The young widow said gratefully, "Sister, it's not like you. Today, I would have been extorted by this rude guy, and maybe he would have come to cause me trouble again tomorrow. I don't know when it would end."
Ye Ya patted her chest and said, "Sister Meng, from now on, you are my sister. If anyone dares to bully you, I'll smash their head in."
As darkness fell, the crowd dispersed.
The young widow and the wild girl went back to continue eating dinner.
Ye Ya asked, "Sister Meng, who else has bullied you? Tell me, and I'll settle accounts with them one by one."
The young widow said to appease everyone, "What's past is past. With you as my sister to back me up, no one will dare to bully me anymore."
The young widow was extremely grateful to Ma Yunfei. If it weren't for him arranging for Ye Ya to become her sworn sister, she didn't know how many more people would have bullied her.
The next day, just as dawn was breaking, Ma Yunfei and the abbot loaded 150,000 jin of yams onto a truck. Before setting off, he made sure the truck stopped in front of the Baixing Restaurant.
The restaurant was already open, and the young widow and Ye Ya were busy in the kitchen.
Ma Yunfei asked excitedly, "Ye Ya, you're up so early too?"
Wild Girl frowned and said, "Brother Ma, what do you mean by that? Do you think I'm a lazybones? I get up before dawn to make breakfast for my dad and prepare his lunch. As soon as it's light, my dad goes up the mountain to hunt."
Seeing a broken stool in the kitchen and a pile of broken bowls and bottles in the corner, Ma Yunfei asked in surprise, "What happened at the restaurant?"
The young widow said calmly, "Yesterday evening, a hoodlum came by, trying to freeload and causing trouble, but the girl taught him a lesson."
Ma Yunfei shrugged and said, "Wild girl, it's better to arrive at the right time than early. It seems you came at just the right moment yesterday."
Ye Ya glared at Ma Yunfei and asked, "Brother Ma, you came to the restaurant so early, are you trying to freeload too?"
"Hehe... I just came to see if you stayed at a hotel last night. I was a little worried you would just leave."
Ye Ya said with a smile, "Brother Ma, Sister Meng and I have become sworn sisters. From now on, Baixing Restaurant will be my second home. Anyone who wants to kick me out, don't even think about it!"
Reassured, Ma Yunfei said, "I have to go to City A to deliver yams. You two go ahead and do your work."
Wild Girl asked, "Brother Ma, do you want me to come with you?"
Ma Yunfei waved his hands repeatedly and said, "What are you going to do? Nobody in City A is bullying me. Besides, my brother Abbot is going with me. With him as my bodyguard, nobody will dare to lay a finger on me."
Before leaving, Ma Yunfei instructed, "Ye Ya, this Qinglong Town is not like your Dragon King Mountain. Don't be too impulsive when things happen. Don't resort to violence unless absolutely necessary. If you hurt someone, you will be held legally responsible."
Ye Ya said dismissively, "Brother Ma, you're as cowardly as a mouse. With your fearful and hesitant attitude, you'll never get anything done."
Ma Yunfei waved his hand, left the Baixing Restaurant, and got into a car to go to City A.
He was worried that the wild girl was too unruly and would cause trouble.
Ma Yunfei's concerns were not unfounded; no sooner had he left than Ye Ya got into trouble.
After finishing her work in the kitchen, Yeya walked out of the Baixing Restaurant and looked around.
Suddenly, she noticed a fruit shop next to the Baixing Restaurant.
A large basket of rotten fruit was piled up at the entrance of the store.
The rotten fruit emitted a foul odor, causing Ye Ya to frown.
Wild Girl walked to the entrance of the fruit shop and shouted inside, "Is anyone there? If you're breathing, come out!"
A middle-aged woman came out of the fruit shop and asked in surprise, "Oh, it's you, heroine! What do you want to buy?"
Wild Girl kicked the basket of rotten fruit and said with dissatisfaction, "Is there something wrong with your nose?"
The older sister-in-law asked, puzzled, "Heroine, what do you mean by this?"
"Don't you understand what I mean? This basket of rotten fruit is piled up here, emitting a foul stench, and affecting my sister's restaurant business."
The older sister-in-law asked, puzzled, "This basket of rotten fruit is piled up in front of my little shop, far from the young widow's restaurant."
"Hey, didn't you notice what kind of wind is blowing today? It's an east wind, and a stench is blowing into my sister's restaurant, affecting her business."
The elder sister-in-law said with dissatisfaction, "Heroine, you...you're bullying me."
"Hey, how did I bully you? What I meant was: you need to move this basket of rotten fruit further away, so the stench doesn't drift into my sister's restaurant. Am I wrong?"
Suddenly, the sister-in-law burst into tears, complaining, "My God, we can't do business anymore! Someone's bullying us widows and orphans..."
The elder sister-in-law's cries startled the young widow, who rushed out of the restaurant and asked Yeya, "What happened?"
Yeya said with dissatisfaction, "Sister Meng, I was standing at the entrance of the restaurant when I smelled a stench. When I looked, I found out that there was a rotten fruit basket in front of the fruit shop. I asked the owner to move the rotten fruit basket so as not to affect the restaurant's business. I only said a few words and didn't lay a finger on her, but this woman started crying and screaming. It's really inexplicable."
The young widow whispered, "Girl, the owner of this fruit stall is a pitiful woman. A few years ago, her husband was working as a construction worker when he accidentally fell from a building and broke his lumbar vertebrae, leaving him paralyzed in bed. She supports her three daughters and husband by running the fruit stall all by herself."
Upon hearing this, Ye Ya stuck out her tongue and said, "Sister Meng, I didn't know she was so pitiful. If I had known, I would have helped her move the fruit basket further away, or dumped the rotten fruit into the trash can."
Taking advantage of the early morning when there were few people around and no onlookers, the young widow went into the fruit shop and said to her sister-in-law, "Sister-in-law, I'm so sorry, my sister is impulsive, please don't take it to heart."
The elder sister-in-law wept bitterly, saying, "You, my sister, take advantage of your martial arts skills to bully us, a widow and her orphan! I... I can't go on living like this! I'm going to hang myself! I'm going to throw myself into the river..."
The young widow took out fifty yuan from her pocket and stuffed it into her sister-in-law's hand, saying, "Sister-in-law, please forgive my sister this once for my sake. She doesn't know the situation. As the saying goes, ignorance is no excuse."
The woman took the fifty yuan, wiped away her tears, and smiled through her tears.
"Okay, I'll forgive her this time, but you have to make it clear to this girl that she shouldn't cause me any more trouble."
“Sister-in-law, I’ve made it clear that from now on, my sister will never cause you any more trouble.”
The woman walked out of the fruit shop, carried away the basket of rotten fruit, and said, "I didn't expect the east wind to blow today, and the stench has drifted into your restaurant. I'm so sorry. Yesterday, the garbage truck didn't come, and so much rotten fruit piled up; it really does smell bad."
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