Transmigrator meets Reincarnator

Ch. 71 Digging a Hole for Herself

While holding a golden hairpin inlaid with jade and pearls, Miss Yuan chuckled, “Fifth Sister, you’ve brought more than fifty taels out today. Are you so miserly that you can’t even bear to buy a single jade bangle?”

Eighth Miss Yuan’s words made Miss Su flush.

Miss Su pressed her lips together, but didn’t say anything in reply. She lowered her head to look at the new set of ornaments, pretending she didn’t hear anything.

Miss Yuan chuckled again and passed the golden hairpin in her hands to the manager, boldly saying, “Manager, pack up this hairpin for me.”

The manager hadn’t expected this young lady to be so generous. Her smile seeped into her eyes as she brought an exquisite box over to place the hairpin in. “This young lady has a good eye, too. This golden hairpin has three emeralds on it, each of them the same size. The style of the flowers on top of it is good, too; only two flowers, simple yet elegant. It matches perfectly with the pink dress you’re wearing today, miss. This hairpin is the handiwork of our Master Liu. This madam will set the price low at a hundred and fifty taels, just for you, miss.”

When the manager had been complimenting her, Miss Yuan had her nose so high in the air she was about to start floating away in pride. She had good taste, to have picked such a beautiful hairpin. It was so much better than that silly bangle that Fifth Miss Su had picked. However, when she heard what the price was, Miss Yuan’s expression froze in place.

What? A hundred and fifty taels?! Why didn’t the manager simply steal the money from her? It was just a golden hairpin!

Miss Yuan had seen that this golden hairpin would definitely be more expensive than Miss Su’s jade bangle, but she thought that it would cost a hundred taels at maximum. She had begged for a hundred taels from her mother so she could go shopping today, and in addition to that, she had also brought thirty or so taels from her own savings.

Even a young lady of a first-ranked noble house would bring out only a little more than a hundred taels at most. How could she, of the declining House Ying, take out even more than them?

If they had been shopping at Jinshi Jewellery next door, the hundred and thirty taels she had brought would be more than enough. However, this was the high-class Jinshi Pavilion that they were perusing.

She had originally thought of showing up Miss Su and shaming her. In the Ying Estate, it was only this unmarried Fifth Miss who continued to be at loggerheads with her, the Eighth Miss. She was going to make Miss Su eat dirt today in public so that she would fight her less in the future. However, she hadn’t thought that she would be digging a hole for herself as well.

She only carried a hundred and thirty-something taels on her right now…

Miss Yuan’s expression turned ugly. Due to her conflicting emotions and present embarrassment, her face went red, then white. She opened her mouth and met with the manager’s eager gaze. Though she wanted to withdraw her previous claims, the words were stuck in her throat and wouldn’t come out.

Miss Yuan’s panicked gaze darted around the shop. Her personal maidservant’s expression was even uglier; she looked like she was about to cry from her anxiety. She even tugged at her master’s sleeve carefully.

If Eighth Miss really bought a golden hairpin for a hundred and fifty taels, Second Madam would surely scold her up and down. Most of the madam’s own accessories and ornaments cost less than a hundred taels.