The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure
Chapter 426 There Are People Beyond Man

Chapter 426: Chapter 426 There Are People Beyond Man

Wang Yongfu was stunned, and before he could speak, the man became indignant, "Hey, what do you mean by this? Just now this person said my mountain goods are of decent quality, so how come when it gets to you, they’re suddenly problematic? Are you trying not to pay a high price by slandering my goods? Who does business like that? Isn’t this just bullying? And you claim the Wang Family does business fairly; which kind of fairness is this?"

When Wang Yongfu heard this, he became anxious and hastily tried to apologize, "Brother, you’ve got it all wrong, our Wang Family isn’t like that..."

"Bah! And what are you? You dare to play tricks in front of your Grandpa Yonggui? When your Grandpa Yonggui was dealing with such schemes, you probably didn’t even know and were still playing with mud in some corner! To think you would dare to pull such stunts in front of your Grandpa Yonggui? Trying to pass off subpar goods as high quality? You really thought the Wang Family had no one capable, didn’t you?"

"Kid, today your grandpa will let you know what it means to be outdone and outclassed!" Wang Yonggui straightened up, spat out a mouthful of saliva, and showed a bit of ruffian swagger.

Wang Yongfu realized something was wrong with the situation and quickly held on to Wang Yonggui, "Laosan, what are you doing? We’re in business to make money in a friendly manner..."

"Bah! They’re already bullying our Wang Family, and I should remain friendly? Eldest Brother, do you know what this kid did? Both of his baskets of mountain goods are inferior; they look bright, colorful, and plump only because they have been smoked with chemicals!" Wang Yonggui cursed and rolled up his sleeves.

Wang Yongfu was dumbfounded, "Laosan, what are you talking about?"

Then, he squatted down to take a closer look at the mountain goods in the baskets. At first glance, he hadn’t noticed, but after hearing what Wang Yonggui said, and examining the goods again, they all seemed too uniform in size and color, which felt more and more suspicious.

As for mountain goods, there are some of good appearance, but not many.

The villagers aren’t too fussy; some even have their tricks, covering them with mud to add weight.

There are also goods that are dug up damaged, bruised, or with scraped skins, and the sizes vary.

Unlike these goods, which are all similar in size and too neatly arranged.

Upon a closer feel, there’s a barely noticeable sticky sensation, and sniffing near the nose, if one doesn’t smell carefully, a faint sting of chemical odor is hard to detect.

Biting into a piece, it tasted bitter.

Now there was nothing more to say; even Wang Yongfu’s expression turned grim. If it wasn’t for Laosan reminding him, he would have been swindled today.

When the man heard Wang Yonggui’s cursing, his face changed, and upon hearing Yonggui point out that the goods had been treated with chemicals, he immediately broke into a cold sweat.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, the man tried to remain calm, "Your Wang Family is not honorable. If you wanted to lower the price of my mountain goods, just say so. Why make up excuses about my goods being substandard? Doing business like this, you’ll ruin your reputation sooner or later. Who would dare to sell mountain goods to you in the future?"

Wang Yonggui snorted coldly, "What’s the matter? Getting nervous because you’ve been exposed? I’ll tell you, these kinds of tricks, they’re leftovers from tricks your Grandpa Yonggui used to play. You’ve come to scam someone in front of your own ancestors, you sure have a bold one, don’t you? Speak up, who put you up to this?"

Wang Yonggui, who was already somewhat ruffian-like, was now seething with anger. Showing these tricks to his face? Wasn’t that just asking for a beating?

The man was still hemming and hawing, "What instructions? I don’t understand. I’m just here to sell mountain goods. If you don’t want them, I’ll go sell them to another house."

With those words, he prepared to lift the baskets and leave.

Wang Yonggui was not about to let things slide so easily, delivering a kick that knocked the man to his knees on the ground with a live thud.

The mountain products inside the basket scattered all over the place.

Clutching his stomach, the man cried out, "Someone come quick, the Wang Family’s being unreasonable, failing to lower the price and now resorting to beating people up! Swindlers—"

And sure enough, his cries drew a sizable crowd, all surrounding the scene and murmuring amongst themselves.

Inside the courtyard, Wang Yongzhu, with her keen hearing, had caught onto the commotion and, discerning that the man was playing dirty, she worried that Wang Yongfu and the others couldn’t handle it and so she came out.

Before she could even speak, Wang Yonggui stepped forward with another two kicks, "You can cry out, but even if you scream yourself hoarse, no one can save you! Playing tricks and selling fakes, trying to fool your grandpa, today, your grandpa will let you know that pots are made of iron, and the Wang Family is not so easily bullied! Thinking of swindling the Wang Family’s money? You picked the wrong target! I don’t care who’s behind this instructing you, since you dared to come here and try to extort money, don’t even think about playing the injustice card."

Having mixed in the outside world for so many years, Wang Yonggui knew precisely where to kick on the body to inflict the most pain while not leaving any marks, so he held nothing back with his kick.

In so much pain, the man writhed on the ground, his face turning blue, as large beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.

Unable to endure the pain, he finally conceded with a kowtow, "Great sir, it was my short-sightedness that troubled you, I failed to recognize a great person when I saw one! I beg for your forgiveness this once..."

"Who sent you here?" Wang Yonggui retracted his foot, folded his arms across his chest, and inquired.

The man didn’t dare to lie, "I don’t know him, I’m actually from the Mozi Village on the other side of the mountain. Today, I came to town to sell mountain goods and heard people saying that the Wang Family buys mountain goods with fair dealings, offering ten percent more profit than other places. So, I thought to bring my goods to your Wang Family. When I was taking a rest on the road, I met a man. After chatting for a bit, he gave me five taels of silver, bought my mountain goods, and then gave me these two baskets of goods, asking me to bring them to your place to sell. If it sold for a high price, the profit would be mine, and if your family detected that the goods were wrong, I was to cause a commotion, claiming that the Wang Family was suppressing my price and bullying honest mountain folk, and try to disrupt your family’s business..."

When these words came out, the surrounding people all heard, and they began to discuss amongst themselves.

"But to look at him, you wouldn’t think this seemingly honest man would do something like this."

"Exactly, the Wang Family has fair prices, which family’s path did he block, I wonder?"

"Never thought that Wang Family’s Third Child had such capability, if not for him, even Wang Family’s Eldest Child might have been deceived this time..."

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Wang Yongzhu watched as Wang Yonggui forced the man to hand over the five taels of silver before letting him off the hook.

Knowing he was in the wrong and seeing the pointing fingers of the crowd, the man didn’t dare to linger. He haphazardly gathered the mountain goods back into his baskets and slunk away with his head down.

Once everyone had left, Wang Yonggui weighed the silver in his hands and announced to the onlookers, "You’ve all seen what happened today, if people go too far, it’s not the Wang Family’s fault. If such extortion happens again, and I, Wang Laosan, find out about it, no need to say more, I’ll beat the culprit so bad his own parents won’t recognize him, then I’ll make him face the wrath of Laosan."

Then he gave Wang Yongfu a signal with his eyes, "After what happened today, let’s not bother with buying goods. Let’s just close the door!"