After the marriage, the cousin was spoiled by the whole family of the Marquis's Mansion

Chapter 129 Turnaround
As night fell, the whole house was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Rong Peilan has been sitting here for more than an hour.

Haitang sat aside with her knees hugged, her tears having dried.

It seems that time has stopped at this moment.

Suddenly, there was a slight "creak".

Haitang immediately jumped up like a frightened hedgehog.

The doors and windows were closed, there was no one there, and no wind.

Rong Peilan and Haitang looked at each other.

Haitang's hair stood on end immediately, "Madam, is that person going to kill me..."

Rong Peilan didn't have time to say anything to comfort her.

Then there was a muffled "bang" sound, as if something fell to the ground.

Now the two of them keenly captured the source of the sound.

This room leads to a small kitchen at the back, separated only by a small door curtain.

The border is different from Yanjing. There is less water in the border area and it is dry and cold in winter, so the houses here are all connected indoors.

It is to gather heat and keep warm in winter.

The sound just now came from the kitchen at the back.

Rong Peilan stood up, and just as she took a step, she was stopped by Haitang.

Haitang shook her head with a frightened look on her face, "Young Madam, don't go."

"Don't be afraid."

Rong Peilan patted her arm with his backhand and said, "I'll go take a look."

She always felt strange that the town was so quiet as if no one was living there.

The Western Jin Dynasty occupied a small border town without making any noise and without alarming the Tiger and Guards. It was really too weird!
The kitchen is not big, but it is fully equipped with pots, pans, and utensils.

There is another back door at the back, which is locked from the outside.

Rong Peilan walked around the kitchen and didn't find anything unusual.

Haitang poked her head out from the door and said, "Madam, there's nothing here. Please come out quickly. This place is very strange. I'm scared."

"Hmm." Rong Peilan hummed softly, and when she turned around, her attention was attracted by a wooden board next to the stove.

This piece of wood is used to block the stove eye, and now the board is blocking the stove eye tightly.

It was as if someone was deliberately blocking me.

She walked forward and lifted the wooden board, and in the stove was ashes from the burnt firewood.

Before Rong Peilan went to the Xie family, she lived with her mother in a small courtyard outside Beijing for three years. Although she had two or three servants, she was also familiar with the life in the kitchen.

The ashes burned in the stove should be piled up like a small hill.

Instead of being flat like it is now.

Rong Peilan stood up slowly. This stove was bigger than ordinary stoves and had three pots on it.

If this place is well prepared, it would be no problem to hide two or three adult men.

Rong Peilan lifted a corner of the big pot in the middle and found a cellar entrance underneath!

She turned to Haitang and said, "Haitang, there is a cellar!"

Haitang walked up quickly and saw a small cellar entrance that was just big enough for one person to go down.

"There must be local people hiding here."

Haitang has been through a lot of fear and terror along the way. She feels as if her life is in her hands at any moment and if she is not careful, she will die.

"Madam, what if it's not..."

"No, only unarmed civilians would hide here."

Rong Peilan grabbed the pot by the side and said, "Come on, let's move this pot first."

As the two women struggled to move the pot away, they were both out of breath, and their clothes were covered with ash.

Rong Peilan picked up the fire stick and poked the cellar lid, "Is there anyone inside?"

"We are not bad people. Can you tell us what happened to Feng Qing?" The kitchen was as quiet as a chicken.

Haitang looked at the young lady and asked, "Did we hear it wrongly?"

Regardless of whether they heard it wrong just now, this place might really be their last chance.

"Is the girl here?"

Wan Lie's voice came from outside.

Rong Peilan and Haitang looked at each other quickly and held their breath.

After waiting outside the door for a while, Wan Lie gradually frowned. Just as he was about to push the door open, it opened from the inside.

Haitang changed into the clothes that had been prepared for them in Guangyang. Her hair was a little wet, and was twisted into a braid on one side.

The clothes on his shoulders were slightly wet by his hair.

There was no one in the room, and Haitang was the only one who opened the door.

Wan Lie frowned and glanced at her, "Where's the girl?"

Haitang took a deep breath, mustered up the courage to give him a look, and said, "Of course I'm washing up."

The kitchen has no door, only a curtain.

Wan Lie suddenly became very alert, as if the sound of water in the kitchen was right in front of him.

His earlobes quickly turned red and he took two steps back.

He came to his senses only when he heard the crisp clash of dishes in the food box.

He immediately put the food box on the ground and said, "I'll pick it up tomorrow!"

After saying this, he left quickly as if he was running for his life.

Haitang looked at Wan Lie's back until he disappeared, then she returned to the house with the food box.

She locked the door and dragged a table against it.

"Young lady..."

When Haitang returned to the kitchen with the food box, the young lady was just putting down the ladle in her hand and lowering her sleeves that were rolled up at her elbows.

A boy of eight or nine years old came out from the stove, and then he turned around and carried out a little girl of five or six years old.

There really are people hiding in this cellar. How come there are two children...

Rong Peilan looked at the two children and asked, "Are you the only two here?"

The boy hugged his sister tightly and did not answer her. He just asked, "Were you also captured?"

Rong Peilan looked at his defensive face and nodded, "Yes, when we entered the city, there was no one in the city. What happened here?"

The boy still didn't answer and continued to ask, "Why did they arrest you?"

Rong Peilan pursed her lips and said, "Maybe it's because I look like his daughter."

Daughter? What's the answer?
The boy frowned, obviously dissatisfied with the answer.

When he was about to ask something, the hem of his clothes was gently shaken by his sister.

The little girl had a sensitive nose. When Haitang came in with the food box, she had already smelled the fragrance.

She swallowed carefully and held on to her brother's clothes tightly.

"Brother, I'm hungry..."

Haitang immediately took two steps forward and opened the food box.

The large food box had three layers and contained five dishes. The dishes were beautiful and were unique to the border.

The little girl's nose twitched, and her round eyes sparkled, "Brother, it looks like Dad's roasted lamb leg."

The boy's eyes lit up when he heard this, "Dad is not dead, he was captured by them and made into a cook!"

Rong Peilan asked Haitang to take out the food, "You must be starving, eat first."

The boy looked at Rong Peilan warily, then at his sister.

Finally, he bent down and said to his sister, "Xiu, smell it and see if it was done by Dad."

After getting her brother's approval, Ah Xiu immediately swallowed her saliva and moved forward to smell it, "Dad made it!"

(End of this chapter)