Chapter 112 Shop Disturbance
"Second brother, nothing is difficult if you put your mind to it. As long as we think of more ways, we will definitely succeed."
Compared to letting that Yan Meier into the family, having Ouyang Jing as my sister-in-law is far better.
But before that, the Ouyang family must agree to the marriage.
"What good are our ideas? Let's not even talk about the fact that my eldest brother isn't married yet, and his father would never agree to it."
Gu Yingjie had considered ways to deal with this matter. He even had his friend's father subtly mention the disadvantages of marrying a prince.
But his father was completely unyielding and only wanted to use him to curry favor with the prince.
"Brother, don't be sad. Leave this to your sister. Our family isn't unreasonable. Does that mean that if you never marry, you'll be a bachelor forever? Don't worry, I promise you'll get what you want."
Gu Shuyan assured Gu Yingjie, but she was still very apprehensive. Her own side was fine, but as for the Ouyang family... she'd just have to wait and see.
Seeing his sister's confident expression, Gu Yingjie immediately smiled and said, "Thank you, sister."
In the bustling streets of the capital, Gu Renjie sat in a teahouse on the second floor, watching a pleasant tea-drinking scene unfold below.
"What? Our top scholar actually knows these tricks with women in the harem?"
A man in blue slowly sat down in front of Gu Renjie, and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow as he looked at Gu Renjie's unusually aloof demeanor.
"What does it matter what methods the women in the backyard use? Any method that achieves its purpose is a good method."
Gu Renjie glanced at the man briefly before continuing to look at the shops across the street.
"Sir, if you continue to act so unreasonably, I will report you to the authorities."
The shopkeeper looked at the man and woman in front of him, hands on his hips, with an arrogant expression.
Upon hearing this, the woman immediately cried out, "Go ahead and report it to the authorities! Let the officials come and judge this for us, so that everyone can know how you heartless shopkeepers cheated us!"
The woman cried louder and louder as she spoke, and seeing this, someone couldn't help but ask, "Young lady, what did the shopkeeper do to make you cry so sadly?"
The speaker was an older woman who looked rather honest. The woman looked up at her and saw that she seemed to be a sturdy person, so she immediately began to tell her story.
According to the woman, her mother-in-law had passed away, so she wanted to buy her a decent set of clothes so that her mother-in-law could have a peaceful passing.
But after buying the brocade dress that was promised and putting it on her mother-in-law, they found out that the shopkeeper had sold them inferior goods, cheating them out of a year's savings.
It's not easy for ordinary people to save a few taels of silver a year. Just by looking at the coarse cloth clothes with patches all over their clothes, you can tell that the two of them are not well off.
“Auntie, you don’t know, my mother-in-law worked hard all her life and couldn’t even bear to wear a cotton dress. As her daughter-in-law, I thought that even if it was hard and tiring, I should let her go with dignity. But these heartless people actually deceived us ordinary people with cotton clothes. If it weren’t for my mother-in-law’s friend seeing her when she came to send her off, we would have been fooled by them.”
The woman was crying her heart out, and the man, seeing this, also wiped away his tears and took out the clothes.
“Look everyone, this is what they sold to us as brocade.”
Upon hearing this, everyone rushed forward. At first glance, the clothes did indeed look like brocade, but upon touching them, they were clearly just ordinary cotton clothes.
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