I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 327 Shopkeeper Ji Rumei 2

They thought that all Ji Rumei wanted was to restore her own reputation and get back the two dowries of her and her mother-in-law. After all, when the yamen runners came to summon them, they only mentioned these two things.

Of course, this is not the fault of the yamen runners. They did not deliberately conceal the truth. It was because after the previous case was settled, Ji Rumei suddenly used the disappearance of her husband's body to dig a bigger hole for the four of them.

What made them feel most difficult was that Bai Jingzhou had investigated the group of people who had gone out to sell goods with Ji Rumei's husband from beginning to end.

The buddy who received a large sum of money to help harm people and the street scoundrel who falsely accused Ji Rumei of having an affair with him had already been sent to the yamen by Bai Jingzhou along with their tearful confessions.

As for the butler who had covered for the murderer, as the number one lackey of Ji Rumei's father-in-law, he was now standing in the crowd outside the yamen.

Of course, he was not captured by Bai Jingzhou, nor did he come here on his own initiative to testify for Ji Rumei. He just followed him here to serve his master.

Seeing Ji Rumei throwing out witnesses one after another, the butler who had already surrendered to his master's favorite concubine realized belatedly that something was wrong. But it was too late for him to escape now.

What the servant and the street urchin had said was too thorough. Even if he persisted in talking tough, he could not change the final outcome of his master's favorite concubine.

He hired someone to kill someone and hired a street thug to falsely accuse Ji Rumei of having an affair with the man. This time, there was no way his master's favorite concubine would ever walk out of the yamen again.

As accomplices, his master, his master's two illegitimate sons, him as the steward, and the servants and street urchins hired by them were all punished by the yamen.

The housekeeper, the waiter, and the street urchin were all sent directly to prison, while Ji Rumei's father-in-law and two brothers-in-law had to stay at home and wait to be summoned by the government at any time.

Ji Rumei felt a little regretful. She regretted that her father-in-law's favorite concubine only let the housekeeper intervene in these two matters, instead of directly instructing her two sons to help her for convenience. She also regretted that although her father-in-law was also an accomplice, he only sent Ji Rumei's husband out to sell goods, and did not participate in the murder of Ji Rumei's husband, so the three of them were not imprisoned by the government.

As for her husband, after being caught by Bai Jingzhou's men, the waiter confessed that he found an opportunity when the other waiters were not around and, under the cover of the housekeeper, pushed Ji Rumei's husband off the boat. So Bai Jingzhou immediately sent someone with silver and money to the place the waiter confessed and searched upstream and downstream along the river.

Bai Jingzhou was willing to spend money and acted quickly. The people he sent out found the sick and dying husband Ji Rumei in a small village downstream from the place where she fell into the water in less than half a month.

The old man and woman who picked him up were good people. Although their family was poor, they did not take his belongings for themselves. Instead, they used them all to buy medicine for his medical treatment and nutritional supplements.

Thanks to them, Ji Rumei's husband survived. Of course, the unfortunate fall into the water in such a cold weather still caused great damage to his body.

When the news reached the provincial capital, Ji Rumei and her two children cried with joy.

They are rich now. Ji Rumei and her mother-in-law's dowries are in her hands. She has also become the female manager of Gu Wenxuan's dim sum shop. Her husband is in poor health, so she just spends money on his treatment.

Because she was grateful to the childless old couple for saving her husband, Ji Rumei specially asked someone to send a letter to them, asking her husband to bring the person back when he returned, and that she was willing to live with him to take care of them in their old age.

Ji Rumei's husband was able to survive thanks to the old couple's tireless care. Ji Rumei and her husband were extremely grateful to the two elderly people.

On the contrary, he was her husband's biological father. After this incident, her husband had completely given up hope on him.

Ji Rumei's husband, who had finally crawled back from the brink of death and whose condition had stabilized a little, was carefully escorted back to the capital of Xingzhou by people sent by Bai Jingzhou, along with the two old people.

He and the two old men had to go to the government office to record their statements. By the way, he proposed to sever ties with his biological father and two half brothers.

Although his biological father and two half brothers were not punished by the government, their reputations were greatly affected by this vicious case. People in the state capital despised them, and their family's shop business plummeted.

Knowing that he was back alive, his father wanted to let their family go back for a "family reunion". However, Ji Rumei's husband, who had completely given up the father-son relationship, could see that his father did not have father-son feelings for him. The so-called "family reunion" was just for show, and the purpose was just to save the reputation of his biological father and his two half brothers, and to save their family's declining business.

In order to prevent someone from plotting against his life again one day and his wife and children from being kicked out of the house, he decisively proposed to sever ties with the father and his two sons.

He would be a fool not to draw a clear line between himself and those black-hearted guys now that his family has suffered a great loss and public opinion and the government are on their side.

As for the reputation of being unfilial that his father used to threaten him, since he had died once, why would he care about it?

Besides, if others can accuse him of being "unfilial", can't he also wish them to have a father like him? As long as the knife doesn't cut anyone, of course everyone can talk without any pain in their waist.

Ji Rumei, who got what she wanted, brought her husband and children to pay tribute to Bai Jingzhou. Bai Jingzhou ordered his servants to stop them, but they insisted on expressing their gratitude in this way.

After everything was done, Ji Rumei left her husband at home to recuperate, and she went to Gu Wenxuan's dim sum shop as the female manager as promised.

Ji Rumei learned her business skills from her grandfather. When her grandfather was alive, her family was a well-known merchant in the state capital. Unfortunately, her grandfather and father passed away early, and her brother did not have the skills of her grandfather and father, so her family had lost a lot of business to competitors over the years.

Ji Rumei, who had such ability, was favored by her mother-in-law, who married her home to be a good wife for her son. However, her father-in-law was fond of his concubine and illegitimate son, and did not give his eldest son and Ji Rumei, the eldest daughter-in-law, the opportunity to manage their own business.

After her mother-in-law passed away, Ji Rumei thought that all her skills would be wasted, but unexpectedly, things took a turn for the better and she is now the legitimate shop owner.

In addition, her new employer, Gu Wenxuan, gave her two students and a very generous salary, asking her to teach Bai Jingxin and Jia Yuelan how to manage the business.