Chapter 131: Charming Villain
Fearing that her daughter couldn’t handle it, after all, this was silver!
She hurriedly, with trembling hands, took the silver and put it in her bosom, and patted it to make sure, before she finally felt at ease.
Wang Yongzhu came back to herself and realized that Old Granny Zhang had misunderstood. She was excited, certainly, but not because of the silver—it was the Points, okay?
Then she noticed the shop assistant glancing over with a hint of scorn and the typical urban disdain for rural folk, felt a blockage in her heart, knew it was best not to linger in the restaurant, politely thanked Shopkeeper Wu, and took her leave with Old Granny Zhang.
Only after Wang Yongzhu and her mother had walked away did the shop assistant who had been wiping tables nearby come over: "Uncle Wu, why did you give those two rural women so much money? These ignorant country women don’t know the value of things; wouldn’t a few taels of silver have sufficed to appease them?"
But to be so excited over a mere fifteen taels of silver, their hands trembling... Clearly, they’ve never seen the world; probably, they’ve never seen so much silver in their lives. They really are quite coarse.
The shop assistant believed he was above it all—this wretched place, dealing with these crude rural people every day was just unbearable.
Shopkeeper Wu chuckled and pointed to the Yellow Pine Mushrooms on the table for the shop assistant to see: "Take a close look at the quality of these Yellow Pine Mushrooms. Do you really think that people who’ve got no understanding, those ’ignorant country women,’ could procure such quality? You still have a lot to learn about judging people, kid!"
With that, he instructed the shop assistant to fetch an iron chest filled with crushed ice from the storeroom for storing fresh ingredients, and placed the Yellow Pine Mushrooms and the basket inside.