Chapter 323 Making a profit

Li Ruoxue understood the implication in Lin Yuesha's words and smiled dismissively.

Don't pretend to be a lady from a wealthy family if you're from a peasant background. You're still considered inferior in girls' schools. Do you think that just because you're gilded, you can marry into a good family? At best, you'll end up with the illegitimate son of a minor official.

These sisters not only have high social status, but most importantly, they are not short of money!

"Alright."

Li Ruoxue didn't want to waste any more words. She casually pulled out a one-hundred-tael silver note and tossed it to Lin Yuesha, saying, "This is one hundred taels of silver, enough for you to buy clothes and bath powder."

"Thank you for your understanding, sister."

That's great, she's very savvy. She didn't even need Lin Yuesha to hint at it again before Li Ruoxue gave her the money. It seems this fat sheep is fatter than expected.

Lin Yuesha was quite satisfied after ripping off the twin sisters. After deducting twenty taels of silver, she had gained eighty taels for free. If she had made that much by selling melon seeds and peanuts, she could have done so much!

Making a profit from the price difference is just a matter of saying one thing and meaning another.

Li Ruoshuang crossed her arms and curled her lips in a sarcastic smile. Sure enough, the sisters thought Lin Yuesha was so high and mighty. What a shallow person, she was bribed with just a hundred taels of silver. How cheap!

"My two elder sisters, I have something else to ask you."

Lin Yuesha suppressed her joy at having slaughtered a fat sheep and tried to reason with the twin sisters. Although she helped clean the chamber pot, she couldn't do it openly, lest Fang Mama find out.

"Do you even need to tell me? We sisters aren't stupid."

Li Ruoxue rubbed her lower back and gave Lin Yuesha a piece of silver, saying, "Ruoshuang and I are hungry. Go to the kitchen and see what food we have, and bring some over for us."

The two men felt a sense of satisfaction at treating Lin Yuesha like a maid.

"Okay, no problem."

Lin Yuesha agreed quite readily. She liked to earn the price difference effortlessly. It was just a matter of walking a few more steps, which was good exercise and would do her no harm.

He picked at the loose silver in his hand, which amounted to at least half an ounce, and effortlessly slipped it into her pocket.

Lin Yuesha returned to the kitchen. The old woman, seeing her, assumed something had happened and asked nervously, "Miss Lin, why are you back again?"

"Oh, is that so? I'm hungry."

Lin Yuesha didn't plan to cook herself, so she asked her mother-in-law to make two bowls of clear soup noodles, along with two small dishes of pickled vegetables, and brought them over to the twin sisters.

"Shall I bring it over to you?"

The old woman chuckled, trying to please Lin Yuesha. In her eyes, Lin Yuesha was like a piece of fat meat, juicy and delicious.

"No need. You still have to fetch water and clean the chamber pot tomorrow. It's all hard work. You should rest."

Lin Yuesha's eyelids twitched. She dared not let the old woman deliver food. If she accidentally met with the twin sisters and it was exposed, she would be the one in trouble.

The old woman was very touched by Lin Yuesha's words and specially carried a lantern to escort Lin Yuesha out of the small courtyard where the kitchen was located.

After a long and arduous journey, Lin Yuesha finally returned to her room, where Bai Youran had already gone to bed.

Nothing happened that night. Before dawn the next day, the sound of a wooden clapper being struck came from the doorway.

Why so early?

Lin Yuesha rubbed her eyes, deciding to continue sleeping until dawn.

"Sister Yue Sha, get up quickly."

"Start fetching water today. I'm sure the three of us—mother-in-law and daughter-in-law—have already finished." Lin Yuesha rubbed her eyes, turned over, and covered her head with the blanket. "It's so noisy!"

"Granny Fang is here!"

Bai Youran got up to wash up and saw that Lin Yuesha was still lying in bed. She curled her lips and revealed a mischievous smile.

"What?"

One sentence struck Lin Yuesha like a thunderbolt from a clear sky. She jumped out of bed. Granny Fang was definitely her nightmare. She had just arrived yesterday and had already dealt with her thoroughly.

The Li sisters robbed her; she was the unlucky victim who, instead of being comforted, was punished along with them.

All the punishments were corporal, and Lin Yuesha's wallet couldn't afford it.

"Just kidding."

Bai Youran said calmly, "If you don't get up, Granny Fang will really come."

Today is the first day of formally teaching the rules. After washing up and having breakfast, we will begin learning the rules.

"It's not even dawn yet, do we have to be up so early?!"

Lin Yuesha yawned. What kind of young lady gets up before dawn? She's not a village girl who needs to start a fire and cook.

"You think being a pampered young lady is easy because you have people waiting on you around?"

Bai Youran felt it was necessary to give Lin Yuesha a lesson first. Being a young lady and being someone's daughter-in-law were not easy, especially for the legitimate daughters of high-ranking families. The higher the status, the more rules there were.

“When I was in the capital, I had many cousins ​​who all lived in the Bai family mansion. We had to get up before dawn to pay our respects to our grandmother.”

Paying respects to one's elders morning and evening is an essential part of family life, and no one should be absent. This is how juniors express their filial piety. High-ranking families place great importance on rules and regulations, which reflect the family's heritage.

“My mother gets up even earlier than me to help my grandmother wash up.”

Being a daughter-in-law is not easy. Even if she is an official's wife, she still has to serve others. Even if she is mistreated by her elders, she cannot resist, otherwise it would be considered a great act of disobedience.

"So, even if your mother-in-law deliberately mistreats you, you can't complain?"

Lin Yuesha was stunned. In modern times, she was very busy and hardly had time to watch TV dramas, so she had never really studied these things.

After she transmigrated, the atmosphere at home was pleasant. She often stayed in bed late, and apart from her cousin Chen Xiaohua occasionally nagging her, no one said a word against it.

"No."

Bai Youran sighed wistfully. So, a woman's life is more leisurely when she is a young girl. After marriage, she not only has to serve her husband and be filial to her parents-in-law, but if there are many people in the family, she also has to take care of her sister-in-law and brother-in-law.

The household's food, clothing, daily necessities, and social interactions were all managed by the matriarch.

Lin Yuesha: ...

She doesn't want to get married anymore, and she especially doesn't want to marry any wealthy or powerful people!

"It's only in the north that my mother feels a little more at ease."

Mentioning this made Bai Youran feel down. Before she came to the girls' school, her mother was arguing with the concubines in the house. Those women were always causing trouble and disrupting the peace of the household.

Her mother said that when she came to the girls' school, she must learn from the headmistress how to manage her husband's concubines, as this was very important.

The concubines in the household must take a contraceptive decoction to prevent the birth of illegitimate children, so that the concubines have no right to be arrogant.

Lin Yuesha: ...

"Why not just send all the concubines away?"

Lin Yuesha asked, "Since you're so annoyed by this, why not send it away so you can't see it anymore? As the head mistress of the household, you should have that right."

"Send them away? Do you think it's that simple?"

Bai Youran smiled bitterly. In the capital, there are families without concubines or mistresses. Such families have no one to befriend and are often ridiculed.

"Your father, Lord Lin, is of high status and has no concubines. When Madam Qin goes out, people laugh at her for being intolerant and jealous!"

However, because Lord Lin was the Prefect of the Capital, the others dared not say too much, but they still gossiped about the Lin family behind his back.

There are no secrets among the elite. Lin Yuesha was exposed by these people, and now there are definitely many families waiting to see the Lin family make a fool of themselves.