Chapter 1433: Born Under Bad Luck

Chapter 1433: Chapter 1433: Born Under Bad Luck

"What?!"

Housekeeper Fan and Nanny Fan were shocked, the Old Lady’s heart was too vicious, to let such a rumor out.

Does the Old Lady not know that if this rumor gets out, the Gu Family won’t survive!

The Old Lady Fan wants nothing more than Gu Jinli’s death.

Housekeeper Fan couldn’t hold back, saying, "Old Lady, this won’t work. The Gu Family has always been in the carriage, accompanied by the nanny and maids, even for restroom breaks they use their own mule cart, there’s simply no chance to secretly meet soldiers."

He added, "Moreover, the Gu Family is extremely ugly, and smells awful, even if we spread such a rumor, no one would believe it."

Old Lady Fan, however, was shrewd with age, sneering, "People love gossip, they don’t care about truth or falsehood. As long as the rumor spreads, it will become reality."

She had lived for decades, witnessing many women, girls, even Madam Imperial Decrees, driven to suicide by rumors, and even if it was proven later that they were wronged, it was too late.

Housekeeper Fan was desperately worried, looking at Nanny Fan.

Nanny Fan quickly went to persuade, "Old Lady, this idea really won’t work..."

Before finishing her sentence, she was slapped twice by Old Lady Fan, who glared fiercely, cursed, "Dog slave, who’s the master, you or me?!"

Nanny Fan and Housekeeper Fan quickly kneeled, "Old Lady, please calm down, it’s my fault."

Old Lady Fan sneered, "If you know your mistake, go handle it immediately, or your whole family can await being sold to a remote valley!"

Housekeeper Fan was shocked, quickly saying, "Yes, I’ll handle it right away."

Housekeeper Fan and Nanny Fan were husband and wife, they had children and grandchildren, for the sake of their family of thirty, they dared not persuade Old Lady Fan further, hurriedly going to execute her orders.

Only then did Old Lady Fan smile with satisfaction, and she turned to Dongzhi beside her, instructing, "The Gu Family is unwilling to let Qin San Lang take a concubine, so I’ll send someone to bring Qin San Lang here to make good things happen with you, so let’s see how the Gu Family shrew can stop Qin San Lang from taking a concubine!"

Dongzhi was startled, but dared not speak.

Old Lady Fan looked at Nanny Fan, and said, "Hurry to the Qin Family Camp and bring Qin San Lang for business!"

Nanny Fan quickly rose, "Yes, I’ll fetch Company Commander Qin."

With that, she hurriedly left.

...

You Ping was monitoring the Fan Family, and upon hearing Old Lady Fan’s arrangement, he left his men to continue the surveillance and went back to report to Qin San Lang.

Qin San Lang and Gu Jinli were "arguing," so he was sleeping in another carriage. Upon hearing the report, he sat up, his profound eyes brimming with a cold murderous aura, "Kill them, make it clean and reasonable."

Old Devout Woman dares to frame his Xiao Yu, seeking death.

"Yes." You Ping quickly left, and in the darkness, with his men, he captured and dragged away Housekeeper Fan along with those sent to spread rumors.

Meanwhile, Nanny Fan arrived outside the Qin Family Camp, seeking Qin San Lang.

Unfortunately, she couldn’t even catch a glimpse of Qin San Lang.

As the hour grew late, to complete Old Lady Fan’s task, she had to invoke General Fan’s name, but only managed to bring Aunt Xiong.

Aunt Xiong came out with her three sons, with a shrewish stance, pointing at Nanny Fan, "My lady said she despises your Old Lady, and won’t let our son-in-law meet her."

Nanny Fan was exceedingly anxious, unable to bring Qin San Lang to complete good things with Dongzhi, her whole family might be sold.

Thus she threatened, "Our Old Lady is a fourth-rank Madam Imperial Decree, Qin Company Commander’s superior’s mother, if Qin Company Commander doesn’t meet her, it’s disrespectful to the superior, disrespectful to the court’s fourth-rank Madam Imperial Decree, punishable!"

Aunt Xiong laughed, disdainfully said, "Oh, quite the intimidation? Your General Fan is impotent, can’t go to the Northwest, still wants respect, respect for what? Respect him sleeping with maids on the march?"

"Moreover, our son-in-law is a Company Commander in He’an Prefecture, your General Fan is a General in Yongtai Prefecture, one south and one north, tens of thousands of miles apart, how is your General Fan our son-in-law’s superior? Respect your ’superior’ only by calling them so, your Old Lady shouldn’t overstep!"

Nanny Fan was stunned, wasn’t the surveillance saying Aunt Xiong was the most amiable? How had she turned into such a shrew?

Nanny Fan was furious, her face turning green, just about to find words, two servants from the Fan Family ran up, shouting, "Nanny Fan, hurry back to care for the Old Lady, she’s burning with a fever, it’s severe."

"What? Wasn’t she fine an hour ago, how did she suddenly burn?" Nanny Fan was frantic but was relieved the Old Lady was ill.

Sick like this, the Old Lady wouldn’t have time to trouble the Gu Family, nor to deal with her family.

Nanny Fan didn’t argue with Aunt Xiong anymore, and returned to the Fan Family Camp with the two servants.

Old Lady Fan’s illness came fiercely, the high fever wouldn’t abate, two military doctors were helpless, the Fan Family servants had to seek help from the Qin Family Camp for Doctor Dai and others to treat her.

Qin San Lang, angry at Old Lady Fan’s venomous heart, wanting to harm Gu Jinli, instructed Aunt Xiong to drive away the people seeking help.

With no other choice, the Fan Family servants went to fetch Doctor Ding.

The three doctors worked tirelessly all night, and by the next day, Old Lady Fan’s fever finally subsided, though she was still comatose.

More serious than Old Lady Fan’s high fever and coma was that early rising soldiers discovered several bodies torn to shreds by wild beasts as they went out for toilet breaks!

The soldiers were from Yongtai Prefecture, greatly frightened, hurriedly returning to report to Vice General Fang.

Vice General Fang took people to check, and based on clothing and worn waist tags, found these were Fan Family servants, and cursed misfortune in his heart: What sins does the Fan Family commit? Why is it always their family having incidents?

If you get into trouble, fine, but stop dragging us down!

The army is rushing to the Northwest for Kangrong, what’s the Fan Family’s daily clamor dragging the march’s speed for?

"Eaten by wild beasts, bury them on site, no need for corpse collecting," Vice General Fang was unwilling to collect the servants’ bodies, directly instructing soldiers to bury them and be done with it.

He further instructed, "Order all camps, to be cautious, now there’s not just bandits on the road, but also wild beasts, avoid going out at night, henceforth set camp on plains, avoid camping at mountain bases, attracting wild beasts."

"Yes." The soldiers responded and hurriedly dug pits, buried the torn corpses, and ordered all camps to beware of bandits and wild beasts.

As news spread, everyone was greatly frightened.

"God, thank goodness we didn’t go out for toilet breaks last night, or we’d be eaten by wild beasts."

"The Fan Family servants were unlucky, thus eaten by wild beasts out of nowhere, leaving not even a whole corpse."

"Probably jinxed by their masters, the Fan Family might have birthed a great evil, God wishes to take them, hence the constant troubles."

The Great Chu people believed this, and as the saying spread, everyone considered the Fan Family to carry bad luck, keeping a distance, no longer seeking connections at the Fan Family camp.