Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress
Chapter 1214 - 1220: Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law Face Off (1)

Chapter 1214: Chapter 1220: Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law Face Off (1)

After hearing Situ Changge’s explanation, Xiang Yun suddenly realized and praised with enlightenment, "Oh! Quite smart indeed!"

Situ Changge humbly said, "Madam flatters me too much."

Xiang Yun replied, "You’re too modest, smart is smart. Otherwise, Cai Wei wouldn’t have let someone as young as you be the big shopkeeper of a ginseng business. Oh, right, Cai Wei told me to wait for her here. You can go on with your tasks. Don’t worry about me!"

Upon hearing this, Situ Changge said, "Since the boss has invited Madam, the boss should also be arriving soon. Madam, please go inside and sit down while you wait!" By "inside," he referred to the shop’s main hall, which was divided into two by an eight-panel screen depicting flowers, birds, and landscape, creating a small tea room.

Xiang Yun and the others were invited to the small tea room behind the screen, where they saw a purple clay tea set arranged on the table. The tea set’s design was simple and grand, clearly crafted by a master’s hand.

Nanny Xie nagged, "Young Madam, you shouldn’t have talked so much with the shopkeeper. That shopkeeper is a young and handsome man. You should be aware of avoiding any impropriety!"

"I know, I know..."

Xiang Yun, unwilling to listen to her nagging, sat on a stool near the screen. She passed the time by watching the activity outside through the gaps in the screen, while waiting for Cai Wei to arrive.

Outside, Muji’s Shen Record Shop was bustling with business. Since Xiang Yun entered, customers kept coming through the door, and in less than half a Shi Chen, they unexpectedly conducted over one thousand taels of silver in transactions!

To describe the business of this shop as making a fortune each day was not an overstatement at all.

Xiang Yun looked at the silver Situ Changge collected into the counter and felt sad, thinking if she had been well-off back then, that set of amethyst jade head decorations would have been hers, and she wouldn’t have had to see Du Wanqing wearing them to cause her distress.

Ah, it really is great to have money. If she had money, now it would be Du Wanqing envious of her instead!

Xiang Yun peered through the crack in the screen, finding it more and more interesting. As she watched transaction after transaction and the silver being collected, she surmised that doing business must also be quite fun and fulfilling. Otherwise, Cai Wei wouldn’t have continued trading even after becoming the Empress!

As she was engrossed in watching, a man in coarse, short clothes hurriedly entered. He appeared to be in his twenties or thirties, haggard, with tattered clothing. As soon as he entered, he anxiously asked a young shopkeeper, "Young brother, may I inquire how much silver is needed for a five or six-year-old ginseng here at your place?"

Xiao Huoji said, "Our Muji’s Shen Record Shop offers the lowest ginseng prices in the entire capital. Anywhere else might charge at least ten taels, but here, only eight taels are enough!"

"What, eight taels?"

Upon hearing this, the man immediately despaired, clutching his head and squatting on the ground he began to wail, "What am I to do? My daughter-in-law has metrorrhagia. The doctor said that she needs ginseng in her medicine to recover..."

Xiao Huoji asked, "Does big brother not have any silver?"

Weeping, the man took out a worn and tattered cloth bundle, placed it in his palm, unfolded it, and revealed a pile of small silver pieces and threads, adding up to only about two taels.

"I scraped together just over two taels by borrowing here and there, but the pharmacy’s shopkeeper said it wasn’t enough. Everyone says that the ginseng here is cheap, so I rushed on over, but now, it’s still... still not enough... Wuu wuu wuu..."

Situ Changge, sitting inside the counter checking the account books, looked up. His deep pupils swept over the man’s face, and with a cold smile said, "What a pity, it seems your esteemed wife will have to change the prescription!"

Hearing this, the man packed up his handkerchief and put it into his embrace. He slowly stood up, took a few steps forward, and suddenly knelt down to Situ Changge.