PUGPF – Chapter 195

Chapter 195: Talk to Zhao Ru Jun (2)

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How skilled was she? Although she didn’t understand fully what happened, just looking for the situation from the outside, it was likely that seven or eight tenths of this was Xi Que’s fault. As Lian Fang Zhou said, why would a country girl offend the Zhao family for no reason?

She just hadn’t expected Ah Jian to invite the onlookers to talk about it and now everyone was involved. She couldn’t stop them from speaking up.

But this little idiot not only had no repentance, she was also staring like a fool! Even while laughed at!

How could she not lower her head in shame!?

“Momo Sun, I, let me apologize?!” Xi Que opened her eyes wide in surprise and stared at Momo Sun in disbelief.

“Hurry up!” Momo Sun became a little impatient. Staring at her, she shouted in a low voice: “Who gave you such courage to bully others? Our Zhao manor doesn’t have such a lawless slave! When we go back and ask the lady, you will be beaten by a board by the head servant! No medicine is allowed tonight and you can go tomorrow to Hechuntang on North Second Street to buy ointment!”

Momo Sun was an experienced person. This completely blocked everyone’s mouth: Zhao manor really punished unruly servants. If they didn’t believe her, they could go to Hechuntang tomorrow and see for themselves!

Someone in the crowd sighed: “The Zhao family is still good, its just the servants that are hateful!”

“Yeah, it’s no wonder they do so much business!”

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Listening to these comments, Momo Sun internally breathed a sigh of relief. She stared at Xi Que sternly: “Why have you not apologized yet!”

Xi Que had always regarded herself as an important maid. Where would she give up this face? She opened her mouth under the coercion of Momo Sun but couldn’t make a sound.

Lian Fang Zhou and Ah Jian glanced at each other and both secretly said in their hearts: This momo was indeed experienced! Just a few words and she had saved the image of the Zhao manor, just at the cost of a maid’s face!

However, Lian Fang Zhou and Ah Jian didn’t care.

Originally, they had nothing to do with the Zhao family and they weren’t concerned with the Zhao manor. If Momo Sun was able to beat and educate Xi Que so hard that she never dared to show off in front of them again in the future, it was a good thing.

“Miss Xi Que must also have no intentions. We are not stingy, just forget it!” Lian Fang Zhou smiled slightly.

Have no intentions? She couldn’t help but laugh inwardly. It seemed she had a lot of fate with this word as she often said this.

Xi Que was very relieved when she heard this and glanced pitifully at Momo Sun.

Momo Sun was a bit reluctant to humiliate her family’s maid in front of outsiders, so she nodded and yelled at Xi Que to retreat. She smiled politely at Lian Fang Zhou: “Miss is generous, our girl is not sensible and she has shown Miss Lian a joke!”

“Momo is polite, I dare not accept this!” Lian Fang Zhou said politely.

Momo Sun saw that, though she was a country girl, her speech was generous and polite and there wasn’t the slightest hint of cowardice or fear on her face. She couldn’t help but look at her secretly and smile. She said: Miss Lian, Young Master Jian, my lady has invited the two of you to come over and sit at the Fuyi restaurant, please come!”

Lian Fang Zhou and Ah Jian looked at each other, feeling helpless.

Since the lady had asked, if they didn’t go, then they were not giving her face.

“Momo, please lead the way!” Ah Jian raised his hand.

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Lian Fang Zhou whispered to Lian Ze and instructed him to wait with a few words, then followed Momo Sun with Ah Jian.

Xi Que was startled and hurriedly bowed her head to keep up.

In the private room on the second floor of the Fuyi restaurant, Zhao Ru Jun, the lady in charge of the Zhao family, was sitting down. She was wearing a plum red embroidered chrysanthemum silk top with a front collar and a pleated orange fish-scale skirt. Her hair was styled in a dangling bun with a baohaitang hairpin on the left side, made with a bit of emerald white jade and amber beads. The fine rice beads and tassels hung over her slanting earlobes and the pearls swung gently like a swing, the richness giving them a compelling color.

When Lian Fang Zhou and Ah Jian entered, she was propped on her elbow and staring out the window at something unknown. From the perspective of the door, her earlobe was dainty, and her profile was extremely beautiful with white skin, shiny and soft, and very noble.

“Miss, Miss Lian and Young Master Jian are here.” Momo Sun said respectfully.

Xi Que quickly raised her eyes and gave Lian Fang Zhou a sharp look. Now that she was back on ‘home territory’, she was obviously upset again. She whispered ‘Miss’ and bowed her knees to Zhao Ru Jun. She walked over to stand behind her to the side, with her hands down.

“Hmm?” Zhao Ru Jun turned her head and curled her lips, standing up with a slight smile. Her eyes flashed and she nodded, smiling. “You two have arrived, please sit down! Xi Que, please serve tea.”

“Thank you, Miss Zhao!” Lian Fang Zhou smiled and glanced at Ah Jian, sitting down opposite to Zhao Ru Jun.

When Xi Que heard Zhao Ru Jun’s instructions, she paused obviously and dumbly answered ‘yes’, cursing in her heart as she poured the tea.

When Lian Fang Zhou and Ah Jian had first heard that Xi Que had come to invite them to speak, they had already started considering the matter. After thinking about it, they had both thought of one thing.

There was nothing worthy of Zhao Ru Jun’s attention in the Lian family so the only thing left was the cotton planting.

When Zhao Ru Jun saw them, she mostly wanted to ask about this.

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However, Lian Fang Zhou did not want to attract Zhao Ru Jun’s attention and she definitely did not want her to pay attention to the cotton. After coming in, she sat down with her head bowed slightly. Her manners were good but it made her seem a little dull.

Ah Jian glanced at Lian Fang Zhou from the corner of his eye and saw her dull appearance. He couldn’t help but feel secretly amused in his heart, so he dropped his eyes slightly and sat still.

Zhao Run Jun was a capable person with a great deal of power and she knew better than to look down on Lian Fang Zhou and Ah Jian.

She had originally thought that Lian Fang Zhou would ask her what she wanted from them but who knew that when the two of them sat down, they would act like gourds without mouths. She felt a little unhappy in her heart and her brows furrowed subconsciously.

Seeing that the two of the clearly did not mean to speak of their own initiative, Zhao Ru Jun coughed lightly and asked with a smile: “I heard that Miss Lian bough nearly 3,000 mu of land and is planning on growing cotton?”

“Yes.” Lian Fang Zhou raised her eyes and nodded at her with a smile but there was nothing more.

Zhao Ru Jun’s brow furrowed deeper. On her heart, she had never seen such a wooden person, like a bead on a abacus.

She had no choice but to laugh again: “I heard that this is the decision of the Su family in Shuangliu county? Why has the Su family decided to grow cotton? Moreover, the Su family is the richest in Shuangliu, there are countless fields in his family. Why wouldn’t he grow them in his own fields? And he asked you to plant them?”

Lian Fang Zhou seemed unable to digest her continual questioning. It took a while before there was a break. She said, ‘ah’ and smiled slowly. “My cousin heard me talk about the government promotion. It was quite curious, and I heard that cotton can be used to make clothes. Doesn’t the Su family have a satin shop? She wanted to try it but this matter had nothing to do with Shaungliu County so Su Madam, my cousin, asked me to try it here. My cousin said that if the cotton planted this year doesn’t work, we will plant hemp in the fields in the future. Uh, this is to help take care of our Lian family and give them a meaningful life!”