Chapter 76 Are you unable to understand human language?
"No! Really, no! Listen to me, this gentleman didn't bully me. I insisted on kowtowing. He's a good person!" the waiter kept explaining.
The boss, Hua Rong, coldly rebuked, "Get out of here! Who gave you the right to speak?"
After speaking, he looked at Miss Liu with a smile: "Are you satisfied with this solution?"
Miss Liu gave a soft humph: "You too, he's from a poor family, why are you scolding him?"
Hua Rong smiled and said, "Yes, yes, yes. I'll change it later. I'll listen to you."
Looking at her beautiful face, Jiang Nuanzhi suddenly felt utterly bored.
When it comes to business, it's best to find someone who shares your values and interests. Even if you don't share those values and interests, you should at least be someone you find agreeable.
He simply let go of the whip and walked away.
I had only taken two steps when I suddenly heard a whooshing sound behind me.
She frowned slightly and instinctively dodged. But the whip still grazed her back, causing a burning pain. Turning around, she saw Miss Liu looking at her defiantly with her chin raised. The whip lashed out again.
Jiang Nuanzhi narrowed his eyes slightly, grabbed her long whip, and pulled her close. The next second, the whip circled around her neck, locking her tightly and half-holding her in his arms.
"Ambush me? Hmm?"
Miss Liu gripped the whip tightly around her neck, her eyes filled with terror, and said with difficulty, "You...you let me go! If you dare hurt me, my brother will never let you get away with this!"
Hua Rong was also startled, dropping her fan and pointing a trembling finger at Jiang Nuanzhi: "Are you crazy? This is Miss Liu! If you hurt her, your whole family will pay with their lives! Let go of her now! Maybe Miss Liu will be magnanimous and let you off the hook!"
The waiter was terrified, his voice trembling with tears: "Sir, sir! Don't be impulsive! Let go! Miss Liu's brother is an official in the capital, highly regarded by the Sixth Prince. He's a seventh-rank official, a gatekeeper of the Prime Minister. You can't afford to offend him. If we really hurt Miss Liu, every one of us will suffer."
"Yes! Now you'd better let me go!"
Jiang Nuanzhi: "The Sixth Prince?"
“Yes, you’re scared now! Let go!” Miss Liu said.
"The Sixth Prince is indeed remarkable, but your brother isn't the Sixth Prince. What are you being so arrogant about?"
Jiang Nuanzhi remembered: the sixth prince was the prince in the book who would become the emperor in the future.
Xie Liangchen's reinstatement was due to the fact that he had saved the Sixth Prince before his ascension to the throne and had continued to assist him thereafter. Only after the Sixth Prince ascended the throne did Xie Liangchen become an extremely powerful close advisor to the emperor. He was indeed someone not to be offended.
"I...I...You have humiliated my family like this! My brother will never let you get away with this!"
Jiang Nuanzhi laughed: "What? Does your brother think he can abuse his power?"
“Working in the prince’s residence is really tough; I’m terrified. Do you think the Sixth Prince would kick your brother out of the residence if he knew that your brother was indulging his sister’s tyrannical behavior and arbitrarily whipping the poor?”
The girl was stunned for a moment, then immediately retorted in shame and indignation, "You're twisting the truth!"
"Can't you understand human language?"
Jiang Nuanzhi rolled her eyes, her patience finally worn thin: "This was originally a matter between me and this young man. He was going to thank me by kowtowing a couple of times, and I helped him up. We didn't see anything wrong with it, so why did you come out of the way?"
"Me, me, me"
"What do you mean, 'I'? You can't even speak clearly! Your mind is definitely not clear! You don't actually think you didn't hurt anyone, do you? My shoulder is still bleeding, or do you think you didn't act like a bully?"
"You start whipping people the moment things don't go your way? Who taught you that?"
"With your character, you might kill your brother one day, and you won't even know who your opponent is!"
"I'll report you to the authorities in a little while and accuse you of intentional assault, and then I'll accuse your brother of condoning his sister's violent act! You can go to the government office and get whipped then!"
Miss Liu stared at Jiang Nuanzhi for a while, then suddenly burst into a shrill, deafening wail.
Jiang Nuanzhi was stunned; this situation was truly unexpected. She immediately released the whip: "Hey, I haven't done anything to you yet!"
Miss Liu seemed not to hear, and continued to wail with snot and tears streaming down her face.
While crying, she shouted in grievance, "I helped the poor, was I wrong! You're bullying me! I upheld justice, was I wrong! Who told you to be so fierce and not explain yourself clearly!"
After saying that, she continued to wail shrilly.
"Miss Liu! Please don't cry! It hurts my heart to see you crying!" Hua Rong immediately stepped forward to comfort her.
But the more she tried to coax her, the louder Miss Liu's voice became, and she would occasionally glance at Jiang Nuanzhi.
Jiang Nuanzhi rubbed her temples in annoyance and suddenly yelled, "Shut up!"
The crying stopped abruptly.
Jiang Nuanzhi squatted down: "You're upholding justice, but you can't just jump to conclusions. You mean well, but have you done anything right?"
The girl pouted, looking aggrieved. "I...I know I was wrong. So, could you please not go to the government office to report me and my brother?"
Jiang Nuanzhi: "."
"Alright, give me two taels of silver, I'll go get my wounds treated, and we'll consider this matter over."
She wiped away her tears and stared intently at Jiang Nuanzhi: "Really?"
Jiang Nuanzhi: "Indeed."
"Here, two taels of silver. You'd better keep your word."
Jiang Nuanzhi took the silver, slung her basket over her shoulder, and turned to leave.
We've lingered here too long; we need to hurry and sell this ointment.
She also wanted to buy some wine and meat today to visit Mr. Li Junping. It was time to put the children's schooling on the agenda.
Miss Liu watched her retreating figure, wiped away her tears, and immediately followed her out the door.
"Boss, look at the mess we've made here. Should we ask Miss Liu to pay us some money?"
"I'll compensate you my ass!" The proprietress frowned and thought for a moment, "Wrap up a bottle of the finest face cream and some fresh indigo that arrived recently, and send them to the Liu residence together. Consider it our apology."
The waiter nodded immediately, then thought for a moment and said, "That gentleman has also suffered some injustice, would you like some food?"
"What do you mean, 'want or not'? She's still thinking of getting my apology? I'm being lenient by not asking her for money! Just you wait, once you offend Miss Liu, you might never see her again."
As she spoke, she seemed to remember something and snorted coldly, "Ugly people really do a lot of strange things. They really have no sense at all. They don't know anything about Miss Liu's brother's status! They even want to report it to the authorities? How ridiculous! They're just trying to scare the little girl."
"You idiot, have some sense of propriety. In the future, stay away from these poor bastards."
"Young master, look! Isn't that Jiang Pangya's eldest son?"
Afu pointed to the boys carrying grain over at the dock and said with a hint of excitement.
Xie Liangchen was sitting on Liu Ma's donkey cart. He had been riding on Liu Ma's donkey cart for a while now.
Uncle Niu's house was too close to Jiang Nuan's house, and Xie Liangchen really didn't want to go. Now that Aunt Liu was taking her grandson to school every day, it was on the way, so he gave her a few coins and asked her to take him with her every day.
Upon hearing Afu's voice, both Liu Ma and Xie Liangchen looked towards the dock.
Li Junping carried a sack of grain on his shoulder, his face flushed from the effort, his legs trembling as he moved with extreme difficulty. He was occasionally bumped by those around him, swaying unsteadily as if he were about to collapse at any moment.
Xie Liangchen frowned, his expression strange, and said, "I heard that Jiang Pangya has been treating the children quite well lately, how could that be?"
Happy Qixi Festival, my darlings!
(End of this chapter)
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