Chapter 55 Don't expect me to pay you another penny
Song Jin broke his promise, and Madam Chai arrived as scheduled to call him to task.
The loud voice was like a ray of sunshine breaking through the dark clouds, bringing infinite hope to Song Jin. She almost crawled to the window.
"Hand over Wen Zijin to me..."
"He dared to keep me waiting in vain. I think he is tired of living..."
"He even dared not to come to the banquet hosted by the prefect's wife. I think he must be really bold..."
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Four heads were crowded around the window, and they vaguely heard the voice coming from the hall, and were sure that it was Mrs. Chai who came to call for an explanation.
"Is there a banquet at the Chai family?"
Yes, but Song Jin didn't say it, in order to prevent Wen Ya from detaining people.
Now Wen Ya is here, but how can I get her to take me away?
Song Jin looked around and quickly came up with an idea.
The woodshed lacked everything except firewood. Stacked against the wall were thick logs about a foot long, chopped with machetes.
This kind of knife has a characteristic after cutting, that is, one end is sharp and the other end is concave.
Song Jin asked Chunyun to pick out a pointed piece of firewood as thick as a child's arm, and then find a wooden stick with a crack. He stepped on the cracked stick with one foot, inserted the pointed end into the crack, and rubbed it quickly with both hands.
She wants to make fire by rubbing two sticks together.
Chunyun had the innocence and ignorance that only children have. She did whatever Song Jin asked her to do. However, Caiwei Hongxing asked, "What are you doing?"
"Make a fire."
"To make a fire?"
It's a big hassle to make a fire in the woodshed.
“You’re going to burn this place down.”
Song Jin said calmly: "If it is lit, you may not die, but if it is not lit, you will definitely die."
Caiwei and Hongxing looked at each other in bewilderment, but Chunyun, hearing that he could survive, drilled even harder. However, he was too young and lacked strength, so his speed quickly slowed down.
Song Jin was now completely unable to use any strength, so Caiwei took over immediately.
"If you stick your head out, you'll get stabbed, so you might as well get it over with."
Caiwei rubbed it and said viciously.
Hong Xing pulled Song Jin's sleeve and asked, "How sure are you?"
"If we completely fall out, both sides will suffer. We are the barefoot ones who are not afraid of the ones wearing shoes. We should make the grandmother afraid of me."
Song Jin wanted to start a fire, escape in the chaos, find Madam Chai, and have her take him away in the name of letting her punish him. Unless Wen Ya wanted to tear off Wen Zijin's skin, she could not stop Song Jin.
The three people took turns rubbing the cloth until the cracks started to smoke, but no sparks were seen. Song Jin was anxious. He saw that Chunyun was wearing a thin coat and pointed at the coat and said, "Tear up the coat, pull out the cotton wool inside, stuff it into the cracks and continue rubbing."
The yellow cotton wool was pulled loose and stuffed into the gap, and soon flames sprang out. Dry leaves covered it, and the fire instantly grew bigger.
It was very easy for the girls who worked in the kitchen to make the fire bigger. After a few bundles of dry firewood were lit, they knocked on the door and shouted:
"The fire! The fire! The fire!"
The servants rushed in and saw the fire. They hurriedly asked people to fetch water. Four of them grabbed the hot water bottle and dragged Song Jin out of the woodshed and went straight to the hall to find Mrs. Chai.
The firewood room was not far from the hall. When Wen Ya heard a fire inside, she immediately guessed that it was Song Jin's doing and wanted to go inside, but Mrs. Chai would not give in.
"Don't even think about a fire. Even if the sky falls, you have to hand the person over to me."
"I told you, the person is not here!"
"Don't tell me nonsense. He told my family's security guard clearly that day that he was going to your Bai family. There is no mistake."
"Your daughter is so young, she must have remembered it wrongly."
"Anyone can make mistakes, but my Baobao will never make mistakes. I have inquired about it. The man's name is Wen Zijin, and he is your relative. If you hand him over to me today, it will be fine. If you don't, I will definitely find him and settle this account even if I have to turn Suzhou upside down."
Wen Ya was furious, but she really didn't want to make a noise. If the noise inside got louder, it would definitely alarm people. If Bai Yuanhuai knew about it, who knows what would happen.
Just as Wen Ya was getting anxious and angry, four women stumbled out. Wen Ya wanted to find someone to stop them, but Song Jin had already seen Madam Chai and rushed forward:
"Madam Chai, I am guilty. I failed to do my job properly and delayed your banquet. Please punish me."
Mrs. Chai was extremely angry, but when she saw Song Jin rushing out with disheveled hair and dirty face, she couldn't help but feel confused.
Why did you beat him like this? What's the hidden reason?
"Who hit you?"
Song Jin raised his dirty face and said, "I accidentally knocked over a cup of tea, and it was right for Grandma to punish me. I didn't expect to delay Madam Chai and Madam Lin's banquet, so I deserve to die. I will come and apologize now."
Mrs. Chai became puzzled and looked at Wen Ya with a frown.
Wen Ya was furious, but she couldn't refute it.
She couldn't give a reason.
Just when they didn't know what to do, a message suddenly came from outside.
Bai Yuanhuai is back.
Mrs. Chai was no small character, so naturally she was taken seriously for causing such a commotion in the Bai family. After Bai Yuanhuai moved into the house, he arranged his own people to move in, because soon someone passed the message to his ears, and he ran into this scene when he came back.
"Aunt, what's going on?"
The Bai family was in chaos. Some people were shouting to put out the fire, some were lying on the ground, some were glaring, and Bai Yuanhuai was full of confusion.
Song Jin, who always had a lot of tricks, was silent at this moment. If she didn't want to speak elegantly, she had to speak politely, and Song Jin didn't like what she said. It would be troublesome if she was exposed.
Wen Ya cleared her throat and said, "Someone didn't serve well, so I punished him."
Bai Yuanhuai looked at Song Jin in confusion, but Song Jin lowered her head so that no one could see her face clearly.
"Aunt will punish me..."
"Just punish him?" Before Bai Yuanhuai could finish his words, Madam Chai started to yell, "This is the owner of Shidinglou, and he is the cook for the banquet I hosted for the prefect's wife today. You beat him up like this and delayed my banquet, and you just punish him? Do you think I am just a decoration?"
"Madam Chai, please calm down." Bai Yuanhuai extended his hand to invite Madam Chai to sit at the lower seat. He sat down at the upper seat himself and then asked slowly, "Aunt, do you have anything to say?"
Wen Ya was filled with anger, but Song Jin still had the upper hand, so she had to give in: "I was the one who punished her. As for where she was going to work as a kitchen servant today, I don't know."
"Humph!" Madam Chai was not impressed by Wen Ya's words. "You are just a shopkeeper. Your aunt beats me up whenever she wants. My family's banquet is delayed whenever she wants. You are so arrogant."
Bai Yuanhuai said calmly, "It was my aunt who was wrong in this matter, but she didn't mean it. Madam Chai, can you give me some face?"
Madam Chai sneered: "You have to earn your own face, not rely on others to give it to you."
After she finished speaking, she glanced at Song Jin on the ground and said lazily, "No matter who it is today, you must give me an explanation no matter what. Don't think you can get rid of me with just a few words."
"Of course I have to give an explanation."
While Bai Yuanhuai was talking, his eyes were looking at Wen Ya, so Wen Ya had no choice but to say, "I was the one who beat him, if you want to punish me, just continue beating me."
When Song Jin heard this, he raised his head and said, "I have done something wrong and I am willing to be punished. But can you calm Madam's anger by just beating me?"
Mrs. Chai tilted her head and found things becoming interesting.
"So how do you want to calm my anger?"
Song Jin said, "I am willing to go back to the mansion with Madam and accept the punishment."
Wen Ya was unhappy when she heard this: "If you want to punish me, do it here."
Mrs. Chai smiled gently. The thoughts of the two people in front of her were obvious. One wanted to leave, and the other insisted on staying. It depended on what she wanted to do.
"Okay, you come back with me and do what you need to do. If you do it..."
“No!”
Wen Ya stopped him sternly, and Madam Chai's anger, which had just subsided, flared up again: "Why not? He is the shopkeeper of Shi Ding Lou, not your servant. He has to follow your orders and do things."
This sentence touched Wen Ya's sore spot. Song Jin was her slave, a slave that could not be spoken out.
"I am willing to go with you, Madam, but if I want to get the job done, I can't do it alone, and I need these helpers."
Madam Chai said, "It's up to you. Anyway, don't expect me to pay you another penny."
When several people heard that they could leave the Bai family, they all felt hopeful. Wen Ya wanted to stop him, but when she looked at Song Jin, she didn't dare.
If pushed into a corner, anyone would do something desperate. Don't worry, his parents are still in her hands, there is always a way to make her come back obediently.
"Since Madam Chai likes it, why don't you take it away?"
"And my accountant and clerk, and the former kitchen maids will have to go."
Wen Ya's chest heaved violently. She had never thought in her life that one day she would be bullied like this by a maid.
This confrontation allowed Song Jin to successfully lead everyone away from the Bai family, but she also understood that Wen Ya would not let her go.
Mrs. Chai took her people away as she wished. However, when they entered the Chai family, she did not rush to ask them to cook t dishes. Instead, she sat upright in the living room, smiled and looked at Song Jin: "Tell me, why did the second wife of the Bai family beat you."
The Second Madam was the grandmother of the second branch of the Bai family. Ever since the two brothers separated, the maids were used to calling her the First Madam, and they were a little uncomfortable hearing the Second Madam at first.
Song Jin stood in the hall, supported by Caiwei and Hongxing on both sides, and slowly told the story. She never mentioned the arson and the secret storage of money. She only said that Wen Ya asked her to pretend to be Wen Zijin and go into business to make money.
After hearing this, Madam Chai said after a while, "If you ask me, this woman must have met a man like that. It's a disaster in her life. I didn't expect that this disaster would be having no children."
Madam Chai had the same temperament as Wen Ya, both were hot-tempered, but Madam Chai was much luckier. She had a son and a daughter, and her husband loved them sincerely. Even if he occasionally had some small thoughts, she could always use some tricks to make Chai Heng calm down.
Wen Ya is different. She has no children, her husband and wife are at odds, her sisters-in-law are not in harmony, and her nephew inherits the family business. If they can live in harmony in the future, it will be fine. If not, she will have hard days ahead.
If Song Jin told Wen Ya what she had done, there would definitely be another disturbance, and Wen Ya definitely didn't want to see that.
"Madam, I am actually a servant born in the Bai family. I had to hide it before. Now, because the master is kind and gave me some reward, I want to quit. Who knew that I would be beaten when I mentioned this matter, and I would never let go."
Mrs. Chai frowned when she heard this: "You want to renounce your citizenship?"
"Please help me, Madam."
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