Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside-Chapter 927: Extortion

The inn’s staff hurriedly rushed in to save the owner, but Ms. Zhang was incredibly strong, continuously struggling and fighting, and for a moment, the five workers couldn’t hold her down.

The guests nearby sighed and said, "With that build, you say you’re poisoned? Are you poisoned or did you eat some Immortal Pill?"

"Peh, I am poisoned, it was Gu Jinli who harmed me!" Ms. Zhang spat at the guest, making them recoil in disgust.

Old Master Fu was so anxious upon seeing this, that he had no choice but to join the fray with the shopkeeper, and only with seven people did they manage to pin Ms. Zhang down.

It was simply unbelievable!

How did Ms. Zhang’s strength become so great?

After the experience with Gu Chengzhi’s incident, people had some understanding of madmen, and a guest asked Doctor Liu: "Doctor Liu, do madmen get stronger when they go mad?"

Doctor Liu frowned and nodded: "Hmm."

Upon hearing this, a guest immediately said, "Wow, you see, I told you Ms. Zhang is mad, and you still let their family stay at the inn, better throw them out quickly."

Other guests also chimed in, saying, "Yeah, throw them out quickly, we don’t dare to stay in the same inn with madmen."

The shopkeeper quickly said, "Guests, don’t worry, we will throw them out now."

Old Master Fu then helped up Young Master Fu, tenderly wiping the blood off his face: "My son, are you alright? Did that madwoman hurt you?"

"I’m alright, but they can’t stay any longer, we have to throw them out as soon as possible. The Old Gu Family are all mad, it’s too scary." Young Master Fu cursed his bad luck inside, never expecting Ms. Zhang to be so fierce, even leaving him scratched. His once handsome face was now marred, how could he attend the literary gathering like this?

"Don’t worry, my son, I’ll throw them out now!" Old Master Fu was also enraged, how dare Ms. Zhang hit his only son—his only male heir born when he was forty. If anything happened to him, the Fu Family line would be cut off, and the estate would fall into the hands of the clan members!

Ms. Zhang, realizing everyone was treating her as a madwoman, quickly regained her composure, smiling at everyone: "Gentlemen, please don’t misunderstand, I’m not mad, I was really poisoned by Gu Jinli."

But seeing her ghastly smile, the onlookers shivered in unison, dear Lord, how terrifying—showing those yellow teeth and glaring at them—she looked even more like a madwoman.

Old Master Fu hated Ms. Zhang to the core, wanting to slap her upon hearing this, but was stopped by Young Master Fu: "Father, don’t hit her, her family is good at extorting people. If you hit her once, what if she extorts our family for thousands of taels? Let them pay for the accommodation and the damages in the room and just make them leave."

As for the medical fees for his injuries, he decided to be generous and let it go.

Old Master Fu: "Alright, for my son’s sake, we’ll let you off this time. Old Zhao, roughly calculate the damages they caused, no need to be too precise, just an estimate will do. Make them pay and get out."

Pay?!

Ms. Zhang was dumbfounded, while Gu Chengli started crying, exclaiming: "Our silver was all taken by bandits!"

"What? Brother Li, what did you say? Our silver got stolen? Are you serious?" Ms. Zhang, who cared most about the silver, was nearly going mad upon hearing this. If it weren’t for the staff holding her down, she would have rushed to beat Gu Chengli: "Last night I said I’d hide the silver, but your father and grandfather insisted on giving it to you to hide, and now look... Ah, my God, without the silver, how do we live?"

Ms. Zhang was wailing and lamenting, but the shopkeeper didn’t believe Gu Chengli’s words, assuming they were just acting to avoid paying, so he started searching the room with two workers.

But after searching thoroughly through the rooms of Gu Chengli, Elder Gu, and Ms. Zhang, not a speck of silver was found, immediately worrying the shopkeeper, who wiped the sweat from his forehead and told Old Master Fu: "Master, there really is no silver."

"None?" Old Master Fu was shocked upon hearing this, could it be that a thief really did enter the inn?

The Old Gu Family had been very ostentatious after receiving a thousand silver notes from Third Young Master Gu and his wife, flaunting themselves all the way to the inn, likely catching the attention of thieves who sneaked in and stole the silver.

But this couldn’t be admitted; doing so would ruin the inn’s reputation.

While Old Master Fu was in a dilemma, Ms. Zhang started wailing: "We are not lying, our silver was really stolen, it was Gu Jinli who came with people to rob us, you should report to the authorities and arrest her. If you don’t, you are her accomplices, and we will report you to the government office!"

Upon hearing this, Old Master Fu’s eyes turned cold, no longer courteous with Ms. Zhang, and he told the guests present: "Fellow guests, as you can see, Ms. Zhang is indeed a madwoman, first claiming she was poisoned by some Jinli, then when that failed to justify her false accusations, she claimed the silver was stolen. It seems she won’t be satisfied until she utterly ruins Gu Dashan’s family."

He continued: "It’s our mistake for accepting them into Fu Inn for a mere thirty taels of accommodation fee. Now, we won’t even charge for that, we’ll just throw them out and hope everyone bears witness. We aren’t throwing them out on purpose, but because they are malicious and continuously slander, we just can’t take it anymore."

Having been in business all his life, Old Master Fu was a crafty old hand at eloquence. As soon as he said this, he immediately won the sympathy of the guests present, who all said: "Old Master Fu, say no more, we all know the nature of the Old Gu Family well, just throw them out, otherwise they’ll surely extort your family for silver."

"Alright, alright, I’ll throw them out now." Said Old Master Fu, immediately instructing the staff: "Come on, throw out the Old Gu Family people."

But Ms. Zhang wouldn’t comply, how could she survive without the silver?

She clung to the door and cried out, "We won’t leave, we had an incident in your inn, you must compensate us 1,080 taels, if you don’t, we’re not leaving, we’ll die right here in front of you!"

Upon hearing this, the guests sighed in exasperation: "See, they’re immediately trying to extort Fu Inn. Huh, calling it robbery by bandits, I think they’re just trying to extort money by falsely claiming the silver was stolen."

Old Master Fu was overjoyed at this, the Old Gu Family’s behavior was self-destructive, their reputation so tarnished yet still daring to act ravenous, now no one believed a word they said.

Gu Chengli cried: "We aren’t lying, the silver was really stolen by a few masked strongmen."

Ms. Zhang also shouted: "Exactly, the silver was stolen by the strongmen, Fu Inn must compensate us, if not, I’ll bang my head and die right here, turning this inn into a haunted house, let’s see who dares to come stay here then?"

The shopkeeper, hearing this, was so enraged he was trembling, damn it, never had he seen such unreasonable shrews! This mess was started by him, and if not properly resolved, he wouldn’t keep his position as shopkeeper, his whole family might be sold off by the proprietor as well.