Chapter 584 Just Taking Mine (2)_1
This time, Lin Yuan didn’t even need to speak; others had already started taking turns to chime in on her behalf. "You have the nerve to say Lin Yuan took your son’s Silver, but we all saw what happened on the day Zhu Zi left. It was clear that Lin Yuan’s mother took out her own silver hairpin to lend him, providing two Taels of Silver for your son! Otherwise, whether your son could even leave the house to take his exams would have been questionable!"
"Exactly, considering Lin Yuan as a neighbor, she even came over to check on you all every day. But now, just because your son has made some money and returned, you turn your back on her, even trying to swindle her Silver! Look, look, Old man Chen, does your son really lack those two taels of Silver that much?"
"Auntie, don’t even start. Isn’t Old man Chen just notorious for swindling people? Look, just for Lin Yuan setting up a table and chairs here, he wants to extort a Tael of Silver. People like him, thank goodness he isn’t my neighbor. Otherwise, I’d have to keep a close watch on my own belongings and not associate with him at all. What if something rots in his house one day and he tries to swindle me? What then?"
The words of the crowd, like spit, made Chen Shimei’s face turn a bright red, unable to hold his composure any longer.
Seeing Wang Qiaoxin’s contemptuous gaze, Chen Shimei stamped his foot in anger, "Dad, did you really do this? How could you swindle someone’s Silver! We’re all neighbors; how could you do such a thing!"
Chen Shimei had by now conveniently forgotten how he had falsely accused Lin Yuan. Instead, he lightly touched on the issue of Old Chen exploiting others.
Then, he looked at Lin Yuan with an apologetic smile, and said with difficulty, "Sister Lin Yuan, my father was in the wrong just now. I apologize to you. We are all neighbors; please forgive my father for all the years we’ve lived side by side."