Seeing the change in her father’s expression, Cai Wei seized the opportunity and laughingly said, "If you truly believe we are good children, then don’t let us suffer injustices from the eldest family anymore."
Mu Zhongqing raised his eyes, looked into his daughter’s hopeful gaze, and solemnly nodded, promising, "Alright, your dad will no longer let you suffer any injustice."
This trip indeed made him see the ugliness of his own parents and older brothers, and it also made him realize that home was his most precious, most cherished place.
Cai Wei sighed, "Although dad thinks this way, how could the other party be willing to give up? As the younger generation, dad can’t fall out with them. I’m afraid the peace in our family is over from now on."
As his daughter spoke, a wave of sorrow surfaced on Mu Zhongqing’s face. Wei’er was right. Even if his heart no longer aligned with his parents, he couldn’t be too defiant against them. He knew their characters. They wouldn’t give up easily because they got snitched on. They were bound to seize every chance to cause trouble and ask for money, and they wouldn’t stop until they achieved their goal.
Seeing her dad’s expression, Cai Wei tentatively said, "In my opinion, we should just move away from here and start a new life in a place they can’t find, so we can live our life peacefully and avoid loathing each other."
Mu Zhongqing paused for a moment, surprised that his daughter would make such a suggestion. But after thinking about it, he agreed with her. If their home wasn’t moved away, the others would come banging at their door at any time. His wife, daughter, and son-- they would all suffer humiliation. This was something he couldn’t tolerate.
However, moving wasn’t a small matter. How would a big family survive in a foreign place? Moreover, as the saying goes: do not travel far when your parents are alive. His parents were still alive. If he moved to a foreign place, it could be seen as abandonment and disrespect in other people’s eyes.
He had clearly antagonized his parents with his marital affairs, if he added abandonment to the list, he would truly become the target of everyone’s scorn and hatred.
He was past his prime age and could afford not to care about his reputation, but the label of being undutiful would undoubtedly affect his children’s prospects. Thus, he needed to consider this matter carefully.
Mu Zhongqing thought for a while and said, "Wei’er, moving isn’t a minor matter, give your dad some time to think about it."
Seeing that her father’s stance had softened, Cai Wei didn’t push too hard. She then picked up the medicine and ginseng, getting ready to prepare the medicine in the kitchen.
Lady Du stopped her, "Wei’er, leave the medicine here for now. Your mom will do it later. You only got half a night’s rest yesterday. Take a nap while we have not started dinner. I’ll call you when the meal is ready."
How could Cai Wei agree to let her mom boil the medicine when she was planning to swap it during the decoction?
She picked up the medicine, saying as she walked, "It’s already late. If I sleep now, I won’t be able to sleep tonight. Might as well just sleep through the night later." She found the inn’s small kitchen, tossed the medicine she bought from Baohe Hall into the space, took out the tonic prepared by the Old Turtle, put it in the medicine pot and began to decoct the medicine.
Meanwhile, she found the remaining half of the ginseng in the space that she used to make chicken soup for the evildoer. She cut it into slices and boiled it right in space.
In the gap of boiling ginseng soup, Cai Wei roamed around the vegetable field. She discovered that the watermelon that Bai Mei had planted before had ripened. The dark green watermelons were big and round, which were eye-catching. She picked one, cut it into many small pieces, and saw the red watermelon flesh with a few black seeds embedded, which were very tempting. Taking a bite, the sweet and refreshing juice made her eat a lot in one breath.
As Cai Wei relished each bite, she could not help but feel a sense of regret. Such a delicious taste, yet she could not share it with her family. With this thought, the watermelon was not as sweet as before.
Once she relocated her family to the capital in the future, she would definitely buy a big manor and plant exotic fruits from the space outside. This way, her parents and children could all enjoy the taste of space food.
After eating the watermelon, she went to the forest to check on the ginseng in the space. She found that there were more ginseng plants than she had seen last time. Countless, verdant and lush ginseng, including some long-standing old ginseng. Because they were nurtured by the spatial energy for a long time, some even grew into human shape.
A thin and dry little ginseng could be worth more than ten taels of silver. How much would a thousand-year-old ginseng which was almost becoming a spirit worth? After thinking about it, she decided to take one out and see how much it was worth and test whether her theory about establishing a hold in the ginseng market could work.
After boiling the ginseng soup, Cai Wei took it out, went back to the inn’s small kitchen and poured the prepared medicine in the bowl. She then carried the medicine back to the room they had booked in the inn.
Approaching the entrance, she suddenly heard dad and mom talking in the room. It seemed like mom was persuading dad about moving and dad was full of concerns.
"I was thinking that moving is not a bad idea. With Wei’er’s talent in grilling skewers, our family won’t starve anywhere we go."
"Making a living isn’t the issue. However, his father is currently in prison and was put there because we tattled. How will I feel at ease if we just leave ? And how will everyone view our whole family?"
Cai Wei walked right in as she heard that, asking Mu Zhongqing earnestly, "Dad, are you saying that if grandfather gets released from prison, you agree to move?"
Mu Zhongqing nodded, "You could say that."
Cai Wei laughed. She had heard that per Great Jin Nation’s law, citizens over seventy years old except for treason and major violent crimes, all other minor convictions would be given clemency.
Grandfather was just sixty-nine years old this year. In other words, after celebrating his 70th birthday in four to five days, he could be released from prison!