Saving System: Calm Down, My Fleeing Host!

Chapter 249: There’s Always a Higher Mountain (Monthly Pass Requested)

Upon hearing this, Miss Ke became furious, "Cheng Hao, what do you mean by this? We’ve already married, the whole Dingzhou City knows you’re my husband, how can you talk like that?"

Cheng Hao was exasperated, "Who wants to be your husband? Did I agree? Did my parents agree? It was all your scheming. In the first place, you didn’t want to marry me, and now you’re trying to cling on, don’t you think you’re being ridiculous?"

Ke Mengyao bit her lip, unable to find words to refute, and said defiantly, "I don’t care about the rest, I am your wife now, and you have to support me and our child, for a lifetime."

Ke Mengyao knew her situation, she could only shamelessly latch onto Cheng Hao; otherwise, she and her child had no way to survive.

Her greatest support was gone, and the person protecting her was dead. Even if she had some superficial skills, she wouldn’t survive in these difficult times, not to mention she was pregnant. A slight mistake and the child would be gone. It was the love crystallization between her and Chi, which must be preserved at all costs, so she had to restrain her temper.

It’s just... just couldn’t stand Cheng Hao’s protection and closeness to Cheng Xiaoxiao, so she jumped in to argue.

Everyone looked on with regret, they never expected the esteemed, upright Chen Hao to have such a troublesome peach blossom. They hadn’t even attended Cheng Hao’s wedding banquet, and he was already going to be a father.

No matter how unreasonable Miss Ke was, she couldn’t deny the fact that she and Cheng Hao had been wed, nor could she deny Governor Ke’s accomplishments. He organized people to help the commoners escape, sacrificing his life to hold off the enemy for a night, otherwise, most of the people would have died in the city.

Everyone is one to repay kindness, and they would never do such a thing as abandon the hero’s orphan.

Even though they weren’t people of Dingzhou City, such a city governor earns admiration and respect.

So there was no way to solve this issue, it could only be dragged on, truly a tangled mess.

Cheng Xiaoxiao, however, wasn’t tolerating Miss Ke’s clueless behavior.

"Your name is Ke Mengyao, right?"

"So what if it is?" Ke Mengyao looked at Cheng Xiaoxiao with a face full of vigilance.

"Firstly, the reason you can stay in this group is out of respect for your father, so it has nothing to do with my second brother.

Secondly, my second brother doesn’t have anything to do with the child in your belly. If you can stay in the group quietly, I can still give you food to eat. But if you jump out again to make trouble, then don’t blame me for being impolite."

Seeing the imposing Cheng Xiaoxiao, Ke Mengyao felt a bit daunted, "What do you mean by that?"

"It’s exactly what it sounds like. You should know, this group takes my word. If you don’t behave, then you won’t even get a drop of thin porridge, and I don’t care if you’re pregnant or not. If you don’t take care of your body, running out to cause trouble, showing off all day, and something happens, like a miscarriage, that’s on you. So don’t blame me for not warning you in advance, you better think it through."

Earlier, Erya whispered to her about Miss Ke’s antics these past few days, boasting of her abilities.

"What do you mean you’re in charge? Are you kidding? Aren’t there any grown men in this group? Why should a little girl like you be in charge?"

Everyone shook their heads; Miss Ke clearly didn’t understand their group, thinking she could walk sideways after currying favor with Cheng Hao’s mother. These days, folks had opinions, but since Xiaoxiao wasn’t around, no one bothered to deal with her, making her truly believe she was still the precious young lady, disdaining this and that all day long.

Seeing that no one agreed with her, she sensed something was off. Could it be that this group truly followed that girl’s word?

Impossible! She observed that these days, the Cheng Family was the backbone of the group, and everyone respected them, definitely having nothing to do with the brat in front of her.

Seeing that this approach wasn’t working, she had a sudden idea and ran towards the Liu Family, shouting loudly, "Mother, mother, you have to stand up for me. Cousin-in-law is being bullied by your second house’s cousin, no manners at all, not putting you the auntie in their eyes!"

Those watching the scene twitched at the mouth; this attempt to sow discord was too low-tier.

The Liu Family awkwardly pulled back her arm, "I’ve never seen my Hao’er getting married, you shouldn’t shout randomly."

Ke Mengyao was persistent, "How is it shouting randomly, you can ask any refugee, Cheng Hao is Governor Ke’s son-in-law, won’t you acknowledge it just because my father is dead?"

As she spoke, she dabbed at the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief that had no tears, "Boo hoo hoo, why is my life so bitter."

Hearing the crying, the Liu Family became annoyed, she couldn’t deal with this Miss Ke. But to acknowledge Ke Mengyao as her daughter-in-law was utterly unacceptable to her.

If they had properly been wed, no matter how delicate, she would accept it, as a mother, she could tolerate one or two. But expecting the Cheng Family to recognize a child not their own, that was out of the question.

The fake crying Ke Mengyao thought of her predicament, thinking of her already fallen father and Chi, who was somewhere unknown, the more she thought, the sadder she got, until she truly bawled her eyes out.

"Alright, it’s no use begging anyone, crying is in vain. I’m also a woman, and I won’t feel sorry for your tears, so you better behave." After saying that, she stopped paying attention to Ke Mengyao and turned to usher everyone to leave quickly.

Fang Zheng and Lu Jingtian shrunk to the back, whispering in an unseen spot.

"This Sister Xiao really is fierce, even the temperamental, unruly Miss Ke can only suffer under her."

"Totally, lucky she didn’t see us or we’d be in for it." Lu Jingtian pouted and continued, "Staying in the group, sooner or later she’ll recognize us, what then?"

Everyone in Dingzhou feared Miss Ke; one look at her terrified them each time.

"What else? Avoid her as much as possible, drag it out as long as we can." With that, Fang Zheng went to pack his things.

At this time, the gray sky was gradually lighting up. The snow that had been falling all night had stopped.

That night of killing left everyone exhausted, over twenty people were injured, but there was an excitement in their bones, because why? Of course, because these bandits were incredibly wealthy, after robbing them, they could exchange for lots of work points.

They might even get some contribution points as a reward, so despite their tiredness, everyone wore relaxed smiles on their faces.

As the group was about to set off, Cheng Xiaoxiao found Cheng Beiniu to discuss the bandit situation, "Seeing the amount of stuff they brought, there might be more at their lair. If we can take down their lair, wouldn’t our coffers be fuller."

Just thinking about it was tempting.

Through interrogation, they learned the bandit lair was four or five miles from there.

In the deep mountains on the right side, the bandit lair had twenty to thirty mountain guards, and dozens of women who were captured.