Chapter 804 - 102 My home!_4
Or, he could hand the matter over to the County Magistrate. However, Li Chang, this County Magistrate, really wasn’t reliable. The fact that he had previously ignored Li Chang did not mean he would let him remain rampant. It was time to send a message to Little White Rabbit and have him dispatch another dependable person to take over.
Perhaps to prevent Lin Yuan’s family from looking down on them, as soon as Lin Jiazhong returned home, he busied himself with building the house for Lady Yang. Although Lady Ma disagreed, she ultimately couldn’t defy her husband and reluctantly took out the dowry she had hidden away for many years, allowing him to exchange it for silver in town.
Lin Jiazhong, holding the silver hairpin, hadn’t even reached the entrance of the village before returning, throwing the hairpin back into Lady Ma’s hands: "You go!"
Lady Ma was puzzled. Although the hairpin was just made of silver, it could still fetch three taels of silver; why did he suddenly not want to go? Could it be that he felt guilty and too ashamed to go himself?
The more she thought about it, the warmer Lady Ma felt inside. After nearly twenty years of marriage, this was the first time she felt she had a place in this man’s heart.
But...
Lin Jiazhong sat down grumpily on the kang bed’s edge and growled discontentedly, "I am someone with a face and status in town, go to a pawnshop? I can’t afford to lose that face!"
Lady Ma was silent, her heart filled with both sourness and disappointment.
In the end, it was Lady Ma who went to town. However, the cunning pawnshop owner, seeing her dressed as a rural woman, drove a hard bargain and only gave her two and a half taels of silver. Lady Ma, who rarely visited town and didn’t know better, trusted the pawnshop owner’s words, believing her silver hairpin was outdated, and returned home with the two and a half taels of silver.
Upon seeing the paltry amount of silver, Lin Jiazhong was so furious that he berated Lady Ma severely.
Lady Ma felt wronged: "That’s why I said you should go. Seeing me as an old country lady, who else would they cheat if not me?"