Chapter 354
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The woman had a pretty face and was dressed in coarse clothes. She was busy working in a delicatessen store across the street.
Beside her, a scholarly looking man was sweating profusely. He was using an iron hook to fish out meat from a steaming pot.
He knew this woman, but he wasn't familiar with her.
She was none other than the woman he had saved from the bandits in the tavern.
It was obvious that the man was the woman's husband. The woman was wiping the sweat of the scholarly man from time to time, while the man was persuading the woman to go back and rest.
Their lives didn't seem to be easy.
The reason he said that was because the woman was pregnant.
Which pregnant woman would still do such tiring work?
"Ye Fan -kun." Akatsuki came to his side while Ye Fan was thinking.
"Finished eating?" Ye Fan asked.
"Mhm," Akatsuki replied.
"Come with me to buy some cooked food. We'll eat it tonight," Ye Fan said as he walked toward the delicatessen store across the street.
"Okay." Akatsuki followed behind Ye Fan.
The two entered the delicatessen store one after the other.
"What do you two need?" Seeing that business had come, the man put down the iron hook and wiped his hands with a towel. He asked Ye Fan and Akatsuki.
"Cut five catties of cooked beef for me. I want to take it with me," Ye Fan said as he looked around the store.
The store was very simple and crude. There was a big iron pot at the entrance. Beef tendons of various sizes were cooked in the pot. Next to the iron pot was a huge chopping board. On the chopping board were neatly arranged freshly cooked food. Next to the chopping board were three or four large wine jars. They were filled with all kinds of soju wine.
Apart from these things, there were only four worn-out wooden tables in the store.
Although the store was old and shabby, it was very clean. Every corner of the store was spotless.
"Do you need wine?" The scholarly man asked, "Our store serves our home-brewed sorghum soju. Would you like to try it?"
"No, I only want beef," Ye Fan said as he sat opposite Akatsuki at a table.
"Please wait for a moment. It'll be ready soon," the man said as he turned around to cut the beef on the chopping board.
After hearing Ye Fan's voice, the woman who was wiping the table immediately stopped what she was doing and looked up at Ye Fan.
Ye Fan, who was sitting on the bench, also looked at her.
"You … you are …" The woman's voice was filled with surprise. "You are the benefactor?"
Ye Fan's heart skipped a beat. Even though he was dressed like this, he was still recognized by this woman.
"Benefactor?" The man who was cutting the beef immediately stopped and turned to look at Ye Fan.
Akatsuki frowned in confusion.
"I didn't expect you to still remember me," Ye Fan said.
"It's really you, benefactor!" the woman said in surprise as she threw away the cloth in her hand.
"Wen Sheng, this is the benefactor who saved me that day. Come and pay your respects to benefactor!" the woman said to the man who was stunned.
Clang! When the man heard what the woman said, the kitchen knife in his hand instantly fell onto the chopping board.
The woman pulled the man to Ye Fan and knelt down with a plop. "Greetings, benefactor."
"Greetings, benefactor!" The man reacted at this moment and knelt down to kowtow.
"What are you doing? Get up. "Ye Fan said as he reached out to help the two of them up.
"Benefactor, thank you for saving my wife's life." The man's eyes were red as he kowtowed to Ye Fan.
"Get up first." Ye Fan helped the two of them up.
"I didn't expect to see benefactor again today," the woman said as she stood up and wiped her tears with her sleeve.
"Benefactor, if it weren't for your help, my wife would have …" The man choked up.
"It's all in the past. Don't mention it again," Ye Fan advised the two of them.
"Benefactor, this lady, please take a seat first," the woman said to Ye Fan and the man. "I'll go pour some tea for you." Then she turned around to make tea.
"Don't busy yourself. I still have things to do. I won't be here for long," Ye Fan said.
"What are you talking about, benefactor? It's not easy to meet you, so we should at least let the two of us thank you properly," the man said as he hung up the closed sign and closed the door from the inside.
He was afraid that Ye Fan would leave. He had heard from the woman that Ye Fan was very capable and could break a chain with a light pull.
"What are you doing?" Ye Fan asked with a frown. "You're not doing business?"
"Benefactor, since you're here, we're not doing business," the man said.
"Benefactor, this lady, have some tea." The woman with a big belly placed two cups of tea in front of the two of them.
"Don't busy yourself. I really have something to do. I can only stay here for an hour at most," Ye Fan said.
Hearing Ye Fan's words, the man had no choice but to cut up a few plates of cooked food, took out bowls and chopsticks, and poured two cups of wine. Only then did he and the woman sit opposite Ye Fan.
"Why did you come here?" Ye Fan asked the two of them.
"Benefactor, there's something you don't know." The woman spoke to Ye Fan. "After you had saved me that day, Wen and I were afraid that the mountain bandits would take revenge on us so we traveled day and night. We left that place and came here to make a living. We never thought that the Heavens would have eyes to meet you here, benefactor."
"Didn't I give you a hundred taels of silver?" Ye Fan asked. "Why are you living such a poor life?"
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