"We have dealt with that thug," Lin Yu told Su Wan who woke up early and was now exercising in the courtyard. "If he knows what''s good for him, he would confess everything to the yamen officers."
He and Lin Chen had taught a good lesson to the thug unless that thug was stupid enough to keep hiding the fact that he was sent by the Lai family to burn the house that belonged to the Han family.
"Thats right wife, we did it properly! The thug will speak like a speaking parrot," Lin Chen spoke while running over to where Su Wan was, he no longer looked like a crazed dog who was beating the thug with the bat that he had brought along with him.
Su Wan turned to look at Lin Chen and patted him on the head who let her ruffle his hair. She praised the two of them, "You two have done well. This way the Lai family will be too busy to deal with the loss of their reputation than to worry about us and the Han family."
She knew that the Lai family was keeping an eye on her from the second the Snack Street business started to get better and better. They must have been hoping for the business to fail, but the second the business picked up it must have left a little fear in their hearts.
And now that the business was only getting better, the Lai family must be trying to make sure that she would fail in everything else. If her morale was to weaken then she would surely not be able to help the people of the city, this was why they targeted the Han family.
It was to make sure that not only would she fail in her ns but also to make certain that Su Wan would feel guilty all her life for what happened to the Han family.
''What ruthless people. No wonder they were able to rule over this city for so long,'' Su Wan thought when a funny noise scratched her at the back of her throat. She turned and looked at the cause of the noise, and her eyes widened when she realized that she was sitting on Lin Chen''sp.
"What are you doing?" Su Wan questioned as she looked at the man who was holding her by her waist. She blinked her eyes at Lin Chen who was massaging her shoulders.
"I think you are taking too much stress wife," Lin Chen answered as he squeezed the muscles of her shoulders. "Everything will be fine and even if something goes wrong, we have the third prince and Chi Jia. The two of them eat and sleep every day, they should do some work to make up for the food that they eat."
In the past, they feared Fei Qinfan but now after living with him for so long he was just like a brother to them and neither of the Lin brothers feared him including Lin Jing and Lin Yan who were the most worried about his sudden appearance in their family.
Fei Qinfan who was sitting in the courtyard where Su Wan was growing vegetables without soil, sneezed twice. He looked at the courtyard of the main building and suddenly felt annoyance creep up his spine. He had a feeling someone was plotting something against him.
"Third Prince is something the matter?" Chi Jia questioned Fei Qinfan who turned to look at him and then sighed. He shook his head before questioning, "What did my brother say to you? Did he agree with the construction of the casino?"
"He did," Chi Jia sped his hands behind his back and closed his eyes as he recalled what happened at the Imperial Pce. "His Majesty and his Highness the crown prince are willing to build the casino, they are also willing to hand over the shares that Madam Lin is asking for, however, they want the workers to be trained experts."
"Well that''s fine," Fei Qinfan understood why his father and the crown prince wanted the workers to be trained. Even though the casino could be a perfect ce to get their hands on information, at the same time it could also prove dangerous.
It was better to keep trained professionals instead ofmoners.
"And," Chi Jia paused before adding," His Majesty said that you have done a good job."
Fei Qinfan stiffened when he heard Chi Jia''s words, he then rolled his eyes and snorted. "What is this? Did His Majesty find it difficult to say it to my face or something?"
Though Fei Qinfan seemed to beining, his expression was rather pleased.
"On another note, they asked you to send them money if possible, the imperial treasury could do well with the money that you have earned," Chi Jia handed the stick after handing the carrot to Fei Qinfan who stiffened for all the wrong reasons and then red at him.
"You should have told me this before!"
"Why?"
"Because I got happy for no reason!"
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On the other hand, the Han family who found out about the incident of the house getting burned to the ground were stunned. They knew very well that it was because of the Lai family that the house was burned.
If they were not careful and agreed to Yun Zhao''s suggestion, they would have been burned alive in the fire as the fire was too big.
"They are so cruel!" Han Jie remarked after finding out the truth, she curled her arms around her mother who was shaking because of the fright that she had received. And why would she not? If they were even the slightest bit unlucky their entire family would have lost their lives!
All because of their greed, the Lai family wanted to see them burned alive! There was no way Han Jie would ever be able to forgive!
"Calm down Jie''er," Han Fu said to his daughter who was shaking with anger. "There is no point in getting angry like that, even if you were to go andin against the Lai family, they would simply say that they had a grudge against thendlord and escape the punishment. As no one lost their lives and only a small house was burned, who could prove that they are after us?"
"Then we are going to let them off just like that?" Han Yijin did not want to let the Lai family go this easily, if they were to lower their heads now then they woulde after them even more strongly!
Han Fu sighed. He said, "There is nothing that we can do for now but if we stay calm then sooner orter we will deal with the Lai family, they wouldn''t have to just pay for what they did to us but also to others."
"What do you mean by that father?" Han Jie questioned with a furrow on her face.
"Believe it or not sooner orter, the Lai family will suffer for what they have done," Han Fu told his daughter before packing his luggage. "Let''s go we need to go to the magistrate''s house."
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"Mother,I am sorry." Elder Lai knelt on the ground as he kowtowed in front of Old Madam Lai who was rubbing her forehead.
"Do you think that an apology can fix this?" Old Madam Lai questioned as she looked at her eldest son. She handed this job of dealing with the Han family to her eldest son thinking that he would do a good job. Fourth Lai had been upset because they did not stop his marriage with Madam Deng and was refusing to see them even still, she had no other choice but to leave the matter to Eldest Son Lai.
But the thug he found was simply gutless. He was hit a couple of times and he ended up tattle telling everything that happened to the Yamen officers.
It was bad enough that he was caught but he even caused such trouble for their family!
Fortunately, the Han family was safe, but she immediately twisted the story around to make the Yamen officers believe that her son had a small feud with thendlord of the house. Though they had to take out a few silvers to deal with that greedy man, it was better than losing their reputation.
If others found out that they actually tried to kill someone who was handicapped by an ident that they arranged, then their reputation would go even down.
In the past Old Madam Lai did not care about such a thing, after all, they were the only ones who could lead this city. What could anyone ever do to them? But now that the situation was like this, she was afraid that any further loss of their reputation would lead to more trouble.
She turned to look at her eldest son and asked, "What happened to that woman? The one who was sent by the woman from the capital?"
"She is yet to arrive."
"Tsk."
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