The Rebirth of a Farm Girl from a Military Family and a Cannon Fodder Princess

Chapter 103 Move away

Pan Kang replied, "Miss, as long as you think it's necessary for me to go, I'm willing to go!"

Zisu: "You don't have to force yourself. I've already told the commander that you are a free and law-abiding citizen. You can go if you want to; if you don't want to, you don't have to go."

Pan Kang thought for a moment and then asked, "So if I don't go, then you have to go, Miss?"

Zisu nodded: "That's how it is."

Pan Kang: "Then I'll go. You can stay at home, young lady!"

Zisu: "Alright, thank you then! As I said, if you go, I hope they treat you as a master, not a servant. The headmaster agreed, saying he would give you the respect you deserve, so when you go there, you can act like a master chef. Don't cause trouble, but you absolutely don't need to be subservient!"

Pan Kang: "Miss, I understand, thank you!"

Such a good master is one in a million. Therefore, even though the girl was exiled, he and Luo Jianming were willing to be loyal to her to the death and never abandon her.

Zisu: "You've worked hard. Be careful when dealing with those people, lest you fall into their trap. Oh, and here's five taels of silver. Keep it with you in case you need it."

Pan Kang waved his hand: "Miss, I still have money on me."

Zisu insisted on putting it in his hand: "What's yours is yours, this is just a small token of my appreciation, don't refuse. Otherwise, I'll get angry!"

Pan Kang had no choice but to accept it.

Zisu had another long talk with him, telling him everything that had happened during her conversation with Commander Peng. She also asked her uncle to tell Pan Kang everything he knew about the Stone Fortress, so that he could have more options and not be tricked by that cunning old commander.

Pan Kang said gratefully, "Thank you, young lady. Please rest assured, I am twenty-two years old, not a child anymore. I will handle things well, so that no one can find fault with me, and I will absolutely not do anything outrageous that would implicate you or everyone else!"

Zisu: "Brother Pan, I believe in you. You are a man of both courage and strategy. Take good care of yourself on this journey, and come back soon and safely! We are all waiting for you here!"

Pan Kang: "I understand, I'll be careful. I'm leaving now, please take care, and be careful of the wolves tonight!"

After seeing Pan Kang off, Zisu went to find the Eldest Princess.

Hearing her words, the eldest princess couldn't help but smile bitterly to herself. Look at her second sister-in-law, how utterly pathetic she is! Even such a good girl as Zisu has taken the initiative to suggest not being her neighbor.

"Alright, I understand. The house will be allocated according to your wishes. I'll be neighbors with Hua'er's mother!" The princess readily agreed to Zisu's request.

Zisu: "I'm sorry to have put Your Highness in such a difficult position. It's my fault."

The eldest princess said, “It’s not difficult at all. You are a junior, so you can’t say anything to her, but I’m not afraid of her. After all, I’m still her sister-in-law and the eldest daughter-in-law of the Jiang family. If she makes trouble, I can scold her severely, or even slap her.”

Zisu: "Also, Jiang Yong still wants to pick stones, and I'm worried that Hua'er's mother will say something strange and resentful again."

The Eldest Princess: "Don't worry, if she dares to say anything out of line, I'll slap her across the face tonight!"

Zisu: "Okay, since Your Highness says so, then I'm relieved! Otherwise, I'd always be feeling uneasy, and my grandmother would be very worried too."

The eldest princess said, "Tell your grandmother not to pay too much attention to her. Whatever she says, just pretend she's going crazy!"

Sure enough, after dinner, upon hearing that of the four, only Jiang Yong still had to do hard labor, the Second Madam immediately flew into a rage. She abruptly stood up, pointing a finger at Zisu: "You wretched servant, you jinx! Was this your doing? How vicious you are! There are four people, and you deliberately left my son out! Even if you hate me, you shouldn't take it out on my son! My son is such a good child! What has he ever done to offend you?!"

These words immediately created an extremely strange atmosphere.

Zisu's face turned ashen. She stood up and approached the Second Madam step by step. Without saying a word, she raised her hand and slapped her across the face: "Noble Second Madam Jiang, I've tolerated you for a very, very long time! If it weren't for Hua'er's sake, I would have hit you long ago!"

The slap was sudden and loud.

Everyone was stunned and remained speechless for a long time.

After slapping the flower and saying what needed to be said, Zisu gave it an apologetic look, then walked towards Yu Zhe: "Uncle, let's move tonight, to a place five miles away. From now on, our house will also be built five miles away! And the cultivated land shouldn't be here either. Tomorrow, you should report to the commander and ask him to make an exception!"

Yu Zhe: "Okay, I understand!" He then said to Shen Laihui: "Hero Shen, please take some men to dismantle the thatched hut and move it five miles away!"

Before she could finish speaking, the eldest princess came to her senses and quickly dissuaded her: "Zisu, calm down, don't be so impulsive! It's already dark, if you move now, aren't you just letting the wolves take advantage of you?"

Zisu: "Your Highness, don't try to persuade me. I don't want to stay with this person for even a quarter of an hour longer! If we stay any longer, I'm afraid I'll kill someone with a knife! This is outrageous, it's too much of a bullying, it's absolutely too much of a bullying!"

Jiang Shichang clenched his fists, closed his eyes, and tried to suppress the raging fire within him. He then walked up to the Second Madam and slapped her across the face: "You troublemaker! Why do you have to stir up trouble when life is good enough? It's one thing for you to harm your own family, and even if the Jiang family is unlucky, what does Zisu have to do with you? You think you can just curse and insult her as you please? Do you think you're the Queen Mother of the West?!"

Hua looked at her parents, then at Zisu, and ran to Zisu. She grabbed Zisu's clothes and burst into tears, choking out, "Sister Zisu, don't go. Please forgive my mother one more time!"

Zisu: "Flower, I'm sorry, I have to leave. Otherwise, one day, either your mother will kill me, or I will kill your mother! I never want to see her again in this life, and I believe she feels the same way! Since that's the case, why must we stay under the same roof? Flower, please don't force me. I really can't bear this extremely miserable life anymore!"

Hua'er: "No, Sister Zisu, please, for Hua'er's sake, stay and don't hold it against my mother!" She was afraid that if Zisu left, she and Zisu would become strangers in the future.

Zisu gently pried open Hua'er's fingers, looked at her very seriously, and said, "Hua'er, if it weren't for you, I would have beaten her ten or eight times already! Do you know? Every time she criticizes me, I keep quiet because of you. Do you know how frustrated and depressed I feel? That feeling is extremely unpleasant. I don't want to continue living such a humiliating life. If this continues, I'm afraid that because of your mother, you and I will become enemies, even adversaries!"

Having said all that, Hua'er knew there was no going back and burst into tears. Between sobs, she glared at her mother, crying, "It's all your fault! Why did you do this? What was the reason? You seem so unfamiliar to me, like I don't even recognize you!"

The second wife was slapped in the face by Zisu in public, and then hit by her own husband. At this moment, she was still in a daze, sitting blankly on the grass, her expression somewhat wooden.

Zisu said to Shen Laihui, "Brother Shen, could you please help Brother Luo and Brother Pan dismantle the thatched hut? Let's move it tonight! We have a horse-drawn carriage, it's only five li, we can get there quickly!"

The princess sighed helplessly. Seeing her husband about to stop Zisu, she quickly tugged at his sleeve and shook her head at him: "Forget it, let her be! Otherwise, she'll probably drive herself crazy with frustration."

Jiang Shichang was furious and shouted that he wanted to divorce his wife.

Zisu stopped him: "Uncle, please don't do this. I don't want to be hated by Hua'er and her siblings in the future. I heard that Hua'er's mother is only targeting me; she's quite nice to everyone else. Maybe she'll be normal once I move away!"

She spoke these words with great sadness and sorrow, not understanding why Hua'er's mother disliked her so much. As she spoke, tears welled up in her eyes.

The atmosphere at the scene was unusually gloomy and desolate.

Jiang Shihua stopped Zisu: "Good child, if you want to leave, leave tomorrow!"

The Eldest Princess: "Yes, let's talk about it tomorrow! Get a good night's sleep tonight, and we can discuss it tomorrow!"

Grandma also advised, "Zisu, good child, just listen to the princess, let's talk about it tomorrow!"

Jiang Yong, feeling ashamed, advised, "Zisu, it's so late now. Even if you're not scared, the younger ones will be. Besides, Grandma is getting old. Go to bed early and we can talk about it tomorrow!"

Grandma pulled Zisu's arm and said, "Good girl, listen to me, we'll talk about it tomorrow!"

Zisu glanced at her dozing younger brother, then at the gleaming green wolf eyes in the distance, and finally nodded: "Okay, let's talk about it tomorrow! Grandma, let's go inside and go to sleep. We need to get up early tomorrow to move!"

Grandma: "Good child, go to sleep now! Don't worry, Grandma will wake you up early tomorrow morning!"

Yue'er quickly sidled up to Zisu and tugged at her sleeve, saying, "Sister Zisu, I'm sleepy, let's go to sleep!"

Hua'er quickly came over and tried to smile at Zisu: "Sister Zisu, Hua'er is sleepy too, let's go to sleep together! Tomorrow morning, Hua'er will wake you up!"

Zisu's voice was a little choked up: "Okay, let's go together!"

The eldest princess waved her hand: "Everyone, disperse and get some rest!"

Everyone dispersed and went to sleep.

Under the dim moonlight, only the second wife remained, sitting by the campfire, her expression blank and wooden.

Under the pale moonlight, only the Second Madam remained, her expression blank and dazed. No one paid her any attention, no one called out to her, no one scolded her or tried to persuade her.

Jiang Shichang went to his son's and nephews' thatched hut and squeezed in with the children for one night.

The second wife lived alone in a thatched hut. In the middle of the night, the howling of wolves startled her awake, banishing all her sleepiness. Thinking of her husband's heartlessness and her children's indifference, tears fell to the ground, soaking the quilt.

When Zisu got up in the morning and stepped out of the thatched hut, she found Jiang Shichang waiting outside. It was obvious he was waiting for her, as if he had something to say. Judging from his expression, he was clearly still awake.

Zisu walked over and said, "Uncle, you're up so early? You don't have to work today, why don't you take a nap?"

Jiang Shichang: "Zisu, my good child, your uncle has something to tell you! If you'd like, would you like to take a walk with your uncle?"

Zisu: "Okay, I'll just wash up quickly."

Jiang Shichang's worried expression eased slightly: "Okay, I'll wait for you over there!" He pointed to a spot a few dozen steps ahead.

After washing her face and rinsing her mouth, Zisu went to the meadow as promised.

Jiang Shichang cut to the chase: "Zisu, you're a good girl. I'm sorry you had to go through that last night. Listen to me, don't move so far away, just about half a mile apart, okay?"

Zisu sighed, "Uncle, I don't really want to move either, but this can't go on forever."