Marrying a powerful eunuch three times

"It just arrived today. The pearls here are much better than the ones collected by the princess."

Chunxi stood behind Su Rutang.

"Second Madam, I think you are the most suitable person to wear this headdress."

"Yeah. The shape is beautiful. The oriental pearls are of excellent quality, and they are inlaid with kingfisher feathers. The phoenix next to it is also very beautiful." Su Rutang's voice was full of love. "It will be the old lady's birthday in a few days. If I wear this headpiece, no one can surpass me."

Chunxi shook his head.

"No one in the mansion has such expensive headgear. Although the Jianzhou Jiedushi Mansion is as rich as a country, the Jiedushi has many children. How could he let my lady wear such expensive headgear?"

Su Rutang hurriedly hissed:

"You gossipy little bastard, some things are better left unsaid."

"She came back to visit her family and bought some souvenirs. It's normal to be nervous for a while. It would be wrong for us to talk about it instead of hiding it as a family."

Zhou Yun's chest ached with joy.

You know it's not right, so why do you explain so much?

The more you describe, the darker.

"What kind of headgear is Second Sister-in-law looking at? Let me take a look. It must be something so great that you have to be able to afford it and I can't." Zhou Yunxi walked over and took a look.

At a glance, the headdress took root in her heart.

The lady in blue exclaimed in surprise: "Oh my God. Today I am really enlightened. This headdress is too luxurious."

"Look at the Dongzhu on it."

The woman in purple sighed:

"With this headpiece, you will be the center of attention wherever you go."

"Yeah. I have to say, it suits Yunxi very well."

"Yunxi, try it on for us to see." The purple-dressed woman glanced at the shopkeeper and said, "Is it okay to try it on?"

"Excuse me, everyone. Mrs. Zhou hasn't decided whether to buy it or not."

Someone else came up from downstairs.

Zhou Yunxi didn't want to be inferior to Su Rutang. In the past, Su Rutang always bought jewelry for her. Although she was very happy to accept it, she hated the feeling of being given away out of pity.

"It's not appropriate for my second sister-in-law to wear something so luxurious."

Zhou Yunxi sat down without caring and asked the waitress at the silver shop to put it on for her.

The waitress responded.

He put on a headdress for Zhou Yunxi and changed her hairstyle. Then he brought a bronze mirror to show her, "Madam, you are wearing this set of Dongzhu headdress, which is said to be suitable for a lady of the first rank."

"This headpiece of ours has a good meaning. It is said that if you wear it, your wishes will come true."

Zhou Yunxi liked it even more when he heard it.

Touching the Dongzhu on her ear, she looked around. "Sister-in-law, I am one or two years older than you, so I can hold the Dongzhu in place better. At your age, it would be more appropriate for you to wear some gold and silver."

Su Rutang held a handkerchief in his hand and smiled:

"The governor has made a lot of money recently. I heard that many princes can't compare to him. Although I have some money, you are not the eldest son's wife after all."

"I'm afraid my mother-in-law will be unhappy."

Su Rutang's words completely ignited Zhou Yunxi's competitive spirit.

"Second sister-in-law, you are wrong. My mother-in-law treats me like her own daughter." Zhou Yunxi could not admit defeat and had to save face in front of outsiders.

Two ladies passing by saw Zhou Yunxi inside.

Whispering:

"Whose lady is this? She looks so noble."

"I haven't seen it in the capital. But the one next to her is the wife of Minister Zhou. It's no big deal for her to buy a headdress."

The two of them went to the private room next door while talking.

Zhou Yunxi became interested.

She secretly thought that even if she didn't have money for the time being, she could ask Su Rutang to give it to her. Su Rutang had given her jewelry before, but the hateful thing was that it was all cheap.

It would be better to give Su Rutang a chance to make amends.

"Boss, how much is this set of headwear?" Zhou Yunxi didn't even look at Su Rutang.

The shopkeeper glanced at Su Rutang's calm face and said, "Forty-six thousand taels of silver."

"What? So expensive?" Zhou Yunxi's heart shuddered, "You didn't say that on purpose because you think I like it, did you?"

The shopkeeper still smiled.

"This lady from another place probably doesn't understand. Why not ask Madam Zhou? Pearls of this quality are made into headpieces, and they are decorated with kingfisher feathers and precious stones."

"That's it. I still gave you a discount."

Su Rutang bowed slightly, "Thank you very much, shopkeeper. Yunxi, if this set of headgear is placed in another silver shop, it will be too expensive to buy it without 48,000 taels of silver."

Zhou Yunxi wanted to buy it, but then he thought about the price.

I just had a falling out with Wang Quan yesterday.

The two children in front of him were like demons, insisting on holding on to something Anyang said unintentionally.

“How can it be so expensive?”

Someone came over from the private room next door. It was a little maid with a round face.

There was some contempt between his eyebrows, "My master also likes the headgear in this lady's hand. If the lady is short of money, why not look at other cheaper headgear."

"How about this set for my wife?"

The little maid even bowed as she spoke, "My wife said she would give you a little toy."

A blatant slap in the face.

How could Zhou Yunxi bear it? "It's not that I don't want to buy it. It's just that I don't have that much money on me."

The little maid curled her lips:

"Which official's wife would go shopping with those banknotes? They all wanted to have the silver shop deliver the banknotes to their doorsteps and collect the money. Is this the first time this lady knows about this?"

Zhou Yunxi was choked by what she said.

The woman in blue clothes quickly scolded:

"What nonsense are you talking about? She came from Jianzhou and doesn't know the rules in the capital. When she buys things in Jianzhou, the store will naturally deliver the goods to her door before she goes to collect the payment."

The maid hesitated and said:

"Could it be that the Jianzhou Jiedushi Mansion, that servant is blind to the great mansion?"

Zhou Yunxi raised his chin.

She looked very pleased, it turned out that her husband's family was so rich.

She said that her husband's family's mansion was much bigger than Zhou's.

"Boss, pack it up for me and send it to Zhou's residence." Zhou Yunxi raised his chin and gave the order.

Su Rutang's eyes turned dark, "Yun Xi, you are like this..."

"Second sister-in-law, if you can't afford it yourself, do you think I can't afford it too? Look at how poor you are." Zhou Yunxi wanted to show others that she was financially strong, so she asked the shopkeeper to pick out two twined hairpins inlaid with rubies as two handkerchiefs for her.

It also costs as much as five or six hundred taels of silver.

The two men looked happy and held Zhou Yunxi on the left and right.

Good words are given without any charge.

"Why don't we go to a teahouse and have some tea first? I heard there are some new snacks. You have not been in the capital for a long time and you have forgotten them." The blue-clothed man continued to flatter him, "Come back and tell the people of Jianzhou about the new things in the capital."

Zhou Yunxi was happy again.

She also wanted to tell her sisters-in-law about it.

Amid the flattery from the two of them, Zhou Yunxi had already lost his way.

The two took the hairpins first and handed the bill to Zhou Yunxi for a look. "Send them to the Zhou residence together."

The shopkeeper happily agreed.

As Zhou Yunxi was about to leave, he asked Su Rutang, "What else does Second Sister-in-law want to buy?"

"You bought our treasure, so the rest are nothing special." Su Rutang only picked a few velvet flowers with small pink pearls strung on them.

Zhou Yunxi looked very proud.

She turned and left with the two ladies.

The shopkeeper came over and apologized:

"Mrs. Zhou, I'm really sorry."

"It's all right. Shopkeeper, pack up those hairpins and these hairpins for me."

The shopkeeper happily ordered people to pack them up, and finally gave Su Rutang some jewelry for the children to wear, saying that the headwear that Su Rutang had liked first was bought by someone else, and this was the fault of their jewelry store.

Su Rutang smiled faintly. She had no intention of competing with Zhou Yunxi.

After coming out of the silver shop, Su Rutang went back to Zhou's house.

Zhou Chengru hasn't come back yet.

When they arrived at Chuitang Courtyard, Song Huaiyan came over angrily. "Second Madam, what do you mean? Do you really think of me as a moneylender?"

"My shop is just a small business, how can it withstand your tossing and turning?"

Song Huaiyan rushed in and bombarded Su Rutang who was sitting on the chair.

Su Rutang leaned lazily in the chair.

"What's the matter with Aunt Song being so anxious? I just asked someone to tell the kitchen to clean up the dead branches and leaves in the pond. Can't you afford this little cleaning fee? Or do you have no copper coins to reward the servants?"

"What? Take a look for yourself?"

She slapped the bill in front of Su Rutang.

Su Rutang knew what was going on without even looking at it, so she picked it up and glanced at it calmly. Forty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty taels of silver.

In addition to the headwear, there was also the hairpin that Zhou Yunxi gave to the two handkerchief friends.

"What do you mean?"

"Didn't you buy it?" Song Huaiyan was furious.

When she came back from the store, she heard that the silver shop had come to collect the goods. When she saw the bill, she almost fainted.