Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 218 Complaint

Song Ying thought about it and decided that if the quality and price of clothes were similar, she would prefer to buy clothes in a store with a full-body mirror.

When buying clothes, no matter how good others say they are, it is still better to see them with your own eyes.

Thinking of this, she felt that the shopkeeper was very far-sighted and had long-term and thorough considerations.

After looking in the mirror, both of them were very satisfied with the snow coats they were wearing and decided on them. Then the shopkeeper talked to them about the price.

"I think Xiao Cui has introduced it to you just now. Our coat is made of brocade satin, which costs three taels per piece on the market. It is filled with four catties of cotton flannel, and the cost price is about 3 coins. There are also miscellaneous items such as rabbit fur and silk cloth, which are charged at one tael of silver each."

Luo Yanxing had never come into contact with silk, satin or anything like that, and didn't know the price. She didn't know whether the price was really cheap or fake, so she looked at Song Ying.

Before the Double Ninth Festival, Song Ying followed his master to the Jinyi Pavilion and asked about satin dresses. Three taels of silver per piece of satin was indeed the market price.

Last year, when her family bought cotton fluff at a cloth shop, the shopkeeper charged them 55 wen per pound, and the shopkeeper's wife charged them 200 wen per pound instead of 50 wen, which was indeed a good deal for them.

She knew that the shopkeeper was really willing to give them less money and was not one of those cunning businesswomen who said the price was cheap but actually asked for an exorbitant amount of money.

Song Ying nodded slightly to Luo Yanxing and took out the purse with a smile, "Thank you for letting me have it. You are such a kind person, you will definitely make a lot of money!"

The shopkeeper smiled and narrowed her eyes. "It turns out that our little doctor Song is so sweet-mouthed. He is completely different from when he was in the clinic."

"When I was in the clinic, I was a doctor." Song Ying scratched his head embarrassedly, "I was young, and if I wasn't calm, the patients would be scared away."

"What a clever little girl." The shopkeeper couldn't help laughing. Before leaving, she gave them a handful of scraps of cloth, including various silk fabrics such as satin, damask, gauze, gauze, etc. The little girls would love to use them to make hairbands!

Song and Luo walked away happily, dividing the strips of cloth as they walked. Song Ying only picked two and said, "Give some to Xiao Cui and the others when you go back. Ask Xiao Cui to give some to Xiao Xiang. Oh, don't give Yu Lan some."

"I know!" Luo Yanxing rolled up the strips of cloth and stuffed them into his wrapped snow jacket.

She looked at the passers-by around her, her eyes turned, and asked, "You are doing acupuncture in the clinic now, so is the Shen Mansion looking for temporary workers again? What do you think about me giving it a try?"

The topic changed so suddenly that Song Ying was a little stunned. "You want to find a job too?"

Luo Yanxing nodded seriously: "You have only been in the county for more than two months, and you have changed a lot. You are so calm and confident, and you are not shy when talking to the owner of such a big store."

Song Ying thought about it and realized that he had changed a lot in the past two months. "It's not possible to make medicinal food at Shen's house. The other jobs at Shen's house..."

She pondered for a moment and shook her head: "Forget it. The situation in Shen Mansion is too complicated. It's not suitable for people like us who have no roots or support."

"It's complicated?" Luo Yanxing was puzzled. "Didn't you say that Shen Mansion was pretty good when you came back last time?"

“At that time, I only saw that the work was easy and I didn’t know much. You don’t know that a lot of things have happened in the past month.

Take the medicinal food for example. After I came out, the three young ladies in the Shen Mansion are nominally making the medicinal food, but the one who actually does it is a second-class maid in the main courtyard. My master always has to go over to keep an eye on her, just in case. "

Luo Yanxing was stunned. "Why does a young lady from the Shen Mansion need to learn how to make medicinal food? Isn't it the norm for a rich young lady to have everything she wants?"

Song Ying shrugged, "They said they wanted to show filial piety to their grandmother."

Song Ying described the situation of that day in detail to Luo Yanxing, and finally said: "I felt something was strange when I heard them that day, I felt that there was something else in their words, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

Later, I pondered over it and finally figured it out. Princess Shunan didn’t really want her granddaughters to learn how to make medicinal food. She wanted the three girls to worship my master as their teacher.

"Ah?" Luo Yanxing was stunned. "Why would the young ladies of the Shen family want to study medicine? They are not short of money.

Besides, isn't it true that a rich lady cannot show her face in public? The Shen family hires girls for temporary work, so why would they want their daughter to be a doctor? "

"She let her three granddaughters study medicine, definitely not to make them doctors in the future. My master really wants to train more female doctors, and she will teach anyone who is willing to learn."

"Then why let their girls study medicine?"

"I just don't understand this." Song Ying spread her hands, "So now even the other maids in the mansion don't dare to get involved in the task of making medicinal food."

Luo Yanxing thought for a moment and asked again, "Is there any job left in the Shen Mansion?"

"Of course there are, but I don't recommend you go to the Shen Mansion. The people there seem to be happy on the surface, but they do a lot of stabbing and slandering behind your back! Most importantly, they kill people.

A few days after the Double Ninth Festival, the Shen family held a chrysanthemum viewing banquet. A maid was snatching something in the kitchen and caused a fire. I was nearby at the time and tried to go out when I heard the noise, but someone locked the door from the outside and I was almost burned to death. "

"What?!" Luo Yanxing raised his voice suddenly, and passers-by around him looked over.

Song Ying quickly covered her mouth and smiled at the passers-by. When they looked away, he lowered his voice and said, "Keep your voice down."

Luo Yanxing stared, "This is murder!"

Song Ying nodded: "That's why I said that the Shen family is too deep. In our village, no matter how big the grudge is, they will just go after the person and scold him a few times, or else, they will just hold him down and beat him up. No one would directly take his life."

Luo Yanxing's good impression of the Shen family suddenly dropped to a negative number. "It seems that what the old people in the village said is right. Those wealthy families are indeed terrible!"

In the past, they did not dare to easily ask to work for a wealthy family for this reason. The last time Song Ying went back, she said that in the Shen Mansion, not only did they have a separate room to live in, but they could also eat meat every day, with a combination of meat and vegetables for three meals, and they were also given clothes. She thought at the time, what a wonderful job this was.

He often expressed his feelings to Sister Xiao Cui and the others that Shen Zhuangyuan had never forgotten his roots after so many years, and had maintained a simple life as a farmer and had been so kind to the servants and laborers in the mansion.

Song Ying added: "Not only are there intrigues among the servants, but the master of the Shen Mansion is also very strange. Whether it is the fire or the banquet, it all comes down to the fact that the Shen Mansion has an extremely special concubine."

At this point, Song Ying suddenly paused, as if lightning flashed through his mind, and blurted out: "I remembered who that familiar-looking person looked like!"