Pampered by the Toughest Man After Divorce-Chapter 30 - Which One Do You Prefer_1
Chapter 30: Chapter 30: Which One Do You Prefer?_1
Chapter 30 -30: Which One Do You Prefer?_1
Pinks, reds, greens, cottons, linens, silks, satins, were everywhere.
The shopkeeper was particularly sharp-eyed and invited Nan Feng in as soon as she saw her looking longingly from the doorway, “Young lady, this batch of fabric is fresh in.
It’s on sale now, half price!
Just 20 wen for three feet!”
Nan Feng greatly regretted overeating earlier today.
If she had been a bit more thrifty, maybe she could have bought a length and brought it back for Aunt Lan, the village’s dressmaker, to make her a new set of clothes.
“Which one catches your eye, little sister?
Can I cut it for you?” the patient shopkeeper urged.
Nan Feng weighed her coin purse and, thinking about the rice she still needed to buy, reluctantly looked at a length of dark red fabric, “Never mind, I’ll buy it next time.”
Ye Ge looked at the fabric, then at Nan Feng, but he didn’t say anything.
…
As the sun was starting to set, Nan Feng decided she couldn’t dawdle anymore and asked Ye Ge, “Do you know where the rice shop is?
I need to buy a bag of rice.”
“Take a left up ahead, the whole street is dedicated to selling rice.”
“Okay, let’s go there now,” said Nan Feng.
However, scarcely had they arrived at the corner when a mule cart suddenly sprang out from ahead, speeding along with three or four men seated at the back of the cart.
The cart nearly collided with Nan Feng, who was only saved by a swift pull from Ye Ge behind her.
The mule cart stopped too.
Just as Nan Feng was about to berate the driver, someone from the cart spoke first, “Ah, Wenxuan, isn’t that your fool of a wife?”
The one speaking was a Liu Chang, also from the village of Daping, and Wenxuan’s former schoolmate at the town’s private school.
They had just left school and were hurrying back to Daping Village.
“What nonsense are you spouting?
Wenxuan already called off their engagement.
They have nothing to do with each other now,” another man nicknamed Tie Dan said.
Liu Chang smirked, “True, the dimwit is with Ye Ge now.”
Nan Feng looked up and met Mo Wenxuan’s handsome face and his disdainful eyes.
True, seeing her alone with Ye Ge in the town, it would be natural for anyone to guess at their relationship.
Liu Chang continued to provoke, “Dimwit, you’re pretty self-aware now, knowing that you’re only worthy of Ye Ge, aren’t you?”
Tie Dan: “Yeah, you two alone in town together, could it be wedding bells are not far off?”
“Perhaps they’re even here to rent a room in the inn.
The village is too prudish for them to do their business, so they came to town to do it.”
Usually avoiding conflict with villagers, Ye Ge naturally didn’t respond to Liu Chang and his ilk’s provocations.
Although Nan Feng felt anger, she didn’t stoop to their level.
But Liu Chang and Tie Dan had often bullied her, laughing at her stupidity and ugliness, so Nan Feng felt she had to respond to these bullies.
She took a step forward, “My engagement with Mo Wenxuan has been annulled, so who I’m with is none of your business.
But your foul words really defy your status as scholars.
Even I, who has never attended a private school, am ashamed for you!”
Nan Feng had already walked around Mo Wenxuan’s mule cart before she finished speaking, “Let’s go, let’s buy our rice.”
From behind came Mo Wenxuan’s voice, “Let’s go, don’t just stand here.”
…
At the rice shop.
Nan Feng looked at Ye Ge somewhat embarrassedly, “Would it be too heavy to buy another bag of rice?
How about this, I’ll carry the hemp sack on your shoulder, and you help me carry the rice.
I….
I’ll pay you for your trouble.”
She had planned to buy rice before coming, but didn’t expect the town to be so far away.
But looking at Ye Ge’s strong arms, she believed carrying the rice wouldn’t be a problem for him.
Ye Ge didn’t immediately answer Nan Feng’s proposal.
Instead, he asked her to wait while he went away for a bit, promising he would be back soon.
