Chapter 31 The Profligate Lady (3) A young man walked up to...

Liu Binghai looked forward and saw a young man of about sixteen or seventeen walking into the backyard.

The young man looked quiet and gentle, and was very polite when he saw her.

Liu Binghai: "Are you looking for me?"

The young man's name was Yi Cong. Upon seeing Liu Binghai, he clasped his hands and said, "Miss Yun, I'm from Tao's Horse Farm. I've heard you're quite skilled on horseback. Could you please come to Tao's and give us a horseback riding demonstration? If you sell a good horse, the reward will be substantial."

Yun Kexin likes riding horses, and she is very good at it. Not only is she good at riding, she also knows some simple equestrian skills.

In the past, Zhang Ruochen always took her to travel around. She rode a horse across the fields, and even Zhang Ruochen could hardly catch up with her.

Everyone in the town knew about this. Someone had wanted to invite the lady from the tea house to the horse farm to show her support before, but how could the lady from the Zhang Tea House possibly go to please those people?

Things are different now. A divorced and promiscuous woman, with no one to rely on in her family, where does she get the confidence to be noble?

Without nobility, being a horse-riding girl is not a waste.

Tao's Horse Farm sent someone to inquire about Yun Kexin's whereabouts to see if there is any possibility of future cooperation.

Liu Binghai looked at his legs and said calmly, "I'm afraid I won't be able to stand up for a month or two. Little brother, please go back."

Yi Cong said calmly, "It's okay. The stables can wait for you for a few more months."

Which month?

No matter how many months or years pass, it will be impossible for her to go to the horse farm to perform any equestrianism.

"Please go back, little brother." Liu Binghai said, "I probably won't ride a horse again from now on."

Yi Cong was shocked, "Why?"

Liu Binghai remained silent. After a while, Yi Cong's expression changed and he asked, "Is it for Master Zhang?"

Liu Binghai smiled and said, "My relationship with him as husband and wife has ended. What happens in the future has nothing to do with him. However, whether I will stay in the town is still uncertain, and I cannot easily agree to Master Tao's promise. You should go back first."

When Yicong heard her say this, a trace of regret appeared on his pretty face.

He bowed and left the thatched hut.

After he left, the lying chicken suddenly woke up, its feathers stood up, and it looked back at the icy sea.

Liu Binghai sneered in his heart.

horse riding……

From now on, I probably won't be able to do anything related to Zhang Ruochen anymore.

Thinking of this, she was distracted and recalled the times when he took the original owner riding horses.

At that time, they had just gotten married, and he gave her a red riding suit. When she put it on, she was like a fiery red sun. On horseback, she turned around and smiled at him, giggling, and her smile also looked like a sun.

He was fascinated by the way she rode a horse, saying that her world was on horseback. He gave her all kinds of riding clothes and asked her to be a little sun again and again.

One day, she fell down a hillside while riding her horse and met a wolf there.

The wolf seemed to be attracted by the sun, baring its teeth and almost pouncing on it.

He rushed down the hillside, punched the wolf away, and ordered her not to ride her horse up the hillside again.

Later on, he even forbade her to ride a horse by herself, and she had to do it under his watchful eye.

She was very arrogant and unwilling to listen to him in everything. She often rode her horse up the mountain by herself.

He wanted to lock her up.

He said: Yun Kexin, why are you so stubborn?

She is just stubborn, doesn't he like the way she is stubborn?

The more arrogant she was, the more he treated her as food, biting her tightly in his mouth and refusing to let go.

As Liu Binghai was thinking, his eyes were fixed on the ground and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

An inexplicable feeling weighed on her heart. His face, his voice, his angry and resentful expression appeared clearly before her eyes. She could almost feel her own heartbeat. She was so impulsive that she wanted to deal with him, tear him apart, and turn the world into nothingness.

The emotion was so real, so strong, bombarding her skin and bones like thunder in spring.

The images of him kept alternating.

Cold, gentle, evil, full of hatred, those eagle-like eyes beneath his sword-like eyebrows almost devoured all her bottom lines.

Even if he called her gently, her whole body would tremble and her pores would dilate.

Liu Binghai's eyebrows trembled.

She still loves, but how can she love.

He humiliated her, betrayed her, tortured her, and hurt her.

Even if she had made a mistake, he should have burned her flesh to ashes and scattered in a stinking river like all unfaithful people.

With his nails digging into the flesh, Liu Binghai looked back at his broken right leg.

She still loves on behalf of the original owner, but she cannot love.

She must end this relationship.

To end it, you must forget.

All memories of him must be buried.

The lying chicken stood up and cackled twice, not knowing what she was thinking.

Liu Binghai was in a daze, but was brought back to his senses by the crowing of the chicken. He smiled coldly, a little self-deprecatingly.

Now she is in the predicament of having to work hard to forget a man.

Moreover, it was done in such a stupid way...

He no longer rode a horse, no longer wore riding clothes, no longer cared about anyone or anything in the teahouse, and even did not take away any of the girls who had lived in the Zhang compound.

Haha, I should be able to forget about him.

——

After a month of restoring my legs, the bones were almost connected to the tendons.

Liu Binghai went to the town to look for some work, but when he entered each shop, the manager was horrified when he saw this □□, as if he was afraid that using this □□ would ruin his shop's business.

One by one, they regarded her as a disgrace to the family and hurriedly kicked her out.

For several days, she couldn't find a proper job and was criticized a lot.

Finally one day, she found a job serving food in a reception building. The boss was kind and didn't mind her being disabled, but the pay was low.

Liu Binghai agreed and worked hard in the store every day. In addition to serving food, he also helped wash dishes in the kitchen.

The Huikelou business was very good and was almost always full. One day, when she was serving dishes to the table, she was in a wheelchair and her body was not very convenient, so a drop of oil fell on the guest when she was serving the dishes.

In fact, there was not much grease in the food. Before Liu Binghai could apologize, the guest got angry and almost knocked over the food on the table with his hand.

He looked closely at Liu Binghai and saw that it was the disabled □□. He became even more furious and immediately called the shopkeeper over.

The guest, Zhao, the cotton king of the neighboring town, had nine concubines at home. She hated anything that brought disgrace upon the family and pointed at Liu Binghai and said to the shopkeeper, "You keep a woman like this? You're really blind!"

Zhao was a prominent customer in this area. She usually booked out the entire building or hosted lavish banquets, so she didn't dare offend him. The shopkeeper quickly apologized, "Don't be angry. I'll ask her to apologize to you."

"Apologize?" Zhao glared and poured a glass of white wine onto Liu Binghai's face.

The cold liquid flowed down her hairline, into her nostrils, and to the corners of her mouth.

She didn't say anything and looked at Zhao.

He continued angrily, "If I see this woman having any contact with your family again, I will never come to your house to eat a single bite of your food again!"

The shopkeeper was shocked when he heard this and quickly bowed to apologize to Zhao.

Liu Binghai looked at the situation and sneered in his heart.

He turned around and said to the shopkeeper, "Don't worry, I'll leave now."

However, within three or five days, the job he had just found was gone. Liu Binghai found He Chuanxiong and wanted to find a odd job in the pharmacy.

It doesn’t matter how much money you get, as long as you have food and shelter.

He Chuanxiong felt sorry for her. She was in her 20s, divorced by her husband and had a broken leg, so he asked her to learn how to take and dispense medicine, as well as crush and grind the herbs into powder.

Liu Binghai sat in a wheelchair in the pharmacy and did these simple chores.

Occasionally, she would think of the days when she and Zhang Ruochen rode horses in the mountains. She could not help but sigh and force herself not to think about those things.

The pharmacy was bustling with people, all old, weak, and sick. Liu Binghai himself was disabled, and so were the people selling medicine, which seemed to fit in.

But as they came and went, they still talked about the drifting ice sea.

"That woman is the divorced wife of the Zhang family, right?"

"Yeah, how come you seem to have changed after not seeing you for a while? You look a lot more haggard?"

"That's it. What was the situation before? What is the situation now?"

"This lowly woman is here to get medicine. She'll probably make us sick!"

"I think so, but don't eat as cheaply as her!"

"You two should be more polite. You are both women. Even a woman with a sharp tongue will be divorced by her husband's family."

A good-looking woman scolded those people.

Liu Binghai was picking medicine in front of the medicine cabinet, listening to them gossiping silently while continuing to pick medicine.

After a while, He Chuanxiong came and handed Liu Binghai a list, "Get 10 sets of these medicines. I'll send them to the Song family later."

Liu Binghai looked at the list, which included more than a dozen Chinese medicinal herbs including Chuanxiong, Astragalus, and Paeonia Suffruticosa.

"The Song family from Song's Mill?"

He Chuanxiong nodded, "Yes, that's the one."

Liu Binghai: "I'll go and take it."

"You're going?" He Chuanxiong looked at her, "Your legs..."

"It's okay." Liu Binghai looked down at his wheels.

Instead of listening to other people gossiping here, it’s better to go out and take a look, maybe you can find a new way to make a living.

…

Jingu Road is very busy, with people coming and going on the street looking for what they want on the stalls.

Liu Binghai was sitting in a wheelchair with 10 prescriptions of Chinese medicine in his arms for the Song family.

She has modified the wheels again in the past few days, making the structure and width more modern.

She turned the wheel quickly, her eyes fixed on the road ahead.

This road belongs to the market, with many people and all kinds of things. Drifting ice flows around the stalls and passes through the gaps between the crowds without looking around.

She doesn't bother others, but others bother her.

People in the street were looking at her in groups of three or four. Someone laughed and said, "Hey, isn't this the affectionate eldest lady of the Zhang family? Are you out playing?"

Although he was smiling, his tone was full of sarcasm.

Liu Binghai ignored him and thought about getting past the man as quickly as possible.

The man refused to give in and continued, "Alas, I wonder if the young master of the Zhang family has nightmares every day..."

The woman who had been lying next to him for many years turned out to be a whore. If it were someone else, it would probably be a nightmare for the whole night.

Others also joined in the commotion, and people on the street pointed at the drifting ice sea as if they were watching flies.

When the wall falls, everyone pushes it. She didn't want to pay any attention to it and wanted to turn along the path ahead to avoid these gossips. But then she thought it was unnecessary, as she would have to listen to these rumors for the rest of her life.

He pushed the wheelchair and continued walking slowly on the street.

The man said again, "Oh, you have a good attitude, just like nothing happened."

Liu Binghai sneered. It was just a few letters. She hadn't done anything shameful, so she acted as if nothing had happened.

She didn't say anything, but the man didn't do anything. Knowing that she had difficulty moving, he twisted his fat body and deliberately stood in front of the ice sea, walking slowly.

When the wheelchair turns left, she turns left; when the wheelchair turns right, she turns right.

Everyone else looked over here, looking for something exciting.

Seeing that she was not going to stop, Liu Binghai lifted up the unbroken leg and kicked her in the butt.

The woman cried out "Ouch" and turned back to glare at her angrily.

Liu Binghai held the Chinese medicine in his hand and said calmly, "I want to send this medicine to the old lady of the Song family. I can't afford to delay it."

When the woman heard that it was Mrs. Song, she pursed her lips and fell silent.

The Song family is considered a famous family in the town. Although they don't run a big business, the adopted son of the old lady of the Song family is a high-ranking official in the capital. However, the Song family is not very interested in business and only likes to do small business. But because they have a backer, no one dares to provoke them.

In addition, the old lady of the Song family had a bad temper, so the woman would shut up as soon as she was mentioned.

Liu Binghai hurried to the Song family with the medicine, thinking that he would walk around the streets on his way back to see if there was any other way to make a living.

After the wheelchair was modified, it rotates very fast.

As she was walking, she was distracted at a fork in the road and suddenly bumped into a young man.

"Ah..." The two people made a loud collision sound.

The young man was bumped into and staggered on the street, almost falling down. It took him a while to slowly stand up.

He was a ragged young boy, with a feather duster on his head, his clothes full of holes, his shoes also torn, and his face covered in dust, but he smelled clean and fresh, without any strange smell.

"Sorry." Liu Binghai said quickly.

The boy was holding a bunch of rotten vegetables in his hands and looking at the drifting ice sea with no expression.

It turned out to be a little beggar...

"Are you okay?" Liu Binghai asked.

The boy stared at her without saying a word. After a while, he suddenly snatched the Chinese medicine from her hand and turned around and ran away.

Liu Binghai's heart skipped a beat... Is he a little thief?

Even stealing medicine?

She spun the wheel quickly to catch up.

In fact, the cost of those medicines was not that much. At most, she could go back to the pharmacy to get another one. But as soon as the boy ran away, she had to find out his purpose and chased after him.

The boy walked through several narrow alleys. Although Liu Binghai's wheelchair was inconvenient, his speed was not slow.

He went into Shinan Lane.

This alley is terribly narrow, and there's a dead end in front. I just passed through the drifting ice sea, so I have no idea what the alley is like.

By the time I caught up, it was too late.

The boy ran to the end of the alley, stopped, slowly turned around, and threw a large bag of Chinese medicine back into her legs.

Next to him, a man in gray slowly walked out.

The man was not very old, and looked only two or three years older than Liu Binghai. He had a sturdy figure and a handsome appearance. He was wearing a light gray Luo robe, and his hair was tied up with a bamboo hairpin. His eyes were shining with a cold light, as attractive as crystal beads.

He walked out slowly, looking at the drifting ice sea with deep affection in his eyes.

She knew immediately that she had fallen into a trap.

It was the original owner Yun Kexin’s lover, Zhan Haotian.

Look at this ragged, beggar-like boy, who is staring at her intently.

Liu Binghai turned his wheelchair around and turned to leave.

But the man called her: "Xin'er."

This voice is beautiful, moving and gentle.

It sounds much better than that rough man.

Liu Binghai stopped what he was doing and tilted his head towards him.

There was a hint of urgency in the man's voice, but it didn't overwhelm his inherent humility. "Xin'er, aren't you going to say something?"

It was so hard to get a chance to meet her, and besides, she was already a free person...

Why don’t you say a word? Why do you just leave when you see her?

The man's eyes were full of expectation. Liu Binghai slowly turned back to the wheelchair to look at the man, and slowly walked in front of him.

His anticipation grew deeper and deeper. When he saw her legs, he frowned, feeling distressed. "Did he hit her?"

Liu Binghai didn't say anything. He said distressedly, "Xin'er, I hurt you...but from now on..."

From now on, we can be together openly.

I will be responsible for you, for... all of this.

Thinking about the future, the clouds of worry in Zhan Haotian's heart suddenly dissipated, and his face became brighter.

Liu Binghai looked at the edge of his thin gray clothes and said lightly, "Zhan Haotian, don't ask Yi Cong to look for me in the future. I won't agree."

The man paused after hearing this, and an embarrassed look appeared on his face.

Yi Cong, the heir to Tao Horse Farm.

That was a message from Zhan Haotian, asking him to go to Liu Binghai to discuss the equestrian show.

That day, Liu Binghai had his leg broken by Zhang Ruochen. He watched from afar on the street and listened to the women gossiping about it. They said that the loose woman would definitely be beaten to death by Master Zhang.

He felt heartbroken. That was the woman he loved, but she was tortured by another man.

He asked someone to contact Tao, hoping to bring Liu Binghai to Tao so that he could meet him.

But she refused.

Liu Binghai raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhan Haotian, "You sent Yi Cong, right?"

Zhan Haotian paused and said frankly, "Yes."

He didn't think there was anything wrong with it. She hid herself in the backyard of the He family and didn't see anyone. It was harder than climbing to the sky for him to say a word to her.

Now that she was free, why were they making it so hard?

"Xin'er, you are free now." Zhan Haotian said.

He truly loved her and didn't care about her abandoned status.

"I was divorced." Liu Bingkai said.

"I don't care." Zhan Haotian said firmly.

Liu Binghai smiled and said, "If you don't care, then your parents, brother, and family members don't care either?"

The man was stunned.

Liu Binghai didn't want to continue to get entangled with Zhan Haotian. Since he was here today, he also wanted to make a break with him, so he said, "Let's not meet again in the future, and you don't have to arrange for anyone to see me again."

Whether it is Tao’s Horse Farm or Zhang’s Tea House, she will never go there again.

During this month, Liu Binghai lived in the thatched house in the backyard of the He family and never visited him to receive a single letter. Zhan Haotian had already become suspicious.

Now seeing how resolute she was, he was even more stunned. No matter how he looked at her, he felt that Yun Kexin had become a different person.

Liu Binghai turned around and was about to leave when he said, "You know Master Zhang's temper. Let's not meet again. It's good for both you and me."

Zhan Haotian was stunned after hearing this, and silently looked at the light purple gauze dress she was wearing.

The gauze dress was so beautiful, it was his favorite color. Even when she was sitting in a wheelchair, she looked like a Zixia fairy flying down from the sky.

But from now on, it will have nothing to do with him?

…

In the Song family compound, Old Madam Song was feeling uncomfortable due to the heat in her hospital bed.

It was not summer at this time, and the old lady's yin and yang were out of balance. Her face and forehead were covered with sweat. Even with a large ice cube, she felt an indescribable dryness in her internal organs.

"Why hasn't the medicine been delivered yet?" asked the old lady's personal maid.

Someone beside him said, "It's almost there. The He Family Pharmacy said they'll send someone to deliver it today."

Seeing how uncomfortable the lady was, the maid couldn't help but feel anxious. "If she continues to feel this uncomfortable day after day, what will happen? I don't know if the He family's prescription will work this time."

Just as he finished speaking, someone outside came hurriedly and said, "Here it is, the medicine is here."

Liu Binghai delivered 10 sets of Chinese medicine to the manager of the Song family.

The person in charge chuckled, "Why is it taking so long?"

Just after he finished breathing, he looked at the ice-drifting sea and said, "Why is it you?"

He actually asked this flirtatious woman to deliver the medicine. I'm afraid this medicine will become flirtatious!

Liu Binghai said calmly, "This medicine won't bring any bad luck to me, so you can use it as you please."

The person in charge was a man, about the same age as Lao Liang. When he heard Liu Binghai say this, he was stunned. This woman actually spoke so frankly about her embarrassing stories.

The manager looked at her, and Liu Binghai looked inside again.

"What are you looking at!" the manager snorted.

There was disgust in their words towards this person.

Liu Binghai said calmly, "Nothing, I just wanted to ask the housekeeper if there's anything I can ask someone to do for you? Anything like washing clothes or boiling medicine is fine."

"No, no." The manager said and closed the door.

Liu Binghai was about to turn around while pushing the wheelchair when the door opened again. The manager looked at Liu Binghai with a serious face:

"Wait a minute."