Chapter 96 Compensation
The stall owner didn’t dare to answer this question at all.
He wanted to dodge and protect the collar of his clothes, but Xu Youyou's bodyguards were faster and stepped forward to grab him.
"What are you doing! What are you doing in public?" the stall owner shouted angrily.
As he was speaking, the bodyguard had already pulled open the collar of his clothes, revealing an empty neck. Not to mention copper coins, there was not even a red rope.
"The Yongzheng Tongbao coin that we finally found, why aren't you hanging it? Don't you want to keep it safe?" Xu Youyou said sarcastically.
The stall owner hesitated.
The child hiding behind Xu Youyou felt tears in his eyes again. No one believed him before, but Xu Youyou was the only one who believed him and helped him get justice.
Xu Youyou became more and more courageous and shouted, "Give this kid the Yongzheng Tongbao back to him!"
The stall owner looked around and really didn't want to return the things. He said, "He came back and forth to my stall several times today. I don't know how many copper coins he took. Why should I return them to him?"
Xu Youyou hesitated when she heard that.
But the child immediately said: "I just want to get my copper coins back. I will give them back even if they are not mine! I am not a thief!"
As the child spoke, he turned out all his pockets, and found that they were empty.
"Impossible, he must have hidden it on his body! Don't be fooled by him!" said the stall owner.
"I just came to return the copper coin. I searched for a long time but couldn't find my coin! And then you caught me!" the child defended.
"I don't believe it. A thief like you can reason?" The stall owner looked at him with contempt.
Xu Youyou said: "If we really want to talk about thieves, you are the thief. You even want to take the children's things. You can't be so conscienceless."
Everyone still remembers vividly the scene of the empty neck on his neck. It is unclear whether the child stole the stall owner's things, but the stall owner did take advantage of the child.
"Yes, you should reflect on yourself first."
"The scavenger kids can't make ends meet, and yet you still want to do this? This is completely heartless!"
Listening to the discussions of the crowd, the stall owner's face turned red, but he still gritted his teeth and said, "I don't believe it, he must have stolen my things!"
The child said stubbornly: "I didn't steal anything. If you don't believe me, you can search me!"
The child was willing to prove his innocence and seemed to be eager to be examined on the spot.
The stall owner immediately agreed: "Okay, I'll search you!"
But the child took a step back in fear.
"Look, this kid is guilty!" said the stall owner proudly.
Xu Youyou instinctively felt that this kid wouldn't lie, so she said directly: "Who dares to let you search him? What if you take the opportunity to stuff something into him?"
"Yes, the beauty is right. If you don't let me come, I will just be a spectator and have nothing to do with either side." A middle-aged man in his forties said with a smile.
When the child heard this, he still dodged and looked reluctant.
The stall owner got even more excited: "Look, he's guilty!"
Xu Youyou looked at the child with puzzled eyes and asked in a low voice: "Do you have any unspeakable secrets?"
The child whispered: "Sister, I am a girl..."
As soon as these words were spoken, Xu Youyou immediately understood. She glanced at the crowd and her eyes fell on two middle-aged women with gentle expressions.
"Please, sisters, check if this child has any copper coins hidden on him." Xu Youyou said.
The people around understood the reason after just a quick thought, and looked at the child with a little more sympathy.
Xu Youyou then said to the stall owner: "If this child doesn't have any copper coins, you must return double the Yongzheng Tongbao that you took from him, otherwise today's incident will be unjustified!"
At this point, it was no longer a matter of property loss, but a pure quarrel of arrogance. People around were fanning the flames: "That's the way it should be done!"
"You even lied to a child. You have no conscience!"
The stall owner gritted his teeth and said, "If she stole it, she should pay at least 2,000 yuan in compensation. You pay for her!"
"Okay, I'm willing to pay for it." Xu Youyou responded loudly.
The body search was carried out quickly, and after the two women had searched the child, their eyes were filled with distress.
The reason was simple. The short child looked thin, but when they searched him they found that he was even thinner than what the naked eye saw. He was like skin and bones, and his hair was like dead grass. It was obvious that he had a hard life.
"No copper coins." They said in unison.
As they were talking, one of them took out two hundred yuan from her bag and tried to give it to the child: "Auntie doesn't have much cash on her, you can use it first."
The child shook his head: "Thank you, Auntie, but it's really not necessary. I can support myself by picking up trash."
When the woman who gave the money heard this, her eyes turned red.
The sympathy in the eyes of the people around him deepened.
Xu Youyou turned to look at the stall owner: "They said they don't have copper coins, so quickly compensate us with two Yongzheng Tongbao coins!"
The stall owner's face was pale. He wanted to say that the two women sympathized with the child and that the child hid the copper coins somewhere else, but he was quickly scolded back by the onlookers. In the end, he could only reluctantly take out two Yongzheng Tong Bao coins from the iron box in his stall.
Xu Youyou took the Yongzheng Tong Bao and handed it to the child.
After the child took it, his face looked a little strange. He thought about it but didn't say anything.
Xu Youyou asked: "What's wrong? Isn't this the Yongzheng Tongbao coin you picked up?"
“Mine is darker than this one. I even specially drew a small word “female” in the dark area with my hand.” the child whispered.
Xu Youyou didn't expect that this kid would be so stubborn.
But before she could open her mouth, a middle-aged man wearing black-framed glasses suddenly said, "Kid, let me see these two copper coins."
The child handed over the coin.
The middle-aged man looked at it again and again, and then his face turned ugly, looking at the stall owner with anger: "The sand mold of the ground seal is rough, and the patina floats on the surface. This is a fake copper coin!"
The crowd of onlookers had not yet dispersed completely. When they heard this, they were immediately shocked and looked at the stall owner with condemning eyes.
"You actually used fake copper coins to fool people!"
"First you cheat people out of things and then pay them with fake money. You are not honest at all. The goods on the stall must be all fake!"
There were also some hot-blooded roughnecks, who, perhaps because they had daughters at home, felt sorry for the child and shouted, "Brothers, smash his stall! Each of you give him a punch!"
The stall owner didn't expect that his clever trick didn't work after all, so he could only shout, "I was wrong, I was wrong! I will pay you back honestly now! This time I will pay you real money!"
The stall owner hurriedly took out two genuine Yongzheng Tong Bao coins from his pocket, one of which was exactly what he had cheated from the child.
After the child got the money, he was very happy: "This is my copper coin!"
(End of this chapter)
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