Chapter 100: Moldy Cloth

"Cousin, look at this beautiful horse!"

Jiang Wan turned around and craned her neck to look. She saw a snow-white horse in the middle of the road. It had no saddle, only a rope and was being led in front.

The fur is so beautiful and the muscles are so well developed that it is obviously worth a lot of money at first glance.

Jiang Wan had no interest in the horse and turned to look at the group of people behind him.

Behind them was a whole convoy, and on both sides of the convoy were two teams of guards on horseback and in fancy clothes.

These people have an unusual aura, and they feel like modern soldiers. Could they be military personnel?

The people in that carriage are quite important.

People around were curious about the identity of the owner of the convoy. They squeezed and pushed around, and the packages of the aunties from several villages were squeezed away, and the ground was stepped on a few times.

This made the aunties feel very distressed, so they quickly picked it up, patted it clean, and checked it again.

Jiang Wan frowned, and Yin Ning beside her also fixed her gaze.

They both noticed a small piece of cloth sticking out from one of the aunties' bags. The blue cotton cloth was covered with black spots of varying sizes.

It's mold!

Why would they buy fabric like this?

Jiang Wan was really confused. When the convoy went away and the crowd dispersed, she couldn't help but ask a question.

"Auntie Shuiqin, why did you buy so many fabrics with mold spots?"

"Huh? Mold? How could that be..."

Lian Shuiqin lowered her head, and the moment she saw the bundle, her face turned pale. She immediately ripped open the bundle and shook out the cloth.

A strong smell entered the noses of the two sisters, and Yin Ning couldn't help but sneeze.

"Oh my god! Lanhua, look at this!"

Even Shuqin's voice broke, and several of her companions were so frightened that they quickly opened the bundle to check.

The result was undoubtedly that these fabrics had a lot of mold spots.

"How could this happen?! We touched it and checked it when we bought it, and it was clearly clean!"

The ladies were so anxious that their eyes turned red, and some of them were so weak that they couldn't even stand up.

The two of them had no say at home, and today was the first time they had brought so much money to buy fabrics for their kids. They had originally bought cheap fabrics thinking they would be praised by their family members, but now, they would be lucky if they didn't get beaten to death for buying such a small amount.

Song Wenhui helped them to a tree by the roadside and asked them in detail about how they bought the cloth.

After asking, she and her two sisters were silent.

After entering the city, the ladies found a cloth shop to buy cloth, but they found the cloth too expensive and wanted to compare prices. They didn't walk far before they met a cloth vendor at the entrance of an alley.

The cotton cloth sold at the stall was of bright color and good quality, and the price was half the price of that sold at the cloth shop, so of course the ladies paid for it immediately.

Now thinking back, they had no idea how the stall owner had wrapped it. It was right under their noses the whole time, but they didn’t know how the moldy cloth was changed.

Song Wenhui really didn't know what to say.

"You guys, haven't you heard that cheap things are not good? It's half the price of the cloth shop. If there was such a good deal, it would have been snatched up long ago."

Lian Shuiqin wiped away her tears and felt extremely regretful in her heart.

"The stall owner said that he saved the rent because he didn't have to rent a shop, so the price of the fabric was cheaper. What should we do now? How can we explain it when we go back? No, I have to go to the city to find him!"

Just as Lian Shuiqin was about to move, Jiang Lanhua beside her grabbed her and stopped her from leaving.

"Are you stupid? If they cheated us, they would have already run away. Why are they waiting for us to catch them? It costs another two cents to go into the city. Are you willing to spend that money?"

Lian Shuiqin was of course reluctant to part with it, but she was even more reluctant to part with it because these moldy cloths had cost her two hundred coins.

When Lian Shuiqin thought about the fact that this money had been saved for a long time, she became so angry that she fainted.

"Watercress!!"

Jiang Wan subconsciously wanted to call her mother, but when she turned around she remembered that it was her aunt who came out with her today.

What first aid should be given when someone faints?

Jiang Wan squeezed in and was about to suggest massaging the philtrum when she saw Aunt Lanhua pinching Aunt Shuiqin's philtrum hard.

In just two breaths, Aunt Shuiqin woke up.

But Aunt Shuiqin looked limp and had no energy at all.

"What should we do now..."

Jiang Wan thought that this matter should be handled by the government, but as soon as she finished speaking, she was rejected by several ladies.

They refused to report to the authorities.

If I don't report it to the police and I can't find the vendor when I go back, I'll have to take the moldy fabric home.

Just thinking about it makes me feel dizzy.

The eyes of the ladies were red, but they didn't shed tears, which made people feel even more sad.

"Don't be so depressed. Take it home and wash it thoroughly. If you can wash off some of it, that's great. If not, bring it to my house and I'll teach you how to embroider some green bamboo leaves to cover the mold spots."

Yin Ning was very confident when she said this. She couldn't wash off the mold spots, but she could embroider some flowers and plants to cover them up.

"If I'm not mistaken, you bought these green fabrics to make clothes for your children to wear in school, right? This color is very suitable for school, and it will be even more suitable if it is embroidered with green bamboo."

Yin Ning's words of comfort gave the ladies hope again. They finally cheered up and took a boat back to the village together.

After returning to the village, a quarrel was inevitable, but no one would give up the chance to make amends.

Early the next morning, several aunts went to Yin's house with the washed and dried cloths.

They scrubbed the fabrics carefully, but only removed a few of the dark mold stains, and the marks were still there after washing and drying.

Yin Ning checked them one by one, and found that the mold spots were distributed in different places on each piece of cloth. Some were in the middle, some were at the corners, some were sparse, and some were dense.

It all depends on how she plans.

Yin Ning never draws pictures when she embroiders, but it was impossible for her to embroider all of these, so she found a piece of charcoal, sharpened it, and then drew all the patterns she had in mind on the fabric.

As these ladies were not very good at embroidery, she only drew very simple auspicious patterns, auspicious cloud patterns, and very simple leaf embroidery.

These small patterns are not obtrusive and can cover up the mold. As long as you know how to sew, you will be able to do it more or less after watching it a few times.

Yin Ning found a piece of her mother's clothing, spread out the sleeves, and began to embroider while teaching.

The aunties were so focused on learning that they seemed to feel nothing when their hands were poked, and their eyes were glued to Yin Ning.

Jiang Wan couldn't help but sigh as she watched from outside.

I thought the first batch of students taught by my cousin would be girls from the village, but I didn’t expect them to be the ladies from the village.