Obnoxious Aunt

Although she couldn't see her face, looking at Liu Xiaolan's back and the way she's dressed, Liu Yimu was reminded of how she herself used to look like. Thinking of all the insults she had to hear after her marriage with Wen Long, she urged. "What are you waiting for, quickly get rid of her…"

Shopkeeper Wen quickly moved forward and was prepared to push Liu Xiaolan outside her shop.

Seeing that there was no hope for buying anything from them and that she was about to be kicked out, Liu Xiaolan turned around and was about to go out herself.

"Liu Xiaolan? How could it be you? Did the Liu family send you here?" Liu Yimu shouted.

It took quite some time for Liu Xiaolan to remember who Liu Yimu was. From the memories of the original soul she had, she managed to understand that the person standing in front of her was her own aunt.

Liu Xiaolan however had no ideas about recognizing her as her family. "Madam Liu, how could the Liu family send me here? I've come on my own…"

Liu Yimu turned her eyes towards Wen Zhong, asking for an explanation.

"Madam, this lady came inside our shop and wanted to buy some beddings. I was afraid she wouldn't have enough money, so I've only shown her some of our low quality products…" Shopkeeper Wen sweat. How could he have known that this cheap looking girl knew his owner's wife?

Upon hearing his explanation, Liu Yimu barked out: "Liu Xiaolan, don't think that I will give you some discounts just because you're part of the Liu family. Quickly get lost, you can't afford anything here anyway…"

Liu Xiaolan turned away and went outside. A small voice could be heard from her mouth when she opened the doors. "I'm not part of the Liu family anymore, Madam Liu."

Liu Yimu had a look of puzzlement on her face.

After she got married with Wen Long, in order to better her relationship with her in-laws she tried to push her contact with her own family to the minimum, almost breaking up her ties with the Liu family.

After some time when she gave birth to a son and her treatment inside the Wen family was better, she did start going to the Liu family more often.

However, after all she did spend a lot of time in the Wen family. With all the insults towards peasants and farmers in general that she was used to hearing, she slowly started to follow what they were saying and disdained her own family a little.

Because of that, even if she went back to visit her family in the village, she would go by at most once or twice a month.

And even if she went, Liu Xiaolan was usually in the fields helping out or simply going around by herself, not wanting to incur any abuse by accident from her family. After getting kicked, Liu Yimu never noticed that she wasn't there, and the Liu family had no interest in mentioning her anyway.

So until now Liu Yimu actually had no idea that Liu Xiaolan was kicked out of the Liu Family be her mother and they had nothing to do with each other now, they could even be called enemies of some sort.

Meanwhile, during the time Liu Yimu was still thinking about what Liu Xiaolan's words meant, she was already outside Zhouhua Clothing Workshop.

Liu Xiaolan thought of what happened today and sighed. This body's family relations are really messed up, even when going to a random shop you can still somehow hit upon a "family member".

But this also makes it easier for her to understand why the quality of service in Zhouhua is so bad. As they say, if the shop owner is crooked, don't expect the shop to be clean either.

Liu Xiaolan looked at the sun and prepared to go back to the gate. Unfortunately, when she passed by she didn't get to keep any of her things. Now, without a watch she didn't really have a way to keep track of time.

She could only observe how far the sun was in the sky and hope for the best. Perhaps after she spends some time living in the ancient times she will be able to tell how much time has passed, but for now she needs to lose some time and go back earlier, otherwise she could miss the time by an accident.

Well, now that she's going back she can only hope that she will notice another clothing workshop on her way back, but thinking about the past few times she moved on this street she can't remember there being any of them on her way…

After some time, Liu Xiaolan made it to the gate and noticed Zou Xinghe already waiting by his ox cart.

"Girl Liu, ready to go back? We still have some time before we need to leave" He asked.

Liu Xiaolan smiled and said, "It's fine, Uncle Zou. Let's go back now so we can be in the Liuojia Village earlier."

"Alright, that's fine. After all, last time we went back it was already almost dark. It won't be bad to go earlier this time." Zou Xinghe said. "Anyway, you've got some pretty good luck recently? Not many people in our village come to the city to sell something…"

"I guess so, Uncle Zou. There's nobody in the village to fight with me for fungus, so I can pick up quite a lot of it on the mountains." Liu Xiaolan said quietly.

Zou Xinghe thought that she was telling the truth. As far as he knew, let's not talk about the Liuojia village, even in all the nearby villages, he probably couldn't find another person capable of picking fungus.

Thinking of it, he asked her. "Girl Liu, can you sell me some of your fungus if you manage to pick it up on the mountains in the future?"