"Son... what happened to you? Who hit you? Tell your mother, and I will stand up for you!" Madam Jiang looked at her son with heartache.
Master Jiang was furious with the servants around his son: "How did you all watch over the young master? You took so many of you with you, and yet he still got beaten up like this? You useless things, you're all trash!"
“Master…” the servants cried out in protest, “This is not our fault! Look at what those Zhang guys did to us! We had no choice but to suffer the consequences…”
“Dad, don’t blame them. Blame those Zhang and Liang. They’re the ones who beat your son!” Jiang Yongqiang said firmly.
When Mr. Jiang heard that the names were Zhang and Liang, he immediately understood that they were referring to Zhang Xiangyang and Liang Xin.
"No, how did you manage to offend those two?" Old Master Jiang wasn't afraid of Zhang Xiangyang and Liang Xin, but he still frowned.
After all, Liang Xin was nominally the county magistrate, which was much more powerful than that of a pawnshop merchant!
Mr. Jiang usually gives Liang Xin face and sends him gifts during holidays.
Liang Xin would naturally not make things difficult for Master Jiang; in fact, he would even support his shop.
However, Master Jiang's true reliance was not on Liang Xin, and he only had a slight connection with him.
"Father, you can't blame me for what happened today. You can only blame those two for making trouble for my little aunt! They even hired an old Taoist priest from the mountain to capture her!"
"Luckily, our little aunt is amazing. She beat that old Taoist priest to a pulp and even protected me. Otherwise, I would have been beaten to death by that Zhang guy sooner or later. Look at my eyes, they're almost blinded by them."
Jiang Yongqiang lied through his teeth, blaming all the injuries he had sustained on Zhang Xiangyang.
After listening to him finish speaking, Mr. Jiang frowned and said unhappily, "You brat, even if you're going to support your little aunt, you should protect yourself first."
"Besides, this matter has little to do with our family, so don't get involved. Your little aunt is so capable, do you think she can't handle them?"
Jiang Yongqiang knew his father was like this, so he simply sat down on the ground and acted like a coward: "Dad, if you don't get rid of that Liang guy, you'll just stand by and watch your son get bullied. You're a coward!"
"You! How dare you talk to your father like that!" Old Master Jiang was so angry that he glared at his father, but seeing his son's injured face, he couldn't do anything to him and could only sulk.
"Oh dear, sir!" Madam Jiang pinched Mr. Jiang from the side: "Since our son has said that he was bullied by that Liang fellow, if you don't avenge your son, aren't you just a useless coward?"
"Listen to me, since you've already called her aunt, and your aunt is quite capable, now that you finally have a chance to be of help, why don't you hurry up and put in some effort? It'll be good for you to show off your skills!"
"..." Mr. Jiang hesitated upon hearing Madam Jiang's words.
He certainly felt sorry for his son, but he didn't want to waste the money he had spent on Liang Xin over the past few years.
However, Madam Jiang's words also make a lot of sense. He finally has a chance to help Lin Wanyue, and if he doesn't take this opportunity to show his abilities, he really doesn't know when he'll get another chance.
Moreover, even though that guy surnamed Liang called over an old Taoist priest, he still couldn't deal with Lin Wanyue. Doesn't that just prove that his aunt is capable?
After some deliberation, Master Jiang had a horse-drawn carriage prepared and took a pile of gold and silver jewelry to the provincial capital.
Soon, people from the provincial capital arrived and, along with Master Jiang, found an excuse to give the county yamen runners a severe beating, leaving them all with bruised buttocks.
Liang Xin was, after all, the county magistrate, so he was naturally not punished with a beating, but he was severely reprimanded and warned not to bully the people at will.
Liang Xin lost face. Seeing Master Jiang standing with a big shot in the provincial capital, he knew that this matter must be related to Jiang Yongqiang.
The Jiang family must have gone to great lengths, even going to the provincial capital to have someone settle accounts with them, all because of Lin Wanyue.
Liang Xin felt extremely humiliated, and his already poor health worsened.
…
The county government has not held court for seven days now. The official reason is that Lord Liang is seriously ill, and all matters are temporarily left to the clerk to make decisions.
The advisor was much more timid than Liang Xin and was also more cautious in his work.
Unlike Liang Xin, Zhang Xiangyang and his group had no choice but to wear hats while patrolling under the scorching sun. They were terribly hot, but they didn't want anyone to see that they had suffered from alopecia areata, so they couldn't take off their hats.
When they gathered together, they discussed, "Do you think Lord Liang is really sick, or is he like us, suffering from alopecia areata?"
"Of course! He's definitely the same as us! Even we little lackeys have heads like this, let alone him? Don't forget, it was our Lord Liang who personally led the men there!" The constables huddled together, whispering among themselves.
Someone lowered their voice and said, "Let me tell you, my seventh uncle's cousin's second nephew works in our Lord Liang's mansion. I heard that the madam is asking around for folk remedies to make hair grow back, just to cure this alopecia areata!"
They hadn't heard such concrete news before, and now they looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Since even Lord Liang is like this, how can we possibly fight against the Lin family? Otherwise... let's go apologize to the Lin family and ask them to stop their supernatural powers, so I don't have to wear this hat every day and die of heat!" Someone was so hot that they thought of apologizing to Lin Wanyue.
They weren't particularly clean women; even in the sweltering summer, they wouldn't wash their hair every day, and they would only rinse their faces briefly with cold water when taking a bath.
I didn't think much of it before, but now they wear hats every day, sweating profusely, and they can smell the stench on their own heads without anyone pointing it out.
More importantly, there were more than a dozen of these stinking big heads in their yamen, and even they couldn't stand the disgusting smell.
"How about... we wait a little longer? If Lord Liang finds a folk remedy for alopecia areata, we can use it too, and then we won't need to apologize." Someone hesitated.
"Ah, right, right, right!" The others immediately nodded in agreement. "If we go to apologize and Brother Zhang and Lord Liang find out, they'll definitely cause us more trouble. Let's just bear with it for a few more days. It's just that this hair is so itchy and smelly, it's really unbearable."
Those who were willing to back down to Lin Wanyue could only nod in agreement upon hearing this.
They didn't dare to offend Zhang Xiangyang and Liang Xin, so they could only endure the stench.
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