Chapter 11: Think Beautifully!
Wen Nuan heard this, and then looked at the face of the woman, very much suspecting that she had framed them on purpose to get a child daughter-in-law.
Hmph, people can really think beautifully!
Wen Nuan lifted her small face and said angrily: "Impossible, how could my mother tear the clothes while washing, which piece of clothing did she wash? Let me see! Don't you dare throw muddied water on my mother casually."
"Smelly girl, your mother tore these clothes! Look, how else could there be such a big hole? Do you still want to deny it?" Madam Qian threw a dress with a hole in the sleeve at Wen Nuan, despising her. She looked at them all with a bitter and mean expression.
Wen Nuan took the opportunity to pick up the clothes.
Madam Qian continued to chant: "A coarse woman is a coarse woman. She is only worthy of lowly work. I wanted to let you launder a share of expensive clothes and help you so that you can make more money. Unexpectedly, people tore a hole in the clothes and don't want to admit it! Hurry up and compensate money, or give this girl to my son as a child bride.
Wen Nuan glanced at the tear in the clothes. There is a small part of this tear that is very neat. It can only be cut with sharp scissors. You can't see it without a closer look.
Wen Nuan knew in her heart and said: "If you tear other people's clothes, you really need to pay."
Madam Wu was anxious when she heard that, she grabbed Wen Nuan's arm and said: "Sister Nuan, it was not Mother who tore it! This money cannot be compensated."
Madam Wang was also anxious: "Sister Nuan, don’t be scared by this woman, we are not in the wrong, we don’t need to pay!"
Wen Ran was also anxious: "Third Sister, don't talk nonsense, Mother would not lie!"
Madam Qian looked on smugly: "You are a sensible little girl! Some people have lived in vain for so many years! Even a child understands the truth, but they don't understand it! Isn't it just natural to pay money if someone else's things are broken? "
Wen Nuan patted Madam Wu's hand, reassuring her: "It is indeed natural and righteous to pay money if you tear other people's clothes! It's just how to pay, it's not you, the officials have the final say. This woman is not telling the whole story. Want to report to the yamen? Then report to the yamen! The officials will decide how much is to be paid! The officials will decide who it is that will be doing the paying!"
"What? Report to the Yamen?" Madam Qian was dumbfounded. Why did the style of this scene suddenly change?
Didn’t you say that you have to pay for it?
Madam Wu and Madam Wang are both scared stupid, report to the yamen?
They had heard that the county yamen could sentence you to flogging with wood planks, and you would lose a layer of skin even if you didn't die.
Wen Nuan said resolutely: "Yes, report! There is a hole in this dress, which was obviously cut open by sharp scissors and then pulled apart by force, so that there will be an even bigger hole. I believe the officials will definitely be able to see the details clearly and find out who broke this two tael piece of clothing! Go, let's report to the yamen now! What my mother did not do, we are not afraid to report!"
How can this dead girl have such sharp eyes! Madam Qian reached out to grab the clothing.
Wen Nuan avoided her. The evidence is in hand, how could they let it be ruined by her!
Madam Wang also begins to understand. This clothing was probably torn by this old harridan, then, worried that she will be punished by the master, she tried to frame them instead!
So deceiving!
Madam Wang cried loudly: "Report to the yamen! No matter if this old lady is flogged, we have to report to the yamen even if I lose a layer of skin! You must not be wronged!"
Madam Wang pulled Madam Qian’s hand to drag her out.
Madam Qian was startled, she pulled her hand back vigorously, but couldn't get it back. She stayed still, and insisted: "Don't deny it, maybe you brought the scissors and cut it!"
"My mother came here to wash clothes. She didn't come here to make clothes. How could she bring scissors? Since you said that, Sister Ran, you should go to town to find Dad immediately, ask Dad to report to the county yamen, and bring the official's people. Search to see if my mother and grandmother have scissors! I will stay here to protect the scene!"
"Okay, I'll go right away!" Sister Ran listened, and responded happily!
She ran out!
Madam Qian’s heart beats hard in her chest! Ask the yamen to come and search, protect the scene? Why does this short-lived ghost seem to know a lot?
But this is not my own home, it's the landlord's home!
If this matter breaks out and it alarms Landlord Feng, and then the yamen finds out the truth as well, neither she nor her daughter can eat it!
They would lose their good jobs in the landlord's house.
This time Madam Qian was really frightened: "Wait! No need to report to the yamen, I believe you didn’t tear this dress! You don’t need to pay for it, you go! I have to find out which little hoof cut a hole in my mistress's clothes!"
Wen Ran who had ran to the door stopped: "Sister, do I still report?"
Madam Wu and Madam Wang let out a breathe and sighed in relief, then they both look at Wen Nuan.
Third Sister blinked her eyes, and quietly raised her index finger in a place where Madam Qian could not see, then wagged her finger making a no-action, but she said, "Why don't you report! It was so easy to blame our mother. Didn't someone do something wrong? What if someone secretly rests the matter on our mother later without finding out the truth?"
Plant evidence if you want, frame if you want!
Is her family so bully?
Today she wants to peel someone's skin off!
But not by reporting. Reporting to the yamen at most will force Madam Qian to pay for the damaged clothing, not reporting can teach her a greater lesson!
"Okay!" Sister Ran bolted away.
"Wait!!" Madam Qian shouted loudly.
Sister Ran had already ran out the door, she heard that and stopped again.
Madam Qian is dying of anger. She said that they don’t have to pay for it. What else does this dead girl want?
"What do you want? I said that I believe your mother, and you don't have to pay. Since it was not your mother who tore the clothes, I will naturally not talk about it everywhere. Let me tell you, reporting to the county yamen is making a bigger mess. You guys will also lose a layer of skin! Let it go!"
"What let go? You don't say anything, others will say it! We came here because we just heard people in our village talk about this matter. You've already told a lot of people, can you stop it now? You've hurt my mother's reputation. Accused her of damaging clothes, detained my mother and my grandma for half a day. Now just say you believe my mother didn't do it, let it go? How can there be such a cheap thing in this world?"
"Then what do you want? Do you want me to go to the village and tell people that it was not your mother who tore the clothes?" Madam Qian was almost dizzy.
"Apologize to my mother and grandma, as well as compensation for their mental anguish and lost work expenses! And today's wages, a total of twenty copper coins! If you cannot do it, if there is a copper coin less, I will report to the county yamen! Don’t think I don’t know, your daughter must have torn this dress, and then you framed my mother for it."
Madam Qian was shocked, how did she know?
Wen Nuan look at Madam Qian’s expression and knew that she guessed it right.
This is a girl's dress. Madam Qian is an old lady with rough hands, so she will definitely not be an attendant waiting by the Miss's side.
It is impossible for her to have access to the Miss’s clothing.
Who can come into contact with the clothes, and who is Madam Qian willing to help? The most likely thing is that her daughter is the maid of the landlord’s daughter.
Only her daughter accidentally cut her mistress's clothing. She didn't want her daughter to be punished by the master or even be made to pay for it.
So she spared no effort to plant this matter on Madam Wu and Madam Wang, who are easy to calculate, and least likely to make mistakes.
Because the two, Madam Wu and Madam Wang, are not servants of Feng House, it is easy to take care of them. If they are framed, they will take responsibility. If they are not used in the future, they will be unable to argue!
The most important thing is that Madam Qian wants to take this opportunity to find a daughter-in-law for her son! What a bargain!
"You...you talk nonsense!" Madam Qian was so shocked that she couldn't speak her words well.
How did she know?
Wen Nuan smiled: "Is it nonsense? The yamen will know! Anyway, the officials will agree that compensation should be paid! Landlord Feng is a great and kind person, if he knows that my mother and grandmother were wronged by the servants in his house, he will apologize. We are not at a loss, but some people may lose their jobs because of this!"
After speaking Wen Nuan turned to Wen Ran and said, "Sister Ran, report to the yamen quickly! What are you doing there?"
"Good!" Wen Ran ran off again!
Yamen: government office, serves as police station and courthouse
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