Gao Chong chased after Qiu Yan again, but stopped when she said, "If you keep chasing, your father will really be beyond saving."
His sorrowful gaze turned blank, and after a final thought, he realized something was wrong and continued chasing.
However, Qiu Yan had long since disappeared from sight.
At this moment, Qiu Yan was coercing Du Changjun to go to a bookstore, her purpose being—an IOU.
At first, Du Changjun refused to write.
Firstly, he hadn't seen Manager Gao wake up yet; secondly, he felt really aggrieved about paying for it; and thirdly, and most importantly, he had no money.
Du Changjun: "Miss Qiu, please let me go."
Qiu Yan: "I never placed you under house arrest, so how can you say I've let you go?"
Du Changjun: "Didn't you just see through me and realize I was framed? Why don't we just forget about this IOU?" This girl is clearly deliberately messing with him.
"Miss Qiu, please help me this once."
Qiu Yan: "When you come to me for medical treatment, you absolutely cannot delay paying the consultation fee. You are already incredibly lucky that I'm accepting your IOU!"
"How fortunate! That's a full two hundred taels of silver! How about this, consider it a favor I owe you. Rest assured, I, Du Changjun, will remember this favor and repay it in the future!"
"What you owe today, you shall repay today!"
"Qiu Yan, do you have some kind of prejudice against me?"
If there were no prejudice against him, why would she treat him like this?
Du Changjun could tell from Qiu Yan's act of helping Old Mu that she was kind-hearted.
But this girl is so cold to him.
He believes that he is a person of excellent character.
Qiu Yan glanced at him sideways, "Have you forgotten what you did so quickly?"
She is kind but measured; she doesn't help just anyone.
Du Changjun's expression turned somewhat unnatural as he thought of something.
"What happened on the day your brother started school was my fault. If you're angry, how can you punish me? Could you at least waive the two hundred taels of silver?"
Du Changjun and Qiu Dazhi were as close as brothers, and Qiu Yan had long suspected that this was the one who did what happened that day.
He is the son of Master Du.
"If you say another word, add one hundred taels!"
Further words were useless. In the end, Du Changjun reluctantly wrote down the IOU.
Qiu Yan took the IOU and glanced at it briefly. "Write down the repayment date and your name. Write tomorrow as the date. Also, add another clause: if you can't repay, the work you've done will offset the debt."
"Work?" He must have heard correctly. This Qiu Yan is truly more difficult to deal with than Gao Chong.
Qiu Yan's cold expression was devoid of any emotion: "By the way, the food delivery business is booming, and our workers are too busy to keep up. We're thinking of hiring more people."
"You..." Du Changjun felt like he was about to vomit blood from anger, just like Manager Gao. "You actually want me to run errands and deliver meals like those servants? Qiu Yan, don't go too far!"
"If others can do it, why can't you?" A faint smile flashed across Qiu Yan's face. "Also, if I don't see him tomorrow, I'll post this IOU at the entrance of the academy."
Qiu Yan's smile was perfectly normal, yet it sent a chill down Du Changjun's spine.
The bookstore clerk was puzzled by the interaction between the two and the contents of their IOU, yet couldn't help but find it amusing.
...
Huaiyuan City
Outside the city, all was peaceful.
Qiu Dafu and Zheng Hong were in the main hall of the Jiang family home, discussing the current situation in Huaiyuan with the Jiang father and son.
Zheng Hong paced back and forth restlessly: "Brother Qiu, the best course of action now is to leave here first and find a way to inform His Majesty of the calamity in Huaiyuan!"
The Jiang father and son looked at each other, feeling an unprecedented sense of panic.
Qiu Dafu pressed down on Zheng Hong's shoulders, steadied him, and forcibly dragged him to a bench to sit down. "You've said this many times already!"
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