Heaven-Sent Farm Girl Builds Her Fortune And Captures His Heart-Chapter 164: Lost the Lady and the Army
"County Magistrate Pei."
"Shopkeeper Tang!"
After greeting County Magistrate Pei, Old Tang finally looked at the pale-faced waiter from Fenglai Restaurant.
"Young man, cutting off someone’s livelihood is like killing their parents. Once may be excused, but doing it again is indeed a crime."
"I..."
Before the waiter could speak, County Magistrate Pei said, "Secretary Liu, take him back, and while you’re at it, investigate the closure of Yinchun House."
"Yes, Magistrate!"
Seeing the situation turn dire, the waiter tried to escape but was pulled back by Secretary Liu.
"Let’s go!"
"I’m not going! It wasn’t me, it wasn’t me!"
The waiter struggled to break free from Secretary Liu’s grip but was dragged out of Guest House nonetheless.
With the commotion gone, the onlookers returned to their seats, whispering among themselves.
"Please follow me!" It was Xuan Ming who spoke.
Shen Qinglan finally understood why these two important figures were here.
Before leaving, they greeted Shen Qinglan politely, which sparked curiosity about her identity among the others, including Ji Nian, who was somewhat surprised.
Previously, when dealing with real estate matters at the Government office, County Magistrate Pei was polite but nothing more than courteous. Now, his politeness seemed to hold a hint of flattery.
Ji Nian had suspected Shen Qinglan’s identity but, after meeting Shen Shan, realized Shen Qinglan was nothing more than a simple farm girl.
Could it be for Shopkeeper Tang’s sake?
But Shopkeeper Tang was also quite polite to Shen Qinglan, so the face-saving theory didn’t quite add up.
Also, who was the young man following Shen Qinglan earlier?
He seemed to be an acquaintance of Shopkeeper Tang?
For the first time, Ji Nian found himself feeling that this fourteen-year-old girl was more complex than he initially thought.
"Qinglan, do you know County Magistrate Pei?" Ji Nian asked.
"We’ve crossed paths a few times." Shen Qinglan replied, "I’ll leave this to you, I need to head upstairs to entertain the guests."
"Alright!" Ji Nian nodded.
When Shen Qinglan got back upstairs, she didn’t go to the private room where Duan Yunfei and the others were but directly to the private room where her family, the Shen Family, was.
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Two days later, the closure of Yinchun House was finally resolved.
It turned out that the shopkeeper of Fenglai Restaurant had been unhappy that Yinchun House poached his business, and thus devised a sinister plan.
To make it more convincing, he even sent someone to the pharmacy to get medicine that caused stomach pain, then paid fifty taels to have the waiter take the medicine before dining there.
This is why, when the Government office called in a doctor at the time, the diagnosis was indeed food poisoning.
Initially, Ji Nian and his wife wanted to settle with compensation, but the waiter refused and insisted on having Yinchun House shut down.
The arrest officer who came to handle the matter felt somewhat conflicted, given it was merely food poisoning and not a fatality, thinking it best to resolve the issue privately between the parties.
Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper later bribed the arrest officer.
Having taken the bribe, he naturally had to deliver.
In the end, the arrest officer, under the guise of preventing future incidents of food poisoning, directly ordered the closure of Yinchun House.
Now, with the truth revealed, the arrest officer has been dismissed, and the waiter received thirty lashes before being taken home by his family.
As for Fenglai Restaurant’s shopkeeper, he was not only forced to publicly apologize to Ji Nian and his wife but also fined a substantial amount in compensation, a case of losing both fortune and dignity.
