Chapter 40: Childhood Sweethearts Invite the Green Plum
Xiao Wang also ’enthusiastically’ tried to get closer: "Yeah, yeah, Brother, don’t be so polite with us. Oh, isn’t this Sun Mei’s maternal Second Brother and his family? I was wondering why they looked familiar. Perfect, let’s all go together..."
Zhao Dong was just about to respond to them when Aunt stood up and shouted in her loud voice, "Boss, the bill please!"
She directly interrupted Xiao Wang’s attempt to curry favor.
Then, Aunt (Liu Clan) looked at Xiao Wang and said in surprise, "Well, if it isn’t Xiao Wang! Are you this idle? Shouldn’t the tavern be busiest at this hour? How do you have time to wander around? Don’t tell me your tavern is about to close down?"
Hearing her tavern cursed to close, Xiao Wang’s face immediately fell.
Just then, the shopkeeper came over and said to Zhao Dong’s group with a smile, "Honored guests, six bowls, that’ll be twelve coins in total."
By this time, everyone had finished their noodles and didn’t want to get further entangled with Xiao Wang and her companions. After paying, they prepared to leave; they still needed to buy writing supplies for Zhao Zhitong.
However, though they wanted to leave, Xiao Wang was relentless, following them out of the noodle shop with a sarcastic tone, "Humph, you can rest assured, my tavern’s business is booming! Not like some people who sell tofu for two days and still can’t afford two bowls of lousy noodles. Eight people, eating six bowls! I say, Brother, you can’t be *that* stingy! Sun Mei’s maternal family came all this way to help you; you should at least treat them to a proper bowl each!"
Xiao Wang truly looked down on Zhao Dong’s family from the bottom of her heart. She really couldn’t understand why her husband had asked her to seek out Brother’s family, these Evil Stars, and even told her to suck up to them and invite them to their tavern for a meal.The dishes in their tavern were so exquisite and expensive; why should they serve them to these lowlifes? Besides, it was just some worthless tofu recipe, street stall stuff at best!
With Xiao Wang’s sarcastic tone, even the usually good-tempered Zhao Dong was getting a little angry, let alone Aunt, whose fiery temper meant she wasn’t one to stand by and take insults.