Farm Girl's Manor-Chapter 275 A Farce to Buy a Shop (4)_1

After learning about these developments, Mo Yan deliberately brought Lizhong to the teahouse opposite Zhang Ji’s rice shop and booked a private room on the second floor. From the window, they could easily see Zhang Ji’s rice shop.

They watched for a long time and saw that the normally unspectacular business of Zhang Ji’s rice shop had become even more desolate. Many people who knew the inside story pointed fingers and talked about it, dissuading uninformed customers who wanted to enter to buy rice. They then spilled all the misdeeds of the Zhang Family, and those who had wanted to buy rice fled hastily upon hearing them, not daring to enter the shop!

Upon seeing this, Lizhong muttered the word "retribution" to himself. The word was not only for his poor daughter but also for those others poisoned by the moldy rice.

If the Zhang Family had merely been emotionally detached, he might have resented them but would not have had other thoughts. Now that the Zhang Family had committed such selfish acts, his disdain deepened.

Who else but such people deserve retribution?

Inside Zhang Ji’s rice shop, the delicate-faced Zhang Ming sat beside the counter with a troubled expression, holding a one-year-old child—the seductive woman beside him was his former mistress, now his wife, Yao Taohua.

Zhang Fugui had been beaten with dozens of rods and lay immobile in bed; needing the care of the Hu family, he was unable to tend to the shop, which was temporarily overseen by Zhang Ming and his wife.

"Tell me, what’s the use of being so tall if you can’t even bring in business? You can’t think of any ideas either. If this continues, our household won’t even be able to lift the pot off the fire! Do you want to starve our Baobao to death?"

Yao Taohua, having finally soothed her constantly crying child to sleep, began to curse irritably, poking Zhang Ming’s forehead and bemoaning her own misfortune. First, she married a short-lived husband, and then she married the good-for-nothing Zhang Ming. Now, their house was as poor as a pauper’s, unable to afford even meat.

Accustomed to living comfortably, Yao Taohua grew more enraged the more she thought about it. Seeing her husband’s dejected appearance, she hated herself even more for having not foreseen mingling with such a worthless man.

She punched Zhang Ming hard on the shoulder and shouted, "I’ve said so much, and not a peep from you. If you can’t think of a way to boost the business soon, I don’t want to continue living with a useless man like you!"

This tirade crushed Zhang Ming’s spirit so much that he couldn’t look up. Unprepared for the strike, he swayed and fell to the ground, his head colliding with the wall with a ’thud.’

Seeing this, Yao Taohua felt a flicker of unease and quickly stood up, holding the child and attempting to help Zhang Ming. However, he pushed her hand away and climbed up himself.

"I’m useless, I’m a waste. If you want to leave, then leave!"

Looking at Yao Taohua, who had previously been tender and is now as picky as a tigress due to the lack of money, Zhang Ming’s mind flashed through the gentle and beautiful face of his lawful wife. Shaking his head, he resignedly said, "Now that there’s no silver at home, if you want to leave, considering our past as husband and wife, I won’t stop you."

"What? What are you saying? You want to drive me away?"

Yao Taohua was startled; she had only been venting, and did not expect this loser to actually consider divorcing her. She was self-aware; she wasn’t extraordinarily beautiful, she had a child, and her figure wasn’t what it used to be. Finding a new dependant might not be as easy as handling Zhang Ming.

Moreover, although the Zhang Family had fallen, they still owned a rice shop in a prime location worth three to four thousand silver. It was unclear whether they might rise again, and she definitely did not want to leave without gaining anything.

Zhang Ming had no idea what she was thinking; assuming she truly wanted to leave, he nodded and said, "If you’re unwilling to endure hard times with me, preventing you is useless. If you want to leave, I will grant you a divorce letter. I will also talk to my parents, persuading them not to stop you!"