Ye Shiqi is currently unaware of so much happening at ho; she is busy with developing plantations here in the Oasis!
As for the factory, now she sends people there. Ever since that assassination attempt, it has been confird that soone wants her dead.
She is not afraid of those people; she just doesn’t want her space to be exposed!
The Dowager of the General Mansion was treated once, but her condition, just as it started to improve, flared up again. She lay weakly in bed, and the doctor sent from the Capital City could only use acupuncture to treat her, her pain confining her to bed every day, cursing the heavens and the earth!
The Imperial Physicians from the Capital City failed to treat the acupuncture points that Ye Shiqi had addressed; they could only use acupuncture and dication daily to reduce the Old Lady’s suffering but couldn’t make her stand up.
Indeed, she now seems to be stroked, with twisted facial features and drooling, lacking her forr dignified appearance, her mind muddled, but she still knows how to hate!
Thus every day, her drooling mouth utters unclear profanities!
The Old Lady fell ill, and occasionally, her deceitful subordinates would co into the General Mansion to stir up trouble!
However, such disturbances could never succeed in killing the Second Lady or Ye Shiqi!
After all, the Second Lady sleeps in the sa courtyard as the General. Who is the General? A man known for his achievents in battles and with a considerable body count, his skills are certainly formidable, his Qinggong, and martial arts incomparable to those of re assassins!
Perhaps, as one ages, the cultivation becos more potent, not weakening as ordinary people do. Such frailty only applies to commoners; martial arts cultivators grow stronger with age unless their lifespan ends.
The General sensed his body’s condition seed much stronger than a few months earlier. This improvent was evident from his hair, his muscles, skin, and so internal power!
It felt as if he’d beco ten years younger, not just physically but also ntally, erasing so battlefield residuals over the past few months.
Martial prowess seed subtly increasing, his strikes and use of swords and sabers now evoking cyclones!
Those minor characters hoping to infiltrate the mansion to assassinate their master will find it difficult to escape once they enter!
Although sotis catching so infiltrators, those captured often seed like dead soldiers, choosing to poison themselves before interrogation or imprisonnt, committing suicide unexpectedly!
Yet a few managed to escape!
The General’s improved capabilities caught the assassins off guard, failing attempts after attempts, inducing panic among them.
Assassins sent one after another grew stronger, yet they couldn’t kill nor successfully poison!
The General Mansion seed as impregnable as iron walls, while the one they protected still lay sick, untreatable even by the Imperial Physicians!
Urgency struck higher powers, prompting a letter to Capital City!
The Second Lady and that little girl remained unkillable. They were perplexed, continuously failing to assassinate the young girl, inexplicably falling into traps, failing to determine who might be secretly helping!
First thought to be coincidental, their protection was proven purposeful, repeatedly needing protection.
They underestimated the young girl, never suspecting that she possessed such formidable ans to counter skilled martial artists!
Ye Shiqi noticed nightly movents on rooftops; soldiers of the General Mansion patrolled diligently, yet so still found gaps!
The day was quieter, but incidents frequently occurred between midnight and early dawn!
Ye Shiqi was especially worried about her grandfather and grandmother, understanding the old lady’s stroke-like appearance was due to her acupuncture, those intruders certainly not sent by her, suggesting another faction within their group!
Each night she grew anxious; even when sleeping, she would enter her space to monitor every move in the mansion, particularly looking out for assassins!
She would stop at nothing; her silver needles would injure invaders, preventing them from killing or escaping!
Occasionally allowing an escape was intentional, tracking them to uncover the person behind them!
She speculated that the restaurant from her last al might be closely connected with these assassins!
She sent people to investigate; although the Oasis is not vast, its residents are complex, likely housing foreign spies.
She remained uncertain if the attackers were foreign agents or older assassins from the Old Lady’s faction!
What was certain was that they targeted her and her grandmother!
Despite these incidents, they didn’t stop the cousin’s wedding banquet!
Ye Shiqi, along with her grandfather and grandmother, attended her cousin’s marriage, witnessing her beautifully dressed cousin being picked up by her fiancé in a bridal carriage.
As her cousin married, her dowry shop, their co-venture selling costics, also comnced operations!
The costics, though few in variety, were products of their factory, yet highly sought after!
Priced not cheaply, civilian-priced items were skincare creams; for this Oasis, the best sellers were anti-cracking moisture creams and hand creams!
Of course, so spared no expense; although many in the Oasis border seed poor, so wealthier ones existed!
So weren’t part of their group, usually adversarial, but for beauty, the won in their households had to shop there!
Thus, the shop opened up a sales channel; the factory’s costics sold well in the Oasis!
Others still didn’t know the factory’s location; those wishing for bulk purchase to other countries had to procure through their shop, claiming partnership!
Even in bulk, the cost wasn’t cheap!
Whether people from outside the border or within, dedicated personnel managed sales, not requiring her or her cousin to oversee!
The uncle delivered shipnts again, returning from the factory with another batch!
He brought ho letters, including ones from her sisters and other friends, as well as family letters from her parents!
Aside from personal letters, kept from her grandparents, other family letters were given to them!
The Old General was naturally delighted, and the Second Lady even more so, long wanting to reunite with unseen sons, daughters-in-law, granddaughters, and grandsons!
Anticipating a eting and reunion beca a longing wish!
Tang Weixing could not stay long; with the weather turning snowy, delaying departure would risk being snowbound!
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