General, Madam Called You To Farm - Chapter 472

General, Madam Called You To Farm
Chapter 472 – Exposing the fake (3)  

Translator : Moon Lee
Editor : Tea
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Qin Canglan felt as if his heart were being sliced by knives.

Su Xiaoxiao continued, “Later, our family started making pastries to earn a living.”

Qin Canglan asked in a daze, “Did… did you have to wake up this early too?”

Su Xiaoxiao replied casually, “Much earlier than this. We got up at the third watch (around midnight), set up our stall by the fifth (3–5 AM). In the bitter cold of winter, Ergou and I would hang trays around our necks and stand outside Jin Ji, our town’s biggest pastry shop. Ergou would shout, ‘Selling freshly made cakes!’ ‘Sweet and fragrant wife cakes!’ I was chubby, so I could handle the cold. Ergou was skinny, wore thin clothes… his hands and ears were always covered in frostbite.”

“I once asked Ergou, ‘Do you like selling cakes?’ Ergou said yes, because if we sold cakes, then we wouldn’t go hungry anymore.”

Qin Canglan could no longer hold it in. Hot tears fell with a plop into his bowl.

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Su Mo had arranged two carriages.

Qin Canglan sat in the first one, while he and Su Xiaoxiao rode in the second.

“What you said earlier… that was all true, wasn’t it?” Su Mo finally asked.

Su Xiaoxiao glanced at him in confusion, then realized he was referring to her ‘complaints’ at the breakfast table, her story to Qin Canglan.

She said, “Didn’t you already investigate us?”

“I did.” Su Mo admitted.

But hearing it from subordinates was entirely different from hearing it from her own lips. 

Throughout the entire story, there hadn’t been a trace of complaint or bitterness or resentment in her voice. 

And yet… the more calm and matter-of-fact her tone, the more devastating the impact.

……Just how much suffering had she endured, to be able to talk about it with such composure? 

Su Xiaoxiao then shared what Wei Ting had discovered.

Su Mo’s thick brows furrowed, “You mean… Qin Che likely already found out about Uncle and deliberately used a fake excuse to lure Grand-Uncle away, and then sent someone here… either to investigate or……” 

Silence him. 

He didn’t say those last two words.

As there was no need.

Su Xiaoxiao understood. She had also considered that possibility.

“Then why didn’t he make a move?” Su Mo asked, puzzled.

Su Xiaoxiao replied calmly, “Because Qin Canglan showed up. If he were to act right in front of Qin Canglan, he would be exposed, no?”  

Su Mo nodded slightly and asked, “Did anyone see what the person looked like?”

Su Xiaoxiao shook her head, “No. Wei Ting said he was wearing a bamboo hat the entire time, covering his face.”

Su Mo pondered, “This matter… is probably far more complicated than it seems.” 

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Duke Protector’s Manor. 

Qin Che had sat in the study the entire night.

When daylight finally broke, a servant came in to report that the Old Master had returned. 

Qin Che looked at the sunlight spilling through the lattice window and suddenly found it painfully glaring. 

“Duke… Duke?”

The young servant called him twice.

Qin Che came back to his senses, “What did you just say?”

The servant was startled by the strange, almost sinister look in Qin Che’s eyes, and he stammered, “O-old… Old Master has returned, he’s waiting for you in the study.”

“What should have come finally came……” 

Qin Che let out a crazed laugh that made the servant’s face turn pale.

What was wrong with the Duke today?

Qin Che brushed off his wide sleeves and stood up, straightening his clothes and crown in front of the bronze mirror.

With a smile, he asked the servant, “Do I look disrespectful?” 

The servant, completely confused, shook his head quickly, “N-no, you look fine! Very proper!”

Normally, the Duke only paid such attention to his appearance on days he went to court. 

The servant’s heart was racing with unease, but he didn’t dare ask more.

“Let’s go.”

Qin Che smiled and said.

With an elegant stride, he headed to Qin Canglan’s study.

The swelling on Qin Canglan’s forehead hadn’t gone down yet, it was obvious he had been struck by Su Cheng’s club.

Qin Che bowed respectfully, “Father.”

Qin Canglan dismissed the servants in the room, “All of you can leave us.”

“Yes.”

Everyone obediently withdrew, and the last one to leave carefully closing the doors behind them. 

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