Chapter 251 Someone framed me
"Is Magistrate Qu getting married?" Zhang Qiu'er walked to Du Wanchun's side and asked, looking at the invitation in her hand.
Du Wanchun replied with a smile, "Yes, it will be on the eighth day of next month. I heard him say before that the girl is from our Changliu Village, but I don't know which family's daughter she is."
Zhang Qiuhe turned around and went into the shop to arrange the goods on the shelves. "A woman who can marry Magistrate Qu must be a good girl."
Although Magistrate Qu of Wanzhou County was young, he was a good official, and people from more than ten surrounding counties respected him greatly.
"Of course." Du Wanchun put away the invitation, came to Zhang Qiuhe's side, and asked with a smile, "When are you and Brother Wang's wedding date?"
Zhang Qiuhe blushed and lowered her head. "It'll be soon. I heard from Aunt Wang and Aunt Zhou that it should be next month."
Zhang Qiuhe had no maternal relatives, so the Zhou family was equivalent to her maternal relatives.
Aunt Zhou and Aunt Wang worked together to arrange her wedding.
Du Wanchun took her hand and said, "The dowry is all sewn up, but we're still missing some gold and silver jewelry. I'll take you to buy a set later."
Zhang Qiuhe's face was full of gratitude. "Wanchun, you've already given me enough gold and silver jewelry. There's no need to buy any more."
Du Wanchun laughed and said, "Not much, not much. You are the manager of my Zhou Family Incense Shop. You are worth as much gold and silver as you want."
Zhang Qiuhe's eyes reddened slightly. "Thank you for saving me from this. If it weren't for you, I'd probably be starving to death at home with my little one by now."
Du Wanchun smiled and said, "If you want to thank me, I should thank you too. If it weren't for you watching over the shop for me, our Zhou family's incense shop wouldn't be doing so well."
Zhang Qiuhe rubbed her eyes, a hint of shyness on her face. "Wanchun, this is all I should do."
Du Wanchun stopped arguing with her and took her directly to the market.
Before leaving, he asked the shop assistants to watch over the shop.
After arriving at the market, the two visited two gold shops. Du Wanchun didn't buy much; after careful selection, she bought a gold hairpin shaped like a peony.
Zhang Qiuhe originally wanted to refuse, but she couldn't resist Du Wanchun's insistence and accepted it for the time being.
When the two returned, they happened to pass by their own rice shop.
A crowd had gathered in front of the rice shop. "This rice is fake! How dare your Zhou family sell us fake rice!"
Zhang Qiuhe stopped in her tracks, pointed ahead, and said, "Wanchun, look, something seems to have happened up ahead!"
Du Wanchun slowly stopped smiling. "Let's go take a look."
The two quickened their pace and walked towards the shop.
A man dressed in dark blue clothes, holding a bag of rice, said, "This rice is fake! Look, the bag of rice I bought yesterday for three taels of silver is actually fake!"
As he spoke, he opened the rice bag, only to find that the rice inside was black, clearly moldy.
"How can anyone eat rice like this? Yes, I never thought the Zhou family would dare to sell fake rice!"
"I knew it! How can a woman do business? That Du woman is just a peasant woman!"
Du Wanchun pushed through the crowd and walked inside, "You said this rice was bought from our Zhou family?"
She asked the man in the dark blue clothes.
The man in the dark blue clothes didn't even look at her, and snorted coldly, "Could it be fake? There's only your Zhou family's rice shop around here, do you think I'm mistaken!"
Du Wanchun squatted down, grabbed a handful of moldy rice, and said coldly, "But this rice is not from our Zhou family's rice shop."
The man in the dark blue clothes suddenly stood up, pointed at her fiercely, and said, "Are you trying to renege on your promise? It's clearly rice from your Zhou family, and you're saying it isn't? You're bullying us by taking advantage of your power!"
“Look at your husband, he’s the magistrate of Cheng’an County, and he’s doing such heinous things.”
"Fellow villagers, please don't come to her house to buy rice anymore! She's a wicked woman!"
The man became more and more agitated as he spoke, but just then, a flowerpot from a shop fell down and hit him right at his feet.
The man was terrified and fell hard to the ground, crying out in pain.
"Who is it? Who is this?!"
Everyone was startled and looked up.
The man sat on the ground, trembling with fear. He looked up and saw that the windows were tightly closed and there was no one there.
"This is truly unbelievable!"
As he spoke, he patted his own backside and continued to say to Du Wanchun, "You absolutely must give us justice. I clearly bought the finest fragrant rice, how did it turn into moldy rice?"
Zhang Qiuhe was furious and shouted, "I think you're just deliberately trying to cause trouble. You brought a bag of moldy rice to the Zhou family. How can you prove that the rice was bought from our shop?!"
As she spoke, she turned around and called out loudly to all the onlookers, "Fellow villagers, you have all bought rice from our Zhou family rice shop. You know best what our rice is like."
"Whether rice is good or not can be tasted immediately. If there were really a problem, everyone would have discovered it long ago. Why wait until now?"
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