Meng Yi didn't have time to answer. He hurriedly grabbed the bag full of all sorts of bizarre snacks and started eating them voraciously.
Soon, all sorts of bizarre foods, such as chicken butts, roasted lizards, and fried crickets, were in Meng Yi's mouth.
Song Mian and Lin Jiaojiao, who were standing next to her, both felt nauseous!
But Meng Yi didn't feel disgusted at all. On the contrary, it was as if he had opened the door to a new world. He couldn't stop eating, one bite after another.
"Delicious, absolutely delicious! I've never eaten anything this good before!" Meng Yi said, giving Song Mian a thumbs up repeatedly.
"Um... thank you for your compliment." Song Mian was speechless and could only thank Meng Yi first.
While customer satisfaction is a good thing, why does she feel so awkward about it?
Meng Yi wolfed down the bag of snacks, then said to Song Mian, "Little boss, tonight I'll go back and ask my descendants to come to the shop tomorrow and give you ten thousand yuan as a reward. Also, could you order some more of these delicious snacks? I want more!"
Song Mian then heard the system notification in her mind.
[Ding - Congratulations, host, the transaction has been completed.]
The details of this transaction are as follows: Item traded: One bag of unusual snacks.
[Transaction counterparty: Meng Yi]
Transaction amount: 10,000 yuan in cash
[Transaction Status: Completed.]
"Okay... but you might have to wait a couple of days, I need time to get the goods." You can't buy these weird snacks through normal channels, she has to order them online and then wait for the delivery to arrive before she can give them to Meng Yi!
Meng Yi was disappointed, but had no choice but to agree: "Alright then. Sister Lin, thanks to you this time, I was able to eat such delicious food. To thank you, I'll give you a bottle of my godmother's soup for free. Come with me to the Ghost Realm to get it."
"Oh... okay, sure." Lin Jiaojiao never expected happiness to come so suddenly!
She was completely bewildered, but obediently followed Meng Yi.
Song Mian didn't expect things to be resolved so smoothly. She waited in the store for another half hour before Lin Jiaojiao finally returned.
"Jiaojiao!" Song Mian's drowsiness vanished instantly, and she quickly went to Lin Jiaojiao's side. "Jiaojiao, do you remember?"
Lin Jiaojiao's expression was somewhat numb as she nodded.
"Young boss, I just found out that I didn't actually commit suicide back then. The Lin family lied to me; they forced me to my death." Lin Jiaojiao gave a bitter smile, her eyes filled with sorrow and helplessness.
Song Mian: "Jiaojiao, what exactly happened?"
Lin Jiaojiao's eyes reddened, and she slowly began to tell her story.
“I am indeed an ancestor of George Lam and his family. At that time, our Lam family was a merchant family and was quite wealthy. However, I have been in poor health since childhood, so I have been raised here and rarely go home.”
“The Lin family all thought I was in poor health and was a bad omen, so they never came to see me. I grew up alone until I was ten years old before I met my fiancé who came to visit me.”
When her fiancé was mentioned, a smile appeared in Lin Jiaojiao's eyes: "His name is Qi Bing. He never looked down on me because I was weak, and he often came to keep me company."
“At first, I was very resistant to the marriage arranged by my family. It was Qi Bing who moved me with his actions. After a few years, when I reached the age to get married, I also began to look forward to marrying him. We should have been happy together.”
Song Mian didn't disturb Lin Jiaojiao, but she already had a guess in her heart.
If Jiaojiao and Qibing had a happy ending, she wouldn't be so heartbroken, and she wouldn't have been forced to her death by the Lin family.
"Just when I was less than a month away from marrying Qi Bing, my father suddenly passed away. My eldest brother, in order to obtain a larger dowry, insisted on marrying me off to a wealthy man who was twenty years older than me, to be his eighth concubine..."
"Twenty years older than you? Is he finding you a husband or a new father?" Song Mian was shocked.
Moreover, she knew that in ancient times, the status of a principal wife and a concubine was very different. To put it bluntly, a concubine was nothing more than a servant with a slightly higher status!
"Of course I didn't want to either. After a long and almost desperate struggle, Qi Bing came to find me." When Qi Bing was mentioned, Lin Jiaojiao's eyes finally lit up again.
"Qi Bing was unwilling to give up on me and proposed to elope with me, so I agreed. After we successfully left, we hid together in a secluded village. Although life was hard then, I was really happy."
"Unfortunately, just when I was pregnant with Qi Bing's child and about to give birth, Qi Bing was accidentally captured by the Lin family while she was out selling animal hides, and they beat her to death!"
Although Song Mian was mentally prepared, she still felt a pang of heartache when she heard this and hugged Lin Jiaojiao.
"On the day I was about to give birth, the Lin family came to my door and told me that Qi Bing had died. I was so shocked that I suffered a postpartum hemorrhage and fainted. I barely survived, but all I saw was a stillborn baby..."
Lin Jiaojiao cried as she spoke, "The Lin family told me that was my child, my child with Qi Bing. They killed my husband and my own flesh and blood, yet they still want to take me back and wait for me to recover before I marry the rich man!"
"How could they be so shameless?" Song Mian was utterly shocked by the shamelessness of these people!
"I couldn't bear the humiliation and hanged myself at the Lin family's house. In my hazy state, I heard the Lin family say that my child was not actually dead. They couldn't bear to kill the child because they wanted to use my husband's and my child to blackmail the Qi family for money!"
Song Mian felt increasingly heartbroken as she listened. She simply couldn't imagine how desperate Lin Jiaojiao must have been to choose to end her own life.
She could have lived a good life with her husband and children!
"How could the Lin family do such a heartless thing? If you knew the child was still alive, you would never have chosen to end your own life!"
Seeing that Song Mian understood her, Lin Jiaojiao cried uncontrollably: "If I had known my child was alive, I would have been willing to become a concubine in a wealthy man's household. My poor son, I've never even seen him once..."
"Young boss, I just found out that the paper money I've been receiving lately was all burned for me by my son's descendants! This was his last wish. He and the Qi family are the ones who truly care about me; they are my real family!"
Song Mian finally understood the whole story and quickly asked, "Do you know where the Qi family lives now? As long as the Qi family is willing to make offerings to you, you won't have to suffer in the underworld!"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com