Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 842: Tricking a Scumbag (3)

Chapter 842: Chapter 842: Tricking a Scumbag (3)

On the morning of March 16th, Mo Yan drove to the city in her carriage, planning to pick up the various grilling tools that she had custom-made at the blacksmith’s two days earlier. Whether or not the outing would happen, it would be great for her family to enjoy some grilled meat with red wine at home.

After retrieving the grilling tools, Mo Yan strolled down the street. When she noticed some beautiful kites displayed at a roadside stall, she got off the carriage and spent 200 copper coins carefully selecting eight kites of different designs: six for the little ones at home to play with and the remaining two for San Ni and Shitou.

Having secured the kites, Mo Yan got back on the carriage and urged Da HongZao forward.

At that moment, the street wasn’t very crowded, and as Da HongZao moved at a leisurely pace, Mo Yan took great interest in observing the small stalls on both sides of the street, hoping to find something interesting.

While looking, Mo Yan suddenly recognized the side profile of a man standing in front of a stall not too far ahead. Upon closer inspection, she identified him: Young Master Du—Liu Tinglan’s fiancé, Du Wencai!

This year, Du Wencai was twenty-one and, typically, men of his age should have already been married. However, the Du Family had two elderly people confined to bed, the men in the family were picky and proud, leaving only a few women to make ends meet by doing laundry and mending for others.

Despite being poor and bogged down by a mountain of debt, even having a Scholar in the family couldn’t change the fact that they all crammed into two run-down rooms without even a cloth curtain to divide them.

Yet, Du Wencai held himself in high regard, believing he was destined for great things. He looked down on girls from similarly impoverished families and aspired to marry into a family with status and power, hoping to rise rapidly and escape his dismal life of poverty and desperation.

In such a situation, which decent family would want their daughter to suffer by marrying into the Du family? Therefore, when Du Wencai turned twenty, not a single matchmaker came knocking. It wasn’t until the Du Family was unable to bear the heavy debt and approached the Liu Family themselves that the Lius knew of the Du’s existence, and thereby Liu Tinglan was engaged to Du Wencai.

Of course, this ambition of Du Wencai didn’t seem like a problem to Mr. and Mrs. Liu. Isn’t having ambition proof of a desire to progress? If only they knew that years later, Du Wencai would pass the Jin Shi examination but cruelly cast aside their beloved daughter, even a knife held to their throats wouldn’t make them marry her off to such a heartless, ungrateful brute.

Currently, Du Wencai was at a stall selling women’s ornaments, holding up a rather delicate silver hairpin and comparing it against the hair of a charming young woman standing beside him.

No one knew what he said, but it made the young woman cover her lips with a chuckle, flirtatiously throwing a seductive glance at Du Wencai.

The woman’s appearance was average, but her laugh added a bit of coquettish charm. For a moment, Du Wencai was so entranced he couldn’t snap out of it.

It seemed the woman was embarrassed by Du Wencai’s gaze, and while she pretended to hit him with her fists—a gesture that seemed more playful than upset—she giggled.

The next instant, Du Wencai grabbed the woman’s hand and held it tightly in his palm. After a token struggle from the woman, seeing she could not pull away, she glared at Du Wencai in mock anger and let him be.

Thus, the man and woman flirted openly in public, hand in hand, completely indifferent to the disapproving glances from passersby.

To the average onlooker, they might seem like a couple, eliciting nothing more than a few inward snide remarks, with no one inclined to intervene and reproach the two for indecency. Mo Yan, however, was nearly furious, wishing she could grab the horsewhip beneath her and lash the flirtatious Scum Du into oblivion.

Although she had no intention of letting this scoundrel marry her best friend, he was, at present, the Liu Family’s prospective son-in-law. His brazenness in bringing another woman out in public showed he didn’t care about the Liu Family in the slightest and had never respected his engagement to Liu Tinglan, trampling the Liu Family’s dignity and sincerity underfoot. It was utterly

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