On the way back home, Danruo took a separate carriage from Wang in order to keep her ears quiet.
With experience this time, Lily specially decorated the room to be comfortable and soft, and placed various fruits and cakes on it, which made Wang jealous. She cursed in her heart but had to keep a pleasant expression on the surface.
The carriage stopped at the city gate waiting for inspection. Danruo lifted the curtain to let in some air and saw a familiar little figure kneeling on the side of the road with a human trafficker next to him.
Dan Ruo got off the carriage and asked, "How much is this little girl for?"
When San Ya heard the familiar and pleasant voice, joy flashed in her bewildered eyes.
Finally, Danruo bought Sanya for twenty taels of silver and brought her back home. After Sanya got on the carriage, she huddled in a corner awkwardly, afraid of dirtying the snow-white blanket.
Although San Ya didn't know how the young man who saved her last time turned into a fairy, for San Ya, regardless of gender, she will always be her belief.
Danruo asked the little girl to sit next to her and eat some cakes, only to find out that Sanya's mother had given birth to three girls in a row. When she was pregnant with Sanya, the fortune teller said it was a boy, so she took a lot of supplements, which caused the fetus to be too large. After the baby was born, it became difficult for her mother to get pregnant again.
The whole family took out their anger on San Ya. San Ya did all the dirty and tiring work. Now that the family had suffered a flood and the year's harvest had been ruined, their first reaction was to sell San Ya for money.
San Ya said this with a panicked look on her face: "Maybe I really am the star of disaster. The young lady has saved me time and time again. I cannot bring disaster to the young lady."
Dan Ruo hugged the silly girl distressedly, "You are not a disaster star. If you are willing to follow me, I will protect you in the future."
Although San Ya was still uneasy, she somehow believed what the young lady said and nodded heavily.
Danruo changed Sanya's name to Caiwei. Then he sent a message to Wang Shi, asking her to go back first, as he had something to attend to.
Then he took Caiwei and Baihe to the largest restaurant for a big meal, and then went to a ready-made clothing shop, where he bought them several sets of replacement clothes, and gave them exquisite silver hairpins and head flowers. He also bought Baihe a gold bracelet and a gold hairpin.
As my interest in shopping piqued, I went to Yueying Pavilion to customize a few outfits and two sets of headwear.
The group returned to the Du residence with bags and bags. Su Yu Niang, her mother, her son, and Liu Xing stood at the door to welcome the mistress back. Their attire was simple, not even as plain as Baihe's. Seeing the maid carrying bags and bags, the group envied her.
Walking all the way from the gate to the main hall, there was not a single porcelain ornament to be seen, and there was not even a piece of furniture in the main hall. Caiwei was shocked and felt a little regretful that she did not refuse the young lady when she bought clothes for her.
The young lady is living such a poor life, but she still wants me to dress well. How could I be so worthy of meeting a fairy? From now on, my life belongs to the young lady.
Dan Ruo was very satisfied with the current situation he saw. He casually sent a few people away and went back to his yard to rest.
Some of the servants were brought as dowry by the Shen family, and some were bought into the mansion by Wang in recent years. Danruo secretly subsidized the servants who came as dowry to Shen, so these people had no objection to the sudden decline in food in the Du Mansion recently.
Another group of people have already started to act cunningly and are beginning to think about how to show their loyalty to Dan Ruoli.
Returning to Danruo's exquisite and luxurious courtyard, Caiwei felt like it was a completely different world from the outside world. Lily pulled Caiwei aside and explained the current situation to her to prevent her from being taken advantage of.
As soon as Du Jun got off work, he ran to Danruo's courtyard gate and tried to get in. He was turned away but did not get discouraged. He turned around and went to discuss countermeasures with Wang.
The secret guards hiding in the dark quietly passed the news to the palace. Gu Jingxing knew that he had fallen in love with the minister's wife. This made him, who had pursued integrity in the first half of his life, constantly despise himself, but he could not control his heart.
Even though he knew that if Du Jun and Shen Dan were a legitimate couple, they should sleep together, he thought for a moment and still gave the order that if Du Jun intended to do anything bad to his wife, he should be arrested immediately.
Early the next morning, Wang sent someone to say that she was sick and wanted her daughter-in-law to serve her by her bedside.
Danruo asked someone to call Su Yuniang and Liu Xing before entering Wang's yard.
Wang took a cold shower last night and was exposed to the wind all night, so she was really sick at the moment.
Du Jun was heartbroken at her bedside, his mother suffering for him again. He looked at Dan Ruo and said, "Mother is seriously ill. As a daughter-in-law, it is my duty to take care of her. Thank you for taking good care of her."
Wang Shi hurriedly pretended to be a good person: "I am an old woman from the countryside. How can I bear to let the daughter of the Shen family, who is so precious, take care of me? I have always treated Danruo as my own daughter. Let Yu Niang take care of me, but my body is not suitable for it, and it is not in accordance with etiquette for a concubine to manage the household. It is better to let my good daughter-in-law continue to manage the household."
Dan Ruo knew that the desire for him to take care of the sick was fake, and the real purpose was to get him to take over the mess in the Du Mansion.
Su Yuniang had had enough of her daily necessities recently and couldn't bear the poverty any longer, so she quickly said that she would take good care of Wang.
Dan Ruo pretended to be sincere and said, "Mother treats me like her own daughter. How can I just watch her get sick and do nothing? As for the housekeeper, our family is small. The nanny next to mother will help her take care of her for a few days. After she recovers, she will take over the management."
Wang thought that if it didn't work out the first time, she would just stay sick for a few more days and then hand it over to her after a few days. She had been bedridden for more than a month and didn't believe that she could still refuse.
Then Dan Ruo walked out on her own, "Yu Niang, wait on you. I will go and boil the medicine for you myself."
When I say personally, I actually add the coptis chinensis myself, and the rest is done by the kitchen maid.
After drinking bitter medicine for two days in a row, Wang felt her head was full of bitterness and all the food had no taste. She wanted to eat some candied fruit, but Dan Ruo urged her not to waste money on it as the family was already in such a tight financial situation.
At this moment, Wang Sanniang, the steward of Yueying Pavilion, came to deliver clothes and jewelry. Seeing Chen Danruo feeding her mother-in-law medicine spoon by spoon, she immediately praised: "Old Madam is so lucky. Such a filial daughter-in-law is really hard to find even with a lantern."
"We feel so honored that your daughter-in-law can wear clothes from Yueying Pavilion."
Danruo signaled Baihe to give the reward in silver. Madam Wang San smiled and put the silver into her sleeves and then asked the embroiderer to show the clothes. The Liuxian skirts were moon-white with gradient blue, and each piece was a new model.
There is also a gold headpiece inlaid with rubies, which is made by superb craftsmanship and looks magnificent, rich and elegant; the other one is made of pearls and velvet flowers, which is mainly fresh and refined.
The total amount was nearly five thousand taels of silver. Danruo asked Baihe to take Madam Wang San to get the money without blinking an eye.
In the past, the original owner was stupid. She used her dowry to support the whole family, but it was taken by thieves to support concubines and subsidize married daughters. She herself lived in seclusion and rarely went out, so she dressed simply for fear of hurting Du Jun's poor self-esteem.
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