Cute Wife Gourmet

Chapter 149 Worried
Fang Wen's rebuttal was well-reasoned and made Ye Ning's defense seem pale and ridiculous.

After hearing this, unless everyone was a fool, they would have understood the right and wrong and no longer had any doubts in their hearts.

Qi almost vomited blood after hearing this. She didn't care how Fang Wen accused the mother and daughter of the Ye family, but the crime of colluding with bandits and murdering his own fiancée was too serious. Once it was confirmed, Liujiang would be completely ruined.

"Ms. Fang Wen, you keep saying that Liu Jiang is colluding with bandits. Do you have any evidence? If not, you are framing me. I will never let you go. I will send you to see the official." Qi said in a resolute voice.

Fang Wen sneered, "Madam Mu, don't be impatient. We have to settle the accounts one by one. Everything I said here today is backed by real evidence. Everyone present here can bear witness to it. Don't say you won't let me off. I won't let you off either! As soon as I leave this door, I will go and beat the drum to appeal for justice for my poor niece."

"Although Jinxuan's last name is Ye, she has the blood of the Fang family flowing in her body. Do you think that all our Fang family members are dead?" Fang Wen said angrily.

"This matter is not over yet, let's wait and see."

Fang Wen finally glanced coldly at these ugly faces, and flicked her sleeves with great momentum: "Du Heng, let's go."

After saying this, Fang Wen strode out of the flower hall with her head held high.

Today's goal has been achieved, but this is just the beginning. She wants to make these evil people get retribution and pay the price they deserve.

Du Heng looked at Fang Wanting who was crying with her head down and asked, "Are you going with me or staying?"

Fang Wanting knew that her true intention had been exposed and that it was meaningless to stay. It was more important to save her marriage. She glanced at Ye Ning timidly and walked silently to Du Heng.

Du Heng took her hand and walked away without looking back.

This play was wonderful, but also disgusting. No matter how delicious the food was, no one could eat it. No one wanted to stay here any longer. Zhu was the first to get up and leave. She didn't even look at the pale-faced Ye family and Qi, and didn't even say hello. She left the hall as if she was escaping the plague.

Everyone left, and in a moment, the originally bustling flower hall became empty.

Because the servants who had rushed into the inner courtyard before were controlled by the people brought by Fang Wenshi, the news could not be spread.

When the female relatives sent people to call their men, Minister Mu realized that something had happened. He hurriedly brought Wei Liujiang over. When he entered the flower hall, he saw Ye Ning and Qi arguing.

"You gave birth to a good daughter, but she has led us Liujiang astray. She is simply a jinx." Qi cursed angrily.

Ye Ning was already upset enough. Fang Wen scolded her and she was unable to refute because she felt guilty. But what right did Qi have to blame her?

"Who is the jinx? Who led whom astray? If it weren't for you, Liu Jiang, who seduced my daughter, would things have turned out like this? He was the one who came up with the idea and he was the one who hired the bandits, so who do you blame?" Ye Ning retorted.

When Qi heard this, she realized that it was Liu Jiang who did it, and she became even angrier: "Bah, our Liu Jiang is a child who always behaves well. If you hadn't instigated him, would he have done such a thing?"

"Go ask your good nephew yourself, who instigated whom?"

The two men glared at each other and confronted each other like two mad cows, and they were just about to fight.

"Shut up, everyone. What the hell is going on?" Minister Mu shouted, stopping the two from arguing.

Qi said angrily, "What's going on? Ask her."

Ye Ning snorted coldly, turned her head away and said nothing.

Ye Jinrong had already thrown herself into Wei Liujiang's arms and cried bitterly.

Minister Mu was furious: "It's already this late, and you're still so confused."

Qi cried in grievance and sobbed, "Just now Fang Wen, who claimed to be Jinxuan's aunt, came and revealed everything. She also said she would file a complaint with the authorities. Now, nothing can be concealed."

Minister Mu staggered and almost fell.

Ye Jiayao was busy in the kitchen and had no idea that such a wonderful and thrilling scene was happening outside. She just felt strange, why didn’t these girls serve the dishes?

The maids and old women were all talking, and Ye Jiayao pricked up her ears to listen.

"That aunt is so powerful. She brought people with her and just barged in."

"Oh, I never thought that Madam Wei was fake. Even Second Miss Ye was fake. We were serving her right beside her and didn't even notice."

"The truth cannot be hidden. Our masters are going to lose face now."

"Isn't it? It's so embarrassing to expose the shame in front of so many distinguished guests."

"The guests have all left, so should we still serve the food?"

"Who knows? No need to go, the butler will come to give the order..."

"The butler couldn't even move, and he was taken to the pharmacy for treatment."

Ye Jiayao was stunned. Was the aunt they were talking about Fang Wenshi? Did her aunt come to cause trouble? Exposing the conspiracy in public? Such a wonderful drama, she was not there and missed it. What a pity! She had planned to expose it herself so that she could see with her own eyes the horrified and frightened look of the bitches. However, if she had to rely on herself, it would take many years!

This was her business, but no one told her, which made her feel really uncomfortable.

"Brother Yao, the food is burnt." Wang Mingde reminded.

Ye Jiayao came to her senses and found that the fish in the pot was indeed overcooked. She took out the half-cooked fish, threw the spoon away, and ordered: "Don't cook it. No one will eat it even if you cook it."

The guests have all left, and the Mu family is afraid that they will find it difficult to swallow even the liver and marrow of a dragon and the marrow of a phoenix.

The Wei family was now in a mess. Minister Mu was in a hurry to clean up the mess, Qi was so angry that she fell down, and the mother and daughter of the Ye family were in a panic and had no intention of caring about other things. Therefore, Ye Jiayao waited in the kitchen for a long time but no one came. She simply packed up and left, and asked the kitchen manager to pass on a message, asking Wei Liujiang to go to Tianshangju to settle the bill tomorrow.

Ye Jiayao was very curious. Was her aunt's words about beating the drum to appeal for justice true or just a bluff? So she asked Deng Haichuan and Wang Mingde to go back to Tianshangju first, and she went to the government office to take a look.

When they arrived at the government office, there was no movement at all. Ye Jiayao curled her lips, thinking that her aunt was just trying to scare people.

In fact, she was late. Her uncle had already protested his injustice, and Minister Mu rushed over to mediate. The prefect saw that this lawsuit involved Minister Mu and the talented scholar Wei Liujiang, who was highly favored to win the championship this year, so he did not dare to be careless and said that he would have to wait until a detailed investigation before opening the court for the trial, and delayed it for the time being.

Minister Mu wanted to settle the matter privately with the Fang family, and he had to apologize and kowtow. If the case really went to court, Liu Jiang would have a criminal record and even his qualification for the imperial examination would be revoked.

However, the address left by Fang's uncle was the Marquis of Jing'an's Mansion. Minister Mu went to the Marquis of Jing'an's Mansion again, but the people in the mansion said that there was no such person and sent him back in one sentence.

Minister Mu had no choice but to send someone to Yangzhou to invite Ye Binghuai. As for his brother-in-law, Lord Wei, he said he would go to Jinling at the end of August to visit Liujiang. He was probably on the way now, so he couldn't notify him and could only wait.

Ye Jiayao went to see Manager Zhao when she returned to Tianshangju and asked to see Xia Chunyu. Since meeting her uncle and aunt that night, she had not seen them again and did not know where they lived. As a last resort, she could only ask Xia Chunyu.

But Manager Zhao said that the prince was very busy recently and even he couldn't see him.

Ye Jiayao was upset. After work, she went home and asked Jiang Li to go to the Marquis' Mansion to pass on the message and ask Xia Chunyu to tell her where her uncle and aunt were.

However, Jiang Li came back and said that he had not seen the prince.

Ye Jiayao was so depressed. Did she have to go find Xia Chunyu in person?
When Ye Binghuai heard that something big had happened, he did not care about leaving his post and immediately set off for Nanjing.

The two families sat together to discuss.

Everyone is clear about the situation. The two children did indeed do things they shouldn't have done, but things have already happened and it is pointless to blame them now. We can't just watch the two children get ruined.

"Let's go and ask Lord Xia for help again. It's very clear that he is the one manipulating this matter behind the scenes." Ye Binghuai murmured.

Minister Mu said, "I thought so too. The government office can't suppress it for long. But I have already gone to see Lord Xia many times, but I haven't seen him yet."

That would be troublesome. His refusal to meet means that Xia Chunyu is unwilling to give up.

Ye Binghuai looked solemn: "Then find a way to meet him. If he doesn't show up at his house, he will have to go out anyway because of the traffic jam."

He really didn't expect things to come to this point. When the Wei family wrote to him saying that Jinxuan was kidnapped by bandits on the way, for the sake of the reputation of both families, he agreed with the Wei family's approach. Who knew there were so many unbearable inside stories.

Alas... He should have been alert when Ye Ning proposed to cancel the engagement between Jin Xuan and Liu Jiang. Unfortunately, it is too late to say anything now.

He has worked hard for half his life and finally climbed to this position, and there is a possibility of promotion next year. Now that this kind of thing has happened, even if he can convince Lord Xia to settle the matter privately with the Fang family, he will still be charged with lax management of the household, and he can forget about promotion.

"Let them sue. The government can't do anything to me without any evidence," Wei Liujiang said arrogantly.

"You evil creature." Minister Mu cursed him, "How do you know they don't have evidence? Since they dare to sue the officials, how could they not have evidence? Don't forget that the Black Wind Hill was taken down by Lord Xia, he must have a witness in his hand."

"You did things dirty, and now you want us to clean up your mess. How dare you speak nonsense here? Get out of here."

Wei Liujiang was scolded so badly that he lowered his head and dared not interrupt again.

Qi loved and hated her nephew, but she still felt sorry for him. She said worriedly, "What if we meet Master Xia and he still refuses to give up? According to what you said, we are doomed to lose this lawsuit."

Minister Mu was already extremely anxious and said angrily, "You ask me, who should I ask?"

Qi began to cover her face and shed tears again. In the past two days, because of Liu Jiang's incident, she had been given so many cold stares and complaints by the master, as if she was the one who was unforgivable.

Ye Binghuai sighed: "Let's do our best and leave the rest to fate!"

Now he didn't know whether he should be thankful for Jinxuan's good fortune, or resentful of Jinxuan's hard life, which brought bad luck to his mother and now was going to bring bad luck to his father.

　My computer crashed and I lost all my manuscripts. I have to rewrite them. How sad!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)