Everyone watching outside the store automatically made way for it.
The chief officer glanced at him, and his expression changed drastically in an instant: "Prince...Prince?"
The people in the Fire Head Camp were quite surprised to see Feng Shuo appear here. Even Chef Li and Headmaster Zhao became restrained, not to mention the young firemen, none of them dared to breathe.
There was some surprise in Jiang Yanyi's eyes. She thought... after what happened that day, Feng Shuo would not come to support the store when it opened.
Feng Shuo was wearing a dark-colored python robe with cloud patterns embroidered on the lapels with double threads of dark red and red gold. A double fish pendant was adorned on the three-foot-wide waistband, making him look noble.
He had one hand behind his back and the other holding an exquisite birdcage. The green-feathered parrot in the cage folded its wings and puffed out its chest, seeming to be quite arrogant.
When Feng Shuo's eyes met Jiang Yanyi's, his expression was calm. On the contrary, Jiang Yanyi's eyes were complicated, and he soon looked away feeling a little uncomfortable.
Feng Shuo also looked away and lowered the corners of his mouth. People who knew him well knew that this was a sign that he was unhappy.
His cold phoenix eyes swept across the mess in the store, and finally looked at the chief of the officials standing beside him: "Is this how the Xizhou government does things?"
The chief of the police had cold sweat on his forehead. He was in charge of the law and order in the main street of the Protectorate. Naturally, he knew who were the powerful people behind each shop and he had never made any mistakes while on duty.
This shop was originally Zhao Dabao's rouge shop. Zhao Dabao was able to buy the shop in this location because he gave gifts to Xie Zhizhou. When he heard that Jiang Yanyi bought Zhao Dabao's shop, he mistakenly thought that there was no one behind Jiang Yanyi.
What's more, this time Jiang Yanyi had offended the niece of Xie Zhizhou, and the entire Xizhou Prefecture was under the jurisdiction of Xie Zhizhou. Naturally, the chief of the police knew the situation and stood on the side of Madam Hu.
Unexpectedly, the female manager of Jiang's business had so many important people around her, even the King of Liaonan spoke for her.
The chief constable smiled and bowed, saying, "I... I just want to ask the shopkeeper to go to the yamen to question me. This is an illegal fight in the street, and someone has been injured. The yamen must record a confession, right..."
"But since the prince knows him, there is no need to record his confession..."
He signaled his officers to carry Mrs. Hu and prepared to leave in disgrace.
Feng Shuo stopped him and said, "The government has its own rules. If you want to record a confession, just do it here."
The chief police officer's back was soaked with cold sweat. He spoke in an official tone and said that he wanted to record his confession, but in the end, his words were sent back to him without any changes.
“This… this…”
He is now in a difficult situation.
Xing Yao saw that Feng Shuo's brows were more unhappy, so he quickly shouted, "What are you waiting for? The shopkeeper still needs to open the store!"
After being yelled at like this, the chief police officer had no choice but to start recording the confession.
Jiang Yanyi moved a chair to the door for Feng Shuo to sit on. Xing Yao was about to lend a hand, but then he thought that his master might not want to sit on the chair he moved, so he stood aside without moving.
Jiang Yanyi arranged the chairs and said to Feng Shuo, "My Lord, please sit down."
When they were in the military camp, everyone in the Huotou Battalion called Feng Shuo the Great General, and Jiang Yanyi got used to calling him that. Now that he is out of the military camp, he can't stop saying it eight out of ten times.
Feng Shuo glanced at her, sat down with his arms and legs spread out, his left arm resting idly on the armrest of the chair, and occasionally throwing a grain of Job's tears to the parrot in the cage.
Although he did not see how the chief police officer recorded his confession and did not seem to care, his scalp still tingled when the chief police officer questioned him, as if there was a big knife hanging around his neck that would fall down if he was not careful.
When asked about the cause of today's fight, Zhao Touer insisted that it was the Hu family who started the fight first. More than a dozen Hu family servants were parading through the streets with sticks in their hands, and passers-by on the street could also testify to this.
When asked why the Hu family came to cause trouble, Jiang Yanyi told them about Hu Baiwan's smashing of the door a few days ago. Everyone on the entire Duhufu Street could testify that it was indeed Hu Baiwan who was making trouble that day.
The chief of the police knew about Hu Baiwan being beaten with a stick. He originally thought that the prince just wanted to clean up the Xizhou government office. Hu Baiwan happened to be a rough guy, so he took Hu Baiwan as an example.
But today, it seems that the King of Liaonan is clearly protecting the young owner of this shop.
The chief of the police regretted his decision so much that he felt like his intestines were turning green. How could he have gotten into such a mess
It is not the first time that Mrs. Hu has beaten someone in the street out of jealousy without any reason. Today's incident was started by the Hu family, and the evidence is already there.
After recording Jiang Yanyi's confession, the chief of the police still symbolically asked Mrs. Hu whether what they said was true.
Mrs. Hu was supported by two officers. A piece of broken porcelain pierced her foot and buttocks. She could neither stand nor sit. She maintained this posture for a long time and felt uncomfortable all over.
The two officers who were supporting her gritted their teeth, beads of sweat the size of beans oozing from their foreheads, and they were somewhat unable to bear her weight.
Madam Hu has been a spoiled child since she was a child. She has never suffered such humiliation as today. The cuts on her body from the porcelain pieces were in excruciating pain, but she was not stupid. Seeing Feng Shuo protecting Jiang Yanyi, she knew in her heart that if she continued to make trouble today, she would not gain any advantage.
She looked at Jiang Yanyi's pretty face and really wanted to pounce on her and scratch her face to pieces.
Bitch! She flirts with other people everywhere. Maybe the King of Liaonan is also her slave!
Madam Hu gnashed her teeth, barely holding back her anger, and said bitterly, "I misunderstood Shopkeeper Jiang and disturbed his business..."
Jiang Yanyi was not afraid of anything else, but he was afraid that she would come back and ask him for medical expenses and continue to find fault, so he quickly said: "Your injuries are caused by smashing the dishes in my shop and accidentally stepping on broken porcelain. It has nothing to do with our shop. I hope the official can testify that our shop has little profit and cannot be responsible for hiring a doctor for Madam Hu."
The people watching were also the first to see someone coming to beat someone up and end up with injuries all over their bodies, so they all burst into laughter.
The children who had been attracted by Jiang Yanyi's candied haws these days crowded in the front. The brave ones pointed at Madam Hu and said with a smile: "I saw it. She dropped the plate and accidentally stabbed her foot. Then she fell on her buttocks and it bled!"
Mrs. Hu was extremely embarrassed and was about to rush over and hit the boy who was talking: "You are full of dirty words, you are so uneducated!"
The two officers were already barely able to hold her up, and when she struggled harder, the two officers lost their strength and had to let go. Madam Hu could not stand at all and fell to the ground again.
"That fat woman fell again!"
The children standing in the front immediately clapped and laughed.
Mrs. Hu's nose bled from the fall, and she felt pain and humiliation. She no longer wanted to stay here, and angrily ordered the servants in the mansion: "Are you all dead? Send me home!"
Jiang Yanyi frowned. Madam Hu had not yet said that she would not ask him for medical expenses.
She was about to speak, but Feng Shuo spoke first: "You provoked trouble, maliciously smashed things in someone's store, and you can still leave with a clear conscience. What do you think of the laws of Daxuan?"
Provoking trouble and picking quarrels were minor crimes, but it was Feng Shuo's last sentence that made the chief officer's legs weaken.
This means disregard for the law.
This disregard for the law and adding fuel to the fire can be said to be a sign of treason.
The chief of the police is no longer afraid of offending Prefecture magistrate Xie. If these words were to get to Prefecture magistrate Xie's ears, he would probably no longer recognize this niece from then on.
He quickly cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty is right. I will put them all in jail right now!"
The police rushed forward and tied up all the servants of the Hu family. When Mrs. Hu heard that she would have to go to jail, she was completely angry because so many things had happened today. She said, "How dare you let me go to jail? You know my uncle... um..."
The chief officer was afraid that she would say something stupid again, so he quickly blocked her mouth and had her taken away.
He then bowed to Jiang Yanyi and said, "Manager Jiang, please make a list of the things that were broken in the store today. I will go to the Hu family later and ask them to compensate you at the original price."
Jiang Yanyi quickly thanked him.
The chief of the officials then bowed deeply to Feng Shuo and said, "I will take my leave."
Feng Shuo's face was indifferent, and he just nodded dignifiedly.
As soon as the government officials left, most of the audience dispersed. However, it was a blessing in disguise. The Hu family's hasty action made Jiang Yanyi's hot pot shop even more famous.
People from the Huotouying are here to help today, so Jiang Yanyi doesn't have to clean up the broken porcelain in the store by herself. Someone will have cleaned it up as soon as she turns around.
She didn't dare to get close to Feng Shuo, so she hid behind the counter, pretending to write a list of broken dishes.
If it was an ordinary customer, Zhao Touer would have helped her greet him, but the person sitting in the store was Feng Shuo, so Zhao Touer didn't have the courage to go forward. He could only urge Jiang Yanyi: "The general has helped you out today, why don't you go and ask the general what he wants to eat?"
Jiang Yanyi secretly glanced at Feng Shuo, who was in a state of confusion. The memory of being cornered by him that day came flooding back to her. She was so timid that she held the pen and said, "I... I'll finish writing this list of compensation first."
Zhao Tou'er leaned over and saw the huge hairpin-shaped calligraphy she wrote. He felt it was an eyesore and pulled the pen from her hand. "With your handwriting, it would be strange if people could read the list you wrote. I'll write it for you. There's also Lao Li watching over in the kitchen, so you go and greet the guests!"
Jiang Yanyi was ruthlessly kicked out of the counter.
She looked at Feng Shuo, then at Zhao Tou'er, who was sitting behind the counter. He made a gesture towards her to come forward, with an expression that showed that he was disappointed in her.
Jiang Yanyi thought that if nothing had happened that day, she would not be afraid to receive Feng Shuo now, but with this relationship involved, she felt extremely embarrassed.
Finally, she walked up to Feng Shuo with her head held high, smiling until her face almost froze, before she managed a polite remark: "Thank you for today's help, Your Majesty."
Feng Shuo raised his pair of clear eyes. His eyes were always cold, making it impossible to guess what was hidden behind that coldness.
He raised his hand and handed the bird cage to Jiang Yanyi: "You said before that you would let me come to support you when the store opens, and wish you a good start."
The parrot in the cage seemed to have been trained many times with this sentence before. As soon as Feng Shuo finished speaking, it immediately spread its wings, as if it was afraid that it would be used to make soup if it spoke too late: "Good luck with your opening!"
His voice was so loud.
The author has something to say: Zhao Tou'er: This silly girl, there is such a shining golden thigh right here, why doesn’t she know how to hug it
Jiang Yanyi (sad): If he was just a golden boy who was attracted by my cooking skills, I would have embraced him, but the key is that he is not!
I'm not satisfied with the writing of this chapter, so I deleted and revised a lot. I had been planning to give the cat away in this chapter, but later I thought I'd put it off until next time.
If you guys want the King to give you any other gifts, please leave a message in the comment section~
I have already thought of a gift for the heroine to give to the foolish king. That big gift... Then you will definitely praise the author for being awesome, ha ha ha ha ~