Regarding Miss Han, who was truly timid, Lin Yuan was at a loss for words and chose to ignore her. Turning to the onlookers, Lin Yuan declared, "Furthermore, if my sister did indeed find Miss Han's hairpin and failed to produce it, causing all the young ladies present to be implicated, that too would be our family's fault. I am willing to compensate everyone present with a set of gold hair ornaments. I, Lin Yuan, always keep my word and will absolutely not go back on it!"
A set of gold hair ornaments for each person? If it were just compensating Miss Han alone, it would at most cost more than a hundred taels of silver, but a set for everyone present? There must be over twenty people here!
Everyone seemed to see heaps of silver flying before them, though some shrewder individuals immediately retorted, "How much silver would that be? Would Old Master Lin and Madam Lin agree? Surely Miss Lin isn't just amusing herself at our expense?"
