Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn

Chapter 921: Chapter 48: The Final Battlefield

"You are Zhu Xiaoxian," Zhang Lvxiao couldn’t hold back any longer. When she directly confronted Xiao Xian, the old lady’s face was full of anger, especially when she learned that the one daring to confront the Wang Family was just a teenage girl, her anger almost erupted, "You cannot touch the people of the Wang Family."

"What if I did?" Xiao Xian replied unhurriedly. She was now staying at Bai Juyi’s former residence. Her return had not been announced to Zhuo Feng and Feng Xing. For that couple, her disappearance might actually allow them to return to a normal life.

"Then your relatives, the few remaining ones, will also be implicated." Zhang Lvxiao’s arrogance made Xiao Xian let out a few cold laughs.

"Do you think, for an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and whose closest grandfather has also passed, that ’relatives’ is an important word? Besides, I didn’t really do anything to Wang Peng. I just handed him over to the security bureau, along with a file of evidence from over the years showing his theft of national herbal research documents and his collusion with a foreign company. I think even the Wang Family can only watch him spend the rest of his life in prison." Xiao Xian’s words drove Zhang Lvxiao to the peak of her anger.

"Do you think I dare not kill you?" The air suddenly became tense, and Zhang Lvxiao’s short hair, streaked with gray, fluttered like silver snakes.

"Lvxiao," the surroundings suddenly changed, as if forcibly breached by someone. Zhang Lvxiao froze abruptly.

She didn’t expect another person in the room.

"You... you finally appeared, Wang Fenglei. You’ve been avoiding me for decades, and now, remarkably, you stand before me for a stranger," Zhang Lvxiao said with a pale face. "Peng’er is also your child, yet you allow these people to treat him so."

National betrayal is an extremely serious crime, and at a time like this, even the Wang Family couldn’t meddle, or it would invite unnecessary speculation.

Wang Fenglei hadn’t dealt with family matters for years, leaving Zhang Lvxiao to manage everything alone, a dereliction that filled her with resentment, though in front of outsiders, it was treated as a separate matter.

"Mistreatment? Lvxiao, you were always like this. If you hadn’t been so petty, we wouldn’t have ended up like this. In your eyes, you couldn’t tolerate anyone else—only caring for the Wang Family. Do you even know the consequences that batch of toxic tobacco brought to the nation and local residents?" Wang Fenglei threw out a stack of photographs.

"These are..." It was Zhang Lvxiao’s first time seeing these photos. They were of the tobacco farmers and the local land.

Zhang Lvxiao only knew tobacco was grown in the Yunnan area, but she had never visited to inspect.

The photos showed many tobacco farmers gravely ill, and the local soil and water had suffered severe desertification.

"Compared to these, it’s not even the worst. Do you know, Peng’er himself was also consuming this tobacco? Not only that, he influenced a group of different cultivators in the country, including some Wang Family members, to use it," Wang Fenglei sighed. Zhang Lvxiao’s character wasn’t bad; she was just blinded by jealousy.

"What, why didn’t anyone tell me about this?" After hearing about Wang Peng’s actions, Zhang Lvxiao felt weak all over and leaned against the wall, her chest tightening, murmuring repeatedly, "How could this happen? Peng’er was so well-behaved and obedient as a child, why would he do such things now?"

The family she had painstakingly managed was unknowingly being eroded by those she trusted most.

"I also have responsibility in this. If I hadn’t abandoned everything and left home back then, those children wouldn’t have been left entirely to you to raise. And the whole situation is a conspiracy devised by Rost Serine—she’s a wicked woman who even wants to capture all different cultivators on Earth and turn the planet into a second Beast Star. After the significant losses at Area 51, Little John returned to Europe and reported the matter of Mafu Stone to Old John."

Wang Fenglei also received Wang Shuai’s report regarding Xiang Guang’s situation.

Combining intelligence from several countries, they uncovered an astonishing fact: Lady Serlin is preparing an earth-shattering revenge against different cultivators.

The incident with Wang Peng is not isolated; similar incidents have occurred in many countries.

"What we must do now is thoroughly expose the important government officials and domestic manufacturers who were bribed by Celeste with wealth and beauty, and re-investigate the case from over a decade ago," Wang Fenglei spoke to Zhang Lvxiao with this kind of tone for the first time.