Chapter 17: Eating the melon from Shangshu Mansion

Ye Anling gave all his money to Ye Chutang and was left penniless.

She couldn't ask Qiulu to get Ye Chutang back to pay the bill in front of the waiter.

Otherwise, others would think she was bullying her eldest sister who had just been brought home.

"How much silver?"

The waiter said respectfully, "Miss Ye, one tael of silver."

Seeing that the money was not much, Ye Anling lowered his voice and said to Qiu Lu, "Pay the money, and I will give it to you when I return home."

Qiu Lu would bring some change when he went out. After counting, he found that there was exactly one or two taels.

After paying the money, the two came out of the teahouse and saw Ye Chutang entering the Wanbao Pavilion diagonally opposite.

Wanbao Pavilion is one of the most famous jewelry shops in Beijing.

The jewelry sold is not expensive, but is famous for its variety of styles.

Ye Chutang didn't like these fancy jewelry, but the fine workmanship attracted her attention.

After she bought two sets of jewelry, she called the shopkeeper.

"Can you customize jewelry according to my requirements?"

The shopkeeper smiled and nodded, "Of course, most of our Wanbao Pavilion's craftsmen came from the palace, and they can make any kind of jewelry. But for custom jewelry, the price will be doubled."

“Price is not an issue.”

Hearing this, the shopkeeper's fat, round face was full of wrinkles.

"What kind of jewelry would you like to order?"

Ye Chutang wanted to make some hidden weapon jewelry that was convenient to carry around.

"Let me go back and think about it."

The shopkeeper thought he was being fooled, but Ye Chutang simply handed him a silver note worth one hundred taels.

"Settle the bill, and use the remaining money as a deposit. I'll issue a receipt."

"Okay, okay."

When Ye Chutang walked out of Wanbao Pavilion with two sets of jewelry and bills, Ye Anling walked over slowly.

"Eldest sister, have you finished touring the Wanbao Pavilion so quickly?"

"Well, I didn't see many that I liked. I plan to come and order a few pieces in a few days."

Ye Anling rolled her eyes in her heart.

Someone who has never seen a few good things, yet he installed them!

"As long as the eldest sister is happy."

As long as this bitch stops causing trouble, she can pretend as much as she wants.

"Eldest sister, the embroidery shop next door is pretty good, do you want to go take a look?"

Ye Anling felt dizzy and just wanted to quickly accompany Ye Chutang to buy clothes and return home.

Ye Chutang thought of the double-sided embroidered handkerchief embroidered by the original owner and nodded.

"Okay, let's go check it out."

The original owner suffered so much injustice in the countryside, people must know about it!

The Embroidery Workshop is similar to the Wanbao Pavilion. Most of the embroiderers in the embroidery workshop come from the palace. They are very good at embroidery and mainly make wedding dresses and tailor-made items.

The embroiderers will only make finished garments and sell them when they are not busy, and the prices are quite high.

There is no shortage of wealthy people in the capital, and the embroidery workshops are doing very good business. There are only a few ready-made garments left, and almost all of the garments hanging are samples.

There are many embroiderers in the embroidery workshop, including many dignitaries.

As soon as Ye Chutang appeared, he attracted a lot of attention.

Now, everyone in the entire commercial street knows that the eldest daughter of the Ye family is so beautiful that she outshines Princess Anping.

If it weren't for Miss Ye's protection and if she hadn't happened to meet Prince Chen, her beautiful face would have been ruined by Princess Anping.

Ye Chutang ignored everyone's inquiring looks and looked at the fabric and embroidery carefully.

Sometimes he frowned, sometimes he shook his head.

Looks very dissatisfied.

When the shopkeeper saw this, he stepped forward and asked, "Miss Ye doesn't like it?"

Ye Anling's heart was filled with alarm, and just as she was about to stop Ye Chutang from talking nonsense, she nodded first.

"Yes, I didn't like any of them. The fabric is excellent, but the embroidery..."

"Eldest sister, if you don't understand women's work, don't talk nonsense. These embroiderers are all in the palace making clothes for the nobles!"

The boss behind this embroidery workshop is the favored concubine, Concubine Yun Guifei, and even the Queen has to stay away from her.

To dislike the embroidery workshop is to not give her face.

Ye Chutang looked innocent and naive. "Who said I don't know? I have been embroidering handkerchiefs in the countryside for more than ten years. I can embroider better than this with my eyes closed."

These words humiliated all the embroiderers in the embroidery workshop.

They have the support of Concubine Yun, so naturally they are not afraid of the girls from the Shangshu Mansion.

"Miss Ye, what you mean is that the clothes worn by the emperor and the empress are not as good as the handkerchief you embroidered?"

"I have been an embroiderer in the palace for twenty years. How can I be better than you in embroidering with your eyes closed?"

"Don't brag too much. It can easily cause trouble."

Ye Anling was so anxious that her head was splitting. She quickly explained, "Eldest sister is not like this..."

As soon as she opened her mouth, she was interrupted by Ye Chutang.

"Please don't flatter me or use the emperor or empress as an excuse to pressure me. I'm only talking about embroidery."

After saying that, she took out the handkerchief embroidered by the original owner from the space and handed it to the shopkeeper.

"I embroidered this in the countryside. I'm sorry for not showing it off."

The proprietress took the handkerchief and looked at the vivid double-sided embroidery, her beautiful eyes slightly widened.

"This...is this really embroidered by Miss Ye?"

She was also an embroiderer in the palace and had served as a manager of the Imperial Clothing Bureau. She had seen many embroiderers with exquisite craftsmanship.

But none of them is as good as the embroidered handkerchief in front of me.

Only such exquisite embroidery can be called the spring breeze of ten fingers!

Customers who were nearby were also amazed by Ye Chutang's embroidery skills.

Ye Chutang nodded, "Of course."

Then play the victim.

"If it weren't for this embroidery, I would have starved to death long ago."

Just as everyone was wondering what this meant, she added another sentence.

"If my mother knew that I would be sent to the countryside to suffer for fifteen years, with no food or clothes to eat and all kinds of bullying, I wonder if she would regret marrying Lord Ye."

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire embroidery workshop fell silent, with everyone looking at their noses and their noses at their hearts.

I didn't expect to get to know the melon from Shangshu Mansion!

Ye Anling looked at Ye Chutang in astonishment, thinking she was crazy.

Aren’t you talking about embroidery?

Why are we talking about the torture you suffered in the countryside?

She even slandered her father's reputation in public!

"Sister, you misunderstood father. He sent you to the countryside to recuperate in order to keep you alive."

The implication is that if it weren't for this, Ye Chutang would have died long ago.

Ye Chutang had been weak and sickly since childhood, and everyone knew that Tang Wanning had searched all over the world for famous doctors for her.

She looked at Ye Anling, whose eyes were blazing with fire, with an innocent look on her face.

"Don't get excited, Miss Ye Er. I didn't say that it was wrong for Master Ye to send me to the countryside. I just can't understand why he never came to see me. He didn't even show up when I was coming of age."

As she spoke, she took the handkerchief from the landlady's hand.

"Do you know what kind of life I lead in the countryside? In order to survive, the nanny forced me to embroider two handkerchiefs a day and earn thirty cents for her so that I could have a meal."

To prove his words, Ye Chutang pulled up his sleeves.

Revealing wrists that were too thin due to long-term hunger.

The spiritual spring water can quickly improve the complexion of the face, but it cannot quickly heal the original owner's severely malnourished body.

"If it weren't for my mother's blessing, I might not have survived. To be honest, Lord Ye suddenly took me back home, which made me very nervous. I always felt that he had bad intentions."

This is outrageous.

But as everyone looked at Ye Chutang's delicate wrist, no one thought she was wrong to think so.

Many people speculated about the reason why Ye Jingchuan suddenly brought his eldest daughter back.

"Miss Ye is not young anymore. Minister Ye brought her back for her marriage, right?"

"No, if it was for a wedding, she should have been brought back two years ago to hold a coming-of-age party."

"That's true. What could be the reason? You can't be attracted by Miss Ye's embroidery skills, right?"

"It's not impossible. The Queen's birthday banquet is coming soon..."

Everyone looked at Ye Chutang, wanting to hear the answer from her.