Chapter 57 Unlucky Encounter: Running into the Bai Family Mother and Daughter
Liu Ye wandered around the market for half a day but didn't see any meat stalls. Suddenly, she saw an old lady selling eggs in front of her. There were also goose eggs in her basket. Since there was no meat, she thought she could buy some eggs. "Grandma, how much are the eggs?"
The old lady smiled and said, "An egg costs 20 coins, and my goose eggs aren't expensive either, 50 coins each. How many do you want, young lady?"
Liu Ye thought it was really expensive, 50 coins for a goose egg. Well, what can you do when it's this time? She took the basket off her back and put it on the ground: "Grandma, I want ten goose eggs and twenty chicken eggs. Please put them in my basket."
The old lady picked out ten large goose eggs and twenty chicken eggs for Liu Ye and put them into her basket: "Little girl, next time you want to eat eggs, come buy them from Grandma again, and Grandma will pick out the big ones for you."
Liu Ye smiled and nodded. She took out her money bag from her bosom, counted out a handful of copper coins, and handed them to the old lady: "Grandma, please count them."
The old lady took a handful of coins and counted them very carefully, one by one: "One, two, three..."
Wang Dani glanced jealously at Liu Ye's bulging money bag, then looked at the eggs on the ground and swallowed hard. Eggs, she really wanted to eat eggs too. In the past, her mother would save the eggs for her brother, and she had to beg her mother to give her one. But since the drought two years ago, when grain was expensive, her mother had killed and eaten all the chickens, so she had even less chance to eat them.
Her eyes lit up and an idea immediately came to her mind. Just as Liu Ye was about to put the money bag into her bosom, Wang Dani grabbed her arm and said, "Liu Ye, I also want to buy some eggs, but I was in such a hurry that I forgot to ask my mother for money. Can you lend me some? I won't lend you much, just 200 coins. I'll pay you back when I get home."
Liu Ye pushed Wang Dani's hand away, stuffed the money bag into her bosom, and refused without any courtesy, saying, "I can't lend it to you. Brother Bai said I can't lend out a single penny. There's another market day in three days. You can come back to buy eggs at the next market. Grandma, do you always sell eggs here?"
The old lady, busy counting her money, nodded.
Upon hearing this, Wang Dani immediately grabbed Liu Ye's arm and said with a grin, "Liu Ye, I know you listen to Brother Bai. He's right not to let you lend money out indiscriminately. After all, you can't judge a book by its cover."
"But am I just anyone? I'm Brother Bai's neighbor. As the old saying goes, a close neighbor is worse than a distant relative. If Brother Bai knew you lent me the money, he definitely wouldn't say anything. Just lend me the money, and I'll pay you back when I get back. I'll pay you back secretly so Brother Bai won't know, okay? Don't be so stubborn."
Liu Ye once again pushed Wang Dani's hand away. How annoying! Just talk, why resort to violence? She hated people like that the most. She even wanted her to borrow money. No way! "Brother Bai doesn't allow me to lend money, so I won't. You can wait until the next market to buy it."
Wang Dani was so angry she didn't know what to say. All her efforts had been wasted. Fine, she wouldn't lend her the money then: "Okay, then I won't borrow money from you. You bought 20 eggs, lend me ten. I'll pay you back when I go to the market and buy more eggs. Is that alright?"
"Liu Ye, if you won't even lend me an egg, then that's really not right of you. I'm going to get really angry. I treat you like a sister, but you treat me like this. It's really not fair!"
Liu Ye thought to herself, "How can I not make you angry! I won't lend you money, but I can lend you eggs. You're just daydreaming in broad daylight: 'Brother Bai doesn't let me lend money to others or lend things out. If you really want to eat eggs, they sell them in our village. You can go to the village to buy them.'"
After Liu Ye finished speaking, she slung her basket over her shoulder and left, which made Wang Dani stomp her feet in anger. She quickly followed after her, thinking, "Stubborn thing, if Brother Bai tells you to die, you should die too! Why doesn't she believe it?"
Liu Ye strolled over to a shoe stall and saw that they had started selling cotton shoes. She bought two pairs of shoes for herself and Bai Zilin each, as well as two pairs of socks. She liked the insoles because they were pretty and had hand-embroidered flowers on them, so she bought four pairs of insoles.
Wang Dani looked down at her shoes with exposed toes, and thought about borrowing money from Liu Ye to buy herself a pair of shoes, but then she thought better of it. She couldn't lend money to someone so stubborn.
Seeing that she had bought enough, Liu Ye strolled out of the market and town, and onto the main road back to her village. There were quite a few people on the road, all from nearby villages.
As Wang Dani walked, she started craving the rock candy that Liu Ye had bought. She asked Liu Ye for money, but Liu Ye refused. She asked Liu Ye for eggs, but Liu Ye refused. She asked Liu Ye for two pieces of rock candy, and Liu Ye had the nerve to refuse her.
Wang Dani shamelessly reached out her hand to Liu Ye and said with a grin, "Liu Ye, give me two pieces of the rock sugar you bought to try. I didn't eat breakfast this morning, my mouth is bitter, and my stomach hurts terribly. I keep refluxing acid. I want to eat something sweet to calm down."
Liu Ye didn't even glance at Wang Dani before refusing without any politeness: "Brother Bai said that food is precious now, and he doesn't want me to give food to others or shamelessly ask others for it. He said that would be embarrassing and make people laugh their heads off."
Wang Dani withdrew her hand in shame and anger, her lungs were about to explode, and her teeth were about to be ground to powder. That damned little slut, if she didn't want to give it to her, she didn't want to give it to her, but she even insulted her indirectly. You just wait, you bitch!
She forced a fake smile: "Hehe, Brother Bai is right, I... I was just joking with you. I'm not some greedy wife from the village. I was just testing you to see if you'd listen to Brother Bai...!"
Liu Ye thought to herself, "You really are ridiculous." Suddenly, she looked at the two people walking in front of her and they looked familiar. It seemed to be Bai Zilin's mother, and next to her was Bai Zimei. Coincidentally, Bai Zimei also turned around and saw Liu Ye. She immediately shouted loudly, "Mother, look! It's that big idiot!"
Liu Ye looked and it really was the mother and son. She rolled her eyes in exasperation. What bad luck! They really came to Xiancheng. Why were she and Bai Zilin so unlucky? They kept running into them wherever they went. Why were they so persistent?
Liu Ye continued walking forward with a cold face, pretending not to see the mother and daughter. Bai Wangshi was stunned for a moment, then quickly reached out to stop Liu Ye: "You big fool, where is Bai Zilin? Which village are you living in now?"
Liu Ye shook her head, feigning ignorance. She pushed Bai Wangshi aside and ran forward, ignoring Wang Dani behind her.
Bai Wangshi was pushed so hard she almost fell, but Bai Zimei caught her: "Oh dear, you should watch where you're going!"
When Wang Dani saw what was going on, she jogged a couple of steps, then stopped. Wait, who are these two people? Why does Liu Ye seem so afraid of them? And do they even know Bai Zilin?
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com