First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

Chapter 289 Why do you threaten me?

When Zhao Xiuwan heard this, she couldn't help but criticize Wei Ling and Su Jixiang in front of Cui Yushan and his wife.

"My husband works under General Wei. I shouldn't say anything about General Wei and his wife." Zhao Xiuwan said with difficulty, "But you don't know, my lord the Imperial Envoy. General Wei may have relied on his outstanding military achievements, so he doesn't take us seriously. I always felt that he was arrogant because my husband was not from a high family, but he shouldn't be like this to the Imperial Envoy and his wife. As for his wife, she was just a maid in the imperial kitchen. Now that she is married to General Wei, she also looks down on this and that. She is really not a decent person. She is very different from you, the Imperial Envoy's wife. There is no need for you to feel bad for such a thing."

Zheng Wenxiu glanced at Cui Yushan and smiled, "Mrs. Cui is right, but my husband was sent by His Majesty after all, and it is not a good thing for General Wei to not come to see him. Why not ask your husband to talk to the general?"

"Hey, my man is a very honest man." Zhao Xiuwan said, "I'll just go back and give it a try, but he's really a rough guy. I'd like to apologize to you two first. If you really can't persuade the general, please be generous and don't be angry with me."

"Of course not. Then we'll have to listen to Madam's news." Zheng Wenxiu said with a smile.

Zhao Xiuwan came out of Lee Garden and walked slowly with her arms folded.

"Mrs. Qian!" someone called her.

Zhao Xiuwan looked in the direction where the voice came from and saw that it was Mrs. Wang from the Nangong family, Nangong Rui's mother.

She was standing aside, looking around.

Zhao Xiuwan's face immediately fell and she took two steps forward. She originally didn't want to pay any attention to this old woman.

Little did she know that when Wang saw that Zhao Xiuwan ignored her, she couldn't help but rush out from the corner and wanted to pull Zhao Xiuwan, but was blocked in time by the maid behind Zhao Xiuwan.

"You old woman, what shall I do if you bump into my wife?" the maid scolded.

"Hey, I know your wife!" Wang said with a smile. "Madam Cui, you forgot that it was you who asked me to come and file a complaint against the general's mansion."

Hearing Wang shouting like that in the street, Zhao Xiuwan was so scared that she immediately asked the maid to cover her mouth.

"Don't talk nonsense, old woman!" Zhao Xiuwan shouted in a low voice, "If you have something to say, let's talk about it together!" After that, she walked towards a small alley.

After entering the alley, Zhao Xiuwan asked her maid to let Wang go, looking at her with disgust, "Did a dog drag your brain? What are you arguing about?"

"Mrs. Cui, you don't know." Wang pretended to cry loudly, "My family is now without male laborers, and my boy is unfilial. He broke off relations with us and sold himself to others as a slave. Now he doesn't care about my husband and me. We are really an orphan and a widow. I just want to ask when the imperial envoy will accept this case. We really can't live anymore!"

When Wei Rui sold himself, he had given his father a lot of money. But this time, the old man had learned his lesson and refused to give the money to Wang. He just kept it in his pocket and lived a carefree life. The couple had a fight over this matter. The old man Nangong, relying on the nearly 1,000 taels of silver in his hand, had evil thoughts and hooked up with a widow on the street.

The widow had a pork stall at home, which made a lot of money. She also had a daughter who was already married.

If the old man could marry the widow, he could legitimately take over the money in the widow's house.

But the widow was not a fool. She knew that there were a lot of troubles in the old man Nangong's family. She threatened that if the old man Nangong wanted to marry her, it would be absolutely impossible unless he married into the family without any property.

So old man Nangong wanted to take advantage of the widow, but didn't want to lose face by marrying into someone else's family. He and Wang had been having a lot of trouble at home these days.

Originally, Wang had turned a blind eye to her old man's affair with the widow. She had originally planned that the widow would only be a concubine after entering the family, and she could control the widow's wealth. Moreover, when the old man and the widow were having an affair every day, the family was eating meat and their mouths were full of oil. But now that the widow had spoken out, Wang knew that the widow was not a soft persimmon and could not be easily controlled, so she was unwilling to let the old man go to someone else's house.

She told Old Man Nangong that if he wanted to continue his romantic life with the widow, it was okay and he could just give his money to her for safekeeping.

If he really wanted to leave home, the widow would have to give his family one thousand taels of silver as compensation.

How could old man Nangong agree to that?

There has been chaos at home these past few days.

As soon as Zhao Xiuwan learned that the Imperial Envoy had declined the welcoming banquet at the General's Mansion, she realized that the Imperial Envoy might come to cause trouble for Wei Ling, so she also thought of a dirty trick, which was to ask someone to find Wang and ask her to go to the Imperial Envoy to appeal for justice.

Zhao Xiuwan also wanted to use Wang to test the imperial envoy's attitude towards Wei Ling.

Little did she know that Wang was fighting with old man Nangong at home, and the people she sent would not take care of the matter. Zhao Xiuwan had no choice but to show up and talk to Wang herself.

When Wang heard that the imperial envoy might be able to get her sons out of the mountains as coolies, she was immediately tempted. It was just a try anyway, so why not give it a try! Anyway, her sons had already gone to the mountains to do coolies, so no matter how bad the envoy was, could he really throw an old woman like her into the mountains as well?

So Wang came to Li Garden, where the imperial envoy lived, overnight to appeal for justice!

The two sides hit it off immediately, which also allowed Zhao Xiuwan to understand Cui Yushan and his wife's attitude towards Wei Ling.

This is what will happen next.

However, Wang had been waiting at home for about ten days, but there was no news from the imperial envoy.

Wang had just had another quarrel with that dead man in her family and was feeling very upset. She went out for a walk and didn't know how she ended up near Li Garden. She saw Zhao Xiuwan by some strange coincidence and blocked her way.

"What does it have to do with me if you can't survive? I've found a way for you, but how do I know when the imperial envoy can help you?" Zhao Xiuwan just found it funny and rolled her eyes at Wang. "Take care of your family's affairs yourself!"

"Madam Qian, you wouldn't be so heartless, would you?" Wang swept away her previous humility and smiled coldly.

"What do you mean? Are you threatening me?" Zhao Xiuwan also laughed contemptuously, "You are out of your mind! What right do you have to threaten me? Just because you have so many wrinkles on your face!"