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Chapter 28: Where Is Your Conscience?
Report?
The shopkeeper is dumbfounded.
How did things turn into reporting?
The shopkeeper looked at Wen Nuan, who was skinny like dried string beans, and didn't understand how she could tell the two were working together!
The two, Lin Zhong and Yang Chao, were dumbfounded as well. They never would have thought this little bean sprout of a girl dared report to the officials!
And how did she see that the two of them were united and deliberately working together to scam money?
Xiao Zhu was also taken aback. She didn't expect Wen Nuan to have this kind of insight. She suppressed the shock in her heart and smiled: "Sister Nuan, why do you say they are a team?"
Wen Nuan gazed at Xiao Zhu with a smile and a meaningful look in her eyes.
That kind of gaze made Xiao Zhu feel like the girl could penetrate her outer shell and see through to the essence of herself.
The feeling filled Xiao Zhu's heart with astonishment!
She subconsciously avoided those eyes of Wen Nuan's that seemed to be so insightful.
With a smile that is not a smile, Wen Nuan slid a finger over the porcelain in Wen Xin's hands.
Wen Xin was still holding it carefully!
"This is a fake and shoddy product! Although I don't know who Master Cheng En is, paying fifty taels for the early works produced by a master is definitely not bad!
Wen Nuan took the porcelain from Wen Xin's hands and put it down on the table and continued: "But this set of tableware, haha...it's not even worth one tael of silver! One deliberately tripped people, and the other deliberately used fake and inferior products to cheat! Isn't this extortion and blackmail?"
When Lin Tingxuan heard this, he walked over, picked up the bowl and looked it over: "It is indeed a fake. It resembles the work of Master Cheng En when he first debuted, but the workmanship is too poor, only worth a hundred copper coins at most. These sets can be found at grocery shops by the hundreds and thousands. If you are really missing one less, you can make it up with some copper coins.”
He was sitting far away and didn't realize that the tableware was fake.
Also did not expect someone to calculate this poor girl.
Suddenly, Wen Nuan's stern voice ordered: "Brother, report to the yamen!"
Wen Chun's face was serious: "Okay."
He immediately went out.
Xiao Zhu: "No way!"
Yang Chao: "Wait!"
Lin Zhong: "Hold on!"
Wen Jiafu: "Can't report to the officials!"
Four people spoke at the same time.
Wen Chun didn't even listen, but ran out instead.
Wen Jiafu was so scared that he hurried to chase after him.
Wen Nuan gave a cold snort. She glanced at the four of them, and finally fell on the scared Yang Chao. She looked at him with a smile that was not a smile: "Are you afraid? Dare to pit my second sister, you can go squat in jail!"
Wen Nuan spoke through gritted teeth like she was fuming with rage and would never forgive him.
Yang Chao was frightened.
Why is this dead girl so powerful!
Squat in prison, how can this be?!
He was quitting this job!
I thought it was just tripping people, I didn’t expect it to be so troublesome.
He is doing things for money. But go to jail for a hundred copper coins? That's nothing but a big loss.
Yang Chao pointed to the shopkeeper and said loudly: "I quit! Shopkeeper Zhu gave me a hundred copper coins to trip your second sister! I don't know anything else."
Then he took out a hundred copper coins, threw it at the shopkeeper, and turned to run out immediately!
At this time, Lin Zhong also panicked. If you don't run now, do you still want to wait for the officials to come?
He took out a string of copper coins and put it on the tabletop: "Shopkeeper Zhu, I won’t do it anymore! I will pay you back the money for this job!"
Lin Zhong also wants to run away!
Lin Tingxuan stopped them both.
Wen Nuan also quickly moved to block them: "Running away is out of the question! What if you wrong my aunt?!"
Xiao Zhu’s eyelids twitched, how could she be wronged?
Shopkeeper Zhu caught the string of money and his face changed instantaneously: "You are spitting blood on me, when did I give you this money?"
These kind of idle little village bastards are cowards!
The two hurriedly begged for mercy: "It was yesterday afternoon! It really wasn't our idea young heroine, please spare us! Shopkeeper Zhu sent a kid from our village to find us and gave us a hundred copper coins and two sets of clothes!"
Everyone looked at the shopkeeper differently after hearing this.
"The shopkeeper actually did it? Why is that?"
"God, why does this shopkeeper calculate a little girl?"
Wen Nuan coldly snorted: "Why? Of course, they want my second sister to do the dishwashing in this restaurant for free!"
Shopkeeper Zhu’s old face flushed: “Don’t listen to these two swindlers talking nonsense, this old man definitely didn’t do such a thing!”
Wen Nuan's icy eyes fell on him and Xiao Zhu: "You didn't do it, then someone instructed you to do it? Otherwise, why would a shopkeeper calculate a dishwasher? It's not benefiting yourself!
Today, I finally understand why my second sister has washed dishes here for a year in order to pay off a debt of twenty copper coins! It turns out that your restaurant calculates again and again! A full year, more than three hundred days and nights, my second sister has washed thousands of plates every day until her hands festered! Auntie, where is your conscience? "
Wen Nuan earnestly asked, her voice a little choked.
Everyone feels sour, exactly where is this person's conscience?
The diners in the restaurant were in an uproar:
"Twenty copper coins to wash dishes for a year? Too shameful! The dishwashers at Ruyi Restaurant earn three hundred copper coins a month!
"Is this really an aunt? This is how she treats her own? The proprietress of this restaurant is too black-hearted! She actually calculates her niece this way."
“Fancy that! I actually thought she was very kind just now. You can know people's faces but there is no knowing a person's heart.”
……
Xiao Zhu saw everyone looking at her with contempt, and heard the accusations from the crowd. She was so angry she could have slapped Wen Nuan!
It wasn't enough for this plague star to humiliate her daughter, she also ruined her reputation!
I really underestimated her!
Xiao Zhu pressed down the endless anger flowing through her heart like a torrential river, and said with a sad expression on her face: “Sister Nuan, don't get me wrong, I really don't know anything about this. I'm in shock, I still can't believe it's true!”
Her expression looked so genuine that people believed her.
"You don't know? My second sister has been washing dishes in your place for a year, how could you not know? My second sister was grateful you lent us twenty copper coins for my treatment. She took the initiative to help your restaurant wash dishes for one month and repay the debt. Just as she was about to finish paying it off, the kitchen had no food for the workers! Because she was too hungry, she couldn't help stealing a precious bun leftover by a guest. You told her the other workers wouldn't accept it if she wasn't punished, and fined her forty copper coins. So she washed the dishes here for another two months!
After those two months of dishwashing was almost done, another customer accidentally bumped into her while she was holding a plate. The vegetable oil spilled on the customer and soiled the guest’s clothes. You said you had to pay for the clothes to help Second Sister. For this reason, she washed dishes for another six months...until today, just as she is about to go home again, there are calculations! And now she has to pay fifty taels!
Calculations again and again, Auntie, do you want my second sister to wash dishes here for free for a lifetime? "
Everyone was in an uproar again.
"This is clearly a calculation!"
"Too much, too much!"
"Bah, what kind of eldest aunt is this? You really don't know people, it's a human face and a beast's heart!
"Sure enough, the most poisonous thing is woman's heart, the ancients really did not deceive me!"
"What a terrible eldest auntie!"
……
Xiao Zhu's heart beat fiercely, is this dead girl trying to ruin her reputation? Why is her heart so vicious at a young age?
Xiao Zhu's eyes reddened, she wiped away tears and and said, "I know you don't believe my words. But I really didn't know anything about this! I have a clear conscience! I didn't know before, but now I will give Sister Xin justice."
Xiao Zhu looked at Shopkeeper Zhu and winked at him, then said with a sad expression: "Shopkeeper, how can you do such a thing?! It is because you are my elder brother and the only of son of our parents that I gave you this job. If there wasn't only you to be filial to our parents and raise your wife and children, I would send you to the yamen myself! It is only fair to Sister Xin."
Xiao Zhu’s work is always careful. She lets Shopkeeper Zhu do everything, and never comes forward herself.
Besides, Shopkeeper Zhu is her elder brother and he will never give her away.
spit blood: maliciously slander or attack
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