Both Sect Heads Wanted Out of the Marriage, So They Tried to Ruin the Town Together novel · Chapter 8 of 24

Chapter 8: Two Saboteurs and a Saw

"You're sawing the mooring post," said Luoyi, still pinned to the boat.

"You've loosened the toll chain," said Zhuyuan, still pinning her.

"I'm holding the wrench for a friend."

"The wrench is on the ground."

"My friend dropped it."

He stepped back, and they both looked at the chain, sagging in the lantern light by exactly two fingers.

"You said you'd do everything in your power to make this work!" she said.

"I said it with great sincerity! I hoped it would sound like a lie!"

"It sounded like a vow!"

"I thought you were trying to win!" he said, anguished. "You said no to that poor woman in front of everyone!"

"She wanted fifty sacks of rice!"

"Yes, but you said it so beautifully!"

A frog started up again.

"The Market Code," she said slowly. "The rent chits. Every yes. You've been trying to bankrupt the town."

"Politely," said Zhuyuan. "It hasn't worked. They keep paying me back in persimmons."

"I wanted them to hate me, and they built me a door."

"They built me a bath."

"We've been fucking in your sabotage."

His ears went scarlet in the lamplight.

She pressed her lips together, and it did not help, and she laughed so hard she had to hold the mooring post.

In a moment he was laughing too, bent over with a hand on his knee.

"Why?" she said, when she could breathe. "Plain words."

He looked at the river.

"Six years as Head of Silverbell," he said. "Four thousand and eleven requests. I've said yes to every one."

"I want one year. I want to walk the Ninefold from the spring to the sea and finish my map."

"The map under your pillow. With the note that says Not yet."

"I wrote that six years ago."

"My vats are going sour," she said. "All forty. The old yeast is dying."

"There's a moon-yeast on the Southern Tea Isles that never turns, and the ship sails at Mid-Autumn."

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