If he were to directly lash out at Lin Qixia at this moment, Lin Qixia would actually be able to accept it.
But his pitiful state now made her feel a pang of sadness and bitterness.
"alright!"
Lin Qixia truly felt sorry for him. She abruptly turned away from him, her voice trembling slightly, and said, "I promise you I won't do it again."
"It's getting late, you should go back and rest. I'm going to sleep too."
After saying that, Lin Qixia staggered away, looking rather disheveled.
The night wind continued to blow behind him, and the boy's dark hair streaked across his face.
He looked pitiful, as if he had been abandoned, but a faint smile appeared on his lips, making him look slightly eerie.
The boy at this moment showed no trace of his previous vulnerability.
...
Before dawn, it suddenly became noisy outside.
Lin Qixia got up from her room on the second floor and peeked out.
She saw a crowd thronging the streets below, with people crying out from time to time. She got up, dressed, and opened the door, only to bump into He Zhilan.
"Xia'er, you're awake." He Zhilan greeted her with a furrowed brow.
Lin Qixia responded, "What happened downstairs?"
She was about to go to the governor to file a complaint, and naturally didn't want any other problems to arise.
Before He Zhilan could reply, she had already gone downstairs to check.
"I don't know. I just heard the noise downstairs and was about to come and call you," He Zhilan replied, following behind her.
The two went downstairs, where the two servants, Wang Dian and Wang Yu, who were in charge of guarding the shop, were standing at the door, waiting for her.
Given the situation outside, they dared not make decisions on their own unless Lin Qixia spoke up.
"Open the door," Lin Qixia said to them as she came down the stairs.
The two servants agreed in unison and then opened the door.
Lin Qixia walked out and saw that many of the people were shop owners from the neighborhood, all heading towards the right side of Hongfang Street.
Shouts and screams could be heard from not far away.
"What happened?" she asked, grabbing a passerby.
That man was none other than Mr. Chen Bao, the owner of the noodle shop they had been frequenting recently.
Chen Baoge replied nervously, "Who knows! They said they're going to shut down all the shops on Hongfang Street, and we won't be allowed to do business for the next few days."
"Close the store?" Lin Qixia frowned upon hearing this.
I immediately realized that this was not a simple matter.
"Sister-in-law, you stay here and watch over things. I'll go check ahead," Lin Qixia said to He Zhilan as she turned around.
He Zhilan responded and told her to go as soon as possible.
Lin Qixia followed the flow of people towards the street corner ahead. When she got there, she saw Zhao Hu, Zhang Zhong, and Li Yuan and a few others.
Because some people reacted strongly when they heard that they were going to close the store, people gradually started making a fuss.
Why can't we continue to operate our shops?
“We have the official seals, and we pay our taxes every month, so why should we close our shop!”
"Exactly! You guys are getting more and more unreasonable!"
These individuals were responsible for the suppression, and their attitudes became increasingly hostile.
"Who dares to stop us?"
"Get out of the way if you don't want to die!"
Zhao Hu immediately drew his knife.
Lin Qixia squeezed to the front of the crowd and met the eyes of those people.
Zhao Hu looked at her with a mocking gaze: "Oh, so you've finally shown up?"
"Why did you have to show up now of all times? It's no use telling you now!" Zhang Zhong also said.
Lin Qixia glanced at them with disgust, too lazy to pay them any attention, and turned to Li Yuan, asking in an unhappy tone, "What exactly do you want to do? Why are you closing down everyone's shops?"
Li Yuan shrugged and said apologetically, "This is Lord Feng's order, there's nothing we can do about it."
“Yes, please don’t make things difficult for us lower-level staff,” Hua Xiaoguo chimed in from the side.
Meanwhile, Ruan Pang was driving the crowd away, sealing off the entrances of each shop one by one.
The shop owners whose shops had been sealed off were all crying and wailing.
"My God! This is simply unbearable!"
"We're just small business owners, why are you making things so difficult for us?"
Even so, it did nothing to stop these people.
Lin Qixia watched from the side with a frown, already certain that this situation was beyond her control.
She silently turned around and went back to her shop.
"How is the situation?" He Zhilan was the first to step forward and ask her.
Lin Qixia shook her head. "It's not good. The government officials are coming to seal off the shop, and I'm afraid we can't stop them."
"Are you really going to close the store?" He Zhilan asked, somewhat disappointed.
They had already closed their shop, but now the surrounding shops have also been sealed off.
The two exchanged glances, both seeing a tacit understanding in each other's eyes.
"My intuition tells me that Feng Changchao deliberately sabotaged this to target me," Lin Qixia said.
He Zhilan asked her, "So what are you planning to do next?"
"We'll do what needs to be done. He can't stop me from doing this." Lin Qixia clenched her fist with a determined expression.
Feng Changchao was like that, and the more she wanted to bring him down, the more determined she became to sue him.
Because as long as he is there, the people of Lichong County will never have a good life.
If she can take this opportunity to get rid of him, she can eliminate any future troubles.
He Zhilan sighed, "Alright, if you really insist, then go ahead and do it."
It seems that even if we back down now, others will only think we're scared.
After that, it will be even harder for them to get by in Lichong County.
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