Farm Girl's Manor-Chapter 276 A Farce to Buy a Shop (5)_1

Yao Taohua was taken aback, and after glaring at him for a moment, she urgently took his hand and said, "Husband, I was just joking, wanting you to stand up for our business, to get our family business up and running. With our home in such hardship, how could I leave?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ming felt somewhat moved, and, touching the child’s sleeping face, he said, "The illness has incapacitated Dad from managing the business, and I’m not cut out for trade. The way things are at home has indeed been hard on both you and our child."

Seeing that he no longer demanded she leave, Yao Taohua breathed a sigh of relief, but she looked down on this pathetic man even more.

Just then, a middle-aged woman came over with a half-grown child, pointing at the door of Zhang Ji’s rice shop and saying, "Look, this is the one. Remember, if Mom tells you to buy rice, you must not come here to buy it again. Eating their rice can kill you, understand?"

The child earnestly nodded, "I know, Mom. The owner of this rice shop has a black heart and sells poisoned rice. I definitely won’t come here and I’ll tell other people not to come either."

"Exactly, that’s right."

Already fuming, Yao Taohua could no longer endure upon hearing this conversation.

She shoved the child into Zhang Ming’s arms, rushed to the doorway, and pointed at the middle-aged woman, cursing, "Watch your filthy mouth! If you spout nonsense again, I’ll tear your mouth off! If you don’t want to buy rice then get lost, don’t dirty my doorway standing there, scram, get out of here now!"

"You shameless little whore, who are you cursing at?" The middle-aged woman was fiery too, responding with a curse when a younger woman pointed at her and berated her, "The whole street knows your Zhang Ji has a conscience black as coal, selling poisoned rice. You’ve done something worthy of a lightning strike, and yet you are afraid of being talked about?"

"It’s you who is utterly shameless, your whole family is shameless!" Yao Taohua, ever more infuriated, shouted over the noise of the street, "Scram! All of you, get the hell away! If you don’t leave now, don’t blame me for grabbing a broom and driving you off."

The middle-aged woman was not intimidated by her and thrust out her full bosom, "Come on then, come at me, I’m not going anywhere, I want to talk! Try to drive me away with a broom, or else I will keep standing here!"

Indeed wanting to teach the woman a lesson and provoked by her challenge, Yao Taohua looked all around for a broom. Unable to find one, she picked up a pole used for carrying rice that was about four feet long and as thick as a calf from a corner and swung it at the woman.

She had meant only to scare the woman off, but one foot on the step caused her to lurch forward with effort, and the pole flew from her grip, coincidentally striking the woman hard on the forehead.

"Ah—" The woman clutched her head and screamed in pain, collapsing to the ground.

Seeing this, the child was frightened and quickly helped the woman up, crying out loud, "Mom, Mom, what’s wrong with you, don’t scare me!"

By this time, a crowd had already gathered around to watch the spectacle, and, seeing such a scene unfold, they were all startled and began to berate Yao Taohua as cruel and for committing an assault in the street.

The blow from the pole was quite severe, leaving the woman feeling dizzy. Once the spinning sensation subsided, she shakily moved her hand to reveal the blood in her palm. A cut had opened on her forehead and was profusely bleeding, quickly covering her face, making the sight truly horrifying.

The child, upon seeing this, burst into loud wailing. The people around, witnessing the scene, lambasted Yao Taohua and urged her to quickly take the woman to the infirmary.

"No, no, it wasn’t me, I didn’t do it!"

Yao Taohua was also panicked by the blood on the woman’s face, and backup in bewilderment into the shop in the face of everyone’s accusations.