Chapter 303: The Villagers Ridiculed Ye Lulu for Her Store Was Gone

Yue’er said, “Miss, you have a precious body. This Yuan City is only so big. Even if you buy a courtyard, you can’t buy anything good. The best inn is about right. Miss, why don’t you tolerate it?”

The woman seemed to agree a little and said, “There’s also Cousin. That Qin’er is also… I heard from Second Aunt that she now likes to eat… fishballs? She even said that they were made by the villagers in the mountains. I don’t even know what kind of fish they use! Oh my! Is Second Aunt crazy? She doesn’t even know what kind of fish that is. How dare she let Cousin eat such things?!”

“They’re made by people from the mountains… Who knows if there’s something dirty inside…”

When the young miss thought of how farmers picked feces, her face turned pale and she almost vomited.

She said in disdain, “It’s really… why is Second Aunt so muddle-headed? Is it really because she has been out for a long time…”

This young miss walked into this street with a noble attitude because this was the largest main street in Yuan City. At the end was the aforementioned ‘Golden Inn’. It was also the largest inn in Yuan City.

Ye Lulu and Guan Chibei walked back and bumped into a group of women.

This group of maidservants had more people than the mother-daughter pair they had encountered a few days ago.

Ye Lulu clicked her tongue in surprise but did not look at the noble daughter surrounded by the maidservants.

Guan Chibei stood beside her and did not look to the side. He only heard the young miss say as she passed by, “Second Aunt and Cousin are getting more ignorant. They’ve been out for too long…”

Oh, she was such a pampered daughter.

Ye Lulu had no other intentions and gave a simple evaluation in her heart as she brushed shoulders with a rich miss like her.

Of course, when they passed by, the maidservants beside the young miss looked at Ye Lulu disdainfully. They did not expect their young miss to bump into these people and tried to separate them from her.

That young miss was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. She would not have ordinary people in her sight and did not even look at Ye Lulu and Guan Chibei.

The two sides passed by.

The young miss led a group of people to Golden Inn while Ye Lulu and Guan Chibei returned to Yunwu Village because they had nothing else to do today.

They could go and help Mother Rong, but there was no need for this. They had other things to do. What they should consider next was the new shop.

However, after Ye Lulu and Guan Chibei returned to Yunwu Village…

They encountered something else.

The news of Ye Lulu’s stall being destroyed by Wang Ba and the rest naturally spread to the village. Ever since the Guan family’s stall was exposed, the villagers had been paying close attention to them.

People created trouble at Ye Lulu’s stall and the wooden cart was destroyed. Although those bullies were finally caught and brought back to the government, Ye Lulu could no longer do business.

She had also been in the village for the past few days, confirming this fact.

A villager immediately heard the news and moved. When he saw that Ye Lulu and Guan Chibei had returned to the village and that they were empty-handed, he immediately became bold and spoke.

“Oh, Ye Lulu, why are you so free? Aren’t you going to set up a stall?”

“Yeah, don’t you have to go to the docks anymore?”

The few people who saw them at the village entrance were all women. Their eyes were filled with smiles, but one could tell that they were mocking them.

“Don’t you guys go out to set up a stall every day? What’s going on? What happened? You walked around leisurely and didn’t take anything when you left for the city. What’s wrong?”

“Oh, weren’t you very busy? You went down the mountain before dawn and only came back when it was already dark. In the past, no one in the village could see you~ Why are you so free now? I see that you have time to walk around. You’re not busy anymore? Haha…”

The women laughed mockingly.

They were all the women who had the greatest reaction to the Guan family doing business and had the most thoughts. Among them was Auntie Beizi, who was the first to notice the Guan family setting up a stall.

Auntie Beizi smiled until her face was red. She even raised the corners of her eyes and looked at Ye Lulu happily. She said very loudly, “It’s because there’s no more stall to set up in the future and someone can’t do business, right? Ye Lulu, we all know that your stall has been destroyed by someone. Even the wooden cart that was used to set up the stall has been destroyed. You can’t go out to set up the stall anymore, right?!”

“You don’t have to hide it from us anymore. We all know about it. Your stall had just opened and it’s already destroyed. Although it was deliberately destroyed by a bully, you can be considered unlucky to have encountered such a disaster… This means that the heavens don’t want you to do business. In that case, you can only obediently take care of the children in the village.”

“Your Guan family is the same. Previously, I thought that you were very capable and even set up two stalls. How much money do you want to earn? I didn’t expect you to not be able to enjoy such a life. The people in the mountains should be from the mountains. What business do you want to do? You want to go to the city to earn other people’s money, but you can’t earn it…”

Auntie Beizi’s face was filled with joy. Those who didn’t know better would think that her daughter-in-law had given birth to a chubby boy today. In addition, her old man was full of vitality and she was especially happy.

Their attitudes could not be any more happy and excited.

Ye Lulu looked at her strangely and did not say anything to the villagers’ mockery. She continued walking with Guan Chibei.

It was mainly because she felt that it was very strange. After knowing that the Guan family was doing business, this group of people first started to discuss fervently in shock, then became jealous. All of them came to their door wanting to take advantage of the Guan family and asked for various things from the Guan family… Now, they were gloating.

What kind of mentality was this?

They wanted to take advantage of the Guan family but also wanted the Guan family to suffer misfortune at the same time?!

Wasn’t this schizophrenia? She hoped that all these people would go and take a look at their brains.

Ye Lulu was amused. She did not even mind their rebuttal, much less say that they would no longer set up a stall but open a shop instead. She walked home with Guan Chibei.

Under the guidance of Auntie Beizi, a few women were left behind. They laughed even harder behind their backs. They seemed to be crying as they chattered.

“Sigh, Ye Lulu left without saying anything. It looks like she’s feeling very uncomfortable…”

“Why aren’t you saying anything? Why didn’t you say a few words to us? Don’t leave just like that. Wasn’t your Guan family very glorious at first?”

“I remember that this Ye Lulu has a sharp tongue. She didn’t even say anything. Tsk, tsk. She’s really unlucky…”

“That’s why people shouldn’t be too ruthless when they’re proud of themselves. The Guan family didn’t say anything when the villagers ignored them. Look, they’ve gotten their retribution now. They don’t even dare to show their faces in the village.”

This group of women had just finished talking, but it was still not enough. They even wanted to spread the mockery of the Guan family throughout the village and gloat over their misfortune.

The Guan family turned a deaf ear to all of this because everyone was busy and had no time to pay attention to the words in the village.

At this moment, in the Golden Inn in Yuan City.

This inn was the most extravagant inn in Yuan City. Many people who stayed in it were either rich or noble. Even the mother-daughter pair, who had extraordinary statuses, could not book the entire inn, so they only booked half of the Tianzi floor. There were about four or five rooms. She and the little girl would stay in one. The maidservants would stay in two rooms. Secret guards would stay in the other rooms. A few other rooms were usually empty, just to separate the mother-daughter pair’s rooms.

The noble young miss, who walked on the street earlier, slowly walked up. That was right. The mother-daughter pair she was talking about were the two people Ye Lulu had met that day.

As for this young miss, her surname was Nangong and her name was Yupiao. She was the daughter of the first wife of the Nangong family and had an older brother. As she had said, the mother and daughter Ye Lulu had met were the second wife and daughter of the Nangong family. They were both noble and exquisite, and there was no difference in their status. That beautiful woman was called Madam Rufei. She was a famous beauty in Yingzhou. The title ‘Madam Rufei’ was a special praise for her.

As the legitimate wife of the Nangong family, her status was naturally extremely noble. She only had one child currently, and that was the little girl, Qin’er. Her full name was Nangong Qin.

The relationship between the eldest and second wife of the Nangong family was not considered distant. On the contrary, they were quite close. Madam Rufei was also a benevolent person and had always treated Nangong Yupiao very well.

However, although Nangong Yupiao looked noble, she actually had another strange identity. She was actually a daughter adopted by the eldest wife of the Nangong family. The entire Nangong family knew about this. At that time, Eldest Madam Nangong had just given birth to a younger daughter when she died as a baby. The couple lost their daughter in pain, but Eldest Madam Nangong couldn’t accept it. Then, she encountered an abandoned orphan, Nangong Yupiao, on a rainy night. She picked this baby girl up and adopted her as her daughter.

This was how Nangong Yupiao’s name came about.

Nangong Yupiao’s identity had not been hidden from anyone since the beginning. This was because the couple firmly believed that announcing her identity would not change anything. They wanted everyone to know Nangong Yupiao’s background, but at the same time, she was still the eldest daughter of the Nangong family.

This kind of honesty made the entire noble circle and Yingzhou people acknowledge Nangong Yupiao’s identity even more. Although everyone knew her background, no one dared to question her.

Nangong Yupiao had grown up like this and was completely unafraid of her adopted identity. Instead, she wholeheartedly believed that she was a member of the Nangong family and was tired of people talking about adoption.

In her opinion, since everyone acknowledged her identity as the daughter of the Nangong family, they could just treat her as part of the Nangong family’s bloodline. Why did they need to mention anything else?

Nangong Yupiao felt that it was meaningless.

“Second Aunt.” She stepped onto this floor and frowned habitually. She looked at Madam Rufei and Qin’er and performed the etiquette of a noble family. “I’m here. How are you and Qin’er living here? Did Second Uncle say how much longer you will be staying in Yuan City?”

“Come quickly, Yupiao.” Madam Rufei stepped forward to answer her and affectionately held Nangong Yupiao’s arm. A gentle smile spread across her face. “We’re living well. This inn isn’t bad. Your second uncle came back from Luzhou and passed by Yuan City. He probably wants to come over and stay for another day, so he asked us to stay here until he comes. It should be for another half a month.”

Nangong Yupiao immediately frowned and said, “Can’t Second Uncle just return to Yingzhou? Yuan City is small and remote. Why does he insist on staying here for a day? I miss home.”

Madam Rufei and her daughter came to Yuan City this time because her family had businesses in Yuan City. Furthermore, Second Master Nangong had an old friend who was in Yuan City. She had already passed away, but Second Master Nangong was very grateful to her. Every year at this time, he would come back for a day to remember his old friend.

As for Nangong Yupiao, she had also followed her parents to her hometown, Jingzhou, to visit her ancestors. They were on the way back to Yingzhou when her parents went to another city to take a look at the shops there. Nangong Yupiao knew that Madam Rufei and her daughter were here, so she came to Yuan City and prepared to go back with them.

This resulted in the scene today.

Nangong Yupiao raised her head and looked up as if this inn was basking in her presence.

“It’s not like you don’t know. Your second uncle comes to Yuan City every year. Since the date is close this year, we might as well stay in Yuan City and wait for him.”

Madam Rufei smiled gently and said to Nangong Yupiao, “Yuan City is quite fun. If Yupiao can’t wait, you can ask the secret guards to escort you to the ship. You can go to the nearby cities to relax. There are many delicious things in Yuan City. A few days ago, Qin’er and I found homemade fishballs from a family in the mountains at the market. They’re fresh, smooth, and tender. The taste is very good…”

Before Madam Rufei could finish, she was interrupted by Nangong Yupiao, who had an unhappy expression on her face. “Second Aunt, I heard that you brought Qin’er to eat something called… fishballs. Second Aunt, how can you be so muddle-headed? That fishball is unclean. We don’t know its source. Furthermore, it wasn’t made by the people around us. It was made by someone from the mountains!”

“Second Aunt, they’re not farmers but people from the mountains! Where do they live? What kind of terrible food do they use? Second Aunt, can you imagine that? How would you dare to eat their food and even feed Qin’er with it? The people in the mountains are so dirty… I don’t even dare to touch their food.”

Although Nangong Yupiao was adopted, her many years of affirmation and high status made her very arrogant. She spoke bluntly to Madam Rufei and even revealed a look of disgust. She was picking on the fishballs made by Ye Lulu.

Madam Rufei was stunned by Nangong Yupiao’s words, but she said in a very warm voice, “The water in the mountains is clearer, and the fish are fresher. It’s fine for your younger cousin Qin’er to eat them. Furthermore, Second Aunt also asked the accompanying doctor to take a look. That fishball is clean and fresh. There’s nothing wrong with eating it.”

Even with Madam Rufei’s explanation, Nangong Yupiao’s face was still filled with disdain. The main reason was that she looked down on those things from the mountains.

In the end, Madam Rufei said, “Speaking of which, we’ve already finished the few catties of fresh fishballs we bought last time. That stall inexplicably suits Qin’er’s appetite. Yupiao, you also know how difficult it is to coax your cousin Qin’er to eat. Unexpectedly, she actually likes that stall very much. Even with the accompanying chef, she still wants to eat a few fishballs made by that woman from the mountains during every meal…”