Chapter 403 Silver-gray items are all unsellable.

Chu Yanluo opened her mouth to speak, but Xiao Qingyuan didn't give her a chance at all.

He raised his sleeves and said admiringly, "Don't argue with me yet. Look at this fabric, it's so special, it's obvious that she put a lot of thought into it! If you had even a tenth of her effort, I wouldn't say anything to you!"

"When I wore this outfit on the street and into a restaurant, I didn't see anyone wearing the same color as me. I don't know how much thought she put into it or how many days she spent choosing such a unique piece of fabric."

"Chu Yanluo, even though Butler Shen Wantang is so busy, she still remembers to buy me fabric and wants to make me new clothes by hand. But you, you're so idle all day long, all you do is make a fuss. You don't even know how to make me a dress or a pair of shoes? Do you really care about me?"

"You should learn more from Shen Wantang in the future. I don't need you to buy me such expensive materials. Just make me a sachet, is that alright?"

"You're not good at needlework, are you? If that's the case, then you should learn quickly. Shen Wantang isn't good at needlework either, but she was willing to learn needlework from the maids for me."

"If you don't even have this much thought, then I'm truly heartbroken! And you have no right to say a bad word about Shen Wantang again!"

Chu Yanlu was given a severe scolding by him, and by the end, she began to doubt her own judgment.

Could it be that Shen Wantang really likes Xiao Qingyuan? She always pretends to be magnanimous and indifferent?

However, whether Shen Wantang truly liked Xiao Qingyuan or was just pretending to like him is no longer important. What matters is that Shen Wantang only gave him a piece of shoddy material, yet Xiao Qingyuan began to look at her differently and praise her to the skies!

Listen to this! In Xiao Qingyuan's mouth, is there anyone who loves him and cares about him more than Shen Wantang? He's started protecting Shen Wantang unreasonably, completely forgetting about Huayi and Liu Nanshi!

Shen Wantang is indeed a cunning and shrewd person!

Damn it, why didn't she think of that?!

Chu Yanlu stared at Xiao Qingyuan's new clothes with uncertain emotions, pondering how she could turn the tables.

However, Xiao Qingyuan didn't notice that her expression had turned ugly. He just kept sighing, "What a pity, what a pity! Such good material was ruined by that lunatic Gu Qianhan. I only wore it for two days!"

"No, I have to go back to the Prince's Mansion to find Shen Wantang and ask her to buy me new fabric and make me another set of clothes!"

"Sigh, although I don't like Shen Wantang, I have to admit that my mother has a really good eye. The princess she chose for me is different from those vulgar women."

"Moji, hurry up and get the carriage back to the Prince's Mansion!"

Chu Yanluo said, "Wait, let's not go back to the Prince's Mansion yet."

Xiao Qingyuan turned to look at her: "Where are you going if not back to the Prince's Mansion? Can I even show my face in these clothes?"

"If I can't show this outfit to anyone, I'll just buy one that I can."

Chu Yanluo took out her money pouch: "The Divine Pill Hall gave me and the young master fifty taels of silver each. I haven't touched mine yet. I'll use it today to buy clothes for the young master! So that the young master won't say that I've never given you anything and that I don't care about you."

Although Xiao Qingyuan was poor, he really looked down on Chu Yanluo's fifty taels of silver: "Do you think fifty taels can buy this outfit of mine? This material is made of natural silver-gray silk, which is very rare and naturally very expensive."

"If fifty taels isn't enough, then we can buy on credit. Anyway, my medicine is selling like hotcakes at Shendan Hall. If Shendan Hall's treasury hadn't been ransacked by thieves, I wouldn't be taking more than this amount of money. Shendan Hall still owes me over a thousand taels of silver! A thousand taels should be enough to buy the young master a set of clothes, right?"

"You're willing to spend a thousand taels to buy me a set of clothes?"

"What's there to be reluctant about? As long as the young master likes it, I'm willing to spend any amount of money, no matter how expensive it is!"

Xiao Qingyuan grasped her hand: "Yanluo, it's good that you have this intention. I naturally won't accept clothes worth a thousand taels. Let's go to the fabric shop first and see if there are any cheaper materials!"

Fifteen minutes later.

Xiao Qingyuan and Chu Yanluo went into a fabric shop and specifically asked for the same silver-gray fabric he was wearing.

The shopkeeper's face turned somewhat grim. Of the people who came into the shop today, nine out of ten were looking for this kind of material, but unfortunately, his shop didn't even have a similar color, so he could only recommend other colors to his customers.

The strange thing is that the customer only wanted the silver-gray color and wouldn't even look at other colors.

So today, a lot of customers came into the store, but very few actually bought anything. He was anxious and could only watch helplessly as the customers left, saying as they left, "This store is no good. They don't even have the most fashionable silver-gray color. I won't come here again!"

You can imagine how the shopkeeper felt.

So when he heard that he was here to buy silver-gray fabric again, he said irritably, "This kind of fabric is flashy but impractical, and the color is also tacky. We don't sell it in our shop at all!"

Xiao Qingyuan's face darkened: "What did you say?! Showy but impractical? Tacky color? I think you're blind! Is there any fabric in this world more elegant and luxurious than this color?!"

The shopkeeper's face was even more gloomy than Xiao Qingyuan's: "Nonsense! I've been in the fabric business for so many years, do you think I don't know which colors look good and which don't? This silver-gray color was all stock that was shelved a few years ago, nobody bought it!"

"impossible!"

"Why not? Would I lie to you? This color doesn't look high-quality at all, it's so tacky. There are hardly any shops in the whole capital that carry this color of fabric! I don't know who had excess stock this year, but they're deliberately promoting silver-gray as beautiful and fashionable. It's just a gimmick to sell off their old stock!"

Xiao Qingyuan was quite angry with the shopkeeper and was about to argue with him when Chu Yanluo said, "Your Highness, I think what this shopkeeper said is the truth. This color is something that has been sitting unsold for a long time, so the Princess Consort bought it for you to wear. She must have been looking for a bargain."

The shopkeeper immediately chimed in, "Yes, yes, this young lady is right! The person who bought you this color definitely has ulterior motives! I've been in this business for ten years, I know exactly what colors are trendy and what colors aren't! This color is really tacky and outdated, trust me! I'm an honest man, I would never lie to my customers!"

Xiao Qingyuan wavered.

He looked down at the fabric he was wearing, and the more he looked at the color, the uglier it seemed. The thought that Shen Wantang might have deliberately bought cheap, unsold stock to fool him made him so angry that his insides felt like they were going to explode.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go back to the manor! I want to ask Shen Wantang in person what kind of rubbish she bought for me!"