Chapter 65: Chapter 65: The Time for Their Regret Will Come!_1 Chapter 65: Chapter 65: The Time for Their Regret Will Come!_1 An Jing kept her composure, still smiling as she parted her lips to utter a phrase with aggravating calmness, “We’re willing~”
The old man was so infuriated that he turned around and left immediately.
“So, so, so,” a young wife who was jealous of An Jing began to speak, her voice dripping with envy, “It’s not like they’re ruining our rice or our fields. Why should we care? Just wait and see, they’ll regret it soon enough!”
As soon as the woman finished her piece, she left.
The other onlookers felt that the woman’s words were right, and they also scattered one after another.
Irrelevant people never mattered to An Jing. Seeing them leave, she turned her head and said to Xiao Changyi with a smile, “Let’s go back as well.”
Xiao Changyi’s cold eyes softened infinitely, “Mhm.”
The bedstead arrived on time from the town, and Xiao Changyi had disassembled the makeshift plank bed early in the morning to make room for it.
Such a large bedstead, delivered all the way from town, had undoubtedly made quite the spectacle as it paraded through the village before being delivered to Xiao Changyi’s courtyard.
Most of Jiuping Village had seen it, and after some spreading of the word, soon even the small fraction of villagers who hadn’t witnessed it learned about it. Knowing it was just an ordinary bedstead, they were even more convinced that Xiao Changyi hadn’t struck it rich at all.
However, the fact that Xiao Changyi chose a carpenter from the town instead of Carpenter Zheng from the village made everyone feel uncomfortable. They thought Xiao Changyi was utterly inconsiderate of the village, not realizing how poor the people there were, and had the audacity to take his business to an outsider.
It was clear that these people had completely forgotten that they had always ostracized Xiao Changyi and An Jing, disliked them, and had never been friendly towards them.
Even Carpenter Zheng, who hadn’t been given the job, felt the same way.
In truth, Carpenter Zheng did want to make the bed for Xiao Changyi and An Jing, he just wanted to show them who’s boss first and expected them to come and beg him a few times before he would play hard to get and reluctantly agree to do it. To his surprise, Xiao Changyi and An Jing never came to him but instead went straight to a carpenter in the town.
Watching the bedstead being hauled past his door, Carpenter Zheng was so angry he almost vomited blood.
Not only did he fail to show his authority, but he also lost the business, missing out on earning twenty-six coins—it was twenty-six coins! How long would it take for him to earn that again? The village didn’t have celebrations every day. He was eager for the villagers to have celebrations frequently so he could make some money building furniture for them, but now…
Thinking about how he didn’t even have enough silver coin to feed his children rice paste, that day, Carpenter Zheng was so angry he skipped both lunch and dinner.
Of course, that happened later.
Back at Xiao Changyi’s place, as soon as the bedstead was delivered, he started setting it up in the inner room.
After the delivery guys left, Xiao Changyi began making the bed.
An Jing had been watching the whole time. As soon as Xiao Changyi finished making the bed, she climbed on it to roll around, testing it out.
And quite large; it was enough for her and Xiao to sleep on.
An Jing was very pleased.
Xiao Changyi watched An Jing roll back and forth on the bed like a child, his cold gaze slowly suffused with an indulgent, tolerant smile.
Content with the bed, An Jing rolled around a couple more times before propping herself on it, lifting her little face, and saying to Xiao Changyi with a smile, “I’ve tried it out, even if the two of us were to sleep on it, it won’t collapse~”