Exile with Storage Space: Family Fortunes in the Barren Lands-Chapter 740 - 0693: Someone You Can’t Afford to Offend (2)

Chapter 740: Chapter 0693: Someone You Can’t Afford to Offend (2)

The city gate soldier was startled by the voice.

He almost trembled as he walked to the carriage window of Li Yuwen, "You... you are..."

Li Yuwen let out another cold laugh, "What, didn’t recognize my voice? It’s only been two and a half years! You’ve become an official and yet you forget people so easily?"

The carriage curtain was lifted by Cui Xi, and Li Yuwen’s eyes glanced slightly sideways towards the city gate soldier, her expression cold and stern.

The city gate soldier, upon seeing the person inside the carriage, was so scared his soul nearly left his body and his knees buckled, causing him to kneel down, "Da-da-da-da-da-da Commandery Princess..."

"I am the Fifth Young Madam of the Pei Family!" Li Yuwen said coldly again.

"Yes, Fifth Young Madam, this small person did not know it was the Fifth Young Madam’s carriage, I deeply apologize, please forgive me," the city gate soldier leader immediately kneeled, and seven or eight of his subordinates, not knowing what was happening, also followed suit and kneeled.

"The sun above is like a fireball, and you have the nerve to block my carriage, wanting to sun me to death? Hm?" Li Yuwen quickly fanned herself with the folding fan in her hand.

The city gate soldier leader was frightened and quickly got up from the ground, stepped aside, and didn’t forget to usher his men away too, "Move aside, let the Fifth Young Madam’s carriage pass!"

"The carriage behind is my sister’s, and there’s also my luggage cart," Li Yuwen added.

"Let them through, let them through!" The city gate soldier leader also dispersed other pedestrians, fearing they might crowd around to watch the excitement and block Li Yuwen’s carriage.

"Let’s go, Fusheng." Li Yuwen lowered the carriage curtain.

Pei Fusheng, confused by what he saw, drove the carriage through the city gate.

Behind, the old servant Pei Ji also hurried along with his carriage, and lastly, it was Zhou Zhaodi driving the luggage cart.

Pei Shenyan smiled and followed them into the city on horseback.

They had entered the city but hadn’t traveled far when Chen Meixin, who had been waiting by the city gate to watch Li Yuwen make a fool of herself, was stunned.

Is the city gate soldier a person of Pei Shenyan’s wife?

Just who is that woman from the countryside?

After the carriages of Li Yuwen and Li Yuzhu passed by, Chen Meixin waved to her maid, "Go ask the person guarding the gate, who exactly is that woman he was speaking to?"

To make the gatekeeper kneel in fright, who is this person?

"Yes, Miss." Maid Lingzhi got off the carriage, shielding her head from the sun with her hand, and ran to the gate.

"Officer brother, our Miss wants to ask you something." Lingzhi pointed to Chen Meixin’s carriage, saying with a smile.

Having received a handful of copper coins and seeing a pretty girl asking questions, the gatekeeper leader smiled warmly and said, "Oh, go ahead, what is it?"

"Just now, who was sitting in the carriage behind ours? Oh, I mean the young woman." Lingzhi asked.

"You... you’re asking about her?" The city gate soldier leader’s face changed immediately, he waved his hand, "Don’t ask, don’t ask, you can ask about other things, I can tell you about that, but as for her, I can’t say."

Lingzhi blinked, "Why not?"

"Why? Anyway, I can’t afford to provoke her," the city gate soldier leader touched his neck, feeling a chill, always suspecting that Li Yuwen was holding a knife and patting his neck, asking where to cut.

He shivered unconsciously.

Lingzhi sneered, "My master is Chen Dechuan, Mr. Chen, the Left Minister of the Ministry of Justice, a fifth-rank official, our Miss wants to inquire about the woman in the carriage, and you say she can’t be provoked?"

The city gate soldier leader frowned, "Miss, I advise you not to inquire about her, as for whether she can be provoked or not, if it were in the past, your Miss would kneel in front of her without daring to lift her head, as for now, I can’t say, but you’d best go back, after all, we’re in the same city, eventually you’ll cross paths."

"Since I haven’t seen her face, how will I know it’s her when we cross paths?" Lingzhi said discontentedly.

At the same time, she was wondering to herself, who is this? Who could be so powerful? Able to make her Miss kneel without daring to lift her head?

Could it be a princess traveling incognito?

The city gate soldiers refused to speak, leaving Lingzhi with no choice but to return to the carriage.

"Did you find out? Who is that woman?" Chen Meixin asked eagerly.

Lingzhi shook her head, "The gatekeeper refused to say and mentioned that she is someone Miss cannot provoke."

Chen Meixin raised an eyebrow, "Didn’t you mention our master’s name?"

Lingzhi replied, "I did, but that city gate soldier said even if Miss were to kneel before her, she wouldn’t dare to lift her head."

Chen Meixin was astonished, "I would kneel before her yet fear to lift my head? What a significant figure!"

Lingzhi said, "Miss, based on Fifth Young Master’s status and the way he ingratiated himself with the woman in the carriage, I wonder if he really married someone remarkable?"

A remarkable woman, yet her accent carries the tone of an outsider, who exactly is she?

The more she couldn’t find any information about the woman in the carriage, the more curious Chen Meixin became.

She bit her lip and instructed the coachman, "Don’t go back to the mansion yet, head to the Pei Mansion in Yongning Fang."

The coachman drove the carriage onto the street.

Lingzhi picked up a fan and fanned Chen Meixin, "Miss, why are we going to the Pei Mansion? Fifth Young Master Pei doesn’t live there."

Although Pei Shenyan was a member of the Pei Family, as an illegitimate son, Old Madam Pei worried he would be mistreated living in the mansion, so she arranged another residence for him.

And it’s quite far away, it takes two quarters of an hour to walk there.

Chen Meixin secretly admired Pei Shenyan and had learned all these details very clearly.

"Of course, I know he doesn’t live at the Pei Mansion, I’m going to play with Jingxiu." Chen Meixin smiled lightly, "I’m sure Jingxiu doesn’t know she has a formidable Fifth Sister-in-law yet."

Lingzhi laughed and said, "Won’t Sixth Miss Pei be infuriated? She’s the apple of the family’s eye, everyone indulges her."

"What does that have to do with me?" Chen Meixin curled her lips in a mocking smile.

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On the street in the late May midday, there were few pedestrians because of the heat, the blazing sun baked the bluestone road as hot as a frying pan.

Walking on it felt like being a dumpling being fried.

If you stayed for a quarter of an hour, you’d likely be cooked.

The coachman, seated in the driver’s seat, was drenched in sweat from the sun, so he drove the carriage swiftly to get some cooling wind.

Piercing through the street and passing the fang gate, the carriage arrived at the entrance of the Pei Mansion after less than half an hour.

The Pei Mansion had once been the largest prestigious residence in the Capital, but since Prime Minister Pei fell ill, the flow of visitors diminished gradually.

Coupled with the recent heat, from morning till night, there wasn’t a single visitor.

The gatekeepers, dozing off in a shady spot, perked up when a carriage arrived.

Seeing it was the carriage from the Chen Mansion, the two gatekeepers immediately stepped forward, "Miss Chen San has arrived?"

Chen Meixin stepped down from the carriage, "Is your Sixth Miss at home?"

"We haven’t seen Sixth Miss go out, so she should be at home," one gatekeeper replied with a flattering smile.

Chen Meixin frequently visited the Pei Mansion, and the Pei family’s servants promptly invited her in, with an old maid guiding her to the inner residence. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

She easily found her way to the courtyard of Sixth Miss Pei Jingxiu.

Pei Jingxiu, feeling upset about family matters, forced a smile when she saw Chen Meixin arrive, "You’ve come at the right time, I’m bored, come and chat with me."

Chen Meixin sat down in front of her, shaking a round fan with a slight smile, "Your Fifth Sister-in-law has come to the Capital, you won’t be bored now."

Pei Jingxiu raised an eyebrow, "How do you know my Fifth Brother’s wife has come to the Capital?"

The four brothers in the family were currently in a heated dispute over the inheritance, turning into a laughingstock in the Capital.

Her fiancé’s family also occasionally made sarcastic remarks.

Pei Jingxiu, annoyed, stayed home stewing in anger.

Fortunately, Fifth Brother Pei Shenyan wasn’t fighting for the inheritance and often visited her to keep her company.

Yesterday, she and Fifth Brother had planned to go boating at Yuqing Lake today, but early in the morning, Pei Shenyan said he had to pick up his wife and would go another day.

Going out early to fetch someone, it’s already afternoon, and there’s still no sign of them returning.

Indeed, once married, he forgets his family.

Pei Jingxiu was upset with Pei Shenyan for breaking his promise, and consequently blamed the unfamiliar sister-in-law from the countryside.

As she was fuming, Chen Meixin brought it up again, and she coldly retorted, "Don’t mention it, I couldn’t care less about her keeping me company. How could someone as uninteresting as me compare to a well-traveled country woman?"

"Don’t say that, she really is well-traveled, she even knows the soldiers guarding the city gate," Chen Meixin said, her eyes blinking mysteriously.

Pei Jingxiu squinted, "Chen Meixin, what do you mean by that?"

Chen Meixin, being deliberately mysterious, said, "Let me tell you..." She then recounted what happened at the city gate to Pei Jingxiu, "I’ve lived in the Capital for sixteen years, and I’ve never seen a woman so arrogant, demanding that I bow and not daring to look her in the eye! Who is she, to be even more impressive than you, Jingxiu? Could she be a Princess?"

Pei Jingxiu glanced at her and coldly laughed, "The Emperor has no younger sisters, the cousins are all Commandery Princesses, how could she possibly be a Princess?"

"Then who could she be, to be so brazen?" Chen Meixin asked, looking at Pei Jingxiu.