Dressed as a mother-in-law, she leads the whole family to turn over.

After Wang finished speaking, she turned around and walked into the room, asking the doorman to close the door.

Cui Yudie rushed over but found nothing. She shouted until her voice became hoarse but no one came to open the door.

She broke down, crying and cursing.

Cheng Jiaojiao looked at Cheng Hong who was at a loss beside her with a dark face, and was so angry that she said, "Brother! Go and persuade our mother. We must leave the city before the city gate closes, otherwise the three of us will be doomed tonight!"

According to the imperial decree, their family would be expelled from the capital, and no one would be willing to take them in even if they wanted to find a place to stay in the city.

The Cui family has made it clear that they don't care anymore. If they don't leave, the consequences will only be worse.

Cheng Hong had a bewildered look on his face. Without giving it much thought, he walked up to Cui Yudie, who was making a fuss, and dragged her away.

The mother and her two sons only remembered Aunt Sun and the others when they reached the city gate.

Cheng Jiaojiao rolled her eyes and asked, "Mother, where will Aunt Sun and the others stay? That woman has always been treacherous, and she might have left a trick up her sleeve. You are the head of the Cheng family, and she has to listen to you even if the Cheng family fails!"

Cheng Jiaojiao, who has never suffered hardship in her life, doesn't want to do everything by herself like those village girls. She also wants to live the life of a young lady with someone to serve her!
Cui Yudie patted her head in annoyance, "I had forgotten about that bitch!"

After thinking about it, she went to the nearest town outside the city and spent two cents to get some information from a beggar.

"The lady you are asking about stopped in the town after noon today. She and her group included an old woman, a maid, a coachman and a boy of about ten years old. They bought two coffins at the coffin shop and left." The beggar was reserved in his words and did not intend to continue.

Cui Yudie frowned in disgust. She knew that she was in a desperate situation and dared not act as arrogantly as before. She could only hold her breath and take out two more coins. "Where did they go in the end?"

The beggar got the copper coins and smiled a little more. "They bought coffins to bury the two dead bodies, and then bought some dry food in the town. They walked south. They must have reached a resting place by now. You can't catch up with them even if you want to!"

Cheng Hong quickly grasped the key point, "Mother, Aunt Sun and her family have money, they can buy a coffin and dry food! And there are servants willing to follow her!"

"How ridiculous! This lady is not dead yet! Those traitorous servants are just looking for someone to serve them with!" Cui Yudie clenched her fists fiercely, unwilling to believe that what the beggar said was true. Why was it that although she was deserted by her friends and relatives, there were still people willing to follow Aunt Sun?

Cheng Jiaojiao thought carefully and said, "Mother, could it be that they are going back to my father's hometown? Should we chase them?"

Cui Yudie shook her head without even thinking, "What are you thinking about! Your father's hometown is in a remote mountain village in Zhuzhou Prefecture. They say that poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people. How would we survive if we really went there? How would you get married?"

Cheng Jiaojiao didn't dare to imagine that kind of day. She shrank her neck in fear and asked weakly, "Where are we going then?"

Cui Yudie thought about it and found an inn to stay temporarily.

There was a hundred taels of silver in the purse that Wang gave them, which was not too much, but not too little either. If they lived frugally, it would last them a long time.

The mother and her two children entered the inn's wing. Cheng Jiaojiao tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep. She had never been so clear-headed before. She couldn't go back to the capital. Even if she married into a small family, no one would dare to marry her. If she went back to the Cheng family, she would have to work hard all her life like those village women who worked in the fields. She couldn't live that kind of life.

The Cui family clearly no longer cares about their lives, let alone their lives. Her mother is brainless and her eldest brother is unreliable, so she really can only rely on herself!

Thinking of this, Cheng Jiaojiao secretly wiped her tears and cried all night. She also had an idea in her mind. For the next few days, Cui Yudie and Cheng Hong stayed in the inn complaining about everything and doing nothing but eating and sleeping.

Cheng Jiaojiao went out for a walk, removed the heavy makeup on her face, and put on a coarse cloth and a wooden hairpin, which made her look more pretty and charming. Soon she caught the eye of a passing merchant, who asked her for thirty taels of silver and left with her.

Cui Yudie lay in the room for a long time, until it was almost dark and her daughter did not come to see her. Then she realized something was wrong. She rushed into her daughter's guest room and found that Cheng Jiaojiao was missing. There was only a bag of silver and a letter on the table.

After reading the letter, Cui Yudie burst into tears.

Cheng Hong was also devastated by Cheng Jiaojiao's sudden departure, and was heartbroken.

At this time, the mother and son realized that they could not go on like this. There was only one way before them, which was to take the ninety-odd taels and the thirty taels given by Cheng Jiaojiao, and honestly buy a few acres of land and a few houses, and learn to work from sunrise to sunset like the peasants they looked down upon before.

However, they did not dare to go too far and only settled in a small village not far from the capital. The village was right next to the official road and it was very quick to get into the city, but the land was not cheap.

After buying the fields and the house, sixty taels of silver were gone in an instant. The remaining silver had to be saved well, at least to find a wife for Cheng Hong.

From then on, Cui Yudie often stared in the direction of the official road. Whenever a carriage passed by, she would always stand on the hillside and watch carefully for a long time, fantasizing that the Cui family would come to pick her up and let her live a prosperous life again.

However, instead of waiting for the Cui family's carriage, she ran into the Ming family's convoy heading to Beijing.

Madam Ming San was dozing with her daughter in the carriage. Seeing that they were about to reach the capital, she had to remind them again, "The mothers have told you before, and you know it in your heart that Prince An is destined to be an idle prince in this life. When you marry into the An family, you will have to take charge of the entire Prince An's mansion.

The good thing is that the Queen won't care about you, you just need to live your own life behind closed doors. The bad thing is that after a long time, I'm afraid that the Emperor and the Queen will not remember you. What you need to do is to try your best to make friends with Marquis Guangen. After all, Santie is your nominal brother. He has resigned from his official position and is doing business, and is not in the capital. No one will say anything if you bring Prince An to visit Marquis Guangen's mansion often.

There is also your maternal grandfather's family. The Cui family is a century-old scholarly family. Your maternal grandfather was the Grand Historian, your eldest uncle was in the Imperial College, and your second uncle was exiled for many years and seldom came back. But they are all relatives, and the relationship cannot be severed.

These two families will take care of you even without your mother asking for your help. You should be sincere to them. Don't use any tricks against them. Your mother has already given you the list of names of some other families.

After we enter the capital, I will take you to visit them one by one. You can decide how to interact with them. You may not like what my mother likes. It all depends on you."

Ming Jinxiu pursed her lips, revealing a pair of deep dimples, her beautiful almond-shaped eyes were full of determination, "Mother, your daughter has remembered everything you said, don't worry."

Madam Ming San smiled with relief, "I'm not worried about you, but the Cheng family! On the way here, I heard that the Cheng family was raided, and your aunt must have gone back to the Cui family to make trouble. I know your grandmother is soft-hearted, and I'm afraid she left her behind. This time when we come to Beijing, we will have to stay with your grandmother for a while. We will see her every day, and we can't avoid her even if we try to avoid her." (End of this chapter)