Wang Yanzhou lowered her head and met Tang Chen's eyes. For a moment, Tang Chen felt as if her soul was being taken away by those calm eyes. Before she could feel the heartbeat, Wang Yanzhou's words immediately shattered all her fantasies: "I haven't seen you for a few days. Your temper has improved. You bump into me when you see me. You are really good!"
Tang Chen was also a person who could not bear to be offended by words. Since Wang Yanzhou disdained her like this, she would definitely disdained him back: "Why did you come just now?! I haven't blamed you yet, but you want to blame me!"
Wang Yanzhou tilted his head back slightly and rolled his eyes, then patted Tang Chen on the head: "Nonsense, hand."
Tang Chen looked at Wang Yanzhou in bewilderment, until he followed his gaze and looked down, then he realized his dirty hands: "Sorry, sorry!"
Wang Yanzhou wiped the clothes Tang Chen had touched with a handkerchief, and asked in a tone that was unbecoming of his appearance: "I heard that you almost killed yourself by eating carelessly. How come I saw you today and you acted like nothing happened?"
Tang Chen snorted: "Nonsense, who made up this rumor?"
Wang Yanzhou shook his head and said, "What a pity! If you were really half dead, you wouldn't be able to catch up with me if I broke the contract."
Tang Chen tried hard to put on a big smile and said, "Young man, let me tell you, even if I were to die, I would definitely take you with me."
"Oh, really?"
Oh, you're still talking to me! I'm the one who won the bet, okay? And you're the one who said you'd "support" me temporarily, okay?! Humph, if you weren't handsome and rich, I wouldn't want to play with you if you had such a bad temper. I'm so angry, but I have to keep smiling. The key is that if I really say out loud what I'm complaining about him in my heart, there's no guarantee that this thigh will really run away. Forget it, forget it, she is magnanimous, and she can hold a boat in her stomach, so I won't bother with him for now. It's not too late to bother with him when I become rich in the future.
"...You are such a boring person. I won't follow you anymore. I still think the owner of the Yue OP is nicer to me!"
Before Tang Chen finished speaking, Yue Sheng passed by her and handed a piece of paper with fresh ink to Wang Yanzhou: "Valley Master Wang, this is the detailed account of all the expenses that Miss Tang has spent at Huayue Tower these days. Please settle it."
"Wait, what, let me take a look..." Tang Chen was completely confused when he snatched the "bill" from Yue Sheng's hand. Damn, a shady shop. Some of the words on the bill were a bit complicated to understand, but Tang Chen could still understand the numbers.
The problem is, didn't she remember that Yue Sheng had arranged all these things for her? During the days she lived in Huayue Tower, she hadn't made a single request! Ahhh, she really is in business, and she's lost a lot of money! Wait, hey, it seems she wasn't the one paying the bill. Oh, whatever.
Wang Yanzhou took the bill from Tang Chen and without looking at it carefully, he skipped the content and glanced at the total amount at the end: "I didn't expect that you have such a small stomach, but you can eat so much. Okay, I'll pay, gold leaf."
"Thank you so much, boss!"
Tang Chen had just thanked Wang Yanzhou for his generosity when he suddenly realized that the purse in his hand looked exactly like his own: "Wait, why does this purse look so familiar! Isn't this my purse? How dare you steal my money!"
After throwing the suddenly emptied bag to Tang Chen, Wang Yanzhou explained, "You will pay for what you spend."
Tang Chen said, no no no, this plot is not going in the right direction: "This is different from what we agreed on!"
"What's different?"
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The day after Wang Yanzhou and Tang Chen met up, after Tang Chen was cheated out of a huge sum of money by Yue Sheng to buy a lot of dry food, the two set out on their journey.
It was just that Tang Chen felt like this journey of sightseeing and gaining experience had gone in a strange direction. For example, Wang Yanzhou had begun to show even more disdain and venom towards Tang Chen.
Less than half a month after leaving the county town where Huayue Tower was located, Tang Chen encountered the next test after being kidnapped by Liang Shuyi.
Tang Chen leaned against a tree trunk, steamed bun in hand, her eyes vacant. Sitting in this remote, mountain forest, she was lost in thought. She wanted to ask, was this white lump in her hand really a steamed bun? Why was it so different from anything she'd tasted before? Judging by its hardness and the loudness of the sound it made when struck against the tree trunk, it could easily be described as a brick covered in steamed bun skin.
Although she could force herself to swallow it with water, she really didn't know how Wang Yanzhou managed to eat it without changing his expression or heartbeat. It's not that she was squeamish, but eating this thing was really harmful to the body.
With a hint of curiosity, Tang Chen moved his butt closer to Wang Yanzhou and looked at him with admiration: "Boss Wang, can I interview you? How did you manage to eat this for a whole day without changing your expression? I'm about to throw up."
Wang Yanzhou glanced at Tang Chen, then looked at the half-eaten "dry food" in his hand: "It's good to have something to eat. How about I add some dishes for you?"
When Tang Chen heard the words "add more dishes", his eyes suddenly lit up: "Do you have any dried meat?"
"There's no jerky, but there's some meat."
Just as Tang Chen was looking at Wang Yanzhou with anticipation as he put a huge, fat and flexible worm that he had dug out from somewhere on his bun, the two rays of light that had just risen in his eyes suddenly turned into flames.
Tang Chen threw everything in his hand to the ground, rolled up his sleeves and started working: "...Wang Yanzhou, I'm not done with you!"
However, fate had it that a lazy and ignorant person would never be able to catch a martial arts master who could jump and fly. Looking at Wang Yanzhou standing on the tree and drinking water leisurely, Tang Chen did not give up. Although she could not climb trees, she could still scold him: "Get down here! You are so great that you can fly!"
Just one sentence from Wang Yanzhou—yes, it was truly remarkable—directly brought Tang Chen back to his original form. Fortunately, however, not long after, Tang Chen, with the help of God, avenged his great vengeance.
Deep in the mountains, where few people have ever been, on a pile of grass beside a weed-covered mud ditch, there were two piles of clothes. One pile was neatly folded, the other piled haphazardly.
Along with the unique grass smell of the mud pond, there were also countless mosquitoes and insects that lived with them; Tang Chen and Wang Yanzhou took off their coats, rolled up their sleeves, pulled up their trouser legs and skirt hems, bent over, and searched for something in the mud ditch.
Wang Yanzhou covered his mouth and nose tightly with a sweat towel, his eyes twitching as he put his hands into the muddy pond: "It's all your fault. If you hadn't thrown things around, I wouldn't have to suffer like this!"
Tang Chen stood up straight, stretched his sore back and said, "Okay, okay, you mysophobia, it was you who used insects to bother me first."
If he hadn't put bugs in his dry buns, would she have chased him like crazy and beaten him? If he hadn't climbed the tree and accepted the punishment, would she have thrown away all their remaining rations without paying attention? If they hadn't run out of rations, they wouldn't be rummaging around in this muddy ditch looking for food.
However, this mud ditch may look nothing special, but after being stirred, the fishy smell can be said to be very pungent.
In his life, Tang Chen has never been to such a place except for picking snails and catching loaches and eels in such a ditch when he was a child. It would be great to just treat it as a revisit to the old place!
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