Pampered by the Toughest Man After Divorce
Chapter 493 - 495: Fate_1

Chapter 493: Chapter 495: Fate_1

"This serious?" Nan Feng asked.

Nan Feng couldn’t help but glance at Wang Fengzhen, who was also present tonight, seated in the front row. She seemed utterly focused, whether or not she was paying attention to Chairman Song’s speech.

"Wang Fengzhen is such a cruel woman. Don’t be fooled by her constant smile. If she wants to deal with you, it would be ruthless," someone warned.

Nan Feng just smiled at Xu Meng, "Okay, thank you for the reminder. I will definitely keep it in mind and be on guard against them."

...

Since Feng Gu’s departure, Nan Mansion had become eerily quiet.

In the past, Feng Gu would make porridge and buy breakfast for Nan Feng, but now she had to do it herself.

After the tenth day of the lunar month, the weather had warmed up a bit. The southern winter only brought a short period of coldness, and now the cold wave had passed. She didn’t even need a cloak anymore and could go out simply in two layers of clothes.

Usually, she would buy buns, steamed bread, or oily sticks and soy milk. Today, however, for reasons unknown, she suddenly craved the dumplings from a shop to the north of the city.

She had once eaten at that dumpling shop while passing by and found it delicious.

The shop was near a market. After finishing her dumplings, Nan Feng saw fresh sugarcane on sale in the market. She decided to buy some to snack on in the afternoon when there were fewer customers in her shop.

While she weighed the sugarcane, through two fruit stalls, she suddenly saw Feng Gu sitting in front of a pork stall.

At fourteen, Feng Gu was still developing, dressed casually, but had begun to wear her hair up.

According to ancient tradition, women must wear their hair up upon getting married.

Nan Feng found the hairdo an absolute eyesore. The naive girl she once knew was now sitting beside a burly butcher.

The butcher, with a face sculpted by hard muscle, was chopping a pig’s tail while Feng Gu blankly watched her husband.

The couple looked entirely mismatched.

After weighing the pig’s tail, the butcher ordered Feng Gu to collect the money. Looking lost, Feng Gu counted it, then put it into a bag beneath the counter. Possibly irked by her slowness, the butcher scolded her. Feng Gu quietly accepted the reproof.

Nan Feng could not bear it any longer, spun round, and walked away.

The sugarcane seller called after her, "Miss, don’t you want your sugarcane? Miss?"

But Nan Feng didn’t hear him.

She wanted to go back, pull Feng Gu away, and ask, "Look at the life you’re living now?"

But then Li Moxiu’s words suddenly echoed through her mind: Everyone has their own fate.

Fate is inborn, but fortune can be changed with effort.

Nan Feng thought, if Feng Gu were like Lin Qiaoyun, harboring dreams and visions of a free life, she would help her. What scares her is that Feng Gu had silently accepted a fate she could have changed.

...

The day before the Lantern Festival, Nan Feng asked Li Moxiu to mind the shop in Spikenard Square, while she went to prepare Lantern Festival gifts.

She intended to buy a carriage after the New Year, but with Brother Ye planning a trip to the Provincial City, that plan was put on hold once again. Instead, she rented a carriage—it wasn’t too expensive, less than a hundred Wen a day. The coachman would take you wherever you wanted, similar to renting a car today.

Nan Feng made a large purchase and divided them into many gifts. There were gifts for the county magistrate, the Business Association, and even the workers like Li Moxiu, what is commonly referred to as paying respects for the New Year.