The Favored Little Peasant Seizes the Heroine's Script!-Chapter 480 - 442: Concerned Not With Scarcity, But With Inequality
"Wanna bet?"
Yuan Bao looked at Wei Wushang with a grin.
"No bet!"
After careful consideration, Wei Wushang decisively rejected Yuan Bao’s proposal to make another bet.
Previously, he actively placed a bet with Yuan Bao because he was confident of winning. But this time, Wei Wushang felt that Mu Lin really might be that audacious.
If he wasn’t so audacious, how could he dare come to Daxia to stir up trouble?
This person cannot be viewed with a normal perspective.
In other words, to predict what Wei Wushang would do, you have to think from a non-human perspective.
"Uncle, are you worried that you’ll lose?"
"Well, yes!"
Wei Wushang answered decisively.
He rarely does anything he’s not sure of.
"Boring!"
Yuan Bao rolled her eyes at Wei Wushang, feeling a bit disgruntled.
In her view, they are a couple, and occasionally making a bet is supposed to add a little spice to their life together. Who would have thought that Wei Wushang would be so particular even about this?
Of course, Yuan Bao wouldn’t hold any grudge against Wei Wushang for this.
She was just throwing a little tantrum!
For Yuan Bao’s childish tantrum, Wei Wushang just chuckled and then bought two skewers of candied hawthorn from a roadside vendor.
"...?!"
Looking at the candied hawthorn Wei Wushang handed over, Yuan Bao was a bit exasperated and amused.
She was being treated like a kid!
Thinking of this, Yuan Bao felt a bit sorry for Wei Wushang.
Of course, while feeling sorry for Wei Wushang, Yuan Bao also felt aggrieved for herself. She clearly had an adult’s soul but was stuck in a child’s body.
"Thank you, Uncle!"
After a brief moment of melancholy, Yuan Bao smiled and took the candied hawthorn from Wei Wushang, eating it happily.
Seeing Yuan Bao’s smiling face, Wei Wushang felt quite pleased.
He had coaxed many little cousins and nieces before; usually, when they threw tantrums, there’s nothing a good meal couldn’t fix, and if there is, then two meals would do.
In Wei Wushang’s view, his little wife was just like his little cousins and nieces.
The two strolled on the street for a while and were about to return to the Wei Family when they unexpectedly encountered Mu Lin, disguised as a beggar.
However, Yuan Bao and Wei Wushang both pretended not to see Mu Lin disguised as a beggar.
After all, they were in the middle of a long-term plan to catch a big fish; how could they lose the bait halfway?
The two pretended not to recognize Mu Lin, and Mu Lin shamelessly approached them.
"Please have mercy!"
"There’s been a disaster at home, my dad is gone, my mom ran away, and my wife is dead..."
Mu Lin led a group of beggars and quickly surrounded Wei Wushang and Yuan Bao.
"Here, everyone gets some!"
Yuan Bao, looking all innocent and kind, directly took out a handful of silver melon seeds from her pocket and gave each of the beggars two. As for Mu Lin, Yuan Bao gave him all the remaining silver melon seeds.
Although she couldn’t reveal Mu Lin’s identity, she could still cause him some trouble.
As the saying goes, fear not scarcity but unevenness.
Mu Lin had gotten along quite well with these beggars before.
But now, that might not be the case!
Sure enough, after Yuan Bao and Wei Wushang left, Mu Lin was surrounded by the other beggars.
Mu Lin, quite tactfully, distributed the silver melon seeds in the book to the other beggars, and he didn’t keep a single seed for himself.
For Mu Lin, this money couldn’t even compare to a fraction of his current wealth.
Unfortunately, his wealth wasn’t with him at the moment.
Moreover, to hide his identity, even if bullied by these beggars, he didn’t dare to retaliate, at least not in front of others.
After all, if things got blown out of proportion, he would become famous and his hidden identity might be exposed.
Small acts of patience can prevent major mishaps in a grand strategy.
For the sake of his grand revenge plan, he could endure what others couldn’t. What does being bullied by a bunch of beggars matter?
As the saying goes, a gentleman’s revenge is never too late, even after ten years.
Once he completes his grand task, none of these beggars will escape his revenge.
He will make them understand that those without skills should strive for good relationships with others.
Leaving Mu Lin to plot how to retaliate against these fake beggars later, Yuan Bao and Wei Wushang had already returned to the Wei Family.
And just as the two returned to the Wei Family, under Yuan Bao’s arrangement, Mei Jiu started to tail Mu Lin, who was disguised as a beggar, from afar.
To be precise, Mei Jiu following Mu Lin was secondary; her primary task was to find out who was secretly watching Mu Lin. After all, the content of the bet between Yuan Bao and Wei Wushang was that she would certainly find out who was tailing Mu Lin.
Yuan Bao couldn’t watch Mu Lin at all times, but Mei Jiu could.
With Mei Jiu’s current skills, it is no exaggeration to say that unless she reveals her identity herself, not even Wei Wushang could detect Mei Jiu hiding in the shadows.
As for Mu Lin?
No matter how exceptional he appeared in Sheng Xueyi’s future diary, compared to Wei Wushang, the gap wasn’t insignificant.
For Wei Family descendants, the idea of hiding one’s ability doesn’t exist.
If you have skills, you should show them.
In the Wei Family, there has never been such behavior as mutual slaughter within a big family.
Of course, the Wei Family does have internal strife, but it’s in the form of healthy competition.
The reason the Wei Family can achieve this is because every Wei Family descendant understands that a sword of Damocles always hangs above their heads.
The imperial family is the sword hanging over the Wei Family.
If the Wei Family isn’t united, they will inevitably face a disastrous end someday.
Similarly, the Wei Family is also the sword hanging over the imperial family.
To ensure the stability of the throne, every generation of Emperor Xia has to be diligent and strive for strength.
Competition among the princes is extremely intense.
Only the most outstanding prince can emerge and become Emperor Xia.
The Wei Family needs to unite the entire family’s strength to maintain familial prosperity.
The imperial family only needs one outstanding prince to ensure the eternal stability of the throne.
Even though the outcomes are different, the process is equally arduous.
It is through such adversity that Daxia, originally a weak and small country, steadily grew stronger. Now, with the world divided into three parts, what was once a marginal Xia Country has transformed into the Daxia Dynasty.
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That night, Mei Jiu quietly returned with the latest news.
Although she still hadn’t discovered who was secretly watching Mu Lin, she did find out that Mu Lin had been secretly communicating with someone.
"Sister Mei, you’re incredible!"
After listening to Mei Jiu’s account of how Mu Lin contacted others, Yuan Bao looked at Mei Jiu with eyes full of excitement.
Because even if Yuan Bao herself were to tail him, she probably wouldn’t have thought that Mu Lin disguising as a beggar wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment idea, but rather a long-planned scheme.
