Tao Lengshuang glanced at the silently retreating dark guards and said to Mo Lingxi with a blank expression, "Yes, I am your wife now, but who knows about the future."
Mo Lingxi's handsome face darkened at her words. He tightened his grip on her shoulder, "Are you ready to divorce me at any time?"
Tao Lengshuang impatiently slapped his hand away, "It's you who should be ready to divorce me at any time, not me."
"Also, please don't act like you're about to be abandoned. From the very beginning, you were using me as a shield, prepared to abandon me at any moment."
Mo Lingxi was speechless. He pursed his thin lips. Yes, he had planned to divorce Tao Lengshuang once things were resolved.
Tao Lengshuang let out a displeased哼 and turned to continue browsing the herb shop. Men were so useless.
She had medical skills and a son; what more did she need a man for?
"Don't be angry."
Mo Lingxi leaned closer, lowering his voice, "In that situation at the beginning... I wronged you. Regardless of the reason, I shouldn't have had such thoughts."
Back then, he shouldn't have treated the original Tao Lengshuang that way due to his own plans.
Tao Lengshuang was surprised by his apology and looked at him several times, "That's really strange, you actually apologized."
She truly hadn't expected Mo Lingxi to apologize.
Mo Lingxi looked directly at her and said earnestly, "Back then, I shouldn't have treated the original Tao Lengshuang that way because of my plans."
"It was unfair to her."
Tao Lengshuang was even more perplexed. She touched his forehead, "You don't have a fever, yet you're saying these things."
Mo Lingxi took her hand, "I'm not sick, I've just realized that what I did was wrong."
Tao Lengshuang looked at him strangely. Could it be that this man had a sudden impulse and wanted to spend some time with her?
"To be honest, both you and that Tao Lengshuang were at fault."
One wanted a shield, and the other married herself off, seeking someone to support her for life.
Given the circumstances at the time, it wasn't surprising that these two made such decisions.
Mo Lingxi's eyes lit up, and he hugged her, "Thank you for your understanding."
Tao Lengshuang pushed him away and ran far ahead, "Are you perhaps thinking of spending some time with me and then going our separate ways once things are resolved?"
Mo Lingxi rubbed his temples powerlessly, "I really want to know what's in your head, how you come up with these ideas."
Tao Lengshuang spread her hands, "My thoughts are perfectly normal."
"Think about it, your attitude towards me was so bad before, and suddenly it's good. Anyone would be suspicious."
Mo Lingxi considered it and felt it made sense. Didn't he also suspect her of having ulterior motives when Tao Lengshuang suddenly became nice to him before?
"You're right, I'll be careful in the future."
A question mark slowly appeared above Tao Lengshuang's head, "Careful about what?"
Mo Lingxi, "Being nice to you all the time."
Tao Lengshuang's expression became uncontrollably shocked, "Are you alright, are you alright, are you alright?"
Now Mo Lingxi understood why Tao Lengshuang was like this and shook his head to indicate he was fine.
Tao Lengshuang didn't think so, "Don't suddenly be nice to someone, they might not be able to handle it."
"Also, it's fine if your attitude towards me remains as usual. We're just friends, there's no need to be nice to me."
She suddenly couldn't understand Mo Lingxi.
Mo Lingxi's face darkened, "Why can't I be nice to you?"
Tao Lengshuang countered, "Why do you want to be nice to me?"
This stumped Mo Lingxi. He stared blankly at Tao Lengshuang. Yes, why did he want to be nice to her?
Tao Lengshuang patted his shoulder, her voice slightly distant, "Mo Lingxi, you haven't thought it through. You just feel like you should be nice to me, so you want to be."
"But you don't know that your kindness can easily bring a lot of trouble, and it can make me have thoughts I shouldn't.
It's best if we maintain our friendship."
Mo Lingxi's brow furrowed slightly. A thought flickered in his mind, but he couldn't quite grasp what it was.
Looking at the woman with a calm expression before him, he understood that she was a very clear-headed person who wouldn't change her attitude for a little kindness from others.
"I will think it through."
"Uh..." She suddenly didn't know what to say. What was there to think about?
But to Mo Lingxi, this was a very serious matter, "We won't argue anymore from now on, okay?"
Tao Lengshuang felt it was unlikely, "Even mouths and tongues argue, let alone people."
"However, we'll try to get along peacefully, on the condition that you don't teach Xiao Feng nonsense anymore."
Mo Lingxi agreed, promising not to teach Xiao Feng anything improper.
His gaze fell on her fair and beautiful face, "Aren't you going to take the pill?"
Hearing this, Tao Lengshuang seemingly took a pill from her sleeve, but actually from her spatial medicine garden, and swallowed it, "In a quarter of an hour, my face will be covered in red bumps."
After a quarter of an hour.
As expected, Tao Lengshuang's face developed quite a few red bumps, obscuring her originally beautiful features.
Her appearance reassured Mo Lingxi a lot, "Let's go buy some things."
Tao Lengshuang, having just earned a lot of silver notes, decided to buy more supplies to stock up, "Let's go buy some supplies."
"Alright."
Mo Lingxi led her to a grain shop.
It was a seemingly ordinary grain shop. The shopkeeper and employees showed no particular deference due to Mo Lingxi and Tao Lengshuang's attire.
Tao Lengshuang wanted to buy more rice and flour but was worried about attracting attention. She quietly consulted with Mo Lingxi.
"Do you have any way to help me transport some rice and flour? I want to buy more, just in case."
Mo Lingxi told Tao Lengshuang to buy with confidence, and no one would be suspicious.
Tao Lengshuang was relieved. She left twenty taels of silver and used the rest to buy rice, flour, cloth, and other supplies.
She couldn't put all the items into her spatial medicine garden in front of Mo Lingxi, so Mo Lingxi arranged for people to secretly send them back to Shili Slope Village. The two of them bought some food and hurried back to the village.
Meanwhile.
Many villagers came to Tao Lengshuang's house, hoping Tao Lengshuang would save them or lend them some rice and flour.
Aunt Shen Er repeatedly said she had none, "The Mo family isn't home, so don't come here anymore."
"Think about how you treated the Mo family back then. Now that you're begging her, why would she save you?"
The villagers were unwilling to leave.
"Aunt Shen Er, we're all villagers, please plead for us. If this continues, we'll really die."
"Aunt Shen Er, you've always been kind-hearted, please help us."
Aunt Shen Er was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see them suffer, but that was for kind villagers, not for those who had harmed them.
"Hurry up and leave. I won't help you plead."
"Mother!"
At this moment, Madam Liu came out and pulled Aunt Shen Er inside, "Don't say too much to the villagers, they all have bad intentions."
"Aunt Shen Er, if you don't help us, when your son returns, we'll make sure he pays," some villagers shouted.