BXBX NOVEL Chapter 335 - 335: Afraid
Zhou Jia took out an official document and handed it to Li Yu. “Yu’er, look, Chu Feng sent this over in the afternoon. I reported it to ask for instructions to use the bribe sent by the Wang family to rebuild the shack in West city. His Majesty agreed. I’ve checked that that piece of land is still ownerless. If anyone finds out, they will definitely buy it. At that time, those people might not even have a shack. I’m thinking about how to repair it so that those people can always live there.”
Li Yu looked at the instructions and handed the official document to Zhou Jia. “Then have you thought of a way?”
“I’ve thought of a way to buy that piece of land in someone’s name and rent it to those people at a low price. I just can’t think of a suitable candidate.”
Wasn’t this the low-rent housing in the future? In the future, low-rent housing was a government initiative. If they wanted those poor people to really benefit, they had to find a suitable person to front the purchase of the land. Who was suitable? Li Yu suddenly thought of someone. “Xiao Xi, I’ve thought of the most suitable person. He’s more suitable than anyone.”
Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu and smiled slyly. He felt that he had guessed the candidate Li Yu had thought of. He looked at her in surprise and pointed up. “Don’t tell me you want to buy it in the name of the higher-ups?”
Li Yu smiled at Zhou Jia. “You can’t buy it in our name, right? Aren’t you afraid of being criticized for abusing public interests? I don’t think anyone is more suitable to be a landlord than him. What do you think?”
Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu and recalled that although he had always felt that she was not as fearful and respectful as he was to His Majesty, her attitude towards His Majesty was more fearful than respectful. She was careful not to cross the line. Why was she so afraid?
“Yu’er, I think you’re afraid that the higher-ups will punish us.”
Li Yu rolled her eyes at Zhou Jia and made a throat-cutting gesture on her neck. “Aren’t you afraid? That’s the person who controls the life and death of our entire family.”
Zhou Jia laughed when he heard that. “Silly! Do you think His Majesty can kill innocent people? That’s something only a fatuous ruler can do.”
Li Yu felt that it was better to be careful in this world where royal power reigned supreme. This was because if one couldn’t do it openly, they could do it secretly!
“We don’t want to be greedy for money. Don’t leave chances for anyone to gossip about us.”
Seeing Li Yu’s serious expression, Zhou Jia looked at her seriously and replied,
“Yu’er, I’ll be careful. I’ll discuss what you said with Chu Feng.”
They discussed the implementation of the shack’s transformation for a while longer. Ji Xiang had already driven into the courtyard and lifted the sack out from under the car. He went to the kitchen in the main courtyard to open the stone slab that covered the cellar. He went down and dumped her in the cellar. He turned around and left.
Granny Han woke up from her coma and realized that she had been placed in a sack by someone. It was quiet around her and there was no light. Granny Han was terrified and shouted, “Someone! Come…
When Ji Xiang arrived at the main hall, he saw Zhou Jia and Li Yu standing at the door and looking at him with smiles. His already extremely small eyes smiled at Li Yu and her husband until only a thin crack was left. “Master, Madam, I’m back.”
They looked at him and nodded with a smile. “I’m glad you’re back. Go freshen up and eat something before coming back.”
“Madam, I locked that old woman in the cellar…
Li Yu raised her hand to stop Ji Xiang. “I saw it. Go wash up and eat something first.”
“Yes.” Ji Xiang bowed and left.
“Looks like we really guessed it. It was indeed Madam Lin and that old woman who harmed your mother. Have you thought of a way to deal with her?”
Li Yu had never really thought about how to deal with Madam Lin. Now that she had something on Madam Lin, it was time to think about how to deal with her.
“I’ll find out why they targeted my mother first before thinking about how to deal with her.”
“Then let’s go and take a look in the cellar now.”
After realizing that no one cared even if she shouted until her throat was hoarse, Granny Han curled up in the sack and slowly calmed down. She began to think about who had put her in the sack.
After thinking about it, she felt that only Madam Li had the ability. Granny Han suddenly realized that Madam Li had mentioned her maiden home address to Old Madam to lure Madam to send her to investigate. Now that she had been kidnapped by her, how would she deal with her?
Whether Madam already knew that she had been kidnapped, Granny Han couldn’t help but let her imagination run wild. She suddenly thought of Miss Ah Yue, who had disappeared. Granny Han was terrified of Madam Li’s methods. Just as her imagination was running wild, she heard footsteps approaching. Granny Han was so frightened that she trembled. A foul smell rose in the cellar.
Zhou Jia blew on the lighter and lit the oil lamp on the wall. Li Yu saw the trembling sack and thought to herself that it was good that she knew how to be afraid. It would save her a lot of effort.
Li Yu bent down and untied the sack. She pulled Granny Han out of the sack by the shoulder and looked coldly at Granny Han, whose face was as pale as a ghost.
Granny Han came out of the sack and knelt on the ground with a thud. She kowtowed heavily. “Please forgive me, Madam…’
Li Yu and Zhou Jia looked at Granny Han, who kept kowtowing, and said coldly, “Looks like you’re sensible. Then tell me everything you’ve done and see if you’re worth my mercy.”
Granny Han glanced at Li Yu and her husband and thought quickly. She had been kidnapped here not long after entering the city. It seemed that they already knew what she and Madam had done. It seemed that she could not hide it from them.
Granny Han thought about it and kowtowed again. She composed herself. “Back then, the First Madam of the Lin family gave birth to a pair of twin sisters. I entered the residence and became Eldest Miss’s wet nurse. When the two of them were a few years old, the people around them realized that although the two of them looked identical, their personalities were completely different. Eldest Miss was impulsive and strong-willed when she encountered trouble. Second Miss was calm, indifferent, and composed when confronting difficulties. She gave in to Eldest Miss all the time. Madam and Master both said that the two of them were born at the wrong time and should change their birth order.”
Granny Han paused for a moment. “At that time, the two young ladies still got along well. It was only when Madam Wang brought Young Master Wang back to Qingzhou for a marriage arrangement that Eldest Miss took a fancy to the handsome and elegant Young Master Wang. According to the rules of seniority, Eldest Miss thought that her marriage with Young Master Wang was already set in stone. Who knew that Madam Wang and Young Master Wang had already taken a fancy to the calm Second Miss?”
According to the rules of order, Master originally did not agree to marry
Second Miss to the Wang family. However, it happened that a family in
Qingzhou also asked Master and Madam to marry Eldest Miss, so Master and Madam agreed to marry Second Miss to the Wang family.
When Eldest Miss found out, she became stubborn and schemed to make the young master from Qingzhou and Second Miss a couple. Unexpectedly, she facilitated someone else. In the end, it was Master who came forward to settle this matter, and Eldest Miss’s marriage was put on hold.
Unexpectedly, the next year, many people in the Lin family were killed by the people suffering from famine. Only Eldest Young Master and the two young ladies of the Lin family were protected and escaped Qingzhou. Eldest Young Master planned to send Second Miss to Yunzhou to marry Young Master Wang first. After dealing with the businesses in Yunzhou, he would bring the eldest young lady to the capital.
When Eldest Miss found out that Eldest Young Master was going to send Second Miss to Yunzhou to get married, she had an idea and tampered with Second Miss’s food, causing her to have diarrhea non-stop. She also deliberately complained that she had made the carriage smelly. That morning, when I accompanied her to the grass by the roadside to relieve herself, I pushed her down the mountain stream. When Eldest Young Master found out that Second Miss was missing, there were already hungry people everywhere. After searching everyvvhere to no avail, Eldest Young Master thought that Second Miss had been kidnapped by hungry people. Helpless, he could only bring us away..”