Chapter 822: Ji Mansion

"Sir, please come and see!"

While Wu Fan was waiting for the guards to transport the grain, a guard suddenly shouted at him in an anxious voice.

Wu Fan walked over in confusion and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Sir, look!" the guard said, and moved a bag of "grain" in front of Wu Fan, and then slashed the bag with his long sword. The scene he saw made Wu Fan angry.

What came out of the pocket was not grain, but sand!

"How could this be? How could there be sand in it?!" Wu Fan asked angrily.

"I don't know. When we were carrying these bags just now, a brother didn't pay attention and broke a bag. Then we found that it was filled with sand, not grain." The guard replied.

Wu Fan's face was filled with anger. He turned to look at the other bags and said to the guards present: "Open all these bags for me!"

Several guards took orders and cut open the bags. Then, bags of sand appeared in front of Wu Fan, which made Wu Fan's eyelids jump.

Until the guards cut open all the bags in the warehouse, Wu Fan's anger was already uncontrollable.

More than two-thirds of the bags here were filled with sand instead of grain!

"These bastards!" Wu Fan gritted his teeth. He knew what was going on without thinking. Someone must have switched the bags. As for where the switched grain went, it naturally flowed to the black market. You know, in this chaotic era, grain is more valuable than gold!

"Sun Liang, Sun Liang!" Wu Fan shouted loudly.

"Sir, what's the matter?" Sun Liang heard the shout and hurried over from a distance.

"Where's that bastard?" Wu Fan asked.

"Are you talking about Ji Pei's grandson?"

"Who else but him?!"

"I have arranged for someone to send him back to Ji's house according to your instructions." Sun Liang replied.

"Let's go to Ji's house!" Wu Fan walked out first without any hesitation after hearing this.

At this time, inside Ji's house.

The young man who was knocked unconscious before has woken up and is now lying on his back in the hall, wailing constantly. His voice is so miserable that it makes people shudder.

"Ah, it hurts so much, it hurts so much, that bastard, I want to kill him! Grandpa, you have to decide for me!" The young man screamed and his expression was ferocious.

"Hao'er, how are you? I'm so heartbroken. Don't worry, I will never let Wu Fan go to avenge you!" A woman who looks a bit like the young man comforted him beside him, with tears of heartache on her face.

"Dad, that Wu Fan is such a jerk. He beat Hao'er so badly. He didn't give you face and slapped our Ji family in the face. If we let this matter go, how can our Ji family hold our heads up here in the future?" A middle-aged man who looked very similar to the young man said to the old man sitting at the top.

"That's right. Wu Fan is just a little viscount. He dared to do this to our Hao'er. Hao'er just drank a little bit of wine. Why did he do such a cruel thing? Dad, I think he just doesn't take you seriously. He thinks you are nothing after retiring to your hometown. This is a slap in our face." The woman also echoed.

The old man sitting at the top, with a gloomy face and no words, was the former Hanlin Academy Grand Secretary and the head of the Ji family, Ji Pei. As for the middle-aged women, they were his son and daughter-in-law, that is, Ji Hao's parents.

"You still have the nerve to say that. Look at the son you taught well. He was drunk while on duty and drank with his men! If I were still in office, I would not let him off easily if I encountered such a situation." Ji Pei said coldly.

"Isn't it just a little bit of alcohol? It's not a big deal. There's nothing going on in the warehouse anyway. Hao'er is bored by doing this. Besides, he can get closer to the people below. What's wrong with that?" Ji Pei's daughter-in-law retorted.

"Dad, I don't think this matter is as simple as drinking. That Wu Fan is taking advantage of this incident to retaliate against us. His servants came to invite us to a banquet in the morning, but we didn't go. He was probably angry and took the opportunity to beat Hao'er to retaliate for what happened in the morning." Ji Pei's son "analyzed".

"Yes, that must be the case!" Ji Pei's daughter-in-law agreed.

Ji Pei's face became even gloomier. In fact, he had similar guesses, which were similar to what his son thought.

Before Ji Pei retired, he was a scholar of the Hanlin Academy. He was aloof and arrogant. In addition, he had many disciples, which made him look up to others. Even after he retired, his arrogance did not diminish at all. When County Magistrate Guo was still there, he did not take him seriously, and the two of them did not interact with each other on an equal footing.

In Ji Pei's view, Wu Fan, the viscount, was just so-so. When he was in the imperial capital, he had met countless nobles, and the viscount was really nothing. Therefore, he felt that after Wu Fan came, he should visit him first to show respect, just like what County Magistrate Guo did when he just took office.

But Wu Fan did not do so. He did not come to visit, but instead asked a servant to come. This made Ji Pei feel very uncomfortable. He felt that Wu Fan looked down on him, so he did not go to the banquet. If Wu Fan personally invited him, he might still consider it, but it was just a servant who came. How could he go? Is he, Ji Pei, so easy to invite?

So, because of what happened in the morning, Ji Pei had a bad impression of Wu Fan, and now, his grandson was beaten by Wu Fan again. Although Ji Pei blamed his son and daughter-in-law, he was even more angry with Wu Fan in his heart.

When beating a dog, you have to look at the owner, not to mention beating his grandson. Wu Fan knew Ji Hao's identity, but he still did this. It was obvious that he did not take Ji Pei and the Ji family seriously. How could the arrogant Ji Pei tolerate it?

Because of what happened in the morning, Ji Pei also felt that Wu Fan was taking the opportunity to retaliate. It was wrong for Ji Hao to drink while on duty, but for the sake of his Ji family, it was enough to say a few words, but Wu Fan was so cruel. Ji Pei didn't believe that it was not revenge.

"Even if I know revenge, what can I do? I am just an old man who has retired and returned to my hometown. He is a newly conferred viscount! His Majesty's new favorite." Ji Pei said, but his words were full of resentment. Obviously, he was still angry that Wu Fan did not care about his face.

"Dad, even if you retire and return to your hometown, you are still no match for a viscount. What Wu Fan did was really too much. This matter absolutely cannot be let go. You have such a wide network of contacts and so many disciples. It is not difficult to deal with a viscount." Ji Pei's son said.