Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 292 - 291: Tricked and Fooled

Chapter 292: Chapter 291: Tricked and Fooled

From that day on, Zhen Yu began her days accompanied by traditional Chinese medicine. Every morning and evening, she would drink it until she felt like vomiting the meal she just had.

It was just too bitter and hard to swallow...

After just three days, Zhang San came to Mrs. Zhen helplessly and said, "Boss! As soon as anyone enters our place now, there’s a strong smell of herbal medicine! The players are all complaining! If this continues, we’ll drive all the customers away!"

This method clearly wasn’t going to work! After dinner, Mrs. Zhen discussed with her children and finally made a decision! They would buy a refrigerator the next day! They could cook the medicine in bulk and store it in the refrigerator to drink slowly.

Zhen Yu suggested, "Mom, if we’re buying one, let’s just buy a big one! We just need a small space for our things, the rest of the space can be used to store drinks and popsicles for sale!"

"Get real!" Zhen Yan interjected, "Once your herbal medicine is put in there, everything will start to smell like it!"

Zhen Yu looked at her brother with a ’are you stupid?’ expression, "Just buy a white plastic bucket to store the herbal medicine!"

"Ah! Right! Your sister has a good idea!"

The next morning, Mrs. Zhen went to the electronics city alone, as Zhen Yu declined to accompany her.

Because she felt her mother was already a mature adult and should learn to be independent.

The refrigerator was delivered in the afternoon, finally solving the issue with the herbal medicine.

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Before bed at night, Mrs. Zhen hesitated but then spoke up!

"Xiao Yu, something happened this afternoon. Tsk! After coming back, the more I think about it, the more fishy it feels, help Mom out here!"

Zhen Yu, who was already lying down, asked, "What happened?"

"Mom found a gold ring on a street corner on my way home this afternoon!"

"A gold ring?" Zhen Yu wasn’t interested.

"Just as I picked it up, there happened to be a woman passing by, she saw me and insisted that seeing it means we each get half, and if I wanted the ring I had to pay her! Otherwise, she would make a scene! If the owner was nearby, neither of us would get any benefit!"

Zhen Yu instantly responded, "You paid her?"

Oh no! Her mom was scammed!

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Zhen replied, "No!"

Zhen Yu sat up quickly, "Huh??? You didn’t pay her? And you didn’t take the ring?!!"

Given her mom’s character of loving small gains, this was quite unlikely!

"I just got back from buying the fridge! How would I have money to give her then!" Mrs. Zhen only answered regarding the money.

Zhen Yu gave a facepalm.

So you didn’t pay just because you didn’t have money?

Zhen Yu felt it necessary to remind her mother of the saying "Greed often overreaches itself." "So if you had had the money, you would have given it to her?"

"At that moment I had less than fifty yuan left in my pocket, and I still had to buy you a plastic bucket! She asked for five hundred on the spot! How could I give her that?! With five hundred yuan, I could buy a brand-new gold ring! And I could choose the style too! Much better than picking up some trinket!"

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"...So what happened later?" Zhen Yu was confused. She really couldn’t guess how her mom had finalized the situation.

"Later, when she heard I had no money, she probably thought I was bluffing her! So, she lowered the price! It eventually dropped to one hundred, and I still didn’t have it! Then she told me, since both of us got it for free, I should give her whatever I had on me! If I really didn’t have any money on me, she could also accompany me home to get it! How could I let her come to my house! Isn’t that absurd!"

Zhen Yu was completely defeated by her mother’s rambling, so she decided to ask directly, "Just tell me, did you take the ring in the end or not?"

"I took it! How could I not take it!" Mrs. Zhen said righteously: "I found it first! Whoever finds it first gets to keep it, right?"

Zhen Yu sweat profusely... Didn’t your teachers teach you not to keep lost property when you were young? Haven’t you learned about the golden axe and silver axe? Is this how you set an example for me, mom!

"...You didn’t give her any money, how did the ring end up with you?" Zhen Yu was about to know the truth and just hoped her mom didn’t get cheated too badly...

"I swapped it for my pair of silver earrings! Anyway, those things are probably not even worth fifty yuan!"

Not worth fifty yuan... not worth fifty yuan... not worth fifty yuan... The Six-character Mantra circled in Zhen Yu’s head three times, she sighed.

"Ah! Not too much! Let me see that ’gold ring’ of yours!"

"Wait a second!" Mrs. Zhen enthusiastically rummaged through her bag, the packaging was quite attractive.

"I’ve already seen it, there’s even a certificate! Pure gold! The design also looks quite nice!" Mrs. Zhen took out the ring and went on to show it off to her daughter.

Zhen Yu watched her mother speechlessly, she still hasn’t realized this is a fake! "So, what exactly do you find wrong about this situation?"

Mrs. Zhen suddenly stopped smiling upon hearing this.

"After thinking about it later! I felt I must have been confused at the time! She tricked me! Why should I give her money? I shouldn’t have given her my silver earrings! Let her shout all she wants! Since the thing is already in my pocket, she can’t rob me! I should have just walked away at that moment, shouldn’t I? Daughter!"

Oh my god! Oh heaven! Just strike her down with heavenly thunder!

This is really thunder rolling in the skies...

Zhen Yu kept muttering in her heart, "This is my real mom! My real mom!" She repeated it at least five times before finally calming down.

"Mom! This is fake! You’ve been fooled! That woman must have been waiting there deliberately! Whoever picked it up, she’d ask for money from them!"

"Fake? Impossible?!" Mrs. Zhen carefully examined the ring again and looked up at her daughter: "How can you tell it’s fake? Are your eyes sharper than mine?!"

Zhen Yu really wanted to say, "I don’t even need to look, just hearing the tactics tells me it’s a scam!"

But that would be too harsh and might make Mrs. Zhen furious! She had no choice but to explain gently.

"Have you ever bought a gold ring? No, right? You’ve only seen others wear them." Just as Zhen Yu spoke, she suddenly felt a deep sadness emanating from her mother. She paused for a moment, and then her eyes also began to tear up.

Without hesitation, Zhen Yu reached out her slender arms and embraced her mother.

"Mom! Don’t cry! I will definitely buy you lots of jewelry in the future! Not just gold! We’ll buy platinum, diamonds! Whatever type you want, I’ll buy it for you! Mom..."

"Ah! Mom is listening! A daughter is like a little cotton-padded jacket! Having your words, mom is content..."

After a long while.

Mrs. Zhen asked solemnly, "Do you really think that ring is fake?"

"Yeah, you should consider this pair of earrings a lesson learned! Don’t look for small bargains anymore, whatever you want in the future, I will buy for you!"

"Alright, alright..."