Rank One Princess Douxian Wang: Phoenix Palace Brocade

Chapter 3
"Clatter" The originally quiet street was broken by the sound of a basin of sewage splashing down. After a while, candlelight began to ignite in the closed wooden doors of small shops on the street, and forbearing and noisy voices came from the alley, as if Full of resentment and resentment.

The door of the mansion at the entrance of the alley was wide open, and a luxuriously dressed lady led a servant out of the door, pointing at the servants on the cleaners, scolding loudly, completely unaware of someone approaching skillfully .

"Mrs. Wang, I heard that your eldest daughter's dowry is still short of a few bolts of poplin. Look at mine. The yarn I just woven..."

The cloth wrapped in clean cotton cloth was held in front of the lady by a pair of small hands that were purple with cold. Almost instantly, the owner of the small hands was pushed hard and rolled towards the first-melt snowdrift at the door.

"Bang" the slender girl fell to the ground recklessly, the sharp stones in the snowdrift were just under her knees, and there was a sharp pain in her knees.But she didn't say a word, she didn't even hum, and she didn't seem to care that the sewage on the ground wet her dress, making her wet and cold.

She raised her hands above her head to hold the fallen cloth firmly.The cotton wrapping opened, revealing the fine and delicate poplin inside.People who don’t eat their last meal are not qualified to care about pain. She wants not to starve to death, wants her and her grandmother to be fed and clothed, and wants to retain the last bit of human dignity. This is the only thing she can think of. alive.

"Ma'am, this servant looks pretty good..." The servant woman behind Mrs. Wang whispered, "Hey, girl from the Xu family, quickly show it to Madam."

Compared with kneeling on the frozen brick floor in front of the ancestral house that year, this snowdrift is too soft and warm.Xu Jiatong got up while protecting the cloth, she smiled sweetly and put the cloth in front of the gorgeous old woman again, as if what happened just now never happened.

A person like her, who might starve to death one day, has no right to care about such insignificant things as "cold".She had to live, and when she died, the grandmother would die, and everyone connected with them would be miserable.

"Madam, you'll know after looking at it. It's not worse than Jinxiufang's, but the price is only their... [-]%." Xu Jiatong saw that she was trying to suppress the joy of taking a big advantage, and decisively changed [-]% to [-]%. .

Mrs. Wang nodded reluctantly, and turned her head to order: "Mother Tian, ​​take care, and I will charge you at this price in the future. It's not easy to see that he doesn't even stutter."

"Thank you Ma'am, thank you Tian Niang." Greedy and unforgiving, Xu Jiatong didn't seem to notice her cynicism, took the money from Tian Niang, and ran away happily.

"Ma'am, it's not easy for this girl."

"It's just a wild girl. She is said to be the fourth girl of the Xu family. She has been left in this kind of place for more than ten years. It is impossible to tell whose seed it is. Don't say that things belong to her, so as not to tarnish your reputation." Mrs. Wang is mean. The voice is very clear.

Xu Jiatong weighed the purse, there were eight denarii in it, Tian Niang was really kind, otherwise she wouldn't have picked Tian Niang's duty days to come to the door to be angry with that Mrs. Wang.

The family has long been strong on the outside and the inside on the inside. In order to maintain their appearance, they sold their precious treasures and looked for fakes and bargains everywhere.Her silk and brocade weaving skills are excellent, but in any case, it is not as famous as Jinxiufang. The real rich people will not buy it, and the price of ordinary people is too low.On the contrary, it is easy to sell to such a family. No, she opened early in the morning.

Xu Jiatong pressed his shriveled belly subconsciously. The money was enough to feed the grandmother, her and the sugar baby for more than a month.The fourth girl, the daughter of a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Industry, injustice is a small matter, but starvation to death is a serious matter.

When she was a child, she would often timidly ask Mrs. Cao why her father would not come to see her even when he returned to the ancestral house.Mrs. Cao always looked at her with pity, and she was silent. Slowly, she heard the words about her killing mother and mother from the mouths of the servants.At that time, she always hid in bed and cried, regretting the bad luck her birth brought to her mother and younger brother, wishing she had never come to this world.

When she had dried up her tears, and when she had grown up a bit, when Mrs. Cao told her that her mother, Mrs. Du, was dead before Xu Xiaozu set up her concubine, Mrs. Lin, she suddenly felt that her past remorse was ridiculous, and even the cause of her mother's death It also became confusing.For Xu Xiaozu's indifference for more than ten years, even Han Xin felt that it was a waste of energy.

The identity of a girl from the Xu family brought her not a comfortable life and fame and glory, but humiliation and torture.Not only that, even if she wants to sell a piece of Sichuan brocade that she wove, she has to be sneaky, try not to let the bad words reach the ears of the Xu family, otherwise she will provoke a family law that can make her unable to stay in bed for half a month .

"Miss, look there, the Xu family girl went out to sell cloth again early in the morning."

"Selling cloth? Who knows what else she sells besides cloth."

The woman in the violet silk dress spoke eccentric words, tripped deliberately, slumped into Xu Jiatong who was passing by, and then let out an exaggerated cry of pain.

"Lu Yurou..." Xu Jiatong felt that all the breath was being squeezed out of his body, and before he could resist, he was kicked hard twice by the nurse who rushed over to help Lu Yurou.

"Damn girl, if you dare to bump into me, hit me, hit me to death." Lu Yurou touched her waist and shouted loudly.

Xu Jiatong was picked up off guard, and her knee was pushed hard. She tried her best to stop, but she couldn't bear her thin body. Lu Yurou pushed her knee and bumped it hard on the stone steps, causing pain in front of her eyes. One black, almost knocking his head on the stone pier next to the ground.

"Lu Yurou, are you crazy?" Xu Jiatong struggled with all his strength, forcing them to take a step back, and finally he couldn't hide the coldness in his eyes.

"How can you get advice from Jinxiufang, a wild girl of the third rank, she must have resorted to shady means." Lu Yurou said relentlessly.

Standing up with the help of the stone pier, Xu Jiatong adjusted the plain cloth dress, flicked off the snow foam and dirt on it, and said with a sneer, "It's a pity that you tried your best, but you can't even enter the workshop of Jinxiufang."

Seeing that she was about to get angry again, Lu Yurou suddenly sneered and said, "I can't compare to you, daughter of the Xu family. The wild girl who was thrown out must have been born by a lowly slave who crawled on the bed. I can't compare to you, I am a son of a good family .”

"Are you from a good family, right? Do you want to enter Jinxiufang? I can make you nothing right now." Xu Jiatong grabbed a sharp stone and pointed it at his forehead, "Those who hurt someone's appearance are not allowed to enter. Jinxiufang. If you hurt someone’s life, the government will make you unable to be a good family.”

"You dare...you..." Lu Yurou watched in disbelief as the stone was getting closer and closer to her forehead, and the nurse was behind her desperately pulling her back.

(End of this chapter)