116, Revenge
116, Revenge
After leaving the bookstore that day, Lu Mingfei thought that he would never run into Cai Renjun again, and that the conflict between them would be put aside because they hadn't met again. However, what he didn't expect was that the next day, his mother came back from business outside, looking unhappy.
After his repeated questioning, his mother told him that someone came to their stall today to cause trouble.
When Lu Mingfei heard this, he had some idea who was causing trouble at their stall. "What do those two people look like? Have you seen them before?"
"I haven't seen them before. They are two unfamiliar faces." Liu Sanniang shook her head and described the two people's appearance to her eldest son. She then asked him, "Have you seen people like that?"
"No, I haven't seen it." Lu Mingfei knew that Cai Renjun was not among the two people. He thought that if Cai Renjun was not stupid, he would not do such a thing on his own. "So how did the matter get resolved in the end?"
It really proves the saying that I would rather quarrel with a gentleman than get to know a villain!
Because no one knows when a villain will stab you in the back.
"It happened that Lord Wang and his men were eating at our stall. When they heard someone making trouble, Captain Wang came out to ask what was going on. At first, the two tried to argue, but Captain Wang's men apprehended them and took them directly to the Fengtian Prefecture government office." Liu Sanniang was very pleased to hear this. However, she also knew that if she hadn't met Lord Wang today, she really wouldn't have known how to handle this matter.
Over the years they've been setting up a street stall, they've encountered people who, jealous of their business, have sent people to cause trouble. There were also people who wanted to buy their braised pork recipe, but when they refused, they sent people to cause trouble. In short, the amount of trouble they've encountered over the years is too much to count on one hand.
It was just that her husband used to run a small stall nearby, so when something like this happened, the men in the family would come forward to handle it. The Lu family's pancake shop was next door, and Boss Lu would come over to help them if he heard the noise, so these things didn't require her, a woman, to come forward to deal with them.
They had been setting up their stall there for many years and had built up a good reputation among their regular customers. If there were customers eating at their stall, some customers would speak up for them. For example, today, it was because an adult happened to be eating at their stall that the matter was resolved so quickly.
Since the two families bought the land, her husband and Lu Qingfeng had been running out of the city every day, so they were not in the city. So Liu Sanniang knew that if she encountered such a thing again in the future, she would have to deal with it alone.
When Lu Mingfei heard the surname Wang, he thought of someone and asked his mother, "Is it Captain Wang, whose eyes are as big as copper bells?"
"Yes, it's him." Liu Sanniang nodded.
Lu Mingfei knew Captain Wang. His biggest impression of him was his eyes, which were as big as copper bells. Captain Wang was the city guard who had stopped the human traffickers at the west gate. He had been a garrison commander, but because of their meritorious service in arresting the human traffickers, he was promoted to the rank of Captain, a fourth-rank officer.
A few years ago, Captain Wang started bringing people to their stall to eat, and now they still frequently patronize their stall, so he is not unfamiliar with Captain Wang.
Thinking that the Dragon Boat Festival was just a few days away, and that their stall would start making and selling zongzi every year on the first day of May and continue until the Dragon Boat Festival, Lu Mingfei discussed with his mother, "Why don't we prepare more zongzi this year? We can keep some for the stall and give some to the soldiers guarding the city and patrolling the area. If we meet Captain Wang, we can also give him a special gift."
"How about I find out where Mr. Wang lives and send him there?" asked Liu Sanniang.
"That's fine. I'll deliver it when the time comes. By the way, I'll also send a copy to Mr.'s family, as well as Zhuoran's family and Lingxuan's family." Lu Mingfei thought that his father and godfather were both busy with the land outside Beijing recently, and might not have time to take care of things at home. It would be okay for him to arrange these things.
Liu Sanniang thought about the Zhang and Ye families who would send gifts to their home during the New Year and other festivals. They really wanted to prepare return gifts for the Zhang and Ye families as well. "Okay, I want it."
Then the mother and son discussed what gifts to prepare for the Dragon Boat Festival.
After thinking about it, Lu Mingfei told his mother about his encounter with Cai Renjun in the bookstore yesterday and the argument he had with him. "I suspect he was the one who sent people to our stall to cause trouble. If you see someone around my age, not tall, slightly shorter than me, with a small face, narrow shoulders, a pointed chin, single eyelids, who always looks at people with squinting eyes and an arrogant face, and who comes to our stall specifically to cause trouble, it's most likely him."
"Next time, if you see him coming to our stall, or if you run into him on the street, just take a longer detour."
"I'm not afraid, mother. There are so many people at the stall. He will have to think twice before he causes trouble to us. But you should be careful when you go out in the future. How about I ask your father to go to the pawnshop one day and buy someone to be your servant?" Liu Sanniang really didn't know that what happened today might have been caused by a quarrel between her eldest son and his classmates, but she knew what kind of person her eldest son was, so it was definitely not her eldest son's fault.
Compared to her own safety, Liu Sanniang was more worried that her eldest son would go out and meet this petty classmate.
"No need. I usually study at home and don't go out much, so I probably won't run into him." Lu Mingfei wasn't used to buying someone to follow him. He always felt guilty about buying someone.
His father didn't come home for lunch recently, so only his mother and the other children had lunch together.
After lunch, his mother went back to the house to rest. His brothers played in the main room, and Lu Mingfei went to the study to think. He didn't know where the conflict between him and Cai Renjun came from. Cai Renjun even sent someone to their stall to cause trouble for them.
Whenever he thought of that bastard Cai Renjun, he felt so angry that his teeth were itching!
It was not until Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan came over in the afternoon that he asked them about the situation at Cai Renjun's home.
"Why are you asking about him?" Zhang Lingxuan asked curiously when he heard Lu Mingfei asking about Cai Renjun's family.
"I met him in the bookstore yesterday..." Lu Mingfei had no choice but to tell Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan that he met Cai Renjun in the bookstore yesterday and couldn't help but say a few words to Cai Renjun. Today, Cai Renjun sent someone to their stall to cause trouble for them.
If he had known that the two words he couldn't help but say yesterday would have a follow-up today, he might have held back and not said them.
"This bastard! Just wait, I'll find someone..." Ye Zhuoran immediately got angry and wanted to find someone to beat Cai Renjun up.
But before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Zhang Lingxuan, "Shut up!"
Meeting Zhang Lingxuan's glaring eyes, Ye Zhuoran's mouth shrank into a duck's beak, and he didn't dare to mention the beating incident anymore.
"Yes, Zhuoran, we can't do such a thing. We all have honors now, and we still have to take exams in the future. If we commit a crime, our honors may be cancelled, and we will have no chance to take the imperial examinations in the future. Let's not ruin our future because of such a small matter." Lu Mingfei knew that Ye Zhuoran had good intentions, but he couldn't harm his good friend.
"From now on, when we're out there, we should all try our best to maintain peace. If we encounter someone causing trouble, the best thing to do is to ask someone to go to the government office and ask the officials to come and handle it."
Lu Mingfei, a modern man, believed that if he encountered any problems, he would go to the police (official police). He wouldn't dare to talk about other places, but in Kyoto Prefecture, there should be no place for legal shady areas.
"It just so happens that our family has some business dealings with Cai Renjun's family, and my brother knows Cai Renjun's brother. I'll ask my brother to invite Cai Renjun and his brothers out for dinner. If there's anything, we can talk it out face to face to prevent Cai Renjun from doing anything behind our backs." To be honest, Zhang Lingxuan didn't like Cai Renjun either.
Lu Mingfei actually didn't want to meet Cai Renjun, let alone sit down to eat. But since Zhang Lingxuan said so, he also thought it would be better for everyone to sit down and talk things out. Although he felt that it would be difficult to explain clearly to someone like Cai Renjun, "Okay."
"If you have an appointment, tell me and I'll go with you."
"I want to go too!" Ye Zhuoran who was standing aside also jumped out and said.
Zhang Lingxuan glanced at Ye Zhuoran and didn't say whether to let Ye Zhuoran go or not.
The three of them agreed.
While the eldest son was talking with his classmates in the house, Liu Sanniang was also telling her husband who had just returned home about the quarrel between the eldest son and a classmate named Cai, as well as what happened at the stall today.
Lu Youtian frowned after hearing this. After thinking for a while, he said to his wife, "I will talk to Mingfei about this tomorrow and ask him about the family situation of his classmate and see if Qingfeng recognizes them."
"Don't blame Mingfei. This is not Mingfei's fault." Liu Sanniang was worried that her husband would blame their eldest son.
"I know." Lu Youtian felt helpless and amused when he saw his wife was still worried that he would scold their eldest son. As a father, didn't he know what kind of personality his eldest son had?
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On this day, Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan stayed with Lu Mingfei until the first watch of the night. Then they left the Lu family courtyard and took the carriage that came to pick them up to go home.
Because he told Zhao Lang that he would not go to Prince Ding's Mansion for the next two nights, after seeing off Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan, Lu Mingfei went back to his study to continue reading. He read until the third watch, then he came out with a small lantern to wash up and go back to sleep.
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