Chapter 258 Cause
"In that case, you two have your meal. I'll head back now."
After Hua Nanzhi finished speaking, she got up to leave, but Xie Xuchuan said, "Mother, wait a moment, I have something to tell you."
"What's up."
Looking down at Jiang Wansu, who was moving stiffly and seemed out of her mind, Xie Xuchuan said, "I'll go out with my mother to discuss business matters."
"What's the matter that requires you to come out and explain..."
Hua Nanzhi and Xie Xuchuan stood in the courtyard. "You and Wansu are already husband and wife. You shouldn't be so secretive in your actions."
She sighed, "Everything should be discussed and agreed upon. This is how the bond between husband and wife is destroyed."
Xie Xuchuan lowered his eyes and then said, "Xiecuifang has agreed to sell us the flower tower machine. Not only that, they also promised to send a master craftsman to the Xie family. For the next six months, the Xie family can learn the craft at will."
"What?"
Hua Nanzhi's face lit up with joy: "Really?"
After a moment's thought, she hesitated and said, "What if there's some kind of trap? We don't want to end up like your second uncle, being scammed again. The Xie family can't afford to suffer that."
"No, she's trustworthy."
Xie Xuchuan said, "Let alone the fact that my Xie family has no one left to harm, even if there were... she wouldn't."
He looked at Hua Nanzhi, his eyes inexplicably carrying a hint of stubbornness and...cruelty.
"Does Mother know who owns Xiecui Workshop?"
"Not Luo Qing?"
"no."
Xie Xuchuan said, "It is the Shenyuan Pearl."
"What?"
Hua Nanzhi suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked at Xie Xuchuan in disbelief.
"You mean...you mean Xiecui Fang belongs to Shen Yuanzhu? She's the real owner behind Xiecui Fang?"
"yes."
"How could that be? Could you... could you have misheard?"
“Yuanzhu told me herself that she was the one who promised to sell me the brothel machine, and that the master craftsman…”
Xie Xuchuan's heart softened.
Perhaps this is the last time Yuanzhu will help him out of consideration for their childhood friendship.
"Impossible... How could this be..."
Hua Nanzhi staggered back a few steps, filled with astonishment.
"How is that possible? How is that possible... Shen Yuanzhu is so young, how could she possibly own such a large shop? That Xiecui Workshop not only won the championship in the dyeing competition four years ago, but also sent brocade to the Prince's Mansion..."
"A while ago, didn't that scale-patterned dye of hers catch the eye of an inner court eunuch?"
"yes."
Xie Xuchuan looked at Hua Nanzhi, whose face was pale, feeling both heartache and a secret, indescribable pleasure.
He gripped his sleeve and said softly, "Since winning the sample cloth competition at the Prince's Mansion, the reputation of Xiecui Workshop has spread far and wide. Now, when people mention Suzhou brocade, no one talks about the Xie family anymore; instead, they all talk about Xiecui Workshop."
"After the news of the scale-patterned dye spread, Xie Cui Fang received many orders from large merchants from Beppu. Even those who used to cooperate with our Xie family went to Yuan Zhu..."
Hua Nanzhi's legs went weak.
She gripped her wrists tightly, her face turning ashen.
When Xie Xuchuan and Jiang Wansu had a premarital pregnancy scandal, she strongly supported Xie Xuchuan in breaking off the engagement.
This was because Jiang You was still in power at the time, and Jiang Hong was known for being domineering and unreasonable.
At that time, Jiang Hong made an outrageous demand, asking for the Xie family's assets. She was unwilling to give up anything more for Shen Yuanzhu, an orphan with only a half-brother with whom she had little affection.
So, disregarding Xie Xuchuan's life or death, she insisted on agreeing to annul the engagement.
Fearing that Shen Yuanzhu would cause trouble, she and the old lady even brought out Xie Jingyuan, who looked even more glamorous, to trick her into marriage.
But now, Xie Xuchuan is telling her that the largest and most famous shop in Suzhou Prefecture, the shop that surpasses even the Xie family, belongs to Shen Yuanzhu.
Hua Nanzhi opened her mouth and shook her head repeatedly.
She didn't believe it; she didn't believe that Shen Yuanzhu had such abilities.
Can……
Hua Nanzhi closed her eyes, recalling everything that happened after Shen Yuanzhu married into the Xie family, and suddenly leaned back.
Xie Xuchuan reacted quickly and helped the person up.
"I was confused, I was confused."
There were clearly signs.
Not long after Shen Yuanzhu married into the family, she discovered that her husband was not as easy to control as he seemed. Shen Yuanzhu was not only principled, but also patient and ruthless.
She said that when she discovered she had been tricked into marriage, Shen Yuanzhu not only didn't make a scene, but the next day she and Xie Qi came to serve tea as if they were inseparable.
At the time, she thought he was just soft-hearted, but now it seems he's clearly a very calculating person...
Hua Nanzhi pressed her hand to her chest, her eyes reddening: "No wonder, no wonder Xie Qi, who used to be so quiet, suddenly became so clever after marrying Shen Yuanzhu."
"Not only did he sell all the faded red silk in the warehouse under the name of 'rouge cloth,' he also started dealings with Eunuch Yuan."
"At the time, I didn't understand, and I couldn't figure out, how Xie Qi, such a sinister person, could have won the favor of Eunuch Yuan. Now it seems that it was clearly Shen Yuanzhu who gave him advice behind the scenes..."
Looking at Xie Xuchuan, whose face was full of gloom and whose youthful arrogance had vanished, Hua Nanzhi suddenly burst into tears: "Xuchuan, it was your mother who was wrong."
"Mother shouldn't have stopped you back then. If you had been with Yuanzhu, how could my Xie family have fallen to where we are today?"
Hua Nanzhi suddenly realized that the reason why the Prince's Mansion's Xiecuifang won was because of the incident of the second wife stealing the dyeing manual.
At the time, everyone thought that Xie Chengzhi had stolen the item and was now trying to renege on the deal, while simultaneously accusing Shen Yuanzhu of setting a trap...
In retrospect, the second wife was clearly wronged.
Shen Yuanzhu won first place in the competition at the Prince's Mansion only after she obtained the farming and weaving chart from the Xie family!
The Xie family provided the farming and weaving charts, but they did not obtain the dyeing manuals from the Shen family!
A fine pearl made of agarwood!
Hua Nanzhi gritted her teeth and cursed loudly.
But after a couple of scoldings, her face darkened.
Others might not know why Shen Yuanzhu did this, but she knew perfectly well. Shen Yuanzhu was clearly doing it on purpose. She hated the Xie family for deceiving her into marriage, hated that her aunt, whom she had watched grow up, had lied and deceived her, an orphan, on such an important matter as marriage…
Mingming, Mingming last year, when Shen Yuanzhu saw her, she would gently lean against her side and care about her food, clothing, and shelter.
She watched Yuanzhu grow up. What could have blinded her to agree to the old lady's request to deceive an orphan girl?
Hua Nanzhi clutched Xie Xuchuan's sleeve, her eyes red-rimmed: "If... if I hadn't stopped you back then, if Yuanzhu had married you, the Xie family wouldn't be in this state of decline today..."
"If Yuanzhu marries you, she will produce the dyeing recipe as promised. My Xie family will only rise to a higher level, and we will certainly not fall out of the top three in the competition among the Prince's mansions..."
After the cloth-sample competition at the Prince's Mansion, the Xie family's fortunes plummeted.
All of this stemmed from her belief at the time that Shen Yuanzhu wasn't worth the Xie family spending too much money to retain her.
The Xie family's current situation is only because she, being materialistic, felt that an orphan girl was not worth much effort from her and her son.
It was simply because she felt that, apart from their dowries, Shen Yuanzhu and Jiang Wansu were no different from each other as daughters-in-law...
Everything, everything, is because of her...
Thinking of this, Hua Nanzhi looked dejected and collapsed to the ground.
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