She Became A Downfall Noble Lady-Chapter 60 - The Little Ones Magical Toy

Chapter 60: Chapter 60: The Little One’s Magical Toy

Chapter 60 -60: The Little One’s Magical Toy

It can’t be said that His Highness Prince Yu isn’t generous, as he never intended to cleverly snatch Ye Xinyan’s designs. He was merely interested in the items her family could produce and thought of obtaining a copy for himself.

Yet, Jiang Yifan was utterly frustrated. Who do they think they are? If Prince Yu was interested, he should have gone to see for himself, why drag him, Jiang Yifan, into it? Doesn’t everyone know he and that woman are ill-suited?

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He even suspected that his distant relative had concealed the truth about their horoscopes matching, just to let him suffer for three long years in order to forge a connection with Duke An’s Mansion.

He had escaped that torment not a few days ago when Jinrong forcibly dragged him back towards the flames. If it had not been for that woman’s persistent nagging back then, his great uncle would never have had the chance to arrange his marriage.

He had absolutely no desire to visit the woman’s village, yet that shameless, unscrupulous, and dishonorable person threatened and bribed him, insisting that he accompany him there.

Claiming that if he didn’t go, he would reveal that Jiang Yifan and Ye Xinyan were once husband and wife; he would even spread rumors in the county government office and around the county town that the stall at the exit of Willow Lane was owned by the Master County Magistrate himself.

Listen to this, does Jiang Yifan really look so impoverished that he has to make money from a street stall?

That man even threatened to spread rumors that Ye Xinyan’s illegitimate household registration was obtained by the Master County Magistrate by breaking the law. He would also warn passerby to be careful not to offend the beauty selling rice tofu, lest they suffer retaliation from the Master County Magistrate.

Besides, he intended to spread gossip that this young Master County Magistrate, who seemed approachable and upright on the surface, was in fact just a small-minded opportunist clinging onto those in power. That back in the day, to gain favor with Duke An’s Mansion, he had married their granddaughter. But when he found out his wife wasn’t favored by the Duke’s Mansion, he discarded her like a worn shoe…

Damn, being a prince, he’s even better at wagging his tongue than the gossiping women in the market. At least those women know to embellish the truth; there’s some factual basis to their rumors. But Prince Yu, he simply skipped the embellishment stage altogether and made up things out of thin air!

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The idea of Jinrong wanting to see the actual product led to Qi Younian preparing the designs in vain. Several days had passed, and yet the Sixth Master hadn’t paid a visit to the rice tofu stall.

Even though the important customer hadn’t shown up, business still had to go on, life still had to continue.

The little car for Qi Jia, under the tireless efforts of the elder Qi Younian, was finally assembled. The glue connecting the tenons had dried under the intense gaze of Qi Jia, and it was almost time for a test drive.

As Qi Younian had said, children’s adaptability is indeed astonishing.

After spending nearly a month with the Second Branch family of the Qi family, Qi Jia’s back wounds had long healed, the scabs had fallen off, and the scars had faded considerably. The little fellow was gradually getting used to the blissful life of being pampered like a pig.

He was either tended to by his nanny, who ensured he was well-fed and well-drunk, or when he thought about helping with work, he was dismissed by everyone. Thus, he could only play with the various little things made by his sister – of which the most abundant were various kinds of folded paper.

A piece of thin paper, which was originally unattainable for ordinary peasant children, was now freely given for him to play with in his sister’s hands. She could fold abstract animals, utensils, and flowers that brought him joy.

Of course, his favorite was still the Paper Bird. He even, encouraged by his sister, took his little belongings outside to play. But his sister warned him to only play at the gate of the courtyard and not to stray too far from home, fearing he might get lost or bullied.

Actually, he wanted to tell his sister that, when he was collecting manure and picking up kindling, he walked a long way and never got lost. He wasn’t afraid of being bullied either. The village children didn’t like him and sometimes indeed threw stones at him, occasionally shoving him once or twice. But it was nothing serious—it didn’t hurt much, and sometimes those kids would throw him some food to eat. He was very willing to go out and work; even if the children didn’t like him, it was still much better than staying at Great Uncle’s house.

However, both his sister and nanny were afraid he would get lost, and he really liked their worries, so he obediently played near the courtyard entrance and never argued against his sister’s admonitions.

In the past, when he played with Paper Bird, the village children would watch from afar with shining eyes, but they didn’t dare to come over. Later, Brother Sanshun came over and asked him what it was.

After that, he generously let Brother Sanshun have a turn, and a few other children who were good friends with Brother Sanshun also came over and played with him.

At those moments, he was just like the other children, playing and running around wildly. No one bullied him or disliked him anymore.

The two brothers from Great Uncle’s family also came over. Yes, that was just Great Uncle, as both his sister and nanny said— he was only the Great Uncle, not Grandfather. Those two people were not Dad and Mom either, just Fourth Uncle and Fourth Auntie. He was very happy with this arrangement; his family consisted of Grandfather, sister, and nanny, which was wonderful.

Although he was already Grandfather’s grandson, he was still very scared of the people from Great Uncle’s family. As soon as the two brothers from that family got close, he would panic and run towards his own courtyard.

Whenever his sister saw him scared, she would come out and stare fiercely at the two brothers with a fierce look, brandishing her fists to chase them away. That way, they dared not come again.

Brother Sanshun and the other young boys said that the Paper Bird his sister made for him, being made of paper, was very precious, and other families were not willing to use it for their children to play with. Therefore, in the entire village, only he had this Paper Bird. The fact that the brothers from Great Uncle’s family had never played with his Paper Bird also made him happy.

Grandfather liked him a lot too. These few days, whenever he had time, he would work on the wooden car, saying it was a more fun thing than a Paper Bird or a folded paper pig, and it was also for him.

He really wished Grandfather could finish making the car sooner.

… And so, little Qi Jia’s interest in the Paper Bird diminished a lot. Whenever Qi Younian made the pedal car, he would trot excitedly behind him, watching Qi Younian work without taking his eyes off him.

When the pedal car was shaped and left in the room for the glue to dry naturally, the little fellow was almost irresistibly itchy with anticipation. He would carefully touch the car before going to bed, and only then would he be able to go to sleep contentedly.

Finally, the day arrived that Qi Younian mentioned, the time when the pedal car could be ridden.

Ye Xinyan was afraid that the little fellow, in his initial excitement of playing, wouldn’t eat his lunch properly and even less likely to be able to take a nap. Hence, when they came back from packing up at noon, she didn’t let Qi Younian touch the pedal car.

Since Qi Younian didn’t move it, Qi Jia naturally didn’t dare to either, thinking that the glue hadn’t dried and it wasn’t time to play yet.

It wasn’t until the family had finished their lunch and taken their noon nap that Qi Younian brought the car out to the courtyard. Qi Jia anxiously followed behind Qi Younian, taking small, quick steps, for fear of falling even a step behind.

Qi Younian placed the car down and called to Ye Xinyan, who was busy working: “Ye Zi, how do you play with this? Come here and take a look.”

Ye Xinyan slapped her forehead; she had forgotten that although Grandfather made the car, he had never seen how to ride it.