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Chapter 29: A Big Loss
Shopkeeper Zhu understood what Xiao Zhu was saying, she wanted him to confess.
The brother and sister pair have been collaborating for many years, and he immediately understood that shouldering the blame himself is the best solution.
Otherwise, if his younger sister's reputation is ruined, or if she is arrested by the yamen, it will affect the reputation of Brother Liang, Sister Wan, and Sister Yu.
His nephew and nieces are great talents, and their future is limitless!
Wait for my sister’s family to fly above the ground, can my family be worse off?
Look at how he lives now, tens of thousands of times better than when he was a kid, and it will only be better in the future!
My own unworthy son still wants these three cousins to support him!
After thinking about it, Shopkeeper Zhu bowed with a regretful expression and cried with the faceless attitude of begging the emperor: "Sister, I'm sorry! I just wanted to save a little money from this girl's salary, but I didn't expect others would misunderstand you."
He turned to Wen Xin and bowed again: "Sister Xin, I'm sorry. Madam paid you properly every month. She was ignorant of my wrongs. I was really too greedy!"
After speaking, he slapped himself twice and his face turned red immediately.
Seeing this move, everyone believed it to be true, but still said: "This shopkeeper is really too much! Even calculating children."
"He should be taken to the yamen and flogged!”
Wen Nuan: These two people can really collaborate, such a happy cooperation! No wonder this Fugui Restaurant has been operating vigorously over the years.
Yang Chao and Lin Zhong immediately cried, "It's just as we said, the shopkeeper asked us to do this! If someone needs to pay for it, you have to find him to settle the account. We are leaving."
The two quickly fled. People like them who are used to stealing things are most afraid of encountering officials.
With a guilty expression on her face, Xiao Zhu took Wen Xin's hand: “Sister Xin, Aunt is ashamed! I didn’t expect you to be so wronged in my restaurant.”
Xiao Zhu bitterly took out five taels of silver, and after thinking about it, she also took out a gold hairpin. There was suffering in her heart, but she placed it in Wen Xin's hands with a look of guilt: "Sister Xin, Eldest Aunt will make up for what my brother has done. I will pay back all your wages. And this gold hairpin, thinking about you going home today, Aunt especially went to Treasure Pavilion to buy it for you. You also know how Aunt has treated you this year. Although I have treated you a little bit badly and scolded you, don’t feel resentful towards your uncle!"
Xiao Zhu's heart is bleeding! She bought this gold hairpin specifically for Brother Liang's future wife.
It was originally intended as a gift when the new wife offered tea! The workmanship was done up in the style of the capital, and there are even a few pearls. It cost twenty taels, so expensive!
If Brother Liang’s bride was not from the capital, and she was not the daughter of Teacher Guo, she would not be willing to buy such an expensive gold hairpin!
Even Sister Yu wanted it, but she was not willing to buy it for her!
As soon as the gold hairpin came out, there were several gasping noises:
"Oh my God! This pearl and gold hairpin is so beautiful, it must be worth a lot of silver!"
"This is the most precious work of Treasure Pavilion. The design is a popular style in the capital, and it costs at least twenty taels of silver!"
"People are willing to give a twenty tael gold hairpin to their niece, how can they deduct hundreds of copper coins from her wages!"
Everyone saw that Xiao Zhu had specially prepared a gold hairpin for Wen Xin, and felt that she might really she love this niece, it's just that the shopkeeper was too scheming!
Seeing the pearl and gold hairpin, Wen Nuan is also a bit surprised. But she did not miss the heartache in Xiao Zhu's eyes.
That she is willing to take it out despite her heartache to save her reputation shows that she is really smart.
Wen Xin did not dare accept it: "No need."
How can she take such a thing?!
Wen Nuan immediately reached out to pick up the gold hairpin. Xiao Zhu's hand instinctively tightened around it, but soon let go.
Wen Nuan looked at Wen Xin and said with a smile: "Second Sister, Eldest Aunt wants to compensate you! Why can't you take it? No matter whether these calculating elders really didn't know before, or they did it all deliberately, now she is restoring her reputation by giving you this gold hairpin! It is true that you washed the entire restaurant's dishes by yourself for a year. These are all what you deserve."
One person washes the entire restaurant's dishes? Everyone was in an uproar again.
Such a big restaurant, and such good business! At the end of the day, there may be hundreds and thousands of dishes to wash. How can a child who is not too young wash it all?
Ruyi Restaurant has two dishwashers!
Did this woman surnamed Zhu know that her niece washes the dishes alone?
"This really is a two-faced aunt!"
"Child, take it! You earned that silver!"
“Yes, those black-hearted people took advantage of you! Why shouldn't you take advantage of her?"
Xiao Zhu was so angry, she felt like she had a fish bone stuck in her throat, but she couldn't speak. She was afraid that she could not help cursing people out if she opened her mouth. Then her reputation and image would be completely ruined.
She lost five taels of silver, plus a twenty tael gold hairpin, and the image that should have been restored was destroyed by this plague star in a few words!
Why can't this short-lived species die already?
Xiao Zhu warned herself not to lose control. She did not believe that she could not fight this little bitch. She suppressed all the anger in her heart until she ached from it!
Xiao Zhu wiped away tears, then gave an expression as if she was disheartened and unwilling to explain more: "No matter what, it's Aunt's fault. It's okay for everyone to misunderstand me. I should have personally given the silver out every month. Now I can only regret it from beginning to end.
Sister Xin, take the silver! Sister Nuan is not in good health, so you can use the money to buy medicine. Remember to go to my second brother, he will give it to you cheaper. It's getting late, go home early! Be careful on the road."
Other people saw that Xiao Zhu’s expression was real, and that she admitted her mistakes and moved to remedy them without trying to defend herself. They began to wonder if they had misunderstood her.
Wen Nuan almost admired Xiao Zhu. This woman knows when to lower her head, and with this appearance of having been greatly wronged, she puts all the mistakes on herself and does not forget to care about her niece at this time.
If they are unforgiving, it seems a bit unkind.
With five taels of silver, plus a pearl and gold hairpin, the matter is almost cleaned up!
"Eldest Aunt is so kind to Sister Xin, this affection must be remembered by the whole family!" Wen Nuan looked at her with a smile that is not a smile.
Xiao Zhu's heart beat wildly. She gritted her teeth and smiled: "This is what I should do!"
At this time, Wen Chun walked in with two yamen runners.
Behind them was Wen Jiafu who looked worried, and Wen Jiarui who looked worried.
Wen Jiarui walked in and immediately went to his two daughters' side. He looked over them from top to bottom with a worried expression on his face: "Sister Xin, were you bullied? Are you okay?"
Xiao Zhu, who lost her money and reputation, felt very uncomfortable when she heard this. It was obviously her that was bullied by that little bitch!
But she still gave a cheerful expression and said hurriedly: "Fourth Brother, it's okay, there was a misunderstanding. I can only blame my own negligence. I have already apologized to Sister Xin."
The head official looked around, then his gaze focused on a few people and finally fell on Xiao Zhu: "I heard that people here deliberately blackmailed and beat others?"
With a smile on her face, Xiao Zhu said: "No, it was all a misunderstanding, and I settled it just now! Made the two officials take a trip for nothing.”
"It was really a misunderstanding? Do you know you the punishment for deceiving an official is flogging?”
"It's really a misunderstanding. You two good sirs have been busy patrolling all morning, you must be hungry. Now that you are here, please eat something before you leave! Shopkeeper, hurry up and let people in the kitchen prepare a table of good food and wine so we can greet our guests properly."
"Yes! Good sirs, please sit down, this humble one will let people prepare a table!" The shopkeeper immediately went to make arrangements.
"Master, please quickly invite these officials to the private room!" Xiao Zhu quietly twisted Wen Jiafu's arm.
This dead ghost is too useless. He can't even hold off a child. It's really an official messenger!
She is going to lose a few taels of silver again.
She took a big loss today!
Wen Jiafu quickly made an inviting gesture: "Good sirs, this way please!"
When the two saw that Xiao Zhu was so accommodating, they didn't care about the original matter.
She lost five taels of silver, plus a twenty tael gold hairpin, and the image that should have been restored was destroyed by this plague star in a few words!
Why can't this short-lived species die already?
Xiao Zhu warned herself not to lose control. She did not believe that she could not fight this little bitch. She suppressed all the anger in her heart until she ached from it!
Xiao Zhu wiped away tears, then gave an expression as if she was disheartened and unwilling to explain more: "No matter what, it's Aunt's fault. It's okay for everyone to misunderstand me. I should have personally given the silver out every month. Now I can only regret it from beginning to end.
Sister Xin, take the silver! Sister Nuan is not in good health, so you can use the money to buy medicine. Remember to go to my second brother, he will give it to you cheaper. It's getting late, go home early! Be careful on the road."
Other people saw that Xiao Zhu’s expression was real, and that she admitted her mistakes and moved to remedy them without trying to defend herself. They began to wonder if they had misunderstood her.
Wen Nuan almost admired Xiao Zhu. This woman knows when to lower her head, and with this appearance of having been greatly wronged, she puts all the mistakes on herself and does not forget to care about her niece at this time.
If they are unforgiving, it seems a bit unkind.
With five taels of silver, plus a pearl and gold hairpin, the matter is almost cleaned up!
"Eldest Aunt is so kind to Sister Xin, this affection must be remembered by the whole family!" Wen Nuan looked at her with a smile that is not a smile.
Xiao Zhu's heart beat wildly. She gritted her teeth and smiled: "This is what I should do!"
At this time, Wen Chun walked in with two yamen runners.
Behind them was Wen Jiafu who looked worried, and Wen Jiarui who looked worried.
Wen Jiarui walked in and immediately went to his two daughters' side. He looked over them from top to bottom with a worried expression on his face: "Sister Xin, were you bullied? Are you okay?"
Xiao Zhu, who lost her money and reputation, felt very uncomfortable when she heard this. It was obviously her that was bullied by that little bitch!
But she still gave a cheerful expression and said hurriedly: "Fourth Brother, it's okay, there was a misunderstanding. I can only blame my own negligence. I have already apologized to Sister Xin."
The head official looked around, then his gaze focused on a few people and finally fell on Xiao Zhu: "I heard that people here deliberately blackmailed and beat others?"
With a smile on her face, Xiao Zhu said: "No, it was all a misunderstanding, and I settled it just now! Made the two officials take a trip for nothing.”
"It was really a misunderstanding? Do you know you the punishment for deceiving an official is flogging?”
"It's really a misunderstanding. You two good sirs have been busy patrolling all morning, you must be hungry. Now that you are here, please eat something before you leave! Shopkeeper, hurry up and let people in the kitchen prepare a table of good food and wine so we can greet our guests properly."
"Yes! Good sirs, please sit down, this humble one will let people prepare a table!" The shopkeeper immediately went to make arrangements.
"Master, please quickly invite these officials to the private room!" Xiao Zhu quietly twisted Wen Jiafu's arm.
This dead ghost is too useless. He can't even hold off a child. It's really an official messenger!
She is going to lose a few taels of silver again.
She took a big loss today!
Wen Jiafu quickly made an inviting gesture: "Good sirs, this way please!"
When the two saw that Xiao Zhu was so accommodating, they didn't care about the original matter.
yamen: government office, serves as police station and courthouse
as if having a fish bone stuck in one's throat: very upset and needing to express one's displeasure
as if having a fish bone stuck in one's throat: very upset and needing to express one's displeasure
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