"Huihui, are you alright?" Yuhe called Yuan Yajing and Fan Shi over. Meeting Yuan Yajing's concerned gaze, Lin Huihui cried miserably.
Seeing Lin Huihui's state, Madam Fan flew into a rage: "Who the hell did this? Where is she? How dare they hit the magistrate's daughter? They're asking for trouble! They absolutely cannot be let off! Go find your father right now and let him take charge!"
Lin Shikang arrived after hearing the news. Seeing Lin Huihui's disheveled state, he was filled with rage. These people were simply going too far!
"Father, Ye Shanshan and her maid beat me and trampled me on the ground. They made me say I was a good-for-nothing, that I was a country bumpkin, and that her father was the richest man in the country, and that you wouldn't dare offend him. Father, you must avenge me!" Lin Huihui said while crying.
"Bah! So what if he's the richest man? He's just a merchant. The common people can't fight with officials! This matter can't be let go so easily. Do you think they can bully our Lin family's daughter?" Madam Fan roared. "Make them apologize and pay compensation. This matter won't end until they have three to five hundred taels of silver!"
The richest man in the country must be rich, so the Fan family thought they had to make them bleed a lot of money.
Lin Shikang was also very aggrieved, but this time he was not going to tolerate it and had to go to the Ye family to demand justice.
Yuan Yajing said, "Mother, don't worry, I will personally go to Shanshan's house to make her apologize. We are all sisters, and Shanshan went too far this time."
Even if Ye Shanshan gave Lin Huihui three or five hundred taels of silver now, Lin Huihui would not forgive her. She would definitely repay the humiliation she suffered today!
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“You shouldn’t have meddled in other people’s business today.” Wang Shaoqing’s mother already knew that Wang Shaoqing had helped Lin Huihui. “If Yu Yan finds out that you helped Lin Huihui, she will be unhappy. Then He Yu Yan will definitely bully her even more.”
Upon hearing this, Wang Shaoqing's disgust for the Yuan family and He Yuyan intensified. He suppressed his anger and said, "They went too far."
Lady Wang was well aware that they had gone too far, but what could she do about it?
Yuan Weimin held absolute power in Gansu and Ningxia. Many who disobeyed him died tragically or were imprisoned for various reasons, and their family businesses fell into the hands of others, namely the Yuan family, the Xu family, and the Ye family.
The Wang family's restaurant was also once their target.
Four years ago, someone died from drinking, and the entire Wang family was imprisoned. At this time, Yuan Weimin said that he could help the Wang family get through this crisis, but Wang Shaoqing had to get engaged to He Yuyan.
The people cannot fight against officials, let alone fight against officials who are like jackals.
The Wang family had no choice but to agree.
The Wang family has always been fair and honest in business. When they were imprisoned, they had a premonition that Yuan Weimin would take action against them, but they never expected that the target would be Wang Shaoqing!
Wang Shaoqing was intelligent from a young age. While others needed to read a text six or seven times to memorize it, he could memorize it in just three times at most. He began his studies at the age of five and passed the preliminary examination at the age of ten, which caused a sensation at the time. Yuan Weimin's judgment was indeed correct; Wang Shaoqing passed the county-level examination at a young age.
In recent years, the Yuan, Xu, and Ye families have become even more unscrupulous and brutal.
The three families were all in cahoots, and even their children couldn't be offended. They were all arrogant and domineering. Once, a girl accidentally bumped into a teapot in a restaurant, and hot tea spilled onto He Yuyan's hand. He Yuyan immediately flew into a rage, not only ordering the girl's hand to be smashed, but also pouring a pot of boiling tea directly onto the girl's hand, like pouring boiling water on the wound. It was quite cruel.
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The Ye family had become accustomed to acting arrogantly and domineeringly in Ganning over the years, and they didn't care about the county magistrate at all. Moreover, Lin Shikang was a county official with no background or backing, so Ye Shanshan hitting Lin Huihui was nothing to the Ye family.
But now that Yuan Yajing has come to our door in person demanding an explanation, we have no choice but to give her one.
At the insistence of the elders in the Ye family, Ye Shanshan reluctantly apologized and paid three hundred taels of silver in compensation. Yuan Yajing also secretly gave Lin Huihui a gold bracelet.
Lin Huihui kept all the money and things, but the hatred did not disappear.
Lin Huihui's fingers were pricked raw by needles before she could embroider an extremely ugly purse. She stuffed a handful of red beans into the purse and had her maid, Yuhe, deliver it to Wang Shaoqing. She also gave Yuhe one tael of silver and ordered her to make sure the matter was handled properly.
Yuhe was stunned for a long time, truly not expecting Lin Huihui to be so bold as to give a purse to Wang Shaoqing! Who is Wang Shaoqing? He is He Yuyan's fiancé!
Can you just give away your wallet like that?
Is she trying to steal Ho Yu-yen's fiancé?
"Miss, are you sure this is for Young Master Wang Shaoqing?"
"Yes, go quickly and come back soon. Don't let anyone else know, or I'll sell you to a brothel!" Lin Huihui threatened.
Yuhe quickly agreed, realizing that this was no small matter. She then immediately reported it to He Yuyan and presented her with a purse.
Upon learning this, He Yuyan was furious! She grabbed the ugly purse and threw it on the ground: "That slut, it seems I've been too good to her!"
He Yuyan gritted her teeth in anger. How dare they covet her fiancé? They were practically asking for death!
Xu Qingyao said, "This Lin Huihui is really overestimating herself. She actually gave a purse to Wang Shaoqing. How could that good-for-nothing country bumpkin like her be interested in Young Master Wang?"
"It looks heavy. What's in the purse? Could it be money?" Ye Shanshan instructed her maid, "Go pick it up so I can see."
Xu Qingyao said, "You're overthinking it. That village girl is incredibly stingy and only knows how to swindle money. She would never have any money to give to others."
Ye Shanshan opened her purse and took out a red bean: "A delicate die inlaid with red beans, do you know how deep my longing is? It wasn't enough for her to give a purse, she even used red beans to express her longing, she's just too shameless!"
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