Chapter 43: 196-200

196. Farming: I Exchanged Him Back With the Betrothal Gifts!

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

An Ning opened her mouth, knowing clearly that it was the chance to leave some good impression on him. So she promised, “Ahei, wait for me!”

Su Bei really wanted to complain in his heart. So since Feng Xuanyi had lost his memories, An Ning just gave him such a name—Ahei???

Such a name from the mouth of Grade A student at an agricultural university? Really…impressive…

Su Bei interrupted their affectionate scene, “All right, in this case, I’ll take him with me.”

After throwing those words, he left, of course Feng Xuanyi also followed to leave.

Su Bei thought he was so smart. With a little trick, he had ‘abducted’ his captivating object home.

As he went home with Feng Xuanyi, he met the fat Lord Su—his father.

He asked as he saw Feng Xuanyun behind Su Bei, “Where did you bring this person back?”

Su Bei replied, “I exchanged him back with the betrothal gifts.”

Su Master raised his voice, eyes wide open, “Didn’t you say those are the betrothal gifts for that girl from An family? Why bring a man back?”

Su Bei said faintly, “I told you, I exchanged him back with the betrothal gifts.”

You could imagine the wonderful expression on Lord Su’s face, even his voice started to tremble, “You…you…you…You unfilial son!”

At this time, Madam Su came, she shouted with her hands held around the waist, “Su Dabao! What are you doing?”

It gave Lord Su a jump scare and his body went stiff, and his tone instantly got softened, “You took me wrong. I was making fun with Su Bei.”

Madam Su hurried over and grabbed Lord Su by the ear, “Do you think I’m blind? You beat my precious son! Are you sick of living?”

“Ouch, ouch, ouch,” cried Lord Su, “It hurts! It hurts! I can explain! Your precious son Su Bei! He exchanged a man back using those betrothal gifts!”

As those words came out, Madam Su instantly let go of him and turned to Su Bei, “Where is it?”

Lord Su rubbed his ear and pointed to Feng Xuanyi, “There.”

Madam Su took a deep breath, “Son, aren’t you…a bit too hardcore?”

“It doesn’t matter whichever family’s daughter, but not a man.”

Feng Xuanyi slightly frowned, he…thought Su Bei was really a bad person.

Clearly he was only a chip of his in case that he couldn’t get his betrothal gifts back, but he told them he exchanged him back using those betrothal gifts?

Su Bei raised a hand to pat in Feng Xuanyi’s chest, but Feng Xuanyi dodged away.

He took back his hand as if nothing had happened, “I feel he is not bad, I’ll go back to my room. Dad, mom, you two talk.”

Then he left with Feng Xuanyi.

Madam Su was quick enough to grab Su Bei’s ear, “Stay there! See how I fix you today if you don’t make yourself clear!”

Su Bei got his face distorted due to the huge pain, “Mom, it hurts, it hurts. Ouch!”

Anyhow, Madam Su loved her son, she hurriedly let go, “Then you tell me, what is going on?”

In order to prevent Su Bei from talking nonsense again, Feng Xuanyi opened his mouth and told the brief story.

Madam Su only looked a lot alleviated after hearing that, “I’m afraid we can’t get those betrothal gifts back. You protect my son well, or I’ll show you what I’m capable of!”

Feng Xuanyi said stubbornly, “She will return them.”

Su Bei secretly complained, save it!

Even in the plot, they were not taken back, the main reason was he broke the original owner’s leg, and Su Family wouldn’t let go of him.

Again, An Ning used her little wit to find out that Su family had colluded with the bandits and checkmated back at the Su Family, then they agreed to let it go.

Su Bei suddenly thought something was wrong, “I didn’t say a deadline, did I?”

197. Farming: You Really Have No Sympathy

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

All the people looked toward Su Bei.

Su Bei touched the tip of his nose, “What if it takes An Ning a lifetime to get back those betrothal gifts?”

Madam Su glared at Su Bei, then called the servant, “Go inform the An family, I’ll give them five days.”

The servant answered and went away.

Before Su Bei left with Feng Xuanyi, he suddenly turned his head, “Mom, I am really into men.”

Then he walked away with great speed.

Leaving Madam Su frozen there. So is my precious son trying to fool me or not?

After Su Bei went back to his own yard, he thought those clothes really didn’t go with him, so he brought him out again.

Go to buy clothes for Feng Xuanyi…

As Su Bei was taking Feng Xuanyi into a talor’s shop, he heard a girl on the street wearing mourning clothes crying.

A glance out of curiosity! So she was trying to sell herself to buy her deceased father.

So corny plot!

But he didn’t mean to help because he wasn’t a busybody.

So he took Feng Xuanyi into that tailor’s shop not far away.

Feng Xuanyi raised her hand and refused when the tailor tried to take his measurement, “No need.”

Su Bei knocked on the table, saying with a domineering tone, “I have the final say whether you need it or not. Look at your clothes! I feel ashamed to bring you out with me.”

“And I’m in charge now. It’s no use even if you say no.”

Feng Xuanyi found him actually kind of noble among his eyebrows, and suddenly found him not that annoyed.

748, “Captivating bar increased by 5%, current progress 5%.”

Since the clothes would take several days to make, Su Bei bought a suit of ready-made clothes for him.

It was totally black, making Feng Xuanyi look both composed and solemn.

By the time they were out of the tailor’s shop, the girl who tried to sell herself for her father’s burial was already surrounded by a lot of onlookers.

Su Bei picked his eyebrows. So many people? Only for fun?

Actually he didn’t mean to join them. But suddenly someone squeezed out of the crowd and grabbed his arm. It was An Ning.

Su Bei was confused. Isn’t she supposed to be at her big uncle’s place asking his betrothal gifts back for him? What is she doing here?

An Ning held Su Bei’s arm and said, “Come with me!”

And then giving Su Bei no opportunity to say no, she directly pulled him to squeeze in.

Then she pointed to the poor crying girl and said, “You help her.”

Su Bei got all question marks in his head. A command tone?

Su Bei asked, “Why?”

A trace of embarrassment flashed across An Ning’s face. “A hundred taels of silver aren’t too much for you, right”

Su Bei was amused by her words, “Yeah, it is nothing, but it is still my silver, I can decide how to cost it myself.”

An Ning took her hand back, and gave him an contemptuous look, “Come on! You really have no sympathy.”

Then people around all pointed at Su Bei, “Yes…right…Expecting Su Bei to save the girl…How is that even possible…”

“If I he saves the he girl, he should be holding some ill intention.”

An Ning then said, “Then you lend me ten taels of silver. I will pay it back.”

Su Bei felt so strange. Is this the right attitude to borrow money?

He said, “But among the uses of my ten taels of silver, it doesn’t include lending it to you.”

An Ning glared at Su Bei, “You are so unreasonable!”

Well, Su Bei was buckled on the unreasonable hat again.

But Su Bei put it on, “Oh yes, I have no sympathy, I am unreasonable, so I’ll still help her without lending you the silver!”

198. Farming: Selling Herself to Bury Her Father

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

An Ning grabbed the key point immediately, “So you promised to pay?”

Su Bei thought of what he had just said, it seemed he made a slip of the tongue.

An Ning did not give him a chance to go back on his words and hurriedly urged the girl to thank Su Bei for his help.

The girl, however, did not mean to impose on him but only said, “It doesn’t matter, Master Su really doesn’t need to help me.”

An Ning said angrily, “What is wrong with you? I am helping you!”

Su Bei felt that the girl was not bad, so he pretended to look villainous, “Does it mean you’ll all listen to as long as I pay to bury your father?”

An Ning looked at this appearance of Su Bei, feeling disgusted, “What are you trying to do to her?”

Su Bei shrugged his shoulders, totally a dandy look, “My money, her body, does it anything to do with you how I think?”

An Ning said reasonably, “Even so, you can’t take advantage of her!”

The current Su Bei was wearing a wicked face, “If you can’t see this, you can pay to bury her father. By then, no one would say anything even if you enshrine her as your ancestor.”

While he said so, his facial expression abruptly turned harsher, and he said word by word, “Now since she has chosen to sell herself to bury her father, does she have the right to make a choice?”

An Ning was startled by Su Bei’s tone, and couldn’t utter a word.

Feng Xuanyi looked at Su Bei, although because of An Ning, he kind of didn’t like him.

But at this moment, he felt that Su Bei was right.

Since she chose to sell herself to bury her father, she should be ready to be bought by someone, right?

748, “Captivating bar increased by 10%, current progress 15%.”

However, the girl replied with a mild tone, “If Master Su is willing to bury my father for me, I will be at Master Su’s disposal.”

Su Bei thought this girl is really good.

An Ning stared at the girl, ‘You’re crazy! Su Bei is not a good person!”

The girl calmly said, “He has the money and is willing to help me bury my father.”

Really some heart-wrenching words, which should have pierced An Ning’s heart into a sifter.

Su Bei said, “Just for those words you said, let alone ten taels of silver, even a hundred would do.”

The girl was kneeling on the ground, so she directly kowtowed to Su Bei, “Thank you, Master Su.”

Su Bei waved his hand and handed the moneybag to the girl, “Don’t kowtow to me. I’m not dead yet. That’d reduce my life.”

The girl took the moneybag with both hands and promised, “After I see to my father’s burial thing, I will come back to Master Su.”

Su Bei agreed, as to whether she would really come, Su Bei didn’t mind at all.

At least for her performance now, Su Bei still felt satisfied.

An Ning who was supposed to be the one the girl thanked now was like an outsider.

This made her very uncomfortable. Su Bei seemed to be born to go against her.

As Su Bei was ready to leave, suddenly reminded of something, so he asked An Ning, “Aren’t you supposed to get the dowry for me?”

This made An Ning a little humiliated now. When she went to her big uncle’s house, no one was home.

She heard for their neighbor say that they used her dowry to propose a marriage for their son.

An Ning had never anticipated her big uncle could be this fast.

She straightened her neck, “I never said I won’t pay you back. Isn’t it there are still five days?”

Speaking of which, she threw Feng Xuanyi an eye and warned him, “By then, if Feng Xuanyi loses a hair, we are never done!”

199. Farming: Recalling the Plot

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Then Su Bei raised a hand, directly tore off a hair of Feng Xuanyi, and said to An Ning, “He has already lost one.”

And then he added, “Or I can tear off a few more.”

“You!” An Ning was so angry that she even lost her tongue.

Finally she told Feng Xuanyi, “I will take you back as soon as possible. Don’t let anyone bully you. Protect yourself.”

Feng Xuanyi said “OK”, then An Ning threw Su Bei a hard stare and left.

On the way home, Su Bei was stopped by his fair-feather friends.

One of them reached out to hold Su Bei’s shoulder, but Su Bei avoided it.

He said basely, “Su Bei, wanna hang out in the gambling house?”

Su Bei raised his eyelids, “No, I ran out of the money I brought today.”

That person glanced at Feng Xuanyi, “Let your servant go home and fetch you some. We haven’t gambled for a long time. Don’t be a buzzkiller.”

Su Bei took a look at him, “Does he look like a servant to you?”

That person grinned, “But aren’t you the only precious son of your Su family?”

Su Bei waved his hand and said, “I won’t go.”

That person said with regrets, “All right. How about Yichun Brothel? I heard they got a few new woman recently.”

Su Bei slightly thought a bit, he remembered there was a plot about that place.

It was that the daughter of some official from the capital got targeted on the way of running away from her wedding, and finally was sold to Yichun Brothel.

Of course, she wouldn’t receive any guest, so she took great pains trying to run away.

When she ran away, she got caught again, which happened to be seen by An Ning.

So our female lead An Ning brought Feng Xuanyi who had great martial arts, made a scene at Yichun Brothel and brought that woman away.

After she returned to the capital, she became An Ning’s strong back.

An Ning was really overpowered.

But now since Feng Xuanyi was taken away by him, An Ning shouldn’t have the ability to make a scene there again.

The young woman was innocent, so Su Bei decided to help her.

But now it should not be plot time, so Su Bei gave up.

He was going to wait until the plot began.

Facing Su Bei who wouldn’t go anywhere, that person could only go hang out himself.

Su Bei who brought Feng Xuanyi back happened to see his father was strolling in the garden.

Su Bei slightly picked his eyebrows, asking out of curiosity, “Dad, you are walking back and forth, won’t you feel dizzy?”

His father sighed, “What do you know? The few families on the east side of the village refuse to pay the land rent again, what should I do?”

Su Bei keenly felt something wrong. It seemed his father was not worried about money, but that there might be some kind of bad consequences if he couldn’t get the land rent.

Su Fu took a look at Feng Xuanyi and seemed reluctant to say, “Well, what’s the use to talk to you?”

Feng Xuanyi frowned slightly, “Apparently that’s because your land rent is too high, so they wouldn’t pay.”

Su Bei’s father stared at Feng Xuanyi angrily, “What’s wrong with that? They can choose not to plant my field, right?”

“What’s the meaning of planting without paying? And…”

Su Bei’s father swallowed the following words back, then had a swing of his sleeves, looking more fretted.

Su Bei looked at Feng Xuanyi, “You wait for me in the room.”

Feng Xuanyi did not object and directly left.

Su Bei then asked his father, “What if you don’t collect the rent?”

His father glared at Su Bei, “Son, don’t ask so much.”

Su Bei said, “You’ll leave this family all to me in the future, right?”

Hearing his words, his father thought it was kind of reasonable, besides, he was upset now and wanted to complain.

200. Farming: Unbelievable Development of the Plot

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

So he briefed the whole story to Su Bei. The main thing was there was a bunch of bandits in the nearby mountains.

Those bandits would come down and plunder when it was time for harvest.

Su Bei’s grandfather volunteered to go to negotiate with them.

The bandits said that if the Su family could send a certain amount of grains for them every year, they would no longer go down to rob them.

Having no other way, he could only agree.

So he came back to discuss with the villagers, the villagers did not buy it, they all thought that Su Bei’s grandpa colluded with the bandits to trick them.

But his grandfather could not let the bandits down to kill people, so he could only collect enough grains through high land rent for those bandits.

Now those people refused to pay land rent, then he had no grains for those bandits.

Maybe those people got pissed off and directly went down to rob them again.

Su Bei now found it a bit difficult to close his jaws. The development of the plot caught him a bit unprepared.

The Su family actually had carried a bad name all to protect the whole village.

The reason that Su family had fallen down was because of this.

Su Bei couldn’t help asking, “Our family has taken so much for them, why are you still considering for them?”

His father helplessly said, “Our Su family has lived here for so many generations. Helping them is to help ourselves.”

“If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold. You understand?”

Su Bei said flatteringly, “Dad, you are really knowledgeable. You even know such an idiom.”

Little did they know that these words were all heard by Feng Xuanyi.

People who practice martial arts usually could hear and see well, and Feng Xuanyi was no exception.

When Su Bei asked him to go, actually, he was just at a corner, so he heard them clearly.

Feng Xuanyi who had only heard about how bad Su family was now was a bit confused. It seemed they weren’t that bad as people said.

748, “Captivating bar increased by 10%, current progress 25%.”

Suddenly, Su Bei’s father seriously looked at Su Bei and patted on his shoulder, “You have grown up, it is time to take charge of things. I’ll leave this to you to see to, OK?”

Su Bei took a step back, “Is it appropriate to be so hasty? What if I also can’t collect it?”

His father sighed deeply, “Then we can only abandon the place where we have lived for generations. I hope our ancestors won’t get angry.”

Question marks all over the head? Seriously? didn’t you say ‘If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold.’? “Really?”

His father spread his hands, “I’ve tried my best. There’s nothing I can do.”

Su Bei could only agree, “Ok, I’ll go and see if I can collect it.”

One had to say Su Bei’s father really had a big heart. Being cursed by the villagers, he was still trying to protect them.

Although the way of protection was a little bit inappropriate.

Then Su Bei took Feng Xuanyi to the east of the village.

An Ning’s family was also among those who refused to pay the rent.

In the plot, he failed, and they ended up in yamen.

And Su Bei also got his leg broken because he wanted to marry An Ning against her will, which was like adding insult to injury to the Su family.

Their only precious son got the leg broken, so Su family sued An Ning, and then Su family colluding the bandits’ thing was revealed.

And then those bandits indeed came down to plunder. But since Feng Xuanyi was a martial arts master, he directly caught their head.

So he saved all the people in the village.

An Ning and Feng Xuanyi became celebrities in the village.