Gan Li took Chen Pan'er out the door, but instead of going anywhere else, they first took a stroll around the town.
Because the original owner of this body hit her head, she is now covered in blood, and she deliberately didn't wash it off, all for this moment.
Sure enough, people on the street were pointing and whispering, and some even shouted:
"Oh dear, isn't that that stupid woman from the Chen family? How did she end up in such a sorry state? Look at all those big bags and bundles they're carrying, did they get kicked out by Scholar Chen?"
"Look at that face covered in blood, it's kind of pitiful..."
"What's so pitiful about her? She's the most ruthless one ever! Her father, brother, and sister-in-law came to her door in the middle of the night, covered in bruises. Outsiders would feel sorry for them, but guess what she did? She wouldn't let them in!"
"Huh? If that's really the case, she's truly ruthless. She deserves to be beaten by Scholar Chen!"
"Her family is the most pitiful; they've been ruined by such an idiot!"
Gan Li paraded through the streets with her head covered in blood, hoping to show everyone her miserable state and let the villagers know how inhumane Chen Danian had been.
How important is the war of public opinion? Everyone in modern society knows.
Who knew that the original owner of this body was really too wicked, so after going around, not a single person cursed Chen Danian, but instead they all came after him!
Gan Li suddenly felt a pang of sadness, as if she had shot herself in the foot. She no longer wanted to stroll around. Just then, she saw a clinic ahead and dragged Chen Pan'er inside as if fleeing.
She left, but the gossip outside continued. Some people listened with great interest and couldn't wait to ask:
"The Gan family leaked someone else's secret recipe, and they only got a beating. That's already pretty good. It's not that bad, is it?"
"Sigh, how do you know? It would be one thing if they were just beaten up, but think about it, they leaked such a valuable secret formula, how could they possibly let them off so easily?"
A relative of mine works there and knows a bit about the inside story. He told me that the owner of Baifulai is demanding five hundred taels of silver from the Gan family, or else he'll sell them all to pay it! And that's only because the owner is kind-hearted…”
These words were met with a huge murmur of dismay from the crowd.
Five hundred taels! That's five hundred taels! Even though the Great Jing Dynasty is currently in a prosperous era and the people are relatively well-off, five hundred taels is still an unattainable sum for these people.
With such a large sum of money, how could a cook who had been kicked out of the Gan family possibly pay for it?
Meanwhile, in the clinic, Ganli was seeing a doctor.
Although the injury on her head no longer hurt, she still needed to have it treated to make it look like a serious injury.
To avoid being exposed, she deliberately left Chen Pan'er outside and had the doctor bandage her up by herself.
The poor doctor was so frightened when he saw her head covered in blood that his hands were trembling.
After wiping it clean, looking at that spotless head without a single scratch... wait, is this some kind of new art form?
But for the sake of the money, he still bandaged her up properly, making it look quite convincing.
When they came out of the clinic, the gossipy crowd had already dispersed, but the two of them stood at the clinic entrance, looking somewhat bewildered.
"Mother..." Chen Pan'er glanced at her cautiously and asked timidly, "Where are we going?"
Ganli's face was already clean, but upon hearing the question, she couldn't help but sigh, her fair face filled with worry.
Yes, where could they go?
Should we stay in town, or settle in another village?
The idea was immediately rejected by Ganli.
Even though she wasn't from this era, she knew that life was extremely difficult for women in ancient times. As a lone woman with her daughter, she went to a strange place and had no hope of having a stable life.
In town? That's not realistic either.
She had just squeezed two hundred taels of silver out of the Chen family's pockets. The family hated her now. Knowing that she had settled in town, all she had to do was reveal that she had two hundred taels of silver, and someone would come looking for trouble for them!
After much deliberation, Gan Li realized with dismay that she only had one place to go—the original owner's family home.
The moment the thought crossed Gan Li's mind, the events that had occurred at the Gan family's house that day automatically came to mind, causing her some hesitation.
Seeing her expression, Chen Pan'er, the clever girl, immediately guessed what was going on. Thinking about going to her grandfather's house, her face was full of resistance, but she mustered her courage and said:
"I...I don't want to go to my grandfather's house!"
Looking at the little girl's embarrassed face, Gan Li understood that Chen Pan'er didn't not want to go; she was simply too ashamed to go!
It's not her fault; the only one to blame is the original owner for being too troublesome!
The Gan family had been cooks for generations. When the original owner's eldest brother got married, his wife's father was also a cook, so it was considered a good match.
The original owner's sister-in-law's surname was Zhao. Her father worked as a chef in a restaurant in the next town. That restaurant had a famous signature dish that many people would travel from other places to try.
Having tasted the benefits of offering recipes, Chen Danian then set his sights on the recipes held by his sister-in-law Zhao's father, urging the original owner of this body to ask for them.
After hearing a few kind words from Chen Danian, the original owner happily returned to her parents' home early in the morning.
Upon entering, he neither apologized for turning away his family the previous night, nor did he ask how his father, brother, and sister-in-law managed to drag their battered bodies back to the countryside from town in the dead of night.
He didn't even bother to visit the ailing old man Gan, but instead summoned Zhao and, with a self-righteous air, ordered her around:
“Go back to your parents’ home now and ask your father to give me the recipe for their restaurant’s most famous dish.”
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