I was hoping to get on good terms with Chuanwen through this guy, but now look what happened, he doesn't even like him!
Du Binghai shrank back as he was scolded. This was truly a case of being caught in the crossfire when one is just sitting at home! What had he done to offend this old lady?
Hua Jing asked the kitchen to make a fish soup and instructed them to add plenty of fish bones.
Du Binghai was stunned for a moment, then immediately felt wronged and angry, "I only splashed you with a bucket of black dog blood, and you've already slapped me like this, what more do you want!"
Before Hua Jing could even say that she would deliver the finished product to the Zhou family, Du Binghai started wailing, which startled her. When she turned around, she saw Du Binghai crying and looking aggrieved.
"I splashed you with black dog blood, wasn't it all to save you! You were possessed by a ghost, I couldn't just stand by and watch you die! I even got bitten on the leg while trying to catch that black dog! You didn't even thank me, you beat me up, and you even made me drink fish soup with bones in it, and you wanted extra of it!"
Hua Jing was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered what Du Binghai had said about her being possessed by a ghost. Uh... so this guy didn't splash her with black dog blood to mess with her, but actually to save her.
Hua Jing looked at the person on the bed who was almost crippled by her, and felt a little embarrassed.
However, before the embarrassment could turn into gratitude, Du Binghai sobbed angrily, "If I had known you were so malicious, I wouldn't have cared if you had been possessed by a ghost and died! My mother was right, you are a vulgar barbarian, and an ungrateful barbarian at that!"
Hua Jing's face darkened. A barbarian? So that's what that old woman said about him!
"Fine, you savage, huh?" Hua Jing sneered, and ordered the kitchen to make two bowls of fish soup with bones. One was sent to the Zhou residence, and the other to her mother-in-law's courtyard.
As for my idiot husband, since he still has some kindness in him, I'll spare him this fish soup!
After the fish soup was delivered to the old lady's courtyard, the Du residence was filled with the sounds of chickens running and dogs barking, which attracted a lot of gossip from the neighbors.
At the Zhou residence, Zhou Shuqin was quite pleased to learn that the Du family had sent fish soup, as this was all thanks to her connections.
She didn't even drink it herself, but took it to her father in the study.
Previously, it was the emperor who was worried about money and went bald, but now it's Zhou Jingxian's turn. Before anything even happened, he had already spent a thousand taels of silver. Although a thousand taels of silver wasn't a particularly large amount for him, he couldn't resist the sheer amount of money he was spending.
When Zhou Shuqin arrived, Zhou Jingxian was planning how to make money. He was quite pleased to hear that the fish soup was sent by the Du family, as it was never a bad thing for his daughter to make friends with powerful and influential people.
However, when Zhou Jingxian took the fish soup out of the food box, he was stunned and his face darkened.
"Is this fish soup drinkable?"
He pushed the fish soup from that night toward Zhou Shuqin, looked up at her, and asked coldly.
But there was some fish soup there, and the bowl was almost entirely filled with fish bones!
Zhou Shuqin was startled. "Did the Du family send it to the wrong address?"
Zhou Jingxian snorted coldly, "You should first think about whether you have offended the Du family in any way!"
After saying that, he kicked Zhou Shuqin out. He was already annoyed, and now he had an even bigger headache!
Zhou Shuqin, who had been kicked out, wasn't in a good mood either. What had she done to offend the Du family? Did the young mistress of the Du family know that she was being used as a pawn against that country girl?
The more she looked at the bowl of fish soup full of fish bones, the more she felt that this was true. Fish bones were meant to poke her mouth! It was a warning to her not to talk nonsense in the future!
Thinking about all this, Zhou Shuqin felt a little apprehensive. Would that young mistress Du do something to her?
Just as she was filled with fear, the Minister of the Court of State Ceremonies found Fang He and his party at Tianxin Tower.
"Prefect Fang, the Emperor has summoned you to the palace to discuss matters."
The Minister of the Court of State Ceremonies looked at Chuanwen, then at Fang He and the others, wondering how these people had gotten together.
Upon hearing that he was going to the palace, Fang He's eyes lit up. Did the emperor want to reward him with something good?
So the group quickly followed the Minister of the Court of State Ceremonial and left. Before leaving, they made sure to have the waiter pack up the snacks on the table. Considering that Chuanwen was still eating there, they kindly left her a plate.
Watching Fang He and his group leave with bags and packages, Wen Xue gritted her teeth. She really had never seen such shameless people before!
What was originally a large table of food is now reduced to just one lonely plate. Chuanwen blinked her big eyes, her gaze falling on that plate of pastries—the one they left for her was the worst-tasting one. "I really thank you all!"
Wen Xue gave her a "you deserve it" look. Who told you to act like a big shot in front of those poor and shameless Liang people? You asked for it.
In the Ganlu Hall of the Imperial Palace, the Emperor, though finding it difficult to speak, finally spoke, "The Western Regions are also willing to become one of our cities, and they have even offered a gold mine. Their only request is that once the Great Jin's inland areas are completed, we should be the first to help them. Alas, I know I agreed to your request first, but they have sacrificed so much, and I am in a difficult position. I have no choice but to agree to their request."
Fang He was stunned. What?!
Instead of the expected reward, I received this terrible news!
He wanted to refute it, but he couldn't find a way to say it. If they had submitted to the Great Jin, so had the Great Jin, and the Great Jin had even given them an extra gold mine! A gold mine! He was tempted!
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