Traveling to ancient times to sweep the catering industry

Chapter 117 Life experience

"Sir, these people should compensate for the losses of our store."

As soon as Cheng Wenwen asked for compensation, several people could no longer sit still and started to refute: "Sir, we are innocent! We did not smash their store without any care. It was their store that sold contraband and made people sick."

Cheng Wenwen asked loudly: "When did the food in our store make someone sick? Where is the witness?"

The officer hurriedly said, "Yes, of course there is. We received a report a few days ago and went to investigate today."

In fact, they went to check Cheng's shop after receiving the money, but they couldn't say this, as they would be in trouble if they did.

Cheng Wenwen said, "Since there is no witness at this moment, you have deliberately destroyed my store and should compensate me. Sir, please make a decision for me. I have worked so hard to open such a store to make a living. Now it is destroyed. How can I live in the future?"

Cheng Wenwen suddenly became obsessed with acting and started acting out all the weird behaviors that had come to her mind before, and some people really began to sympathize with her.

"Look at this girl from Mr. Cheng's family, she's only in her teens, not much older than my daughter. It's not easy!"

"Yeah! The little girl finally had a chance to make a living, but it was ruined by these bullies."

"These bullies should be arrested to prevent them from harming people again."

"..."

Outside the court, many people started talking, and most of them began to sympathize with Cheng Wenwen.

"Sir! Don't listen to the nonsense of these unruly people. They are all in collusion. They only spoke up for this little girl because she said she would give them money."

"Yes! Sir, these unruly people accepted bribes and will naturally speak for her. Don't be fooled."

These people pointed at the people outside the court and cursed.

When the people heard this, they immediately became angry and retorted: "When did we accept bribes? We are just telling the truth."

"That's right, we just felt sorry for the girl, unlike you who have no mercy at all! He even wanted to beat the girl before, but luckily he was subdued by us!"

"You should lock them up, sir. They even beat little girls!"

"You are a bunch of unruly people. How dare you slander us! When did we ever hit anyone? You are the ones who…"

The prefect slapped the table and said, "Silence!"

The two parties began to confront each other, and the quarrel gave the prefect a headache.

The prefect looked at the people from the Municipal Order Bureau with annoyance. He had wanted to lock them up for a few days, but these people really didn't know how to restrain themselves and aroused public anger. Naturally, he couldn't let them go lightly.

"You guys dared to use your status as court officials to bully others and destroy Cheng's store. You should compensate for the loss. You also injured others. I sentence you to compensate Cheng's store with 100 taels and imprison you for one month as punishment."

"Sir, you can't do this, we are innocent!"

"My Lord, my Lord!"

"Dismiss the court! Take them away! Leave two people to extort a hundred taels from them and give them as compensation to Cheng family."

The prefect was annoyed by the noise and wanted to leave immediately after the verdict was given.

Cheng Wenwen didn't expect that the prefect was quite open-minded. She was happy to get justice and hurriedly thanked him, "Thank you, sir, for your justice."

"No thanks, no thanks!"

The prefect left immediately.

Afterwards, two officers asked Cheng Wenwen for her address and took a few people to extort her compensation.

Cheng Wenwen won a great victory.

I was also happy in my heart.

She walked out of the government office and saw the people who had just spoken for her. She said, "I am very grateful for your help. I will pay you the rewards I promised you before. You can come to my shop and collect them one by one."

"Mr. Cheng keeps his word."

"Boss Cheng, if you need any help in the future, just call us."

"..."

After winning the lawsuit and getting money, everyone felt as if they were fighting the lawsuit themselves and came to collect the money happily.

When Ms. Gao heard this, she looked at the many people outside and sighed.

"I just got back a hundred taels, and now I'm giving it away again. There's not much left!"

Cheng Wenwen said: "At least we got justice! If we had to suffer this loss in silence, we would have been so frustrated!"

Cheng Wenwen didn't expect that she would win so easily after making a fuss to the government. She even thought that the government officials would protect each other!

It seems there are still good officials.

Although the store was destroyed, Cheng Wenwen was still somewhat happy.

She thought that it was because of her courage that she won the lawsuit today.

Unfortunately, she underestimated the affairs of officialdom.

……

After the prefect judged the case, he returned to the inner court, where there was already a person sitting.

"Thank you, Prince. It has been done." said the prefect.

It turned out that it was Xie Shilian who asked the prefect to help Cheng Wenwen.

Xie Shilian had returned to Beijing to deal with Qi Shuo's affairs. However, when he passed by the Beijing government office today, he saw his sister-in-law bringing a group of people and escorting several people to the Beijing government office.

Xie Shilian couldn't help but be surprised. In his impression, Cheng Wenwen was supposed to be a weak woman. She was so embarrassed when she saw him before, how could she be so bold? She interacted with so many people and even got pregnant.

Xie Shilian wanted to take a look. He saw the girl in the hall in his sleep. She overcame her shyness and confronted the officers in a quite organized manner. Although she was not smart, she was quite brave among the women.

Just imagine, which girl would dare to go to the government office alone to seek justice?

At first, Xie Shilian was worried that Cheng Wenwen would panic after learning about Qi Shuo's affairs in the capital.

But looking at her current state, it was obvious that I was worrying too much.

In this way, Xie Shilian felt relieved.

The prefect saw Xie Shilian smiling and asked curiously, "What is the relationship between this Cheng family and Master Xie?"

"She is my family."

My brother and sister-in-law are naturally family members.

Xie Shilian thought that since Cheng Wenwen could be so bold, it seemed that she would not be able to bear any grievances if she followed Qi Shuo in the future.

"Thank you very much today, Mr. Prefect. I will repay you generously in the future." After Xie Shilian finished the matter, it was time to leave.

The prefect shook his head and said, "No, no, it was those officials who deliberately caused trouble. I was just punishing them according to the rules."

Xie Shilian nodded. Although this was the rule, if Cheng Wenwen had not taken action today, she would definitely have been beaten by the official.

The only clever thing about her was that she stirred up public opinion, but she was not rigorous enough.

Xie Shilian walked out of the Beijing government office and returned home.

When Mrs. Xie saw him coming back, she started muttering at the dinner table: "That Qi Shuo deserved to die, and he also implicated our family."

Xie Shilian frowned and said, "Mother, Qi Shuo is our family!"

Mrs. Xie spoke her mind unhappily: "What family? He's just an illegitimate child. Do you really think he's your own brother?"

"He is not a bastard, he is..."

Xie Shilian uttered an irritable sound, but was helpless and didn't say anything.

Qi Shuo's life experience cannot be revealed yet, otherwise...