Chapter 114:
“Right, Uncle Zhu, remember to have someone brew a pot of tea and bring it up!”
“Yes.”
Luo Zhi’er went in, originally with her head lowered, for politeness…
Hearing this voice again, she couldn’t help but feel curious. At a glance, the man was sitting by the window.
He was seven feet four inches tall, with stacks of books placed to one side of the desk, an account book in front of him, around eighteen or nineteen years old…
His clothes were of fine ice-blue silk, embroidered with elegant bamboo leaf patterns, snow-white piping that complemented the mutton-fat jade hairpin in his hair…
Skin like white jade, features bright and refined, clear eyes with sparse brows, slender face with long ears.
At such a young age, he exuded an air of noble aura, maturity, and majesty…
When she entered, the man looked up, their eyes met, and there was a faintly discernible dominance in his brows and eyes…
“Had enough of looking?”
Ye Beiyao said faintly, lightly twitching the corner of his mouth.
He was so different from the owner she had imagined. In her mind, the owner should be a rotund middle-aged or elderly man with shrewdness in his eyes…
This made her forget all the words she had prepared…
“Hehe, is there something on this Young Master’s face…”
“No, that’s not it…”
On the man’s face, aside from a hint of cracking, his eyes revealed a chill.
He had invited her in to discuss business. If not for her usefulness to Yumian Tower, he certainly wouldn’t allow her to stay in this room for even a moment…
He hated women looking at him with such bold stares the most in his life!
In the manor, the servants and old women all walked with their heads down.
If they dared to look him straight in the eye, they would be dragged out, beaten with sticks, and sold off!
If Luo Zhi’er knew his methods, she would certainly sigh that he had a misogynistic streak!
A faint anger appeared on the usually calm face.
“You haven’t looked enough…”
“No, not yet!”
…
Shopkeeper Zhu went out and patted his forehead, suddenly realizing: “Aiya, look at my memory. I forgot to tell Luo Niangzi that the master dislikes people looking straight at him the most!”
She better not offend him!
“Shopkeeper, why are you hitting yourself?”
The servant at the doorway asked.
“You stay here and listen. If there’s trouble inside, come notify me immediately!”
He still didn’t want his mistake to cause Luo Niangzi to be beaten by the owner!
……
“What?”
Ye Beiyao was stunned!
How dare she?
Did he mishear? It even felt a bit like she was being playfully unreasonable?
He had thought she was different from other women…
Normally, encountering something like this, they would panic, lower their heads in confusion, and tremble in fear.
He clenched his fist, suppressing the impulse to shout for someone to come beat her and throw her out…
“Heh!”
With a cold snort,
She was just another shallow woman after all.
Looking at her closely from this distance, her face was fleshy, with some small freckles on her chubby cheeks. Her fatness was unprecedented in his life!
What exactly had he been expecting?
He wasn’t someone who judged by appearances, yet a sense of disgust rose in his heart…
“So good-looking!”
This fat woman foolishly voiced her praise. Did she think that signing a contract with them would get her preferential treatment?
Ye Beiyao took a deep breath, unable to hold back any longer: “Someone come… throw this…”
“I mean your eyes, they’re very pretty!”
When Ye Beiyao spoke, his pair of peach-blossom eyes seemed drunken yet sober, almond-shaped like peach petals, with long lashes, slightly upturned at the outer corners, and pupils that often slanted upward…
His anger surprisingly subsided, and his aversion came to an abrupt halt.
No one had ever said that to him before, not even his mother. He didn’t know if she meant it sincerely…
The color of his pupils was indeed different from others, which was why he disliked people looking at him!
He had been mocked and cursed as a child, leaving a traumatic shadow.
Those servants and old women in the manor, with their loose tongues and vicious words, deceitful compliance flashing in his ears, hatred in their eyes…
Just now from behind the window, he had clearly seen her in the backyard effortlessly lift, move, and repair a broken stone mill for grinding flour!
The cooled jelly dumplings she made, brought up by Li Changshun, surprisingly resembled little sea snails, tadpoles, small fish…
Some people don’t need explanations, some people don’t require them. Perhaps he was being petty!
Luo Zhi’er saw his face alternating between pale and red, not knowing what he was thinking.
First time meeting, hoping he wouldn’t think she was lewd. She apologized,
“Sorry about that. I really didn’t expect the owner of Yumian Tower to be so young and promising, so I was rude. As the owner, you mustn’t take offense!”
“Oh?”
Hehe, so it was his fault now?
“This is a normal reaction. How to put it—a refined young master, ingenious like a deity!”
“Gazing at the lush green bamboos by the Qi River. There is a noble gentleman with earrings of jade, his hat like a star.”
“The white-jade youth of whose house…”
Who doesn’t like flattery? Even this young man does!
“Pfft!”
Ye Beiyao had originally been mature and stern-faced…
But he was completely amused by her chubby, head-shaking, clumsy, playful manner!
His mood fluctuated like heaven and earth, up and down…
Could a village woman nowadays not only do business, have exquisite culinary skills, and great strength, but also recite poetry and make couplets to please the master?
This little partner that Shopkeeper Zhu had accidentally befriended truly surprised him a bit!
Fine, fine!
Women and petty people are hard to deal with. At least she knew to remedy it for fear of losing her rice bowl?
It made him refresh his view of women a little!
In his perception, women were all delicate, with fake smiles, unable to carry on their shoulders or lift with their hands, vain by nature!
Village women and old women? Hmph! Deceitful compliance, mercenary!
“Hm?”
Luo Zhi’er’s mind was a mess…
This owner had a pretty good temperament…
No wonder, being so young, he dared to boldly accept a new business model…
He exuded the aura of a noble young master from a great family…
Ordinary merchants couldn’t raise someone with such presence.
It couldn’t help but make her ponder the background of Yumian Tower!
Ye Beiyao wasn’t someone who judged by appearances. He appreciated and respected those with strength and ideas.
“Luo Niangzi, please sit!”
Ye Beiyao lifted his finger to point at the chair nearby.
Luo Zhi’er suddenly thought of her embarrassment last time at Jiujiu Apothecary and felt a bit too shy to go sit!
She gave an awkward smile!
“Owner, I’ll just stand and talk!”
“Luo Niangzi needn’t worry. This chair has been reinforced and won’t collapse!”
Ye Beiyao resumed his previous cold demeanor and said faintly.
“Oh!”
She thought to herself, don’t judge a book by its cover. At such a young age, he was still a blunt man!
“Thank you, Owner, for helping this little woman out!”
“A small favor!”
The waiter brought in the tea, saw the room was calm, poured her a cup, and left.
The room was quiet. Luo Zhi’er felt he didn’t talk much. After saying that, he fell silent again.
It felt a bit strange.
Seeing him intently studying the account book on the table, she boredly looked at the flowers floating in her tea bowl, glanced over, and saw the dense markings on the account book in front of him…
Some places had clumps of ink scribbled over, and she frowned…
No wonder he was in a bad mood… It gave her a headache just looking at it…
