Chapter 278 Like Mother, Like Daughter
The four of them arrived at the door to welcome guests and saw Xu Jiaojiao standing on the high steps with her hands on her hips, her head held high and a smug look on her face.
The two strong men, Qinglong and Heihu, who had been seen at the Lantern Festival before, were holding sticks and swinging them at Zhang Shun's thin shoulders.
Baoya's eyes suddenly widened. She was about to rush forward when suddenly a skinny figure flashed past her and pounced directly on Zhang Shun.
"Stop! Stop it now!"
The skinny man hugged Zhang Shun's head, holding him tightly under his body, and shouted loudly: "Just hit me, don't hit my son!"
"Bah!" Xu Jiaojiao crossed her arms and spat at the man. "You old bastard! If you can't do your job well, I'll naturally let your son take over!"
"Please, Miss, please let me do it! My son still has to go to school!"
"Study? He's still studying in this state?" Xu Jiaojiao seemed to have heard some huge joke.
"Forget about studying. Zhang Shun was born to work for others! He will never be able to study in his lifetime! He will never be able to become an official! Your Zhang family will never be able to turn things around!"
Her words were so harsh and stern that they hit the man in the chest. He suddenly hugged Zhang Shun tightly and burst into tears.
Qinglong and Heihu seemed to be completely unaware as they kept hitting his body and back with their sticks.
"Dad! Dad!"
Zhang Shun was frightened by him and tried to break free but found that he couldn't do it at all.
"You are a family of scoundrels, Qinglong and Heihu, beat them up hard!" Xu Jiaojiao raised her eyebrows and said in a coquettish voice.
"Stop it!"
Baoya rushed over at the right time.
Jingzhen, Yunhua and Yunyue followed behind her.
Qinglong and Heihu raised the sticks in their hands high and were about to bring them down, but when they saw Jingzhen following behind Baoya, they subconsciously stopped.
Qinglong had witnessed Jingzhen’s skills at the last Lantern Festival on the viewing tower.
Seeing the two men stop, Xu Jiaojiao shouted angrily: "What are you standing there for? Hit me!"
"This is right in front of my house. How dare they cause trouble here?"
After she said that, Qinglong and Heihu came to their senses. Even a strong dragon can defeat a local snake. The other side are just three little girls and a few stinky boys who haven't even grown all their hair yet. What are they afraid of?
Thinking of this, the two men suddenly gained confidence, swung the sticks in their hands more vigorously, and hit the man hard on the back.
Bang!
There was only a muffled sound.
But it was not the sound of a stick hitting a man, but Jingzhen and Baoya, one on the left and one on the right, catching the sticks of Qinglong and Heihu with their bare hands.
Baoya was very strong. After catching the stick, she pulled it hard and snatched it from Heihu's hand.
Hei Hu was completely stunned. He looked at his hands in disbelief, then looked at Bao Ya, whose mouth was so wide open that a goose egg could be stuffed in.
Jingzhen directly snatched Qinglong's stick and threw it far away.
Both of them were stunned, looking at the young man standing in front of them and the little girl who was a head shorter than the young man, and for a moment they didn't know what to do.
Xu Jiaojiao naturally saw it as well. She clenched her fists and was shaking with anger.
"That's enough! This is right in front of my house, why are you meddling in other people's business?"
"We are not meddling in other people's business. It was you who bullied Brother Zhang Shun and his father!"
Baoya also imitated her, pinching her waist with her hands and holding her head high.
“You…you!”
Xu Jiaojiao's teeth were trembling. "It's just two sticks! Azure Dragon and Black Tiger, go get me two more! I just don't believe I have to depend on your moods to discipline my own servants!"
But neither Qinglong nor Heihu moved. Xu Jiaojiao didn't understand, but the two of them did. Jingzhen and this little girl were both very skilled, and no matter how many sticks they brought, it would be useless.
"Go quickly!" Seeing that they didn't move, Xu Jiaojiao was so angry that she kicked Qinglong on the butt.
"Jiaojiao, what are you arguing about? Are we still going to continue our business?"
Suddenly, a shrill voice with a charming and sweet tone was heard.
When Baoya and her three sisters and Jingzhen heard the voice, they looked up and saw Xu Huiqin walking out in a lilac dress, twisting her waist.
"mother!"
As soon as she saw Xu Huiqin, Xu Jiaojiao felt aggrieved.
She hugged Xu Huiqin's thighs and started crying: "They bullied me! I just wanted to teach Zhang Dahe and his son a lesson, and they dared to stop me! What does it have to do with them?"
"Woo woo woo, Mom! Hurry up and teach them a lesson for Jiaojiao! I'm right in front of my own house, do I even have to care about their expressions?!"
Yun Yue saw Xu Jiaojiao's expression change instantly, and suddenly curled the corners of her mouth and sneered: "Like mother, like daughter!"
"Before, Xu Huiqin didn't want to apologize, so she pretended to cry in front of Baoya's shop. I guess Xu Jiaojiao has learned everything she did!"
She spoke quite loudly, so Xu Huiqin naturally heard it, and her delicately painted face suddenly stretched long.
"No manners!" Xu Huiqin rolled her eyes at Yunyue. "Even if a girl from the village goes to school, she can't get rid of her vulgarity!"
"You..." old witch!
Yunyue was so angry that her face turned red.
Yunhua quickly hugged her to help her calm down and patted her back.
"You are an adult, why... why do you have to bully us children!"
Yunhua was also very angry. While comforting Yunyue, she mustered up the courage to retort to Xu Huiqin.
Xu Huiqin looked at her with amusement, her eyes full of contempt and disdain.
"I advise you kids to go home and eat early, and don't meddle in other people's business. Otherwise, you'll get into trouble and regret it later!"
Baoya stared at her with her dark eyes: "Since you say this is meddling in other people's business, then we will definitely take care of it!"
"If you want to fire Uncle Zhang, there's no point in asking them to pay you any more money! Besides, even if Uncle Zhang broke a plate while working, he can't possibly owe you more than thirty taels of silver! You're cheating me!"
"How is it impossible?"
Seeing Baoya was serious, Xu Huiqin crossed her arms and jokingly said, "My plates are very valuable. They are made in Zhenzhou. Each plate is worth ten taels of silver. I didn't ask him for more!"
Baoya: ...
She opened her mouth, not knowing how to respond.
Jing Zhen: "Except for those used by the royal family, the bowls and plates made in Zhenzhou that are sold are all defective. The bowl or plate with the smallest flaw can only be worth two taels of silver at most."
"you……"
Xu Huiqin wanted to blurt out "You're talking nonsense", but she was slow to react and realized that what Jingzhen said was actually true.
She looked Jingzhen up and down again in surprise, unable to believe that this boy actually knew about the Zhenzhou porcelain kiln.
He was clearly dressed in ordinary clothes and was hanging out with Baoya and the other girls, so he must be a child from the village.
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