Number One Ugly Husband

23. Your Name Is so Interesting

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

The center of Mess District is the country fair for top slaves. People are crowded and bustling. The street was full of dazzling goods stalls from the one end to the other, the sellers tried best to boast their commodities, while the buyers wandering around to pick up their favorites.

Bao Ye walked with Lao Liu for a little while and noticed that everyone was trading what they want with food.

“Bao Ye.” Lao Liu patted his backpack and said, “Little fish bone and I brought plenty of food, you can buy anything you want.”

Little fish bone clapped at her satchel, “Yes, I can afford everything you want. If it’s too expensive, we can also go back to fetch more grains.”

Bao Ye left out courtesy, he bought clothes and a few pairs of shoes, as well as a backpack and tools for digging herbs.

Put on the new clothes, he was so excited: since he came here, he never wore on any upper wear, his shoes were worn out, and stung his feet.

The grains Lao Liu and little fish bone were quickly used up. They never mind about the cost, since their sister’s life was priceless.

Their water-like spending quickly attracted all attention on the street.

Little fish bone was the first one they noticed. She is the celebrity in the Mess District, everyone who wanted to get along well with her all greeted her, and they noticed Lao Liu and Bao Ye walking beside her.

They knew Lao Liu was the sixth elder brother of little fish bone, and they their sight were cast to Bao Ye.

“Who is him? How could him walk beside little fish bone?”

“I never saw him before.”

“His looks so……”

He didn’t dare to speak out “disgusting” in case of offending little fish bone.

Bao Ye and his fellows walked to the end of the street. Little fish bone pointed at the avenue on the left and said, “Let’s go there.”

Seeing several kinds of herb on some stands, he frowned a little and immediately understood why the little fish bone chose to walk on this avenue.

“Look! The purple flower on the stand in front of us is so pretty!” Pointed at the flower, she glimpsed Bao Ye stealthily and asked, “Brother, do you know what flower it is?”

“I don’t know.” Lao Liu shook his head, “Do you want it? Wait me for a while, I’ll fetch more grains.”

“No thanks brother, I am just curious.”

“I’ll ask the stand owner.”

Bao Ye felt hilarious. Lao Liu didn’t know she was just sounding him up to make sure whether he knew the herb or not. If he couldn’t tell the herb, he couldn’t be the one who made the medicine.

Lao Liu had no idea about this.

Lao Liu went to ask the vendor and came back to her, “He said it is Zi Dong Flower (purple winter flower literally), if you place it in your room, it settles your mind and help you to calm down.”

“Beautiful name.” Little fish bone pretended to be interested in it and asked the names of other herbs, Lao Liu asked the vendor for her all the time, but Bao Ye remained silence. Since the one she want to test is Bao Ye, little fish bone couldn’t bear that anymore and asked Bao Ye directly, “Bao Ye, what herb is it?”

Bao Ye took a glance at the herb on the stand beside them and replied, “You won’t want to know about it, little girl.”

“Why?” Little fish bone deemed that his refused to answer just because he didn’t know the herb, thus, Bao Ye couldn’t be the one who made the medicine.

She felt her conclusion much more confirmative, and she appeared indifferent to Bao Ye apparently.

Bao Ye was about to answer, but the outbroke noise attracted his eyes.

It was a quarrel broke between the male vendor and a girl.

Quarrel was too normal to attract him, but he couldn’t help to watch them, more precisely, he couldn’t help to watch that girl stuck in the quarrel.

She was tanned all over, wearing a red shirt. Her hair was unkempt, and a character “li” was marked on the corner of her right eye. She looked like a normal top slave at one glance, but if you watched her for more seconds, you can notice the trace of her outstanding grace.

Bao Ye narrowed his eyes, astonishment flashed over his eyes: that girl was Zisang Yanruo that he met yesterday!

How could she come here? Did she come here alone? Why did she disguise herself?

Curiously and excited, Bao Ye came to them and heard Zisang Yanruo’s angry claim, “This is Tian Ri Hong, (literally, the herb’s name means heaven sun Red), not Gui Xin Hong (literally, Heart-Returned Red) as you said! Tian Ri Hong kills if it was eaten mistakenly!”

The male vendor was also pissed off, “I’ve picked the herbs long before you were born! How could I make such mistake? Get away from my stand, you don’t know herb at all, silly girl! Get away, or I will beat you!”

“I won’t! Your herb kills people! I won’t let you sell them!” Zisang Yanruo shouted to the on-lookers, “Listen! This vendor is selling Tian Ri Hong rather than Gui Xin Hong! If you eat his herb, you will die in less than one minute!”

People passing by was shocked by her words, the one who wanted to buy his herb quickly threw the herb away.

“You bastard…” Folding his sleeves up, the vendor walkedout of his stand angrily. On the moment he want to release his power, his wrist was tightly held back.

He turned around and was immediately shocked to backstep quickly, “Who, who are you?”

Bao Ye glanced at the red herb on his stand and said, “She is right, you are selling Tian Ri Hong.”

The vendor was stunned for a second, then cursed, “Bullshit you bastard, I’ve sold Gui Xin Hong for many years! How could I make mistake? I never heard about what f**king Tian Ri Hong.”

His sight moved between Bao Ye and Zisang Yanruo for a few rounds, and suddenly “got through”, “Ah, I know you dirty trick! You two were planned to ruin my business!”

Zisang Yanruo retorted angrily, “You liar, I don’t know him at all!”

Other vendors began to speak for the male vendor.

“Zhang has sold herb here for many years, I never heard anyone said he sold the wrong or fake herb to others.”

“He sold Gui Xin Hong for years, he couldn’t make such mistake.”

Pointed the root of the herb, Bao Ye replied, “You said you’ve sold Gui Xin Hong for many years, you should know that Gui Xin Hong doesn’t have these red lines on its root.”

Seeing the red lines on the root, the vendor still insisted, “It’s normal to see red lines! Some herbs grow with usual look. The grains of rice we eat are not identity to each other, so is the herb.”

“We can test whether it is Gui Xin Hong.”

“How?”

“Feed the bug with it, if the bug was still alive, it is Gui Xin Hong.”

The vendor was absolutely reluctant to follow suit, “Do you know how expensive my herb is? It worth a huge bag of grain! A huge bag! You want me to feed a bug with it? You are f**king kidding me!”

Zisang Yanruo dropped her satchel on the desk, “Are these enough?”

The vendor had a look and replied with despise, “Only for one leaf.”

“One leaf is enough.” Said Bao Ye.

The vendor poured the rice in Zisang Yanruo’s satchel into his bag, then pulled off a leaf and cast it to them.

Bao Ye caught several bugs around the site and fed the leaf to them. No more than three seconds, the energetic bugs were all fell to the ground and turned stiff.

The people around were all shocked, “The bugs died!”

The vendor still refused to confess his herb was toxic, he took out a herb that had not touched by them and fed the bug with it, the bug died immediately.

“What…what happened?” The vendor quivered, threw away the herb in his hand.

Bao Ye curved his lips, “They used to be one herb, which had split into two part afterwards. One part saves people, the other kills. Since you’ve never seen Tian Ri Hong before, you can’t tell them apart. Oh, by the way, the herb got another name, it is called…”

“The twin grass.” He looked into Zisang Yanruo’s eyes, and they spoke out together.

Then they smiled into each other’s eyes.

Suddenly, someone pointed Bao Ye and yelled, “Ah—I know who he is! He is the young brother of Boss Jin in the South District! The ugly slave!”

The rest of people were all shocked, “The ugly slave?”

“He even knows more herbs than Zhang! He had sold herbs for years! So the rumor I heard today is true! The ugly slave does make the medicine!”

Astonishment covered the crowd.

Everyone knew about the young brother of Boss Jin, but whenever he was mentioned, there was never good news. His crimes had stained Boss Jin’s reputation.

Little fish bone was the most astonished one on the spot. She was just confirmed that Bao Ye knew nothing about the herb, but her conclusion was overthrown in a few minutes.

Stood out of the crowd, she quickly turned to the vendor and asked about the herb that Bao Ye told her “you won’t want to know”. “What is this?”

The vendor winked at her obscenely, “This grass enhance men’s capability at night. If your man has this, you will be too satisfied to leave your bed in the next day.”

Little fish bone’s cheeks were suddenly flushed, she spitted at the vendor, “Shameless!”

Hearing the gossip about him, Bao Ye suggested to Zisang Yanruo, “Let’s leave here first.”

Zisang Yanruo nodded and pushed away her way with him. “It seems that you know a lot about herbs.” Asked she.

Bao Ye lifted his lips, “Not much, but more than yours.”

“You don’t even know me, how could you know your knowledge is more than mine?”

“My name is Bao Ye.” He introduced himself directly.

“Bao…Ye? ” Zisang Yanruo smiled, “Your name is so interesting.”

“What’s your name?” Asked Bao Ye.

“I’m Zi…” Zisang Yanruo paused a while, and continued, “I’m Zi Ruo.”

Bao Ye didn’t mind her fake name, but felt glad that she could keep vigilance to strangers. He reached out to her, “Now we know each other.”

Zisang Yanruo stunned for a while and held his hand, “Yes, we know each other now.”

On this moment, he stopped, “Here I am”