Chapter 387 (1/2)

t.i.tle: The Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir

Chapter 387 - Each mountain is higher than the previous one (2)

After thinking it over, Shopkeeper Rong and the other shopkeepers ran over to the governmental office to seek a.s.sistance for that constable.

Looking at Xiao Tianyi, the constable felt wrong-footed and only answered that it was Jing Zhaoyin.

”Tell him to come. We'll be waiting inside,” said Xiao Tianyi. As he led the group of people inside, he said to them, ”We haven't had dinner yet. I feel really hungry. Let's head in first.”

Ji Man furrowed her brow as she looked Shopkeeper Liu, who was in the middle of the departing group. Really, as soon as she saw him, something bad had happened. She had left them a way out by not monopolizing all of the tenant farmers contracts in one swoop, but they had secretly plotted to make life difficult for her.

Sure enough, she was one of those people that had a tongue like a sharp knife, but a soft tofu heart. Every time that she thought she had been ruthless enough, she still ended up giving people a way out. Giving her enemies a way out was the same as blocking her own path.

Ning Yuxuan's reminder really hadn't gone to waste.

After entering the rice store and finding a private room on the second floor for this group, Ji Man ordered a shop a.s.sistant to buy snacks and order food.

The group, which had recently been famished, had their hunger for food replaced by curiosity for Ji Store.

”Owner Ji, are you an unscrupulous merchant?” Sun Zhangyang asked.

With a blackened expression, Ji Man shook her head. ”This one conducts my business within the rules.” She had just used some tricks and earned more money than others.

”Why would a constable come to arrest you then?” Sun Zhangyang mumbled, ”Or, did you kidnap and sell someone's daughter?”

Did she look like a kidnapper?  Ji Man didn't know where to laugh or cry.

On the side, Zhu Yurun quietly said, ”Mister Ji is a good person.”

It wasn't surprising that Qian Yingchen would sneer in response to her defense.

Zhu Yurun pouted and fell silent.

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Before the ordered food had even arrived, the group of rice store shopkeepers had returned with Jing Zhaoyin. Jing Zhaoyin was also feeling quite helpless. If the Minister of Revenue hadn't ordered him in advance, he wouldn't have left his own dinner to come here to handle this business.

”Where is that group of people?” Jing Zhaoyin grumbled, ”Why hasn't the constable arrested that person yet? A person that has committed a crime has to be arrested. It doesn't matter who is trying protect this criminal!”

The shop a.s.sistant was trembling in fear as he led this person upstairs. The shopkeepers stayed downstairs and looked around Ji Store. They evilly smiled as they examined the white rice with their hands.

However, only a short time had pa.s.sed when Jing Zhaoyin came downstairs by himself and left the store without saying a word to anyone. He got onto his sedan chair and simply left.