Lu Huo turned to look at an official who spoke and then asked, " What do you mean by that it's a lie?"
The official hesitated and then said, " I am not saying that the document is fake but for the Emperor to stand behind a woman, I think it's a bit too unbelieving, don't you think? His majesty is the ruler of the country, how can he pay attention to a simple country woman?"
" I think so too," Zhou Cheng who supported the Lai family huffed angrily. He was quite upset at being called incompetent by that woman. A woman who did not even know the ways of the world was calling him incompetent! How dare she. " Just because she thought of an innovative idea, does not mean that her idea can be implemented properly. We have come up with a bunch of ideas and what happened?
The people did not even pay attention to our actions. They are only willing to work hard and earn daily wages to fill their bellies, an idea like this is nothing but reckless. What kind of meal we have not eaten before? And those who do not have enough money to fill their bellies do you think they will use their money to buy snacks?"
The room was silent and the atmosphere was different from before. Of course, everyone thought the same thing, what kind of meals have they not even before? And most importantly, was it even possible for those smelly things to become delicious?
Pei Huai looked at the officials and smiled in a good-natured manner, " Why are you all worrying about it so much?" He asked with a raise of his brows. " Whether she is lying or not, it will be clear in a few months. Can you not hold on to your horses till then? Anyway she is not going anywhere for five years, it's better if you all learn to keep your patience.
Unless you want to be dealt with in the same manner as Lai Baihu."
When the officials thought about how Su Wan dealt with Lai Baihu so ruthlessly, they all shuddered. That woman was not simple, for her to hand down such a harsh punishment, one could only imagine what kind of things she might have gone.
On the other hand, Su Wan walked out of the county magistrate's office after dealing with a few documents. She asked Yan Zhao to show her at least two thousand acres of land but at the current moment, the city did not even have a hundred mu of free land much less two thousand, even the wasteland did not have much space.
Lin Che described his trip to the capital along with the members of the two families including how Old Madam Su and Su Bai dealt with Su Yiqian.
" The Lin family is not easy to handle either," Lin Yu was amused after reading the letter. " Just a bit of benefit could make them attack that woman relentlessly."
" You mean to say that they are like cockroaches?" Lin Rui stated causing Lin Yu to chuckle.
Su Wan could see that Su Bai had done a good job of making Su Yiqian run around like a top.
" They are asking for your help," Lin Jing summarised the entire letter to Su Wan upon seeing that she was having trouble reading the letter as she was too tired after work. " Apparently, that woman did not hand them enough money."
Su Bai could suppress Su Yiqian into giving in to his requests under the pretext that he knew her secret but he hardly met with Su Yiqian who lived in the palace.
Though Su Yiqian gave them a large manor to live in, she did not hand them enough money and she did not even arrange the matter of Lin Che and Su Yu Cheng going to the academy, which was why Su Bai had to write this letter to Su Wan as he could not come up with an idea of getting more money from her.
He knew that Su Yiqian was staying in the palace because she wanted to avoid him!
This truly upset him.