Chapter 268
268 Chen Yuan Is Here to Report the Good News
Xie Changsheng rolled her eyes at Xu Linglong. “No matter what kind of person King Xiaoyao is, don’t forget that you’re just a farmer girl from the village. If King Xiaoyao beats you up and turn you into a maidservant, I want to see what you’ll do!”
If she became a maidservant, she would be a lowly person. It would be as difficult as ascending to the heavens to return to her status as a commoner.
“You have a point.” Xu Linglong nodded seriously, but her gaze at Xie Changsheng was not friendly.
On the second day, the Old Madam of the Duke An Manor, who had been paying her respects to Buddha, suddenly appeared and wanted to bring Xie Changsheng along as a maidservant.
Xie Changsheng naturally refused. She shouted that her father was an official and she was the daughter of an official. How could she become a maidservant?
However, what she received was a letter of agreement from her father. It was written in black and white that he was willing to give his daughter, Xie Changsheng, to the Duke An Manor as a maidservant.
As for what benefits her father had obtained, Xie Changsheng no longer had the time to care.
It was also at this moment that Xie Changsheng sensed that something was wrong.
She remembered that when she read the original novel, although the female lead was scheming, she was definitely not such an evil woman. She was so evil that it made one’s hair stand on end.
At a certain moment, Xie Changsheng could not help but have doubts in her heart. “Could the plot god have lied to me? This is not a female lead at all, right?!”
If such a person could be the female lead, she would definitely have been locked away in her original world. Her morals were bad!
From an official’s daughter to a maidservant, Xie Changsheng’s days in the Duke An Manor were worsening. Not only was she bullied, but she was also beaten and scolded.
It was another day, and Xie Changsheng was beaten black and blue. She lay on the tattered straw mat with an empty stomach. The hatred in her heart had reached its peak.
This evil primitive society did not treat people as humans at all!
“Xu Linglong, just you wait. Even if I have to forfeit the mission and can’t go home, I’ll definitely skin you alive!!”
At this moment, Xie Changsheng no longer thought about completing the mission and going home, nor did she want to confirm the identity of the vicious supporting actress. She only thought about dragging Xu Linglong into hell.
A cold light flashed across her eyes. “You want to save King Xiaoyao? Hehe, let’s see if you can save him!”
If this world did not exist with the female lead as the will, then there was no need to care about the female lead’s morals. It was fine as long as the male lead was still around.
Since someone like Xu Linglong could become the female lead, why couldn’t she?
The plot god said that she could not touch the female lead’s golden finger, but he did not say that she could not touch the female lead.
Xie Changsheng thought of countless thoughts in her heart, but in the end, she only gasped and gritted her teeth. “We’ll wait and see.”
However, the matter of these two people fighting was only confined to the Duke An Manor and did not affect the people outside.
In the blink of an eye, it was the turn of autumn and winter. The weather gradually turned cold. Far away in Nanhe Town, Little Ah Yu also began to put on a small cloak.
It was specially made by Madam Ma for Little Ah Yu. There was also a ring of white fur on the top of the cloak, making Little Ah Yu’s face look especially rosy and translucent.
Little Ah Yu was standing under the persimmon tree in the courtyard and looking at the red persimmons above her head. She rubbed her small hands and wanted to climb up the tree to pluck them.
Chi Tu stood on the roof at the side and was also hesitating about whether to help.
“Ah Yu, you ate more than 10 yesterday and couldn’t even eat at night. Grandma said that you can’t eat anymore.” Wang Silang happened to pass by with something and hurriedly called out to Little Ah Yu.
Little Ah Yu curled her lips and argued, “I’m not plucking it to eat it myself. I saw that you were so tired, so I wanted to help you pick some.”
Wang Silang held back his laughter and did not expose her.
“Alright, alright, alright. Thank you for your kindness, Ah Yu. However, if we want to eat, we can pick them ourselves. Don’t overexert yourself.”
Wang Silang freed his hand to hold Little Ah Yu’s hand. He looked at his sister, who had grown taller, and asked softly, “Why didn’t I see you playing with Yang Liu and the others today?”
“Liu’er has returned to her maternal grandfather’s house, and Sister Wenwen has also gone to visit her relatives. Everyone is busy.” Little Ah Yu poked her finger and said with a little boredom. “Fourth Brother, when are we going back to the village? I want to play with Sister Bian Dan.”
There were more children in town than in the village, but the children in town were all busy. Everyone was busy every day.
Only Little Ah Yu completed the mission of memorizing her materials early every day. She wrote the words as well as quickly as possible, and she always performed better in her studies than her brothers.
Actually, Little Ah Yu was also very serious about practicing martial arts. However, Liu Shi was worried that Little Ah Yu would do too well and grow up to be a burly woman. That would be bad. Therefore, she restrained Little Ah Yu from learning too much.
This caused Little Ah Yu to have a lot of time every day. Sometimes, she would even deliberately take a nap and run to the spatial pocket to play with Meatball.
Meatball did not have any good ways to accompany her. It could only read all kinds of stories to Little Ah Yu every day and hide the knowledge in the stories.
In the end, it was still boring.
Wang Silang thought for a moment and said, “In two days, Big Brother will come to town to deliver food. Why don’t you tell Grandma and Fourth Aunt to let you follow Big Brother back to play for a few days?”
They were in the North County, which was located in the north of the Dachang Kingdom. More than half of the country would have snow. Usually, during the winter month, schools, private schools, and schools everywhere would have winter vacations.
In another month, they would also start their holidays. They would only return to school after the new year.
Little Ah Yu’s eyes lit up. “Alright, I’ll ask Grandma and Mother!”
Little Ah Yu was a person who did as she pleased. She immediately broke free from Wang Silang’s hand and ran towards Old Madam Wang.
Old Madam Wang was receiving Chen Yuan in the hall. Ever since they discussed the deal for the recipes of the bun shop, Chen Yuan had officially cooperated with the Wang Family.
Back then, when they agreed on the price for the meat soup dumplings at the price of 2,000 taels of silver, Chen Yuan even doubted his life and felt that he had suffered the first huge loss since he started trading.
In the end, a surprise descended from the sky.
“Old Madam, in the name of the Wang Family Steamed Bun Shop, I’ve opened branches everywhere. Now, there are more than 30 shops in Great Chang Nation and more than 10 in West Wind Nation. All the shops have begun to make a huge profit.”
At this point, Chen Yuan became excited. “You were right back then. If not for your Wang Family’s kindness, perhaps even if we bought the formula, we would never have our current achievements.”
Old Madam Wang only smiled. “It’s just a mutually beneficial cooperation.”
Actually, compared to the Wang Family Steamed Bun Shop, the buns from the other branches were definitely inferior.
This was because Old Madam Wang had only given Chen Yuan a small amount of well water back then and told him to mix this water into the well water of the bun shop branches.
It was diluted water to begin with. After another round of dilution, the effect was naturally greatly reduced.
Even so, the taste was not something ordinary buns could compare to.