After transmigrating into the body of a widow, I became the richest man in the capital.

Chapter 228 The lion opens its mouth

The Wang family started crying loudly. Their old lady cried out, "My poor daughter-in-law, how could you leave behind two children? Your life is so miserable!"

Qian Musheng noticed that although the old woman's expression and voice sounded very painful, there were no tears around her eyes, which was really strange.

After Su Xiaoxiao noticed this, she immediately gave Pei Yuan and Qian Musheng a look, as if to say, "Do you think there's something fishy going on here?"
When Master Wang saw his mother crying, he got excited and started making a scene. However, he didn't seem to care about the corpse lying on the ground at all. He didn't even seem to notice when he accidentally stepped on the corpse.

"You're the ones who killed my grandson!"

Suddenly, the old lady of the Wang family pointed her finger at Su Xiaoxiao in front of her and said, "You bad people."

"Don't tell me who's the bad guy and who's the good guy yet. We're going to report this to the authorities. Why don't you agree?"

Qian Musheng questioned him in this way.

"Yes, since you claim that our jam killed your daughter-in-law, where's the evidence? Can you produce it?"

"What evidence? What evidence do you want? It's your jam that's the culprit!"

"Is this jam jar yours?"

As Master Wang spoke, he instructed a servant to bring over a jam jar, which was clearly the same jam jar from Su Xiaoxiao's household.

He then took out some jars of jam, "Look, we've actually been eating this for almost half a year now..."

Su Xiaoxiao immediately chimed in, "Since you've been eating it for almost half a year, why did something happen only today?"

"Yes, why not? You yourselves ate it too, and it's fine, isn't it?"

Qian Musheng immediately continued to reason from the side, and the surrounding people nodded in agreement, "Yes, if they had been eating it for so long, why did the problem only occur today?"

"Is it because the food in your house might only cause problems if a pregnant woman eats it?"

Mr. Wang suddenly uttered this statement, which seemed very righteous, but in the end, it made him appear very weak and lacking in confidence.

Su Xiaoxiao was so angry she laughed. "Heh... So, quite a few people who eat our jam get pregnant, but why are they all fine, while only your daughter-in-law has problems?"

Master Wang's eyes darted around, and his mother, Old Lady Wang, suddenly began to wail at the crowd of onlookers.

"Look everyone, the owner of this shop is denying everything. Her shop made my daughter-in-law die, resulting in the death of both mother and child, and now she's denying it."

"Is this bullying our family because we are weak and powerless? Or is it because people think we are easy to bully? This is driving our family to the brink of despair..."

As soon as the topic gets to the point, the Wang family starts acting like scoundrels, and the onlookers are immediately drawn into their emotions, expressing their sympathy.

Pei Yuan frowned and said, "In that case, let's not suffer any more grievances here. Let's just report it to the authorities."

"Report to the authorities? I heard you're General Pei Yuan, right? Aren't you all working with the Emperor? You must have been in cahoots all along, right?"

"Don't think we don't know just because you don't tell us. You're all in cahoots, and you've all conspired together. All you rich people are the same!"

"Yes, what's the use of reporting this to the authorities? They're just bullying us ordinary folks!"

“These people are unreasonable. Yes, even if we report it to the authorities, it won’t do any good.”

"Then what should we do? You want our store to lose money, right? How exactly do you want us to lose money? Tell me."

Su Xiaoxiao had no choice but to say it this way.

"Mr. Su, wait! You can't pay!" Qian Musheng stepped in to stop him. "If you pay, wouldn't that be admitting that it's your jam's fault? How are you going to do business then?"

Pei Yuan also came over to persuade Su Xiaoxiao, "Indeed, if you pay compensation, it means you're admitting there's a problem with the jam, that our jam caused the problem."

Su Xiaoxiao ignored the two people's attempts to dissuade her and quietly looked at the Wang family members in front of her, waiting for them to state their terms.

"Your jam is harmful to people. We want your business to be shut down forever, and you will never be allowed to do business in this town again!"

Su Xiaoxiao continued to look at them calmly, "Also, you have to compensate our family with five thousand taels of silver. This is compensation for our family's three generations of only sons; it's not excessive, is it?"

Five thousand taels of silver?

At this moment, Su Xiaoxiao could hardly believe her ears. This family must be right, right?
They actually wanted five thousand taels of silver, an amount that the local people had never heard of before.

Five thousand taels of silver is enough for an ordinary family to earn for a year or two, so five thousand taels is an astronomical figure.

Su Xiaoxiao couldn't help but laugh when she heard the conditions.

They forbade Su Xiaoxiao from doing business, forbade her from ever appearing in this town again, and added this five thousand taels of silver. Su Xiaoxiao couldn't even imagine how vicious the other party was.

Five thousand taels of silver? Isn't that just wishful thinking on the other end?
Where are you going to find five thousand taels of silver? It's like a joke.

"Don't go too far!"

Qian Musheng chimed in from the side.

"Excessive? This isn't excessive, is it? Two lives were lost in our family, how is this excessive?"

Su Xiaoxiao looked at them coldly and then said something.

"Yes, it's worth it, absolutely worth that much money. But, there's still something I don't understand: why can't we ever continue doing business in this town?"

Su Xiaoxiao felt that this condition was a bit excessive, and it seemed more like a trap.

"Ha! Your jam has killed people, and you still want to continue doing business in this town? Wishful thinking!"

"Oh, I see."

"Yeah, you surnamed Su, you should close your shop as soon as possible, stop harming people in town!"

Su Xiaoxiao didn't speak, then looked at Master Wang in front of her with a sincere expression.

"I can't come up with the five thousand taels of silver, but give me a few days, and I can try to raise the money for you."

"You said it yourself, I'm waiting."

The Wang family was a little incredulous that Su Xiaoxiao had agreed so readily.

"Well, if nothing unexpected happens, I will bring the money to your house in three days."

As she spoke, Su Xiaoxiao adopted a resigned expression, took out a silver ingot, and placed it in front of Master Wang.

"Take this money and go back to bury your wife!"

Su Xiaoxiao looked completely resigned to her fate, and the people around her said that Su Xiaoxiao was guilty and had no choice but to admit it.

(End of this chapter)