Becoming the Villain's Discarded Wife
Chapter 215: Buying Goods

Chapter 215: Chapter 215: Buying Goods

Shen Wenchen’s stoic face showed a crack when he saw Nanzhi extending her foot from the shadows.

His Nannan, she truly was a formidable girl...

Fearing for Nanzhi, Shen Wenchen hurriedly moved over to shield her, conveniently gave the man on the ground a kick, leaving him unable to stand up.

"Nannan, are you okay?"

"No, no problem..." Nanzhi’s stiffened as she shook her head, then after a while she nodded and said in a soft voice, "My, my ankle, it’s sort of aching..."

She couldn’t really be blamed for this. After all, her foot had already kicked out before her mind had time to react. The man was quite heavy, so although she managed to trip him, she nearly fell down as well. If it weren’t for Miaomiao’s timely reaction in grabbing her, she would probably have been lying on the ground by the time Shen Wenchen arrived.

"Next time you don’t need to be so...so heroic." Shen Wenchen’s face was filled with tenderness, his tone somewhat helpless.

Speaking of Nannan, she did help catch the man, but looking at the man’s condition on the ground, she might suffer from an aching ankle for quite some time.

Gu Lang stood on the side, somewhat perplexed by the commotion.

How did Miss Lin manage to trip that man?

Shen Miaomiao, however, took advantage of the distraction brought about by the commotion to pull the dumbfounded Gu Lang aside.

The two of them stood off to the side.

Several men tied up the fallen man and prepared to drag him away, they glanced back at Shen Wenchen before they left.

"Take him back."

Shen Wenchen spoke in a cold tone, looking at the man’s expression full of iciness, a stark contrast to his deep affection for Nanzhi moments ago.

At last, after half a year, he had been captured.

The men heeded their orders, disregarding the curious stares of the onlookers, and proceeded to take the man, bound like a zongzi (rice dumpling), back to the City Lord’s Residence.

"Don’t you need to go and handle things?"

Nanzhi looked at the man in front of her and after a moment of hesitation, finally asked.

The business fair was in just two days, and with the incident that just occurred, shouldn’t he be working diligently in the City Lord’s Residence resolving official business?

"I’ll stay with you for a while longer." Shen Wenchen looked at the frosty expression on Nanzhi’s face, which instantly softened.

"Are you really in no rush?"

Nanzhi asked somewhat suspiciously.

"No rush."

Shen Wenchen shook his head, stood side by side with Nanzhi, looked at her, then nodded and praised, "My Nannan looks really lovely today."

Because they were out strolling and shopping today, Nanzhi had worn the Luo skirt that Shen Wenchen had bought for her and put on a bit of makeup. Now, her almond-shaped eyes, having been startled a moment ago, were misty and damp, making her look like a terrified deer, adorably so.

"I’ve always been rather pretty." Nanzhi suddenly agreed, causing Shen Wenchen’s eyes to fill with even more tenderness.

"Yes, my Nannan is always pretty."

The man stated earnestly, which made Nanzhi somewhat embarrassed.

Looking on from the side and hearing their conversation, Shen Miaomiao and Gu Lang felt somewhat awkward.

Though Shen Miaomiao knew that Nanzhi and Shen Wenchen were husband and wife, the young girl hadn’t witnessed such intimacy before.

Even when they were back in Yan City, they could only meet occasionally, and most of the time they looked at each other from afar across the crowd, barely exchanging a few words.

Thinking about the young and inexperienced boy she knew, Shen Miaomiao felt a pang of heartache.

They were probably star-crossed lovers.

Gu Lang, on the other hand, was thinking about his younger sister back home.

He wondered how Ya’er was doing now.

If his uncle and aunt had found her a good husband.

Worrying about Nanzhi’s ankle, Shen Wenchen and Shen Miaomiao said hello and left with Nanzhi first.

Only two people were left in a daze.

"I should be fine." Nanzhi felt somewhat embarrassed being held by Shen Wenchen. She could only try to hide her face in his chest.

There were so many people around, this might cause trouble for Shen Wenchen too.

After all, as a city master, holding a girl publicly, isn’t he just giving people something to talk about?

"It’s not for you to say, we won’t know if there’s a problem until the doctor says."

Turning into a relatively quiet corner, Shen Wenchen holding Nanzhi, flew onto the eaves.

Feeling weightless, Nanzhi subconsciously looked down, then quickly withdrew her gaze, holding onto Shen Wenchen a little tighter.

After all, if she accidentally fell, given her physique, if she didn’t die, she would most likely be crippled.

Anyone who said that being carried to fly was fun, she would be the first to disagree!

Shen Wenchen found the nervousness in her eyes somewhat amusing. He thought about scaring her but was afraid of making his little wife cry, so he calmly headed towards Jihe Hall.

The two doctors at Jihe Hall were quite skilled. Taking Nannan there would give him peace of mind.

Lin Yicheng and Lin Ercheng’s couples were stuffing their bellies with wonton while accompanying their children.

Shen Zhiyu originally wanted to take a sip of soup from the small bowl, but she noticed a strange shadow jumping around on the table. When she looked up, she saw someone holding something, running fast on the distant roof.

Yuanbao had been paying attention to Shen Zhiyu’s movements. At this moment, he was also excitedly pointing at the gradually disappearing figure and shouted.

"It’s mother! Mother is flying!"

"Fat mare? Where?"

After hearing Yuanbao’s words, Lin Yicheng and Lin Ercheng both looked up but only saw the overlapping roofs, where was their sister’s figure?

"Eat quickly, we will continue to shop later." Chen Qiulan thought the reaction of her husband and brother-in-law was somewhat amusing, their younger sister wasn’t a bird, how could she fly?

The four children obediently continued to eat their food. After finishing, they continued to shop around North Market.

Because there were many foreign merchants, the dazzling array of goods almost blinded them.

Lin Zihan and Lin Jian spent their twenty wen on trinkets, even Yuanbao spent fifteen wen on a hair ornament made of shell. Only Shen Zhiyu, who was holding her pocket money, showed no interest at the sight of the merchandise.

Until the afternoon flea market, Shen Zhiyu finally pointed seriously at a stall run by a woman outside the market.

"Grandma, I want to buy this!"

The woman looked at what the child was pointing at, somewhat bewildered.

She was a peasant woman from a village outside the city, and she wanted to take advantage of the crowd to sell some trinkets she made in order to supplement her household income.

The stalls in North Market were all booked, and she was unwilling to spend twenty wen to rent a spot, and so she waited until the flea market to sell her goods outside.

As for what the child was pointing at, it was something she had picked up on the road outside the city in the morning.

At first, she had wondered why such an object was lying by the road, but as the saying goes- waste not, want not, she picked it up.

She never thought it would actually sell.

"Grandma, how much is this?"

Yuanbao joined Shen Zhiyu in asking curiously.

"This, ten wen." The woman hesitated, but still gave the price.

Given that the two couple didn’t seem to be short of money, she thought ten wen could be worth her effort of having to carry it around.

"Here’s your money."

Shen Zhiyu took out ten copper plates from her little purse and handed them to the woman.

Looking at the object wrapped in a damp cloth, the little girl pursed her lips.