Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 932 Trouble (1)

Chapter 932: Chapter 932 Trouble (1)

Cui Pingan circled around Da HongZao and came to the front of the carriage, looking at Mo Yan and declared with conviction, "If you escort Young Master to Yuan City, once we arrive, Young Master will give you a generous reward."

Mo Yan did not recognize Cui Pingan, let alone know that this awfully chuunibyou-looking fellow was the very Seventh Master Cui who had been extravagantly praised by the matchmaker earlier.

Seeing Cui Pingan’s somewhat pale complexion and his frailty that seemed as if a gust of wind could knock him over, Mo Yan knew that he was inherently weak and in very poor health. Although she felt sympathy for him, she also thought that accumulating good deeds by helping others should still depend on the person in question.

The lad before her had just been tricked by someone, and now he was making such a request to her, a stranger, which obviously meant that he wasn’t the brightest. She certainly had no intention of paying him any mind.

And so, Mo Yan indeed ignored the chuunibyou youth, and amidst his panic-stricken gaze, she urged Da HongZao to continue onward.

"Hey, wait, just wait a moment," Cui Pingan called out, seeing Mo Yan pay no heed to him and simply go around. He became anxious at once, shouting loudly and, in a couple of quick steps, he managed to block Da HongZao’s path.

Another person would certainly not make such an entitled demand for help from someone else, nor would they trust a stranger so easily as to get on their carriage. However, having grown up on a southern plantation, Cui Pingan was the master of the estate; the tenants there only held him in high regard, not daring to harm him or do anything that might upset him.

The attendants by his side were all loyal servants specially selected by Old Lady Cui, taking great care of Cui Pingan in every aspect. However, given the clear distinction between master and servant, no one taught him about the malevolent nature of humans. The plantation had no people with ill intentions, so even though he had lived his life over, he still retained a naive and easy-to-deceive nature.

When he left Cui Mansion, Cui Pingan originally planned to hire a carriage to Jiangnan Yuan City, but those coachmen were real swindlers, asking for two hundred taels of silver straight away.

Though somewhat naive, he was no fool; he knew he was being treated like a cash cow. So, he inquired with several other coachmen in the hope of finding a reliable one to take him south.

Perhaps because Cui Pingan’s innocent appearance seemed too easy to deceive, those coachmen who regularly undertook long journeys also faced enormous risks. Their asking price kept soaring, one higher than the other, with the highest even demanding five hundred taels, which infuriated Seventh Master Cui quite a bit.

After repeatedly running up against a wall, Seventh Master Cui began to deeply doubt human nature, thinking that the people here were utterly corrupt. Thereby, he temporarily abandoned the idea of going to Yuan City, deciding to return to Cui Mansion to have a proper discussion with his grandmother. However, to his dismay, he realized he was lost and had no idea which way to head to the Cui Mansion.

Wandering around aimlessly, more than two hours passed by. He didn’t dare to ask passersby for the location of Cui Mansion, fearing that he might encounter the evil slave traders that the old servant had told him about when he was younger, being tricked and sold by them. Instead of meeting slave traders, he ended up encountering a woman who was selling herself to bury her father, and he was nearly swindled by her.

This turn of events left the naive Seventh Master Cui truly doubting life, feeling that even while in the midst of a bustling market, danger lurked everywhere. Hence, he was even more reluctant to casually seek help.

The reason he stopped Mo Yan’s carriage was because during the entanglement with the woman selling herself to bury her father, he had accidentally seen Mo Yan speaking amiably to a small beggar, even giving the beggar something. He thought that Mo Yan, who did not disdain even a dirty beggar, was a truly good person who would definitely help him out of his plight.

Yet, just as Seventh Master Cui had just started to understand the wickedness of human nature, he had no idea how to actually seek help, so he brashly asked a young lady to take him to the south. No matter how kind-hearted a maiden might be, she wouldn’t simply agree to take you to a city thousands of miles away like Yuan City!

And his presumptuous and entitled demeanor only made it more likely for others to find him off-putting.

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