Chapter 42 This city lord is fake
Fang Chengxu became angry: "You have a private meeting under the pretext of discussing business, do you think I don't know?"
Lu Xingzhan sneered: "After a business negotiation, we easily got tens of thousands of taels of silver. We really don't have the leisure to talk about love."
There was an uproar!
"What kind of business can make tens of thousands of taels at a time?"
"We have never seen this kind of world. The city lord has such a huge family fortune that he can easily spend tens of thousands of taels of silver on disaster relief. There is nothing surprising about it."
"Then Mrs. Liang can still do business? She keeps it secret."
Tong Zhaoer scoffed: "You really know how to brag. I'm still making money every day. Someone must believe me."
"Xia Chong Ke Yu Bing, don't use your little knowledge to challenge the pocket money I have in my teeth."
This was quite arrogant, especially because the person he looked down upon was the daughter of the general's palace. People couldn't help but whisper in their hearts, what is the background of this city lord?
Which ordinary businessman would dare to provoke officials?
Tong Zhaoer and Fang Chengxu insisted that they were selfish and evasive, but they heard someone behind them yelling angrily: "If you still want to run away, get over here!"
With a "bang", Li Sheng was kicked hard and directly into the crowd! He fell to the ground in embarrassment!
Behind Li Sheng, Fang Chenghao pushed aside the crowd and walked in, pinching his waist and standing in front of the crowd.
"Brother, I just went to the house cook and the handyman to inquire clearly. All this is Li Sheng's fault!"
Fang Chengxu had been trying hard to shirk the responsibility for Fang Mansion, but he was exposed by Fang Chenghao's words.
He still tried to hide it: "Nonsense, this banquet was not made by Li Sheng. At most, he just doesn't know people well and lures wolves into the house."
"No!" Fang Chenghao said straightforwardly: "It was Li Sheng who took money from Mo's house and passed it off as good quality. He purchased a lot of stale ingredients. He also threatened the cooks not to tell anyone, otherwise they would tell our mother. , resigned the person.
By the way, those two cooks were not from Zuixianglou either. They were the cooks he found from outside and were with him. He wanted to run away just now when he saw what had happened. Fortunately, I found him and caught him. "
Fang Chengxu was speechless and did not want to interrogate him. After all, he actually knows better than anyone what kind of virtue Li Sheng is. I just didn't expect that in order to embezzle money, he would ruin his happy event.
Lu Xingzhan laughed and teased him: "You should really thank your second brother for catching the culprit in time.
Otherwise, if you deliberately hired a cook from my restaurant to prepare a banquet, and immediately put all the responsibility on me after the incident, I would accuse you of intentional frame-up. "
This was because Lu Xingzhan had good intentions, fearing that if Fang Chenghao favored Liang Jiang, he would definitely be scolded and blamed by the Fang family if he turned around.
Fang Chengxu pursed his lips twice, really not knowing how to refute.
The surrounding guests were not merciful at all, and they all cursed: "For a long time, it was the Fang family's poor employment, which caused us to have vomiting and diarrhea, and almost lost half of our lives."
"It's nothing like this, but after something happened to Fang's family, he blindly shirked responsibility and falsely accused others. This was really not fair enough."
"That is, character is revealed in the details, and Fang Chengxu is a person who is not to be trusted with. A husband and a wife have been indebted to each other for a hundred days, but it is nothing more than him being ungrateful and abandoning his married wife. He has also been killing them all, not wanting to leave anyone a way to survive."
"Now that they have been reconciled and divorced, the marriage of a man and a woman has nothing to do with it. Even if he is really interested in having a concubine with the city lord, so what?"
"This woman from a good family is upright and upright in everything she does, and she has a kind heart. However, she has been married before and her reputation is not very good. She is not worthy of the city lord."
Tong Zhaoer and Fang Chengxu were scolded until their faces turned green and red, and they wished they could crawl in through any crack in the ground.
The most proud person was Lu Xingzhan, who winked at Liang Jiang and said, "Look, everyone says we are a perfect match."
Liang Jiang corrected her seriously: "No, everyone says I'm not good enough for you."
On the side, the prefect of Fucheng also felt very shameless. After all, he was Tong Zhaoer's bride and could barely be considered a member of his mother's family. He said in a deep voice unhappily: "Now that the matter has been found out, there is nothing more to say. What happened today was caused by your Fang family's lax supervision and poor employment. Do you want it to be public or private?"
Fang Chengxu said without hesitation: "I'm sorry to everyone. I apologize to everyone. We should compensate for what happened today."
"Then I will entrust the two families with one hand and act as a middleman. Your Fang family will first pay for today's medicine, and then the victim will nominate two representatives to discuss relevant compensation matters with the Fang family."
Fang Chengxu looked at Tong Zhaoer. Tong Zhaoer is not confused either. He doesn't have to give other people face, but when the prefect speaks, he can't brush his face.
I could only order Mother Zhao to take the money from her dowry at the bottom of the box to pay for the medicine.
The prefect wanted to ignore the matter in a daze.
I won’t do the land-star battle.
"Wait a minute, they don't care anymore, but Liang Jiang and I are also victims. Does the Fang family also want to give us an explanation?"
The prefect didn’t want to offend anyone: “Fang Chengxu, why don’t you quickly apologize to the city lord!”
Fang Chengxu had lost all face in front of people today, and now he had to apologize to Lu Xingzhan in front of so many people. He felt ashamed and annoyed. He couldn't hold back his anger and said word by word:
"It's okay for me to apologize, as long as he can repeat to you, your lord, the contents of the letter he wrote to you. I can kneel on the ground and bear the thorns to apologize."
The prefect didn't understand what he meant: "What do you mean?"
Fang Chengxu's heart sank and he said firmly: "Because I suspect that Mr. Lu, who claims to be the city lord, is a fake and not the real city lord."
Everyone's appetite was suddenly whetted again. Today has been full of twists and turns.
After taking the medicine, some people still have diarrhea that cannot be stopped temporarily. Even if their stomach hurts like a knife, they are reluctant to leave and miss any good show. He gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, wishing he could be convenient on the spot.
Lu Xingzhan and Liang Jiang looked at each other, and then smiled: "Does it have anything to do with today's events whether I am or not? If I were a commoner, you wouldn't apologize?"
"If you are not the city lord, then why are you pretending to be the city lord? What is your conspiracy?"
Lu Xingzhan couldn't help but look at Liang Jiang again: "Do you see how I don't look like a city lord?"
"As far as I know," Fang Chengxu said proudly, "the real city lord should be a woman."
"Oh? Who has seen it?"
"Two years ago, the city lord had a letter with the magistrate. The city lord should still remember the content of the original letter, right? If you can tell, I will recognize you as the city lord. Otherwise, you are pretending to be the city lord and defrauding our ancestral home. You should be held accountable."
Lu Xingzhan really didn’t know about this.
He rubbed his nose: "It seems that you have been investigating me for a long time."
Fang Chengxu snorted coldly: "Who in Fucheng doesn't know that the city lord is kind and upright? How could he be like you, coveting the beauty of other people's wives and pretending to be someone else's property?"
Lu Xingzhan rubbed his chin: "Thank you for the compliment. The City Lord is actually not as good as you said. I am very cruel, stingy, and unreasonable. I will retaliate..."
Halfway through the scolding, he saw Liang Jiang glaring at him fiercely and immediately swallowed the second half of his sentence.
(End of chapter)