Chapter 309 Give Money
As the woman spoke, she straightened her body and glanced in Xu Miaomiao's direction with dissatisfaction. Then she slowly said, "I just don't know what my Xu family's affairs have to do with you?"
"The Xu family's affairs naturally have nothing to do with me."
As soon as Xu Miaomiao finished speaking, Xu Qingshan, who was standing next to her, heard this and stepped forward and said, "Even so, what does it have to do with you?"
"But I am your aunt." The woman was dissatisfied when she heard this, she slammed the table and stood up.
Xu Qingshan frowned slightly, shook his head impatiently, and said, "I am already very tired today. If you two really don't understand what I am saying, let's go to the court to argue. Someone send this vicious woman to the government office."
As soon as Xu Qingshan opened his mouth, the two young men beside him immediately pushed Honglian out. Seeing that she was being dragged away, Honglian cried and begged for help from the woman on the stage: "Mother, you have to save me, I am your niece, you can't just watch me die like this!"
But no matter how much she screamed, the man who took her away never stopped and walked out of the house with determination.
"That's enough."
The man next to him slapped the table in dissatisfaction when he heard this, took out three hundred taels of silver from his pocket, put it on the table and said, "We bought Honglian."
The woman next to him immediately pulled her sleeves upon seeing this and whispered in his ear: "What are you doing? Are you crazy? Spending so much money on a worthless girl."
"What can we do? After all, we owe them money. If this girl is really sent to the government, how can we pay her back? Will the reputation of our Xu family be preserved?"
As soon as the man finished speaking, he turned his eyes to Xu Miaomiao who was standing beside him and said, "We can take the person away now."
After saying that, he turned and left angrily.
Xu Miaomiao was not in a hurry. She took a step forward and picked up the silver coins she was born with. After comparing them, she took out another ninety taels from her sleeve and gave them to the woman. She said, "If it's ours, we will take it. If it's not ours, we won't take a penny more. From now on, she is your family. Take her away!"
Xu Miaomiao smiled slightly. Seeing this, the woman wanted to leave angrily, but after looking at the banknote in Xu Miaomiao's hand, she turned around, took the banknote, and left together.
Watching her walking further and further away, Xu Miaomiao bent her head and revealed a barely perceptible smile.
Gu Yuanniang, who was standing by, saw this and immediately stepped forward and said, "She took so much silver, but that person is a vicious woman. Wouldn't it be bad to let her go like this?"
Xu Miaomiao looked at Gu Yuanniang and patted her hands. "Don't worry, Liuniang. I let her go today. I must have my way. Although they bought her back, we can still go to the government office to sue her, saying that she has bad personal ethics and framed others. This is a capital crime. Besides, we still have the certificate signed by her. She used to be your maid, so we can just send her to the government for investigation. But now she is from a good family. We can still take this certificate and sue her directly to the government. She will still pay the price for her actions."
Gu Yuanniang listened to this and looked at Xu Miaomiao with some admiration. She nodded at her and said, "Miaomiao, I never thought you were so amazing that you could even come up with this kind of idea."
Xu Miaomiao looked at Gu Yuanniang and smiled slightly: "I have said it before, as long as I am here, no one can bully you."
As Xu Miaomiao spoke, she handed the document to Xu Qingshan, looked at him and said, "Although the maid has been taken away by them, as long as we have this confession, we can still sue her to the government. This matter depends on Mr. Xu."
Xu Qingshan nodded and just as he took the things from Xu Miaomiao, Madam Zhang knocked on the table in dissatisfaction and stood up: "Have you had enough of the trouble?"
Everyone was startled by the sudden sound from Madam Zhang, and immediately turned their eyes to her. Xu Qingshan looked at her in confusion, "Mother, what happened?"
Madam Zhang turned her head away in dissatisfaction, unwilling to confront Xu Qingshan. She muttered, "Although we are a branch of the family, we are still members of the Xu family. It's enough that we have made our relationship so tense today. Besides, we have already taken the silver, so why can't we just let it go?"
"Mother-in-law, if that's the case, wouldn't Ling'er's injuries be in vain? I want to give Ling'er justice."
Gu Yuanniang sobbed a little as she spoke.
Seeing this, Xu Qingshan, who was standing by, immediately stood beside Gu Yuanniang and said to Madam Zhang, "Yes, mother, she did such a thing in my house today. It is inevitable that she will do something ridiculous to the Xu family in the future. If we let the tiger go back to the mountain, if something goes wrong in the main family in the future, our side branch will also be implicated!"
"We are from the same bloodline. Although we are a branch family, we can survive in the capital because of the main family. Although they couldn't help you on your way to the imperial examination, they did find you a job as a teacher. Why do you have to restrain others? Can't you just live your own life?"
Madam Zhang looked at the man and woman in front of her, somewhat puzzled. When Gu Yuanniang heard this, she tightly grasped the Juanbu in her hand. She would never let others do whatever they wanted. She said in a firm tone, "She must pay the price for hurting Ling'er. This matter will never be left unresolved."
After saying that, Gu Yuanniang turned around and left angrily.
Madam Zhang, who was standing by, looked at Gu Yuanniang's departing back, her chest heaving with anger. She pointed at Xu Qingshan and said in dissatisfaction, "Look, this is the good daughter-in-law you married. Now she has only been here for a few days, but she dared to disobey the orders of her mother-in-law. I haven't said anything yet, but she dared to give me the cold shoulder. I told you not to marry her, but you insisted on marrying her. Now look what you have done. Keeping her in our house is a disaster for our Xu family. If it weren't for her, why would Honglian harm others?"
"Mrs. Zhang, what you said is totally unreasonable." Xu Miaomiao said from the side: "When someone scolds me, should I reflect on why they only scold me and not others?"
"Isn't it?" Madam Zhang refuted Xu Miaomiao and said, "This Gu Yuanniang is from your family, so you are naturally speaking for her. From my family's perspective, since she came, our Xu family has not had a single day of peace. Let's not talk about Qingshan, because she has dragged down the body. Now, Honglian has actually done such a thing. If Hong'er had married into our family, this would definitely not have happened."
We have a family dinner tonight. If I come back early, I will update it.
(End of this chapter)
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