Chapter 21 This is outrageous!
“Bang!”
Zhang Yiquan picked up another stone and threw it into the water, and the fish that were originally swimming over were scared away again.
The Chen family servant was so angry that he immediately climbed out of the water and walked towards Zhang Yiquan.
"What?" Zhang Yiquan was a little scared, but he pretended to be calm. "You want to kill someone?"
"Look everyone..." He turned and shouted to the crowd, "This is the nature of the Chen family. This river clearly belongs to everyone, but they want to take it over. I hit a fish with a stone, and they want to kill me to silence me..."
"Nonsense!" the Chen family servant shouted angrily, "It was you who was causing trouble. You deliberately threw stones while we were fishing and interfered with our efforts."
However, Zhang Yiquan was very good at playing the victim, and he cried in front of everyone with tears and snot.
"Everyone, my child is only ten years old and has never suffered any hardship. Today, he just had some steamed bread made from chaff. I wanted to get him some fish to nourish him, but who would have thought... who would have known that the Chen family would be so cruel... They've taken over this river, not only forcing us to catch fish, but also slandering us..."
Everyone looked at Zhang Yiquan, who was crying and felt weak and alone, and then looked at the Chen family, who had "large numbers and powerful forces".
Thinking about Zhang Yiquan's words again, they all resonated with each other. Their children had never suffered hardship either. Coming here to catch fish was to provide the children with nutrition so that they would not fall behind and fall into the exile team.
Therefore, everyone suddenly felt some sympathy for Zhang Yiquan.
"That's right, it's too bad."
When someone takes the lead, others will naturally follow.
"I heard they even poisoned a child."
"Really? That's too bad!"
"Go back, this is not the place for your Chen family to be so arrogant..."
"That's right, get out of here!"
Faced with public outrage, Chen Xue could only leave with her family, and Zhang Yiquan's triumphant laughter came from behind her.
"That's outrageous." Xiaodie waved her fist. "How could they do this? They didn't see anything, how could they say such nonsense?"
"That's right." The Chen family servant was a little angry. "I'll go teach them a lesson and make them shut up."
"No need." Chen Xue stopped them.
"Why? Are we just going to let them talk nonsense?" Xiaodie hated to see others talking bad about her family.
"Someone helped us."
Chen Xue said this and whistled.
After a while, a figure ran over.
"What do you two adults want?"
Zhao Guang looked at Chen Xue with enthusiasm, and there was no trace of his arrogant look in the afternoon. When he heard the discussions of the people around him, he immediately understood.
"What are you arguing about?"
Zhao Guang brandished his whip, his arrogant and domineering look lifted. "Whoever dares to talk nonsense, I will let him taste the taste of the whip."
Everyone was suddenly silent. They knew how terrifying the yamen runners were, so they naturally didn't dare to confront them.
"What are you laughing at, kid!" Zhao Guang was held hostage by the Chen family and was poisoned, so naturally he had to try every possible means to please the Chen family.
The current situation is most suitable.
He knew that the Chen family and the Zhang family had a grudge against each other, and he could just use the Zhang family to control them and let Lord Chen know how "loyal" he was.
"Are you trying to sow discord?" Zhao Guang whipped him and Zhang Yiquan subconsciously dodged.
"You dare to hide? You even hide from my whip. Are you tired of living?"
"No, sir, please listen to my explanation..." Zhang Yiquan's face suddenly changed and he quickly smiled.
He couldn't understand why the yamen runner Zhao Guang wanted to kill Chen Yuan in front of everyone in the afternoon, but now he kept calling him "Master Chen".
Not only that, they also served him like a lackey. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes in the afternoon, he would have thought they were acting.
Although he couldn't understand how the Chen family controlled this yamen runner, he didn't dare and couldn't do what the Chen family did.
I could only smile and say, "Sir, you misunderstood me. I was just catching fish, catching fish..."
"Catch a fish!" Zhao Guang's eyes rolled. "How about this, if you catch a fish for me, I'll let you go."
Zhang Yiquan looked at the whip in Zhao Guang's hand, gritted his teeth, and had no choice but to compromise. But he thought to himself in his heart, I, Zhang Yiquan, will remember this grudge.
Because it is the autumnal equinox, the river is still relatively cold, and as a civil servant, Lord Zhang is naturally not in good physical condition.
The freezing cold river water made him shiver. It was also his first time fishing. After struggling for a long time and getting soaked all over, he finally caught a stupid fish that was so scared that it hit the rock.
Zhang Yiquan came to Zhao Guang carrying a kilogram of silly fish and handed it to him reluctantly. If he ate the fish himself, the hot fish soup would be so delicious.
Forget it, forget it. It’s not a loss to use a fish to build a good relationship with the officials.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yiquan felt much better.
After Zhao Guang took the fish, he ignored Zhang Yiquan and immediately ran to the Chen family.
"Miss Chen, Master Chen, I caught a fish. Please accept it. This is my token of appreciation."
Zhang Yiquan: “…………”
Zhang Yiquan, who was not far away, was stunned when he saw this scene.
No, I just gave you the fish, and you turned around and did me a favor?
And the one who sent it was my enemy.
I……
Zhang Yiquan was so angry that his whole body was shaking. He wanted to point at Zhao Guang and curse him as shameless, but he didn't dare. He could only hold back his anger and watch the Chen family refuse. However, Zhao Guang begged them to accept it, and the Chen family reluctantly accepted it.
"Puff~"
Zhang Yiquan finally couldn't stand the stimulation anymore and fainted from anger. He worked so hard to catch a fish by freezing it in the river for so long, but it became his enemy's meal. How could he not be angry?
After receiving the fish, the servants of the Chen family went back to make fish soup, but Chen Xue did not leave. She brought her family to a place further upstream where there were fewer people and it was more suitable for her to do it.
"Let me see how much the bait costs."
Chen Xue's consciousness appeared in the exchange system of the space. This exchange system had a lot of good things, but it cost money.
If it wasn't too exaggerated, she would have wanted to exchange it for a few fishing nets and let her servants set the nets and catch fish directly.
After thinking about it, he decided to keep a low profile and exchanged a few scoop nets. After all, the servants' indentures were in their hands and they would not betray him. As for Zhao Guang, if he spoke nonsense, he would ask the poison in his stomach if he agreed.
Then, in order to attract fish, Chen Xue exchanged the bait.
The bait in the space costs one or two taels of silver per bottle, which is very expensive, but it is really useful.
She dropped a drop on the river bank, and within seconds, the whole river was boiling.
The fish rushed over frantically, and many even jumped directly onto the shore. The servants excitedly scooped them up with scoop nets, while Chen Xue happily reached into the river and scooped all the fish into the pot and put them into the space.
Zhao Guang next to him was completely dumbfounded.
It's not that he had never seen fish being caught before, but who had ever seen this way of catching fish?
The matter of turning into a scoop net out of thin air will not stop for the time being.
Chen Xue spit into the river and the fish jumped onto the shore frantically. This was simply outrageous.
Because he was far away, he didn't see Chen Xue dripping bait into the river. He only saw her squatting by the river with her head sticking out, and thought she was spitting.
Looking at a group of fish emerging from the calm river, Zhao Guang felt that he needed to find a place to calm down.
This Chen Xue is simply not a human being!
This is outrageous!
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