"Where did you come from, you shrew? What's your relationship with this unscrupulous merchant? Are you sure you want to meddle in the affairs of our Heaven and Earth Alliance?"
The man in the middle, who looked like the leader of the group, stood up and asked Li Mai with a sinister look in his eyes.
Li Mai flipped her wrist, turning a bamboo pole into a whirlwind in her hand, making a whooshing sound. She didn't reply, but this move said it all.
The three men and the people behind them were the leader of one of the branches of the Heaven and Earth Alliance, a small gang formed by a group of thugs in the town, and his right-hand men.
As for the other two women, they were women they picked up from other places and brought back to be their wives.
The two women had been with them for a long time and lived quite well, gradually becoming like female bandits.
Today's incident started because of these two women.
However, they did not expect to encounter Li Mai, who seemed like a country girl who had never seen the world, but they did not expect that she was actually a master.
"What...do you want?"
Seeing Li Mai like this, the hall master felt that even their boss might not be able to beat Li Mai, so he thought it best to let it go. If he really caused big trouble for his boss, he could forget about being the hall master.
Therefore, the arrogance of the hall master quickly vanished, and he stammered out a question.
"It's very simple: pay up, apologize, and swear you'll never bother us again. Otherwise, I'll wipe out your hideout."
“We can pay for the things we smashed, but this guy is a swindler. He overcharged my wife and won’t admit it.” The gang leader finished speaking and pointed at Xu Shun, cursing him.
As soon as he finished speaking, the two women turned pale. Oh no, they were going to get beaten up.
I originally thought this person was just a country bumpkin, but I never expected him to have such a powerful relative.
Xu Shun frowned and said, "I, Xu Shun, have been selling bamboo products in this position for ten years and have never made a single penny of dishonest money. What makes you say that? Moreover, you came here and smashed my things without even mentioning that you miscalculated the money."
"My wife bought two baskets and two bamboo trays, and you charged her 150 coins. Did you miscalculate the price when you sold them to her?" The hall master glared angrily at Xu Shun.
Xu Shun frowned. "It's true that they bought two bamboo baskets and two bamboo trays, but they also bought three winnowing baskets, which totaled a total of one hundred and fifty coins, that's correct."
"A bamboo basket costs twenty coins, two cost forty coins, two bamboo trays cost twenty coins in total, these are sixty coins, a winnowing basket costs thirty coins, three cost ninety coins, adding up to one hundred and fifty coins, that's right." Xu Shun explained it to them carefully again.
The head of the hall glared at his wife, "Who did you give the winnowing basket to?"
When the two women saw the look in his eyes, they trembled with fear and didn't dare to say a word.
"Speak!" Li Mai snapped, indicating that the problem lay with these two women.
"He's hiding in her house!" The patriarch's wife pointed at another woman.
The woman was so frightened that she knelt down before the gang leader. "Gang leader, you must do me justice! This was my sister-in-law's idea. She said we should hide the winnowing basket and call you here so we can extort money from this person."
"Husband, I, I am..." The hall master's wife was so frightened that she also knelt down, and finally whispered that she was bewitched.
Seeing that things were clear, Li Mai didn't want to drag it out for too long and asked Xu Shun, "Brother-in-law, how much did the damaged stuff cost in total?"
"Two broken bamboo baskets cost seventy coins, three broken bamboo baskets cost sixty coins, five small wicker baskets cost seventy-five coins, two winnowing baskets cost sixty coins, and a bamboo curtain costs two hundred coins, totaling four hundred and sixty-five coins." Xu Shun had been selling these things for a long time, and his ability to do calculations was very good. In a short while, he came up with the total in his mind.
Li Mai looked at the hall master and said, "Did you hear that? Come over here and take these broken things away, pay up and leave. With this commotion, who knows how much your business will be affected in the future? Brother-in-law, how much do you think is appropriate for them to pay?"
Li Mai asked Xu Shun.
Xu Shun glanced at the group of people over there and said, "Forget about that. Just pay back the 465 coins for the damage."
He dared not take more money from these thugs, lest it cause trouble later.
The hall master looked at Li Mai and the bamboo pole in her hand.
Li Mai nodded. "Since he's said so, shouldn't we hurry up and take action?"
With a glare, the same disdain and contempt she displayed when facing mutated beasts in the apocalypse came to mind. Even without her superpowers, she was enough to frighten the few people she had coerced into stiffening bodies. They quickly and obediently threw a piece of silver on the ground, grabbed the items that Xu Shun had sorted out, and ran away.
"Stop!" Li Mai looked up and wondered if she had seen a wolf. Why was she running so frantically?
"You've given too much money!" Li Mai shouted.
That piece of silver was worth at least six or seven hundred coins.
"Then, can we buy another bamboo mat?" The hall master silently stopped and turned around, looking at Li Mai's expression, which seemed to be on the verge of tears.
"Brother-in-law, how much is the bamboo mat?" Li Mai asked Xu Shun.
"A small bamboo mat costs three hundred coins, a large bamboo mat costs five hundred coins." Xu Shun glanced at the piece of silver and nodded. "Then I'll give you a small bamboo mat!"
The hall master ran over, took it, and then ran away.
The two women behind them quickly followed, as if afraid that if they were too slow, they would be beaten by Li Mai.
Li Mai coldly watched the direction they ran off in, and snorted coldly, "Bullys who prey on the weak and fear the strong."
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