Chapter 41: Chapter 41 Losing Face as Jun’s Wife Chapter 41: Chapter 41 Losing Face as Jun’s Wife Chapter 41 Losing Face for Her Family
The man with the goat beard, certain of his victory, looked at Jiang Mengyu: “Stop denying it. The vase you took is a Double Dragon Ear Entwined Branch Lotus Pattern Blue and White Porcelain Vase. The vase has an 8-centimeter wide mouth and is 32 centimeters tall.
With a flared mouth, long neck designed with bamboo joint shapes, sloping shoulders, and symmetrical double dragon ears at the junction of mouth and shoulder. The body tapers downward to a ringed base, which has the Qing Dynasty Yongzheng Year six-character regular script mark on the inner foot.
The rim is painted with a sea wave pattern, while the neck features a scrolling pattern, entwined branch pattern, grouped flower pattern, entwined lotus branch pattern, and lotus petal pattern, each wrapping around once. Raised on the shoulder are six Treasure Bead-shaped bump patterns; on the body, in sequence, are folded branch lotus patterns, scrolling grass patterns, entwined lotus branch patterns, and entwined floral patterns, with distorted lotus petals near the base. In total, eleven tiers of intricate, blue and white patterns are painted with clear separation.
And this vase, it should be right inside your bundle.”
Jiang Mengyu, seeing how the man with the goat beard described the vase’s characteristics so accurately, realized that this person had indeed seen the vase, and moreover, he truly knew his goods.
Could it be that Wen Meiling had colluded with this goat bearded man to set her up?
Or was it Ye Rushui who had conspired with this goat beard to frame her, ruin her reputation, and make Gu Dongxing abandon her?
Jiang Mengyu dabbled in conspiracy theories.
She could never have imagined that all of this was simply because the goat-bearded man wanted the vase, deceiving Boss Zheng, the middle-aged farmer.
After all, why wouldn’t he deceive Boss Zheng, who was lucky enough to find an extremely valuable vase and then blabber about it for all to know?
It was him who stole Boss Zheng’s chicken, secretly picked his duck eggs, and sneakily let out and intentionally poisoned Boss Zheng’s pig to death.
As for Boss Zheng’s wife breaking her leg, that was purely coincidental!
But due to these series of coincidences, Boss Zheng was scared and desperately sought to give away the vase.
Jiang Mengyu was clueless; she could only ponder upon potential conspiracies from her point of view. Thus, she found herself in a dead-end.
She snorted and said to the man with the goat beard: “If you want to frame me, at least make up a good reason.
That Double Dragon Ear Twisted Branch Lotus Pattern Vase from the Yong Zheng Period you mentioned is definitely very valuable. You describe it so vividly, surely you know its value. It’s worth at least hundreds of thousands, if not millions.
Do you think anyone will believe you would bring such a treasure out here? Even if you did own such a treasure and brought it out, would you casually place it on a stall, allowing me to easily take it?”
The crowd listened and thought, indeed, if the vase was so valuable, how could he possibly just casually place it on a stall?
The goat-bearded man didn’t expect Jiang Mengyu to be so articulate. He wiped his sweat and said: “This vase, I didn’t bring it from home, I just got it today. It wasn’t bought, it was given to me.
As for its value, I really had no idea it was worth so much, so I just casually placed it on the stall.”
He glanced around: “Regardless, I did see you stealing the vase. At that moment, I was taking someone’s pulse and couldn’t chase after you, so you got away. Do you dare let me search your bundle?”
Jiang Mengyu couldn’t help but admire the man’s ability to spin a tale.
She was about to retort with a sneer when an annoying voice rang out:
“What a country bumpkin, even stooping to stealing. You’ve utterly shamed your family.”