"Miao Miao, what are you laughing at?"
When Gu Yuanniang saw what happened to Xu Miaomiao, she decided to ask.
Xu Miaomiao said, "It's just that what this elder said is really funny. It seems that we are the only family in the world with the surname Xu. If other people have the surname Xu, I'm afraid you will have to take back the word Xu."
Mrs. Zhang also laughed when she heard this.
The woman at the seat was a little embarrassed when she heard this. She pointed at Xu Miaomiao angrily and said, "Who do you think you are? What qualifications do you have to meddle in my family's affairs?"
"I'm really not an important person. I'm just a relative of Gu Yuanniang. If she gets wronged here, I would naturally not want to see it happen. I have to make the decision for her."
When Gu Yuanniang heard this, she looked at Xu Miaomiao and smiled slightly, with gratitude revealed in her eyes.
Xu Miaomiao patted her hand comfortingly and said, "As long as I am here today, none of you can bully her."
"When did we bully her?" The man on the platform spread his hands in confusion and said.
Xu Miaomiao's raised mouth corners never fell, and she said with some sarcasm: "You insist on turning the matter upside down, and we have nothing to say. Why don't we take this confession to the court to argue and see how the great judge will deal with it? Besides, the Xu family is a noble family, and there is a fourth-rank minister in the family. I believe they will think this method is very fair."
"You bitch, what nonsense are you talking about?" The woman stood up angrily after hearing what Xu Miaomiao said: "It is precisely because our family is an official family, how can you take this kind of thing to the government office? Wouldn't that be a slap in our family's face?"
"Since you don't want to, then send this maid to the government in the name of the Xu family and let the government investigate. After all, harming people is no small matter. Otherwise, if these vicious people continue to cause trouble at home, wouldn't it cost the lives of the whole family?"
Xu Miaomiao spoke calmly.
The man at the side frowned when he saw this, and spoke to Xu Miaomiao mercilessly: "If I don't want to send her away today, what can you do?"
"If she doesn't want to be sent away, then it's easy to deal with." Xu Miaomiao said calmly, "Now the maid's indenture is in the Xu family. You naturally have some kinship with her. You can either redeem her or we will send her to the authorities for investigation. You can choose one."
"Why should I redeem her? She is my family's member, why should I pay you money?" The woman said sarcastically when she heard this.
"This lady's words are quite funny." Xu Miaomiao said calmly: "Although Honglian is a slave in the Xu family, she eats the Xu family's rice and wears the Xu family's clothes. The Xu family has worked hard to raise her to this age. You just snatched her away like a living person for no reason. How can this be justified?"
After hearing Xu Miaomiao's words, there was silence all around.
Gu Yuanniang couldn't help but smiled at Xu Miaomiao.
She had long known that Xu Miaomiao was sharp-tongued, but she had not expected that what she said today would be so nice. If it were her, she would have been beaten to the stomach by these two people, without even a bone left.
Although Xu Miaomiao is very capable, she is not a competitive person.
Today, if it weren't for Gu Yuan's mother, I wouldn't be willing to take the initiative to step forward. It's okay to bully her, but it's not okay to bully her friends and her family.
The man and woman on the stage fell silent after hearing this. They turned to look at Xu Miaomiao, waved their hands helplessly and said, "How much do you want?"
Perhaps because he was a businessman, Xu Miaomiao didn't realize that he had brought an abacus with him. He picked it up and began to calculate: "If we calculate according to the level of ordinary families, the maid also gets two taels of silver every month. She has been here for so many years, so she should have at least fifty taels. Besides, if we count the daily food and clothing, as well as the food, ten taels is not too much. A few days ago, Liu Niang got married and rewarded the maids with a lot of good things. I prepared Liu Niang's dowry, but there were a full one thousand taels of things. She took off 30% of it and rewarded the two maids. On average, each maid gets one hundred and fifty taels. If you calculate it this way, you should give us two hundred and one taels."
"You little bitch, why does it cost two hundred and ten taels to buy a maid?" The woman slammed the table in anger when she heard this. Although her family had some status, they were not high-ranking officials after all. It was like asking them to take out two hundred taels so easily.
Although Xu Miaomiao was scolded, she was not in a hurry. She took the abacus, slowly walked to the side and sat down, looking at the two people in front of her and said, "If you can't come up with the money, it will be easy to deal with. But this Honglian may require us to reset her and send her to the government for investigation. I wonder if you two have thought it through."
Honglian got on the ground and saw that the two began to hesitate. She immediately knelt forward, grabbed the woman's legs, and said, "Aunt, you have to save me. It was you who sent me to the Xu family. I have been a slave for so many years. You can't just watch me being sent to the government office like this. You can't control me, aunt!"
"My child!" The woman felt sad when she heard this. She pulled Honglian's hand and started crying, "You really can't blame your aunt. If you want to blame someone, just say that you have a cruel master. Obviously, both families have the surname Xu, and we are all from the same family, but they insist on forcing us to death. You can't help but consider your aunt!"
When Madam Zhang heard this, her brows relaxed a little and she was about to open her mouth.
Seeing this, Xu Miaomiao immediately stepped forward and said, "You want to make relatives again now. What about when you humiliated Mr. Xu just now? Besides, if you really want Mr. Xu to pass the imperial examination, relying on your family's status, you can convince the emperor to let him be a civil servant who is only responsible for writing. But you didn't do that. I guess you are afraid that his talent will overshadow your family. By then, the status of the side branch will be greater than that of your main family, which will make you lose face. That's why you casually found him a teaching position!"
Madam Zhang, who was standing by, heard this and her sympathetic expression turned cold. She looked at the two people in front of her with even less anger, sat down in her seat, and said, "There are only two options now. Either you give us two hundred and ten taels to settle this matter hastily, or you go back and we will definitely send this vicious woman to the authorities for investigation and will never let her harm others again."
Seeing that Aunt Zhang had become tough, the woman glanced at Xu Miaomiao.
Knowing that Xu Miaomiao was giving some hints, Madam Zhang straightened her body and said, "You are such a powerful talker, young lady."
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