Golden Age Legitimate Fei

Chapter 9: Yiniang Pays A Visit

Chapter 9: Yiniang Pays A Visit

Qing Yi Xuan*

Ye Li leisurely sat inside the room while looking at the silver banknotes that had just been sent over from the Li w.a.n.g fu, her clean and pretty face flashing a trace of a cold smile.

銀票 (yinpiao) – Banknote example

As it turned out, this Li w.a.n.g and Ye Ying had already hooked up a year before; in more than a year Li w.a.n.g had successively and in several times taken antiques from Shen De Xuan that were worth over seventeen thousand taels and had actually never given a single tael of silver.

"Xiaojie, this Li w.a.n.g really doesn't want face!" Qing Shuang was standing behind Ye Li as she seethed. Originally Li w.a.n.g was well-renowned in the capital as a handsome man and Qing Shuang had somewhat looked forward towards this future guye**, but hadn't expected that that guy who had eyes but couldn't see went so far as to break off his engagement with xiaojie, harming xiaojie's reputation to hit rock-bottom. Already abandoned her in this way, but he still actually dared to take her own xiaojie's things for free–really didn't want face!

Ye Li turned around to hand the banknotes to Qing Shuang and amusedly said, "This is something you can say? Be careful of getting heard by someone or else I wouldn't be able to save you."

Qing Shuang ashamedly stuck out her tongue, locking her arms and saying, "I know xiaojie won't not care about Qing Shuang. Not to mention...in this yuanzi of ours, where would there be people to hear it?" Qing Yi Xuan was the smallest and most crooked yuanluo in the entire Ye fu, even the people meant for serving weren't many. Apart from a couple of yatou meant for doing hard labour, she was the only person at xiaojie's side. Compared with Ye Ying's large group of servants, her own xiaojie was actually poverty-stricken–even inferior to the yiniang's daughters as well.

"Xiaojie, today how could you easily let that w.a.n.g furen off like that?" Recalling how w.a.n.g shi was looking deathly pale and like she was on the verge of collapsing, Qing Shuang felt both rejuvenated as well as unreconciled on the inside.

Ye Li gave a superficial smile and said, "w.a.n.g shi is the birth mother of Zhao Yi in the palace, also fourth younger sister is the future Li w.a.n.gfei. Do you think zumu and fuqin will do anything to her for my sake?"

Carefully thinking it over, Qing Shuang lowered her head feeling disheartened, grumbling, "Laofuren and laoye are too biased." But wasn't that the truth? Even if w.a.n.g shi was made to spit out several ten thousand taels of silver, her own xiaojie also wouldn't see one bit of it either.

Ye Li patted her with a smile, saying, "Don't worry. With w.a.n.g shi's several ten thousands of taels, at the very least I will be able to take the entire dowry that muqin had left for me. Compared with muqin's dowry, those several ten thousands of taels don't really count as much."

Qing Shuang nodded, in her heart she had even less good feelings towards the Ye fu. The Ye family originally had a weak foundation; if it weren't for the support of furen's dowry during these years, how could it have the glory it had today? But look at what kind of days her own xiaojie had been going through during these years? It wasn't an exaggeration to say that it was truly cruel and unscrupulous.

Worried that her own words will cause xiaojie to be sad, Qing Shuang quickly changed the subject, "Oh right xiaojie, this morning Ye furen mentioned how the people working alongside xiaojie are too little. Could it be about adding several more so as to avoid not looking good when arriving at the Ding guow.a.n.g fu?"

Ye Li's eyebrows knitted, Ye Li wasn't unaware that she only had a few people beside her. It was just that from before Ye Li liked peace and quiet and wasn't at all willing to allow the people beside her to closely follow her and she also didn't bother about it.