Country Maiden: Fields and Fortune-Chapter 67

66, Big Surprise (2 updated)

Yuan Liuwang was so anxious that he started to stutter.

“There’s nothing else, just take it back!” Xie Zhinuan once again refused.

“And don’t send these things over in the future. People will gossip if they see!”

Seeing Xie Zhinuan like this,

Yuan Liuwang felt a bitter ache in his heart.

“Zhinuan, I just, just want to be good to you, you know exactly how I feel…”

“It’s not about what you feel; I am a girl from elsewhere, and settling down in this village is hard enough as it is. Your bringing things over like this, if seen by others, will cause talk, will lead to gossip. If you sold them to me at the market price, it would have been fine, but you don’t want silver…” Xie Zhinuan paused slightly and continued, “Plus, as a young lady, eating meat every meal would also make people talk!”

In short, she just didn’t want it.

Yuan Liuwang looked at Xie Zhinuan’s earnest face and took a deep breath, “Then I’ll sell it to you, just give me ten wen!”

“Look, you’re talking nonsense again. A chicken would cost at least a hundred wen, but you’re asking for ten from me. Besides, I already stewed a wild rabbit for lunch, so I won’t be eating chicken tonight. You’d better take it back quickly!”

“…”

Yuan Liuwang looked at Xie Zhinuan and seeing her serious rejection, felt increasingly uncomfortable and couldn’t save face, “Then, I’ll be going back first!”

He picked up the wild chicken and turned to leave.

Xie Zhinuan knew Yuan Liuwang was upset, but she was too busy to be concerned with whether Yuan Liuwang was happy or not.

She had to tend to the kitchen, keep an eye on the porridge, plant vegetables in the backyard in the afternoon, and then fence off a small area to raise a few chickens; she couldn’t always buy eggs from the villagers.

She hadn’t wanted to raise them, but at least she knew what her own chickens ate, and the eggs would be fresh.

She also needed to think of ways to make money. She couldn’t just sit back and rely on depleting her reserves, waiting for the house across the way to pay her for her work. What if one day they no longer needed her to cook?

Security was the priority, but earning money couldn’t stop.

It didn’t matter if she earned a lot or a little, she needed to have savings, so she wouldn’t panic in emergencies.

The items in the space could make her rich, but Xie Zhinuan always felt that they weren’t hers to use.

And so far, she hadn’t put a single thing into that space.

Thinking about others’ rooms filled to the brim, Xie Zhinuan felt a moment of embarrassment.

She had to work hard to earn money, to fill her room…

When Yuanbao came to pick up lunch, Xie Zhinuan thought that she needed to buy a mule cart, so she could go to the town to sell food. She was only confident in selling what she could make herself.

Li Hengyi saw that there were two kinds of porridge and a cold dish today, which looked very appetizing. He first took a sip of the chrysanthemum tender tip porridge, which was very sweet. Accompanied by a bite of the cold mixed Kalimeris indica, his appetite opened up instantly.

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Three small bowls of porridge and the Kalimeris indica salad later, his whole being felt extremely comfortable.

Standing by the window, Li Hengyi exhaled deeply.

He’d grown weary of exotic delicacies and had been unable to eat anything for three years, yet now a bowl of porridge could bring him happiness. It was truly rare.

“By rights, she should be rewarded!” Li Hengyi said softly.

“Master, what would you like to reward her with?” Yuanbao quickly asked.

“…” Li Hengyi fell silent for a moment, his thick eyebrows slightly furrowed, “What do you think she lacks?”

“?” Yuanbao thought carefully, “Miss Xie seems to lack everything, yet somehow looks as if she lacks nothing. In any case, everything she does is unhurried and seems well planned, quite different from those maidens in the capital!”

“Is that so?” Li Hengyi murmured softly.

Was he responding to Yuanbao or speaking to himself?

Yuanbao nodded, happily slurping up the plain porridge, then added, “My brother really has no taste, passing up such good porridge!”

In a few days, he would surely give his brother a big surprise!

Chapter 68