"Forgive the intrusion. I overheard your conversation just now. Why is Mr. Yun He so opposed to treating your husband?"
He figured that since Yun He had refused so firmly, there had to be a reason.
The woman let out a long sigh. "That... that is a long story. Back then, he merely strayed down the wrong path for a moment."
Apparently, this was no secret, and the woman did not conceal anything.
From her account, Xu Tong and Geng Shu learned that a plague had swept through Black Tortoise City several years ago.
At the time, the woman's husband had owned an herbal medicine shop. He had actually passed inferior goods off as quality ones and sold counterfeit medicine.
As a result, many people had lost their lives during that plague, and the couple had become despised throughout Black Tortoise City.
No wonder Xu Tong had seen so few customers in the medicine shop when he went there earlier.
He had thought the woman had sold him the medicine because she wanted a favor from him.
But judging by the current circumstances, it seemed they had never taken it very seriously in the first place.
Now that the woman's husband was in this condition, it would not be unfair to say he had brought it upon himself and received his just deserts.
Never mind Yun He-even Xu Tong felt that her husband deserved his punishment after hearing what had happened.
The woman seemed to have noticed this from their expressions as well.
She explained, "He was possessed by greed for a moment. That was why he made such a mistake. Even if he was wrong, shouldn't he have a chance to make amends?"
"Over all these years, my husband and I have already received the punishment we deserved. We