed the teacup before leaving.
Pei Yingxue's father accompanied Xiaoxin and coaxed him to go to the cellar door to check.
When the two men opened the door, Tong Jia pretended to go into the house to add water, and shot each of them once, killing them both.
She thought that after dealing with these two people, she would be safe and prepared to leave the Pei family villa openly.
But before she could open the door, a majestic female voice came from behind her: "Where are you going? Have you forgotten what your wife told you just now?
Today is the anniversary of the eldest young master's death. With the exception of the housekeeper and the former stewards, no one in our family is allowed to go out during the three days of the funeral!"
Tong Jia was afraid that she would be recognized as not being a servant of the Pei family, so she didn't dare to look back.
He replied in a muffled voice, "I haven't forgotten. It was the master who told me to wait for the distinguished guest at the door.
There was no knock on the door, so I was a little anxious and wanted to open the door to check.
I didn’t want to go out myself.”
The female voice continued, "Since it's the master's order, you just have to wait patiently. If you open the door without permission, if you happen to encounter an honored guest, he will definitely laugh at our Pei family for being petty.
Alas...it happened suddenly, so I temporarily found you little girls from the village.
If it were in the past, if the maid at home behaved so unruly, I would have slapped her in the face.
Don't stand there. Someone will come and knock on the door. It's not too late to open it then.
Madam, your legs hurt. Hurry up and boil some hot water for me."
Tong Jia nodded obediently and went to the kitchen.
There was hot water in the kitchen, so Tong Jia filled a bucket with it and followed the woman in the direction she left.
If we don’t look back, we won’t know. My goodness, except for Pei Yingxue, all the members of the Pei family may be bad people.
Tong Jiacai stood outside the door and was about to knock when he heard Pei Yingxue's mother say, "Are all the medicines ready?"
"Don't worry, ma'am. Everything is ready. I guarantee you'll sleep for a whole day and night after drinking it." The woman who asked Tong Jia to get hot water just now replied.
"Alas... I'm sorry, Xun'er. Now that the Fuso people are watching, we can't make a big deal, and we can't use the money in the treasury.
The money on the surface can only buy her these country girls.
He was such a picky kid, what if he looked down on those country people?
"I can't wait until things get better, then dig up his grave and find some literate girls to keep him company, right? Wouldn't that be taboo?" Pei Yingxue's mother said the most horrifying truth in Tong Jia's gentle voice.
Tong Jia didn't continue listening to the comforting words from the person next to her.
She had to leave here as soon as possible. Not only did she have to leave, she also had to find a way to help those poor children from poor families leave.
No wonder the Pei family seemed to have almost nothing, but they even bought a lot of children from poor families in the suburbs to work at home.
It turned out that it was not to pretend to be respectable, but to prepare burial objects for Pei Shixun.
This family is really feudal to the core. Not only did they have no bottom line in their pursuit of restoration when they were alive, but even after their death, they dragged so many people down with them.
There is really a lack of virtue.
Tong Jia put the bucket in the RV and quickly walked back to the living room.
He used his mind to find a drone in the RV, placed the sleeping pills on it, and then flew the drone back and forth over the Pei family four times.
She waited until she could no longer hear any crying outside before leaving the living room with the silenced pistol.
She started from the gatehouse and went room by room until she found the back room.
It was discovered that the burned-down Pei family's glory was only on the surface, and this villa that looked dilapidated on the outside was the true embodiment of low-key luxury.
If the drawers had not been properly disguised, Tong Jia would not have noticed that the tables, chairs, wardrobes, bookcases, antique display cases, dressing tables and beds in the east wing were all made of pure gold, but were painted black on the outside.
What Tong Jia didn't expect the most was that the top row of books in the bookcase were all gold bricks.
The vase on the antique shelf is also a mechanism. A door will open behind the landscape painting on the wall, and inside is full of golden gold.
Tong Jia threw away the clothes in the closet, the books in the bookcase, and the worthless ornaments on the antique shelf.
Put all the gold behind the landscape painting into the RV, then take it out in batches to fill the golden furniture, and finally put the full golden furniture into the RV.
Thinking about the gold and silver dollars I gave to Yuan Shengnan this morning, compared with this, they are nothing.
The rear building is mainly a granary. There is too much grain and it definitely cannot be put in the RV.
The biggest possibility of staying here is that he will be taken away by the police station or the Japanese. Tong Jia felt that even if it was burned, he could not stay here.
But when it came to really lighting the fire, she couldn't bring herself to do it.
It would be a serious sin to burn so much food.
When she was at a loss, she heard someone talking under the wall of the back room. When she listened carefully, it sounded familiar. It was Gao Chong and Yuan Shengnan's voices.
Knowing that they had come to rescue her, Tong Jia immediately checked the last two rooms and confirmed that everyone in the Pei family villa, except her, had fallen into a deep sleep.
She went to the utility room, brought Tao Junle out of the RV, untied the ropes on him, and lay down beside Tao Junle, pretending to faint.
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