Chapter 1053 Lin Yuesha Doesn't Suffer a Loss
Ahead, a group of young women and married women were gathered. Based on Lin Yuesha's experience, there should be a peddler selling novel trinkets.
"Husband, let's go join the fun."
Lin Yuesha pulled Qi Heng along and watched with great interest. Every year at the end of the year, there are always peddlers who bring out their hidden treasures to sell. You might be able to find some small items you like, so don't miss it.
The couple stepped forward, and Qi Heng recognized the peddler. He said to Lin Yuesha, "Wife, I bought the perfume powder from this peddler. I heard it was shipped from the south. If you like it, buy it all."
The load of goods was a variety of items. I bought them and took my time to choose. I kept the ones I liked and gave the rest away.
Faced with Qi Heng's extravagant gesture, Lin Yuesha felt a pang of pain in her heart.
Fifty taels of silver was enough to buy two pigs. Every part of a pig was a treasure, and even the offal could be made into a delicious dish, but the peddler swindled him out of his money.
If it's worth the money, Lin Yuesha thinks it's worth it for the peddler to earn his hard-earned money, even if he earns a little more.
The problem is that the peddler thought Qi Heng was a man and didn't know the quality of women's cosmetics, so he ripped off Qi Heng, which Lin Yuesha couldn't tolerate.
The couple is a family, and Qi Heng's money belongs to her. Why should she let a shameless person cheat her out of it?
However, telling Qi Heng in front of him that he had been deceived would definitely be a blow to him.
Thinking of this, Lin Yuesha deliberately sent Qi Heng away, saying, "Husband, there seems to be a meat pie stand up ahead. Why don't you go and take a look?"
There were women everywhere around the peddler's stall, which made it inconvenient for Qi Heng to be there.
"Alright, my wife, you can choose here first, and I'll come back to find you when I get back."
Qi Heng had no objection and immediately slipped away.
Lin Yuesha stood there until Qi Heng walked away and disappeared into the crowd before loudly saying, "Excuse me, please make way!"
In the crowd, the peddler was trying to run away with his tail between his legs, but seeing that the sucker hadn't come looking for trouble, he thought he hadn't been discovered and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Kid, your wife is giving birth, aren't you in a hurry to get back?"
A kind-hearted old lady asked.
"The first child isn't so easy to give birth to. I thought about it and the old lady was right. I'll earn some money first and buy my wife a good old hen to make soup."
The peddler relaxed and said smugly.
Making money is the most important thing in business. Let's quickly sell off this batch of goods and have a prosperous New Year.
"Brother, look what this is!"
Qi Heng might turn back at any time, so Lin Yuesha didn't waste any words and said to finish the battle quickly.
"What?"
The peddler's smugness didn't last long before Lin Yuesha came knocking on his door.
The peddler pretended not to know that he couldn't give back the fifty taels of silver.
"The face powder I bought from you yesterday cost fifty taels of silver. Are you that forgetful?"
When Lin Yuesha announced the price, the people around her gasped.
"Young lady, are you joking?"
The young women and wives around were shocked. Even though the peddler came from the south, he shouldn't be selling such expensive face powder.
After all, if it were truly worth that price, it would definitely have a large shop in the city center, rather than relying on selling from door to door.
They were all ordinary people who bought from the peddler because they could afford it.
"I'm not kidding, it's fifty taels of silver worth of perfume."
Lin Yuesha opened the box and let those around her examine it.
"The face powder is nice, but it's worth at most two hundred coins."
A well-dressed young woman, an expert, rubbed her hands together and immediately set a price.
"This is a fine item from the south, how could it only be worth two hundred coins?"
The peddler, exposed, angrily retorted, "If you can buy them for two hundred coins, sell them to me as many as you have!"
"Didn't you say the face powder wasn't sold here? How do you know it came from the south?"
Lin Yuesha seized upon the loophole in the peddler's words and asked.
It's clear that the peddler wasn't a clever man, while Qi Heng, who had been walking along the riverbank for a long time, finally got his shoes wet and was deceived by an unknown nobody.
Ultimately, it all comes down to pleasing oneself.
Lin Yuesha pursed her lips, then turned to the peddler and said, "Don't tell me you recognized the powder box as something from the south..."
The peddler clicked his tongue, stumped by Lin Yuesha's question, and said angrily, "Anyway, I don't have any goods worth fifty taels of silver. Young lady, you're just being unreasonable. Are you trying to scam me?"
Young women and married women gathered around, not really believing that anyone would be foolish enough to spend fifty taels of silver to buy a box of face powder from a peddler's stall.
Lin Yuesha rubbed her temples. She didn't believe it either, but Qi Heng had indeed been taken advantage of.
"It doesn't make sense that I'm not trying to extort money from a fancy shop, but instead targeting you."
Lin Yuesha was too lazy to argue and said directly, "North Street is not far from the prefectural government office. Since you say I am slandering you, let's go to the government office to settle this matter."
Lin Yuesha had no intention of going to the government office to resolve the matter; otherwise, how would General Qi put his face? She was just trying to scare the peddler.
"Young lady, what exactly do you want?"
After a moment's thought, the peddler realized he had met his match.
If this really escalates to the authorities, he'll be jailed on New Year's Eve.
But the peddler couldn't bear to give back the fifty taels of silver. Why should he return the silver he had earned through his own trickery?
“I’ve looked at your load. All the goods inside are mine. I won’t argue with you about the fifty taels.”
Lin Yuesha considered it for a moment. The face powder was a gift from Qi Heng, and regardless of its value, it was impossible to return it. So, she decided to take a step back and ask the peddler for all his goods.
Although the peddler was a swindler, the silk flowers and other items he sold were quite good. He carried them directly to the fishing village and distributed them to the female workers as a New Year's blessing.
“That won’t do. If all the items here were sold, it would be worth more than fifty taels of silver.”
The peddler immediately objected, arguing that the price could be negotiated further.
"Don't push your luck."
Lin Yuesha sneered, "According to your logic, if you had another box of this perfume powder, you could fool a sucker and make even more money."
However, it's not so easy to find a sucker.
The peddler curled his lip; he had just made up a price yesterday, but the other party hadn't even bothered to refute it.
Now, the peddler understood that the couple wasn't being taken advantage of; they had planned a honey trap and were waiting to skin him alive.
Otherwise, how could the two sides have met by such a coincidence today, given that he changed locations?
The more the peddler thought about it, the more he felt he had been tricked, and he felt very aggrieved.
Let me do the math for you.
If it weren't for the perfume powder, Lin Yuesha wouldn't have bothered arguing; she just didn't want to suffer a loss.
“If we go to the yamen to file a lawsuit, you’ll be eating your New Year’s Eve dinner in jail. If your family wants to send you food, they’ll have to send at least this much.”
Lin Yuesha gestured with two fingers, spending two taels of silver to send food. If she felt cold, she would need to add blankets and other necessities, and she would have to pay more.
The prison food in the yamen was bad. If you didn't want to go hungry or cold, or be bullied or beaten, you had to pay more money.
If you want to leave early, you'll have to make arrangements everywhere, and the cost will definitely be far more than fifty taels.
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