perfect beast

Chapter 7 The Problem of Face
Xue'er walked into the meeting hall slowly, lowering her head in fear.

Zhang Beichen found that the corners of her mouth were red and swollen, and there were strangle marks on her neck. It could be seen that she had been beaten.

"Xue'er, tell me, what happened at the market that day?"

Seeing Xueer walk into the conference hall, Zhang Hanshan smiled frivolously and stared sharply at Xueer.

Xue'er's face suddenly turned pale, and her breathing became a little confused.She fiddled with the corners of her clothes nervously, swallowed but did not speak.

Zhang Beichen said, "Xue'er, don't be afraid, just tell what happened that day in detail."

Xue'er raised her head slightly, looked at Zhang Beichen, and then at Zhang Hanshan, her eyes were full of struggle.Finally panting heavily, her pupils opened suddenly and she said, "Master Patriarch, the little girl Xue'er is willing to honestly explain what happened that day.

That day, Xueer was shopping for daily necessities in Fangshi, but unexpectedly, she was molested by Ding Cheng Erhei of the Cheng family..."

After hearing Xueer's words, Zhang Hanshan slapped the table and roared angrily, "Xueer, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Xue'er looked at Zhang Hanshan and said, "Second Master, I'm sorry, but I can't harm Master Chen. Because he is kind to me, even if he dies, I can't betray him."

"I think you are courting death."

Zhang Hanshan's trick failed, and he became furious directly, wanting to kill Xue'er with a single palm.

However, just when his killing palm was about to fall on Xue'er, a foot appeared in front of his palm.

"Oh!"

Amidst a muffled sound, Zhang Hanshan was kicked back more than ten steps before stopping.And the person who kicked this kick was none other than Zhang Hanhai.

"presumptuous!"

Zhang Hanhai yelled loudly, releasing all the momentum on his body, staring at Zhang Hanshan and scolded angrily, then said: "Cheng Laoer, you know the situation well, you are not leaving at this time, you want to stay and let me invite you Do you have dinner?"

"Hmph, farewell."

The second elder of the Cheng family and Cheng Yue, the second son of the Cheng family, walked out of the Zhang family's meeting hall with sleeves thrown.

When he came to the street, Cheng Yue narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "I wanted to use this incident as a trigger, and take advantage of the conflicts between the Zhang family brothers to dismantle this Zhang Beichen from the inside. I didn't expect that Zhang Hanshan would be so unreliable. It actually allowed Zhang Beichen to escape this catastrophe."

"Second young master, I don't think Zhang Beichen has much ability, and the awakened one is just a useless martial soul. How do you say, he will become a strong enemy of our Cheng family?"

Cheng Laoer let out a "squeak" and looked down on Zhang Beichen here.

"This person is far from being as simple as it appears on the surface. You will understand later."

Cheng Yue frowned, put his hands behind his back, put on a mature appearance, and walked towards Cheng's mansion.

At this time, in the Zhang family's meeting hall, Zhang Hanhai and Zhang Hanshan were almost on the verge of breaking out, and there was a possibility of a trigger at any time.

Zhang Hanhai shouted: "Zhang Hanshan, you don't take me as the patriarch too seriously, you actually want to kill people in front of my eyes."

"Hmph, I'm just teaching our girls in the west courtyard a lesson, and it's not your turn to obstruct it."

"I can't control you if you want to teach me a lesson, but this is the meeting hall, the sacred place left by the ancestors. Are you killing people here to disturb the ancestor's soul?"

"Zhang Hanhai, don't give me too much credit. I, Zhang Hanshan, are not scared too much. I want to kill this bastard today."

As he said that, Zhang Hanshan pointed his palm at the weak Xue'er again.

Seeing this, Zhang Beichen stepped forward, stood in front of Xueer and shouted, "Wait!"

Zhang Hanshan waved his hand and stopped.

"From this moment on, Xue'er is no longer a girl from your west courtyard, she is a girl from our east courtyard, moreover, she is my follower."

"What did you say?" Zhang Hanshan didn't understand.

Zhang Beichen continued: "According to Article 90 and Article [-] of Chapter Ninth of the Family Regulations, "Households and Maids" No. [-], if Xueer is willing to come to our East Court, and if our East Court is willing to accept, then your West Court has no right to stop it."

There is indeed such a rule in the Zhang family's rules.Because recruiting new servants and maidservants is not the responsibility of the East Court, West Court or North Court, but the family's miscellaneous affairs hall to recruit and distribute them uniformly.

Therefore, as long as the East Court is willing to accept and Xueer is willing to join the East Court, no one can stop it.

"Xue'er, are you willing to join our East Hospital?"

Zhang Beichen looked at Xue'er softly, for a person like this who would rather give up his life to repay his kindness, Zhang Beichen would naturally stay by his side.

Xue'er couldn't believe it, joining the East Hospital was her dream all along.Especially when he heard Xiaolan say how good Zhang Beichen was, he wanted to leave the west courtyard even more.

It's a pity that she is just a servant and has no right to decide whether to stay or not.

But now it was different, she was personally invited by Zhang Beichen, how could she not agree.

So he nodded heavily.

But at this time Zhang Hanshan said: "If you want to snatch Xue'er, you should ask Deacon Sun of the Miscellaneous Hall."

Indeed, Zhang Beichen deliberately didn't say this just now, because he was worried that the people in the Miscellaneous Hall would hinder it.

However, since Zhang Hanshan brought it up at this time, Zhang Beichen naturally had no way to refuse, so he said, "Deacon Sun from the Miscellaneous Hall is not here, so how do you know he disagrees?"

"Go, invite Sun Gangqiang, the deacon of the miscellaneous affairs hall." Zhang Hanshan said.

The reason why he cares so much about Xue'er's going or staying is because it is no longer as simple as fighting for a maid, the situation has risen to a matter of face, and the matter of face is ultimately a matter of rights and status.

But Zhang Beichen didn't think so much, he just wanted to keep Xue'er, because Xue'er is someone who can stay by his side and can be trusted.

Not long after, a servant invited Sun Gangqiang over.

Zhang Hanshan stared at him sharply, and said: "Sun Gangqiang, Xueer is our maidservant in the west courtyard, and now the east courtyard is trying to take it away in a tough way. How do you deal with this matter? If you don't handle it well, you can Don't blame our west courtyard for being merciless."

Obviously, in the words, Zhang Hanshan had made his attitude very clear. If Sun Gangqiang let Xueer go to the East Court, he might be punished by the West Court.

Sun Gangqiang is not a fool, otherwise, he would not have sat in the seat of the deacon of the Miscellaneous Hall, so he could hear the meaning of Zhang Hanshan's words very clearly.

After thinking for a while, he said: "According to the provisions of Article 96 of the ninth chapter of the family rules, if Xueer is willing to go to the East Court, and if the East Court is willing to accept, then the West Court does not have the right to stop it. However, in case of disputes , but also to listen to the ruling of the Miscellaneous Hall."

Hearing this, Zhang Hanshan began to feel a little complacent, and thought to himself that what he said just now had worked.So he stared at Zhang Beichen coldly with a sneer.

"Well, according to the interests, I will pass this matter on behalf of Miscellaneous Hall. From now on, Xue'er will be the girl of the East Courtyard."

"Sun Gangqiang, you..."

Hearing the words, Zhang Hanshan's face with a sneer froze in the air for a moment, and turned into an extremely ugly twitch in an instant.

Zhang Beichen spread his hands towards Zhang Hanshan, showing a helpless expression, looked at Zhang Hanhai and said lightly: "Father, let's go."

It turned out that Sun Gangqiang was Sun Lei's father.

When Sun Lei returned home, he told Sun Gangqiang about him and Zhang Beichen, and Sun Gangqiang strongly supported him.

Today's matter has actually been in Zhang Beichen's calculations.

"Wait a minute, there is one more thing I want to figure out."

And just when Zhang Beichen and the others were about to leave the meeting hall, Zhang Hanshan shouted again with a gloomy face.

(End of this chapter)