"Aunt Liu, what are we going to eat later? Shall we go to a big restaurant? Or eat roadside stalls? I can do it, I'm not picky!" Once out of the door, the boy talked non-stop, brimming with energy. However, he also had a bit of difficulty in choosing with his eyes flying between the major eateries. He wanted to eat in them all.
"Would you like to go to the restaurant for a meal first, and then eat roadside snacks while shopping on the way out?" Liu Yusheng was amused and gave the best of both worlds.
"Yes, yes, yes!" The boy nodded like a chicken pecking rice.
Liu Yusheng inclined her head to look at the man. "Then let's go to the restaurant first and order food for lunch, and then go shopping later, okay?"
"Hmm, your call." The crowd huddled together, and he leaned very close, shielding her firmly in his arms, almost half embracing her.
This time was different from last time. He could only protect her secretly previously. He was also afraid that she would find out and didn't dare to approach her at all.
This time, he did rightfully so.
He was in a jolly mood and his displeasure for the towing bottle lessened two points.
The three chose the most famous Futai restaurant in the city.
The signature dish inside was well-known, and the desserts after the meal also had a good reputation.
The lobby of the restaurant was elegantly decorated, clean and tidy, and because of its reputation, there were numerous customers coming and going.
The lobby was already full, so they headed to the second floor cubicle seats.
Resembling a small bee, the boy ran to the vacant seat by the window on the second floor, choosing the position with the best view.
"Uncle, Aunt Liu, here, here! Sit here!"
After sitting down and ordering the food, they could watch the street stalls and traffic outside the window while waiting for their food to be served.
Feeling the hustle and bustle of the city from top to bottom was akin to being a spectator with an outsider mentality.
In a corner diagonally across from the three of them, someone inadvertently glanced over them, and then withdrew his gaze back. He made a sound that was almost inaudible, and his eyes flickered.
The man at the table immediately noticed and swept a faint glance at him, his eyes sharp.
The man averted his gaze as if nothing happened and didn't meet the man's eye. He turned away and only slightly hooked the corners of his lips.
Heh, what a good sharp man.
"Aunt Liu, let's go to the jade workshop later. It's just around the corner over there, see? You can pick a jade piece for each of your family, I'll pay!" Over at the table came the voice of the boy's bravado.
Then came the young girl's delicate soft teasing, "Hmm? You're that rich, huh?"
"Yes! I have a seal! Uncle said that if I want to buy anything, just stamp it and have someone come home to get the payment later!"
Let someone go home to get the payment? Didn't that mean he stamped and Feng Qingbai paid the bill?
This kid dared to be generous at the expense of others.
"…Hahahaha!"
The young girl convulsed into laughter, and the man sitting next to her helplessly rubbed his eyebrows. The boy was unaware that he was the cause of her hilarity, but he raised his chin high, feeling quite proud.
This picture attracted others attention and smiled at them.
After lunch, while walking in the street and smelling the aroma of flavorful food coming from the street stalls, the boy sighed while rubbing his stomach.
He just ate too much and forgot to leave some place. He couldn't fit anything more if he wanted to eat.
It was a pity that he could only drool.
Because they were going to buy gifts for the family, Liu Yusheng didn't pick those extravagant stores nor intended to buy more expensive items.
She wasn't afraid of spending money, but the family just wasn't fond of using them.
They rarely carried expensive items on them and mostly stored them at the bottom of a box.
The family didn't like to attract attention.
So when giving them gifts, pick something that suited them or something they could use.
Soft and thick handmade shoes, simple-looking tea jars, pearl-embellished hair pins, a few books, a pair of brushes, a piece of pine tobacco ink. Finally, they went to a fabric store to buy a few fine-textured and inconspicuous-looking fabric.
In addition to these, Liu Yusheng planned to wait until she returned to Yunzhou, and then buy some dried fruits and snacks in the county, and give each family a small packet after returning to the village.
Looking at those gifts that didn't add up to more than 50 taels, Feng Mohan rubbed his eyes.
Thinking that the young girl was worried about lack of money, he repeatedly stressed, "Aunt Liu, I'm really rich. You don't have to save me money!"
Feng Qingbai had the urge to toss him out again.
"Mo Feng, you talk too much!"
The young man's eyes widened. "Uncle, I'm doing this for your own good! To please Aunt Liu's family, you can't save money on such things. You can't be too stingy!"
"…" Feng Qingbai's eyes narrowed dangerously with the tic-tac-toes carved on his forehead.
This was revenge for punishing him before, so now, this young master was angering him and adding eyedrops in his eyes, right?
Feng Mohan's eyes drifted and slowly shifted to hide behind Liu Yusheng.
Liu Yusheng was already shaking with laughter until tears came out.
They had so many things to buy, so Feng Qingbai simply tipped the cloth shop to send them to their courtyard.
When he turned around, someone bumped into him head-on.
Feng Qingbai slid sideways a bit, and the two passed each other. However, when the man was about to walk past, tripped on his heels and fell to the side.
It was just right in the direction of Liu Yusheng and Feng Mohan.
Feng Qingbai's eyes immediately narrowed, and he swept the two people behind him with his long arms to the side while lifting his leg to kick that person out.
Then without looking, he led the young girl and the half-grown boy out of the store.
A muffled thud sounded at the back.
Liu Yusheng and Feng Mohan walked in unison beside Feng Qingbai, shaking when they heard the yelp of pain.
After falling face forward, the man on the ground grimaced and braced himself. He turned his head to look at their backs who drowned in the sea of people, and his eyes flickered regretfully. "I didn't even touch them. What a pity, tsk."
Then he got up, patted the dust on the body, and left as if the people pointing at him were air.
He turned left and right and sneakily followed Liu Yusheng's party. He didn't dare get too close and just stayed in the distance.
That man is too rude. He's simply not human.
He's pretending what he's not. He looks like a local ruffian and a good-for-nothing, doesn't he? Didn't I just stumble, yet he kicked me without saying a word?!
After walking a long way from the cloth shop, Liu Yusheng asked, "What happened to that man just now? Is he an assassin? Or was he trying to assassinate Mo Feng again?"
She now wouldn't be surprised at all if assassins popped up anywhere and anytime.
However, anyone who Feng Qingbai beat was definitely bad.
Otherwise, with Feng Qingbai's nature, even if you wore a red lab coat and walked and sang the opera in front of him a hundred rounds, he wouldn't spare a glance at you.
The young girl's question earned a raised brow from Feng Qingbai, and a shallow smile sparkled in his eyes.
His little girl, ha.
"It is not certain yet. But that person has followed us all the way, starting from the restaurant, to the cloth house, and now, he's still behind us."
Liu Yusheng thought for a moment, "Let's turn to a place where no one is, I'll give him some medicine."
"…" Feng Qingbai didn't hold back and reached out to embrace the young girl into his arms and released her immediately. If they weren't in the streets, he wanted to do more.
What to do? He only felt that he was going to love her to death.