Farm Girl's Manor

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?"