Chapter 191: Don’t Disgrace Zachary
Yvonne was speechless.
Were they here to shop or race to buy something?
Just because they hadn’t worked hard for their money, their husbands’ hard-earned money was not money?
Their husbands working hard out there was just for them to satisfy their vanity?
She now felt that these women were not having brains on their heads, but hot water bags! Because their brains were filled with water!
But just then, the wives even put their hands on her.
"Mrs. Leinster, what do you usually like? I don’t even have a gift to bring you for the first time we met, how about this? Whatever you fancy today, I’ll pay for it, okay?"
Another flatterer.
The rest of the ass-kissers were envious and jealous, just because they were standing far away from Yvonne, so they didn’t succeed in fawning on her!
But Yvonne was embarrassed.
It all would have to be paid back. These wives seem generous to buy her things, but if she accepted their favors today, later on in business Zachary would have to give their husbands favors as well. Yvonne didn’t want to do such a thing.
So said, "Um... I actually don’t have a strong desire to buy anything, no need to buy it for me."
When she said that, the other wives refused to do it.
"Mrs. Leinster, even though you are young and pretty without dressing up, but the man’s heart will always follow pretty women."
"Yes, you save him money today because he loves you today too. What would you do if you save your money and make yourself an old face later and what if he likes the little girls out there?"
Yvonne didn’t how to answer them.
She could already call Zachary "uncle", how much younger girl did he want to find?
Anyway, Yvonne was still unaccustomed to such occasions, and if she didn’t have to come occasionally for Zachary’s sake, she would have preferred not to come at all.
She casually made excuses to put off those people just now, while taking out her phone and silently complaining to Yesmina, telling her all about what just happened.
"Mom, are all rich wives so boring nowadays? Or are they just so bored once in a while?"
The ring tone was sounded.
Yesmina replied, "That’s how boring it is, although they are also all graduates from prestigious schools and receive elite education, women who don’t have their own careers and are preoccupied with their families will not be spared from this in the end."
Yvonne nodded.
Then asked, "So they’re buying me something, should I take it? Or is it bad if everyone buys stuff and I don’t?"
After all, sometimes, a woman’s face was also a man’s face.
Everyone had spent money, and it was definitely not appropriate for her, as Zachary’s wife, to come out and shop without a dime.
Yvonne couldn’t decide, so she asked her mother, who was used to seeing the world.
After a few seconds, Yesmina replied.
"It doesn’t matter if you want to buy something or not, except that you are now Mrs. Leinster, you can’t go home empty-handed, so you have to buy something."
"Okay..."
Yvonne was still typing, and before she could send it, another message from Yesmina popped up in the chat box.
"Stop texting me, I’m going to take a nap with your dad." Yvonne was once again shocked. Was this still her mother?
Yvonne was texting over here and someone was already calling out to her over there.
"Mrs. Leinster, don’t keep looking at your phone, come take a look, these bracelets look very good."
...
Yvonne was not interested at all.
She had lived her life twice.
In her first life, she was a money -spinning young lady with a mountain of luxury cars and designer labels. She had no interest in these jewels at that time.
At the time of Zachary’s mind demons, she was a world-class diva again.
In that life, it was even more exaggerated. All the major brands in the fashion world were rushing to send her high-class luxury requests for her to be the spokesman, what kind of earthly treasures had she not seen, so she was even more tired of it.
She’d shrugged off the first few sessions too many times, though.
Everyone bought more or less something, but only Yvonne kept buying nothing.
Not only that Yvonne was also dressed casually today, but just sportswear of unknown brand, several hundred dollars of sneakers, and the bodyguard was also wives of other men. Walking on such an occasion, she was indeed out of place.
Those wives were looking at her a little impatiently now and didn’t want to go with her and thought that she was humiliated.
But because of Zachary’s affection, they didn’t dare to say anything, but privately they couldn’t help but wonder if Zachary didn’t give her any pocket money at all. The fact that she had come out to go shopping on such an occasion, she had the guts to not buy anything?
Yvonne walked over, a faint smile on her face.
"Hello, what’s the difference between all of these? I don’t know much about the diamond."
A few of the wife’s scoffed outright out loud at the words that came out.
"Mrs. Leinster, what are you doing? Is there actually someone in our circle who doesn’t know how to pick a diamond?"
"Hahaha..."
At this, they both laughed.
They all wanted to please Yvonne at the beginning of the day, but then they saw that she didn’t buy a single thing, so they all drifted a bit, thinking that Zachary didn’t give Yvonne pocket money, and they all wanted to ride on her head.
Even the lady at the counter gave a derisive smile.
"Young lady, diamond is still very rich in knowledge, and it is not clear from our side for a while. We suggest that you go back and do a basic understanding first. Then come to our counter to buy it."
Humph!
This was because she didn’t think she could afford it, so she wouldn’t even introduce it.
Yvonne’s smile deepened.
That was really interesting.
She had never seen one like this in all her life.
She wouldn’t have seen such an interesting scene today if she hadn’t come out to this oddball meeting.
"Okay, you guys go ahead and choose then. I’ll look around first."
Yvonne said, and a few wives raised their eyebrows again, showing contempt for Yvonne.
They saw that she was not buying again this time. If they had known she was so poor, they wouldn’t have taken her out shopping.
Then a few wives went into show-off mode.
"This one, it’s a bargain, it’s only 8 thousand dollars, I’ll take it."
"Yeah, 8 thousand dollars, so cheap, I’ll take them, I’ll take two!"
"I’ll take five!"
Just then, one of them said, "How dare you bring out these mundane items for me to see! Bring out the kind with a zero after the minimum price!"
The one who opened her mouth was a mainstay of the wives’ circle, Mrs. Watkins, usually known as a magnate.
That bracelet on the counter was over ten thousand dollars.
Add another zero! A hundred thousand dollars for just one bracelet! All the wives were shocked!
The winner of today’s show-off contest now spoke for herself.
There was a moment of silence there.
Until the first person spoke up.
"Mrs. Watkins, you are so happy, you spend so much money and your husband doesn’t even talk about it?"
...
"Yes, Mrs. Watkins, you already bought so many diamond-encrusted bags just today, and you’re buying such an expensive bracelet today, we can’t even be any close to you!"
It looked like that the show-off contest was finally coming to an end today.
It was going to end in a victory for Mrs. Watkins.
Mrs. Watkins smiled proudly, then stroked the silk scarf on her shoulder, walked over, and then took by hand a dark bracelet in the dim corner of the counter.
List price, 300 dollars. It was one of the cheapest bracelets of the lot.
Mrs. Watkins looked at it for a moment, then the corners of her mouth picked up a smile.
"Help me wrap that one up too."
After Mrs. Watkins finished, she narrowed her eyes and looked meaningfully at Yvonne.
"Mrs. Leinster."
"First time meeting, but I didn’t take any gift. This is a small token of appreciation, please take it."
The words fell, and the atmosphere around them was suffocating!
One was a 150 thousand dollars bracelet and the other was 300 dollars.
Mrs. Watkins was blatantly humiliating Yvonne!
Others also wanted to humiliate Yvonne though, since she was the youngest and prettiest here, and Zachary Leinster was the richest in Hiltonan.
But they were afraid of Zachary’s position, so even if they were given ten guts, they wouldn’t dare to do so.
This Mrs. Watkins was really going out on a limb this time and even dared to mess with Zachary Leinster’s wife!
Everyone waited to see the drama.
Yvonne, however, still kept her face unchanged and still kept her smile gracefully.
"Thank you, Mrs. Watkins."
She actually took it!
The crowd was surprised!
Zachary Leinster’s wife was too useless!
She was not at all like the rumors of being so awesome!
Everyone felt bored this time, they had thought that there would be a good show, but it turned out that they didn’t expect Yvonne to be so easy to be humiliated.
Just then, a couple of counter girls over there came back with the million-dollar bracelet Mrs. Watkins wanted.
This time, it was obvious that all the treasures of the shop were out.
Yvonne glanced over there, about ten boxes and ten bracelets.
She had been silent, and just as Mrs. Watkins’ tail was about to go to the sky, a voice, completely petrified her in place!
"Ten over there is it? I’ll take them all."
There was a momentary freeze in the air as the words fell.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
Five seconds later, it was the store manager, who had seen a bit of the world, who was the first to react.
"This lady, what did you... just say?"
Yvonne smiled and was polite, "Ten bracelets, I’ll take them all."
She repeated it again.
Now, everyone knew she was serious.
No one dared to speak up.
Yvonne just smiled and maintained the same gesture.
"Indeed, I don’t know anything about diamond, but don’t you guys say that expensive is good, so since the most expensive ones are here, I’ll take them all."
The counter girl at the beginning who was reluctant to give Yvonne’s introduction thinking she couldn’t afford it said, "This young lady, this kind of joke is not something to be taken lightly! Do you know how much these cost in total?! We’re very busy and don’t have time to mess around with you!"
She hadn’t worked long, she hadn’t seen any big customers and rich people, and poverty limited her imagination. She thought that someone like Mrs. Watkins was the top of the line, so someone like Yvonne who said that she wanted all ten was just bragging.
So, until now, she didn’t know that Yvonne was really going to buy it, but thought she was deliberately going against herself.
Yvonne narrowed her eyes and smiled, dropping a direct line, "Credit card or check?"
The crowd was dumbfounded.
Was she serious?
Mrs. Watkins’ face was completely dark now!
She could only end up buying one of these bracelets again today, even if she took out all of what she got.
If she could also splurge, she would definitely compete with Yvonne.
But if Yvonne wanted it all, it would be million dollars! Even if she sold herself, she couldn’t afford to pretend!
The store manager’s face was a little embarrassed now.
"Miss Taylor, since you don’t know much about the diamond in the first place, why don’t you just calmly think about it for two days? Payment from our side is non-refundable and non-exchangeable..."