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

Chapter 109 So Shameless

Lai Sheng reluctantly went to report.

Adding fuel to the fire is inevitable.

Adding fuel to the fire, Fang Zhengduan was furious: "That brat is still the same as before, always tattles."

Lai Sheng: "The Third Miss didn't say anything; it's all because of that sharp-tongued Madam Xu."

Fang Zhengduan sneered: "So this brat has really grown up. She knows to let others take the lead while she hides in the back."

Lai Sheng thought it made sense and admired her greatly: "The shopkeeper is really smart; he saw through her at a glance!"

"Hmph, she thinks she can pull some tricks on me with her meager skills? She's still too green!"

"Shopkeeper, shall we proceed now?"

"Fine, go and bring them in. She's so immature, why should I hold it against her? It's shameless of her to bother my brother-in-law over such a small matter, but I still have my pride."

"Yes, yes, the shopkeeper is right. Someone as arrogant and unfilial as her has no shame whatsoever."

"hehe!"

Fang Zhengduan found these words very pleasing.

Xu Zhichun, Zeng Xiaoyan, and the other three were quickly led into the large flower hall on the second floor of the backyard.

Fang Zhengduan wouldn't make himself feel inferior. His resting place had a flower hall, a small dining room, a study, and a private room for sleeping and resting. It was decorated very luxuriously and exquisitely, like a presidential suite.

Fang Zhengduan leaned back lazily on a mahogany couch inlaid with mother-of-pearl and embroidered with gold thread on a blue background, his legs crossed, and rested with his eyes slightly closed.

Hearing them come in, he only opened his eyes a crack, squinted and glanced through the crack, gave a soft hum, and then closed them again.

Xu Zhichun saw a chair and sat down.

Seeing this, Zeng Xiaoyan and the others sat down.

Fang Zhengduan suddenly opened his eyes and sat up straight, looking disgusted and disdainful.

Lai Sheng: "How come you can't even say hello? Don't you know anything about manners?"

Xu Zhichun smiled and said, "Etiquette? May I ask this young man, what are the etiquette rules for entertaining guests?"

Fang Zhengduan was furious and sneered, "You call yourselves guests?"

Xu Zhichun: "In that case, shall we leave?"

Fang Zheng stared at Zeng Xiaoyan: "Zeng Xiaoyan, are you just going to stand by and watch outsiders bully your elders? Believe me or not, I'll tell your mother."

Zeng Xiaoyan couldn't take it anymore: "You can go tell her, but why don't you ask her how she wants to punish me this time? Does she want her maid to pinch my arm, poke my back with a needle, or lock me in the small Buddhist hall for two days and two nights without food or water? Manager Fang, except in front of my father, you never allow me and my second sister to call each other uncle. When did you become my elder? You're putting on airs at a time like this."

"you!"

"Spit it out already, we need to get home."

Fang Zhengduan glared at her fiercely, a sinister smile on his face: "Fine, bring me all those recipes for gray tofu, gray bean shreds, and that braised meat. Starting tomorrow, Sifang Restaurant will take over this business; it's none of your business anymore. Zeng Xiaoyan, even if you're married, you're still a daughter of the Zeng family. Sifang Restaurant is our family business; you wouldn't be so selfish as to refuse, would you?"

"Don't worry, I won't take it for nothing. I'll give you five hundred coins every month from now on!"

Lai Sheng flattered her from the side, "Third Miss, you don't have to do anything, and you get five hundred coins every month for free. This is a great thing! It's only because the shopkeeper is kind that he's thinking of giving you benefits. Otherwise, if the shopkeeper asked the master to speak up, would the Third Miss dare to be an unfilial daughter and disobey the master? At that time, she probably wouldn't get a single coin."

Zeng Xiaoyan was so angry that she trembled all over.

Liang Mingliang's eyes widened in shock: he had never seen such a shameless person before!

Aunt Zhu'er was also stunned. She was kind-hearted and felt a little embarrassed for the other person—how could the other person not blush when saying such things?

You're offering 500 coins a month based on someone else's prescription? Are you kidding me?

She was too embarrassed to say it, because telling the truth would be too disrespectful to her—even though she only got 20% of the profits, she still earned more than 500 coins a day.

So what kind of restaurant manager is he? He's nothing special after all.

Aunt Zhu suddenly realized that the manager of the grand restaurant wasn't all that great. Xu Zhichun was also speechless.

People can be incredibly bold and their words can be outrageous!

She had thought the other party would demand that she supply goods only to their Sifang Restaurant at extremely low prices, but to her surprise, the first thing they asked for was the recipe.

They even give me 500 coins a month.

Judging from his attitude, Xu Zhichun felt that he would probably be in arrears on the five hundred coins a month and eventually give up.

It's because her perspective is too narrow.

Xu Zhichun: "The prescription is mine."

Fang Zhengduan revealed a sly, unfathomable smile, confident and certain: "Stop pretending. I've investigated thoroughly. Fang Zi belongs to Zeng Xiaoyan. You're deliberately putting on an act in front of me, trying to fool me. Ha, do you think I'm that easy to fool?"

Lai Sheng seized the opportunity to chime in: "Third Miss, this is where you're wrong. You didn't listen to the shopkeeper's kind words. If he really complains to the master, you'll be in trouble. Why bother?"

Zeng Xiaoyan shouted angrily, "Are you all out of your minds?! Why can't you even hear what I'm saying? Pretending? I'll show you what you're doing! Find out? Tell me, who did you find out from? If you found out, would you be spouting this nonsense?"

Xu Zhichun was speechless: "The prescription is mine. If you don't believe me, you can check it again. This time, we need to really investigate. My family is small, and I can't do this by myself, so I asked Xiaoyan and her husband, as well as Aunt Zhu'er, for help. If the prescription is Xiaoyan's, what role would Aunt Zhu'er and I play? The village head has plenty of manpower. Besides, does Manager Fang not know anything about what Xiaoyan was like before she got married? What kind of prescription could she possibly have?"

Zeng Xiaoyan sneered: "Some people are just looking for an excuse to embezzle other people's recipes. They can make up any kind of nonsense."

Fang Zhengduan, enraged, retorted: "Don't be so stubborn! You're going against our Sifang Restaurant and the Zeng family. Think about it!"

Zeng Xiaoyan: "See, I was right."

Liang Mingliang: "What do you want to do? Trying to hit someone?"

Fang Zhengduan just sneered.

Lai Sheng: "Why all the nonsense? Just hand over the prescription and everything will be fine. It's not like we're taking yours for free."

Xu Zhichun stood up: "If there's nothing else, we'll be leaving now."

Saying more is pointless.

Fang Zhengduan sneered.

Lai Sheng: "Are you really going to suffer the consequences?"

Xu Zhichun smiled and said, "If you think you have the right to 'punish' us, you can try."

Fang Zhengduan gritted his teeth: "Fine, you just wait."

Zeng Xiaoyan: "Fine, we'll wait. Is Qingshan County your territory, Manager Fang?"

They could only act arrogantly within the Zeng family.

Even within the Zeng family, he wouldn't rank first in terms of being able to walk sideways.

"Hehe! You'll soon regret what you said and did today."

Xu Zhichun: "Then you must keep your word and not keep us waiting too long, otherwise it would be too cowardly and spineless!"

"Get out of here!"

No man could tolerate such words.

Xu Zhichun gave a haughty sneer, "Let's go."

The four of them strode away.

"Asshole! Asshole!"

Fang Zheng grabbed a teacup and smashed it hard on the ground.

A spineless illegitimate daughter of a concubine has actually gotten herself into this situation and started to act all high and mighty. Have they really given her that much face?
(End of this chapter)