Riding a motorcycle on the road of revenge

When Ma Xiuhua and his men arrived at Linglong Courtyard, the fire had almost burned down the small kitchen.

When the small kitchen was first built, a separate room was built in the corner of the yard for safety reasons.

So the fire did not spread to other rooms.

Whether it is a kitchen or not is not important at all. What is important is the person, the young lady of the Wenchang Earl’s Mansion, the daughter of Ma Xiuhua, Zhang Jingjing.

She asked Zhang Zhu, who had come with her, to lead people to put out the fire and clean up the mess, while she went to see her precious daughter.

Zhang Jingjing was bathing when she heard a servant in the yard report that there was a fire. At first she didn't hear clearly and scolded the servant, saying that wherever there was a fire, people should go there to put out the fire. Could it be that she, the master, was also required to put out the fire?

After hearing what the servant reported and seeing the fire reflected in the window, he felt scared.

As soon as I stood up from the bathtub, I felt a chill on my body. When I realized I was naked, I quickly hid back in the water.

Yan'er, who was serving beside him, was like a wooden man. Zhang Jingjing was just like that.

She knew from the beginning that there was a fire outside, but she just didn't say anything.

Seeing Zhang Jingjing retreating back into the tub, if she hadn't been trying to catch her breath, she would have been completely submerged in the water. She said nothing, but just stood by with her clothes and towel.

When Ma Xiuhua came in, she saw Yan'er standing on the ground like a wooden clothes hanger, with the tip of its furry and messy head sticking out of the bathtub.

“Jingjing——”

Ma Xiuhua didn't bother to scold Yan'er. She walked quickly to the bathtub with her heart beating fast.

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Wenchang Earl Zhang Yuxuan had just returned to the mansion after drinking with his colleagues when he was informed by a servant that there was a fire in the mansion. He was half drunk but sobered up immediately.

When he heard that it was his daughter's Linglong Courtyard, he suddenly felt relieved. When he heard that his daughter was not injured and his wife had rushed over, he thought it was probably the servants' carelessness and it shouldn't be a big problem. He could just go back and have someone renovate Linglong Courtyard for his daughter.

A few days ago, he helped Gu Qianzhang get all the money left by his ex-wife, and was thinking of some reason to get more money from her.

The thank-you gift that Gu Qianzhang gave him afterwards was too little, not even enough for his wife and daughter to buy hair flowers.

Now we have a reason.

Wenchangbo Zhang Yuxuan asked his servant to lead the way to Linglong Courtyard to check the situation.

When he was entering the yard, he was unexpectedly bumped into by a servant who was running from behind, and he stumbled and almost fell on his face.

Fortunately, he woke up and reacted quickly. He took several steps forward before stopping.

The servant who came running over was so frightened that he immediately knelt down on the spot, kowtowing and begging for mercy.

How could this appease Lord Wenchang's anger?

He raised his foot and kicked the man.

The man rolled on the ground after being kicked, and kept begging for mercy.

It was Ma Xiuhua who came out and grabbed Zhang Yuxuan and persuaded him to stop. But she was not a kind person. Without waiting for the man to explain himself, she asked several guards to come and tie him up, stuff a rag in his mouth, and beat him up, waiting to be sold the next morning.

When the man was initially gagged, he tried to mumble something, but when he heard that he was going to be beaten and sold out, he resigned himself to his fate and stopped talking.

In this way, the Wenchang Marquis' Mansion missed the best opportunity to put out the fire in Jinxiu Courtyard.

The small kitchen in Jinxiuyuan is not an independent small house like the small kitchen in Linglongyuan. Instead, there is a small warehouse between the small kitchen and Jinxiuyuan, which contains some things that have not been delivered to the warehouse in time.

The Wenchang Earl and his wife were trying to comfort their daughter when they saw a maidservant beside Zhang Zijin rushing over to report that there was a fire in Jinxiu Courtyard and that the second young master had taken people to put out the fire.

Zhang Yuxuan and Ma Xiuhua then hurried to Jinxiuyuan.

As luck would have it, Zhang Zijin returned home feeling very angry and unlucky. He asked someone to go to Jinxiu Courtyard and tell his mother that he and his friends had drunk some wine at dinner and he was too drunk to go back, so he would go to pay his respects tomorrow morning.

Then he asked someone to fetch him water and help him bathe.

He couldn't sleep after taking a shower and felt stuffy in the room, so he wanted to go out for some fresh air. As a result, he discovered that there was a fire in Jinxiu Courtyard.

When Zhang Yuxuan and his wife rushed to Jinxiuyuan, they saw that the small kitchen in the yard was almost burned down, and the warehouse next to the small kitchen was half burned.

Fortunately, there were many servants, including servants, guards, boys, maids, and dozens of them.

Just as many hands make a fire high, many hands can put out a fire quickly.

Another reason was that Xiaoyue only poured oil on the small kitchen and did not pour oil on the small warehouse next to it.

Looking at the mess in Jinxiu Courtyard, the small kitchen that no longer existed, and the small warehouse that was mostly damaged, especially thinking of the hundred-year-old ginseng and fifty-year-old Ganoderma lucidum that she had just obtained today, Ma Xiuhua originally wanted to give them to her parents' home and her sister, the imperial concubine in the palace.

She bought those two things secretly without the master's knowledge, and put them in the small kitchen for fear of being discovered.

Her husband wanted to build connections and get others to do things for him, but he was reluctant to spend money, saying that they were all family and there was no need to be so formal.

There's no need to be so formal. Even brothers should settle accounts clearly.

If you want someone to do something for you, you have to give them some gifts. It's easy to ask for small things, but it's hard to ask for big things. She wanted to get the master's official position promoted, and there was also the family title. By the time of the master's generation, it had been hereditary for three generations, and her son's generation might not have any title to inherit.

The eldest son is twenty-one years old this year, and has only the title of scholar.

Her own master could not be relied upon. If he could be relied upon, he would have long ago asked for the title of Crown Prince for his eldest son. Wouldn't she have to seek help from her family in the Duke's Mansion and her sister, the Imperial Concubine in the palace?

Asking someone to do something for you is a big deal and it will cost you some money.

This time, Gu Qianzhang gave her some thank-you gifts for helping the Gu family. Since she had plenty of money, she spent a lot of money to buy some good things. She left the bird's nest for her and her daughter to eat, and gave ginseng and ganoderma as gifts.

For a small kitchen like this, it should be...