Rebirth of an Abandoned Woman

"Auntie, where are we going?" the coachman asked with a smile.

Shi Yumei cast a sidelong glance at Sang Wan, and said, "You better ask your grandma! Your grandma is the serious owner of the Shi Mansion! You are so ignorant, you don't even know the rules, so you are not afraid to turn your head around. Grandma will take the lead in eating for you!"

"I've never been to Qingzhou City, and I don't have anything to buy, just listen to the elder sister!" Sang Wan smiled slightly, and pushed back neither softly nor hard.

"I don't even have any objections, I just listen to the eldest sister!" Shi Lian also hurriedly expressed her opinion with a smile. She was the one who dared not offend the elder sister the most, because in case the elder sister had a rift and said something in front of her mother, she didn't even have anyone to help her tell the difference! If it wasn't for Sang Wan's face and affection, and knowing what she meant by inviting her, Shi Lian would never have come out.

Shi Lian made up her mind to just act as a foil obediently today, and refused to say a word.

"Go to Guanghe Street in the east of the city, I want to go there to see the jewelry!" Shi Yumei ordered.

"Yes, great aunt!" The coachman agreed in a crisp voice, whipped his whip, the wheels rolled, and drove lightly in the direction of Guanghe Avenue.

This street is famous for its gold and silver shops and rouge and gouache street. There are rows of large and small shops on both sides of the wide and straight avenue.

Shi Yumei lightly raised the corner of the car curtain and looked out. She was overjoyed and sighed softly: "It's still as lively as before, it hasn't changed at all! Oh no, it's much more lively than before. Many shops seem to be busier than before. Not at all! Look at these facades, tsk tsk, it’s really not easy to compare with other places!"

Shi Yumei's voice fell behind, and there was complete silence, neither Sang Wan nor Shi Lian answered.

Sang Wan treats her at a respectful distance, and just endures being ridiculed and ridiculed every day, but she has no obligation to curry favor with her; Shi Lian doesn't want to cause trouble, so she doesn't open her mouth.

The scene was a little awkward for a moment. Sang Wan and Shi Lian looked at each other subconsciously, and they both saw helplessness in each other's eyes.

Shi Lian hurriedly smiled dryly, and said, "Elder Sister is talking about..."

Although Sang Wan and Shi Lian did not communicate directly, the tacit understanding between the two of them still fell into Shi Yumei's eyes. Thinking of the relationship between the two of them on weekdays, and neither of them can be regarded as a good relationship. Good morning, Shi Yumei suddenly felt a sense of loss and emptiness in her heart for no reason. A feeling that I am an outsider and out of tune with others arises spontaneously.

How could Shi Yumei bear this? Feeling sore in her heart, she snorted coldly and said aggressively to Shi Lian: "What did I say? What did I say? What was it? Unexpectedly, Sanmei is quite familiar with the market outside!"

"Elder sister... Elder sister was joking... This is the third time I've gone out shopping at this age, how can I understand..." Shi Lian panicked, forced to laugh along.

"Don't agree with me if you don't understand! Do you know what I'm talking about? Pretentious!" Shi Yumei gave her an angry look, and even mocked Sang Wan, "Our Shi family has always been sincere, don't have nothing to do with that He learned duplicity!"

Shi Lian's face turned red, she lowered her head and dared not speak any more, she subconsciously glanced at Sang Wan with grievance.

Sang Wan had no idea what Shi Yumei said at all, she just took herself as a supervisor, and said with a faint smile: "This area is quite lively, do you want to go down and have a look?"

"Don't go!" Seeing Sang Wan's nonchalant expression, Shi Yumei became very angry, raised her voice and said angrily, "Hurry up! Stop at Qiongfang Pavilion!"

"Qiongfang Pavilion... isn't that at Xinghuafang in the south of the city—" the coachman was startled.

"Yes! I'm going there! What's the matter?" Shi Yumei was even more annoyed.

"Yes, yes, let's go, let's go!" The coachman cursed himself for being talkative, and hurriedly drove the carriage. Aunt Xindao can go wherever she says, even if she wants to drive a car around Qingzhou City by herself, she can only obey orders, even the eldest grandma doesn't care about her, so she deserves to be scolded for talking too much!

Sang Wan and Shi Lian naturally have no objection, anyway, shopping is not their idea, nor their purpose, Shi Yumei can do whatever she likes! As long as this day passes peacefully, everyone will be happy.

Qiongfang Pavilion is a well-known silver building in the city, specializing in the business of high-end jewelry. It was opened by a Fujian businessman more than ten years ago, and now the whole family of the Fujian businessman has taken root in Qingzhou. This bank has been operating steadily and steadily. Although it is very low-key, it belongs to the type of making a fortune in silence. It has a good reputation in the upper class of Qingzhou, and it earns more than one hundred thousand taels of silver every year.

"Hey, isn't this Miss Shi! Please, please! You are a rare visitor, I haven't seen you for a long time! These two ladies and young ladies are—"

When the shopkeeper saw Shi Yumei, she hurriedly smiled and greeted her personally, but he didn't know Sang Wan and Shi Lian.

"I didn't come here twice in total. Shopkeeper Sun, you still remember me, you are really good at remembering me!" Shi Yumei was a little happier now, with a smile on her face.

Although married for many years, her natal family doted on her and never regarded her as an outsider. Shi Yumei herself has a carefree personality, let alone treating herself as an outsider. Hearing someone call herself "Miss Shi" feels very happy!

"Look at what you said! Who in this city of Qingzhou doesn't know you, Miss Shi! Even if I met you once, I can't forget it!" Shopkeeper Sun smiled, and while talking, invited the three of them to the inner hall, and told the staff Make the best tea.

"Oh, Shopkeeper Sun, you are too polite!" Shi Yumei laughed.

"This old man is telling the truth, so Miss Shi laughed at me!" Shopkeeper Sun echoed with a smile, but looked at Shi Yumei suspiciously, motioning for her to introduce Sang Wan and Shi Lian.

After sitting down and serving tea, Shi Yumei glanced at Sang Wan unobtrusively, winked at Shopkeeper Sun and smiled slyly, half-seriously and half-jokingly: "This time I really want to test Shopkeeper Sun's eyes. Now, can you guess who these two distinguished guests are?"

Shi Lian is dressed as an unmarried girl, although she is well dressed, her expression inadvertently reveals a little respect, her eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to Shi Yumei, she is expected to be a concubine who is not very favored in Shi's mansion. The reason shopkeeper Sun dared to conclude that she was an unfavorable concubine was because she had never met Shi Lian. If it was favored, wouldn't the lady of the Shi family not take it with her when she went out?

But the other young woman who wore her wife's hair in a bun, had a calm and graceful brow, and her gestures and gestures had a self-contained temperament that made people dare not be contemptuous. Although Yumei greeted her and snubbed her when she came in, she didn't show any embarrassment or concern, she was always calm and gentle, amiable.

Shopkeeper Sun narrowed his eyes, and said with a smile: "Miss Shi thinks so highly of me that I want to take the exam, I can't help but join in the fun! Hehe", he bowed to Sang Wan with a smile, and said with a smile: "If The old man guessed wrong, please forgive this lady, it’s just a joke! You are——Grandma Shi?”

"Shopkeeper Sun, good eyesight, she is our grandma!" Xingzhi smiled slightly and said softly.

"Oh! Honored guest, honored guest! I don't know if it's the grandma, but I ask grandma to forgive me for being rude!" Shopkeeper Sun said with a sincere smile.

Sang Wan smiled slightly, and was about to answer, but Shi Yumei rushed to laugh and said: "Shopkeeper Sun, you are too polite, my sister-in-law is the most genial, how can I argue with you!"

"Hehe, that is, that is!" Shopkeeper Sun glanced at Shi Lian again and said with a smile, "Then this should be the young lady of the family?"

"This is my third sister!" Shi Yumei said with an impatient smile, "I said shopkeeper Sun, do you have any good things, take them out quickly, and do what you can with useless things!"

"Hehe, yes, yes, I'll take it, I'll take it! This old man is overjoyed, don't blame the grandma and the two young ladies!" Shopkeeper Sun smiled, glanced at him, and asked attentively: " I don't know what the eldest grandma and the two young ladies want to see?"

"Bring something good! You'll know only after you've seen it!" Shi Yumei said.

"The old man is confused! Look at the question!" Shopkeeper Sun slapped his mouth with a smile, and went to open the key himself to bring the treasure of the store.

Shopkeeper Sun brought in three sets of fine jewelry with a complete range of items and several individual pieces of good things, and presented them on four trays with red velvet bottoms.

A set named "Drunken Hibiscus", chiseled in red gold, matched with red sapphires and emeralds, the main piece is a hibiscus crown pinched with gold silk and eight treasures, the gold is pure and exquisitely carved, and the gemstones of various colors are not only large but also of excellent color. Soft and radiant, without a trace of impurities; a set called "Lantian Pearl", which is a gold placenta dotted with emerald cordyceps jewelry, the main piece is a phoenix-headed flower tin with outstretched wings and a dripping bead, using twelve top-quality pearls the size of longan , thirty-six rice beads, of which the eyeball of the phoenix head is a natural black pearl almost as big as a thumb. Emerald is inlaid with pink, scarlet, pomegranate red, and begonia red flowers polished by various red gemstones. The red flowers and green leaves are eye-catching and eye-catching.

On the other plate are emerald eighteen-child bracelets, jasper exquisite hairpins, white jade peacock hairpins, red coral agate pendants, green emerald water drop pendants, etc., all of which are of high quality and exquisite workmanship. good stuff.

"You really have some good things! Qiongfang Pavilion is still so confident and well-deserved of its reputation!" Shi Yumei smiled and praised while listening to shopkeeper Sun's eloquent explanation.

"Hehe, where is it! It's just a meal, how can it compare with Shi's family! The two young ladies and grandma are just trying to make something new! If you say that the best jewelry in Qingzhou City, of course it is in Liuli Pavilion Already!"

Liuli Pavilion is the property of the Shi family, and there are thirteen branches in the entire Jiangnan area.

"Shopkeeper Sun is too modest!" Shi Yumei praised, "Not to mention anything else, Liuli Pavilion may not be able to produce these three sets of jewelry alone!"

"Hehe, it's an honor for Miss to say that to me! Is Miss still satisfied?" Shopkeeper Sun asked hurriedly.

When Shi Yumei heard the words, she smiled at Sang Wan: "Sister-in-law, what do you think? How about these three sets?"