Chapter 779 The Imperial Advisor is Stunningly Beautiful (6)

Ning Yan: "You were pampered since childhood, but you are kind-hearted. You were supposed to marry a loving and devoted man and live a long and happy life together. However, your current husband stole your place and married the wrong person, which changed your appearance."

If you don't cut your losses in time, your later years will be quite bleak.

Making a living by washing clothes for others, she's really living up to her destiny as a sea creature.

The onlookers bombarded him with questions: "Are you really here to have your mother-in-law's fortune told?"

"Whose wife is she? If what this young lady says is true, then her fate is truly..."

Ning Yan: "That's all I have to say. Whether it's true or not, Madam can go home and observe. Everything that is done leaves a trace, and the truth can be easily found out."

What she didn't say was that the woman's child was likely born on an unlucky day, month, and year, destined to die young.

Yes, the original owner was one of the children who harmed.

Hopefully, today's advice will change the woman's fate, and in doing so, protect the child so she can grow up safely.

The young lady could no longer sit still, so she got up, called her maid, and hurried home.

Young Taoist priest: Good heavens, all my previous calculations, except for the phrase "destined for the ocean water," have been overturned by you. Is this all you've said?

I was about to ask the girl who taught her physiognomy, but when I looked up, lo and behold, she was gone!

"Hey, when did that girl leave?"

"Just now? Huh, how come they disappeared so quickly?"

"How come I've never heard of any woman in the capital who can tell fortunes before?"

"Isn't the Imperial Advisor a woman?"

"Huh? Could that person just now be the Imperial Advisor? Otherwise, why would she be wearing a veil?"

Xi Yuying hurriedly left the fortune-telling stall and rushed home.

However, it wasn't her husband's family home, but her own family home.

On the way, she kept thinking about the things that were wrong with her husband.

The more I thought about it, the more alarmed and angry I became.

The girl is right; her husband is probably having an affair.

She was originally the legitimate daughter of Xi, a fourth-rank censor, and married Fang Ming, the eldest son of Fang, a fifth-rank official.

She thought that even if Fang Ming got into high school, with her family backing him up, he wouldn't dare to treat her badly. She never expected that he would change his mind so quickly.

When Madam Xi heard that her daughter had returned home, she hurriedly welcomed her in, only to be met with her daughter's face full of worry.

"What's wrong with Ying'er? Did something happen at home?"

“Mother, my mother-in-law has been sick for nearly ten days and is still not well. Today I went to a Taoist priest to tell her fortune, but before I could even say what my purpose was, someone saw that my daughter was worried because someone in the family was sick. They also told me that my mother-in-law was not sick and that I had married the wrong person, Fang Ming. Fang Ming has someone else outside, and that person is pregnant with a child. Soon Fang Ming will bring her into the mansion.”

Madam Xi had just been discussing the Imperial Advisor's prediction of a snow disaster with her servants. She was quite a believer in fortune-telling, and upon hearing this, she immediately flew into a rage. "How dare Fang Ming treat my son like this? What are you thinking?"

That's incredibly audacious! They don't want to live a good life anymore!

"Daughter, I want to find out if what that girl said is true."

"What if it's true?"

"My daughter wants a divorce!"

The Canglan Kingdom is vast, with many plains, and each person can be allocated three or four acres of land. However, due to the low productivity in ancient times, the people were too busy to manage even if they spent all their time in the fields.

Therefore, women in the Canglan Kingdom can live independently and own private property.

The state has always encouraged women to have more children, and widows and divorced women are not discriminated against when they remarry.

"Alright, then send someone to investigate. Hopefully, Fang Ming won't disappoint us."

...

After dropping a bombshell, Ning Yan continued strolling around. Next to the glass shop that the Emperor had ordered to open, a boutique mirror shop opened. Ning Yan went in and took a look. The mirror shop was doing booming business, with most of the ladies and young misses there picking out mirrors. Some bought dozens of mirrors of different sizes at a time.

After all, wealthy families have many people and many courtyards, and each courtyard needs to have several mirrors.

A mirror that can reflect a person's entire body costs as much as two hundred taels of silver.

A small mirror, no bigger than the palm of your hand, costs only three to five hundred coins, and even ordinary people who can afford to eat can buy one.

If you can't even afford to eat, then you don't need a mirror.

Ning Yan had only been in the shop for a quarter of an hour when the shopkeeper made over a thousand taels of silver. This time, even the Emperor couldn't help but make a fortune.

After leaving the mirror shop, I took a look around the glass shop.

There weren't many glass products on display, but a few sets of glass tea sets were beautifully designed, with exquisite paintings of ladies painted on the transparent glass cups. One set of tea set was priced as high as 660 taels!

The shop assistant quickly came forward to greet the customer, saying, "If you want this tea set, you need to place an order in advance. These are just samples. The workshop's stock can't keep up with demand. If you order now, the earliest you can get the goods is seven days later."

Good heavens, once you say that, there's no need to even think about discounting it. However, the Emperor has taken the saying "rarity makes things valuable" to the extreme.

Mirrors, which every household needs, are mass-produced, while elegant tea and wine sets must be ordered in advance. Wouldn't this make those wealthy officials and merchants extremely eager to get their hands on them?

"Oh, I was just looking. This price is just too high. It's not something an ordinary person like me can afford."

"It's alright, you can take your time reading it."

Anyway, they're out of stock, and it's not like I'm wasting a lot of money just looking at them. Maybe I'll like them more and more and buy a set next time.

Ning Yan had seen enough, so she left the glass shop. The few little beggars looked away with great regret when they saw her come out of the shop empty-handed again.

People who wouldn't even buy a small mirror for 300 coins wouldn't expect the other party to give them a large sum of money.

Just then, a noblewoman came out of the shop with several maids, carrying a lot of things. The little beggars immediately rushed over and stopped about three feet away from her, pleading, "Madam, please have mercy and give us some food."

The lady was overjoyed to have bought the mirror she had been longing for. Despite being bothered by the noise from the little beggars, she took out a few pieces of silver and threw them to them.

The group picked up the loose silver pieces, bowing and thanking the lady profusely, showering her with blessings as if they were free. Only after the lady had boarded her carriage and driven away did they squat back down against the opposite wall.

The waiter who was seeing the guests off noticed Ning Yan staring at the beggar children and explained with a smile, "These few have made quite a bit of money sitting here lately. Haven't you noticed they're all wearing cotton shoes and cotton clothes now?"

They all have brains.

Following the shopkeeper's words, Ning Yan looked at the beggar children again. Sure enough, the clothes on the outside were still tattered, but the clothes on the inside looked very thick, and the shoes were obviously new.

After finishing his sentence, the waiter went back into the shop.

Ning Yan glanced at it twice and then continued walking forward.

Every profession has its own wisdom; even a beggar needs a brain to get enough to eat.

If you are poor and life is not going well, you should look for the reasons within yourself.

After strolling around the streets for more than two hours, Ning Yan entered Wan Ke Lai, the most famous restaurant in the capital. She went up to the second floor, ordered a private room, and ordered a large table of delicious food.

Thank you so much, baby.Aa, for the 200 reading coins!