Chapter 523 Settling Dust (4)_1
The one hundred taels of silver notes had already been exchanged for actual silver and spent on Mo Yongxi’s engagement ceremony to show off, as well as to purchase jewelry and clothes for her. They had spent two to three ten taels, and Lao Mo’s House simply couldn’t come up with it!
Even if they could, Mo Hong’s family and others would never spit out the fat they had swallowed. That would be asking for their lives!
Perhaps feeling confident on her own turf, Mo Hong shamelessly stated that the silver had already been spent. Want the silver back? Fine, go to the city and ask Tie Tou for it—it was he who refused to sign the marriage contract, and it had nothing to do with anyone else!
Since receiving the silver, Tie Tou had been released by Mo Wu and was sent to work at the rice shop the same day. After all, each day’s delay meant a day’s wages deducted, and those wages were to end up in Mo Hong’s hands, so naturally, she was unwilling to let Tie Tou idle at home for nothing.
"Lady Mo, it was you who borrowed the silver, and it was you who pressed your handprint on the promissory note. Had you kept your word and delivered the marriage contract within ten days, I wouldn’t have troubled you. But you took the silver without fulfilling your promise, and that’s truly disappointing! If today you can’t produce the silver, nor the marriage contract, I’ll have no choice but to take the promissory note to the Government!"
Liu Qingqing appeared to be around eighteen or nineteen, with delicate eyebrows and pleasing features. She seemed graceful and proper, not at all like a woman of disrepute. Yet the sharpness that occasionally surfaced in her words revealed she was not one to be trifled with.