"Actually, I heard about this from Mr. Wu, the Xingcao of Tinglin Tianfu, but it was just some drunken chat. It's hard to tell the truth from the truth." Xu Dianbo said.
"It doesn't matter. Justice lies in the hearts of the people. You just have to speak out."
"Uh, okay," Xu Dianbo looked at the livid Jiang Yuanmao and said, "Jiang Huishou married a new concubine last month, and the wedding banquet was held here. Many people, including me, Come to congratulate him.
"But most of the guests don't know that the woman was actually engaged to someone before marrying into the Jiang Mansion. She was a young scholar, and she came from a family of officials.
“But by his grandfather’s generation, his family was already in decline, and his mother was seriously ill and needed to take medicine all the time, so the family became increasingly poor.
"He and the woman met while visiting a lantern festival, and they fell in love. After a while, the scholar found a matchmaker to come to propose marriage, but the woman's father was a man who disliked poverty and loved wealth, so he was reluctant at first.
"Fortunately, the scholar was very motivated. He passed the examination and saw that he had a good chance of becoming an official. The woman's father relented and reluctantly agreed to the marriage.
"The two families got engaged, but they didn't expect that the woman was doing laundry by the river and was seen by Jiang Huishou, who was passing by. Jiang Huishou was greedy for her beauty and wanted to take her as his own.
"So someone came to find the woman's father and said he was willing to pay a hundred taels of gold to take her as a concubine."
"The woman's father was very moved when he heard about it, but he had to tell the visitor truthfully that his daughter had already been engaged."
"The man didn't say anything. He just asked the man's name and left. Not long after, someone came to the scholar and offered him fifty taels of gold to break the engagement. The scholar angrily reprimanded the man in person. As a result, the next On the second day, his father, who was working as a bookkeeper in the city, was kicked out of the shop by his boss.
“On the third day, his brother-in-law’s herbal tea stall was also smashed up, and as soon as his brother-in-law set up the stall, thugs would immediately come to harass him, making it impossible for him to do business.
"The scholar went to the yamen to report to the officials, but the yamen officers only patrolled for a symbolic period and then left. The rogues obviously got the news in advance and did not show up. When the yamen officers left, they went again Harassed the scholar's brother-in-law.
"In this way, the scholar's family will be cut off from their financial resources, and his seriously ill old mother will have to take medicine, so the family will be forced to have no other choice.
"At this time, the man from before came to the scholar again and asked him if he wanted to break off the engagement. The scholar remained silent. As a result, his old father knelt in front of him that night, crying and begging him to agree to the man's request, otherwise he would The old mother had to pay too much money on credit to the drug store and had no medicine to drink.
"The scholar and his father hugged each other and cried, but early the next morning he finally agreed to go to the woman's house to cancel the marriage, and received fifty taels of gold.
"The scholar handed the gold to his sister and asked her to make a good meal in the evening so that all the family members who had been worried about him recently would have a good meal.
"Her sister saw that the scholar seemed a little frustrated, and comforted him a few words, saying that he would definitely meet a more virtuous and gentle woman in the future. The scholar did not refute, but just nodded.
"No one expected that the scholar would hang himself from the rafter shortly after the meal. This matter was later reported to the governor, but Jiang Huishou was so wealthy that the money was suppressed..."
Before Xu Dianbo could finish speaking, he was startled by a loud bang, but it was Feng Jiulang not far away who slapped the table and said angrily, "Listen, this was done by a human being." What’s the matter?!”
As a result, one of the guests who heard this couldn't help but tremble in their hearts. Taking someone's wife as a concubine was definitely not very honest, but if it hadn't been for the fact that the scholar couldn't think of hanging himself in the end, for people like them It's not a big deal.
Most of the people who came to the restaurant for the banquet tonight were rich or noble, and they had all done similar bad things to each other.
After all, both money and power are good things. When you get them, you always want to test their power. But since Lu Jing asked a question, no matter what they think in their hearts, they have to echo a few words at this time.
But when everyone's voices stopped, Lu Jing did not break his promise, and said to the frightened Xu Dianbo, "My lord, you can leave."
Xu Dianbo couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this. He stood up hurriedly and without saying a word, he just bowed his hands to Lu Jing and hurried downstairs.
And he walked faster and faster. When he left the restaurant, he stopped sitting in the sedan and just started running.
Thanks to him being a Hanlin civil servant who usually writes and writes, he can now run as fast as the high school students taking the physical test.
It didn't matter that Xu Dianbo left, and the remaining people in the restaurant saw the light of day.
Although the man named Feng is vicious, at least he is a man of his word.
Then someone started to take action again.
Soon a second person stood up. He was also an official and gave away some dirty information about Jiang Yuanmao seizing people's land. To be honest, the dirty information was a bit forced. Strictly speaking, it was just that Jiang Yuanmao used the Qianyuan Chamber of Commerce when buying land. He put pressure on the seller, but Lu Jing still let him go.
After all, this is just the beginning, so we can’t suppress everyone’s enthusiasm.
As soon as that person left, the remaining guests became more active, so the third person, the fourth person... also appeared one after another.
In the beginning, they were just trivial things, not as exciting as Xu Dianbo's story about taking his wife as a concubine and forcing the mistress to death.
But gradually, I don’t know whether it was because he was getting too excited, or because he was too into the show, or because he was really pretending. A merchant from the Qianyuan Chamber of Commerce revealed that Jiang Yuanmao was secretly using tricks, causing one of the grain merchants in the meeting to suffer overnight. He suffered a huge loss of hundreds of thousands of taels and had to sell the property to Jiang Yuanmao at a low price.
This time, one stone stirred up a thousand waves!
After all, most of the people here are merchants from the Qianyuan Chamber of Commerce. Whether Jiang Yuanmao, the leader of the guild, stole someone's wife or invaded their property, it actually had nothing to do with them.
But attacking the merchants in the meeting is closely related to each of them.
No one wanted this kind of thing to happen to them again one day in the future, so this time without Lu Jing opening his mouth, everyone went to full speed and began to reveal dirt on Jiang Yuanmao.
Lu Jing was amazed by the rich content and detailed details. He thought to himself that I just wanted to teach this old man a lesson, but you guys just want Jiang Yuanmao to die.
And the fact is indeed the case. Now that they have fallen out with Jiang Yuanmao, considering Jiang Yuanmao's power and backers, the guests in the restaurant now really have the idea of crushing Jiang Yuanmao completely and making him unable to stand up again.
