Chapter 353: Encountering sickos, one after another

Kang Ziyu fell silent.

She did not see.

At that time, her attention was on the counter jewelry when they entered, so upon hearing Li Junyue’s shriek, she turned around and only saw her covering her chest, panicked and looking at the man. She thought she was being molested, so she threw that slap.

How could she know that it was a misunderstanding?

“Sister Ziyu, have you still not forgotten that incident, so that’s why your reaction was so…”

Kang Ziyu interrupted her immediately, “Junyue, I’m a little tired. I’ll head home and have a rest. You can go shopping by yourself.”

Sister Ziyu, let me accompany you.”

“No need.”

After saying that, Kang Ziyu got into the carriage parked at the roadside and got up to leave.

Li Junyue watched Kang Ziyu’s carriage mix into the crowd on the street, stood there for a while before turning around and walking in the other direction.

It was not yet time to gather, so those villagers must still be wandering around in the streets. Liu Zhiqiu wasn’t inclined to head back to the ox cart and suffer the cold wind, so he walked around the streets, looking at the stalls on both sides of the street.

He also had to buy a gift for Nannan. Although she lacked nothing, giving a gift was all about the thought.

It was impossible for the Empress Dowager, the Empress, and his Bodhisattva of an aunt to have presents, but his precious younger sister didn’t.

The three old men in the family would probably beat him up.

There were all kinds of stalls on both sides of the street, and the array of goods was dazzling. If there was something missing, it was probably the pancake stall opposite Wanjin’s restaurant, which didn’t open today.

It made the streets all the less distinctive.

Liu Zhiqiu finally strolled to a stall selling candy and bought a small candy man.

It was the model of the New Year’s painting baby, tied with flying pigtails, and lotus root-like small hands and legs. It was exactly the same as Nannan when she was a child, cute as could be.

When the time was almost up, Liu Zhiqiu walked in the direction of the town entrance and heard a shout from behind.

“Little Brother, the little brother in front, please wait!” The panting voice sounded a bit familiar.

Liu Zhiqiu turned around and saw the young girl wearing an aqua blue fox fur-trimmed cloak coming after him, panting while running.

Liu Zhiqiu immediately turned his head and left.

He wasn’t in the mood to see the person he bumped into at the jewelry store.

He didn’t want to see her, but she wasn’t about to let him go. She ran to the front and stopped in front of him. It was probably because she ran in a hurry, so there were two blushes on her cheeks. Her forehead was sweaty, and her bangs were soaked, sticking on both sides of her cheeks.

“What do you want again?” Liu Zhiqiu frowned.

“I … just now, what happened just now…I’m really sorry. I came to-apologize-to you. Otherwise, I won’t feel at ease.” The young girl gasped sharply and spoke intermittently.

“You have already apologized in the shop, and I accepted it, so you can go,” Liu Zhiqiu said and tried to go around her.

The young girl chased his footsteps and followed him. “You accepted the apology, but there is still a reparation gift. Can you also accept my reparation gift?”

“Reparation gift?”

“This!” The girl hurriedly took out a brocade box from her cloak and handed it to him. “In the store earlier,  I caught a glimpse of the jewels in your brocade box. I didn’t mean to look, and only accidentally saw when you opened it. I know you bought women’s hairpins, but the color of those few is not very good. The people you’ll send them out may be disgusted. This one, I went to pick it on purpose afterward. Please accept it. You can take it as a gift.”

“Don’t bother. It’s over and done with. We only met by chance and will be complete strangers afterwards. Don’t pester me anymore. You’re a girl. Can’t you see the people around us looking at you?” Liu Zhiqiu secretly rolled his eyes.

The hairpins he picked were not of good quality?

She knew nothing about it.

Had he picked quality ones, he would be beaten up twice.

The women of the family never cared about these things, and there were piles of expensive jewelry in the treasury, all of which were stored at the bottom of the cabinet.

That was exactly why he chose the cheapest ones, so that they would wear them occasionally.

The young girl’s face turned red at his admonishment.

She was a young maiden, and pestering a man on the street was indeed eye-catching.

“You, take it, and I’ll leave right away.” Even though she was extremely embarrassed, she still insisted.

“No.” What a sicko. Were there people still forcing someone to accept gifts? Liu Zhiqiu was impatient and once again raised his feet to leave.

The young lady reached out to stop him, and he reflexively raised his hand to block. Snap, the brocade box fell to the ground.

The two jasper transparent hairpins inside also fell out of the box and broke into two pieces.

“…” The young girl looked at the broken jade hairpin, dumbfounded, and her eyes reddened little by little.

Liu Zhiqiu was also a bit dazed.

He just blocked it. How did it fall to the ground and get shattered?

He bought a few of the same, but they were intact when they fell. That or because they were cheap and of low quality.

More and more eyes gathered at them, and eyes looked at him as if he betrayed his lover.

Liu Zhiqiu bent and quickly grabbed the things on the ground and stuffed them back into the brocade box. Next, he pulled the young girl away and stopped only when they reached a street corner with few people.

“I’ll take the stuff, so don’t cry, okay? Strangers would think I’m bullying you.”

The sobbing young girl then stopped her tears and broke into a smile, “So you’re forgiving me?”

“Yes, yes yes.” Liu Zhiqiu nodded. He only wanted to hurry and get rid of her.

He found that nothing good came out of his encounter with this woman. He was beaten for no reason the first time, and the second time wasn’t any better.

“My name is Li Junyue. I am the granddaughter of the Li family in town. Since you have forgiven me, then we are considered friends, right? If we meet in the future, don’t pretend you don’t know me.” The girl wiped away her tears and said these words, smiled shyly at him and left.

She really stopped pestering him further.

Liu Zhiqiu was relieved to see the woman walking farther and farther away, and threw the box in his hand.

Aigoo, it was rare for him to come out to join in the fun during the New Year, yet he encountered sickos one after another.

She could really talk to herself. Who was friends with her?

Thick skinned.

What happened today was all damned inexplicable.

Across the street corner at a medicine store door, Liu Yusheng and Xue Qinglian watched the scene unfold from the beginning to the end.

“Tsk-tsk, that guy, Zhiqiu is quite good. He received an unexpected romance flying his way. It’s a pity that the amorous glances of that belle were sent off in vain and met an insensitive blockhead,” Xue Qinglian crooned.

“How do you know it’s a blessing and not a curse?” Liu Yusheng looked at the young girl’s distant back pensively.

“What misfortune can come flying? The town of Cangwu is a small place. Granted that someone purposely approached him, it is just for some benefits. Who made your family’s name more and more famous?”

“Let’s go, it’s getting late. It’s going to be dark by the time we get home.” Liu Yusheng didn’t want to linger on this topic any longer and urged him to leave.

She has seen the young girl just now when watching the play, sitting in the front row. Later, she heard that the people sitting there were all the family members of the wealthy Li family in town.

She wondered how Miss Li got involved with her second brother.

She didn’t want to think badly of people, but she has to be on guard at this juncture.

After all, it was too much of a coincidence that they received New Year’s gifts from the Li family yesterday, and this transpired today.