Lin Yuan's words were neither loud nor soft, but they were clear enough for all the customers in the store to hear. Many people who were in the midst of transactions looked over, and some had even begun to point and whisper.
Unable to withstand the gaze of the crowd, the steward called over the young lad who had just served Lin Yuan the vinegar.
The lad certainly hadn't expected the maid who had just begged him for vinegar to complain to the steward in the blink of an eye. Stunned, he was called over by the steward.
Giving Lin Yuan a fierce glare, the lad nodded and bowed, fetching the scales and, under the steward's supervision, reweighed the vinegar with a sweaty forehead. As it turned out, there was only one and a half pounds, a full half-pound short!
