After Dressing Up As a Little Fulang

Zang Ya followed the attendant and entered the courtyard where Mrs. You lived without any obstruction.

As soon as he entered the room, Zang Ya not only saw Mrs. You sitting on the main seat and looking at him coldly, but he also caught a glimpse of two familiar people sitting next to her from the corner of his eye. Those two people were You Mingtang and You Minghua, the two brothers.

Zang Ya just glanced at them, then looked at Mrs. You and saluted her, “Mother.”

Mrs. You was particularly angry. “Kneel down!”

Zang Ya knelt down obediently. When he looked up at Mrs. You, there was a bit of confusion in his eyes. “Mother, what did I do to make you so angry?”

“You treacherous son, you actually asked me what you did? Don’t you know?”

Mrs. You looked at Zang Ya’s face, which combined her and Zang Ke’s appearance, and she felt an unspeakable resentment in her heart. Her anger grew more intense. If it weren’t for the You family, Mrs. You wouldn’t even want to see this son. She wished she could treat him as dead.

But unfortunately, this troublesome son always caused trouble and made her so angry that she couldn’t ignore him.

Mrs. You’s chest heaved with violent breaths, and her face was full of anger. She spoke directly: “You don’t know what you did? Alright, then I’ll tell you what you did! Recently, the salt road that the You family wanted to take over was suddenly snatched away by the Song family. Did you encourage the Song family and give them ideas? That’s why they took away this business. Do you know how important this new path is to the You family?”

Since ancient times, salt had been a necessity in people’s lives, and it was one of the most important things to control. Therefore, the salt road had always been in the hands of officials.

But selling it from the hands of officials to local people had a lot of room for operation, so there were also local salt merchants. As a salt merchant, one could become extremely rich with experience.

The You family was different from the Song family.

The Song family had been wealthy for generations, but now they were just falling behind.

However, the You family had never been rich. They could only be regarded as a small wealthy family. If it weren’t for the support of the Zang family because of Mrs. You’s marriage, they wouldn’t have been as well off like Song Lin’s family.

Even though the Zang family had spent a lot of energy supporting the You family, the You family still couldn’t achieve much. The tasks they were given could only be completed at most three out of five.

If it hadn’t been for the fact that every time they messed up something, they would send their cronies to cry to Mrs. You and ask her to help them find a solution, and Zang Ya’s father, Zang Ke, had always been infinitely tolerant of Mrs. You so he always helped them. If they couldn’t find someone to deal with the aftermath, the You family wouldn’t have been where they were now.

This time, the salt sales route had also been requested by the You family, and they had spent a lot of effort on it. Now that it was suddenly intercepted, they were naturally extremely nervous.

After learning that they had been intercepted, they immediately launched an investigation, and in the end, the investigation led to the Song family. Suddenly, the old and new hatreds piled up, and they hated the Song family so much that they could only itch with hatred.

The Song family and the You family were both relatives of the Zang family, but seriously speaking, the Song family had been supported by Old Madam Zang and Zang Ya, while the You family only had Mrs. You.

Even though Mrs. You had been deeply loved by Zang Ke and he had been willing to do anything for her, she was still inferior to those two people.

Therefore, after learning that their salt route had been robbed by the Song family, the You family didn’t immediately think of asking Mrs. You for help. Instead, they first thought of ways to fight back. After they all ended in failure, they finally thought of going to Mrs. You, hoping she would help.

Mrs. You had naturally been angry when she found out about this. What made her most angry was that it was clearly the handiwork of her good son. Except for him, no one had the ability or the will to help the Song family deal with the You family!

Zang Ya listened to Mrs. You’s question and raised his head to look at her, with even a bit of confusion in his eyes. “Mother, what are you talking about? I had always ignored the You family’s affairs. If something went wrong with their business, how could it have anything to do with me?”

When Zang Ya said this, his face even looked a little innocent. Anyone who didn’t know about it would probably have believed what he said.

However, Mrs. You didn’t believe this. She picked up the teacup in her hand and threw it directly at Zang Ya’s face, shouting, “Stop your disgusting expression. You’re already a cold-hearted monster when it comes to the You family. Stop pretending in front of me. You don’t know what happened to the You family, but tell me how could you don’t know, it was clearly your own doings!”

You Minghua and You Mingtang, who had been sitting like a statue, were startled when they saw Mrs. You suddenly become angry. They had never seen their aunt, who had always been gentle and carefree, show such a fierce look.

Zang Ya turned his head to avoid the teacup that Mrs. You smashed at him. The expression on his face softened little by little. He looked at his mother expressionlessly and continued, “Since Mother doesn’t believe that I didn’t do it, what will Mother do?”

Mrs. You said bluntly, “Go and deal with it and get back everything that belongs to the You family. Also, you need to go and apologize to the You family and compensate them for their losses.”

Listening to Mrs. You’s natural words, Zang Ya looked at her deeply for a long time without speaking.

Mrs. You felt a little uncomfortable at first when he stared at her like this, and then she seemed to get angry from embarrassment. “Why, I asked you to do this, and you’re still unwilling? Could it be that you need me to find your father before you’re willing to obey?”

Zang Ya opened his mouth, but it didn’t go as Mrs. You wished. “Sorry, Mother, I’m afraid I can’t agree to this request. I promised Grandma to help the Song family. Now that the Song family has finally improved, I won’t help you in your time of need. How can we take away the firewood they just lit?”