Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress
Chapter 93: Giving you a Silk House_1

Chapter 93: Chapter 93: Giving you a Silk House_1

While getting dressed, Cai Wei had another tantrum!

The new brocade dress she had bought yesterday had been stained with his blood. It was too hectic last night for her to notice, but now, in the bright light of day, the blood-stained brocade dress draped over the embroidered stool beside the couch looked exceptionally conspicuous!

"My...my clothes..."

She said, touching the smooth and soft brocade, as if on the verge of tears.

Nangong Yi watched her from the side and remarked in a low voice, "It’s just a piece of clothing, is it really worth all this fuss?"

Cai Wei got angry: "Easy for you to say, this is the only decent piece of clothing I have, it cost me six or seven taels of silver, you know?"

Watching her heartbroken reaction, Nangong Yi laughed lightly: "If you’re so upset, I can compensate you for it. I’ll give you not just one, but ten, even a hundred. How about that?"

Cai Wei, caught up in her anger, stood up and walked over to the bedside, extending her hand: "Good, give them to me then!"

Nangong Yi was momentarily flustered; he currently wasn’t wearing anything, where could he possibly have placed his silver bills?

"Alright, once I’ve recovered from my injuries, I’ll gift you a whole silk shop..."

With no other choice, Cai Wei had to go outside wearing the pink top her mother had made for her. She didn’t have the heart to pursue the matter of the clothes any further at this point; her priority was to find a way to prevent her mother and siblings from coming into her room today!

Seeing her daughter not wearing the brocade dress from the clothing store but instead the cotton top she had made for her, Lady Du thought that her daughter preferred her homemade clothes, and was delighted. She happily invited her daughter to join them for dinner, smiling brightly.

Cai Fei had also made a special effort to dress up today; she wore the goose-yellow fur-trimmed satin coat her older sister had bought for her from the clothing store yesterday, with a floor-length blue broken flower eight-piece skirt, styled her hair in a sleek horsetail bun, and tied a bright red head rope into her bun, looking every bit the unmarried young woman from a humble family.

Wen’er and Wu’er were both dressed neatly, happily gathered around the roundtable.

Their minor New Year’s breakfast was quite generous, prepared by Aunt Liu and Aunt Zhang. They made dumplings with wild boar meat and celery filling, a plate of carp roast potatoes, a plate of stewed mushrooms with small wild chickens, a leek omelette using leeks from their own side room, and even made a cold cucumber salad.

Lady Du didn’t bother with the formalities of a mistress with her servants, once Aunt Liu and Aunt Zhang had served the meal, she let them return to celebrate the New Year, instructing them not to come to clear up afterward, saying she would do it herself after the meal, allowing them to go back and fully enjoy the New Year!

Aunt Liu and Aunt Zhang left gratefully. Her mother’s actions were exactly what Cai Wei wanted. She felt it would be better if there was no one at home, so as to avoid the discovery of the "big secret" hidden in her room.

However, she was going to County Magistrate An’s mansion later, leaving her mother and siblings at home. Anyone could go to her room. She had to find a way to get her mother to take the children out for the day.

"Mother, don’t you get bored staying at home all day? Since it’s not busy today, why don’t you take Fei’er and the others out to stroll around the town? Buy anything that catches your fancy."

Lady Du laughed and said, "Look at you, usually shrewd as anything, but today you’re confused. It’s the New Year holiday, which shop would be open?"

Wei Wei twisted her mouth and said, "Then let’s go visit Aunt Zhou’s house. Come to think of it, since Aunt Zhou moved to the town, you have not visited her even once."

Lady Du said, "Your mother and Aunt Zhou have already agreed that she will come to our house later, and we will celebrate the New Year together."

"Cough... cough..." Wei Wei suddenly choked.

"Oh dear, what’s wrong with you, child? How can you choke on your food like this, really!"

Her mother was patting her back while taking the tea cup from Fei’er. She offered it to Wei Wei’s mouth, "Quickly take a sip of tea."

Wei Wei took a sip of tea and then looked up at her mother with a serious expression. "Mom," she said, "there is something I have been hiding from you. I hope you won’t blame me when you know it."

Seeing the seriousness in her tone, Lady Du couldn’t help but become serious herself, asking, "What is it?"

Wei Wei said, "To tell the truth, I have been hiding from you that I opened a ’nursing home’, specifically for those homeless elderly, young, sick and disabled. I was not planning to tell you because I was afraid you would worry about the costs, but now the home is too busy. I can’t manage it alone, so I want to ask you to help me."

Actually, Wei Wei was planning to tell her mother about the nursing home after she had made the family business prosper, fearing that her mother would be concerned about the threshold. But considering the current situation, if she wanted her mother to be away from home for a day, this seemed like the only way.

Hearing this, Lady Du was indeed shocked and asked her daughter about the process of establishing the nursing home in detail. In the end, she did not blame her daughter. Instead, she generously expressed that it was great her daughter had a heart to help the underprivileged. However, she shouldn’t have kept this venture secret from her. After hearing this, Lady Du proclaimed she would personally go to the nursing home see if there was anything improper and take care of it personally.

With her mother’s words, Wei Wei felt much relieved. She said, "Take Fei’er with you. Fei’er is not young anymore. She needs to learn how to manage household affairs with you so she will be well-prepared when she goes to her mother-in-law’s house."

Lady Du had the same idea. It was not enough for her daughter to only know needlework. Teaching her more about running a household would undoubtedly benefit her when she started her own family.

During the conversation, Wei Wei also casually mentioned the kids at the nursing home. When Wen’er and Wu’er heard there were playmates in the nursing home, they became excited and unceasingly entreated their mother to take them along. Lady Du couldn’t resist the cute requests of her two little sons, so she agreed to take them along.

After breakfast, Wei Wei sent Xiao Zhuzi to Jiujin’s house, asking Jiujin to bring the restaurant’s horse carriage to take the mother and children to the nursing home, then come back for her to go to An Mansion.

This was Lady Du’s first time at the nursing home. She prepared some food, brought some money, and continued to complain to Wei Wei. She said that if she had known about the nursing home earlier, she could have better prepared things to bring there.

Wei Wei’s thoughts were in her room; when her mother said something, she didn’t retort, just agreed with everything.

Finally having sent her parents and children away, she couldn’t wait to enter the space, looking hurriedly for the old turtle.