Chapter 9 (1/2)

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

“We’ll take it as a souvenir.” Shen Yan saw right through what the woman was planning, but he also noticed from Emily’s expression that she wasn’t entirely sure either, so he decided to just take it.

“Sure, no problem!” The woman’s face lit up with glee as she took the envelope from the bodyguard and wrapped up Emily’s ‘clothes’.

“Hey, Emi, come have lunch at our place!” Just as the woman finished speaking, a few other village women appeared outside and started calling into the room. Each of them had the most welcoming, warm smiles on their faces.

The woman saw what’s happening outside and cursed silently. They must have found out somehow about the gift she received yesterday. These greedy sons of a b*tches were just thirsty for money.

It was ironic the woman did not realize that her curses would include herself.

Emily had never seen such a scene. In the past, these villagers would try their best to avoid her, especially during mealtime. When had they ever called her over for lunch?

“We won’t be staying here for lunch, unfortunately. We’ll be returning to Cloud City in a short while.” Shen Yan’s deep voice cut off the village women.

A disappointed expression immediately spread on their faces. However, one of the villagers had very sharp eyes. She caught a glimpse of the clothes that the bodyguard was holding and the envelope in her hand. She immediately yelled, “Emi left some of her clothes at my house too! I’ll go and get them for you before you go.”

“I’ll go too…”

“Me too…”

Everyone rushed back to their own home and brought out all the kid-sized clothes they could find at home. There were dozens of them in total.

Emily’s eyes widened. Why didn’t she know that she had so many clothes? The only clothes that she could recall owning were the ones given to her by the Shen family which she had just met, and that one set of summer clothing that she wore when she left the village.

“Mr. Shen, take a look. These are all clothes that Emi used to wear. Emi used to be a little overweight so she had to wear these oversized clothes,” a plump woman said.

Emily could not believe what she was hearing. She had never been overweight before. In fact, she rarely had enough to eat. However, she did remember that this aunt had two rather chubby children. Their figures were almost exactly the same as their mother. Although Emily was young, she too started to think why this was happening.

“Mister, Young Sir, come take these clothes back for Emi,” another woman said.

Seeing the fawning faces of these people, a realization suddenly struck Emily. These villagers just wanted money from Grandpa Shen Yan.

“These aren’t my clothes,” Emily said with a straight face.

The women didn’t take Emily’s words seriously. They thought that now that Emily had new, prettier clothes, she naturally wouldn’t want these clothes. She was so young. How could she remember how many clothes she had?

“Emi is too young, so she can’t remember clearly,” the plump woman said with a smile.