Mrs. Zhou, upon hearing this, felt her heart grow cold, and tears welled up in her eyes instantly, "All I've done, what was it for? Outsiders don't know, but you are my husband, don't you understand? If it weren't for Shunzi, I..."
Father Wen interrupted her, "For the sake of your son, you are willing to teach him to steal others' belongings to sell, and to learn bad habits?"
"Those things were dug out from our own home, how did they become someone else's?" Mrs. Zhou gritted her teeth, "I asked him to sell them just to add a bit of silver to ease your burdens. Besides, that thirty taels of silver, didn't you end up returning it all? After all this fussing, what did I gain but a beating for me and my son?"
"So now you finally admit that you instigated Shunzi to sell the bracelet?"
"I..."
Mrs. Zhou was lacking confidence. On the day she went to see Wen Wan early in the morning, she didn't claim it like this; she said she knew nothing, it was all Shunzi's own idea.
