"Hey, let's sell this purple pearl. What should we do if our family can't produce purple pearls in the future?" The old man sighed: "Now that the purple pearls are famous, I believe the emperor will ask us to pay tribute to them." He walked to the table and opened the secret compartment inside: "There is also a purple pearl in here, but the quality is not as good as the one Ruoyi brought. If someone from the palace comes to ask for it, just hand this one over!"
At this moment, Shang Ruoyi smiled and said, "Why do you think we don't produce any more purple pearls?" As she finished speaking, she took out a purple pearl that was thicker, rounder and brighter in color from her sleeve pocket.
"This!" The old man stood there in a daze. He simply couldn't describe his feelings at the moment.
"I have a solution for the purple bead matter."
Li Xia Xia looked at her with admiration: "Sister Shang is so amazing!"
Shang Ruoyi just smiled and said nothing.
The old man was so excited that he couldn't help but say, "Please bless the Li family!"
In the evening, Shang Ruoyi came to the auction house. Li Xia Xia originally asked her to sit with her. Most people came for the purple pearl in this auction, so Li Xia Xia naturally sat in the most distinguished room.
"Sister Shang, just sit with me, and then let everyone below see that our Li family is not without people at home!"
Shang Ruoyi smiled and pulled her arm back: "Don't you see how I'm dressed today? People will say that you're just eating what's in the bowl, and you're flirting with other men outside before you even get married."
Li Xia Xia looked around when she heard this and saw that people were looking at her with complicated eyes just as she said.
She quickly pulled back her hand from Shang Ruoyi and patted her chest with lingering fear.
Just then, a handsome man walked over quickly.
"Xia Xia, Xia Xia, Li Xia Xia!"
When Li Xia Xia heard the voice, she stopped in her tracks and a hint of disgust flashed in her eyes.
"Mr. Zhang."
It turned out that he was the young master of the Zhang family who was engaged to Li Xia Xia.
Zhang He walked forward aggressively and said in a cold voice: "How can you flirt with a man in broad daylight? It's really disgraceful. You are really a merchant's daughter and you are not worthy of being in public."
Li Xia Xia's face flushed when she heard this, and she quickly explained, "It's not like that."
"So what?" Zhang He said angrily, "You've been unfaithful to your husband before you even got married, and now I've caught you cheating on me, and you still want to deny it? What a pair of adulterers and whores!" He was about to reach out to grab her when his wrist was tightly clamped by a strong hand.
Ah Cheng grabbed his wrist expressionlessly and applied force slightly. Zhang He's cry of pain resounded throughout the auction hall.
“It hurts, it hurts!”
Shang Ruoyi sneered, "Forget about my uncle. I am Xia Xia's cousin, not the adulterous whore you are talking about. You keep saying that it is disgraceful and that the daughter of a merchant is not presentable. What about you? You keep swearing. I think you are the one who is disgraceful."
"You! How dare you talk to me like that! I'm telling you, I'm a scholar!"
Shang Ruoyi couldn't help but sneer when she heard this: "Scholar? Are scholars rare? Looking at your attitude, I thought you were the number one scholar."
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard laughter all around her.
"They have already said that they are cousins, Mr. Zhang, please stop being unreasonable!"
"That's right. Besides, you are just a scholar. My son is a Jinshi, but he is not as arrogant as you are today!"
Everyone was talking at once, and Zhang He felt a little embarrassed, but when he thought about why he came here today, he had to stay.
"Do you have anything else to say?" Li Xia Xia was a little impatient.
"Of course I have something to tell you." He whispered, "I heard that the pearl that is being auctioned today belongs to your Li family?"
Li Xia Xia nodded when she heard this: "So what?"
Zhang He hurriedly said, "Go and inform the shopkeeper here and tell her that the Dongzhu will not be auctioned."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Xia Xia just froze where she was.
No auction?
"you mean······"
"My mother said that if the daughter of your Li family marries into my family, it will be considered marrying up, so she must have a few decent dowries." He smiled and said, "My mother said that the purple oriental pearl can be considered as one of the dowries."
Shang Ruoyi almost laughed out loud when she heard this: "Your Zhang family is just a poor family. It's lucky to have a scholar like you, but in my opinion, this is where it ends."
"You! How dare you curse me!" Zhang He said angrily, "A merchant, no matter how much money he has, is still a lowly person!"
His voice was loud and clear throughout the venue.
Before everyone could come to their senses, they heard a crisp slap, and Zhang He, a man, was thrown to the ground by her.
Shang Ruoyi said angrily: "You keep saying things that are insulting to society. You only have a few drops of ink in your head. Why are you pretending to be a scholar here? Do you want me to tell you about the dirty things you did in front of everyone?"
Before Zhang He could refuse, he heard Shang Ruoyi coldly say, "The wife hasn't even entered the house yet, but there are already many concubines in the backyard, and one of them has even given birth to a child. Do you dare to tell others about this? Now you have your eyes on the purple Dongzhu, and you don't even consider your own worth. You are a person without blessings."
Shang Ruoyi's words made the people watching the excitement look at Zhang He with a little contempt.
They never expected that Zhang He, who looked serious and like a scholar, would actually do such a thing.
"Tsk tsk tsk, it's true that you can't judge a person by his appearance, and he's still a scholar! If we report him to the academy, with his behavior, his title of scholar will definitely be completely revoked!"
"That is to say, I remember that his mother had looked at girls from many families and finally chose the Li family. I thought this son was so outstanding, but I didn't expect him to be a useless piece of mud!"
Everyone was talking at once, and Zhang He wished he could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.
"You! You guys!" Zhang He pointed at Shang Ruoyi and Li Xia Xia and said, "Believe it or not, I will cancel this marriage with your Li family when I go back!"
In Beiling, most women whose engagements were broken off would not have a good ending, so even if they married into a den of tigers and wolves, they would endure it.
Zhang He originally thought that he could control her with this, but unexpectedly, Li Xia Xia did not show any sign of submission.
Shang Ruoyi stepped forward and said in a cold voice: "Don't worry, our Li family has wanted to cancel the engagement with you for a long time. I think it would be worse to live with a person like you who is worse than pigs and dogs than to become a nun. What's more, you think that you can't get married, so you force me into your arms, right?"
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