Chapter 243 – Mysterious Flowers
The embroideress didn’t expect Wei Yuewu would pick her out. She was stunned for a moment. She pointed at herself and asked in surprise, “Me?”
“Yes, just you!” Wei Yuewu’s gaze fell on her and she paused for a moment before replying with a smile.
“No… I…” The embroideress wanted to say something but was interrupted by Jin Ling.
“Yes, it’s you. Our Miss is satisfied with you. The other two can leave now!”
“Well, in that case, Embroideress Yun, please stay. This young lady wants to repair an embroidered screen. Coincidentally, you are quite skilled!” The shop assistant hurriedly nodded and bowed. Seeing that Wei Yuewu smiled without saying anything, he left with the other two embroideresses without further delay.
Jin Ling closed the door and the private room quieted down.
Wei Yuewu’s gaze landed on Embroideress Yun. Under her scrutinizing gaze, Embroideress Yun couldn’t help but feel nervous. This young lady had a suppressive aura even when she was smiling. Besides, her beautiful eyes seemed to have the power of piercing through people’s hearts and digging out their secrets.
“Young…young lady…” Embroideress Yun was so uneasy that it took her quite a while to finally gather her courage to look at Wei Yuewu.
“Embroideress Yun? Is your surname Yun?” Wei Yuewu smiled.
“No, my husband’s surname is Yun, and my surname is Liu. Ever since I married into my husband’s family, I have started to use my husband’s surname.” Embroideress Yun replied. It was normal for a married woman to adopt her husband’s surname outside the family.
“Where do you come from, Embroideress Yun?” Wei Yuewu blinked her eyes and asked.
“From a small unknown village.” At this moment, Embroideress Yun seemed to have calmed down, although her face was still slightly pale with nervousness.
However, these words were anything but an answer.
“What kind of flower is this, Embroideress Yun? It’s very beautiful!” Wei Yuewu picked up the sachet and pointed at the flower. Compared to those on the handkerchiefs, the flower on the sachet was the most exquisite and eye-catching. It could be seen that the person who embroidered this sachet had put in a lot of effort.
Seeing the sachet in Wei Yuewu’s hand, Embroideress Yun stood up in shock and asked, “This… why is this sachet here?”
“The shop assistant brought it over for our Miss to pick. Now, this sachet has been bought by our Miss. Is there something wrong?” Jin Ling replied unhappily.
The sachet had been bought by the young lady in front of her? Embroideress Yun’s body staggered for a moment, and she held the wall on the side with her hand to stand firm.
“Young lady, can you sell this sachet back to me?” She looked at Wei Yuewu anxiously and pleaded.
“Our Miss is from the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang. How could she sell the thing she bought to someone else!” Jin Ling coldly snorted in displeasure.
“No… this… this sachet is of great use to me!” After being rejected by Jin Ling, Embroideress Yun hurriedly explained.
At this moment, Jin Ling also found that something was unusual about Embroideress Yun. She looked at Wei Yuewu who was carefully observing the sachet in her hand, and she immediately understood what was going on. Apparently, Wei Yuewu wanted her to speak at this time. “So what? This was sold to our Miss by your store. She didn’t take it away from you by force. Since you embroidered this sachet yourself, if you like it so much, you can just embroider another one. Why do you have to buy it?”
“But… I may not be able to embroider such a nice sachet like this one…” Embroideress Yun’s face slowly turned red as she stammered.
“Impossible. A person’s embroidery skills won’t change too much. Since you embroidered this sachet, it’s fine that you embroider another one.” Jin Ling didn’t seem to notice the expression on Embroideress Yun’s face, and she changed the topic. “Our Miss heard that your embroidery skills are not bad, so she specially came to invite you to repair an embroidered screen. There is a screen in our mansion, and the embroidery on it was broken. Can you repair it?”
Jin Ling no longer talked about the sachet. Her message was clear: Wei Yuewu would buy the sachet no matter what, so there was no need to discuss it.
Although Wei Yuewu had been watching the sachet in her hand, the corner of her lips curled into a smile when she heard Jin Ling’s words. Now Jin Ling understood her intentions better than ever.
Embroideress Yun was so anxious that her head started to sweat, but she had no choice but to say, “Young lady… this… this sachet was not embroidered by me, I… I can’t embroider such a sachet again!”
“Didn’t the shop assistant say this sachet was embroidered by you?” Wei Yuewu coldly snorted and finally put down the sachet in her hand. She coldly looked at Embroideress Yun and said, “Could it be that the shop assistant made a mistake? Or is it a lie that Embroideress Yun has excellent embroidery skills?”
“Embroideress Yun, if you really are lying, I remind you that there are laws in the capital!” Jin Ling echoed Wei Yuewu.
After hearing the two of them, Embroideress Yun couldn’t stand any longer and she knelt down with a “plop”. “Young lady, this…this sachet is really important to me. Most of it was embroidered by me, but a small portion of it was not. It was… embroidered by…by my mother before I was married. I missed my mother and specially kept this half-embroidered sachet. I have completed the whole sachet only recently.”
Embroideress Yun was so anxious that she stammered. The sweat on her forehead was clearly visible. Wei Yuewu knew that the time was ripe, so she motioned Jin Ling to help Embroideress Yun up. After she sat down again, she smiled and asked, “Embroideress Yun, you are not a native of Zhongshan Kingdom, right?”
“No… no, I’m not!” Embroideress Yun wiped the sweat off her forehead with her handkerchief as she replied, her heart beating wildly.
“Is this flower from your hometown?” Wei Yuewu picked up another handkerchief and asked.
“Yes, it is!” Embroideress Yun answered without hesitation. She did not believe that an unmarried young lady would have heard of this flower. Compared to the topic just now, this topic was much simpler. She unconsciously became less on alert.
Wei Yuewu had already asked all the questions she needed to ask and had already come to a conclusion. She stood up and smiled faintly. “Embroideress Yun, I can return this sachet to you, but you have to repair my mother’s embroidered screen for me. After the screen has been repaired, I will return this sachet to you. But you need to come to the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang to repair it!”
When Embroideress Yun heard that Wei Yuewu agreed to return the sachet to her, she was first overjoyed. Then, she was worried and said quickly, “Young lady, the… the store doesn’t allow embroideresses to go out and work for customers.”
“That’s not my business. It’s up to Embroideress Yun!” Wei Yuewu smiled sweetly and picked up the corner of her skirt and walked towards the door.
Jin Ling brought over the sachet and handkerchiefs that Wei Yuewu had picked before. Then, she turned to Embroideress Yun and said in a low voice, “Come to the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang and say that you are looking for the Sixth Young Lady.”
After saying that, she took a few steps forward and opened the door for Wei Yuewu. The shop assistant had been waiting at the door. When he saw Wei Yuewu coming out, he hurriedly saluted.
“Shop assistant, the bill!” Jin Ling waved the handkerchief in her hand and said.
“Yes… I’m going to get it immediately!” The shop assistant responded and took Jin Ling to pay the bill.
Wei Yuewu stood at a window on the second floor and waited for Jin Ling to pay the bill. She looked out. In a short while, it had started to snow outside, and the snow was quite heavy. There were fewer pedestrians on the road, and a few carriages were moving carefully. At this time, the ground was wet and covered with a thin layer of snow.
Pieces of heavy snow fell from the sky. It was very beautiful!
There was snow everywhere: on the roofs, branches, and umbrellas of pedestrians. If the snow continued like this for a whole night, there would be a thick layer of snow on the ground tomorrow.
It was said that once the snow was thick, people here will shovel away the snow at the entrances to their houses and pile it up to the side, so as to prevent the snow from blocking the road and affecting their travel!
She silently took out a jade pendant from her sleeve and quietly placed it under the curtain by the window…
At this time, Embroideress Yun also walked out. Seeing Wei Yuewu standing at the window and appreciating the snow, she hesitated for a moment, but she still came over. She bowed solemnly to Wei Yuewu and gave in. “Sixth Young Lady, I will fix the embroidered screen for you. I wish you will keep your word, Sixth Young Lady!”
Wei Yuewu turned around, smiled, and nodded, “As long as Embroideress Yun can fix the embroidered screen of my mother!”
“I definitely will!” Seeing that Wei Yuewu didn’t really care about the sachet, Embroideress Yun heaved a sigh of relief and hurriedly said, observing Wei Yuewu’s expression at the same time.
“That’s good!” Wei Yuewu ignored her and turned to look out of the window.
“Yes!” Seeing that Wei Yuewu really didn’t care, Embroideress Yun finally felt relieved and retreated. It seemed that she had to go to the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang. She had to take this sachet back no matter what.
Jin Ling came back fairly quickly. It didn’t take her much time to settle the bill. The shop assistant led the two of them downstairs.
After leaving the embroidery store, Wei Yuewu saw the coachman from the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang waiting there. Seeing Wei Yuewu and Jin Ling coming out, he hurriedly drove the carriage over.
After Jin Ling helped Wei Yuewu into the carriage, the coachman raised his whip and was ready to return.
“Drive to the mansion of Duke of Jing!” Wei Yuewu instructed through the curtain.
The coachman didn’t expect Wei Yuewu to continue her trip in the snow. He couldn’t help but look back and ask, “Sixth Young Lady, are we not going back?”
“It’s still early. I want to go and take a look at the mansion of Duke of Jing. I heard that the mansion of Duke of Jing’s residence in the capital is not bad!” Wei Yuewu leaned back. Although her voice was sweet, it carried an unquestionable might.
“Yes, as you order!” Since Wei Yuewu said this, the coachman naturally couldn’t say anything. He turned the carriage around and flicked the horsewhip in his hand. The carriage slowly headed towards the mansion of Duke of Jing.
The embroidery store was not too far from the mansion of Duke of Jing. It was only two streets away.
The street was basically dotted with the mansions of aristocratic families. It was not far from the Imperial Palace. There were even people who called it Duke Street because there were several noble mansions on the street. These mansions were where dukes with fiefs lived when they were in the capital.
It was not Eldest Miss Jing’s birthday today. The entrance was very quiet and it was snowing heavily. No one would come at this time unless they had things to do. Several gatekeepers sat lazily, chatting and joking with each other. They even got some warm liquor from the kitchen and were having a good time eating and drinking.
Suddenly, they saw a carriage parked in front of the mansion. The gatekeepers were surprised. One of them stood up, put down the wine cup in his hand, and walked out to ask which mansion the carriage belonged to.
However, the carriage only stopped for a moment, and it actually started to move again. It turned around and seemed to be about to leave.
“Move. Take a shortcut back to the mansion!” Inside the carriage, Wei Yuewu’s jade-like face revealed a faint cold smile as she instructed through the curtain in a soft voice.
“Yes, Sixth Young Lady!” The coachman raised his whip, turned the carriage around, and drove away from the mansion of Duke of Jing. He was still confused. However, he had received the order. Today, no matter where the Sixth Young Lady wanted to go or what she wanted to do, he would obey the order!
The coachman was specially ordered not to alert Wei Yuewu and arouse her suspicion. However, the longer he stayed outside, the more anxious he became. At this time, he only wanted to return to the mansion early to report on his mission.
Heavy snow was now falling.
“Wait a moment!” Immediately after the carriage left the mansion of Duke of Jing when Jin Ling’s anxious voice suddenly came from the carriage.
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