Chapter 284: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 284: Securing the Shop, Trapping the Zhang Family (Part 6)
Exiting the yamen, Zhang Fugui, whose face had never looked good, stared at Mo Yan and threatened, "I hope Miss Mo keeps her word. Otherwise, even if I, Zhang Fugui, have to exhaust all means, I won't let you off."
Mo Yan rolled her eyes. "Now that I've got the shop, why would I bother with so many things? Do I need to swear by the heavens?"
Hearing this, Zhang Fugui snorted coldly, glared at Li Zhong once again, and left in a huff.
"Yan'er, are you just going to let him continue deceiving people?" After the person had gone far away, Li Zhong asked the doubt in his heart. He didn't believe that Mo Yan would keep the secret for the Zhang family just for two thousand taels of silver.
Mo Yan turned around, her smile meaningful. "The people of the Zhang family are so detestable. How could someone as kind and righteous as me allow them to continue harming others?"
Li Zhong's eyelids twitched, silently waxing a candle for the Zhang family. But what was this feeling of satisfaction from getting revenge?
Back at the Huixian Residence, Mo Yan found Xiao Zhu and asked him to find a few more people to continue monitoring the movements of the Zhang family, giving him some detailed instructions.
Although Xiao Zhu didn't quite understand, the task was not difficult, and besides, Mo Yan's reward was very generous. His friends would definitely be willing to do this easy and non-illegal job.
Mo Yan, holding the new deed, got into the carriage with a rather good mood and returned to Liuyang Village with Li Zhong.
Although they had bought the shop and only had three hundred taels of silver left, the family had enough rice and grain, and the expenses wouldn't be much. Once the shop opened, there would be income at home. Moreover, the timber shop still had a monthly dividend of fifty to sixty taels. Even if they needed silver urgently, with so many precious medicinal materials in the space, they could exchange for quite a bit of silver.
As for the one thousand two hundred taels of "silencing fee" from the Zhang family, she didn't plan to use such unjust money. When there was a need in the future, she would take it out to do good deeds, considering it as accumulating merit for those who contributed these silver coins.
In the evening, Xiao Hua returned from the mountain in a sorry state again. After consuming two large bowls of soup with rice, Mo Yan hugged it sympathetically and said, "Your master doesn't want you anymore. He gave you to me. If you're sad, you can cry. I won't laugh at you."
She thought the abandoned Xiao Hua would feel a bit lost and might even shed a tear or two, but to her surprise, it rolled its eyes at Mo Yan, tilted its head against the small wooden house, closed its eyes, and fell asleep!
Mo Yan: "..."
How dare it roll its eyes at its new master? Did it still want to drink the spring water and eat the space chicken? Did it want to be strangled?
Two days later, Xiao Zhu came again.
Stared at with a look of admiration, Mo Yan felt a little uncomfortable. She cleared her throat and asked, "Xiao Zhu, has the Zhang family been caught?"
Xiao Zhu's eyes brightened even more when he heard this. "Miss Mo is truly insightful! Early this morning, the people of the Zhang family were acting suspiciously, carrying soft packages and trying to escape. Those who were following them, according to Miss's instructions, stopped them and called the several shopkeepers. It turns out that the Zhang family was using the shop as bait. Now this whole family has been reported to the yamen by seven or eight shopkeepers, demanding that they surrender the shop."
After listening, Mo Yan felt it was just as she had expected. Now it was up to those people to decide how to deal with the Zhang family. In any case, with the new deed in her hands, no one could snatch the shop away. She wouldn't interfere in what happened next.
Thanks to Xiao Zhu and his friends' help in this matter, Mo Yan wouldn't treat them unfairly. She took out fifty taels of silver, gave twenty taels to Xiao Zhu, and let the others split the remaining thirty taels. Unexpectedly, Xiao Zhu adamantly refused to take it!
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