Three Kingdoms: Ten Times Speed, Diao Chan Says I'm Too Fast

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As Zhen Jiang finished speaking, Zhen Jian, who was sitting in the first seat below Zhen Jiang's mother, slapped the table next to him where the teacups were placed.

The teacup vibrated and the tea spilled from the bowl.

Zhen Jian glared angrily at Zhen Jiang and shouted, "Insolence!"

The atmosphere in the hall turned cold instantly after Zhen Jian's angry shout.

"Zhen Jiang, is this how you speak to your elders?" Zhen Jian frowned and looked at Zhen Jiang, saying, "Disrespectful to your elders, so presumptuous, where has the Zhen family's upbringing gone?"

"I think it's because your second son has been gone for too long that you've forgotten your family upbringing."

"Do you think the Zhen family only has your second branch?"

"You said before that the white paper and the snow salt weren't yours, but someone else's."

“I, as the eldest uncle, haven’t said anything, but now is a critical moment for the Zhen family’s survival. How can we tolerate your selfishness?”

"Where do you place the lives of the entire Zhen family?"

"You say we forced your mother, aren't you members of the Zhen clan?"

"Without the Zhen family, how could you enjoy your comfortable lives today?"

Zhen Ren from the third branch of the Zhen family and Zhen You from the fourth branch of the Zhen family nodded in agreement as they listened to Zhen Jian’s words.

Zhang looked at Zhen Jiang with a tense and worried expression.

“Zhen Jiang, your uncle is right. We can let it go in the past, but now it concerns the lives of the entire Zhen family. So don’t be willful anymore. Quickly apologize to your uncle and let this matter go.”

Zhen Ren said with a stern face, "Now that your father is gone, your eldest uncle still has the final say in this family. Don't worry, even if you hand over the methods for making snow salt and white paper, your second branch will still receive a share in the future."

Zhen You nodded in agreement, saying, "Yes, Zhen Jiang, this is not the time for you to be willful. Quickly apologize to your uncle."

Apologize?

Zhen Jiang bit her red lips tightly with her pearly teeth.

A trickle of blood seeped from her delicate red lips.

A pair of snow-white hands were clasped together at the waist, their knuckles white.

From the beginning.

After she brought back snow salt and white paper from Jinyang, which became bestsellers in Jizhou.

The other families tried every means to obtain the white paper and the method for making snow salt.

It started with discussion.

After she refused, he resorted to some underhanded methods.

They sent people to spy on and monitor her in secret, and also bribed those around her.

However, the white paper and snow salt were transported from Jinyang in Bingzhou and were not processed locally in Jizhou.

So the other three families sent people to infiltrate the caravan and go to Jinyang to investigate.

Of course, they all ended in failure without exception.

Only local residents of Wucun Township are allowed to enter the core area of ​​the factory in Jinyang.

It is impossible for outsiders to enter the factory.

Moreover, these people were all Duan Yu's fellow villagers, and they would never mention anything about the production methods of white paper and snow salt to outsiders.

When all methods have been tried without success, it becomes coercion.

Once, twice, three times...

It's getting increasingly outrageous.

Until a little over a month ago, they completely turned against her, ordered her to be placed under house arrest, and confiscated all the snow salt and white paper that had been stockpiled in Jinyang all winter.

That's not all; now they're coming to our door again to bring up the survival of the Zhen family.

Isn't this bullying them, a family of orphans and widows?

If her father were still alive, would the other three wives dare to do this?

Now they're making her apologize instead.

She has endured enough over the past year and a half.

Her father died of a serious illness.

The family business was in complete chaos, and none of the other three branches of the Zhen family were willing to leave Jizhou in their struggle for profits.

Everyone was afraid that if they left, the other parties would seize more of their property, so no one was willing to go to Bingzhou.

Only then did she embark on her journey to Bingzhou.

That's why they were robbed by bandits on the way.

Of course, Zhen Jiang didn't think it was a bad thing. At the very least, she was lucky enough to get to know Duan Yu because of this.

Duan Yu saved her life.

Therefore, she must keep her promise.

The origins of the white paper and snow salt will absolutely not be revealed before Duan Yu gives his permission.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons for keeping the promise.

Looking at Zhen Jiang, who stood silently in front of the hall.

Zhen Jiang gradually lost patience and turned her gaze to Zhang Shi, frowning as she said, "Sister-in-law, I'm not saying this as the eldest uncle, but Zhen Shi doesn't belong to anyone else."

I don't want to go too far in anything.

"The second son has two more sons who will be recommended for the civil service and become officials in the court. If Zhen is gone, then everything will be gone."

"Zhen Jiang...you really need to discipline her!"

Zhen Jian's gaze shifted from Zhang Shi to Zhen Jiang, his eyes narrowing slightly.

Upon hearing Zhen Jian's words, Zhang, who was sitting in the main seat, panicked completely.

"Jiang'er..."

Zhang said in a trembling voice, "Jiang'er, give your uncle and the others the recipe for snow salt and white paper."

"Your two older brothers..."

Zhen Jiang clenched her hands tightly, her nails digging deep into her flesh.

How could a family do such a thing?

Bullying, confinement, threats...

All for this wealth.

“Uncle…” Zhen Jiang bit her lip as she looked at Zhen Jian: “Aren’t you afraid that what you’re doing will get out and you’ll be ridiculed by the world?”

“My father is gone, and you bully our branch of the family like this. Aren’t you afraid of divine retribution?”

"I've already said, if this piece of paper and the snow salt are mine, I will definitely give them to you!"

"But I've said it many times, this blank paper and the snow salt are not mine!"

"I don't know how it's made. No matter how you threaten me, I can't give it to you!"

"You can target me, but how can you bully my mother like this and threaten my two brothers like this? Do you have any conscience?!"

"Could the Zhen family's centuries-old business really be destroyed because of this piece of white paper and snow salt?"

"The governor's dispatch of troops to aid us is nothing but an excuse!"

"I'll say it again, I don't have the recipe for making white paper or snow salt, and besides..."

Zhen Jiang bit her lip until it bled, tears welling up in her eyes: "And even if I did have it, I would never give it to you after what you've done!"

"Good! Good! Good!"

Zhen Jian suddenly stood up from his seat and flicked his sleeves: "Stubborn to the end, utterly stubborn to the end!"

"When has the Zhen family ever produced such an unfilial descendant as you!"

"Sister-in-law, this is the good daughter you raised."

"This is my second brother's good daughter."

"She would rather watch the Zhen family perish than make a choice for the Zhen family."

A surge of anger rose visibly in Zhen Jian's eyes as he said, "I am now the patriarch of the Zhen clan, and I have the right to be responsible for the Zhen clan."

"Sister-in-law, please don't blame me, the eldest brother, or say that I'm bullying your branch of the family now that my second brother is gone."

"I am doing this for the sake of the entire Zhen family."

Zhen Jian looked at Zhen Ren of the third branch and Zhen You of the fourth branch and said, "Third brother, fourth brother, immediately gather the whole clan. I want to expel this branch from Wuji County."

"Since they're unwilling to pay, fine, we won't pay either!"

“From now on, your branch is no longer part of the Zhen family’s direct line. Don’t blame me, as the eldest brother, for trying to wipe you out.”

“I, as the eldest brother, cannot do something like killing each other. It’s not that I’m not leaving you any way out.”

“From now on, you may go wherever you wish, but your branch must leave Wuji County. Furthermore, from now on, the Zhen family’s trade routes in Jizhou will have no further connection with you.”

Zhen Ren and Zhen You were also startled when they heard Zhen Jian say that.

The entire branch of Zhen Yi was expelled from the Zhen family.

this......

This is not a joke.

If this were to happen, then Zhen Jiang, her two brothers, and everyone in her branch of the family would no longer be able to call themselves members of the Zhen family of Zhongshan.

"Go now, what are you standing there for!" Zhen Jian shouted angrily, "The Zhen family doesn't need such selfish and unfilial clansmen."

Zhang, who was sitting in the head seat, was terrified.

His gaze even looked at Zhen Jiang with a hint of pleading.

"Jiang'er, I beg you, please hand it over to your uncle," Zhang pleaded.

Standing in front of the hall, Zhen Jiang suddenly felt a sense of isolation and helplessness welling up in her heart.

Even Zhao Yun, who was standing behind Zhen Jiang, was furious.

Zhen Jiang slowly shook her head.

She did not blame her mother.

Because even the mother didn't know the truth.

Because she had two older brothers, and she also needed to be recommended for the civil service and become an official in the imperial court.

She can understand all of this.

But in this vast Zhen family, no one could understand her.

No one believed that she really didn't know how the white paper and snow salt were made.

One is the kindness of raising me, the other is the kindness of saving my life.

Zhen Jiang was torn between two choices.

However, at that moment, a cry of surprise rang out from outside.

"Grandpa, Third Grandpa, Fourth Grandpa, something terrible has happened!"

"Yellow Turban rebels have arrived outside the city!"