If, at least, she could manipulate the rules, that would be great.
Like Magistrate Bear.
Like Wang Xuezheng.
Just like Prime Minister Cao who supports the Bai family.
Sometimes desires are like weeds, growing everywhere and sprouting in every nook and cranny. With a little sunlight and water, they grow steadily and in an instant become like dark clouds covering the sky.
Zhen Sanlang sent Xianjin back to Chen's house and said with a smile, "...You can call me if you need anything! The government is sometimes too strict. We at the dock can endure the hardship for some dirty and tiring work. You can leave it to us without worry! You give us a seed, and we will give you a towering tree!"
This marketing rhetoric...doesn't sound like gangsterism, but more like an education and training institution.
Xianjin agreed with a smile and returned to the courtyard. Old Madam Qu asked her about the matter in detail. After listening to Xianjin's detailed account, she frowned anxiously, "...In this way, everyone will think that it was the Chen family who did it! We have just got the business of the Wenwei scroll paper, and it is the time to keep a low profile. You are so high-profile. If someone catches you and makes you angry, wouldn't it be a waste of all our efforts!"
Madam Qu frowned and said, "It's just some rumors. They didn't mention any names, nor did they make indirect accusations. It happened so quickly. Who would remember it in a few months? We should just bear with it. Lord Xiong wants to clean up the Bai family. He can do it himself. He can use you and the Zhen family's help. He is clean, but we are dirty!"
Old Madam Qu always dealt her a heavy blow when their relationship was just right.
Some concepts really cannot be resolved by seeking common ground while reserving differences.
Xianjin lowered his eyes and remained silent, without responding.
Madam Qu caught a glimpse of Xianjin's expression and said earnestly, "I'm not letting others ruin your reputation. It's just that for some things, we have to think about it from a different perspective - you said you won't get married, so these rumors can't hurt you! Our Chen family has no girls waiting to get married in this generation, and they can't hurt the Chen family girls getting married."
Xianjin:?
Since she won't get married, her reputation is not important?
Xianjin smiled and said, "Well, I have inquired about it. The price charged by Baihualou is not low. I can earn four or five taels of silver a night. I am not getting married anyway. I will pack up my things tomorrow and go to work part-time at night. Others are forced to do it, but I am willing. This career position is different. Maybe I can become an oiran in two days."
Destroy this crazy world!
Madam Qu said, "Tsk, you kid!" She turned around and complained to Aunt Qu, "You don't understand what I'm saying. How can you say something that humiliates yourself like this?"
Xianjin laughed again, "Your logic is really interesting. If it's all over the place, it's not humiliating, but if I say a few jokes in private, it's considered an insult? So serving one person is honorable, but serving a group of people is lowly? We are all professional fallen girls, don't engage in occupational discrimination."
Mistresses and prostitutes, and Pride and Prejudice?
Madam Qu waved her hands repeatedly, "Forget it! I can't argue with you, and I won't argue with you!"
In the past few months, Madam Qu has been living a very comfortable life - she found that once she let go of the internal conflicts with Xianjin and calmly accepted Xianjin's care, her life became more and more comfortable.
Now that things have come to this, the fight has happened, the blood has been shed, and nothing can be changed.
Madam Qu sighed, "Let's just choose a side. We will be tied to Lord Xiong from now on." She seemed to remember something, "Then, can't Prime Minister Cao stand up for the Bai family?"
"Stand out?"
Xianjin sneered, "The kick is about the same."
"Pah--" Cao Fucheng's frog-like thigh kicked the shoulder of Master Bai, who had come to Yingtian Prefecture to file a complaint overnight. "What did you say?! You guys staged a play, saying that Prefect Xiong and that girl from the Chen family were having an affair!?"
Mr. Bai was kicked so hard that he fell on his back, but he did not dare to hesitate. He immediately turned over and knelt down again, crying, "A little girl, to run a successful business, must rely on a man, right?!"
Mr. Bai cried heartbreakingly, "At that time, you had already decided that our Bai family would write the examination papers, but Magistrate Xiong suddenly showed up and reported the Chen family as well! Why did he support the Chen family so much? If that little girl surnamed He didn't try hard to flatter him, I...I wouldn't be surnamed Bai!"
"idiot!"
"idiot!"
Cao Fucheng was suddenly in a state of impotent rage. "How can you and the Chen family fight? I don't care even if you fight to the point of black eyes! Prefect Xiong is a senior official of the fourth rank! You, a merchant, have implicated a fourth rank official. Anyone would think it was my idea!"
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