Chapter 326: Reputation is ruined
Everyone discovered that one item was missing from the exhibits at Baibao Pawnshop.
The missing piece of clothing was none other than the aqua blue gauze scattered flower Ruyi cloud-smoke skirt specially made by the most famous Yuyifang in Shangjing.
That dress is worth a fortune and is one of a kind.
The skirt, woven from aqua-blue gauze, ripples like green waves in the sunlight, and its slightest movement is like mist and floating clouds.
The skirt is extremely beautiful, and the flowers embroidered on it are looming. When the person moves, the skirt flutters with him, and the flowers on the skirt are like flowers scattered by fairies.
That year, Xie Baoyu attended the Spring Banquet wearing a cloud-smoke skirt and stole the show.
Unfortunately, this dress was stained with floral juice and became a defective item.
The embroiderer who made this skirt died of illness, and this skirt became a rare work of Yuyifang.
Just when people thought they would never see the Yunyan skirt again, Baibao Pawnshop suddenly exhibited one.
At first everyone thought it was a fake. After all, the real Yunyan skirt belonged to Xie Baoyu. Normally, Xie Baoyu would not take her personal clothes to the pawn shop for exhibition.
However, to everyone's shock, the Yunyan skirt was real, the same one that Xie Baoyu had worn.
But it did not belong to Xie Baoyu, but to Xie Yingmian's dowry.
Anyone with a normal mind knows the trick behind this.
After the skirt was exhibited, many people came to visit.
In order to please everyone, this dress was hung in the center of the Baibao Pawnshop.
Today, however, the skirt is gone.
"Little Brother," someone asked, "where did that Yunyan skirt go?"
The guy pretended not to hear.
The man secretly gave the waiter some money.
The guy looked around and saw that no one noticed them, so he lowered his voice and said, "I am telling you this in secret at the risk of being fired. I will only tell you one person, so don't tell anyone else."
"That Yunyan skirt was auctioned off for eight thousand taels."
The man was shocked: "Who took it?"
The clerk shook his head. "I don't know. Not only do I not know, but even our boss doesn't know. Auctions are all done in secret, with bids and deliveries made in secret. We have no idea who bought it."
"Don't say I said that."
After the waiter finished speaking, he pretended nothing had happened and went back to the store to greet customers.
The man's eyes widened.
The clothes worn by the daughter of a marquis were bought by an unknown person, but this is a unique and exclusive piece of news.
He had a feeling that this news would definitely break.
He quickly left the Baibao Pawnshop, returned to the teahouse, and sold the news.
As expected.
The news that the Yunyan skirt was sold off caused a sensation as soon as it was released.
One person tells ten people, ten people tell a hundred people.
The news quickly exploded.
Xie Baoyu always had a lucky hope, thinking that Baibao Pawnshop was just bluffing and no one would bid for that dress.
However, reality made her despair.
Not only were the clothes sold out, but everyone in Beijing also knew about it.
Xie Baoyu lay on the bed and cried loudly several times.
Last time she hanged herself she was just pretending, this time she really didn't want to live anymore.
She couldn't imagine her clothes falling into the hands of some filthy person, and she couldn't imagine how other noble ladies would look at her.
Xie Baoyu went to see Mrs. Xie Hou crying.
"Mother." Xie Baoyu's eyes were swollen like steamed buns. "Have you heard? The clothes have been bought away. I won't live anymore."
Mrs. Xie was extremely worried.
She had always been optimistic, thinking that Xie Yingmian was just using Baibao Pawn Shop to scare them.
She also believed that Baibao Pawnshop would not dare to openly oppose the Marquis' Mansion.
But now, the skirt has really been bought away by someone, and it has caused a sensation in the city.
Baoyu's reputation was ruined.
"Damn Xie Yingmian!"
"How dare she do that, you motherless bastard?" Madam Xie Hou was furious, her eyes reddened. "No, I have to go to Prince Ling's Mansion again."
Xie Baoyu grabbed Mrs. Xie Hou's sleeve.
She regretted it, very, very much.
She shouldn't have coveted Xie Yingmian's dowry.
At the beginning, she filled Xie Yingmian's dowry with her unwanted things and hid the money she saved.
She was determined that even if Xie Yingmian found out that the clothes were hers and she didn't want them anymore, she wouldn't dare to say anything.
But she never thought that Xie Yingmian was so wicked.
Xie Yingmian is trying to force her to death!
"Mom." Xie Baoyu gritted her teeth and said, "Let me go with you."
Mrs. Xie Hou didn't want Xie Baoyu to come forward.
Seeing Xie Baoyu's red and swollen eyes and gnashing teeth, he finally let go.
However, Xie Yingmian rejected their visiting cards.
Mrs. Xie was furious.
Xie Baoyu was also very angry.
Since I can’t see Xie Yingmian, I can only go to Baibao Pawnshop.
Mrs. Xie Hou threatened the owner of Baibao Pawnshop and ordered him to hand over the person who took the Yunyan skirt.
The shopkeeper didn't tolerate her and sent someone to report to the authorities.
No one wants to offend the government.
Although Baibao Pawnshop is just an ordinary pawnshop, behind it is Baibao Building.
No one knows what is behind Baibaolou.
However, there will be no good ending for those who offend Baibaolou.
The government is trying to smooth things over.
Mrs. Xie Hou didn't find out anything.
She wanted to buy other exhibits, but was told that the owner had ordered that all exhibits must be auctioned secretly and would no longer be sold to the public.
Mrs. Xie was so angry that she wanted to smash the sign of Baibao Pawnshop.
No matter how stupid she was, she knew that Baibao Pawnshop was on Xie Yingmian's side.
This is all Xie Yingmian’s conspiracy!
This is Xie Yingmian's revenge on them!
But they suffered all the losses and still were not in the right.
On her way back to the Xie Mansion, Lady Xie Hou heard what the people were saying and became so angry that she trembled all over.
She wanted to go down and argue.
Mrs. Xie's nurse stopped her and said, "My dear, if you go down and argue with them now, it will only make things worse. Now that we know that Baibao Pawn Shop and Xie Yingmian have joined forces, let's spread the news."
"As long as everyone knows Xie Yingmian's malicious intentions, the rumors will die down."
"If you trust me, let me do it."
New opinions soon emerged in teahouses and taverns.
"If you ask me, what Princess Ling did was not right. It's quite pitiful that her dowry was replaced, but Xie Baoyu is her sister. By doing this, isn't she forcing Xie Baoyu to death?" said a man who looked like a scholar.
One person retorted, "That's wrong. Princess Ling only pawned her dowry. The auction was done by Baibao Pawnshop. What does Baibao Pawnshop have to do with Princess Ling?"
"No, no, you're too naive." The scholar said, "The Baibao Pawnshop is just a pawnshop. It dares to confront the Xie Mansion. It clearly has a backer. And that backer is..."
The scholar pointed in the direction of Prince Ling's mansion: "There."
"No way?"
"Why not? Princess Ling's dowry included a lot of things, so why did she choose to display those second-hand clothes? Those second-hand clothes are personal belongings. Who would pawn them unless they were so poor that they had no food to eat?
But Princess Ling happened to pawn her clothes. Not only did she pawn them, she also revealed that the clothes were second-hand. This was definitely not a coincidence.
I guess Princess Ling probably knew that those clothes were second-hand and deliberately collaborated with Baibao Pawnshop to stage this act."
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