"Ah, our Chen Family's star of culture and writing, Lord Chen, how come you've arrived only now!"
At the entrance of the mountain stockade, Chen Qing was enthusiastically greeted by a woman who was apparently trying to delay him!
He remembered this woman; she was married over from the Pan Family Stockade and was notoriously fierce in the village. She had been the most aggressive when taking over his family's property. Once he became the Chosen Man, she was shameless in trying to ingratiate herself with him and even tried to matchmake her niece with him, often being chased away by his mother with a broom...
Now that this woman had come forward, Chen Qing should have felt a little relieved, at least it proved that the Chen Family indeed had escaped here. If this woman could run up here safely, his elder brother should have been able to protect his younger sister.
But for some reason, the more he looked at the woman's guilty smile, the more uneasy Chen Qing felt in his heart.