“My little brother and I brought a total of one hundred and seventy copper coins to our older brother. If there is an extra copper coin, then it’ll be yours!” Xiaocao was confident about the number of coins on the string. Her older brother was very frugal. If there wasn’t anything important, then he wouldn’t touch his money.

Shopkeeper Zhang spread the string of coins on the palm of his hand. He silently counted the number of coins in his mind. Sure enough, there were one hundred and seventy copper coins in total, not one coin more or less. Originally, he got drunk and didn’t hold back his strength when beating Yu Hang. Yu Hang had fallen unconscious after spitting out blood from the beating. After Yu Hang had fallen unconscious, he had found this money after searching through Yu Hang’s room. Today, Yu Hang’s family came here to get an explanation from him, so he hurriedly took out the money as an excuse.

The crowd surrounding them saw that Shopkeeper Zhang’s expression had slightly changed. The people who were closer to him could clearly see the thread that was used to keep the copper coins together were just as Xiaocao had said, a multicolored embroidery thread. The crowd’s heart once again tilted towards Xiaocao’s favor.

But Shopkeeper Zhang rudely and unreasonably replied, “Humph! You are just a group of poor country bumpkins. If...