People like Young Master Yang Jia were not good people to begin with. It would be a huge joke to say that such a person would truly like a woman and make plans for her!

In the final analysis, it was just that the interests behind that woman were big enough!

“Those villains are evil, and Young Master Yang is not a good person either. In this way, they are on the same page!” Bai Zhu paused and said, “If it is really as we guessed, and Young Master Yang is so greedy, the power of that woman’s family must be not small. Such a big fat sheep was let go so easily. The business done by the villains behind the scenes is indeed shady!”

Lin Fei nodded and said, “According to this statement, Miss Chang is most likely the one handed over by Young Master Yang!”

The so-called hero saving the beauty was planned by someone, and the person who planned all this was Young Master Yang; when Miss Chang fell into the trap and was abducted, Young Master Yang ran out crying and complaining about his “grievances”, and not only wanted to destroy Miss Chang, but also wanted to bite off a big piece of meat from the Chang family.

Thinking of this, Bai Zhu’s face turned pale: “If this is true, then this mother and son have truly become the last of their family!” Even if they were the last of their family, their evil deeds would be known to all the neighbors. Yet, this mother and son managed to earn a good reputation after taking advantage of everyone, as if they had suffered a great injustice and were victims.

Just thinking about this behavior really made one’s feet shiver!

“Find someone to keep an eye on that Young Master Yang!” Lin Fei said, paused, and then said, “If he really caught such a big fish, he would definitely not neglect this young lady, so he could trick her back!”

At this point, both of them frowned, apparently having suddenly thought of something.

After a moment of silence, Lin Fei said, “The family of the young lady who caught his eye must be very powerful. The mother and son of the Yang family couldn’t even deceive the Chang family, so how could they deceive the elders of the young lady’s family?”

In this case, ordinary marriage proposals and engagements would certainly not work. If the mother and son really went to the house, they would probably be beaten out.

Such words…

“Given the character of the young master of the Yang family, he might find a way to make things a fait accompli and take the young lady’s body first, or even give birth to a boy or a girl, so that her family has no choice but to compromise!” Bai Zhu shuddered when he thought of this. “This… If we don’t find the young lady that the young master of the Yang family has set his sights on in time, won’t another naive young lady be harmed?”

Bai Zhu’s idea was not wrong, but… Lin Fei was silent for a while, then shook his head and said, “No!”

What was wrong? Bai Zhu looked at Lin Fei in confusion.

Lin Fei said, “The Chang family rice shop has been run by several generations. It may not be very popular, but they have accumulated a lot of money. According to what you said, his family spoiled this daughter. Her own gold and silver jewelry, converted into silver, is a full 800 taels. This 800 taels is just the silver she took away. If he really had the Chang family lady in his hands, how many 800 taels could he get back in the long run?”

But the mother and son of the Yang family never liked the daughter of the Chang family. When the Jingzhao Prefecture sent the case to the Dali Temple, they brought a portrait of the daughter of the Chang family. The daughter of the Chang family was very pretty and was more than enough to match Young Master Yang.

She was good-looking and had plenty of money, but the mother and son of the Yang family still didn’t like her, which could only mean one thing.

“They themselves have nothing, but they still look down on the Chang family’s money? I’m afraid their ambitions are bigger than we think.” Lin Fei said.

For some things, Lin Fei, who was born in Jingyun Marquis Mansion, knew the ins and outs of them better than Bai Zhu. After a brief thought, Lin Fei said, “There are many whose family backgrounds are better than that of the Chang family’s lady. If it is just any lady from a powerful family, such a powerful family often has many brothers and sisters, and the family’s money has to be used for other purposes such as paving roads. Therefore, in terms of squeezing money, these ladies can’t be better than the Chang family’s lady!”

Although Bai Zhu didn’t understand the trick here at first, he understood it after thinking about it.

“Otherwise, it is that the mother and son of the Yang family do not understand the ins and outs of it?” Bai Zhu thought for a moment and said.

Didn’t he not think of this?

In response, Lin Fei shook his head and said to Bai Zhu: “It’s not surprising that you don’t know, but it’s impossible for him not to know! Even if it’s impossible at the beginning, since he wants to kick the Chang family’s daughter for that girl, it’s impossible for him not to find out clearly!”

Since it involves money, given the shrewd nature of this mother and son, it was impossible for them not to be fully prepared.

Besides……

“There is one more thing,” Lin Fei said with a serious expression, “The bigger the family, the more likely they are to have children! Even if he really cheated her of her body, some big families who valued face more would choose to give up the young lady who brought them shame without even a second thought!”

If the young master of the Yang family set his eyes on a young lady like this, there was a greater chance that his plan would fail.

“What’s more, there were even prominent families who found such daughters disgraceful and secretly dealt with their daughters’ affairs with those young men.” Lin Fei shook his head and said, “These prominent families are not ones that cunning mother-and-son duo could manipulate or provoke with petty tricks and schemes!”

Would a man like Young Master Yang be so stunned by the pie in the sky that he would gamble on the compromise of the big family?

“I don’t think it’s likely!” Lin Fei said this, stood up, and opened the window to look at Xun Zhou who was setting up a stall not far away.

“In this case, I am even more curious about which daughter Yang’s son has set his sights on?” Lin Fei said, “Not only must the family be powerful and wealthy, but the Yang mother and son must also be certain that her family will compromise and accept him!”

Was there such a family in the capital? Lin Fei frowned. For a moment, he couldn’t think of such a family.

When the bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge for breakfast went into his stomach, he was too full to eat anymore. But after painting for most of the day, he was hungry again!

Xun Zhou put down his brush and glanced at the yamen officers who were “incognito” in the crowd to catch thieves. When the two officers passed by him just now, he smelled an inexplicably tempting spicy aroma. One of them even burped and muttered something like “duòjiāo yútóu dòufǔ bāo is really delicious” and so on.

It really made his already hungry stomach growl even more! He also wanted to eat the lunch made by sister Mingtang!

But it was just a thought for now! Xun Zhou took out a flattened bun from his sleeve pocket and took the bamboo tube filled with water from the corner of the table.

Although the water was still warm when it was filled, it had already turned cold after a whole morning of painting.

Flat buns with cold water, this was Xun Zhou’s lunch, a down-and-out scholar!

Holding up a spyglass to watch Xun Zhou, who wore a miserable expression as he stuffed a flat bun into his mouth, that palm-sized bun was eaten by him so painstakingly that even the onlookers couldn’t help but feel as though time was dragging unbearably slow!

“He looks like this…” Bai Zhu put down the spyglass in his hand, turned around, and asked Lin Fei, “He can’t stand it anymore…”

Lin Fei hummed, looked in the direction of Xun Zhou, and said, “That’s the best!”

Wasn’t this the best? How could a young man from a well-off family with no worries about food and clothing swallow such a lunch?

Xun Zhou’s reaction didn’t even need to be acted out, it was the most genuine one, he was sure he could fool those people!

(End of this chapter)

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