Chapter 65 The Big Fool is Dead
Bai Zilin nodded obediently, looking coldly at the Liu brothers. Although he didn't say anything to chase them away, his posture was clearly one of dismissal.
Liu Lao Er took two steps back with a guilty look on his face, swallowed awkwardly, and was certain that this was not their family's big idiot: "Big brother, she's not a big idiot, we...we'd better leave quickly."
Boss Liu looked at Bai Zilin unwillingly and asked: "If Big Fool is really dead, then how come she also has the surname Liu? Your sister said that Big Fool admitted yesterday that she is Big Fool and that Liu Ye is the name she gave herself. What do you say about that!"
Bai Zilin snorted and said, "Hmph, that's ridiculous. There are plenty of people with the surname Liu in the world. They're all part of your family. Just because you have the surname Liu doesn't mean others can't. Yesterday, that green-haired bastard came and knelt down in front of me, crying and begging me to forgive him. I refused, and the three of them jumped up and started cursing at me. That brat Bai Zimei called my fiancée a big idiot as soon as she opened her mouth. What's wrong with my fiancée cursing back!"
"Then let me ask you, do you know my fiancée, Liu Ye? Is she your daughter?"
Boss Liu was speechless after being rebuked, and finally shook his head: "Alright, we made a mistake. You don't need to be so unforgiving. Humph, we're leaving!"
After the Liu brothers left, Liu Ye and Bai Zilin exchanged a glance and couldn't help but laugh. These two big fools had been fooled by them. It was truly an eye-opener; they didn't even recognize their own daughter and niece. They were really quite bizarre.
Bai Zilin looked at Liu Ye shyly and said, "Liu Ye, you look so pretty... Just wear it like this, don't get it all dirty, otherwise the Liu family will see it and come looking for trouble. If they don't give up and still suspect you, they might secretly come to the village to spy on you."
Liu Ye nodded without hesitation. She didn't want to get dirty. While other girls would put on face powder after washing up, she was wiping the soot off the bottom of a pot. "I know, Brother Bai, go sell the pheasant. There seems to be a market today. Buy a jar of soy sauce while you're at it."
"Okay, I'm leaving now. You... don't go into the village unless you have to," Bai Zilin said, blushing.
How could Liu Ye not understand his little scheme? Sure enough, men are all petty-minded, and women don't seem to be much more so: "I know."
After Bai Zilin drove the oxcart away, Liu Ye returned to the house and took out the scraps of cloth from her spatial storage to continue studying how to sew a bra.
"Willow Leaf, I'm here! I've come to play with you. Are you home?"
Liu Ye rolled her eyes, recognizing Zhang Fang's voice. She had said she was coming to see her yesterday, and she hadn't expected her to actually come. Since she was already there, she couldn't just turn her away. She leaned against the window and called out, "It's Zhang Fang! Come in!"
As soon as Zhang Fang entered the room, she saw Liu Ye sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed), as beautiful as a fairy. She was so shocked that her mouth dropped open and her eyes almost popped out of their sockets. It took her a while to recover. She wasn't sure if this was Liu Ye, so she asked cautiously, "I came to see Liu Ye. Who are you?"
Liu Ye smiled and waved to her, saying, "I am Liu Ye, please have a seat."
Zhang Fang was shocked! She was Liu Ye! She was so beautiful! Zhang Fang was so jealous that her heart was breaking. She gritted her teeth and sat down on the kang with a stiff face: "So... so you are so beautiful. But why did you dress up like yesterday?"
While sewing, Liu Ye laughed and said, "Hey, that was for safety on the road. Brother Bai was worried that I would be targeted by bad guys, so he made me dress like that. Now that we've settled down in the village and have our own homes, we don't need to dress like that anymore. It seems like it's market day today. Why didn't you go to the market to sell pickled vegetables?"
Zhang Fang said with an awkward smile, "Oh, my mother and brother went to the market to buy pickled vegetables today, and I stayed home to look after the house..."
The truth is that she lied to her mother, saying she wasn't feeling well, and asked her older brother and mother to go sell pickled vegetables. As soon as they left, she ran over to see Bai Zilin.
"Brother Bai didn't come?"
Upon hearing this, Liu Ye thought to herself, "I knew you weren't up to any good. You didn't come here to play with me; you came to see Bai Zilin." She continued, "Brother Bai went to town to sell his game. We'll get married after the New Year. There are many places where we'll need money. Zhang Fang, how old are you this year? Have you found a husband yet?"
Zhang Fang shook her head, pursing her buck teeth. She had heard from the villagers that Liu Ye was Brother Bai's fiancée. She hadn't expected it to be true. But it didn't matter. As long as they weren't married, she still had a chance. Her family was a local household in Erdaogou Village. They were all capable, and their house was newly built a couple of years ago. They also had 12 mu of fertile land. Although they weren't as well-off as the village chief's family, they were still considered wealthy compared to other families.
Liu Ye was just an outsider. She had a house and land, but they were dilapidated and couldn't compare to their family. Except for not being as pretty as Liu Ye, she was better than her in every way. She was capable and could handle everything, both at home and outside. Smart men know who to marry. Marrying a pretty face can't put food on the table.
Thinking of this, Zhang Fang raised her head with a sense of superiority and suddenly felt no longer inferior: "My family is well-off, and my parents want to find me a good husband. I'm not in a hurry. I also want to find a man I like to marry. Liu Ye, what are you sewing? It's such beautiful fabric."
Zhang Fang picked up a pretty piece of floral fabric from the kang (a heated brick bed). It was pure cotton. "What a beautiful piece of floral fabric! Did you buy all of this?"
Liu Ye nodded perfunctorily: "Yeah, scraps of cloth are cheap, perfect for making some small clothes."
She was afraid that Zhang Fang would say the scraps of fabric were free gifts with the purchase of clothes, and that she would shamelessly ask her for them. She had already figured it out; Zhang Fang was just as shameless as Wang Dani.
Zhang Fang looked through the scrap of cloth in her hand. It was quite a large piece of cloth, big enough to make a dress. The material was also of good quality. She looked down at her own tattered clothes, patched with big and small patches, and suddenly felt inferior. Although her family was not poor, her parents were reluctant to spend money on her, and she didn't even have a decent set of clothes.
Her parents always talked about making money to build a house for their brother and get him married, but they never mentioned her getting married or whether they would give her a dowry. Year after year, she helped the family pickle and sell pickled vegetables, and she earned a lot of money for the family, but she never got anything!
She examined several more scraps of fabric in the package, each one larger and more beautiful than the last. She tried them on herself a few times, finding there was still some left over to make a dress. Touching the smooth fabric in her hands, she couldn't put it down. She was also extremely fond of the vibrant colors on it. It wasn't pure cotton; it was a fine material she didn't recognize: "Willow Leaf, this fabric is so smooth! What kind of material is it?"
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