The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family-Chapter 648: Killing Master Qianliang (3)_1

The Ministry of Revenue was either dominated by Liang San’s men or by those of Xiao Guangbi, and Pei Zongli’s Eighth Rank Preaching was nominated from there.

"Is it useful?" Pei Yuan asked, worried.

"There will be Imperial Censors watching," Mo Heng said.

"Without these things to watch, they wouldn’t have anything to do if they didn’t submit a few impeaching memorials!" he thought. After all, the Imperial Censors were quite similar to the modern paparazzi. Only, paparazzi expose private lives while Imperial Censors scrutinize every aspect of the officials’ behavior, actions, and family affairs, waiting for a chance to impeach.

Pei Yuan nodded, "Then let’s start preparing for the thanksgiving banquet three days from now!" There was no way to deal with Old Pei’s House just yet.

Pei Qin responded.

The family had organized several events before, and Pei Yuan helped with the planning and arrangements.

There were naturally fewer vegetables in winter, and this year, with all that had happened, even the workshops were shut down, and spicy pickled cabbage had not been made. However, the Feng family had collected all of those cabbages, and now the Pei family had a mountain of spicy pickled cabbage.

It was originally thought that with such a serious crime involving Pei Qin and Mo Heng, their family would be affected and spicy pickled cabbage would not sell well. However, they unexpectedly changed their fortunes; Pei Qin became a Lady of the Imperial Enjoin, and Mo Heng became an officer. As it turned out, the spicy pickled cabbage would bring them a huge profit this year.

Hearing that Pei Qin and Mo Heng were coming back, many came with jars of spicy pickled cabbage and gifts to visit them.

Old Scholar Fang and Grandma Fang, Lady Yu, Fang Li, Lady Ruan, and others had already hurried over in advance.

Upon entering, Fang Hui saw that Grandma Fang and a few others, including Lady Yu, all had red eyes, and Old Scholar Fang also seemed misty-eyed. Thinking that their family had made all the spicy pickled cabbage this year, she wiped away tears herself, "Qinqin and Mo Heng have really lost a lot of weight!"

Once she mentioned this, Grandma Fang could not hold back her tears anymore, "Damn it all! They fought their battles, but it almost cost the lives of our family!"

Fang Hui examined Pei Qin and Mo Heng, who had been taken away in a prison cart and had been in jail. They had indeed lost weight, "You must have suffered a lot in prison, were you tortured?"

At this, Lady Yu frowned, "Enough! It’s all in the past now, and Qinqin and Mo Heng have gone from bitterness to sweetness!"

Old Scholar Fang cleared his throat, "How shall we prepare for the thanksgiving banquet? We have our own pigs at home, and there’s spicy pickled cabbage and sour bamboo shoots, and we can also get spinach, bean sprouts, tofu, and the like, all of which are easy to purchase!"

Fang Li pursed his lips, it would mean another pig from their family was going to be sacrificed for nothing.

Fang Hui, her talk diverted by Lady Yu, felt annoyed in her heart. After all, she was Qinqin’s real aunt, and a very close one at that!

Pei Yuan took out a list of items to procure, "Zhang Gengshan and the others have already gone to the county town to make purchases, and there are other items to buy when the market opens in town. We can use fresh produce."

Old Scholar Fang took the list, nodded, and they started discussing how to organize the event.

Fang Hui still wanted to ask Pei Qin how significant a rank the Lady of the Imperial Enjoin of Third Rank was and if it was equivalent to that of an actual Third-Rank official.

As the atmosphere became livelier, Pei Qin had Xue Dong bring out her Enjoin Robe of Imperial Court for Lady Yu and Grandma Fang to see.

They unfolded the court robe and marveled in discussion, "This is nearly identical to the official robes worn by officers!"

"A court robe, is that for attending court?"

Although Pei Qin did not understand all these things well, she knew the court robe was not for her to attend court in, "No lady goes to court. The court robe is for when visiting the Empress to offer greetings during celebrations..." As she said this, Pei Qin’s face stiffened, and she turned to ask Mo Heng, "I won’t have to go to Capital Jingcheng to offer greetings for the New Year, will I?" If she had to endure another trip, she might as well say goodbye to her little life.

"If you are not in the capital, it is not necessary. You just need to bow towards the north at the proper time during New Year’s," Mo Heng said with a slight smile.

"I don’t care about bowing, as long as I don’t have to run there again," Pei Qin sighed in relief, and instantly her spirits revived.