However, while she could use an abacus, she really couldn't embroider.
"Uh, I've only ever played with abacuses since I was little, I've never held a needle before."
"Why is Master asking this...?"
Su Ruanruan smiled and took out the purse from her arms.
"I want to embroider a purse for Mu Bai, but I don't know how!"
Seeing her like this, Ziwu couldn't help but chuckle softly.
"This servant doesn't know how, but we have plenty of young girls here who do. This servant will go find a skillful maid right away."
While Ziwu was out, Su Ruanruan glanced at the account book and put the silver on the table into her spatial storage, leaving only seven taels of silver.
She took a package from the cabinet and put all the silver Mu Bai had given her inside.
He then put the seven taels of silver he had just left behind into the old purse.
She wouldn't touch the money Mu Bai gave her.
After a while, Ziwu led a little girl in, carrying a small basket containing needles, thread, and cloth.
The little girl was fair-skinned and clean-cut, but her eyes were timid.
Su Ruanruan couldn't help but chuckle. Was she really that scary?
"Master."
Ziwu was used to calling her Master, while everyone else called her Boss.
The young girl entered the room and respectfully greeted the owner again.
"Master, Xiuer is the best embroiderer among the young girls. Shall we have her teach you?"
Su Ruanruan's gaze fell on the embroidered pieces in the small basket.
I reached out and picked it up, examining it closely. The flowers were lifelike, and the mandarin ducks playing in the water were even more vivid.
But it's too difficult for beginners.
"The embroidery is so beautiful. I'm very clumsy, so I'd appreciate it if Xiuer could teach me more."
Su Ruanruan smiled, and Xiuer's cheeks flushed as she was teased by her.
Although the boss isn't very good-looking, she speaks so gently.
Su Ruanruan didn't come out of the tofu shop until it got dark.
A sharp, tingling pain shot through my fingertips; embroidery was just too difficult.
Su Ruanruan walked along the road, where lanterns had already been lit up on both sides of the street.
Su Ruanruan looked up and surveyed the surrounding shops. These days, she had been planning to take over one of them.
However, she still owed Huo Yan a large sum of money.
She didn't want to owe anyone anything; she wanted to pay him back first.
But she didn't have that much money in total, and she couldn't pay it all off at once.
Three thousand taels of silver, what does that mean?
You should know that in this remote and impoverished place, a storefront in the county town costs only a few hundred taels of silver.
But she was just a lowly worker who could earn a few copper coins a day.
She can't refuse to pay back the money; if she pays back too much, he'll definitely start to suspect where the money came from.
She didn't want him to know her trump card.
Perhaps she was too engrossed in her thoughts and didn't notice that Huo Yan had already spotted her on the street.
Just as he was about to pass her, Huo Yan pulled her back.
As her thoughts returned to normal, Su Ruanruan was startled to see the person in front of her.
Recalling what he had done to her in the alley earlier that day, her face instantly turned cold and grim.
He immediately took off running, as if some monster was chasing him.
Huo Yan raised an eyebrow and watched her run away with a cold eye.
But his gaze fell on a purse that had fallen to the ground not far away.
Just then, a drunkard staggered over, clutching a small wine jug.
His dazed eyes cleared up considerably when he saw the purse.
Just as he was about to reach for the purse, he noticed a pair of black boots in his line of sight.
He paused, then straightened his bent-over body.
When she saw the man's face clearly, she sobered up considerably.
A scar ran across his face, and his eyes were even colder than the night.
He was just looking at him with a half-smile, but it sent chills down his spine.
"Sir...Sir!"
But the purse seemed quite heavy, and he really couldn't bear to part with it.
He endured the intense gaze and quickly bent down to pick up the purse.
"Sir, it's so late and you're still on duty. You must be tired. Consider this small amount of money as a gift to warm you up with a drink."
Having said that, he was about to open his purse to take out the silver inside.
But the next moment, she was stopped by the man in front of her.
"Is this purse yours?"
The man froze for a moment, then hurriedly nodded, "It's mine. I almost lost it while drunk, but thankfully I found it."
Huo Yan's eyes flashed even more fiercely, but before he could speak...
The owner of the purse has been found.
Su Ruanruan sprinted towards them at top speed, her eyes fixed on the purse in the drunkard's hand.
A complex expression appeared in his eyes.
Only Su Ruanruan knew how panicked she was the moment she discovered her purse was missing.
Although the purse was old, the embroidery was exquisite. Mu Bai must have been reluctant to take it off because it was a keepsake left by his deceased mother.
If this attachment is lost in her hands, I really won't be able to explain it to him.
Who knows what it feels like to see your prized possession fall into the hands of a drunkard?
It felt as if the purest love that belonged to me had been defiled.
"Give it back!" Su Ruanruan reached out to grab it, but the drunkard held on even tighter.
During the struggle, Su Ruanruan finally let go, afraid that the old purse would be torn.
"This is what I dropped, give it back to me!" Su Ruanruan reached out her hand.
The drunkard squinted, and when he saw that the other person was a little girl dressed in coarse cloth, a look of disdain appeared in his eyes.
He just weighed it in his hand; there were at least eight taels of silver here.
How could a poor girl like her have so much money?
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