Chapter 96 Losing Money
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 moved faster and stepped forward to catch him.
"What are you doing! What are you going to do in public?" the stall owner shouted angrily.
While he was talking, the bodyguard had pulled open the collar of his clothes, revealing his empty neck. Not to mention the copper coins, there was not even a red string.
"Why don't you hang up the Yongzheng Tongbao you finally found? Don't you want to keep it safe?" Xu Youyou said sarcastically.
The stall owner hesitated.
The child hiding behind Xu Youyou's eyes became sour again. No one believed in him before, but only Xu Youyou believed it and helped to find justice.
Xu Youyou became more courageous as she fought and scolded: "Give this child his Yongzheng Tongbao back to him!"
The stall owner looked around wildly and really didn't want to return the things, so he said: "He came and went back and forth in my stall several times today. He took away how many copper coins he had. Why should I give it back to him?"
Xu Youyou hesitated when he heard this.
But the child immediately said: "I just want to get my copper coins back. I will return the coins that are not mine! I am not a thief!"
While the child was talking, he turned all his pockets inside, but they were empty.
"Impossible, he must be hiding it on his body! Don't let him fool you!" said the stall owner.
"I just came here to return the copper coins. I searched for a long time and couldn't find my coin! So you caught me!" the child defended.
"I don't believe it. How can a thief like you reason?" the stall owner said with contempt in his eyes.
Xu Youyou said: "If I really want to say that I am a thief, you are the thief. You want to seize even children's things. You can't be too unconscionable."
The image of nothing around his neck just now was still vivid in everyone's mind. It was unclear whether the child had stolen something from the stall owner, but the stall owner did take advantage of the child.
"Yes, you should reflect on yourself first."
“It’s hard for children to scavenge, and you still do this kind of thing. It’s so unconscionable!”
Listening to everyone's discussion, 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's face was full of stubbornness: "I didn't steal it. If you don't believe me, you can search me!"
The child is willing to prove his innocence and seems eager to have others test him on the spot.
The stall owner immediately agreed: "Okay, I'll search you!"
But the child was so frightened that he took a step back.
"Look, this kid is guilty!" the stall owner said proudly.
Xu Youyou instinctively felt that this child would not 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 watch the show and have nothing to do with either party." A middle-aged man in his forties said with a smile.
When the child heard this, he still evaded, his face full of reluctance.
The stall owner got even more excited: "Look, he's feeling guilty!"
Xu Youyou looked at the child with puzzled eyes and asked in a low voice: "Do you have something to hide?"
The child whispered: "Sister, I am a girl..."
As soon as these words came out, Xu Youyou understood immediately. She glanced around the crowd and her eyes fell on two middle-aged women with gentle expressions.
"Trouble sisters, please check if there are any copper coins hidden on this child." Xu Youyou said. The people around him understood the reason after just a moment's thought, and looked at the child with a little more sympathy.
Xu Youyou said to the stall owner again: "If this kid doesn't have any copper coins on him, the Yongzheng Tongbao you took from him must be returned in double, otherwise today's matter will not be justified!"
By now, the quarrel is no longer a loss of property, but a pure fight of grudges. People around are angry: "This is the way it should be done!"
“It’s a shame to lie to even a child!”
The stall owner gritted his teeth and said, "If she steals it, I will pay at least two thousand yuan, and you will pay for it on her behalf!"
"Okay, I'm willing to pay for it." Xu Youyou agreed loudly.
The body search was carried out very quickly. After the two women searched the child, their eyes were filled with distress.
There was no other reason. This short child looked thin on the outside, but when they searched him, they discovered that he was actually thinner than what appeared to the naked eye. His body was as skinny as bones, and his hair was as dry as grass. It was obvious that he was living a rough life.
"There are no copper coins." The two said in unison.
While they were talking, one of them took out two hundred yuan from his bag and handed it to the child: "Auntie doesn't have much cash with her, so 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 garbage."
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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: "Everyone has said that if there are no copper coins, hurry up and compensate us with two Yongzheng Tongbao coins!"
The stall owner turned pale. He also wanted to lie and say that the two women sympathized with the child and that the child hid the copper coins elsewhere, but he was quickly scolded by the onlookers, and in the end he could only reluctantly take the money from his stall. Two Yongzheng Tongbao were taken out from the iron box.
Xu Youyou took Yongzheng Tongbao and handed it to the child.
After the child took it, his face looked a little strange, and he thought for a while but didn't say anything.
Xu Youyou asked: "What's wrong? Isn't this the Yongzheng Tongbao you picked up?"
"Mine is darker than this one, and I specially made a small female character on the dark area with my hand." The child whispered.
Xu Youyou didn't expect this child to accept death.
But before she could speak, a middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses suddenly said: "Child, let me see these two copper coins."
The child handed over the copper coin.
The middle-aged man looked at it again and again, and then his face turned ugly. He looked at the stall owner with angry eyes: "The sand mold of the stamp is rough and the coating is floating on the surface. This is a fake copper coin!"
The crowd of onlookers had not completely dispersed. When they heard this, they were immediately in an uproar and looked at the stall owner with condemning eyes.
"You actually fooled people with fake copper coins!"
“It’s not honest at all to cheat people first and then pay for the fake goods. The stalls must be full of fake goods!”
There are also some hot-blooded bosses. Perhaps because they have a daughter at home, they feel very sorry for the child. At this time, they shout loudly: "Brothers, smash his stall! Give him a punch each!"
The stall owner did not expect that his cleverness would not deceive him after all, so he could only shout: "I was wrong, I was wrong! I will pay the compensation honestly now! I will pay real money this time!"
The stall owner hurriedly took out two genuine Yongzheng Tongbaolai coins from his pocket, one of which happened to be stolen from a child.
After the child got the money, his face was full of joy: "This is my copper coin!"
(End of chapter)