Chapter 308: Returning Home in Glory
No one would have expected the proprietress to now see Jiang Muye walking in hand in hand with a beautiful girl.
This girl was even prettier than the one who had secretly crushed on Jiang Muye before.
Her temperament was even better.
The proprietress was full of admiration. So it turned out Jiang Muye didn't dislike women—he just had high standards. The one he had laid eyes on was a daughter of heaven.
At this moment, the proprietress's heart was blooming with joy. Her former frustration at his stubbornness instantly turned into the pride of a mother whose son had made good.
Upon hearing the proprietress's words, Jiang Muye held Leng Ruoli's hand and said, "So, does someone want to make a gesture or not?"
Jiang Muye's teasing, spoken with a smile, made Leng Ruoli's little face flush to the extreme. She said to the proprietress, "When our happy occasion draws near, I'll invite you to attend our wedding."
"That's not necessary, is it…" The proprietress was overwhelmed by the favor.
"I insist on it," Jiang Muye said adamantly. "When the time comes, I'll send you an invitation."
"In the future, if you ever want a taste of this, no matter whether this shop is still open or whether I'm still in business, I'll definitely make it for you," the proprietress said from the bottom of her heart.
Jiang Muye smiled brightly. "Good. I'll be thinking about this taste of yours."
He took the jianbing from the proprietress's hands—a fully loaded jianbing, even bigger than his palm, carrying all of the proprietress's warm kindness toward him.
After a single glance at it, Jiang Muye was somewhat reluctant to eat it.
"Thank you. We'll be going now." After smiling his farewell to the proprietress, she watched Jiang Muye and Leng Ruoli's backs as they walked away, reluctant to part.
When she began to clear the table, she discovered a red banknote left under the bowl.
The proprietress was slightly surprised, then understood that Jiang Muye had deliberately left it.
She instinctively wanted to chase after them to return it, but the familiar figures were already gone.
The proprietress spat, "That brat."
But a warm smile filled her eyes, one that lingered on her face and refused to fade.
Jiang Muye took Leng Ruoli shopping again. They walked a step and took a bite of jianbing—he took a bite, then fed her a bite.
As they walked along, the shop owners recognized Jiang Muye and greeted him. "Wow, isn't this little Ye!"
They had all watched Jiang Muye grow up. After all, this was the road he had to pass through to get to high school.
Jiang Muye was a natural socializer and had hit it off with everyone here.
In the past, Jiang Muye always loved to skip class, and he was the wildest one in the area.
These shop owners had all begun to worry about Jiang Muye's future prospects.
They figured he'd be lucky to even get into university. If he couldn't, he'd have to go work in a factory or drift through society. Even if he did get in, it would probably be some third-rate no-name school where he'd just coast through the days.
Who would have thought that Jiang Muye would buckle down and strive in the second semester of his sophomore year?
Jiang Muye stunned everyone with a single feat.
From a poor student, he transformed all at once into a top scholar.
He directly squeezed into the top twenty of his grade.
Although Jiang Muye was severely lopsided in his subjects—his English score was only worth twenty or thirty minutes of the exam—it couldn't make up for his excellent scores in the other subjects.
With a stellar score of 625, Jiang Muye was directly admitted to a first-tier institution, West City University, dropping everyone's jaws.
This was even higher than the "other family's good child" that the folks back home praised.
However, Jiang Muye's legend didn't end there.
Within a few years, Jiang Muye had actually made a name for himself with a super badass identity.
He could actually be seen on the news!
Of course, not on Legal Report.
That would be a matter of life and death for his mother.
Instead, he was seen on the news of various commendations, making the lists!
#Top Ten Outstanding Young Talents#
#Top Five Most Influential Figures of 2021#
#Best Charity Pioneer#
#The Nation's Husband No. 1 Most Wanted to Marry#
…
Similar awards were countless.
But Jiang Muye always topped the list.
As a representative figure of A City, Jiang Muye had truly made A City famous.
Now, how could these folks who knew Jiang Muye not feel proud and hesitant?
So a crowd surrounded Jiang Muye and Leng Ruoli completely.
They wished they could beat gongs and drums and send them off with ceremonial cannons.
"Little Ye, Uncle is really proud of you! You're the hope of our whole village, truly amazing!"
"Little Ye has more prospects than all the top scorers in A City. Who's doing as well as little Ye now?"
"Brother Ye, you really have a future, and such a pretty girlfriend too. Sure, the girls here are pretty, but none are as refined as your girlfriend."
A barrage of rainbow farts rained down, praising Jiang Muye until he felt a little embarrassed.
Why did he feel like he was returning home in glory?
These folks didn't just chase after Jiang Muye—they were very much set on giving him gifts.
Every household was either stacking cans of tea leaves in front of Jiang Muye, or rushing to hand him freshly steamed hot zongzi or boxes of peach cakes.
"You have to take the tea leaves, they're so fragrant, all new tea, fried up nice and fragrant! Give Uncle your address, and I'll send you some every month!"
"Our little Ye is a young man. How could he possibly drink tea? Have some zongzi, they're so fragrant, sticky and glutinous in your mouth. These are chestnut and pork filling, absolutely delicious!"
"Better take the peach cakes. They're an A City specialty, super crispy when you bite into them, not too sweet, so fragrant!"
"Little Ye, you should look at mine too…"
Jiang Muye was terribly embarrassed by the enthusiasm of the folks back home.
Both hands were full, and he couldn't carry any more.
"No more, really, it's too much, I can't carry it all," Jiang Muye declined.
He thought they would stop being so enthusiastic, but who would have expected their gazes to target Leng Ruoli.
"Little girl, take this, it's ejiao, very nourishing!"
"These milk dates are delicious, take some, don't be polite!"
"My family's fragrant balm is pretty good too, you'll smell wonderful after applying it!"
Leng Ruoli's face flushed slightly, somewhat helpless yet unable to refuse such hospitality.
Her innocent eyes turned toward Jiang Muye, who was not far away, pleading for help.
Jiang Muye found it very amusing and helped Leng Ruoli, saying to these enthusiastic folks, "Uncles, aunties, thank you so much, really, there's no need. She can't carry this much either. Besides, we'd feel bad taking everything for free. Just a token is enough. Can I just buy it?"
Jiang Muye wanted to pay, but these people started getting serious.
"Don't you dare give money!"
"Uncle treats you like his own son. Are you really going to be so calculating with me over this little bit of money? If you take it, I'll break your dog legs!"
"We just feel close to you. Now that you're here, of course we have to be hospitable. We won't take your money."
Seeing these folks, as if by agreement, unwilling to accept, Jiang Muye had no choice but to say, "Then let me help you with some work."
They took Jiang Muye's words as mere politeness and laughed. "What could you possibly do?"
Jiang Muye was now a Young Master, and the future heir of Chen Group.
A delicate, tender-skinned one—what work could he do?
He only needed to crook a finger, and quite a few people would scramble to help him with things.
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