Why not? She has all the secret spices; learning from her is just as bad.
After Jiang Hua left the shop, Fangru felt uneasy and inexplicably nervous.
"Husband, does this mean the young lady trusts me?" Fangru asked Wenyu.
"Probably." Wen Yu was also puzzled by Jiang Hua.
...
"Stepmother, where are we going?" Jiang Jingyi asked.
"Let's go to the cloth shop."
As they were talking, they arrived at the cloth shop, but unexpectedly, Xu and the others were also there.
"Cousin, are you here to buy fabric to make clothes too?" Lin Shuyan spotted them first and went up to them, pretending to be happy to ask.
"Hmm," Jiang Hua replied calmly.
She came to buy some suitable fabric to make "work uniforms" for the snail rice noodle shop. With uniform clothing, the shop would stand out more and become a unique feature.
“Cousin, we’ve also come here today to buy fabric for Yaozu to make clothes,” Lin Shuyan suddenly said.
Seeing that Jiang Hua didn't pay any attention to her, Lin Shuyan took another step forward and said, "Cousin, you made a lot of money selling ginseng before."
"What does it matter to you how much silver I sold it for?" Jiang Hua retorted.
"Yaozu is your own brother, so isn't it only right that you give her two sets of clothes?"
Upon hearing this, Madam Xu had already set her sights on the garments made of the finest fabric.
Xu Yaozu followed her and went over to try on the clothes as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
"Look, my heroine is so kind!" the system suddenly popped up.
“Aren’t you literate? I signed a dissolution agreement with your family before, weren’t you there?” Jiang Hua said, walking right past Lin Shuyan.
"Didn't you always consider Xu Yaozu your younger brother? And didn't Xu Yaozu say that he only recognizes you as his older sister?"
"You saved Young Master Ye, didn't he give you one hundred taels of silver?"
Taking a breath, Jiang Hua said again, "With so much money, why don't you help your brother choose a suit made of fine fabric?"
"Instead, they set their sights on me, an outsider."
"How did you know?" Lin Shuyan was taken aback.
Young Master Ye gave her an extra hundred taels of silver privately, so how did Jiang Hua find out?
Was she secretly monitoring him all along?
"Yan Yan, when did Young Master Ye give you one hundred taels of silver?" Madam Xu immediately stepped forward and asked when she heard that Lin Shuyan had received one hundred taels of silver from Ye Shaoling.
“Aunt, Young Master Ye said that Xuan-gege and I saved him, so he gave us this. This hundred taels is also a share for both Xuan-gege and me.” Lin Shuyan’s expression hardened before she explained.
“Since that’s the case, and Yaozu treats you like an older sister, why don’t you buy him a few sets of clothes?” Madam Xu said immediately.
Today, when I went out, Madam Xu gave me ten taels of silver, which is not enough to buy good fabric for a ready-made garment. I can only buy fabric and make it myself when I get home.
"Then Yaozu will be able to wear the clothes you bought to Shifang Academy."
Even Xu Yaozu looked at Lin Shuyan with anticipation, holding a well-preserved piece of clothing in his hand, clearly showing how much he liked it.
"If Yaozu likes it, then let's buy one," Lin Shuyan said, forcing herself to speak. She added a final reminder:
“Aunt, Brother Xuan also has a share of this silver.”
They reminded Xu not to be so extravagant, but Xu was hardly the type to listen.
She was already thinking about how to secretly hide some money from Lin Shuyan, and she wouldn't be polite to her.
"Oh dear, Yan Yan, Ying Xuan likes you so much, he definitely won't care about these fifty taels of silver. Just consider it a wedding gift in advance," Madam Xu said without any politeness.
Lin Shuyan's expression immediately froze, her lowered eyes filled with disdain.
Fifty taels of silver as a gift?
Is this treating her like Jiang Hua, selling her to someone else for fifty taels?
Although she liked Zhou Yingxuan, she was, after all, a young lady from a wealthy family and a well-bred lady.
Xu's unintentional words pierced her heart like a thorn.
Jiang Hua couldn't help but find it amusing to look at Lin Shuyan's ever-changing expressions, which were like a palette of colors.
Then look at the Xu family, they don't care about Lin Shuyan's life or death at all, they wish they could take back all the ready-made clothes that fit Xu Yaozu.
"Mother, that's enough. We can't spend too much of Sister Yan Yan's money." Xu Yaozu spoke up to stop Madam Xu, who was rushing around like she was buying goods.
"We have a hundred taels of silver anyway, what's there to be afraid of!" Madam Xu said nonchalantly.
Lin Shuyan, who had just relaxed after hearing Xu Yaozu's words, was so angry by Xu's words that she clenched the handkerchief in her hand tightly.
Jiang Hua didn't stay to watch the play. She asked another shop assistant at the fabric store to help her pay for the fabric she had chosen. Then she planned to buy a few more bolts of fabric to make two more outfits for Jiang Jingyi.
However, as if she had suddenly gone mad, whatever Xu saw that she wanted, Xu would rush to buy it.
“Stepmother.” Jiang Jingyi looked at the fabric that matched his color and knew that Jiang Hua had chosen it for him.
"I won't buy anything today, I have enough clothes to wear."
Jiang Hua didn't respond to him, but instead started looking at other fabrics. However, three times in a row, Xu Shi beat her to it and told the shop assistant to buy the fabrics as well.
The shop assistant nodded happily as he took notes. With so many customers coming here to buy things, it was natural to follow them closely.
Xu Yaozu, who had initially wanted to stop the Xu family, immediately fell silent when he saw that the Xu family had bought the fabric that Jiang Jingyi had his eye on first.
He was secretly pleased with himself, but he had only made a little money from selling ginseng, and he still ended up losing out because of his own actions.
"Aunt, that's enough, we've bought too much." Lin Shuyan felt her heart bleed as she looked at the clothes and fabrics that the shop assistant could barely carry.
"That's all then, let's see how much it costs." Madam Xu stopped and said to the shop assistant.
Lin Shuyan glanced at Xu Shi with a hint of resentment, her heart pounding as the cloth shop manager fiddled with the abacus.
"Forty-six taels and eight hundred cash," the shopkeeper said. "Since you're buying so much, I'll round it down to forty-six taels."
"How come it's only forty-six taels?" Xu muttered in dissatisfaction.
Lin Shuyan gritted her teeth as she watched Jiang Hua's expression, which seemed determined to get the hundred taels of silver. However, she inadvertently met Jiang Hua's ambiguous smile.
And considering her actions just now, was Jiang Hua deliberately trying to provoke her?
Lin Shuyan was furious but helpless; those fabrics and clothes were mainly purchased by Madam Xu.
"Shopkeeper, we don't need so much. We don't need this piece of cloth." Lin Shuyan moved a piece of cloth that looked expensive to the side.
"Yan Yan, don't you want to buy it for Yao Zu?" Xu Shi was unwilling and pulled back what Lin Shu Yan had taken.
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