The Princess Consort Luling did not tell Chai Eying why the Li family father and son returned to the Capital; she did not want Chai Eying to worry.
However, the Pei and Wei families successively sent messages to the Li family. What they said, in the standard official language of Beijing, aroused the suspicion of the other members of the Li family.
For example, Uncle Gui, Nanny Jiang, several mother and daughter of the family's cook Lady Song, and some people who came to do short-term work every day.
They spread the affairs of the Li family out.
The villagers had long known that the Li family were people from the Capital who came here to seek a life of refuge.
This time, when several family members hurried back to the Capital, everyone suspected that something must have happened in the Capital that was not good for the Li family.
Chai Eying listened to these rumors and couldn't help but feel heavy-hearted.
