Chapter 1331 - 1333: Those Apology Gifts_1
Yang Chuxia straightened her sleeves and let out a cold snort, "I also think she has a lot of nerve, really as if I wouldn’t bother with her?"
"Ye Er, take Lele and Yangyang back to the inn first." These sorts of matters should not be dealt with in front of the children.
"Mother, we want to stay," Yangyang tugged at her sleeve.
Lele nodded as well, "Mother..." Lele thought to himself, he still wanted to see how this auntie would be tormented, okay?
This auntie truly was absurd, taking people’s things without paying; even someone as young as him knew that you had to pay for things you buy.
The sister-in-law of the County Magistrate Ling, Auntie Ling, stood by and saw how Yang Chuxia and her family were completely ignoring her, and they were even whispering among themselves, not to mention the fabrics she had set her sights on were being snatched back.
It enraged her, truly enraged her!
In the village, no one had dared to speak to her like this, nor had anyone ever slighted her so!
Just as she thought to lash out again, her daughter-in-law hurriedly came up and whispered something to her, and then she changed her tune.
"Where do you think you’re going? No one leaves, everyone stay! Just now your servant pushed me, and this cannot be left at that."
Yang Chuxia raised an eyebrow, "Pushed you? How is it not about stealing your things anymore? Didn’t you just say that taking an interest in someone’s goods was a sign of respect? And that you took the goods without paying? How has it become about my servant pushing you now?"
The words started off somewhat gentle, but as she shifted her tone, it changed, "Let me tell you, not to mention pushing you today, even if you were beaten, you would have deserved it. Stop making trouble out of nothing. Taking someone’s property without paying and claiming it’s out of respect, can’t you have some shame? Accustomed to stealing, are you? If you fancy something that belongs to someone else, you just assume it’s yours? Are you dreaming?"
"You... you’re talking nonsense, you are slandering me," Auntie Ling now refused to admit that she had tried to steal the fabric, only focusing on the issue of Ye Wu taking her fabric, "Just now, I was clearly holding a few bolts of fabric, ready to pay for them, when your family’s... your servant came up and snatched my fabric, even pushing me, nearly making me fall over. How do you settle this?"
At this moment Auntie Ling thought to herself, pay money, pay what money? Those bolts of fabric were clearly of fine quality, and she certainly did not want to spend the money on them. Back in the village, everyone knew her nephew was the County Magistrate, and their family was of officialdom; if she showed the slightest interest in someone’s goods, they would offer them to her willingly.
Besides, having been in Gaoshui County for so many days, she had taken things from others all the same, and no one had raised an objection.
The cloth shop’s lack of awareness was one thing, but these people were just as oblivious.
If not for her daughter-in-law mentioning that this family might be of significant status, and her nephew the County Magistrate could not afford to offend them lightly, she wouldn’t have changed her story at all. She wasn’t going to let the matter rest easily, the fabrics had to be given to her as compensation, that was for sure.
Yang Chuxia looked at Auntie Ling with a smile that could not be considered a smile, thinking to herself, did this person truly believe that County Magistrate Ling was the local Emperor, and she, the local Empress Dowager? To speak her mind and act as she pleased?
"So, how do you propose we settle this?" She was curious to see what preposterous solution the woman would come up with.
"How to settle it?" Auntie Ling’s eyes darted around before she pointed at the brocade on the counter which had already been paid for, "Those, as an apology, and we’ll call it even. Otherwise... otherwise, I’ll have my nephew throw you all in prison. Do you know who my nephew is? My nephew is the County Magistrate!"