“Miss Xia, I’ve heard you have excellent martial arts skills, especially your nunchaku skills. I’d love to see them for myself. Why don’t you spar with Master Tang?” Xu Jiamin said.
Master Tang was the teacher who taught Jin Wenyuan nunchaku.
As soon as Xia Chunmei saw Xu Jiamin's expression, she knew that Xu Jiamin was up to no good.
Is he trying to use this opportunity to teach himself a lesson?
Dream on!
“Miss Xu, even if you want to see a martial arts spar, you should arrange for a woman to fight me. Arrange for Master Tang to fight me. What are you up to?”
Master Tang is a man, much older than me. If he wins, people will say he won unfairly; if he loses, people will say he can't even beat a girl who has just come of age. What do you expect Master Tang to do?
So, do you have a problem with me, or are you just trying to take this opportunity to humiliate Master Tang?
Xu Jiamin retorted angrily, "You're talking nonsense! I didn't mean that at all!"
You know perfectly well what I mean!
When Master Tang, who was about to come in, heard this, he looked at Xu Jiamin in surprise, and Xu Jiamin turned her face away guiltily.
Xu Jiamin knew that Master Tang would never spar with a young girl like Xia Chunmei, so she had her maid tell Master Tang that Xia Chunmei was arrogant and wanted to use her status as Jin Wenyuan's savior to become his master and try to oust him. She also said that Xia Chunmei claimed that Master Tang was not as good as her.
Master Tang couldn't stand this, so he immediately decided to teach Xia Chunmei a lesson.
Upon hearing Xia Chunmei's words, Master Tang immediately changed his mind: "Miss Xu, why don't you let someone else spar with Miss Xia?"
Upon hearing this, Xu Jiamin could only instruct her maid, "Xiao Huan, go and invite Sister Hongying over to have a friendly spar with Miss Xia."
"You think you can just have a friendly spar? I came here to teach cooking, not to show off my skills to you. You don't think you're so important that I can just do whatever you want to me, do you?"
Xu Jiamin choked.
She never expected Xia Chunmei to be so direct and so rude to her!
Although she was just the daughter of a shopkeeper, in this Zhaoling County, who wouldn't give her some face?
How dare this peasant girl?
"How can you talk like that?" Xiao Huan, Xu Jiamin's maid, stepped forward and reprimanded, "Country bumpkins are country bumpkins, they have no manners."
"You certainly have manners. The proper masters of the Jin family haven't even spoken yet, so who gave you the right to speak? A servant from the Xu family comes to the Jin family to act arrogantly and domineeringly. Ha, that's really strange."
I don't know if this is just the Xu family's family tradition, or if the Xu family no longer respects the Jin family and has come here to act as if they're in charge.
Xia Chunmei's words were undeniably harsh.
The expressions on the faces of the people inside the room changed drastically.
Ultimately, Xu Qingfeng, the head of the Xu family, was just working for Jin Yuntian. The Xu family had some influence in Zhaoling County, but that was only because others gave it to them because of Jin Yuntian.
If Jin Yuntian finds out what Xia Chunmei said, what will he think? Will he think Xu Qingfeng has ulterior motives?
Xu Jiamin dared not think any further.
Xu Jiamin jumped up in anger and raised her hand to slap Xia Chunmei, but Xia Chunmei blocked her way, saying, "Trying to hit me, huh?"
Jin Wenyuan was very agitated when he saw Xu Jiamin about to hit Xia Chunmei: "Don't hit your sister!"
Jin Wenyuan actually helped Xia Chunmei!
Xu Jiamin suddenly felt that she had lost all face and dignity.
Upon receiving the news, the steward Jin Lin rushed over: "Miss Xia, I am truly sorry for today. It was my negligence."
"Butler Jin, there's no need to apologize. This matter has nothing to do with you. I'm the one who disturbed you today," Xia Chunmei said. "It's getting late, and I was just about to take my leave."
"Then I'll have Old Qin escort you back."
"No need, I have other things to do, so I won't trouble Uncle Qin."
"No trouble at all. Now that we've brought the girl here, we naturally need to make sure she gets home safely. You can go ahead and take care of your business. I'll have Old Qin wait for you at the city gate."
Having a carriage readily available would be ideal, especially since she is currently pregnant.
"Then thank you very much, Butler Jin." After saying that, Xia Chunmei said...
She gently patted Jin Wenyuan and said softly, "I have to go now, I'll come see you again next time."
Hearing that Xia Chunmei was leaving, Jin Wenyuan was extremely reluctant to part with her. He escorted Xia Chunmei to the door and waited until her figure disappeared from sight before reluctantly turning back to his residence.
"Xiao Yuan, it's cold outside, come in quickly." Xu Jiamin reached out and took his hand.
Jin Wenyuan slapped her away, glared at her, and said in a cute but fierce tone, "You're bullying Sister Xia!"
Xu Jiamin felt a chill in her heart. If Jin Wenyuan disliked her, wouldn't all her efforts have been in vain?
Xu Qingfeng and Jin Lin had a good relationship; both were Jin Yuntian's confidants. Xu Jiamin was someone Jin Lin had watched grow up. He looked disappointed: "Jiamin, you really went too far today."
"Uncle Jin, I..."
Jin Lin didn't want to listen to her, so he waved his hand and said, "You don't need to explain. You should think about how to explain to your father and how to explain to your grandfather."
Jin Wenyuan was angry with Xu Jiamin, and Jin Lin didn't want to talk to Xu Jiamin either. Xu Jiamin was very angry. Was it worth it for a peasant girl?
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