Fang Zilan and Chu Bin waited not long in front of Pei's mansion when they saw Zheng Yan arriving with his soldiers. Almost at the same time, Mo Han and Fang Lihui arrived.
"Master Fang." Fang Lihui saluted hastily, and Fang Zilan signaled that he didn't need to be polite. He was about to explain a few words, but he heard him speak first: "Master Mo has explained to me the general situation. No matter what happened, I have to take care of him today." Tongmei brings him out, otherwise how can he have the face to see Uncle Prime Minister again in the future?"
"Young Master Fang's words make me feel relieved." Fang Zilan said and ordered Zheng Yan to call the door.
At first, the Pei family paid no attention to the group of uninvited guests outside the door. However, due to their large formation, more and more people came to watch, and the Pei family had no choice but to open the door a crack to ask their purpose.
When they heard that Fang Zilan and Fang Lihui were going to see Fang Zitong, the servant of the Pei family who was hiding in the crack of the door quickly closed the door, and a loud bang shook Zheng Yan's words to pieces.
Seeing this, Zheng Yan turned back to look at Fang Zilan and heard her speak loudly: "Everyone in the house, please listen, this is the last chance. If you don't open the door, I will have no choice but to break in to ensure the safety of everyone in the house."
She did not mention Fang Zitong deliberately, but acted as if the entire Pei family had stayed behind closed doors since Duke Jun passed away, and she was concerned about it for fear that something would happen to someone among them, so she had to take this step in desperation.
Needless to say, her high-sounding appearance and rhetoric frightened many onlookers. Although they knew that Fang Zilan could not "kindly" care about the life and death of the Pei family, the sneaky and secretive behavior of the Pei family really annoyed them. People doubt.
If Fang Zilan can really open the door of Pei Mansion, wouldn't it be possible to get a glimpse of what's going on? So someone immediately started cheering and asking the Pei family to open the door.
Seeing that the fuss was about to get louder, the servants of the Pei family had no choice but to open the door and invited Fang Zilan and Fang Lihui in, while everyone else was turned away.
Fang Zilan glanced at the closed door, exchanged glances with Fang Lihui, and then followed the servant into the hall.
The walk from the front door to the hall was deserted. The white silk flowers had been hung up long ago, but there were not many whimpering sounds in the house. There were very few people. The entire Pei family seemed to have fallen into a strange silence.
"Please wait a moment." The servant respectfully asked Fang Zilan and Fang Lihui to take a seat, then turned and left.
After a while, Pei Pening's wife walked in, met Fang Zilan, and greeted Fang Lihui.
Fang Zilan took a quick look and saw that her face was haggard and lacked energy. Her whole body was as thin and thin as if cut from paper, and her robes seemed much wider, covering her body empty.
"You two..." Mrs. Pei Pening originally wanted to say a few more words of greetings, but Fang Zilan interrupted her rudely, "Mrs. Pei, Mr. Fang and I came today to meet Mrs. Guo Guo. , to express our condolences.”
Pei Pening's wife heard that Fang Zilan's words clearly meant that she had to see Fang Zitong. She couldn't help but paled her face and said with a forced smile: "Master Fang, my sister-in-law is too sad and can't afford to fall ill. It's really inconvenient to come out to see her. Please ask Master Fang." Forgive me."
"Mrs. Jun Guo is ill?" Fang Zilan frowned slightly, "In that case, Mr. Fang and I have entered Pei's house, is there any reason not to visit?"
Pei Pening's wife's expression froze, "Both of you are foreigners. It is really inappropriate to enter the inner courtyard. There are many women in the back house..."
"I am also a woman." Fang Zilan stopped her words and said without any room for argument: "If Mrs. Pei doesn't want Young Master Fang to come in, he can stay here, and I can just go visit Mrs. Guo Guo."
Fang Lihui nodded in agreement and said, "Master Fang's words make sense, so I'll just wait here for Master Fang."
Pei Pening's wife was stunned. Before she could be dissuaded, she saw Fang Zilan getting up and walking out of the hall. She hurriedly chased after him, "Master Fang, you must not..."
"What can't be done?" Fang Zilan stopped and said sternly: "As an important minister of the country, Mr. Guo Guo is inferior to one person and more than ten thousand people. But after his death, all of you in the Pei family were secretive, even Duke Guo Guo and his wife were secretive. If you don’t want anyone to see you, what’s your intention?”
"I..." Pei Pening's wife opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything. She could only watch Fang Zilan break into the backyard before she remembered to call someone.
The Pei Mansion's servants could not stop Fang Zilan at all, and allowed her to find Fang Zitong, who was lying dying next to Pei Juiqing's coffin in the Pei family ancestral hall.
"Mrs. Duke Gui?" Fang Zilan knelt down and put her arms around Fang Zitong's shoulders, helped her up, and checked her out.
There were no obvious external injuries on Fang Zitong's body, it was more like weakness caused by lack of water and food. Seeing this, Fang Zilan felt relieved, put her arm on his shoulders, and drove her out of the ancestral hall.
However, as soon as Fang Zilan and Fang Zitong walked out of the ancestral hall, they were surrounded by the Pei family's servants. An old woman, supported by Pei Pening's wife, stood in front of them and said angrily: "What is the Duke of Yue doing?" What?"
"What to do? It's my turn to ask Mrs. Pei about this." Fang Zilan snorted coldly, "If I hadn't been here today, what would Mrs. Pei have planned to do with Mrs. Guo Guo?"
"Fang Zitong, a poisonous woman who murdered her husband, how to deal with it is a family matter of the Pei family and has nothing to do with Mr. Fang." Mrs. Pei said confidently, but Fang Zilan laughed out loud, "Mrs. Pei, not to mention Mrs. Guo Guoguo I was ordered not to do anything at will, so I said that if Lord Guo Guo really died of homicide, it would be a murder and the Jingzhao Yin Mansion should take over. As a noble lady of an official family, does Mrs. Pei not even know this? "
"Mr. Fang, you..." Mrs. Pei was so angry that she was shaking all over. Fang Zilan said calmly and proudly: "Today I want to take away Mrs. Guo Guo. If Mrs. Pei feels that something is wrong, please feel free to ask Mr. Xu of Jingzhao Yin Mansion to come. , let’s discuss it carefully.”
"Master Fang..." Pei Pening's wife couldn't help but speak out, but Fang Zilan didn't give her a chance to speak, and said with a sharp expression: "Get out of the way."
Everyone in front of him was unmoved. Fang Zilan raised the corners of her lips and smiled contemptuously, "Mrs. Pei, do you think you can keep me like this?"
"Master Fang, the Pei family has no intention of keeping you, but your sister-in-law must stay." Pei Pening's wife stood up and said bravely: "According to the laws of the capital, it is indispensable for a widowed woman to set up an archway to observe the festival, otherwise if……"
"What else?" Fang Lihui's voice rose above the crowd, less cynical than usual and more solemn and solemn than the head of the family.
Pei Pening's wife bit her lip and mustered up the courage to shout, "Not only will the Fang family be fined and confiscated a large amount of money, but also..."
"Silver money?" Fang Lihui laughed as if he heard something funny. "My Fang family's money is not enough to build ten memorial archways for each of your Pei family. Who cares about the one for your Pei family?"
"Fang Lihui, you are going too far!" Pei Pening's wife turned blue in the face and was about to say anything more when she saw Fang Zitong, who was leaning on Fang Zilan, faintly woke up and called out "sister-in-law."
