When they reached the carriage, Jiang Yeqian tossed Qi Qingyao into it and they drove back toward the inn.
When they reached the inn, Qi Qingyao’s eyes were so swollen that they looked like walnuts.
They entered their room and, seeing her like this, Si Jin asked anxiously, “What happened? Did someone bully you?”
“No.” Qi Qingyao slumped on the bed. She held the sleeping children in her arms and continued to cry. “Wahhhhh…”
Dabao and Erniu were still sleeping soundly. Xiaobao, on the other hand, was a light sleeper. When he was woken up by his mother’s crying, he held Qi Qingyao and patted her back reassuringly. He asked her, comfortingly, “Mother, what happened? Who bullied you?”
Jiang Yeqian lightly swept the snow off his clothes. He said, “No one bullied her. She herself said the wrong thing, which caused her to sell her goods ten times cheaper than they should have been. That’s why she’s sobbing like that.”
Xiaobao paused. He pouted while holding his mother. “Ten times? She really should cry for a while.”
She did not end up selling everything for just ten thousand taels, did she?
On the other hand, Si Jin was quite calm. “Who’s the other party? Do you know them?”
Qi Qingyao came back to her senses. She wiped her reddened eyes and said pitifully, “He’s a man holding a cat that glowed gold. Definitely a guy.”
“Are you done crying?” Jiang Yeqian asked.
“Nope.” Qi Qingyao puffed her cheeks out crossly. She hugged Xiaobao, who was now fully awake. “My child, it was the worst! I sold my goods too cheaply! Wah! Our big house! Our freshwater pond! Our hot springs! Our delicious meals! Wah…”
“…”
Xiaobao stifled the urge to laugh when he saw his mother’s crying face.
Mother looked strong all the time, but was cute when she was crying.
Looking at Qi Qingyao, who was bawling terribly, Si Jin asked Jiang Yeqian, sounding cross, “Weren’t you there?”
“She was too quick. She said “silver” herself. Before I could stop her, the other party paid and left. I…” Jiang Yeqian felt a little guilty, but as he spoke, he suddenly realized something. “You shouldn’t reprimand me. You weren’t even there.”
Si Jin was not fazed. “I was looking after the kids.”
Qi Qingyao turned back and looked at Jiang Yeqian with a teary face.
Jiang Yeqian coughed softly and asked, pretending to be serious, “Are you done crying?”
“No!!” The rims of Qi Qingyao’s eyes were red. She said viciously, “Wait till I figure out who bought my stuff! I’ll get even with him someday!”
Jiang Yeqian said lightly, “You can’t get even with that person.”
Qi Qingyao was shocked. “Ah! So you do know him!”
Jiang Yeqian pretended to be calm. “I don’t. His cat is expensive, so the person holding it must either be wealthy or powerful. He must have many powerful men guarding him. You’re a woman who doesn’t know martial arts. How are you gonna get even with him?”
Qi Qingyao: “…”
He had a point.
Jiang Yeqian continued, “The man is holding a fortune cat too. That cat’s quite useful. It helped its owner save a lot of money.”
Hearing that, Qi Qingyao felt sad again. She was so angry that she punched the walls and exclaimed, “Wahhh! I want a fortune cat too!”
Si Jin walked over and patted Qi Qingyao’s back. “It’s okay. Don’t cry. Maybe you will get to know the man with a cat soon.”
Qi Qingyao wiped her eyes. “Hope so!” It would be nice if she really could meet the person who scammed her.