Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress
Chapter 408 First Encounter with Mo Liancheng (3)_1

Chapter 408: Chapter 408 First Encounter with Mo Liancheng (3)_1

Cai Wei suddenly remembered that she hadn’t done her shopping to enter the Space now, and it was already Shenshi. They must be starving!

"Oh, I’m sorry, I’m really sorry. I was too busy and forgot today. I’m going to buy something right away..."

Cai Wei quickly asked passersby for the nearest meat shop and went in to buy meat.

As soon as the shopkeeper saw Cai Wei enter, adorned in her gorgeous attire, he immediately greeted her with a smile on his face, bowing and nodding: "Miss, are you here to buy meat? How much do you need? I’ll weigh it for you right away."

Cai Wei glanced at the clear distinction of fatty pork on the chopping board and said, "I’ll take ten catties!"

"Alright then!"

The shopkeeper, seeing a big customer who could ask for ten catties in one breath, was delighted; his eyes narrowed into slits with joy as he promptly stepped inside the counter to cut the meat.

At that moment, a thin and lean young man walked in. Appearing to be about seventeen or eighteen, he was fair and refined with good-looking features. He was wearing a white cotton robe that had been washed till nearly white, with conspicuous patches sewn onto it. Though worn out, it was thoroughly clean, ironed neatly without a single wrinkle.

The young man walked to the chopping board, looking at the fatty meat on it with an expectant gaze.

"Oh, Officer Mo’s here? You’re here to buy on credit again, aren’t you?"

The shopkeeper glanced at him with a disdainful eye.

The one named Officer Mo pursed his lips and spoke hoarsely: "Shopkeeper, the doctor said..."

"The doctor said your mother is too weak because of long-term malnutrition and needs to eat more meat to recover. You’ve already told us this four or five times, and we’ve already done a lot for you because I saw that you’re a filial son. But I have costs here too, you’ve already chalked up a debt of eighty copper coins of meat, and you haven’t repaid a single cent. I haven’t gone after you, which is already a significant favor. How dare you still have the audacity to ask for credit?"

The shopkeeper interrupted him rudely, and then coldly remarked: "Officer Mo, I don’t mean to offend, but your old master has tried several times to get you to return home and resume your life as a wealthy young master. But you insisted on defying him, and now I hear that the new madam is expecting, and fortune-tellers and doctors from the medical center have said that the new madam is carrying a boy. If you keep clashing with the old master, the family fortune will likely all go to the unborn young master, and you’ll regret it when it’s too late!"

Officer Mo, seemingly not hearing his advice, carried on: "Now I have a job copying scriptures for the temple, and at the end of the month, I can make two to three hundred wen. By then, I will definitely repay all my previous debts to the shopkeeper, I only ask for your tolerance this time, and let me have half a jin of pork on credit."

Although the shopkeeper had a sharp tongue, he was not entirely without compassion. After hearing Officer Mo’s promise to repay his debt, he hmphed and said: "Fine, I’m a soft-hearted man, I’ll make an exception for you this time. But remember, this is the last time. If you don’t pay up at the end of the month, watch out, I might break your legs."

"Yes, thank you, shopkeeper, for your kindness. I will surely keep my word and will not break my promise."

Officer Mo spoke softly and then bowed towards the shopkeeper.

"Alright, alright, go wait somewhere else now!"

The shopkeeper waved at him impatiently. He quickly cut the meat for Cai Wei and sent his assistant to the backyard to find a suitable basket for packing Cai Wei’s meat.

Then he cut off a thin slice from the chunk of fatty meat, weighed it, and threw it on the chopping board, shouting: "Half a jin of meat, twenty copper coins. Adding to the eighty copper coins you owe me before, that’s a total of one hundred copper coins. Remember your words about repaying at the end of the month!"