Chapter 277 Complaint
He Qiuniang prepared egg drop soup and egg pancakes for Jiang Tangtang for breakfast. These things were nothing in the past, but now it is dry, and every drop of water and every handful of coarse grains have become particularly precious.
Jiang Tangtang distributed the food to the servants without even blinking. He Qiuniang couldn't help but sigh in her heart that a lady is still a lady. No matter what position she is in, she is so kind and always considers the servants.
He Qiuniang sighed in her heart, and distributed the food originally prepared for Jiang Tangtang to the guards. She also asked Yuan San how long Jiang Tangtang would stay after returning and whether he needed to have lunch at the farm.
Yuan San was not sure about this.
However, thinking that it would be better to be prepared and the food would not be wasted, he asked He Qiuniang to prepare it first.
After hearing this, He Qiuniang hurriedly asked people to get started.
Jiang Tangtang returned to her room, closed the door, and entered the space.
She took out a hand-pulled pancake she had made earlier from the refrigerator, fried it on the electric griddle, and ate it with grapes and strawberries from the space for breakfast. After eating, she went to the bookstore to look up some information.
She remembered that she had accidentally read a book before, which had a picture of a distillation device that could purify wine and produce better quality wine.
I wonder if that device can be modified to heat seawater and produce fresh water.
Jiang Tangtang didn't dare to stay in the space for too long. She set the alarm for half an hour. As soon as half an hour was up, no matter whether she had found any information or not, she would set off to check the wild rice.
But before half an hour had passed, she was driven out of the space by the noise outside.
When Jiang Tangtang opened the door and went out, she saw a woman with patched clothes rushing into the yard, being stopped by Yuan San and several guards.
The woman kept shouting, "Madam, you have to make the decision for me! Otherwise, our family will be in trouble!"
There was an old woman behind her, who was holding her tightly and signaling the man next to her to cover the woman's mouth.
"What's going on?" Jiang Tangtang winked at Yuan San, "Let her come over and talk."
The old woman and the man saw a flash of panic in Jiang Tangtang's eyes. The old woman, with a gloomy face, warned in a low voice: "Don't say anything nonsense. No matter what happens, they are still family. Do you think they will help you? Besides, they haven't treated you badly. Don't be ungrateful and hurt our family."
Although the old woman tried her best to lower her voice, Jiang Tangtang's body had undergone earth-shaking changes since he opened up his tendons and meridians and practiced in the space.
At this moment, the old woman's words, which contained implicit threats, fell into her ears word for word.
She frowned unhappily and pointed at the threatened woman, saying, "Come forward and tell me what's going on. If anyone uses my name to do evil things outside, I will not tolerate it."
Yuan San stopped the vicious old woman and the man aside, and the woman finally walked up to Jiang Tangtang.
Her lips trembled, as if she had made a great decision, "Madam, please help my daughter! That Lu Chengxuan took advantage of my daughter digging wild vegetables in the mountains and bullied her-"
Before she could finish her words, Aunt Xue interrupted her, "You're talking nonsense! My son is handsome and has all the girls he wants. Why would he bully your daughter?"
After Aunt Xue finished speaking, she looked at Jiang Tangtang with a flattering expression and said, "Niece-in-law, she just wants to marry my son and is deliberately trying to get close to me. Don't believe her."
To be honest, if it weren't for the word "niece-in-law", Jiang Tangtang would have never remembered who Lu Chengxuan was.
After she reminded her, Jiang Tangtang remembered the second and third branches of the Lu family, which she had long forgotten.
It took her a while to recognize that this was Aunt Xue, who was exiled to Lingnan with her at the time.
"I don't care about personal relationships here. No matter who it is, as long as they break the law, they must accept the punishment of the law."
Jiang Tangtang's expression was icy as she reminded him, "Besides, you're just a concubine and you have no right to have any relationship with me."
They had already made their stance clear long ago that they would not recognize anyone from the second or third house. They didn't know where this Aunt Xue got the confidence from to actually have the nerve to call her their niece-in-law.
To prevent her from missing out, someone used her as a leader and shouted, "Yuan San, go and bring Lu Chengxuan here. I want to try the case on the spot."
Aunt Xue secretly resented Jiang Tangtang for not giving her face. She pinched her palm fiercely and turned to warn the woman kneeling on the ground complaining, "Luo, my son is about to marry the daughter of Minister Cui. Even if you try to tie my son to a knot, he won't marry your daughter. I advise you to think it over carefully. Don't end up ruining your daughter's reputation and ending up being punished for false accusations."
At this time, a thin girl squeezed out of the crowd. She knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily to Jiang Tangtang several times. Then she raised her head and said stubbornly, "Madam, Lu Chengxuan has taken me to a secluded place and bullied me many times while I was out doing farm work. Zhao Ergou even caught him once. Madam, please ask Zhao Ergou to come and testify."
Lu Chengxuan was escorted here by Yuan San and just happened to hear this.
He glared at Wen Mingyue and said, "You're talking nonsense! It was you who wanted to marry me and seduced me many times, wanting me to marry you. I didn't want to marry you, I only wanted to take you as my concubine, and yet you got so angry that you came here and falsely accused me."
"No, I never thought of becoming a concubine. It was my grandma and uncle who wanted to curry favor with your family and sent Brother Sheng to work for the Madam. That's why they asked me to be your concubine. My parents didn't agree."
Wen Mingyue kowtowed to Jiang Tangtang again after she finished speaking, "Every word I said today is true. If even a single word is untrue, I will die a miserable death and be a slave forever."
Jiang Tangtang looked at the woman and man who had just stopped Luo from complaining and said, "I guess you must be Miss Wen's grandmother and uncle, right?"
The two men were sweating profusely. They fell to their knees on the ground and were speechless for a long time.
"You may not know my rules, so let me say it again. I never look at relationships when hiring people. I only look at their abilities and character."
Jiang Tangtang said, looking at Aunt Xue with contempt, "Don't say that I don't recognize this marriage. Even if I do, I won't break the rules for anyone."
Hearing Jiang Tangtang say that she did not recognize this marriage, Lu Chengxuan and Aunt Xue both looked unhappy.
The villagers watching were looking at each other, and suddenly someone stood up, knelt on the ground and said, "Madam, I want to sue Lu Yingxun's family for stealing my food."
After this villager came forward, more villagers knelt down to file complaints. The contents of the complaints were varied, and in addition to accusing the Lu family's second branch of stealing grain, there were also complaints about stealing water.
The villagers endured it in the past because their surname was Lu after all, and they were relatives of Lu Shiyan.
And these things weren't particularly big, so no one made a fuss about it.
But now Jiang Tangtang has said in front of everyone that she doesn't recognize this marriage, so what else can they endure?
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