Chapter 223 Return the money!
Seeing that her pretending to be sick had worked, Xu Xiaoju thought that she would have to live in such a poor village in the deserted mountain village, far away from the town. How could she find out where her parents and brother were?
So she was able to come to the town to rent a yard on purpose, but she didn't expect that this family, who was so poor, actually had a safety lock. If she had known...
What was even more unexpected was that the safety lock had been on Chi Sheng all along, and the evil woman had sewed it into Chi Sheng's underwear.
Humph, he said he loved his daughter-in-law, but he had such a valuable safety lock on him and he didn't even give it to her.
Xu Zhiyi closed the shop and prepared to go back. Seeing Mu, Ma and Wu walking back, he was about to ask them to get on the mule cart and go back together, but suddenly he glanced behind and saw someone seemed to be watching him. Thinking of his next plan, he held back his words.
When he came to the three people, Xu Zhiyi signaled Shen Wuyou to stop the mule cart and looked at the three people from the Mu family angrily: “Mu, Ma, Wu, if you don’t give me an explanation for what happened today, I will definitely not consider our old friendship. From now on, my shop will have to remove the three of you!”
The three were startled by Xu Zhiyi's sudden scolding. Ma was the first to react and quickly cried and begged for mercy: "Boss, we really didn't do anything bad! We proved it on the spot, didn't we?"
Mrs. Wu: "Yes! Shopkeeper, please don't chase us away!"
Mu: "Boss, please forgive us just once!"
Xu Zhiyi snorted coldly and said angrily: "If you are wrong, you must accept the punishment. You will lose all your money this month! Humph, Wuyou, let's go!"
When the three saw Xu Zhiyi driving away in the carriage, they immediately started crying and chased after him.
Not until the mule cart had gone far away did the three of them sit down on the ground, panting and crying.
The man in the dark saw this and came out. He came to the three people and asked hurriedly, "How is the matter going? Why is there no movement?"
When the three saw the man coming out, they lowered their heads and rolled their eyes, then covered their faces and sobbed: "You still say that I just did it according to your instructions. We just poured out a bag and the shopkeeper found out!"
Ma: "It's so scary! No matter how we explain, it's useless. The shopkeeper insists that we poisoned him and wants to arrest us and take us to the government office."
Mu: "Yes, luckily we were smart. We remembered that you said that day that these were not poisons and you had let us taste them. So in order to make the shopkeeper believe us, the three of us directly ate the cakes with the packet of drug powder in them."
Ma: "Hey, we've been eating it for a day, but we don't seem to feel anything. Didn't you say you were going to teach our shopkeeper a lesson? How come we don't have any reaction at all after eating it? Is it only effective when the shopkeeper eats it?"
When the man heard what the three people said, he was immediately furious. It was bad enough that he was caught on the spot for drugging, but what kind of luck was it that he actually drugged that pack of fake drugs.
He was so angry that he died. If what he had done was true and these three people ate it, they would have died in the pastry shop. The owner of Xu's Pastry Shop would definitely not be able to escape. This would be considered as fulfilling his wife's instructions!
Seeing these three people who were more trouble than help, he gritted his teeth angrily and stretched out his hand and said, "Where are the remaining two packets of medicine? Give them back to me!"
Upon hearing this, Ma quickly took out the two packets of medicine and handed them over: "Here they are. We haven't had time to put them down yet, so the shopkeeper didn't notice that we have two more packets."
"Well, the medicine has been returned to me, so should the silver be returned to me as well?"
Wu: "What silver? We don't owe you any silver?"
Ma: "That's right. Although we were discovered, at least we made the move. We have completed the task, so the silver is naturally ours!"
The man heard this and saw that the three men were actually trying to cheat. He was so angry that he clenched his fists and said, "I'll say it again, give the silver back."
"No, we did the work for you, and you changed your mind and asked for the money back. How could that be possible?"
"That's right, you are so stingy. If you had the ability, you shouldn't have come to us in the first place. You should have done it yourself. Then the money would have been yours alone, right?"
The man suddenly understood when he heard this. Yes, why did he only want to take the twenty taels of silver at that time? If he went to help his wife complete it in person, wouldn't the one hundred taels of silver be his?
As long as he pretended to be a customer who wanted to go in to buy pastries, wouldn't it be easy to succeed?
Thinking of this, he became more determined to get back the 75 taels of silver he had given out. He looked at the three Mu family members and threatened them, "You three can refuse to give me the silver. Then I will go to the government office and sue you three. Anyway, you were caught putting something in the cakes by your own boss."
"No matter if you poisoned the person or not, you will definitely be beaten with a stick when you go to the government office. If you are beaten to death by accident, you will not be able to spend the money even if you take it. So are you going to give it to him or not?"
When the three heard these words, they all rolled their eyes secretly. These words could only fool three-year-old children. Even though they were illiterate, they were not stupid, okay?
But thinking of Xu Zhiyi's explanation, the three of them immediately pretended to be frightened by the man's words:
"No, no, no, I don't want to be beaten. I will die."
"I can't go to the government office either. My son hasn't gotten married yet. Even if I come back alive, how can he get married? People will say that my mother committed a crime. Please don't sue the government office. I will return the money."
The man took the twenty-five taels of silver that the three people took out and was very excited. But suddenly he thought something was wrong. With so much silver, why didn't they leave it at home but keep it on themselves instead?
When Ma saw the man's expression, she remembered Xu Zhiyi's instructions. After giving him the silver, she must explain inadvertently why she carried so much silver on her.
Ma: "Oh, we haven't even warmed up to the silver yet. This is the first time we've seen so much silver, and we always feel uneasy keeping it at home. We were planning to take it to the bank in town to store it, but we didn't expect that the shopkeeper would find out that we drugged the silver. We didn't feel like thinking about anything else, and we forgot about it."
Mrs. Wu: "Yes! If the shopkeeper hadn't found out, we might have deposited the silver in the bank long ago."
When the man heard this, the strange feeling in his heart disappeared instantly! He snorted coldly and happily took the money and left!
When the three Mu family members saw that everyone had left, they quickly got up and ran towards the village. As a result, they saw Xu Zhiyi waiting at the intersection leading to the village at the town gate.
After the three of them got on the mule cart, they quickly told Xu Zhiyi what had just happened.
After hearing this, Xu Zhiyi thought more confidently: "Let's not open the shop for the next few days. We can just close the shop and concentrate on making cakes for Su Ji Lou. This will make that man wait impatiently. The day we open the shop will be the day he plans to take action."
"Oh, as long as he falls into this trap, he will definitely lose!"
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