Ying Nan returned with a few cups of tea and some starters that he had made with Chen Mi. He placed them on the table and then scurried to sit with Chen Mi who smiled at him and handed him a few sunflower seeds to crack open and eat.
Ying Nan looked at the sweet and salty sunflower seeds and started to crack them with ease. Last night he was still troubled but now he wasn't as troubled as last night because he had been long infected by the enthusiasm of the Yu family. He had only stayed with them for two nights and they had treated him warmly with no hassles attached this was something that he appreciated a lot.
In the past when could he sleep in a warm bed and eat a full meal? His stepfather would keep him hungry because he wanted to make sure that Ying Nan would not get sleepy while hungry and would wake up early to cook food.
" So what have you two planned?" Grandma Yu asked with a light voice. " I am not saying that we are troubled by Ying Nan but it is not good for the entire village to be troubled like this, many of the families have their own things to do if they continue looking for a person who isn't even lost then their livelihood will be affected."
Most of the villagers in the Big Mountain Village depended on selling wild game, pickles and vegetables.
A few families did farm but they did not sell a lot of their own vegetables in the market now that the situation was dire but they still went to the town to sell their pickles and wild games, Grandma Yu heard from her friends that because Ying Nan was missing no women went to the town to sell anything and were staying in the village looking for Ying Nan.
" If they find Ying Nan soon then there will be no opportunity for us to rile the people of Big Mountain Village, Grandmother," Yu Dong explained as she looked at Grandma Yu with a soft yet sly smile. " We need to make the patience of the Big Mountain Village run dry and Da Qiao to be reprimanded by the county magistrate, only then will they hate and condemn everything that Old Master Ying does."
Yu Dong smiled when she saw that everyone understood what she wanted to say. She turned to look at one of the mer servants whom she had hired to help Chen Mi in the kitchen, he was a young boy who was being sold on the street by his drunken mother.
He was about to be sold as a courtesan but Yu Dong bought him with triple the amount and then handed him to Chen Mi such that he could learn cooking and then start working in the mall.
It was a good thing that the mer was honest and knew that he needed to do good work which was why he hardly created trouble for anyone.
Yu Dong told the mer to cook a few dishes for lunch and then turned to look at Song Yixu who asked her, " I heard from Sha Sha that you are going to open your mall next month. Is it true?" Continue your saga on мѵʟ
" It's true," Yu Dong nodded as she replied. She did not even need to know how Qiao Sha knew about the mall, it was most probably from Jiang Fenghua and Zhou Yan who were responsible for keeping an eye on the bread and jam department.
When Song Yixu heard Yu Dong's response, she frowned which attracted the attention of Yu Dong who asked, " Whats the matter? Are you not happy that I am opening a mall?"
" Truth be told, I am not."