TFWYH – Chapter 58 Too Fast to Slap

“Really?” Ling Yue asked uncertainly.

Tang Wan nodded. “One month, and it’ll be cured.”

Ling Yue let out a long sigh of relief—only to quickly get depressed again.

That meant they’d have to spend money to treat the horse!

And even after it recovered, they’d still have to feed it.

She’d heard raising horses wasn’t cheap. It was the classic can afford to buy, can’t afford to keep situation!

Just thinking about it made Ling Yue’s head hurt.

Tang Wan didn’t go straight back. Instead, she took Ling Yue to Jimin Medical Hall to buy some medicinal herbs.

When they finally left the city, Tang Wan hired an ox cart, sending Ling Yue and the driver to haul the soybean paste to Drunken Immortal Restaurant.

As for herself, she dragged the handcart with one hand and led the horse with the other on the way back.

Not far down the road, Tang Wan heard the horse snorting softly.

The sound reached her ears, and instantly, the frequency translated itself in her mind.

Tang Wan smiled, loosening the reins as she said, “Be good. I’ll save you.”

“Snort… snort…” The horse’s heavy breathing almost sounded like a reply.

Even without Tang Wan holding the reins, it trailed closely beside her, obedient to a fault.

Tang Wan arched a brow. Quite a bit of spirit. Did I just strike gold?

“Black coat, snow-white hooves… from now on, you’ll be called Treading Snow.”

“Snort…”

“Be good and take your medicine. You’ll get better.”

“Neigh… snort…”

“When you’re well, you can pull the cart. For now, you rest.”

Treading Snow let out another call. Looking closely, there seemed to be a sheen of moisture in its eyes.

When Tang Wan brought the horse back to Huanshan Village, it caused an uproar.

Especially at the village head’s house. Madam Liu’s face turned green.

Just two hours ago, she’d been putting on airs, flatly refusing to lend them the ox cart.

Two hours later, that fat woman dragged back a horse instead.

A horse!

Forget one ox—ten oxen together weren’t worth as much as one horse.

The slap in the face came as fast as a tornado.

“She… she… she did it just to spite me,” Madam Liu said through gritted teeth.

The village head gave a cold snort. “Spite you? You think she spent nearly a hundred taels of silver just to get under your skin? Wow, you must be worth a fortune!”

“Zhao old man, what do you mean? Why are you always siding with outsiders? Am I your wife or is she your wife?”

“You foul-mouthed old hag, running around offending people all day. What are you so proud of? Just because I’ve got this tiny village head title? Step outside Huanshan Village and you’re nothing. I really don’t know what you’re so smug about.”

“Zhao old man, you dare talk to me like that?”

“I don’t even want to argue with you. One day, you’re going to ruin my reputation as village head completely, and then maybe you’ll be happy!”

“…”

While the village head’s house was in chaos, the Ling family wasn’t much quieter either.

When she heard Tang Wan had actually bought a horse, Old Madam Liu’s eyes went red with envy.

“A horse! I heard a horse costs at least several dozen taels, maybe even a hundred. That black-hearted little tramp has that kind of money and doesn’t think to honor me, her elder? She spends it on a horse instead? Has she gone mad?”

Old Man Ling puffed on his water pipe, tapping the stem against the floor as he said sarcastically, “Honor you? You’re lucky she didn’t finish you off. You old hag—after the way you handled things back then, now that they’re doing well, you think they’d still remember you? Hah.”

“When we split the second branch off, you didn’t have a word to say. Now you’re blaming me for everything? Where were you during the division?”

“You think I could out-argue you? These years, when have you ever asked for my opinion on anything? Even if I said one word, you’d yell ten back. Hah… I can’t afford to cross you.”