Chapter 1980 Youcheng's Guardian
Cheng Jiatong sneered, "What's the panic? He just knows some constables in the yamen, not the prefect. What's there to be afraid of? He's just an official, he only has a title. Those thugs may be afraid of him, but I don't take him seriously."
“But, but the young master said that this new Lord Qi is difficult to deal with, and his subordinates may not necessarily give the Cheng family any face…”
Before he could finish speaking, Cheng Jiatong glared at him fiercely.
However, the maid's words made Cheng Jiatong have some concerns.
But she quickly dismissed it, "That bitch has connections in the government, but don't I? Perfect, my uncle's guards are right here at the manor. Even Lord Qi gives my uncle some face. Would a lowly official dare cause me trouble over a woman from the countryside? Does he even have the guts?"
After saying that, she asked the maid, "Does the injury on my face look serious?"
The maid nodded, "It still looks a bit red, there's a handprint." Shu Yu's strength was by no means light.
Upon hearing this, Cheng Jiatong was filled with rage. She didn't want to go home because she had been slapped, lest she be laughed at by those two illegitimate daughters. But now, she was going to use that slap to teach that bitch a lesson.
Cheng Jiatong took a deep breath. "Let's go home."
The maidservant hurriedly followed.
The Cheng family home wasn't too far away. After Cheng Jiatong arrived, she asked another personal maid who came out to greet her, "Where is Guard Cheng?"
"That gentleman is talking to the young master in the pavilion."
"That's quite a coincidence."
Cheng Jiatong deliberately rubbed her eyes until they were red and swollen, her hair disheveled. Then she stumbled and ran towards the pavilion in the backyard, crying as she ran.
Her voice was so shrill that the two people who were chatting and laughing in the pavilion were startled and turned their heads to look at her.
Cheng Jiatong's elder brother, Cheng Wenbao, suddenly stood up, frowning as he came out of the pavilion. "What's wrong? What happened?"
"Big brother, sob sob..." Cheng Jiatong ran to Cheng Wenbao, lowered her head and sobbed.
When Cheng Wenbao saw her disheveled appearance and then noticed the clear handprint on her face when she looked up, his pupils contracted sharply, and he asked with a livid expression, "Who hit me?!"
“A woman, who came from who-knows-where.”
"woman?"
Cheng Jiatong nodded, sobbing and speaking haltingly, "I just mistook someone for someone else and said a few words to that woman. I didn't mean it. Who knew that woman, relying on her connections with the officials in the yamen, would just... hit me and warn me never to appear in front of her again, or she'd beat me every time she saw me. Brother, you have to stand up for me! I've never even been hit by my father in my entire life, and this woman, who I don't even know where she came from, actually hit me!"
Upon hearing this, Cheng Wenbao's anger flared instantly. "Just because you know the officials in the yamen, you dare to use such force against you? You're too arrogant! Do you really think the Cheng family has no one to rely on?"
"Big brother, it hurts so much."
"Don't worry, Fourth Sister, your eldest brother will stand up for you. Do you know where that woman lives?"
“I sent my maid to check, and she lives on Fuyuan Street. Brother, are you going to go find her? But there are government officials at her house, I'm worried…”
Cheng Wenbao frowned. "There's nothing to worry about. He's just a lowly official. We have Brother Cheng here."
As he spoke, he turned to look at the man sitting in the pavilion.
(End of this chapter)
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