Ning Er Shao Ye Xie Wan had heard that their family's ancestors had made a fortune by hiring carts to transport tea from the south to sell in the north, taking advantage of the difficulties in transportation at the time. They were one of several merchant families who had joined forces to do this business and had become rich overnight. However, since they had only been wealthy for about twenty years or so, they didn't have much depth or foundation.

  The four sons of the Ning family had distinctive names: the eldest was named Ning Dajia, the second was named Ning Dayi, the third was named Ning Dabing, and the fourth was named Ning Dadong. Their ancestors were ordinary people, but they spoiled their children, who were arrogant and did things that made others despise them. As a result, families with some social standing in the city rarely interacted with them.

  Xie Wan frowned: "You're a girl, what are you doing taking this kind of job?"

  Yu Fang held back her breath and didn't dare to retort, Xie Wan thought for a moment, walked back to the window and took another look. She saw that Luo Jishi was still blocking Ning Dabai, and Ning Dabai, whether he knew they were from the Xie family's shop or not, surprisingly didn't make any move on them. However, the two young servants behind him were still provokingly kicking Hanzi's bamboo basket.

  Li Ershun observed Xie Wan's expression and said: "Do you want me to go down and teach him a lesson?"

  Xie Wan glanced at him and then turned her gaze back downstairs.

  Li Ershun's neck shrunk back, and he immediately fell silent.

  The old man wiped the sweat from his forehead, his turbid eyes gazing at Ning Daoyi with a pleading expression. He bent his waist as if to stop their evil deeds, but apparently didn't dare, so he remained in a half-bent posture in the middle of the street. When he saw that there were still several intact taros by his feet, he hurriedly bent down to pick them up, and Luo Jishen also quickly followed suit to help.

  Ning Da saw the old man bend down, lift up one foot and kick him in the butt. The old man was caught off guard, suddenly fell forward, and his nose hit the hard bluestone ground first, smashing out a bloody face!

  Ning Daier and the little servants burst out laughing, as if they had finally gotten their way, and lifted their feet to leave.

  Xie Wan picked up the inkstone on her side and smashed it down. Although the inkstone missed its target, the ink splashed all over Ning Daier's body.

  "Who is it?!"

  Ning Da's eyes widened in shock and anger as he lifted his head up.

  Xie Wan let out a cold snort and turned around to walk back into the house.

  She instructed Yu Fang: "You go ask Ning Da Yi, I'm splashing ink here, why is he blocking my way? Ask him for an explanation."

  Ning Da suddenly saw Xie Wan in the window and was startled, already thinking about her origins in his mind. In a daze, he suddenly heard someone whispering in front of him, and then saw that the pretty maid who had been called back earlier had come out again.

  "Our young lady just splashed ink upstairs. Let me ask you, why are you blocking the way here? Don't you know this is someone's doorway on a big street?"

  Ning Da saw that the person in front of the window was a petite little girl, although she only caught a glimpse of her, but it was enough to see that she was extremely beautiful.

  He turned his head and took a look at the sign of the silk store, which was quite a good business for the Xie family.

  It is said that the Shes have good looks and appearances, and their third master Xie Rong is even more **dashing and elegant, could it be that this little girl is a member of the Xie family?

  Luo Ju listened to Yu Fang's whisper for a few words, and at this time also sank his face: "Our girl asked you questions, why didn't you answer?!"

  Ning Da'er snapped back to reality, only then realizing that the two people in front of him were actually interrogating him. He widened his eyes and pointed at his own nose, saying: "I'm blocking her? This is a main street, where else am I supposed to go?"

  "This is the main street in front of Xie's house, every day we sweep the streets and pour water. Our girl said you can't walk then you can't walk." Yufang said with her nose upturned, "Today you blocked our girl from pouring ink, ruining her good mood, making it impossible for her to continue having fun, so you have to compensate our girl for her loss."

  Ning Da's eyes widened in shock, he had seen shameless people before but never anyone as shameless as her! She splashed ink all over him and not only didn't apologize, but instead had someone come and bother him!

  "What kind of reason is this?!" He pulled sympathy from the surrounding onlookers, clapped his fan loudly, and then shouted at the window upstairs: "Everyone come and judge for themselves, what kind of reason is this?!"

  Everyone was silent and staring at him.

  Xie Wan withdrew her gaze from behind the curtain and rushed to Luo Yi, saying: "You go down for a trip and tell him that if he doesn't compensate, I'll go to the government office."

  Luo Yi naturally went downstairs, while Li Ershun was left staring blankly.

  "Hey, you've got to compensate our girl! And by the way, we haven't even asked you for the wear and tear on the bricks in front of your door yet!"

  Ning Da's face turned green with rage, his mouth twisted in anger as he pointed at them and shouted: "You're cheating us!"

  Lu Ji heard Lu Yi's message and immediately twitched the corner of his mouth, saying: "Your words are unreasonable now. The items we demand compensation for are all justified, how can they be considered extortion? If you don't stand on our daughter's side, can we extort you? Since you can blame this old man for blocking your way, why can't we say that you blocked our way? If you insist on saying that we are extorting money, then let's go to the government office and talk about it!"

  Who doesn't know that County Magistrate Zhao has connections with several prominent families in the city? He's going to the yamen with her, isn't he asking for trouble?!

  Although Ning Da knew clearly that they were trying to scare him, he really had no way to deal with them!

  He gritted his teeth secretly, looking at Luo Ju and others surrounding Xie Wan, and finally knew that their third girl had come out to help the old man! But he couldn't argue with them, and he didn't have enough people to fight, and there were so many people watching on the side. Where could he reason? He should have brought more people out earlier!

  He glared at the few pale faces in front of him, then looked up at the empty window above, his molars chattering with rage. Ordinarily speaking, the Xie family wasn't a household that didn't know reason, but he was just a half-grown child, and even if he had thrown money around like crazy, he still couldn't shut them up, and if this little girl went home and said he had bullied her, the Xie family wouldn't be easy to deal with either.

  Besides, Ning Er Ye, a well-known young master in Man County, went to confront a little servant girl in public?

  "What's going on? Are you paying compensation or going to court? You'd better say something!" Yufang urged loudly.

  "Who's willing to go to court with you?!"

  He glared at Yufang, cursed under his breath, and pulled out a small piece of silver the size of a lotus seed from his bundle and tossed it over: "Take it!"

  But as for the few pieces of silver, let's just say he got a bonus song from Cui Yu Lou's top courtesan!

  Yu Fang took the silver and looked at it, frowning: "Is this all? This ink was ground by our young lady for half a day, and it's only worth this little bit of broken money? It's not even enough to buy her hand cream!"

  "How much do you want?"

  Yu Fang glanced at Luo Ju, and the two of them stared at Ning Da Yi's purse. Ning Da Yi was so angry that he took off his purse and threw it at them. Luo Ju caught the purse and poured out all the silver coins in his hand, which was only about two or three taels.

  But with these two or three silver coins, it's enough to buy forty or fifty baskets of taro.

  Xie Wan saw from upstairs and said to Li Ershun: "You go down and let him leave the jade on his waist."

  Li Ershun went downstairs, first glanced at Ning Dabai's waist, and swallowed his saliva in front of the butterfly jade pendant made of celadon material. Then he puffed out his chest and said: "Third sister said that you should leave this piece of jade behind, it's almost done!"

  Ning Da saw the people coming out of the shop one by one, already impatient. Now seeing them aiming at his jade, he suddenly became furious and swung his fist to hit Li Ershun. Li Ershun was so scared that he quickly hugged his head and said: "You dare to hit me? I am a person from County Magistrate Zhao's mansion! If you hit me, I won't let you off!"

  When he heard the three words "Zhao County Magistrate", Ning Da suddenly stopped his gestures and looked at his clothes.

  Li Ershun smoothed his collar and stood beside Luo Ju with a humph, forming a row.

  Ning University is so frustrated that she wants to cry.

  What kind of people did he meet today?! They're simply a gang of robbers! And he didn't even have a place to reason with them!

  He took off the jade pendant with a sad face and handed it over. Yu Fang raised her little finger, held the jade pendant high towards the sky, looked at it, raised her chin and said: "You wait!" She then quickly walked back to the shop.

  In less than a moment, she ran back and said with disdain: "Our young lady said that this jade has too many colors, the color is too bright, only a rustic like you would use such a gaudy thing! And it's full of greasy atmosphere, I don't know where it came from, probably can't be exchanged for much money."

  She raised her eyes and glared at him, saying: "You're the same, no money can't even get out of the door! Considering how poor you are, I'll reluctantly accept it. Next time when you pass by our shop, remember to take a detour!"

  The Ning family's wealth is at least among the top three in this county, but now they are being ridiculed by a servant girl for being poor!

  Ning Da's face turned blue with rage, his eyes were bloodshot, and he pointed at her for half a day without saying a word. Finally, he glared at the window upstairs for another half a day, but in the end, he could do nothing about it, and amidst the snickering of the crowd, he walked away with a huff.

  Yu Fang turned her back and pawned the jade pendant at a street shop for fifteen taels of silver, which she gave to the old man along with the few taels of loose silver she had previously received.

  The old man was shocked and lost his composure, repeatedly waving his hand in refusal, stuttering and unable to speak.

  Shen Tian wiped the blood from his face, and Luo Sheng continued: "Just now, it was our young lady who stood up for you behind your back, specially to compensate for you. If you don't accept it, what will our young lady use this silver for? If this matter gets out, won't our young lady become that unreasonable person?"

  Others also echoed in agreement.

  The old man's lips moved slightly, and he took the silver again with a trembling hand, kowtowing to the ground. As the crowd gradually dispersed, the old man stood up, his eyes fixed on Luo's sleeve: "May I ask, sir, which branch of the Xie family is this young lady from?" The Xie family was not very large, and outsiders had more or less heard about its general situation.

  Luo Sheng smiled and said: "It's exactly my family's third daughter. The late Mr. Xie Er and **niang's precious pearl."