Meng was also a victim. She made money for the Ye family every day, but in the end she could only barely keep a little daughter, who was frail and sickly.

Master Ye doesn't like it.

If she hadn't been able to make money and support her mother and daughter, she would have seemed even wealthier than the lady to outsiders. If Tianxiangfang's business failed, she herself wouldn't dare to imagine what would have happened to her.

Thinking of this, Meng couldn't help but recall the days when she lived with Qiu Sanniang. Qiu Sanniang loved her like her own sister, which is why she taught her all the skills.

But she betrayed Qiu Sanniang and pursued what she thought was her dream of wealth and glory. If...her dream was to be shattered by Qiu Sanniang herself. Could it be that this was really a tit-for-tat?

Zhou Mu, who was standing by, watched as Master Ye asked someone to take out a hundred taels of silver and gave it to the gambling house owner, who agreed to come back a month later to get the rest.

Master Ye nodded with a grim expression.

Ye Hao had already stuffed his head into his crotch.

Look, they are real father and son, and you, a 'son-in-law', are at most a beggar who can be sent away with ten taels. You should know that Zhou Mu spent eighty-eight taels to marry Ye Xiyan even though he sold all his property.

Eighty-eight taels... Could it all have been used to pay Ye Hao's gambling debt? With this thought, Zhou Mu almost wanted to die.

I'd rather die of anger.

And his guess was almost right.

When he went to school with Ye Hao, Ye Hao often treated him to meals in order to get him to help with his homework. It was at that time that he gradually became spoiled and became arrogant under Ye Hao's flattery.

Later, he passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, and his position became even more prosperous.

Thinking about his eighty-eight taels again, could it really be reincarnation, and he would have to pay it back sooner or later?

I'm so angry.

During the meal, everyone in the Ye family had their own thoughts while eating, scratching their heads and ears, unable to spit out or swallow the food.

Zhou Mu returned to the small house he lived in with Ye Xiyan and became depressed. He didn't pay any attention to Ye Xiyan for the whole day. Ye Xiyan looked at the ten taels of silver and felt guilty.

In order to make Zhou Muyu pay more attention to her, she had made some big promises, thinking that her father had always hoped that the family would have a child who could go to school, so he would definitely do his best to support Zhou Muyu.

She really never dreamed that the Ye family would go bankrupt, and was even pushed to the point of having no place to stand by because of Zhao Taohua, the person she despised the most.

Ye Xiyan couldn't accept it.

"Don't buy pearl powder and other things anymore," Zhou Muyu finally paid attention to Ye Xiyan, and his first words were to ask her to downgrade her consumption.

Then I noticed something new on her dressing table. The packaging looked expensive, so I opened it and saw it was a new product from Mui Fang: a milk soap and a vanishing cream.

Even if Zhou Muyu never left home, he knew how popular these two things were in the county.

Each one costs 300 wen, so the total is 600 wen. It is said that there are discounts for distinguished guests, but it is obvious that Ye Xiyan is not one of them.

"Six hundred wen worth of stuff, and you actually bought six hundred wen worth of rouge!"

Zhou Mu was so angry that he almost died because of Ye Xiyan's squandering of money.

Ye Xiyan was also furious. She said, "What's wrong with six hundred wen? All the women in the county use it now. It's just convenient. Mu, don't you want me to grow old? When I become old and ugly, you won't want me anymore, right?"

Ye Xiyan asked sadly. The last time she competed with Zhao Taohua in Hedong Village, she was deeply shocked. In the end, it all came down to one problem: Zhao Taohua was younger than her.

But as long as she is willing to spend money and use this high-end product, she will definitely age slower than Zhao Taohua. Zhao Taohua definitely cannot afford such expensive things.

This is Ye Xiyan's only ceremonial object.