Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable

Chapter 1171: Chapter 1081: Lady Chancellor 19

The villagers didn’t have to think twice to know where this family was headed. Mrs. Wang was wearing that bright golden hairpin that was quite eye-catching.

Given its exquisite design, it would cost at least eighty to a hundred taels of silver at a jewelry shop, and if the shop were to buy it, it would fetch dozens of taels of silver.

Mrs. Wang happily praised her daughter to everyone she met, saying she was skilled and she never expected her to thread such a beautiful golden hairpin.

”I said not to wear it, as we’re using money at home. We could sell these hairpins for silver and not wear them any day soon.

My daughter Shuangshuang insists otherwise, saying she can weave them anytime she wants and isn’t bothered about the one on my head.

She even said when there’s leisure time, she would personally make me a set of jewelry to wear. You all see, families like ours, where would we get to wear such jewelry?”

The women around listened enviously to Mrs. Wang boast, ”Your daughter has filial piety. She has this skill, so how can her mother’s head not wear a couple of good hairpins?”

”You really didn’t raise her in vain, nor did you waste your care for her as parents.”

The villagers all sighed in their hearts, this family’s daughter truly wasn’t loved in vain. These parents, frail and weak as they are, treat her as a treasure, initially thought to be a bottomless pit, turned out to be a golden child.

There’s no need for many hairpins, making one a month, and the family’s prosperous. What need is there for land when there’s money to spare?

Another wave of villagers started to gloat over Old Master Yin’s shallow greed for someone else’s two hundred taels of silver, forcing people down a dead end, and now they’ve turned prosperous, regretting it greatly this moment.

The villagers couldn’t afford such expensive jewelry, so their estimated pricing was somewhat low, as the hairpins made by Yin Shuangshuang were priced at least a hundred taels, selling for two hundred taels or more in this small county.

The making of these hairpins by Yin Shuangshuang took several days, and the price wasn’t low.

A total of ten hairpins, each a hundred taels, summing up to a thousand taels of silver. The shopkeeper of Treasure Pavilion paid willingly.

The designs of the hairpins made by Yin Shuangshuang were appealing, crafted quickly, others spending half a month for a similarly exquisite hairpin, but she only needed a few days.

Because of the multitude of hairpins sent by Yin Shuangshuang, the shopkeeper distributed them to other branches of Treasure Pavilion, and they sold briskly. Now other branches are writing to request more hairpins.

Carrying nine hundred silver notes, Yin Zheng walked out again, with a hundred silver in loose change for daily expenses, allocating ten taels each to Mrs. Wang, Yin Shuangshuang, and Yin An, allowing them to buy whatever they desired.

Yin An, clutching ten pieces of small silver ingots, still stunned, thought to himself, just like that, they obtained a thousand taels of silver!

Initially, Yin An thought he was out to help his second brother’s family with work, prepared to endure hardships, unexpectedly, his niece Shuangshuang so capable, in such a short time earned a thousand taels of silver. Any usury debts, interest rolling over, can be repaid.

As he thought more, a silly grin crept on Yin An’s face, expecting hardship but savoring prosperity instead, could this be what the village elders meant by lucky fools are blessed?

Indeed, being honest pays off. If his father, pooh, if Old Man Yin hadn’t been so ruthless, wouldn’t the good fortune include him? Now he’s left watching impotently.

Every time Yin An imagined the regret written all over Yin Family’s faces in future, his heart surged with delight.

After receiving silver for the first time, Yin An bought two sets of clothes for changing, initially planning on buying rough cloth but Yin Zheng advised him to choose cotton clothes, saying their family wasn’t short of money anymore, no need for coarse hemp cloth.

Ready-made clothes bought by everyone, aside from this, they bought several bolts of cloth to tailor clothes at home, finding it more cost-effective.

Yin An involuntarily touched the clothes on him, this fine cotton cloth felt so comfortable, hardly abrasive, the first time he wore clothing this comfy.

Not only Yin An, but Yin Zheng and Mrs. Wang, Yin Shuangshuang also found these clothes comfortable, with Yin Shuangshuang long accustomed against rough hemp cloth clothes, despite prolonged wear, which chafed harshly.

After clothes shopping, the family dropped by the bathhouse for a wash, found a restaurant, had a good meal, bought utensils like pots and pans, rice, oil, and secured two big slabs of meat, purchased various sweets.

Yin Zheng tasked Yin An together with Mrs. Wang and Yin Shuangshuang to watch over the purchases while he handled repaying usury loans, settling an inflated debt of three hundred taels back, just from a mere short period of two hundred taels.

The repayments made Yin Zheng ache, but to shake off the blood-sucking clan, he’d spend triple that for freedom.

Due to the vast array of items onhand, Yin Zheng hired a bull cart, and en route back, everyone had smiles on their faces.

The fully-loaded bull cart upon entry into the village caused a stir, with many villagers gathering for a look, and Yin Zheng handed out pastries to surrounding villagers.

Many in this village aided Yin Zheng, if not for sparse meals, Yin Zheng’s pastries were gifts for these helpful villagers.

Such pastries, exquisite indeed, never bought for eating beyond the New Year, and everyone holding Yin Zheng’s pastries beamed with joy.

Yin Zheng indeed a gent, prosperous yet no betrayer, with gratitude for their kindness, he was expressing thanks.

Due to the multitude of households to gift, the villagers taking the pastries didn’t stand on ceremony, directly helping Yin Zheng deliver pastries to absent revelers.

The remaining gifts designated for the village chief and Mrs. Jiang, as their assistance to Yin Zheng that many years deserved gratitude.

Mrs. Jiang, too, needless to mention, half of the eggs Yin Shuangshuang ate over the years stealthily sourced from Mrs. Zhao by her mother Mrs. Wang, other half received from Mrs. Jiang.

Yin An brought items to the shed first, Yin Zheng visited the village chief’s house, and Yin Shuangshuang with Mrs. Wang went to Mrs. Jiang’s residence.

The Jiang Family’s house next to the Yin Family’s, passing by the Yin Family meant seeing Mrs. Feng clothed in rags washing in the yard.

Mrs. Feng’s lingering gaze full of bitterness momentarily shifted to surprise seeing Mrs. Wang and Yin Shuangshuang clothed in fine cotton.

Entering the Jiang Family’s, Mrs. Jiang was home, gifts exchanged, pleasantries shared, and Mrs. Wang couldn’t stop herself from asking Mrs. Jiang curiously.

”As I passed by the yard, I saw Mrs. Feng wearing rags doing chores. What’s going on? The household has money, yet Mrs. Feng’s day-to-day seemed harder?”

Listening to Mrs. Wang’s query, Mrs. Jiang’s face gleamed vindictively, ”She’s facing retribution. Let me tell you, there’s been a great scandal in that household.”