His Peasant Wife: Yao Ling [Part 1]

Chapter 41: Ning Jie, Part 3&4

— Part 3

Yao Ling smiled. "Thanking me once is enough! By the way, I'm impressed with how you establishing this place."

Ning Qing Xue slightly blushed. It was true that she did it out of her own free will, however... hearing someone praise her, she would still feel happy nonetheless. "Thank you."

"Can you tell me the whole story behind this place?" Yao Ling was interested in knowing the details.

Such a beautiful woman, if she didn't spend her time and dedicate her life for these kids, she would probably have led a good life.

"Before that, I want to ask you Yao Ling Xiao Jie..." Before she finished talking, Yao Ling interrupted her. "I already told you that you should call me Yao Ling. Well... it's up to you then. Call me with what you are comfortable with. But when I meet you, I think I will stick with this disguise. You can just call me Yao gong zi."

Ning QIng Xue nodded because she preferred calling her Xiao Jie.

"So you are the stepchildren of 'Wang Fu'," Ning jie said confidently.

Yao Ling furrowed her eyebrows. "How do you know about it?"

"Who doesn't know about it in An Yang city? The people know how 'Wang Fu' has no descendants and suddenly Master Wang just took you two in. It made quite a commotion at that time," Ning jie explained.

Yao Ling didn't realize that the matter was a popular topic for the people. "It seems like 'Wang Fu' is quite powerful in this city."

Ning jie's eyes widened. "You don't know how powerful 'Wang Fu' is?"

Yao Ling felt embarrassed by her own ignorance. "I only know that 'Wang Fu' has a noble background. Other than that, I think it's just a usual wealthy family."

Ning jie couldn't believe at the girl's ignorance. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

It seemed like they really had no ulterior motive by agreeing to become part of 'Wang Fu'. She didn't even know the value of that household.

"Although it seems like 'Wang Fu' is a wealthy merchant, their connection is very vast. Their connection with the royals makes no one dares to touch this family. I'm not really sure how vast, but from what I've heard, even the royals don't dare to touch them. However, if you don't know about it... is it only a baseless rumor?" Ning jie started to doubt the floating rumors.

Yao Ling started to ponder about this matter. What the rumor said was quite make sense. It was rare for a merchant to have the benefit of becoming a noble.

A merchant was perceived as even lower than a peasant because they didn't produce something – only selling something that had been produced by others. If one didn't have great backing, she didn't think one could have this kind of advantage.

It seemed like 'Wang Fu' was deeper than both she and Yao Ying had ever thought.

The more she thought about it, the more things that she needed to unravel the secret of 'Wang Fu'.

Yao Ling just smiled at Ning jie and only said one word, "Probably."

Ning jie knew that Yao Ling didn't want to talk about it, so she didn't dwell anymore on the matter.

Besides, it wasn't her place to gossip about the situation inside 'Wang Fu'.

They maintained their small voice while talking because of the babies beside them.

If the babies cried, it would ruin their chance to talk because Ning jie would practically busy once again.

"For some reasons, I was disowned by my own family." Ning jie began her explanation.