Chapter 603 - Chapter 603: Chapter 603: The Disaster Begins (1/2)

Chapter 603: Chapter 603: The Disaster Begins

At this point, the door to the shop was nudged open slightly, and an elderly man covered in age spots, carrying a large cloth bag, timidly walked in.

“Shopkeeper, shopkeeper do you want to buy wheat?”

The shopkeeper merely glanced at the old man before driving him away annoyedly, “Go away! We don’t buy wheat here, you can sell it somewhere else.”

The elderly man did not leave, but approached another step forward, “Shopkeeper, this is our own wheat from our fields. We originally kept it for seeding, please show mercy and buy it! My grandson is waiting for me to sell this for his life-saving money…”

“Be off with you! This is not a charity! If you want to beg, there’s Lord Di’s porridge shed in the south city, you can beg there. If you insist on staying here again, and disturb my honorable customers, I will not spare you!” The shopkeeper spoke irately.

The elderly man did not leave because of this, but humbly pleaded: “But shopkeeper, I beg you, my grandson truly needs this money. I beg you to buy it. This is life-saving money. You can give me one tael of silver for this bag of flour…”

“One tael of silver?” The shopkeeper almost jumped out of his skin!

Then he reacted promptly and started cursing: “Do you think your wheat is gold? You want one tael of silver for such a small bag of wheat, why don’t you go rob someone instead? Go, go! You have to know your audience if you’re trying to extort, if you stay here again I’ll report you to the officials and have you locked up to taste some free jail food. Humph, what sort of people are these!”

With pushing and persuading, he finally drove the old man out of the shop.

Liu Sisi frowned. After paying the bill and walking out of the shop, she saw that the old man was being driven out of another shop.

The shopkeeper there was cursing: “You want one tael of silver? Why don’t you go rob someone? Get out, get out, get out!”

The old man was scolded such that he couldn’t lift his head, huddled in on himself.

“Grandpa, how much do you want to sell this bag of wheat for?”

Liu Sisi walked up to him and quietly asked.

Seeing Liu Sisi suddenly get close, the old grandpa shrank back: “I, I want one tael of silver …”

“Alright, one tael of silver, right?”

Liu Sisi took out a tael of silver from her bosom and handed it to the old grandpa: “This is one tael of silver. Keep it safe and go for your grandson’s treatment quickly!”

After finishing talking, she even smiled at the old grandpa.

An attendant on the side promptly stepped forward to take the bag of wheat from the old man’s hand.

“Thank you, thank…”

The old man could only look at the silver in his hand in a daze, not yet reacting to the sudden turn of events.

After a while, he finally lifted his head to look around, only to discover that Liu Sisi and others had long since disappeared.

“Good person, you are a good person! There are indeed more good people in this world than bad ones…”

Liu Sisi and the others had already walked far and didn’t hear the old man showering praises on them, even less realizing that her inadvertently kind act had saved a family’s life.

They strolled casually. YingEr would occasionally look back curiously and ask, “Mother, why did none of these shopkeepers want to buy that old grandpa’s bag of wheat, and in the end, only you bought it?”

“It’s very simple, because that bag of wheat isn’t worth one tael of silver.”

Liu Sisi said indifferently.