Yingbao also saw it, but she didn't move. She grabbed Erni's sleeve and told her not to be afraid.
Xiao Chengjun came in angrily with several guards, and it was obvious at first glance that he had ill intentions.
Seeing his mortal enemy coming, Zhang Min quickly climbed up the shore from the other side, wrung out the water from his sweat shirt and trousers, put on his coat, and then walked out.
"What are you doing here?" Zhang Min didn't have a good face towards Xiao Chengjun, "Do you want me to exorcise the evil spirit for you?"
Xiao Chengjun ignored him and said directly to Yingbao: "Jiang Yingbao, it turns out that you have ulterior motives. You actually used five boxes of junk to cheat people out of their money!"
Yingbao then realized that Xiao Chengjun had come to call her to task.
I won't admit it. "What did you say? I don't understand a thing."
Xiao Chengjun gnashed his teeth in anger, pointed at Yingbao and said, "Stop pretending. I want to ask you, did you do this on purpose to blackmail me? Nothing in those five boxes was valuable, but you blackmailed my family for thousands of taels of silver."
Ying Bao blinked and asked, "What do you mean, Mr. Xiao? Are you here to steal again? You took away all the gold and brocade that the Empress gave me before. Are you here today to ask for back the compensation that your family gave me?"
"Let go..." Xiao Chengjun was about to curse, but suddenly remembered something and suppressed his anger, "I won't waste my words with you. Either you return what my elder brother gave you, or you hand over the gift from the emperor."
Zhang Min couldn't stand it anymore and sneered, "Xiao Chengjuan, I didn't expect you to become more shameless. My junior sister's things were taken away by you for no reason, and after a year or two you were so shameless that you wanted my junior sister to return your things. How can you be so shameless?"
He knew a little about his junior sister's affairs, and he also knew that on her way back from the capital, Xiao Chengjun abandoned her in a strange place and embezzled several boxes of her belongings.
Zhang Min felt extremely ashamed of this person and was glad that he did not become friends with him.
When he was in the capital, this kid was very good at pretending in front of outsiders, and he himself didn't even realize that he actually had two faces.
I didn't expect that he would become more and more weird as he grew up, and even bullied little kids of a few years old.
Seeing Zhang Min's rude remarks to him, Xiao Chengjun turned his anger and shouted at him, "Shut up! Who do you think you are? Are you judging me?"
Ying Bao immediately retorted, "You are the one who is bullying others! We all know that you, Xiao Chengjun, are bullying others by taking advantage of your power. Let me tell you, the things your family paid as compensation are all what you owe me. You can't ask for them back now! I will write a letter to the King of Dai and tell him about this!"
Seeing her sharp tongue, Xiao Chengjun was so angry that he said, "Okay! Write it down. The Wen sisters told me that all your boxes are filled with junk. There is not even a decent thing in them."
Yingbao opened her eyes wide and exclaimed, "Didn't the people your elder brother sent say that the boxes fell into the river? How did my boxes end up with the Wen sisters? Could it be that you colluded with them and divided up all my gold and silver? Tsk tsk, I didn't expect that you, a noble son of a government official, would break the law knowingly and steal my things and sell them to others."
Zhang Min also said sarcastically, "Little Junior Sister, you can't blame him. He is so poor that he even covets a child's money."
Xiao Chengjun laughed in anger, pointing at Zhang Min and Ying Bao: "Just wait, I will find out the truth, and you will be in trouble! Five or six boxes of property is not a small amount, and my Xiao family's money is not blown by the wind. I will make you pay double."
After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and left.
Ying Bao rolled her eyes at him, snorted, and turned to ask the second senior brother: "Why do you think Xiao Chengjun ran here from the capital?"
Zhang Min was also puzzled.
Xiao Chengjun was already working in Zhechoufu in the provincial capital, so it was not logical for him to suddenly run to a small county town hundreds of miles away.
It's impossible to say that he came here specifically for those boxes.
I guess coming here to find trouble with Junior Sister is just a byproduct.
The next day, Zhou Wuchang and his eldest disciple came back from outside and brought back a piece of news.
It is said that there is a Taoist priest in this county who can communicate with ghosts and gods and even predict the future.
And this person is Pei Shixian, the Xiao family's aide.
Ying Bao frowned when she heard this and asked her master: "Why did Pei Shixian go to Qinchuan County? What can he predict?"
Zhou Wuchang didn't say anything. The senior brother Zhou Hao beside him said, "Pei Shixian followed his second wife Han to Qinchuan County. Not long after, he predicted several things in public. Although they were insignificant, they all came true."
"What's the small matter?" Zhang Min was also very curious. "Big Brother, just tell us about it."
Zhou Hao: "He first ran to a family and told them not to let their children go out for the next two days, saying there would be a flood. The family thought he was a liar and ignored him, but within two days, two children from the family secretly went to the river to swim. As a result, one drowned, and the other was rescued by a passerby. The man who rescued the child said that a Taoist priest with a broken hand asked him to come and save them."
Zhang Min opened his eyes wide: "Does Pei Shixian really have this ability? Could it be that he is doing something bad?"
There are often charlatans in the folk who do this, directing and acting in a play by themselves, pretending to be enlightened people.
Zhou Hao glanced at him and said, "Pei Shixian has been giving free divinations to people on the street. If he wants to do something bad, he needs to have some free time."
"For free fortune-telling?" Ying Bao frowned even more. She always felt that Chen Tiantian's family was up to something bad.
Zhang Minyou asked: "What else? Pei Shixian won't become a Heavenly Master just because of this incident, right?" His own master was not called a Heavenly Master either.
Today Zhou Hao was extremely patient and explained several things in detail to his fellow junior brothers and sisters.
Yingbao carefully discovered that these things happened around Chen Tiantian's home. Although they were not major national events, they concerned ordinary people and were more convincing.
Why did Pei Shixian know what was happening near Chen Tiantian's home? Was there any inevitability
Zhou Hao continued, "Yesterday at the Jinding Taoist Temple, Pei Shixian actually predicted that there would be a severe storm the day after tomorrow, and he even sent people to notify the surrounding fishing boats and merchant ships not to go out to the river."
Suddenly, lightning and thunder flashed in Yingbao's mind.
She suddenly remembered that in the summer when she was eight years old in her previous life, a major event that shocked the entire county did happen. A merchant ship and several fishing boats capsized on the river in Qinchuan County, causing many casualties.
Even she, the poor little girl in the Chen family, heard about this. It was Chen Changping's eldest brother who told him when he returned home.
I never expected that someone in this world could have predicted this, a major event that I had even overlooked.
But how could Pei Shixian know
Anyway, Yingbao would not believe in the idea of communicating with gods.
Even though he was reborn and found a strange cave, he still didn't believe that there were immortals in the world.
Is there anyone like me who has memories of his past life
Is this person Han or Chen Tiantian
For some reason, she was 100% sure that this person should be Chen Tiantian.
Yingbao suddenly felt a chill on her back.
If Chen Tiantian was really reborn like herself, how would she treat herself and the Jiang family in the future
And her stepfather has obviously been helping Chen Tiantian with advice, and now he wants to use these things to create a reputation for himself as a heavenly master. His plan is not shallow.
Yingbao thought again of the miracle she had created for Zaoshu Village in Jingzhou.
When it comes to playing the role of a heavenly master, I guess no one can compare to my master and myself.