"Mum, let's not go into this store, they only sell a bunch of fakes. Let's go somewhere else?" Qiu Mu-Ying suddenly noticed that the store that her mother-in-law wanted to enter was that shop she came out from earlier, Women's Country.
Because of what happened earlier, Qiu Mu-Ying didn't have any good feelings about this shop.
She had even decided not too long ago that she would never set foot into this store again, but now she had to go in once more.
"What do you mean by fakes? Women's Country belongs to Shen Group and they've been in business for decades. Their reputation has always been good. I've always bought things from here, so how could they be selling fakes? If you end up with a fake from this shop, then nobody in Yunzhou is selling a genuine one." Zhang Li was puzzled by what Qiu Mu-Ying said.
Women's Country was one of the top high end shops in Yunzhou, and their target consumers were generally women, so it was a hot favorite among rich wives like herself.
All these years, Zhang Li and her female friends had always bought things from here. She knew a lot of wealthy ladies who even bought their wedding gowns from here when they got married and they never ran into any quality issues. So Zhang Li really liked this shop.
But now Qiu Mu-Ying's words were basically accusing Zhang Li of buying fakes for the past few decades so Zhang Li immediately became a little offended.
Chu Wen-Fei could tell that his mother was a little ruffled, so he quickly tried to explain Qiu Mu-Ying's words away, "Mum, Yingying saw wrongly. The place that sells fakes is a departmental store near her house called ‘Woman Country', and she got it mixed up with Women's Country."
"Come along Mum, let's just go in first," grinned Chu Wen-Fei as he quickly changed the topic and pushed his mother into the shop.
Qiu Mu-Ying didn't say anymore. Since there were some things her mother-in-law didn't like to hear, she wouldn't say them anymore.
Qiu Mu-Ying soon started walking around the shop with Zhang Li.
"Wen-Fei, Yingying, both of you can have a look first, I need to go to the bathroom and I'll be right back," said Zhang Li to the couple after walking around for a short while. Then she turned to walk towards the bathroom.
But not long after Zhang Li left for the bathroom, there was a noise and the sound of something shattering, followed by some commotion.
"Huh? Wen-Fei, what's happened over there? Let's go over and have a look."
Qiu Mu-Ying was a big busybody and always wanted to watch whenever there was a commotion. Chu Wen-Fei didn't have a choice, and since his mother had gone to the bathroom, he went along with Qiu Mu-Ying.
When they got closer, Chu Wen-Fei noticed that yet another vase had been broken by someone and chuckled, "Oh goodness, and I was there wondering what happened."
"So another blind bat broke a vase. There's nothing to look at. Yingying, let go over there and wait for my mum." Chu Wen-Fei stuffed his hands into his pockets and turned away after a quick glance because he had lost interest already.
But Qiu Mu-Ying looked in front in a daze and asked a little doubtfully, "Dear, look over there. Isn't your mum the one who broke the vase?"
"How could that be? My mum won't be like that Qiu Mu-Cheng, she's not so clum... SHIT! It's really her!" Chu Wen-Fei was about to say the word 'clumsy' when he turned to see a middle aged lady with a pale face in the middle of the crowd. His face immediately twitched and his eyes widened.
"Hurry, Yingying, let's go over!" Chu Wen-Fei and Qiu Mu-Ying quickly ran over.
The commotion on this side had already attracted a lot of attention.
"Why is our shop so unlucky today?"
"Earlier someone had broken a cloisonne vase and now someone has broken a blue and white porcelain one?"
"Go tell Mr Shen."
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