Want to win the palace fight? Better to be crazy than to be idiotic!

Su Feiran talked with Lin Xiuqing for a long time. When she returned to the attic, Yuxiao and Xunyin had already packed their bags and were waiting for her to come back for dinner.

"You are looking forward to it." Su Feiran saw a bulging bag next to Xunyin and asked curiously, "What's in it?"

"Next month is my third brother's birthday. He will soon be old enough to go to school, so I wrote him some instructions, hoping that he would study hard and respect his teachers. I also briefly greeted other people at home in the letter. My father's legs are not good, and I sent my monthly salary home last month, just like asking him to buy a new walking stick, so that he would not pick up broken branches to save money and scratch his hands."

"Mother has started to lose her memory since last month. I wonder if father is willing to ask a doctor to treat her. I have also written some words to mother in the letter. I hope she will see the letter as if she is meeting you in person and will not forget her daughter in the future."

"The package also contains the sturdy cloth I brought for my eldest brother. After leaving the palace, I will send it back home so that my eldest brother can sew some nice clothes for my brothers so that they will not be laughed at by the neighbors."

Xunyin counted on his fingers one by one with a very serious look.

Su Feiran was shocked by the difficult conditions of Xunyin's family. After Xunyin counted the things in her bag, Su Feiran found that there was nothing in the bag that she had prepared for herself, and even the silver needed for shopping was pitifully small. She also said that she wanted to go to the busy market to buy some small gifts for her family that could only be bought in the capital, but she was afraid that after buying the gifts, there would be no silver left.

Su Feiran almost cried after hearing this: "If your family is short of money, just pawn my jewelry. I'm your boss, and I'll be upset if I treat you unfairly."

Xun Yin was puzzled by Su Feiran's words, tilted her head, and asked, "My family is not short of money, right?"

“But, but didn’t you just say—” Su Feiran was confused.

Did she hear it wrong just now? Didn't Xunyin say that her father walked with a stick every day, her mother was reluctant to spend money on medical treatment, and the family had no good clothes to wear and was laughed at by the neighbors?

And she remembered that Xunyin had told her before that she was working diligently in the palace to learn a craft in order to give her family a good life.

"Ah, the master may have misunderstood." After listening to Su Feiran's doubts, Xun Yin waved his hand and explained, "My family didn't have money in the past, but my father has made a lot of money in business in the past few years, so our family is not short of money."

Su Feiran was even more confused: "Then why did you say such sad words?"

Since you have money, why do you want to suffer? !

Xunyin said helplessly, "It's normal that the master can't understand. My father has been used to suffering in recent years, and he saved a lot of money by living frugally, otherwise he wouldn't even have the capital to do business. Now my family is rich, and we live in a large manor purchased at a high price. There is no shortage of doormen and servants at home, so he picked up his early habits again."

"What habit?" Su Feiran asked.

What she was thinking was, maybe Xunyin's father invested all his money, so he had no cash on hand and couldn't make ends meet?

After all, according to Xunyin's introduction, her father is a big boss and must have excellent business acumen.

Xunyin coughed lightly with an embarrassed look on his face, and after a while he said, "When you have enough, you can gamble with it, and then go home after losing everything."

"..."

Su Feiran was speechless for a while.

He deserves to be poor! ! ! !

"Although the money he earns can cover his expenses, there are always times every year when he is short of money. At this time, I send back the spare money I save to help them solve some urgent needs."

Xunyin's tone was very helpless, as if she had no way to deal with her gambling father.

"My master may think that I am foolishly filial, but I am already unfilial by not serving my parents. I just hope that this money can make up for it. If I ignore them, they will have no choice but to resign as servants, move out of the manor, and live a self-reliant life like ordinary people."

Xunyin kept talking, leaving Su Feiran and Yu Xiao stunned.

It would be better for them to live the life of ordinary people who are self-reliant!

"Whatever." Su Feiran glanced at Xunyin's cloth bag and was no longer interested in the things inside.

Yuxiao seemed to have discovered something. She picked up the cloth bag and was shocked. "Is your cloth bag the 'Sunrise over the West Sea' embroidered by the Weaving Bureau last year?"

"'Sunrise over the West Sea'?" Su Feiran had never heard of this term. "What is that?"

"The Weaving Bureau usually sells some exquisite handicrafts to civilians outside the palace, such as dresses, cloth bags, and even embroidered fabrics," Yu Xiao said. "On the second day of every year, the Weaving Bureau will announce the new patterned fabrics of the year under the Fuqiang Gate, and then sell fabrics made from the first batch of fabrics. This batch of special fabrics is not only expensive, but there are only 200 quotas in the whole Dagu. Therefore, those who can buy the new patterned fabrics at the beginning of the year are either rich or noble, and have deep connections."

"The cloth bag in Sister Xunyin's hand is one of the first batch of masterpieces embroidered with the pattern of 'Sunrise over the West Sea' last year. Last year, the new Minister of Justice took office. He is from the West Sea, so the Weaving Bureau selected this pattern as the first one to be recommended that year, which is quite commemorative."

Su Feiran understood this. Wasn't it just to promote the value of the product and then conduct hunger marketing? This was how modern luxury goods came about. She was very familiar with this limited-edition rush-buying routine.

Every year’s pattern is equivalent to “this year’s limited edition”. The pattern may not be very exquisite, but as long as it is given a certain meaning, it will definitely attract the rich.

In other words, what Xunyin was holding was the Dagu Palace Edition "Ailushi Limited Edition of a Certain Year" bag. This bag is very special and can only be purchased by VIPs who have spent a certain amount of money. It is truly a top luxury item.

Su Feiran's view of Xunyin changed 180 degrees. She originally thought that Xunyin was a poor girl from the countryside who came to the city to work and worked hard for half a year just to support her family. Now she looked at Xunyin as if she was looking at a mountain of gold. It turned out that she worked in the palace mainly for entertainment, and secondly to satisfy her father's entertainment. Without this job, her family's life might be better.

Su Feiran didn't understand. Xunyin's family conditions were so good, why didn't her family take her out of the palace?

Seeing how Xunyin is looking forward to leaving the palace, it doesn't seem like she wants to do a solid job in the palace for the rest of her life.

Thinking about the fact that Xunyin had just mentioned her brothers but not any sisters, Su Feiran seemed to understand something.

Even if you follow the sound and step onto the land of freedom, the air you breathe may not be fresh and sweet.

It might even be more bitter than in the palace.

She couldn't break free from the shackles of her original family, and staying in the palace honestly was the only way.