The third prince frightened Mrs. Li so much that she turned pale and shouted to the little maid beside her: "Quick, go and call the master!"
The little maid quickly ran out of the shop.
Du Wanchun stepped forward and said to Mrs. Li: "Mrs. Li, you just heard that it is not Mrs. Zhang that County Magistrate Li wants to attract, but Mrs. Liu from the rouge shop."
Mrs. Li squatted on the ground, biting her lip, feeling that she had lost face and said angrily: "So what, Zhang Qiuhe also hooked up with my master, otherwise why would he run here every two days!"
Madam Xu, the proprietress of the teahouse, raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "Mrs. Li, you really made a mistake. All the incense that County Magistrate Li bought was given to Madam Liu."
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Li's face immediately turned pale, her pupils widened, "What, you said he bought the incense and gave it to that woman?!"
Madam Xu took a melon seed and started to chew it, "Not only is it fragrant, he also bought a lot of tea from me and gave it all to Madam Liu." ?.?????.???
Mrs. Li stood up holding on to the table. Perhaps because she moved too much, a large incense burner on the table suddenly fell down and hit Mrs. Li directly on the head.
"Ouch! My head!"
She held her head and screamed in pain.
The maid on the side came over quickly and said, "Madam, are you okay?"
Mrs. Li looked at the broken incense burner on the ground, raised her head and cursed at Du Wanchun: "You smashed my head with this incense burner!"
Du Wanchun bent down to pick up the fragments on the ground and said, "Mrs. Li, you have to understand clearly. It was not my incense burner that hit you, but you that hit mine."
Then he wiped the ashes on the incense burner and said, "This incense burner is made of white jade and is worth at least thirty taels of silver. In this case, you will pay me twenty-five taels."
The incense burner looks like white jade, but it is not.
Du Wanchun thought it looked good, so he put it in his shop to burn incense. Now that Mrs. Li was causing trouble in her shop, she lost a lot of money, and she had to get it all back!
Mrs. Li frowned and said angrily: "Why did you say I smashed it! I didn't send you to see the official, but you came back and said I smashed your things!"
Zhou Ruiyuan quickly protected Du Wanchun behind him.
Du Wanchun said to the people watching behind him, "Did you see clearly just now that Mrs. Li hit my table and knocked down the incense burner?"
The people watching the fun nodded and said, "That's right! We all saw it, it was Mrs. Li who hit it!"
"Yes, we all saw it clearly."
"Mrs. Li, you broke someone's incense burner and you have to pay for it. You can't bully us just because you are the county magistrate's wife!"
Mrs. Li is known as a domineering person in Cheng'an County. She is always arrogant towards the nearby vendors and never treats them as human beings.
These traders have long disliked Mrs. Li.
After hearing what they said, Mrs. Li took two steps back with some guilt.
There was a wound on her forehead, her face was pale, and she looked very embarrassed.
Du Wanchun smiled and said, "Mrs. Li, please pay me back!"
The third prince and Aunt Zhou also made noise together.
"Hurry up and pay the money!"
The Third Prince's voice was so loud that Mrs. Li shuddered again. She couldn't stay any longer. She took out more than twenty taels of silver with trembling hands, put it on the table, and strode out of the door, ready to find Rouge. Madam Liu on the pavement.
Madam Xu, who was still eating melon seeds, suddenly dropped the melon seed shells in her hand, stopped her, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Li, don't go to Madam Liu's side."
Mrs. Li paused and looked up at her in surprise.
Madam Xu clapped her hands, and when she saw the crowd, she said loudly: "Mrs. Li, haven't you done enough harm to Madam Liu? She and Magistrate Li were childhood sweethearts. The two families have been engaged for a long time, and you are interested in the new bride." The county magistrate who takes office will force him to marry you!"
Everyone was shocked when they heard this. They didn't expect that the little lady in the rouge shop would do such a thing.
Aunt Zhou pulled Du Wanchun and whispered: "No wonder County Magistrate Li goes to the rouge shop every day. It turns out there is such a thing."
Mrs. Li's face was ashen and she scolded Madam Xu: "You bitch, what nonsense are you talking about!"
Madam Xu smiled slowly and said: "Everyone in Linxian County knows that back then you forced Magistrate Li to marry you, and you found someone to make trouble in Madam Liu's house, and killed Madam Liu's parents!"
She said, her voice getting colder and colder, "You also found a group of men to bully Lady Liu! Then you sold her into a brothel."
