Chapter 132 Again Criticizing Fate (2)_1
"This must have cost quite a bit," Qian Xiabai set down the tobacco, truly reluctant to refuse such an offer.
He had been abandoned at the entrance to the village at birth, raised on the generosity of numerous families. As an unregistered person with no land, nobody wanted to share their life with him. He had remained single and later learned some skills, but they were just enough to get by. Generous people like the Ruanlin Family were rare; just asking for a date was rewarded with a pound of meat, while others would simply give some grain or coarse rice.
This time, they had even given him two pounds of tobacco...something he absolutely couldn’t afford to buy himself.
His hand trembled slightly as he caressed it, and when he touched something else, he felt the gifts were too valuable.
Just as he was about to say he couldn’t accept them, the lady of the Ruanlin Family spoke first, "Brother Qian, don’t be too hasty to refuse. I truly have something I need to ask of you this time."
"Ah? You say, you say." Qian Xiabai quickly replied.
The lady of the Ruanlin Family narrated the recent situation with Ruan Jiaojiao, including the incidents with the animals that suddenly appeared. Of course, she didn’t put it too bluntly, afraid of bringing misfortune to Ruan Jiaojiao. She delicately asked whether Ruan Jiaojiao’s great fortune brought these things to the Ruan Family while simultaneously depleting her own health.
Qian Xiabai lived in the same team as the Ruan Family and had heard some things about them, including the gossip that Ruan Jiaojiao had been snatched by a monkey into the mountains and returned unharmed after a day and a night. There were rumors whether some mountain spirit had transformed in this way.
But he had not expected this twist, and it took his breath away.
Ruan Jiaojiao herself could hardly believe it, looking at the lady of the Ruanlin Family in disbelief. Had her grandmother actually seen through her "golden finger"?
"Brother Qian?" Seeing that Qian Xiabai had not responded for a while, the lady of the Ruanlin Family prompted him.