Li Jiang whispered in Wang Huanhua's ear, "Tomorrow is the market day. Go to town and see what those ingrates are selling. Act accordingly."

Wang Huanhua nodded in understanding, her lips pouting. This ungrateful wretch had no conscience; it had been so hard for his mother to raise him.

They never prioritize their own family when it comes to anything, and they don't even include Xiao Lin in their business dealings.

When Wang Huanhua thought of Li Lin, she realized that he had disappeared early in the morning after breakfast.

At this moment, Li Lin was nestled in Liu Tao's bed, entwined with Liu Tao in a tender moment!

Suddenly, a series of urgent knocks on the door startled the two people in bed.

Liu Tao quickly pushed Li Lin off her and whispered, "You hide quickly, I'll go see who's here?"

Li Lin gave Liu Tao a peck, clearly annoyed. This little vixen had him completely bewitched lately.

I miss him terribly if we don't see each other for even a day.

Liu Tao quickly got out of bed, put on her clothes, and saw that Li Lin had already hidden under the bed.

He then went to open the courtyard gate while fixing his hair.

As soon as the door opened, standing outside was none other than Li Ben, whom they hadn't seen in a long time.

Li Ben looked around and, seeing that no one was there, closed the door and then hugged Liu Tao tightly.

Liu Tao almost vomited from the smell of Li Ben's sweat. She pinched her nose in Li Ben's arms and asked, "What are you doing? Let me go right now."

Upon hearing this, Li Ben hugged Liu Tao even tighter and leaned down to kiss her neck. "Why are you ignoring me? I've come looking for you several times, but you won't open the door."

Liu Tao naturally knew that Li Ben was looking for her, but Li Ben was incredibly stingy; they had been friends for so long and he had never given her a single tael or two of silver.

He's not even as good as that kid Li Lin, who bought him a lot of things. Compared to Li Lin, Li Ben seems even more useless.

Who would even bother with him anymore!

Liu Tao hurriedly pushed Li Ben away, "How could I ignore you? It's just that Wan Ya lost her child, and I thought you should treat her well. It's better for us to break up like this."

Upon hearing that Liu Tao wanted to break up with him, Li Ben was extremely anxious and shouted at Liu Tao, "I don't agree! If you want to break up with me, I'll tell everyone about us!"

Liu Tao muttered angrily, "You bastard, I have someone better now. Who do you think you are? You dare to threaten me? What are you?"

"Go ahead and say it. We'll see whether the villagers believe you or me in the end."

Li Ben panicked upon hearing this. He couldn't bear to break up with Liu Tao, and besides, Wan Ya wasn't paying any attention to him at home. If he left this place, where would he go...?

He hurriedly grabbed Liu Tao's hand: "I was just saying that in anger, don't be angry. I'll go back first, and we'll talk again after you've rested. Anyway, I'm not going to break up with her."

Li Ben hurriedly left the house.

Looking in the direction Li Ben had left, Liu Tao felt an overwhelming sense of resentment: how could she have been so blind to have gotten involved with such a scoundrel?

Hiding inside the house, Li Lin saw everything outside the courtyard. It turned out that what the villagers were saying was true!

Liu Tao, that little rascal, had an ambiguous relationship with one of the men in the village. It turns out that man was Li Ben!

She has terrible taste; she actually hooked up with such a lazy and good-for-nothing person.

Liu Tao was unaware that she was considered worthless in Li Lin's eyes.

When Li Ben got home and saw Wan Ya's miserable face, he felt even more depressed. Why were they all like this? He had really had a lot of bad luck lately.

Today, Yin Baicai and Li Zhe went to town to sell ice as usual, but they didn't notice a figure following them at a leisurely pace.

Following her was Wang Huanhua, who had heard Li Jiang's message yesterday and came today to cause trouble.

She still didn't believe that with Wang Huanhua around, those two ingrates could still make a business deal.

Li Mo was exhausted from yesterday's day, so Yin Baicai didn't bring him to town today.

Taking advantage of the fact that his father had not yet gotten up, Liu Xiaoqing secretly got up early in the morning, dressed, quietly opened the courtyard gate, and ran out.

By the time Zhang Ke discovered it, the others had already arrived in town.

Liu Xiaoqing had visited the private school where Tian Wenyan studied several times, walking through the crowds heading to the early market.

He took two copper coins out of his pocket and handed them to the gatekeeper of the private school, saying, "I'm looking for Tian Wenyan. Please inform him."

The gatekeeper of the private school naturally knew who Tian Wenyan was. He took the copper coin Liu Xiaoqing handed him and said with a lewd grin, "You should go to Huamanlou and look for him. That scholar Tian is probably living a life of debauchery there again."

Liu Xiaoqing didn't know where Hua Manlou was, but judging from the gatekeeper's expression, she knew it was definitely not a good place.

After asking for directions, I hurried there, thinking to myself: Brother Wenyan would never go to those places; that person must be talking nonsense.

As soon as Liu Xiaoqing arrived at Hua Man Lou, she saw Tian Wenyan being helped out by a petite woman dressed in pink.

Tian Wenyan, his face flushed, had his arm around the woman's waist and was whispering something to her.

Liu Xiaoqing was so frightened by this shocking scene that she stood frozen in place, not daring to take another step.

Tears welled up in her eyes uncontrollably. She hadn't been mistaken; that was indeed her brother Wenyan. She had been thinking about him so much.

He actually came to this kind of shady place and was so intimate with that woman.

Liu Xiaoqing's anticipation of seeing Tian Wenyan was extinguished at this moment. She watched Tian Wenyan stagger away before leaving with heavy steps.

Since Tian Wenyan has said so, then we're even. From now on, you go your way and I'll go mine, and we'll have nothing to do with each other.

When Liu Xiaoqing returned home, his eyes were bloodshot, and Zhang Ke was frightened by his appearance.

"Qing-ge'er, what's wrong? Did Tian Wenyan bully you? I'm going to settle the score with him."

Liu Xiaoqing tugged at the open sleeve: "Father, you don't need to go. I have nothing to do with him anymore. Didn't you say you were going to arrange a marriage for me? I agree. You and Father can make the arrangements!"

Although Zhang Ke didn't know what had happened, he felt relieved when he heard Liu Xiaoqing say that he had agreed to the marriage. It was great that Qing-ge'er had finally come to his senses.

Tomorrow, after I finish discussing it with my husband, I'll send a reply to Matchmaker Li.

As soon as Yin Baicai and Li Zhe drove the oxcart over, they saw that their land had been occupied.

Yin Baicai said to Li Zhe, "Let's go somewhere else!"

The stalls in this town are all first-come, first-served. Since someone else has already taken one, I can just find another spot.

Yin Baicai searched around but couldn't find a stall, and the one she had her eye on was immediately taken by someone else.

Upon seeing this, Yin Baicai naturally understood that she was being targeted. Even a fool could tell that it was the snob at the ice cream shop who was behind it.

Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that wherever you want to go, there are people there?

As Yin Baicai said, the ice cream shop owner, Li, gave these vendors a lot of benefits, allowing them to occupy all the spots and prevent Yin Baicai and his group from setting up stalls, so that no one would compete with him for business.

Yin Baicai said to Li Zhe, "Let's not set up a stall anymore. You find a place and we'll sell on the oxcart. I don't believe they can take over our oxcart."

Li Zhe had just parked the oxcart when an uninvited guest appeared.

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