Chapter 171 - 171 Don't want to get Invovled
171 Don’t want to get Invovled
Zhao Lingfeng sighed in relief. Mo Bei coolly led the way in the front while Lu Jiao followed. They went into the backyard and Qi Lei accompanied Lu Jiao toward the building in the back.
Behind them, inside the room, the leaders watched while shaking. They subconsciously wanted to follow but Zhao Lingfeng gestured for them to sit and explained, “Don’t worry, Lady Lu will be okay. That person wants to see Lady Lu to thank her. She saved his life before.”
The leaders silently mumbled… That didn’t look like they wanted to say thank you, more like they wanted to fight.
They shuddered.
Lu Jiao and Mo Bei continued to walk. On the way, Mo Bei couldn’t help but snicker, “You’re so greedy for money.”
Lu Jiao snapped at him coldly, “You sure are ungrateful.”
Mobei’s face turned frigid. He stopped walking and howled, “What do you mean by that?”
Lu Jiao wasn’t scared of him and hissed, “I saved your master yet you treat me like this. What is that if not ungrateful? Are you telling me that your master’s life isn’t worth 5,000 taels of silver?”
Lu Jiao then continued to walk forward, making Mo Bei catch up to her with a frown. As he walked, he said, “I’ve never met anyone who charged 5,000 to pull out an arrow.”
The reason why Mo Bei didn’t like this woman was because he found her far too arrogant. How could a rural woman act in such a manner? Even those wealthy daughters from the Capital City don’t dare to behave like this. Yet this woman here straight up asked for 5,000 to pull out an arrow. This made him dislike her.
Lu Jiao said unpleasantly, “Why don’t you go find a doctor who would do it for free then?”
Not wanting any more exchanges, Lu Jiao headed to the building in the backyard.
There were two guards by the building. When they saw Mo Bei, they respectfully called out, “Leader Mo.”
Mo Bei nodded and indicated, “The master wants to see her.”
The guards let them in and they walked to the master bedroom.
There, a person was reading. When he heard the noises, he looked over.
For some reason, Lu Jiao felt like this person looked familiar. But upon a closer look, she didn’t recognize him. She smiled, “I heard you wanted to see me?”
The young man had his hair in a ponytail and his visage was structured and three-dimensional. His eyes steamed with a sharpness that scared those who looked straight at him.
Quickly, he retracted the harshness in his gaze and spoke softly, “I heard you helped pull out the arrow that was in my chest?”
Lu Jiao responded mindlessly, “I’m a doctor. I do my job and I get paid.”
On the bed, Xiao Yu stared at this nonchalant woman with interest. This woman didn’t seem as arrogant and money-hungry as Mo Bei had made her sound. Her temperament was rather elegant and steady.
Xiao Yu glanced at Mo Bei, who had his eyes glued on Ku Jiao.
Xiao Yu smiled. Being his subordinate, Mo Bei was used to being treated with the utmost respect. He must’ve lost face because of this woman and that was why he was furious.
The reason why Xiao Yu wanted to meet Lu Jiao was that Mo Bei had brought her up several times. No matter how much this woman craved wealth or richness, no matter how arrogant she acted, according to Xiao Yu, she was simply down to earth and genuine.
Xiao Yu ignored Mo Bei and thanked Lu Jiao in a serious manner, “Thank you for getting that arrow out of me. I accepted kindness from you and therefore, in the future, if you ever need me, I will be there for you.”
Lu Jiao didn’t want to get involved with these people. These weren’t the type of people to act in broad daylight. Who knew what kind of secret missions and ties they had behind the scenes?
“I took money for what I did. There’s no need for you to be so polite.”
The message was clear to Xiao Yu. That woman didn’t want anything to do with him so there was nothing for him to say.
“Mo Bei, walk the lady out.”
Mo Bei walked Lu Jiao out as ordered. On the way out, he didn’t say anything. Lu Jiao also didn’t speak. Some men just found women to be eyesores and that was why he acted so unreasonably with her. She didn’t like men who were unkind to women.
Lu Jiao left Baohe Tang and went on her shopping trip.
Since her home was out of food, Lu Jiao bought a variety of meat – duck, chicken, fish, pork, pork bones, ribs, and pork hocks. She then got more flour, rice, oil, salt, vinegar, soy sauce, and white sugar.
Since there were always so many guests visiting, her white sugar ran out often. Other than sugar, Lu Jiao got the four little ones candy and desserts. After all that, she went back to Baohe Tang, satisfied.
There, Zhao Lingfeng and the leaders had signed their contract.
The leaders saw her and asked her to read over the contract. Lu Jiao read the characters she knew and guessed the remainder in an attempt to understand it. In the end, she decided that Zhao Lingfeng wasn’t trying to scam the villagers. Honestly, the amount of money was rather immaterial and there was no need for him to scam.
“It looks good. Clan Leader, you should keep it.”
The Clan Leader did as told then the group left Baohe Tang.
On the way back, Lu Jiao said to the leaders, “Now that the contract has been signed, we can start leech keeping. This afternoon, you should gather everyone for a meeting and ask everyone to decide who in their family will be participating. Every family should sign a contract that states: one, the money earned will be managed by the wife and that the men will not be allowed to get concubines. Two, whichever household sent participants will be sharing the profit. A third of the money will be managed by the woman, the other two third will be used for family expenses.”
The last point Lu Jiao came up with was to help out suppressed people like Xie Erzhu and Xiao Lian.
Lu Jiao then remembered the matter of Xie Laogen’s entanglement with Widow Wang. If she hit the nail on this concubine matter, that meant Widow Wang would never be able to be accepted into the Xie family.
Lu Jiao quickly added, “Of course, you can still get concubines now. What I’m specifying here is that nobody is allowed to get concubines using the profit earned from leech keeping. Whoever does that needs to be kicked out.”
Originally, Lu Jiao wanted to teach women the skill of leech-keeping in order to provide women security. Since that plan had changed, she needed all those men to sign.
She was fully aware of how rotten men could get, especially in this day and age where it was normal for a man to have many concubines. Once a man earns money, he for sure would get himself more women. Lu Jiao was helping these people make money but she didn’t want to hurt the women and disgust herself.
The leaders didn’t have any objections.
After their trip with Lu Jiao today, they discovered how capable Yunjin’s wife was. Against those big characters with scary demeanors, she was not at all afraid. It was no wonder she was Yunjin’s wife.
“Okay, we will go home now and host a meeting this afternoon.”
By the time Lu Jiao got home, there were many people standing in her yard. In the living room, there were also several people chatting with each other.
When they saw Lu Jiao return, they greeted her happily.
The second grandma said, “Jiaojiao, go inside and see what Youcai made Yunjin. He said it was a ‘wheelchair’. He said Yunjin will be able to sit on it and move around.”
Someone else nodded, “Yes, he would be able to push himself around. Yunjin will no longer have to be stuck in bed.”