I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 222 Gu Yongwen's Purpose 4

Bai Lizheng was still smiling and was about to say something to smooth things over when he heard Gu Yongwen say, "And you guys, I'm going to leave this to you today."

"You only have this one chance to curry favor with me. Do you want to seize it? Whether you live a good life or are constantly tormented by me in various ways in the future depends on your choice!"

Everyone looked at each other in surprise when they heard this.

Gu Wenxuan sneered, "You haven't even started working at the government office yet, but you can't wait to go back to the village where you were born and raised to openly ask for bribes. You're really going places!"

"Gu Yongwen, if you really gain power, you will sell all the people in Baijia Village by weight."

Bai Lizheng nodded secretly, he actually thought so too.

Not to mention that Gu Yongwen was just a scholar. Even if he entered the government office, he could only be a minor clerk at most. Even if Gu Yongwen was the county magistrate, county lieutenant, or county magistrate, he couldn't start bullying the people and openly soliciting bribes before he even sat on the chair!

What made Bai Lizheng speechless the most was that this man had become so arrogant so quickly that he didn't even bother to hide anything in front of them.

He openly demanded bribes by threatening everyone, instead of taking the trouble to paint a pie for them that actually didn't need to be fulfilled.

The bastard was so rampant that Bai Lizheng had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​making enemies with him.

However, Gu Yongwen demonstrated what it means to be "arrogant when in power" to the extreme. When he heard Gu Wenxuan mocking him, he was not ashamed. Instead, he looked around at everyone present with smugness.

"How can this be called soliciting a bribe? I am only giving you a chance to curry favor with the superior officer because I once lived in the same village with you."

When they heard him call himself "this sir" or "superior", anyone with a little knowledge present was stunned by his shameless act of raising his own status.

After a strange brief silence, Gu Wenxuan was the first to react, and she complained about Gu Yongwen without any hesitation.

"Don't you know the difference between an official and a clerk? Did you get your title of scholar by some crooked means?"

"A lowly clerk with no rank actually calls himself 'superior' and 'this lord'. Do the county magistrate, the county magistrate, and the county lieutenant know that you are so ambitious?"

Gu Yongwen was both angry and ashamed. He had not expected that Gu Wenxuan, a country girl, was so clear about the ins and outs of officialdom.

Fortunately, Gu Wenxuan didn't know what he was thinking, otherwise she would have quickly retorted, "Is this considered a trick? It's just common sense, okay?"

Gu Yongwen had a dark face, and his eyes were as sharp as a knife as he looked at Gu Wenxuan. The words he spoke were threatening, and he was trying to sow discord between them.

"You are so talkative at such a young age. Aren't you afraid that your future husband's family will despise you for your bad morals and then break off the engagement and marry someone else?"

Before Gu Wenxuan could continue to retort, Bai Jingzhou took the initiative to stand up.

"If telling the truth is a gossip and a bad moral character, then what is it that you, without any regard for the friendship between fellow villagers, immediately returned to the village and openly demanded bribes as soon as you gained power? You are a scholar, but you have not even learned the most basic four words of courtesy, righteousness, integrity and shame?"

Gu Yongwen was so angry that he fell backwards. He stretched out his right hand and pointed his index finger at Bai Jingzhou, who had a calm expression. "Okay, very good. Just wait for me!"

He just couldn't understand, who gave this country boy the courage to question him? Wasn't he afraid that he would make things difficult for his family by doing this?

He looked around at everyone present, "What do you say? Are you going to give up this great opportunity to curry favor with me?"

No one said anything, but everyone looked at him as if he was a lunatic.

The villagers were thinking, "Does the county magistrate know that you are so arrogant? Just wait until our village head sees the county magistrate."

Gu Yongwen confronted everyone in silence for a moment, and found that everyone was indeed unwilling to curry favor with him. He was so angry that his whole body was shaking, as if he had suddenly suffered a stroke.

Just at this moment, several timid women came running over panting. They rushed to the front of the crowd, and either took out a few handfuls of dried vegetables and pickles from the basket, or pulled out a handkerchief or pillowcase made of coarse cloth from their sleeves, or simply stretched out their hands and handed four eggs to Gu Yongwen's family.

They smiled ingratiatingly and said compliments like "Congratulations" and "Yongwen is really promising." However, when Gu Yongwen's family saw clearly what they gave them, they felt deeply insulted.

Especially Gu Yongwen, he almost died and went to the underworld to greet his grandparents.

"You bunch of lowly people!" He roared at the top of his lungs, "How dare you insult me ​​like this? I will not be a human being until I take revenge!"

After yelling, he left with his family. The timid women who didn't understand why he suddenly went crazy held Erkang's hand, "Hey - Yongwen - Yongwen -"

Seeing that the other party not only had no intention of stopping, but also glared at them fiercely before getting on the car, the timid women looked nervous.

"Why are you angry just because you're angry?"

"We didn't do anything, did we?"

"Send him something. Isn't this what he asked for?"

"That's right, we sent him off, why did he just walk away with a disdain?"

Others: ...Wow, this unintentional knife strike was really well done, really wonderful, really amazing.

Not to mention how those timid women would be privately taught a lesson by their own mothers-in-law and husbands, at least right now everyone is secretly applauding their brilliant finishing move.

Bai Lizheng waved to everyone except the patrol members on duty, "Well, since no one is willing to give money to that family, then everyone should go back to their own homes and do what they need to do."

The confused timid women heard the word "silver" and then they suddenly understood why Gu Yongwen was so angry.

It turns out that they don't appreciate the gifts they gave according to the village customs...

Those timid women subconsciously looked at their mothers-in-law and men, and one of the mothers-in-law, who was full of anger, started to spit.

"Bah! He's just a petty official, but he's so arrogant! The county magistrate is such a high-ranking official, yet he doesn't bully us common people as blatantly as he does!"

Others nodded in agreement.

"That's right! Are those people crazy? They just became a minor official and came back to the village to plunder. Do they think they are some great nobles?"

"That's right. Our county is different from other counties. Our county magistrate is a very good official."

"If he dares to make things difficult for us, we will go to the county government and sue him. I want to see if he can still do his job by then."