Running a Food Stall to Support My Deceptive Omega - Chapter 15

Mu Jinyu slowly moved toward Rong Heng’s direction. When she finally reached her, she didn’t grab her and start changing the dressing immediately like she had done yesterday.

Instead, she tried her best to keep her voice steady and said, “Stretch out your hand.”

She wanted Rong Heng to cooperate with her.

But how could Rong Heng possibly listen to her? It was already a feat that she didn’t run away on the spot.

The two were at a stalemate. Having no other choice, Mu Jinyu ultimately had to forcibly change Rong Heng’s medicine just as she had in the past, all the while praying in her heart that Rong Heng wouldn’t hold a grudge against her.

After finally finishing the task, both of them had beads of sweat on their foreheads.

Mu Jinyu quickly distanced herself from the other woman and headed toward her own room, thinking she could finally breathe a sigh of relief. To her surprise, Rong Heng followed right behind her, intending to enter the same room.

Mu Jinyu: …

Was she really going to spend the entire night in a state of alarm and trepidation, constantly on guard against Rong Heng?

No, she didn’t want that.

Mu Jinyu spun around abruptly, using her body to block the door to prevent Rong Heng from entering, while saying, “You… go sleep in your own room.”

Rong Heng couldn’t stop her pace in time and almost crashed into Mu Jinyu.

She didn’t listen to her, but her eyes swept over the unblocked gaps. She tilted her body, trying to squeeze through the opening.

Seeing this, Mu Jinyu quickly raised her arm, barring the entire doorframe to block her.

Taking advantage of the movement, Rong Heng ducked low and slipped in under Mu Jinyu’s arm.

How could Mu Jinyu have expected Rong Heng to pull a move like that? Wasn’t she usually just dazed and blank?

How did she suddenly become so clever?

She turned around to look at Rong Heng, who had entered the room, and settled for the next best thing. “Fine, you sleep here. I’ll sleep in that room.”

Rong Heng, who was already sitting on the bed, hadn’t even begun to feel happy before she became somewhat at a loss.

Her mind was a muddle; she vaguely felt that she didn’t want Mu Jinyu to leave, but she couldn’t explain why.

Clearly, this place also had that fragrant scent of the parasol tree.

She just sat on the bed, watching Mu Jinyu turn and leave, even closing the door for her.

Mu Jinyu arrived at the room that belonged to the original owner of her body. The moment she entered, a sense of familiarity washed over her, as if she truly had lived here for over ten years.

In any case, sleep was sleep; there was no need to squeeze into one room with Rong Heng.

She wasn’t picky about her bed; she could sleep anywhere.

Mu Jinyu shook out the quilt and settled in to sleep… but she couldn’t sleep well!

Her eyes snapped wide open as she looked at the person who had suddenly appeared by her bedside. a sense of powerlessness welled up from her heart.

Mu Jinyu could only sit up, silently walk to the room of the original owner’s parents, and lie down on that bed after closing the door.

But after a short while, Rong Heng followed again.

She switched again.

Rong Heng followed again!

The two went back and forth like this, switching rooms several times. Mu Jinyu finally compromised, lying down honestly on the wide bed and letting Rong Heng sleep at the other end.

She couldn’t understand why Rong Heng was pestering her.

The next day, before dawn, Mu Jinyu emerged into the courtyard with a pair of prominent dark circles under her eyes, floating like a ghost. She put the last two sweet potatoes into the stove to roast.

Then, she prepared to go out to buy supplies.

Before leaving, fearing that Rong Heng might harm the kitten, she specifically fished the kitten out from the farthest corner of the room and carried it out in the palm of her hand.

When Rong Heng woke up, she found that there wasn’t a soul in the house. Even the kitten, who had arrived later than she had, was gone.

Only she had been left behind…

An indescribable feeling filled her heart. She walked aimlessly to the courtyard gate and stared at the dark wooden door, waiting quietly.

On the street, Mu Jinyu first rushed to the meat market and bought out all the twenty-five-wen fish from the fishmonger. At the same time, she instructed the fishmonger to slaughter half of the fish first, and leave the rest for the afternoon.

The fishmonger happily agreed and asked about the kitten in Mu Jinyu’s hand.

The two chatted about the kitten for a while, and the fishmonger even fed it a small scrap of fish.

After eating, the kitten, which had been meowing with its raspy voice all the way, finally quieted down. It stayed peacefully in Mu Jinyu’s palm.

A purring sound vibrated from its throat.

It seemed very satisfied.

After chatting with the fishmonger, Mu Jinyu continued her stroll. She bought a back-basket and placed the kitten inside.

Next, she bought rice, lettuce, eggs, rapeseed oil, and bean oil.

The technology for extracting oil from plants was very developed in the Great Rong Kingdom, and there were many varieties of edible vegetable oils. Mu Jinyu chose the relatively cheap rapeseed oil.

She had wanted to buy some meat, but calculating the pitifully few copper coins on her person, she decided to neglect her taste buds for now.

She went to a shop selling bowls and picked out six coarse bowls that were less than half the size of her hand. Mu Jinyu estimated that two pounds of “Knock Fish Noodles” could fill forty such bowls.

By charging six wen per bowl, she could make a profit, and the price wouldn’t be considered expensive in the night market street.

As she bought more things, the space for the kitten in the basket grew smaller. However, the kitten didn’t mind; it curled up on the eggs and fell asleep.

Mu Jinyu looked at the purring, sleeping kitten and scratched the bridge of its nose and its head with her finger.

She didn’t have the heart to wake the cat to make room for the bowls, so she had to carry the six small bowls in one arm and pick up the first half of the fish from the fishmonger before heading back.

Upon returning home, as expected, Mu Jinyu saw Rong Heng start to move away from her.

A flash of doubt crossed her mind—why did Rong Heng always move away from the spot near the door? Could it be that she had been waiting for her by the door the whole time?

Probably not.

She probably just wanted to go out.

Mu Jinyu didn’t think too much about it. Putting the matter out of her mind, she placed all the purchased items on the stove bench.

The sweet potatoes in the stove were already roasted. After she and Rong Heng finished eating them, she went back to being busy.

One half of the fish meat had to be made into “Knock Fish” noodle sheets first, while the other half would be prepared during the night market.

This way, she wouldn’t keep the diners waiting too long, but she could also let them see the unique production process of the noodles, thereby sparking their interest to try it.

Making the noodles was time-consuming. Rong Heng watched Mu Jinyu working by the stove for a while, but then felt bored and ran under the persimmon tree, tilting her head to watch the leaves fluttering in the wind.

The two had eaten very little for breakfast, and by noon, they were starving.

Mu Jinyu cooked rice and made a fried egg soup with lettuce.

Rice cooked with firewood and an earthen stove was very fragrant and had a unique flavor. It had been years since Mu Jinyu had eaten such a meal.

For a moment, she couldn’t stop eating and finished two whole bowls!

But she still didn’t eat as much as Rong Heng.

Rong Heng ate three bowls. Had the rice not run out, she probably could have kept going.

Mu Jinyu couldn’t understand it; Rong Heng looked like such a small person, yet her appetite was actually this big?

After finishing lunch, Mu Jinyu cooked a separate bowl of Knock Fish Noodles. Rong Heng watched from the side, swallowing her saliva several times, thinking this bowl was for her.

She even held her chopsticks in her hand, only to see Mu Jinyu carry the bowl of noodles and walk past her.

She went out the door.

Rong Heng: What is the meaning of this???

[Laughs loudly] [Laughs loudly]