Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside Chapter 1604: Siege and Strange Illness

For the main family, Chief Feng could only agree: "The Rong people are besieging the city, Feng Family Escort Agency will naturally serve Great Chu and resist the Rong people."

Lei Mao laughed. Ha, those words sound pleasant, but wasn’t he forced?

Chief Feng ignored Lei Mao’s laughter and immediately struck the gong, gathering all the Escort Masters of the Feng Family Escort Agency, though he didn’t send all the Escort Masters to defend the city, only giving seventy percent of the manpower: "Squad Leader Lou, there are quite a few families in the escort agency, they need Escort Masters for protection."

Squad Leader Lou wasn’t angry, knowing that getting seventy percent of the manpower at times like these was already good enough, he nodded: "Chief Feng is right, quickly take the Escort Masters to the city wall. I heard from Manager Lei that the Rong people are already using catapults to attack the city."

"Hmm." Chief Feng immediately called for the Second Escort Master, instructing him to lead the Escort Masters to defend the city, while he stayed behind to guard the escort agency. If the city was breached, he would lead everyone to escape.

As for his family?

Sorry, he’s clever, he had already sent his family to the main family in the Capital.

"Brothers, follow me!" The Second Escort Master shouted, gathering hundreds of Escort Masters, taking their weapons and rushing to the city wall.

Lei Mao continued to follow the government officials searching for Rong spies in the city.

They had searched a few times before and caught some Rong spies, originally thinking that this time there wouldn’t be any more. But unexpectedly, with the help of the Eagle Food Gang, they discovered three more nests of Rong spies!

"Cut their tendons and muscles, don’t let them escape!" Squadron Leader Lou shouted to the government officials, restraining a woman, disbelief in his voice: "Ms. Xu, who would have thought, a woman running an embroidery shop is actually a Rong spy."

Ms. Xu was considered a very capable person, following her grandparents to settle in Xing’an Prefecture at ten years old, but her relatives went south.

Her family didn’t have enough funds to go south, so they lived doing odd jobs, slowly settling in the city.

Later, relying on her beauty, she married Manager Xu who was in the fabric business, and with her embroidery skills, started her embroidery shop business, becoming famous in Xing’an Prefecture.

But Manager Xu had a short life, barely enjoying two years of good life before dying.

And Manager Xu’s family had lived in Xing’an Prefecture for generations, so no one suspected Ms. Xu of being a Rong person.

But the Eagle Food Gang wasn’t simple, precisely because Ms. Xu was too capable, they suspected her and passed the information to the Lei Family Trading Team.

That’s how Lei Mao managed to capture Ms. Xu.

Ms. Xu adamantly denied, crying out: "No, I am not a Rong person. I am a Great Chu citizen, having lived in Xing’an Prefecture for decades, you can’t wrong me just because the Rong beasts have come!"

Lei Mao sneered: "Come off it, your daughter already got caught with a messenger wolf, you still want to deny it."

Speaking of Ms. Xu’s daughter, even more outrageous things came to light, because she was not Manager Xu’s child, but a Rong person’s child.

The Rong people valued heritage, Ms. Xu suffered from her mother’s Great Chu blood, hence she couldn’t marry her Rong lover and was sent to Great Chu as a spy.

Therefore, after marrying Manager Xu, she didn’t want to bear mixed-blood children for him, yet couldn’t be without a son, so she secretly met with a Rong lover, bearing a son and daughter, raising them as Manager Xu’s biological children.

"Manager Xu originally died of a disease, but now it seems the disease was fake; it must have been poison that killed him!" Lei Mao said, instructing Squad Leader Lou: "Take Ms. Xu to our Lei Family Trading Team, she needs to face harsh interrogation to reveal what mission she was supposed to execute!"

The Lei Family Trading Team mansion had two punishment rooms, one of which was akin to hell, incomparable to the government office’s punishment room. By taking Ms. Xu and her group to the punishment room at the Lei Family Trading Team, they could extract the truth faster.

"Manager Lei speaks sense, take her to the Lei Family Trading Team mansion." Squad Leader Lou ordered the officials to escort Ms. Xu and her group to the Lei Family Trading Team mansion, beginning to torture Ms. Xu, her daughter, and son.

Ms. Xu was very resilient, refusing to confess even under severe beatings.

Ultimately, it was Ms. Xu’s son who confessed: "Poison, poison~"

Squad Leader Lou heard and was pleased: "It’s that old trick again, poisoning, don’t the Rong people have any new tricks? Fortunately, we’ve had people guarding the water sources for a while, their poisoning attempt won’t succeed."

Xu family son shook his head: "Yes, food salt and medicine, herbal materials~"

Ms. Xu’s daughter married Boss Zhou’s son, whose shop sold food, and one of their relatives ran a pharmacy.

Though the pharmacy wasn’t large, business was decent, and many city families bought cheap herbal materials from Chang’s Pharmacy.

"What!" Squad Leader Lou was surprised, never expecting the Rong people to change tactics, poisoning food, salt, and medicine: "This is bad, what do we do now?"

Lei Mao grabbed Xu family son, angrily questioning: "Where’s the poison? Have you poisoned already?"

But Xu family son couldn’t withstand the torture and fainted.

"Old Fang, quickly revive him!" Lei Mao pulled over the Lei Family Trading Team’s doctor, asking Dr. Fang to revive Xu family son.

Dr. Fang’s skills were excellent, after a round of acupuncture, Xu family son awoke, and was more alert than before.

Lei Mao: "Quickly say, where is the poison hidden? Who applied the poison?"

Xu family son said: "Placed at Zhou’s and Chang’s... my sister did it."

Xu family’s daughter smart and ruthless, comparable to Ms. Xu, thus Ms. Xu entrusted her daughter with such a crucial task.

Completing this mission would let Xu family son marry a pure-blooded Rong maiden; their entire family could move to the Da Rong Royal Court and live a good life, no longer being mocked by Rong people as mixed and lowly Great Chu mixed-breeds!

Upon hearing this, Lei Mao was left speechless, never understanding why these mixed-bloods who were bullied so much by the Rong people still considered them as masters?

Isn’t Great Chu good?

Why stoop low to serve the Rong people, just to ensure the third generation becomes true Rong people?

But it’s not the time for such things now, Lei Mao immediately said: "Go, to Zhou’s and Chang’s, seal those two places and search for the poison!"

"Hey." The Lei Family Trading Team rushed to Zhou and Chang’s places.

Squad Leader Lou called the government officials to follow.

Both groups surrounded the two families tightly, grabbing Boss Zhou and Doctor Chang, then headed to their shops and began a massive search, discovering poison mixed in their food, salt, and herbal materials.

Dr. Fang trembled: "Find the account books, quickly find the account books, see who bought these things, hurry to warn them not to consume them, or there will be fatalities!"

"Damn it, quickly check the account books!" Lei Mao and Squad Leader Lou were anxious, luckily over the past few days several batches of Rong spies had been caught, Ms. Xu feared mission failure was postponing the poisoning by a few days.

The poison was only applied for a day, and due to Zhou’s wanting to hoard and profit by waiting for food and salt prices to increase several-fold before selling, not many families bought food and salt, just over a dozen.

Squad Leader Lou immediately took people there, confiscating the poisoned food and salt they bought.