They've all separated, so what does it matter to me if they get poorer and poorer?

Chapter 108 Manager Fang

Upon hearing Xu Zhichun's words, Zeng Xiaoyan was overjoyed, and Liang Mingliang burst out laughing, "Hahaha!" "Great, great, that's wonderful! Zhichun, you must go!"

Zeng Xiaoyan beamed with joy: "Sister-in-law Zhichun, you're so kind."

Xu Zhichun is the backbone; with her around, they all subconsciously feel at ease.

Xu Zhichun smiled and said, "It's only right that I hire you to do things and ensure your safety."

The guy's face turned pale.

He was convinced that they were deliberately picking a fight and making trouble out of nothing.

The waiter was utterly disdainful. So what if she was making trouble to delay things? Did her uncle expect his niece to go? Would a mere concubine's daughter dare not go?

What good are these fancy tricks? They only make the shopkeeper angrier.

A self-righteous fool.

"Alright, in that case you can go over in a bit. I'll go back and give the manager my report."

As soon as he left, Zeng Xiaoyan hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law Zhichun, that Fang fellow is no pushover. Who knows what kind of trouble he'll cause? Maybe you shouldn't go. My husband and I will go. With my husband there, he can't do anything to me."

Zeng Xiaoyan glanced at her husband, still quite confident.

Her husband treats her so well. He's not even afraid of the eldest son of the Zeng family, so why would he be afraid of the Fang family's uncle? So what if he's an elder? If an elder dares to lay a hand on someone, why can't a junior fight back?
In the end, it all boils down to this: at worst, we can just cut ties with the family. After all, she doesn't eat Zeng family rice or wear Zeng family clothes.

Fortunately, her parents-in-law were reasonable, principled, and upright people who had no intention of currying favor or flattering her, and would never force her to suffer the grievances of the Zeng family.

Thinking of this, Zeng Xiaoyan's heart stirred, and she thought of her second sister.

After her scumbag father's birthday banquet, she had been wanting to visit her second sister in Loujia Village to see how the Lou family treated her, but she had been too busy lately and had been delayed. Perfect timing, she would go in a few days.

Xu Zhichun laughed and said, "I'm not joking. We're going into town together, so of course I should go with you. Besides, judging from the shopkeeper's attitude, he's obviously after our gray tofu, gray bean shreds, and braised dishes, so I should go even more."

Aunt Zhu'er also said, "Although I can't be of much help, at least I can keep you company and give you some courage."

Zeng Xiaoyan felt a warmth in her heart and nodded, "Mm!"

Xu Zhichun: "I want the truth from you now. After all, Sifang Restaurant is a property of the Zeng family. If it's for your sake, I might be willing to back down a bit."

Even if Zeng Xiaoyan resented the Zeng family, they were still her maternal family. In modern times, one would simply ignore such a maternal family, but she was unsure about the thinking of people in ancient times.

After all, there are differences between ancient and modern times.

She didn't want to put her girlfriends in a difficult position.

Zeng Xiaoyan gave a mocking smile: "Sister-in-law Zhichun, you don't need to give that Fang guy any face at all. That kind of person will only take an inch and want a mile and will never be satisfied. My father, on the other hand, is not capable of doing anything underhanded. If it really comes down to my father getting involved, and he is interested, Sister-in-law Zhichun, just treat it as a normal business deal and talk to him."

Xu Zhichun understood. "Okay."

She thought so too. Judging from what she saw at the birthday banquet, she could tell that Master Zeng was a workaholic who entrusted everything in the family to his legal wife, giving her absolute power. Over the years, two concubines had "died of illness," one was disfigured, one was crippled, and one had entered a Buddhist temple. He probably knew what had happened, but he just pretended not to.

His two illegitimate daughters had been tormented by his legal wife since childhood. As long as they were alive, he didn't care at all. Otherwise, he wouldn't have relentlessly filed countless complaints against Zeng Xiaoyan, only to have them all come to nothing in the end.

Zeng Xiaoyan had long since given up on him; she was only maintaining a superficial, worldly relationship. That made things easier.

After selling their goods and packing up, the group returned the goods to the oxcart, left the oxcart at the market management office, and went together to the Sifang Restaurant.

The errand boy who ran the errands twice was called Lai Sheng. He was a confidant of Manager Fang Zhengduan, and rose to power through flattery and was highly favored by Fang Zhengduan.

He was humiliated by Xu Zhichun and Zeng Xiaoyan, and when he returned, he angrily exaggerated his story to Fang Zhengduan, making Fang Zhengduan laugh coldly.

"A concubine's daughter has gone too far. So what if she's married? Let her and her husband's family never have anything to do with us again! Fine, if that's how it is, then I'll wait and see what she can do!"

Clearly, Fang Zhengduan did not believe that the business belonged to Xu Zhichun at all, and was convinced that Zeng Xiaoyan was behind it.

Fang Zhengduan naturally assumed that Zeng Xiaoyan should rush over and listen obediently when he had something to say. He waited for more than a quarter of an hour and still hadn't seen her, which made him even angrier.

They don't respect me at all.

When Xu Zhichun and Zeng Xiaoyan arrived, Fang Zhengduan became arrogant again and sneered, "You're only arriving now? Take them to the backyard and wait for an hour."

Can you come and go as you please, see me whenever you want?
They really think they're something special.

Just wait!
Lai Sheng was eager to vent his anger and quickly agreed with a smile: "Yes, yes, shopkeeper, don't worry, I will take care of this personally."

Lai Sheng led Xu Zhichun and the others to the courtyard behind the restaurant and said lazily, "This is the busiest time for the restaurant. You can wait here for now. Our manager will send someone to call you when he has time."

Zeng Xiaoyan said angrily, "He's the one who told us to come, and now that we're here, we're leaving him hanging? Since he's busy, we're not waiting for him."

Lai Sheng sneered.

He wasn't afraid that Zeng Xiaoyan would dare to leave. If she dared to leave, it would be disrespectful to her elders, and the shopkeeper had plenty of ways to deal with her.

Xu Zhichun: "It's alright if your manager is busy. Xiaoyan, let's go find Master Zeng and let him know. We've come, but he won't see us, not that we didn't want to come. Of course, we can't blame him; he's just busy. We can come again when he's free next time. Letting him know will prevent Master Zeng from misunderstanding. Otherwise, if the message gets passed around and gets misinterpreted, he might think you're disrespectful to your elders!"

"If there's really been a misunderstanding, I'll feel really bad about it."

Zeng Xiaoyan immediately nodded: "Okay, let's go right now."

Lai Sheng was taken aback and quickly stopped him, somewhat embarrassed and angry: "How dare the Third Miss trouble the Master with such a small matter? The Third Miss is being unfilial."

Xu Zhichun: "How can something that could easily lead to misunderstandings be a small matter? What if Master Zeng misunderstands Xiaoyan? Wouldn't that damage the father-daughter relationship? That would be true filial impiety! Why are you stopping us? Can you even stop us?"

I choked on my words.

If someone wants to leave, of course he can't stop them.

He couldn't just order all the waiters in the restaurant to come and tie the man up.

"You wait here, I'll go see if the shopkeeper is free."

"Then you'd better hurry, we can't wait more than fifteen minutes."

"Humph"

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