But something occurred to her just then. She looked up and asked, "Well, I heard that desserts from Soo Kee are very difficult to buy. There are only a hundred pieces a day. Did you order them beforehand because you had already had that in mind?"
She thought that perhaps they could be ordered in advance.
He said, "Oh, it was easy."
She looked at him to see him say calmly, "I didn't have to order them in advance."
"Oh, is that so? Maybe with your status… it was easier for you to go and order them. In any case, they said that we wouldn't be able to buy them."
Mo Jinyan said, "I instructed my men to go there early in the morning and tell him I wanted everything. Initially, he refused to sell them to me. I said that he could decide between selling them to me or having his store wrecked and trashed into the bin. He sold them to me in the end."
"…"
So he had actually stolen them…
Although she could not call that stealing either…
