Chapter 705: Chapter 705: Shameless


    Zhu Hongfu’s words were utterly shameless. Zhu Hongyun taught him the recipe, and he made money from it on his own. Now that Tong Sang, Qiao Xiaomai, came looking for him, he acted as if he had nothing to do with it.


    He shoved all the me onto Zhu Hongyun.


    His audacity truly matched Zhu Hongyun’s. They were indeed family.@@novelbin@@


    “Whoever profits from selling braised pork is the one I’ll settle ounts with,” Qiao Xiaomai dered loudly. She jumped off the ox cart and said to Zhu Hongfu, “Today, is it you who will smash your kitchen, or should Tong Sang tear down your house?”


    Zhu Hongfu didn’t want to choose either option.


    He scoffed and ran to the door.


    Just as he suspected, arge group of vigers stood at the entrance.


    He blurted out, “Fellow vigers, are you just going to stand by and watch these outsiders bully us in our own vige?”


    Nobody responded.<div>


    The Vige Chief Zhu was standing right there. If the Vige Chief agreed to this, what could they say?


    The Vige Chief Zhu sighed and began, “Hongfu, your sister really is in the wrong here. Sang’s wife kindly taught her the recipe, and she took it and sold the product in secret. Is this something a decent person would do?”


    “Now that Sang and his wife havee, I suggest you do as they wish and trash your kitchen.”


    As his words fell and Zhu Hongfu was about to protest, the Vige Chief’s expression turned cold, and he continued, “Hongfu, Tong Sang just graduated as a schr, and he’s the top-ranked Jieyuan. He’s about to travel to Prefecture City for the imperial examination. If he bes a Juren, that will make him a high-ranking official.”


    “Night has fallen, I advise you not to dy unnecessarily. Otherwise, the one to suffer in the end will be you.”


    A Juren—a graduate of the prefecture examination—is eligible to be a government official like a low-ranking clerk or a school superintendent. If he has connections, even the county magistrate’s position is within reach.


    Thus, once someone bes a Juren, it usually means they’ve half-stepped into officialdom and will be respectfully addressed as “Master” by ordinary people.


    Tong Sang was the top scorer in the Huai’an County examination. With such achievements at such a young age, it was entirely possible for him to be a Juren.


    So why would Zhu Hongfu, a small rustic farmer scratching a living from thend, even bother opposing Tong Sang?


    Especially when Zhu Hongfu was in the wrong in the first ce!


    He thought he could cause trouble under the pretense of being a rtive. There’s no such easy prey in the world!


    What a fool!


    Stunned by the Vige Chief Zhu’s words, Zhu Hongfu couldn’t think straight.


    A schr?


    Tong Sang had be a schr?


    He hadn’t heard about this. Zhu Hongyun had not leaked a word.


    And the Vige Chief even mentioned something about a Juren, oh goodness, that’s a grand title!


    Recalling the fact that Qiao Xiaomai had once cooked for the retired emperor, Zhu Hongfu pped his thigh in regret, force a smile onto his face, “Oh, Sang has be a schr? I didn’t know, please don’t be offended, sister-inw. Congrattions, congrattions, such a promising future you have!”


    Qiao Xiaomai, “…”


    Zhu Hongfu continued, “Sister, this incident is all Xiaoyun’s doing. She came back to her parents’ house in a huff, and when I told her to work in the field, she refused and insisted on selling braised pork to make money.”


    “My mother indulges her, and let her do it. If I knew she had stolen the braised pork recipe from you, I would never have allowed her to behave this way.”


    “We’re all family, this sneaky behavior is too unsightly!”