Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 76 The Suffering Punishing Shopkeeper_1

Chapter 76: Chapter 76 The Suffering Punishing Shopkeeper_1

Looking at the old and young pair before her, Mo Yan looked silently up to the sky.

If she were not absolutely certain she hadn’t done anything wrong, their "you’ve bullied me" expressions would have made her doubt whether she had committed some unforgivable atrocity against them!

This feeling really fucking hurts the balls!

"Both of you, I really do not have the secret farming method you’re talking about, could you please stop coming to me?"

Mo Yan, with a helpless face, repeated her refusal once again.

Ever since these two appeared at her stall half a month ago, insisting on buying the secret method for planting vegetables from her, what secret method could she possibly have besides Spiritual Spring? But could she actually reveal the Spiritual Spring?

If they were the type to forcefully seize what they wanted, she definitely wouldn’t have dealt with them so kindly, but apart from daily requests and pleasantries, they hadn’t done anything else, and their attitudes were so good, it made her feel too guilty to send them away!

The Punishing Shopkeeper wouldn’t believe it, and respectfully bowed his hands: "Miss Mo, I understand the preciousness of this secret method. As long as you name your price, I will try my best to satisfy you!"

If he weren’t of a certain age, too proud to kneel before a young girl, he’d have clung to her leg, weeping and begging for her mercy.

Mo Yongshou, who was weighing produce for a customer, paused and his eyes began to whirl about, clearly looking as if he were concocting some crooked scheme.

"Hey, hurry up with the weighing, I still need to take these back to serve my customers!" a well-dressed middle-aged woman urged impatiently.

"Nag, nag, nag, what’s with all the nagging? Can’t you see I’m weighing?" Mo Yongshou, interrupted, responded irritably.

"What’s with that attitude? Is this how you treat your customers?" the woman, not pleased at all, put down her basket and started to scold loudly.

The other customers in line began to grow restless, all pointing their fingers at Mo Yongshou.

Mo Yan noticed the commotion and hurried over, recognizing the middle-aged woman as a regular vegetable buyer. She tactfully added two handfuls of fresh garlic sprouts to the woman’s basket as an apology:

"Lady Cai, please don’t mind him, my worker is just a bit hot-tempered, nothing more. Which vegetables would you like to buy? I’ll weigh them for you myself to ensure you get a full portion. These garlic sprouts are my way of apologizing to you."

The middle-aged woman didn’t expect Mo Yan to remember her, and seeing her good attitude, felt respected, which quelled her anger. She only glared at Mo Yongshou and advised Mo Yan:

"Even a grown man like him is less sensible than a girl like you, he doesn’t even understand the simple concept of courtesy brings wealth. I think you’d better fire him sooner rather than later to save yourself trouble."

Mo Yan smiled, glared at Mo Yongshou, who wanted to retort, and motioned him to behave and quickly attend to other customers.

Mo Yongshou closed his mouth unwillingly, but in his heart, he had already cursed the middle-aged woman’s ancestors eighteen generations over.

Lin Meng, busy collecting money, glanced at the sulky Mo Yongshou and sneered disdainfully. Ever since this guy arrived, he had caused several problems for the Little Boss. Though they weren’t major issues, they were annoying enough. Only the Little Boss’ good temperament had spared him. If it was up to Lin Meng, he would have been sent away long ago.

Amid the bustle, Mo Yan forgot about Xing Qiang and Xiao Zhu, who were still waiting for an outcome on the side.

Usually, they would loiter around a bit and then leave, but now they had just three days left according to that person’s ultimatum. If they couldn’t get the secret technique, they would have to spend the New Year on the road to Mangzhou, which was a bleak prospect.

"Punishing Shopkeeper, I think Miss Mo definitely won’t agree. We’ve tried bribing her for over half a month without success, so why not just resort to force, ow—"

Xiao Zhu, his forehead throbbing in pain, looked at the Punishing Shopkeeper with teary eyes, complaining. Couldn’t we have a proper conversation without resorting to violence?

"Resort to force? If we could have, would we still be waiting until now?"

The Punishing Shopkeeper gazed in resentful reflection at Mo Yan’s receding figure. This young girl may not be old, but why was she so difficult to handle? No matter how valuable the secret method was, could it be worth more than genuine gold and silver?

Yet, what’s even more difficult was their master, who wouldn’t allow them to recruit customers in the name of Wu An’s Mansion, and now also forbade them from forcefully acquiring the technique. Yet, when they tried the soft approach, they got nowhere. They were at the end of their rope.

Touching his thinning pate, the Punishing Shopkeeper felt his twilight years were gloomy indeed. If he couldn’t get this done within three days, and if the master really sent him to godforsaken Mangzhou, he would rather smash his head against the city gates.

"So what do we do? I have an eighty-year-old grandmother and a three-year-old brother to look after, I don’t want to go to Mangzhou, boo-hoo~"

Xiao Zhu, clutching at the Punishing Shopkeeper’s sleeve, cried his eyes out.

"Shut your mouth. Can’t you come up with something else to say? You keep whining the same few lines over and over, isn’t it annoying?"

The Punishing Shopkeeper rebuked him, his forehead throbbing with pain, internally cursing his regret for having ever been soft-hearted enough to take on such a foolish nitwit. He felt utterly tormented by his stupidity!

"Hic~ Hmm~ Hic~"

Seeing the Punishing Shopkeeper getting angry, Xiao Zhu clamped his mouth shut, but then he couldn’t stop hiccupping.

The Punishing Shopkeeper, witnessing his disgraceful and foolish appearance, truly wanted to kick him twice and distance himself from such an idiot. How could he, a man of his wit, be associated with such a fool?

As Mo Yan began to pack up her stall, the Punishing Shopkeeper approached again, bowing even lower than before: "Miss Mo, I wouldn’t lie to you. Just speak up, no matter the condition, we can discuss it. This isn’t the right place to talk. Shall we find a better location to discuss this further?"

Mo Yan looked at him, feeling quite troubled herself, feeling that it was better to just clear everything up. So she nodded and told Lin Meng and the others to go on ahead.

Lin Meng, concerned, insisted on going along. Mo Yan naturally agreed.

The Punishing Shopkeeper readily consented, so the four of them left the vegetable market street, planning to find a quiet teahouse for a thorough discussion.

Mo Yongshou watched their departing figures with a scheming smile on his lips. Seeing his brother, Mo Yonglu, still diligently helping with the stall, he inwardly cursed "Idiot," then turned with a beaming smile to pat him on the shoulder...

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