Jian Yu, who thought she would suffer from insomnia, slept surprisingly soundly last night, and when she opened her eyes again, it was already three o'clock in the morning.
"Miss, the third prince came here early in the morning. When he learned that you were not awake, he waited for a quarter of an hour and then left again as if something had happened."
Anyone who is familiar with Jian Yu knows that she has to wake up by herself, otherwise she will have a headache, be restless, and be sick all day long.
Others thought it was due to the fetal poison in Jian Yu's body, but she knew that it was just the anger after waking up.
The third prince leaves as he pleases, and Jian Yu doesn't bother to play the harp. When she becomes Princess Jing and completely deviates from the plot, she doesn't have to worry about the protagonist's halo, and she won't be able to shine on her!
After accepting the result of the marriage, everything suddenly became clear.
"Hongmei, change your clothes and get ready to go out!"
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Inside Jinyu Hall
"The second young lady led the maid and two young men out of the house."
Nanny Song bent down to report.
As one of the old lady's dowry maids, Grandma Song was the old lady's most trusted confidant.
Hearing this, the old lady's face darkened. After all, she was also the elder of the family. She couldn't be called over yesterday. Now that she was well, she should come to say hello, but she actually went out to play!
"There are no rules like when I was a kid!"
There was only one servant in the house, Nanny Song, so the old lady didn't pretend, and the disgust in her heart was written all over her face.
"Old madam, do we need to send someone to follow you?"
"No, it's better to let her realize the reality outside."
Now the whole Shengjing City is discussing the death of Prince Jing. Jian Yu will inevitably hear some rumors when she goes out. She will probably come back crying when the time comes. No one outside will pamper her!
The old lady was full of malice towards Jian Yu. Every time she thought about her husband's favor towards Jian Yu, she felt extremely resentful. She was very kind to Jian Yu, her granddaughter, because she was still thinking about her original wife!
The emperor granted marriage, and it was hard to disobey the emperor's order. Thinking of her husband's helplessness, the old lady felt happy.
The son marries a merchant girl, the granddaughter marries a dead man, no matter what the original wife is, she will be the one who laughs last.
In fact, Jian Yu was not as uncomfortable as the old lady thought.
Yes, everyone is discussing Prince Jing's death, but she is not sad!
Jian Yu, who was cautious in doing things, would have a lonely look on her face when she heard others discussing Prince Jing, and what she was thinking about was whether she should buy a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake to eat later.
"Miss~ there are flower lanterns over there~"
Hongmei is more excited than Jian Yu. She has a restless temper in Jiangnan. It has been several days since she came to Shengjing. Except for the flower viewing party, this is the first time for their master and servant to go out.
"Let's go to the rouge and gouache shop first, and then buy a lantern."
Jian Yu's trip this time was not just for fun, she was here to inspect the market.
Jian's father was a magistrate in the south of the Yangtze River. Logically speaking, his life should be very prosperous, but in recent years, his family had been using Mrs. Jian's dowry to subsidize their lives.
The reason for not having money is firstly because Jian's father is not greedy, and secondly because it is too expensive to raise Jian Yu.
Jian Yu takes the thousand-year-old ginseng that people only use when their lives are hanging by a thread every day. The whole ginseng is made into pills, and she takes one pill a day all year round.
Others would suffer from nosebleeds after taking too much nourishment, but Jian Yu had just made up for her body's deficiencies. Ginseng was just one of them. Her daily medicinal diet required various precious herbs such as Ganoderma lucidum, Cordyceps sinensis, Radix ginseng and so on.
That's quite a lot of expense.
In addition, the clothes Jian Yu wears must be made of fine silk, and even the dyes must be of the highest quality, otherwise she will suffer from skin allergies, and the things she uses must be extremely refined.
Every month, Jian’s mother had to go to temples, Taoist temples and other places to pray to gods and Buddhas and burn incense...
As long as they could keep their daughter alive, Father Jian and Mother Jian would use every method available.
In short, all the family's money was spent on Jian Yu.
When Jian Yu promised the assassin a favor, she said that her grandfather was the richest man in the Zhou Dynasty. This was true, but her mother had severed ties with her natal family!
Jian's mother never mentioned what happened back then to Jian Yu, but since Jian Yu was born, she has never seen anyone from her grandfather's side. The An family gave Jian's mother a large dowry and completely severed the relationship.
Over the years, the two families have never had contact.
The An family's properties are spread all over the country, but Jian Yu doesn't know anything about her grandfather's family. She only mentioned her grandfather at that time to prove to the assassin that she had a lot of money.
In fact, Jian Yu was very poor.
The money she had on hand was much richer than other ladies, but it was still too little for Jian Yu. She bought a few thousand-year-old ginseng and it was gone.
Gotta make money!
Jian Yu was a perfume maker in her previous life, so now she wants to go to a rouge and gouache store to see what kind of products are on the market today.
Bilan Pavilion is the largest rouge and gouache shop in Shengjing. It is said that the princesses in the palace would ask their servants to come here to buy rouge and gouache.
I have to say that the rumors are indeed well-deserved. The largest cosmetics shop in Jiangnan only has four floors, while Bilan Pavilion has six floors! The area is even half larger, and it is worthy of being at the feet of the emperor.
The first to fifth floors are places for ordinary women to hang out, while the sixth floor is Bilan Pavilion, which is dedicated to receiving distinguished guests.
Jian Yu returned to Shengjing after five years. To the staff of Bilan Pavilion, she was very unfamiliar. Although her clothes were extraordinary, she did not have many followers around her. She was probably just the daughter of a merchant.
When those noble ladies go out, there are four or eight maids around them, and they are very well-organized.
In this way, the clerk led Jian Yu to the second floor and introduced the goods to her.
Jian Yu knew that Bilan Pavilion had a sixth floor, but she came here to inspect the market, not for consumption purposes. This way of wandering around was more in line with her wishes.
Jian Yu is willing, Bilan Pavilion is willing, but others are not.
"Hey, isn't this Miss Jian? Why does she look like rouge and gouache on the second floor? Have you never been to the sixth floor?"
The woman who entered the door was wearing a blouse with flowers and fireworks, followed by four maids and two women. Her eyes were raised, her chin was slightly raised, her expression was disdainful, and her tone was full of finding trouble.
Jian Yu quickly searched her memory and quickly identified the woman's identity.
Guo Yufen, the daughter of General Dingyuan, was Tang Fu's lackey and obeyed Tang Fu's words.
At the flower viewing banquet, when she had a quarrel with Tang Fu, the man nearby taunted the original owner, saying that the original owner was a country bumpkin from the south of the Yangtze River and was unbearably vulgar.
Now the meaning of these words is to belittle Jian Yu because she can't climb to the sixth floor and only deserves to hang out downstairs. This is the difference between Yunni and Yunni.
Among the noble girls, many looked down upon Jian Yu for having a mother who was a merchant, and their words were often sarcastic. This was why the original owner pushed Tang Fu into the river at that time.
With the memory of the original owner, Jian Yu knew that the original owner did not attack because of jealousy, but was angry that Tang Fu talked about her mother.
"who are you?"
With one fatal word, Jian Yu could clearly see the veins popping up on the other person's forehead.
