Looking at the handkerchief in his hand, it was only a piece of yellow plain colored cloth. Aside from the sewn edge, there was only embroidered name Bai Zhi and nothing else.
Seeing that Bai Zhi was burying her head to her foods, Meng Nan simply shoved the handkerchief to his sleeve.
He thought he acted very natural and has no flaw, but he didn’t realize that there was a pair of eyes always staring at him.
After eating, Bai Zhi got up and said goodbye. She said not to stop taking the medicine and applying the topical medicine to the wound. After 5 days, she will come again for follow up check up.
Meng Nan personally sent the two outside and watched them leave until their carriage can no longer be seen. After that, he returned inside with Jin Shiwei.
He stretched out his arm to the touch the handkerchief on his sleeve. Unexpectedly, he didn’t touch anything. Meng Nan stopped and looked at his left and right sleeve.
“Gongzi, what’s wrong with you? Are you itchy? Do you want me to help you?” Jin Shiwei leaned forward and saw his young master frowning while grabbing his sleeves here and there. Every time he grabbed one side, his eyebrows knitted more and more.
“Why is it missing? I clearly put it here.” Meng Nan suddenly stopped. When they went outside, Hu Feng bumped into him and seemingly touched his chest in pain. Was it him?
“What is missing?” Jin Shiwei asked.
Meng Nan said with a gloomy face: “Nothing.”
Their carriage drove all the way to the village. When they arrived at the entrance, they encountered Old Li, who was driving out with his oxcart. Old Li shouted at Hu Feng: “Hu Feng, you hurry back, many people came in your house causing trouble."
Hu Feng’s eyebrows slightly wrinkled, his face sunk, and without saying anything, he raised the whip on his hand and struck the horse. The horse rushed all the way to the Hu Family’s house.
There were indeed many people around their courtyard. Hu Changlin and Zhao Lan were surrounded by those people. Those people keep saying words, while Hu Changlin and Zhao Lan only had a cold face and don't talk. The more those people pointed their fingers on the two, the more their mouth became loud.
“I really didn’t expect that Hu Changlin, who has always been honest, unexpectedly will also cause trouble during this disaster. Do you even have a little conscience?”
“That’s right, all this time you were selling low priced rice, is it not? Isn’t that what you also said?”
“You were oppressing people. Why do you have to do this kind of wicked thing? We’re not asking you to give us rice grains. We told you to sell us rice with the same price in the town before, but you’re also unwilling? Your heart is black. Do you want to see us die from starvation?”
“We all live in the same village, why do you have to do this to us? Just wait and see, if you continue crossing this line, you better wish for us not to meet again!”
Hu Changlin angrily asked: “Xu Laosan, what do you mean by that? Are you threatening me? Since when did I, Hu Changlin, got scared of your threat?”
Xu Laosan coldly said: “Who doesn’t know that since your Hu family lived with the mother and daughter, your family also get acquainted with the government officials. With such a solid backing, naturally, you will not be afraid of us, ordinary people.”
Zhao Lan trembled with anger: “What nonsense are you talking about? No good words are to be expected from a scoundrel!”
Xu Laosi followed his third brother’s footsteps and answered back: “We are talking nonsense? You started this event. And who in this village don’t know that you two lived and eat together? An old widow and an old bachelor, it’s not unusual for you two to get together. Why still cover things up and let people see you two us as a joke?”
“Your family is the one covering things up!” Bai Zhi’s voice sounded behind Xu Laosan and Xu Laosi.
*Laosan – Third member of the family.
*Laosi – Fourth member of the family.