The Chief Minister's Ferocious Wife

170 The Blacklist

When Zhao Chuchu heard this, she almost laughed.

Scholars only had the qualifications to become an official. That didn’t mean they were already an official.

Imperial City had so many scholars waiting to be awarded, and Scholar Jin was not a natural talent. Even if a candidate were to be awarded, it wouldn’t be his turn.

Mrs. Jin was really a frog at the bottom of the well. She thought her husband was someone who could dominate Yuanjiang County. She dared point at the court official of Thousand Battalion and scold him. It was really courageous. Zhao Chuchu wanted to applaud her.

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“Insulting the court official, men, take her down and punish her with ten boards.” Gan Maosheng was here to support Zhao Chuchu.

Mrs. Jin gave him the perfect reason to do so.

“How dare you?” Mrs. Jin shrieked. “I am the wife of Scholar Jin.”

“Then I am a Level 5 ranking official of the court. What are you, a mere scholar?” Gan Maosheng laughed coldly.

He waved his hand and ordered the armor bearers to rush forward, dragged Mrs. Jin to the side, pressed her to the ground, and directly beat her with a board.

Mrs. Jin had never been treated like this before!

She screamed loudly and miserably.

The people of the Jin family were silent and didn’t dare come forward to plead for mercy. They were afraid that they would be the next to be beaten.

After the ten strokes, Mrs. Jin, who had always been pampered, could not even stand up.

When he received the news, Scholar Jin hurried home and found his home in a mess. He reacted exactly the same as Mrs. Jin and immediately questioned Gan Maosheng. “What is the meaning of this, General Gan? I am at least a scholar. How dare you beat up members of the Jin family?”

“If you don’t like it, you can sue me in Fu City,” Gan Maosheng said coldly. “I am not afraid to confront your Jin family in Fu City, but I don’t know if the Jin family can afford the consequences.”

“General Gan, since you have said so, if I do not do anything, is it not worthy of your words?” Scholar Jin said gloomily. “The Jin family has other family matters, so I won’t keep you, General Gan.”

After saying that, Scholar Jin glanced at Zhao Chuchu gloomily.

Zhao Chuchu’s face was expressionless as she met Mr. Jin’s eyes.

The face of the Scholar Jin became more and more ugly.

Gan Maosheng looked around. “Let’s go!”

Zhao Chuchu and Madam Luo followed Gan Maosheng and left the Jin family’s residence.

Mrs. Jin, who others had helped to walk up to Scholar, said, “Sir, you have to do something for me. Gan Maosheng has simply gone too far. He doesn’t take you, the Scholar, seriously!

Mr. Jin gritted his teeth and said, “I won’t let this go. I will make Gan Maosheng and Zhao Chuchu pay. Otherwise, my name will be worth nothing!”

Mrs. Jin wiped her tears. “Sir, you can’t let them off so easily.”

“You have suffered. Go back and let someone apply medicine on you first. I have my own opinion on this matter. I won’t let you suffer for nothing.”

“I just heard that Zhao Chuchu had cured the old man of the Gan family. I was planning on asking her to treat Mom. Who knew something like this would have happened…”

“I understand your filial piety. Go back to your room first and apply some medicine. We can talk about everything else later.”

“I understand, sir.”

Only then did Mrs. Jin let someone help her head to her room.

Immediately, Mr. Jin returned to his study and put pen to paper to write a letter.

“Gan Maosheng, I will ensure that you won’t be able to continue to be a general!”

After Zhao Chuchu and the others returned to the Gan family, Zhao Chuchu said to Madam Luo, “Auntie, I’m afraid I have to go back to Lengshui Village to tell Da Lang about the Jin family so that they won’t set Da Lang up. I’m sorry to have dragged you all into this.”

“Don’t say such things. It’s all my fault. If I had known that the Jin family was so outrageous, I would not have let that woman in from the beginning.” Luo blamed herself and said, “It’s all because of me…”

“Let’s not talk about that. No matter what, things have happened. All we can do is prevent further things from happening in the future. Be careful of the Jin family. That Scholar Jin won’t be letting this go so easily.”

“Then I’ll have someone send you back to Lengshui Village.”

“No need. I can just head back by myself.”

Zhao Chuchu refused Madam Luo’s offer and went straight out of town.

It took her two-quarters of an hour to get back to Lengshui Village after going over the mountains and hills and walking in a straight line, which exhausted her enough.

She didn’t know when she would be able to return to my peak level from the end of the world, so she wouldn’t have to struggle so much when traveling.

The time delay in the city was a bit long, and it was already evening when she returned to Lengshui Village.

As soon as Zhao Chuchu entered the courtyard, Xie Heng heard the commotion and came out.

“Chuchu, why are you back?” Xie Heng looked at Zhao Chuchu, who was sweating profusely, and asked with concern, “Did something happen in the city?”

Zhao Chuchu sat down, and after taking a breather, she told Xie Heng everything about the Jin family.

Xie Heng smiled and looked a little subtle. “The Jin family threatened you?”

“Well, the Jin family is too annoying, and I’m not going to beat around the bush with you. Do you have any evidence of the Jin family on hand?” Zhao Chuchu was being very straightforward. “It’s probably going to be a fight to the death with the Jin family, and I want to take the first move.”

“You come with me.” Xie Heng turned around and entered the house.

Zhao Chuchu followed.

In front of Zhao Chuchu, Xie Heng opened the secret room in his room and gestured for Zhao Chuchu to go down with him.

When Zhao Chuchu saw the modest dark room piled with gold and silver jewels, she gave Xie Heng a meaningful sideways glance.

“Da Lang, you’ve made a good fortune. I didn’t expect you to be a rich and handsome man.”

“What, rich and handsome?”

“That means you have a pretty face and a lot of money.”

Xie Heng understood Zhao Chuchu’s meaning.

He smiled and said, “What’s here? You can do as you please. No need to tell me.”

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Zhao Chuchu’s eyes lit up, and she joked. “Da Lang, are you going to be my sugar daddy?”

“Sugar daddy? That doesn’t really sound nice. Just sugar would do,” thought Xie Heng.

Xie Heng shook his head. “It’s for you to spend. I’m not your sugar daddy. It’s what you deserve.”

Zhao Chuchu squatted down and looked at the accessories. The ones in front of her were all of the top quality.

Although Zhao Chuchu liked them very much, with her current status, it was not suitable to be so high-profile.

She picked a pair of tiny earrings.

“I want these.”

“You can take whatever you want and then see if there are other things you like.”

Xie Heng put the flashlight on the wall while he went to the corner and opened the locked box.

Zhao Chuchu went over to look. “What is this?”

“The evidence you wanted.”

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“You really have it?”

“Mm.”

Xie Heng nodded.

“The Jin family has done much injustice. It’s time for someone to do justice.”

“Then why didn’t you do it before?”

“It wasn’t time, but now the time has come.”

Xie Heng didn’t do anything in the past because he didn’t want to draw suspicion to himself.

Now that the Jin family had offended Zhao Chuchu and Gan Maosheng, no one would suspect anything.

After all, the Jin family was at fault in the first place.

“Is it all the evidence of the crimes of those people on your blacklist?”

Although it was the first time he heard the word blacklist, Xie Heng listened to the meaning of blacklist from the purpose of this sentence.

“Well, sort of.”

Then, Xie Heng took out a black box from the bottom and handed it to Zhao Chuchu.