Seeing Old Yang not speaking, Ms. Luo felt wronged but had nowhere to turn. Angrily, she stomped the small bucket on the ground. As a result, the bottom of the bucket cracked, as if it was deliberately broken or just genuine damage, and seawater seeped out from beneath it.
Immediately, a foul smell filled the air.
Yang Chuxia stared at her coldly, "Haven’t I told everyone that my family only buys fresh shrimp and crab?"
"What have you done?" Yang Chuxia dumped her small bucket on the ground, and the shrimp came tumbling out. It was obvious that the shrimp on top were fresh, but the crabs underneath were not, and they were far from fresh.
"Haven’t I said that shrimp and crab should be kept separate, and weighed separately? What are you trying to do?" Yang Chuxia angrily kicked the bucket at Ms. Luo.
She scolded, "Can’t you get through a day without causing trouble? Can’t you just be a decent person? You think you can work for my family ? Get out, from now on we won’t buy anything you collect."
Ms. Wang also frowned at the scene, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing? Do you think our family’s money comes easily? Trying to deceive us with these things?"
At this point, Ms. Luo was truly baffled.
Because she had no idea what was going on.
She had gotten up early this morning and went a long way to collect, even borrowing a bucket from someone because she didn’t have one at home. How had everything turned out ?
"Xiaxia, Xiaxia, listen to your auntie. I don’t know what happened either. I picked fresh ones, really fresh ones." Ms. Luo panicked, not caring about the filth on her body anymore.
"Xiaxia, auntie is telling the truth. I went really far to collect them, and I didn’t go yesterday either. How could there be these dead ones at my house? Even if the ones I picked today were dead, they wouldn’t smell, would they?"
Now that she had calmed down, Ms. Luo’s mind was actually quite clear, and her defense made a lot of sense.
"Then what’s going on?" Yang Chuxia asked furiously. But in her heart, she was wondering what was really going on, and she was somewhat inclined to believe Ms. Luo.
Ms. Luo hadn’t gone collecting yesterday, so where did these things come from? Ms. Luo had carried the bucket herself after all.
Ms. Luo was very confused. She only knew that she hadn’t done it herself, but she really had no idea how it had happened.
Yang Chuxia was on the verge of getting angry. Ms. Luo was usually cunning and calculating, but when faced with something serious, she became incredibly stupid.
"I know what happened." Yang Qingbao, from the first branch of the family, raised his hand weakly.
"Ms. Luo doesn’t even know herself, how could a little kid like you know?" Ms. Li Junior, Aunt Caixia’s daughter-in-law, sneered as she snapped her handkerchief and rolled her eyes.
"I do know! I saw it with my own eyes!" Yang Qingbao shouted.
Upon hearing his words, Ms. Li stopped snapping her handkerchief and stared at Yang Qingbao.
"You swapped Auntie Luo’s bucket." Yang Qingbao said loudly. Then he turned to Yang Chuxia, "Sister Xiaxia, I’m not lying. I really saw it."
"If you saw it, why didn’t you remind Auntie Luo?" Yang Chuxia asked.
"At first I didn’t understand. Auntie Luo’s bucket was by the roadside, and I thought it was blocking her way, so she picked it up and left with it. The two buckets looked the same, so I thought I might have been mistaken."
Right, Ms. Liu wanted to save more money for her daughter’s dowry and send Yang Qingbao to school in the fall. Now she went wherever there was a chance to earn money. Hearing that Yang Chuxia was buying small shrimps, she went to the beach every day. Even Yang Da’an was sent out to look for those less-traveled beaches, and all the children in the family were taken along.
So, that’s how Yang Qingbao had seen it.