Chapter 518: Meeting a Fellow Townsman on the Road

In less than five minutes, she personally brought over a tray.

On the tray was a dish of wild mushrooms stewed with cured meat, and another plate of rock sugar yams.

"Is this a dish from near Yaoshan?" Chen Yu looked at the food and raised his head in surprise: "Is your hometown from that area of Yaoshan?"

"That's right, my home is in Liuligang, right on the edge of Yaoshan. Are you from Yaoshan too?" Zhou Nan asked in surprise.

"Haha, that's right, my home is right at the foot of Yaoshan Mountain. Your village and mine are only a few kilometers apart." Chen Yu laughed: "No wonder you looked familiar; we must have gone to the same school when we were kids."

"Yaoshan Town First Primary School, right?" Zhou Nan was both surprised and delighted; it really wasn't easy to run into such a close fellow townsman while out and about.

"Haha, I remember now, you're Zhou Nan from Class 5-3, and I was in Class 2." Chen Yu laughed: "A celebrity, huh."

"I didn't expect you to remember." Zhou Nan also laughed heartily: "We were just little brats back then, what did we know? You guys eat, I'll go back to the kitchen and get you a few more dishes."

"Do you two know each other?" After Zhou Nan turned and left, Fan Zhen asked with some surprise.

"We're fellow townsmen from the same town and surrounding villages when we were kids." Chen Yu laughed: "It just so happens we went to the same school."

"That really is a coincidence. I often bring tourist guests here; the two of us are very close." Fan Zhen said with a smile.

Chen Yu nodded. Zhou Nan used to be a celebrity at school; even though it was primary school, one could tell back then that she was very pretty.

However, they weren't together after middle school. He had heard before that she married a hoodlum from town and went out to make a living. At the time, Chen Yu even felt that a fresh flower had been stuck in cow dung.

Zhou Nan was very warm and knew how to handle things; the restaurant's business was indeed good at meal times.

Moreover, she was never calculating when doing business, rounding down the bill when she should and giving away side dishes when she should, so her one restaurant kept the surrounding eateries from barely being able to hold on.

Just as it was busy at meal time, a man walked in from outside. He went straight to the cashier and shouted at the busy Zhou Nan: "Give me thirty thousand yuan."

"Thirty thousand? I don't have that much here. I only have a little over ten thousand right now, and that's still waiting to settle the bill for ingredients." Zhou Nan was stunned.

"Hand it over." The man said impatiently.

"Dali, can you stop going to play cards?" Zhou Nan said, but she still fearfully took the money out.

"Only ten thousand?" The man took the money and counted a handful: "Take out some more, isn't there over ten thousand?"

"There are customers coming in now, I have to keep some here. I have to settle some vegetable money for suppliers this afternoon; I can't give them absolutely nothing." Zhou Nan said hurriedly.

"Take it out." The man reached out his hand with a very nasty attitude.

Chen Yu frowned. This man must be Zhou Nan's husband, the hoodlum from town back then.

Zhou Nan must have been blind to have married such a person.

"Who is this person?" Chen Yu asked Fan Zhen.

"Zhou Nan's husband, Wang Dali. He doesn't do any honest work and gambles every day. Look, he's lost his mind again." Fan Zhen said with some pity: "How could such a good woman end up with such a scumbag?"

Chen Yu looked at Zhou Nan and saw Wang Dali walk to the cashier, snatch the remaining few thousand yuan from Zhou Nan's hand, count it in his hand, and frown: "Is there any more?"

"There isn't, there really isn't, Dali." Zhou Nan's tone was fearful; it looked like this guy hadn't held back from using his hands.

"This isn't enough, take out another twenty thousand." Wang Dali glared at Zhou Nan.

"I really don't have any more. Take this to use first, can you not be like this?" Zhou Nan looked terrified, her voice choked with sobs.

"You dare to lecture me? Are you looking to die? Bring the money!" Wang Dali said, raising his palm to hit her.

Suddenly, his hand tightened, blocked by someone.

He turned his head to look, but it was Chen Yu, whom he didn't recognize. He turned his head and cursed: "Where did this piece of trash come from? You dare to meddle in my business? Are you tired of living?"

"Friend, let's talk things over properly, don't use your hands." Chen Yu let go of his hand.

In this situation, Chen Yu was moved by the scene; the original owner of his own body had treated his wife the same way before, so Chen Yu hated seeing this kind of thing happen most of all.

"Chen Yu, go eat, don't worry about me." Zhou Nan's eyes were flustered because she knew what kind of person her husband was.

He went out to mess around, eat, drink, and play, and was very familiar with some people on the street. If Chen Yu meddled, he would beat Chen Yu too, and she didn't want to implicate Chen Yu because of herself.

"Is this your lover?" Wang Dali only then noticed Chen Yu. He pointed at Chen Yu and questioned Zhou Nan: "I'm not home, and you're looking for a pretty boy?"

"It's not like that, Dali, it's really not what you think. This is a fellow townsman of ours, his home is also in Yaoshan Town, I only met him today." Zhou Nan explained hurriedly.

"Alright then, hehe, you've grown capable now, daring to find a wild man behind my back to back you up?" Wang Dali sneered: "Haven't beaten you in a few days, is your skin itching?"

Wang Dali said, raising his palm to slap Zhou Nan's face. Zhou Nan screamed in fear, tightly protecting her head.

But Wang Dali's hand tightened, grabbed by Chen Yu again. Chen Yu locked his brows and said: "I said, don't hit women. Whatever you two have to say, say it properly."

"Kid, are you looking to die?" Wang Dali was furious. He shook off Chen Yu's hand, grabbed a wine bottle from the side, and smashed it toward Chen Yu's head.

Chen Yu frowned and kicked Wang Dali flying with one foot.

Wang Dali let out a miserable shriek and was kicked straight out of the restaurant's front door.

It was meal time, and the commotion here immediately attracted the attention of the customers. Some who were afraid of trouble had already started to leave, and in a short while, the restaurant that had been full was almost empty.

"Chen Yu, stop hitting him, you should leave quickly. He knows a lot of people; you're from out of town and can't afford to offend him." Zhou Nan said to Chen Yu with a panicked face.

"Zhou Nan, I shouldn't have intervened in your family affairs, but he hit someone, and he hasn't held back from domestic violence against you before, has he?" Chen Yu glanced at Zhou Nan.

Zhou Nan didn't speak; she lowered her head and twitched slightly: "Chen Yu, I don't blame anyone. I only blame myself for having poor judgment and marrying such a person."

"Back then, in order to be with him, I almost fell out with my family and eventually ran away from home. Now that he treats me like this, I don't have the face to go back and see my parents." Zhou Nan's tears streamed down.

"It's alright, I'll handle today's matter for you." Chen Yu flashed and walked out the door.

"Nannan, don't be sad. Although this is your family affair and we shouldn't interfere, and outsiders should advise reconciliation rather than separation between couples, I think there's no need to stick with this kind of man for a lifetime." Fan Zhen stepped forward to comfort her.

"I know, I want to divorce too, but I have no one to rely on here." Zhou Nan cried: "I really don't know what to do."

"It's okay, you have me. Trust Chen Yu, he has a way to solve this matter." Fan Zhen hugged her and comforted her.