Gu An'an found it absurd, "When did I ever take your money?"
A few days ago, Su San Niang came to mediate, but she refused. Later, Lin Zixing even scolded Cao Juren. Although he didn't scold him to his face, Su San Niang probably didn't dare to have any more thoughts about it.
The day before yesterday, Su San Niang and Cao Juren came over with a box of pastries to apologize. Jiang Mingxu and Bao'er were losing their baby teeth at home, and Gu An'an didn't really want them to eat these. Just then, Xiao You and Xiao Wu returned from hunting, so she gave the pastries to Xiao You and Xiao Wu so they could take them home and eat them.
Could it be about that box of pastries?
Gu An'an's expression was not good; they actually dared to scheme against her.
“I know you have achieved academic success, and even the county magistrate has to show you respect. However, if you, Scholar Cao, dare to cause trouble, I, Gu An’an, am willing to accompany you to the end.”
"You, you shrew!"
Gu An'an sneered, "Yes, I am a shrew. Otherwise, wouldn't I have been schemed against to death by someone like you who has studied the classics? You have indeed read a lot of classics, but now you are bloated and bloated, where is there even a trace of the demeanor of a scholar? I ask myself if I am fair in business and never overcharge people. I treat customers politely and do not look down on people. It is only because you are a customer and I am a merchant that I am kind and polite to you, and you think that I have feelings for you. Having designs on a married woman, is this what the classics taught you?"
The other guests also understood what was going on.
"Scholar Cao, your eldest daughter is almost the same age as Madam Gu. I heard she's married and pregnant. How can you still have designs on Madam Gu?"
"You don't understand. People who have studied the classics are very shrewd. With a capable woman like Madam Gu, marrying her would bring you a fortune. Why not?"
"That's right. Although Madam Gu has several children, she's good at business and makes money. What does it matter if she has four children or even ten or eight? Our Scholar Cao is truly worthy of his title. He's even more shrewd than the accountant. We are ashamed of our own lack of such shrewdness."
When Cao, the scholar, heard these rumors, his fat face turned red. "Don't talk nonsense. It was clearly her who took my money."
One of the guests asked, "Did Madam Gu really accept his money?"
Gu An'an laughed, "No, how did Scholar Cao give me the money? Were there other people present?"
Cao Juren didn't even inform Su Sanniang about this matter. He only said he wanted to apologize to Gu An'an, so naturally he couldn't ask Su Sanniang to come out and talk to her. He kept pressing the issue, saying, "How can you deny taking the money!"
"How can you say it's not that you, Scholar Cao, framed me without witnesses? If you say that, I could also accuse you of stealing silver from my counter!"
Scholar Cao's face turned even redder. "I am a scholar, how could I do such a thing?"
Gu An'an chuckled, "There are plenty of scholars who deceive the world and steal fame. Corrupt officials are also scholars who have studied hard for ten years to become high-ranking officials and receive generous salaries. If Scholar Cao dares to say that I took your money, how could he not have stolen my money?"
"You're talking nonsense!"
Gu An'an sneered upon hearing this, "Then I would like to ask Scholar Cao to produce witnesses and evidence, otherwise I would like to send you to the government office for the county magistrate to interrogate you."
She had barely finished speaking when she heard Xiao Wu whisper something.
Scholar Cao rushed over, "You saw it, didn't you?"
"I didn't!" Xiao Wu cried out in panic, her face flushed red. "I... I thought it was something the shopkeeper had accidentally left inside, I..."
Xiao You was a little confused. "What? What did you see?"
She didn't understand.
Gu An'an never expected that it was actually that box of pastries that caused the trouble.
She had previously been thinking about finding out who Xiao Wu really was.
I never expected to have planted such a time bomb for myself.
The young maid from Songjiang Prefecture hurriedly knelt on the ground, saying, "It was my greed. I saw silver in the pastry box and, in a moment of greed, I hid the silver. I... I didn't know that the pastries were a gift from someone else."
As she spoke, she grabbed the scholar's silk robe and said, "Sir, this matter really has nothing to do with our boss. It was my greed that led me to this. I will return the money to you later. Please don't cause trouble for our boss."
Gu An'an then came to her senses and realized that the phrase "I'll take that as a yes" had such a deeper meaning.
Well, scholars don't seem to improve their writing skills, but they're full of unorthodox ideas.
Scholar Cao kicked Xiao Wu away, saying, "I don't care. You took my money, so you should be my wife."
The fortune teller said that Gu An'an has a strong destiny, a phoenix destiny of rebirth from the ashes, and that she will be granted an imperial title in the future.
He was determined to get his hands on her, as her fate was to bring him great wealth and prosperity; his future depended entirely on her.
Gu An'an sneered upon hearing this, "Scholar Cao is quite the schemer. But you said you'd take the money and become his wife, so fine. Little Wu, if you take the money, are you willing to marry Scholar Cao and become his... which number wife again?"
Only after hearing this did the guest realize that this scholar had actually learned a lot from his studies and was full of scheming.
This Lady Gu is really clever; she immediately shifted the blame onto the little maid.
"This should be the fourth wife, right? I think Xiao Wu is quite frail, so maybe soon our Scholar Cao will be marrying his fifth wife."
A burst of laughter erupted among the guests.
The scholar, Cao, clenched his fists in anger. "You, you stop being so unreasonable! I want to marry you!"
As he spoke, he stepped forward to grab Gu An'an and pull her out.
Gu An'an didn't want to take out an entrenching tool and beat the person up in public, so she hesitated for a moment and was grabbed by the wrist and dragged out.
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