A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 353 Broke Another One

"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."

The staff in the shop grumbled as they picked up the shards while someone else went to inform the shopkeeper.

Zhang Li's face was all pale and it was clear that she had gotten a shock.

But she was a rich man's wife and had seen quite a lot with Chu Wen-Fei's father. So after a short period of shock, she quickly calmed herself back down.

She pulled her purse out and said apologetically, "I'm really sorry. I walked too quickly and didn't take notice, so I ended up breaking your vase." "Don't worry, just tell me how much this vase is and I'll pay you. Is $100,000 enough to cover it?" said Zhang Li very apologetically. She was very kind towards the staff and didn't behave arrogantly at all.

"Mum, it's just a stupid vase that costs a few hundred, you don't have to pay

$100,000 for that. $1,000 is enough for the shopkeeper to thank his lucky stars." A snort came from behind as Qiu Mu-Ying and Chu Wen-Fei walked over.

"Yingying, don't spout nonsense. I know this shop well and they mainly carry luxury items. Nothing here sells for less than $10,000, regardless of whether it's a display piece or some other item," said Zhang Li quickly to Qiu Mu-Ying.

She wasn't making any of this up. Zhang Li remembered coming with the wife of a CEO some years back and she brought a small child along with her. The child was naughty and vandalized one of the chairs in the shop. She thought that it was just a chair and it might just cost a few hundred at best, but in the end the CEO's wife ended up paying $50,000.

The shop didn't fleece her. That chair was made from high grade rosewood from Hainan.

This sort of wood cost a few million per ton.

And that was just the cost of the materials. If you added on the cost of processing the wood, making the chair and transporting it, then $50,000 for a chair wasn't too much, actually.

Even a simple chair for people to sit on cost so much. That's why Zhang Li offered $100,000 after breaking this vase.

But after Zhang Li said this, Qiu Mu-Ying started laughing. "Mum, I'm not spouting nonsense. These vases here look like antiques, but they're all fakes. Four of them add up to only $800. If they make you pay $100,000, then they're fleecing you."

"Mum, just stand here and watch. Your daughter-in-law is going to settle this for you," said Qiu Mu-Ying with a smile as she consoled Zhang Li.

Qiu Mu-Ying was clearly going to take this chance to prove herself so that her future mother-in-law might like her more.

Once that happened, she was going to marry into the rich and powerful Chu family for sure.

At this time, Shen Meng was originally walking around with Ye Fan and Qiu Mu-Cheng, but after he heard the news, he quickly ran over. And of course, Ye Fan and Qiu Mu-Cheng came along with him. "Who is it?! Who broke my porcelain vase?" Shen Meng's angry shouting could be heard from afar.

Shen Meng soon got to where Zhang Li was and his heart started bleeding when he saw all the porcelain shards on the floor.

The four vases here were the face of Women's Country, and they were practically Shen Meng's life.

Before yesterday, the shop only had three vases but Shen Meng wanted to make it

an even number. So Shen Meng finally managed to convince the main store to loan him a cloisonne vase so that these two pairs of vases could increase the prestige of the store.

The cloisonne vase was broken not too long ago and Shen Meng felt like a piece of him had been bitten off already.

But Shen Meng never imagined that just a while later, he would lose another blue and white porcelain one.