"Xu Xuewang, Xu Xuewang."

"You come out here!"

It was early in the morning when Xu Er's door was banged on loudly. Yang came out of the house and said, "Who is it? Are you crazy? Knocking on the door so early in the morning? Can't you be a little quieter?"

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She had just unlatched the door when it was forcefully pushed open, and several men rushed in. The one in the lead was short but looked menacing.

“Where is Xu Xuewang? Tell him to get out here right now. He still dares to hide. Where can he hide?”

The shouts outside woke everyone inside. Upon hearing the noise, Xu Xuewang's hands trembled with panic. How did Qian Shengcai find his way into their home?

"No, who are you? What do you want with Xuewang?" Yang could tell from their appearance that they came with ill intentions, and she wondered how her son knew such people.

"What is it? You don't know what kind of mess your son has made, do you? Daring to lie to me, he's practically asking for death." Qian Shengcai's face was contorted with rage, his eyes filled with fury.

Xu Xuewang rushed out of the house, "Boss Qian, Boss Qian." He looked at Qian Shengcai with a fawning smile.

"You little bastard, you dare to hide from me? Go ahead and hide forever if you dare!" Qian Shengcai grabbed Xu Xuewang by the collar and said viciously.

Qian Shengcai was much shorter than Xu Xuewang, but he was strong enough to pull Xu Xuewang so hard that he had to bend down, otherwise the collar would have made him uncomfortable.

"Hey, what are you doing? Let go of my son!" Seeing her beloved son being held hostage by someone else, Yang was about to help when the men Qian Shengcai brought immediately pulled her back.

Xu Xuewang pleaded, "Boss Qian, let's talk this out. Don't rush to attack." He had seen Qian Shengcai start beating people; even when the person was lying on the ground motionless, he still didn't stop.

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“Speak properly. When I tried to speak properly to you, you tried to hide. Now that I’ve caught you, what’s the point of speaking properly?” Qian Shengcai grabbed his collar with one hand and punched him in the stomach with the other.

Xu Xuewang grunted, his brows furrowing together.

"My son, my son!" Yang struggled desperately, but was held tightly and couldn't break free at all. "Who are you? What do you want? Let me tell you, if you dare to cause trouble in our village, you'll be sorry."

Now only she, her son, and her mother are at home; the eldest son's family has all gone to Li Mei's parents' house. At this moment, she began to curse Li Mei in her heart again.

That idiot! She went back on her own, and even brought her son back with her. If Xu Xuexing were still at home, he could have helped her. He wouldn't have let her watch her youngest son get beaten.

"make trouble?"

"Ask your son what good deeds he's done, swindling fifty taels of silver from me. If he doesn't return it today, I'll take his life." Qian Shengcai tightened his grip, and Xu Xuewang's face turned bright red.

Madam Yang froze. "What did you say? My son cheated you out of fifty taels of silver?" Her eyes widened in disbelief.

Qian Shengcai pulled Xu Xuewang in front of him and said, "Quickly tell your family about the good things you've done."

Xu Xuewang glanced at Yang Shi guiltily, and under Qian Shengcai's pressure, he told her the whole story.

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After getting information out of Fu Man'er that day, he took advantage of the fact that no one was at the Xu family's house, climbed over the wall and entered the Xu family's house. He searched through Xu Genshan's room and finally found the recipe for braised meat in an inconspicuous box.

He couldn't wait to go to town and find Qian Shengcai. The two had agreed that once the prescription was found, Qian Shengcai would give him thirty taels of silver, but Xu Xuewang felt that the money was too little.

He lied and claimed that another restaurant owner had offered him sixty taels of silver. He didn't want to lose money, and he was hoping that this recipe could revive his restaurant.

Seeing the endless stream of people at Xu's restaurant every day, he was so jealous his eyes turned red. He had to make that money!

Once the recipe was obtained, Qian Shengcai immediately sent people to search for a large amount of pig offal. At that time, the Xu family's consumption was no longer very large, and there was plenty of pig offal in the whole town.

He planned to collect all the pig offal, thinking that the Xu family was like a skilled cook without rice, and in the end, all the money would end up in his own pocket.

But things didn't go as planned. The braised food made according to the recipe tasted fishy and smelly. Just smelling it made people feel nauseous, let alone eating it.

Little did they know that cleaning and removing the odor from the pig offal was the most crucial step; if this step wasn't done well, all the subsequent work would be in vain.

This is why one after another, the braised food shops in the town went out of business; none of them had grasped the essence of the business.

They tried making several hundred kilograms of pig offal again and again, but the results were all unsatisfactory. Qian Shengcai even forced himself to taste a bite despite feeling nauseous.

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He had high hopes, but the smell was a little off, though the taste was the same as the Xu family's. However, as soon as he put it in his mouth, he felt nauseous and vomited up sour fluid.

This infuriated him, and he immediately sent someone to confront Xu Xuewang. Xu Xuewang was dominating the gambling table, but he had lost most of his fifty taels of silver and was feeling extremely frustrated.

He refused to go back, saying that the prescription had already been sold and it was none of his business. After driving away the people Qian Shengcai sent to find him, he went to another gambling den to avoid being approached again.

After calming down, he realized that things weren't so simple. Fearing that Qian Shengcai would cause him trouble, he simply avoided going to town. Unexpectedly, the people still came to his house.

"Boss Qian, I... I really didn't lie to you. That recipe is indeed a recipe for braised dishes. I really did get it from the Xu family." He lowered his voice at the end, after all, stealing wasn't exactly honorable.

"Go to hell!" Qian Shengcai cursed angrily. "If you didn't lie to me, who did? Did you sell me this recipe? I'm telling you, not only do you have to return the fifty taels, but you also have to compensate me for the money I spent on pig offal and seasonings."

He had already ordered the pig offal in the kitchen to be thrown out and had cleaned it thoroughly several times, but as soon as he entered the kitchen, he was hit by a stench. It was all because of that bastard Xu Xuewang.

"I really didn't have it." Xu Xuewang felt truly wronged. He had taken the recipe from Xu Genshan's house and gone to town, and besides, he didn't know anything about cooking, so how could he lie?

Qian Shengcai glanced at him. "What, are you still trying to deny it now? I think the recipe you gave me was fake." Otherwise, how could the finished product be so awful?

Xu Xuewang had a sudden flash of inspiration and thought of a possibility. "Boss Qian, I know, it's Xu Genshan, it must be Xu Genshan. He deliberately gave you a fake prescription. He lied to you."

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Before he could finish speaking, Qian Shengcai suddenly punched Xu Xuewang hard across the face. "You little bastard, you still dare to talk back to me? Xu Genshan lied to me? How did he lie? Did he know you were going to steal the prescription, huh?"

"You better explain to me who lied to whom."

Qian Shengcai punched Xu Xuewang with every word he spoke. He was so strong that Xu Xuewang didn't even have a chance to fight back.

The sound of flesh colliding startled Yang, and what Xu Xuewang said completely shocked her.

What did her most beloved son do? He stole someone else's recipe, sold it for fifty taels of silver, and then gambled it away.

He was gambling. Thinking of this, Yang's body trembled involuntarily.

"Let go of my son, don't hit him!" Xu Xuewang's scream came from behind. With a burst of strength, Yang broke free from the people behind her and protected her son who was lying on the ground.

"Mother." Xu Xuewang hid behind her in fear. He had always been like this since he was a child; whenever something happened, he would hide behind his mother.

Anyway, Yang always favored him. Even if Xu Er wanted to hit him, as long as Yang protected him, nothing would happen.

But he forgot that it wasn't Xu Er who hit him today.

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Qian Shengcai waved his hand and said, "Fine, I won't hit your son. Just take out the money, fifty taels, plus the money I spent on buying things. Let's round it up to eighty taels."

Yang had never seen so much money in her entire life.

But she knew she had to give the money to him, otherwise, given how ruthless he was, he might hurt her son.

"Son, quickly return the money to them."