After Bai Cha and Gao Chunlin exchanged pleasantries, they got down to business.
She smiled and put down the tureen in her hand: "Uncle Gao, it is a happy event for our two families to get married.
But yesterday, when my sedan chair arrived at the door, my son regretted the engagement in public. If it hadn't been for the fact that the family didn't dislike me, I might have been drowned in the spit of the villagers."
"That's it, I still get pointed at when I go out today.
Those vicious words really hurt my heart more than a knife, and I was so embarrassed that I wished I could die on the spot."
As he spoke, he wiped two tears with white tea.
Magistrate Gao also knew that his son had done something wrong. They were greeting guests in the back, but who knew that in that moment, the evildoer would cause such a big joke.
But just listen to what this Yaksha says. No matter who seeks death, this Yaksha will not seek death.
County Magistrate Gao looked at Bai Cha lovingly, without saying what was in his heart: "Uncle knows that you have been wronged. It was the brat from my family who felt sorry for you.
His mother and I gave him a hard lesson yesterday, and he is still kneeling in the ancestral hall!
In this case, I will ask him to come over and apologize to you later, what do you think?"
If it weren't for the difference in status, Bai Cha would have really wanted to throw this cup of tea on this old guy's face right then and there to wake him up.
In ancient times, what girls cared about most was reputation.
Yesterday's incident, the original owner, a girl from an innocent family, was completely ruined.
If she hadn't come here, the girl would have died again.
But the other party actually tried to excuse it with a light apology!
But where is the identity, even if he is not happy, Bai Cha still smiles politely on his face: "Uncle Gao, I will disappear, and seeing you will only rub salt in the wound.
I know that as a merchant, I have a bad reputation and am not worthy of your son.
So you can return the marriage certificate between me and my son-in-law, as well as the 50,000 taels that were brought into the mansion in advance as a dowry before the marriage.
If things are understood early, everyone will feel at ease, so as to avoid any complications in the future that will make each other unhappy.
Do you think so?"
Gao Chunlin's expression froze. There was no problem in returning the marriage certificate, but these fifty thousand taels of silver...
He coughed softly and said, "Don't worry, Miss Ye. Since the marriage cannot be consummated, I will naturally return the marriage certificate to you."
A flash of light flashed through Bai Cha's eyes, that is, he only planned to cancel the engagement letter and not pay back the money.
Before she came, she had thought that it would be hard to get the money, but she still had to guess.
However, Bai Cha was not afraid: "Then you will see when the silver will be returned. After all, fifty thousand taels is not a small amount.
You don’t have to worry that I won’t be able to take the money back because I have too much money. I thought about this before I came here and specially called a dozen nursing homes to bring the money together.”
Magistrate Gao frowned slightly. Could this woman not understand human language?
He thought he had expressed himself very clearly just now.
Forget it, since this Yaksha doesn't understand, then he will speak more straightforwardly.
"You are right, fifty thousand taels of silver is not a small amount.
In this case, you, a girl, don't understand this, so I will talk to your father personally about this matter."
Bai Cha had a smile on his face: "I am my father's daughter and also a party to this marriage. What is the difference between talking to me and talking to my father?"
Gao Chunlin's face could no longer stand. He looked at her pitifully before letting her in. He didn't expect that this woman who didn't know how to praise would dare to talk to him like this:
"Ye Baicha, see clearly who you are talking to!"
"No matter who you are, it is natural to pay back debts. Do you still need me to teach you this truth?"
Gao Chunlin's face changed drastically: "Someone, drag this troublemaking woman down and put her in a cell!"
At this point, Gao Chunlin has no intention of pretending anymore.
Bai Cha sneered and stood up: "Who dares!
Last night I wrote a complaint and sent it to the capital to my grandfather.
My maternal grandfather was an imperial merchant!
If I have any shortcomings, he will take the complaint directly to the Holy One and complain.
Your Majesty is the most disgusting person in your eyes. Think about what you have done in Yancheng over the years. How many heads are there for you to chop off?"
"Mr. Gao, fifty thousand taels of silver is not much for you, so don't let the small gain make the big gain."
Gao Chunlin was shocked. He didn't even know that Ye Baicha's grandfather was an imperial merchant in the capital!
He was about to say something else, but his eyes inadvertently caught sight of the jade pendant hanging on Bai Cha's waist.
Suddenly Gao Chunlin's face turned pale.
He recognizes this jade pendant!
When his imperial examination was over, His Majesty held a Qionglin banquet in honor of all civil and military officials and their families.
But just as the banquet was about to begin, news arrived at the palace eight hundred miles from the border, and Marquis Zhongyong died in battle.
The emperor was shocked, but since the deceased was already dead, he could no longer posthumously grant him an illusory title, so he could only award the honor to Marquis Zhongyong's brother and Marquis Zhongyong's child who was under one year old.
The emperor took off this jade pendant from his belt in public and put it on the child himself. At the same time, he said that seeing this jade pendant is like seeing His Majesty in person. Anyone who dares to treat Aiqing's child harshly will be killed without mercy!
Thinking of the emperor's eyes at that time, Gao Chunlin couldn't help but shudder.
Suppressing the panic in his heart, he recalled the recent letter from old friends in the DPRK and China saying that His Majesty planned to send the jade-faced ghost general Wen Yuzhu to guard Yancheng and regain the lost territory in the border town.
General Wen has already set off quietly to Yancheng, asking him to be more careful.
If Wen Yuzhu has arrived in Yancheng and used the power of the Ye family to explore the real situation in Yancheng, then it would make sense for this jade pendant to appear on this woman.
Bai Cha naturally noticed the other person's expression.
Seeing that the other person's eyes were fixed on the jade pendant, she remembered that in the morning Gu Yu helped her put on the jade pendant with an ambiguous look on her face.
At that time, she asked out of curiosity, why she had never seen this jade pendant before.
How did Guyu answer?
"You will know later, I can't tell you."
Now that I think about it, I'm afraid it was Wen Yuzhu's fault.
[Host, host, this is what General Wen specially ordered Gu Yu to wear for you last night. He must be worried that something will happen to you, so he deliberately used this thing to support you and scare this old thing!
You don’t know the origin of this jade pendant. It was given to General Wen’s nephew by the emperor himself!
However, Wen Yuzhu's sister-in-law was afraid that Wen Yuzhu would be bullied by the border officials when he first arrived, so she gave her son's jade pendant to him, and he gave it to you.
Host, you see he still likes you.] 125 uses every opportunity to say good things to his master.
Bai Cha narrowed his eyes and covered the jade pendant with his sleeves: "Master Gao..."
Before he finished speaking, Gao Chunlin coughed: "Miss Ye misunderstood, and I have no intention of not paying it back.
Let's do this, I will go to Ye Mansion tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and return the marriage certificate and the fifty thousand taels of silver, what do you think?"
Bai Cha nodded: "Then the folk girl won't bother Mr. Gao."
After leaving Gao's house and getting into the carriage, Bai Cha pulled off the jade pendant from his waist and stuffed it into Gu Yu's hand: "Where did this jade pendant come from?"