Chapter 42 - Todays Incident Could Only Be Explained by "Coincidence" (1/2)

Chapter 42 Today’s Incident Could Only Be Explained by “Coincidence”

Of course, Lady Li and Wei Yan had planned to trick her into wearing this dress in order to embarrass her when she made her debut in the circle of aristocratic young ladies in the capital. They would even bring her into further humiliation. In that case, why not let them be self-satisfied with their plan first? She would certainly take the dress with her.

“Huamo, go out and see if there’re dresses of this kind of color. It doesn’t matter if they’re slightly different. It’ll be fine as long as they are similar to this dress. Of course, it’s even better to have an exactly same one.” Wei Yuewu instructed Huamo. Among her maids, Huamo was most good at sewing and knew materials of cloth very well. Thus, Huamo was the best person for this task.

“Okay, I will go shortly.” Understanding that their mistress had her plan, the maids let out a sigh of relief, and Huamo hurriedly nodded in agreement.

“Wait, let’s go out together.” After thinking for a moment, Wei Yuewu suddenly stopped Huamo and stood up. This kind of material was not something that could be found in ordinary shops. If she remembered correctly, her granny once said that they had a clothing shop in the capital that sold high-end ready-made dresses like this one.

She could take the opportunity to stop by and take a look at it.

Granny was afraid that she would run short of money in her early days in the capital and was thus in difficulties when she wanted to buy anything. Therefore, granny specially told her about this store called the “Brocade Clothing Shop,” so that she could go there to withdraw some silver whenever she needed it.

The “Brocade Clothing Shop” provided not only cloth but also ready-to-wear dresses. It was one of the several large shops that sold ready-made dresses in the capital.

Wei Yuewu asked Jin Ling to tell the Madam Dowager that she wanted to go out and pick some rouge for her own use. Considering she had come to the capital only days ago, it would be better for her to choose personal items such as rouge and face powder by herself.

The mansion of Marquis Hua Yang could be considered an aristocratic family of military generals, so the young ladies were not as strictly restricted from going out as those from pedantic noble families. It was therefore not a problem for Wei Yuewu to go shopping in the street.

The Madam Dowager naturally gave Wei Yuewu permission and asked an old maidservant to give Wei Yuewu her monthly allowance.

The young ladies of the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang had twenty taels of silver as their allowance each month.

Looking at the money pouch in Jin Ling’s hand, Wei Yuewu revealed a trace of mockery in her eyes. The Madam Dowager seemed very considerate for her in specially ordering someone to send her the silver taels when knowing that she wanted to go out. In fact, the Madam Dowager was still somewhat stingy. She had been living at her granny’s house for so many years.

Never had she received any money from the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang. Now she was back in the mansion, it was absolutely reasonable that the Madam Dowager should give her the total amount of monthly allowance of the past ten more years. Now what? When the old maidservant sent over the allowance, she repeatedly said that all the other young ladies received their allowance only at the end of the month and that Wei Yuewu could get hers now because the Madam Dowager took special care of her.

Compared to granny, the Madam Dowager really didn’t seem to be her biological grandmother. She was just unable to get a feeling of intimacy to this grandmother. Moreover, Wei Yuewu sensed that while she was secretly studying her grandmother, her grandmother was examining her from time to time as well.

Furthermore, the Madam Dowager was even kind of on guard against her. Was this supposed to be a grandmother’s attitude towards her granddaughter?

The Madam Dowager had some secrets; and moreover, they were related to her.

This was her first time going to the street, and Wei Yuewu left Jin Ling alone at the courtyard. With Jin Ling there, even if Lady Li and Wei Yan wanted to cause any trouble, they would most likely not prevail.

Huamo and Shufei followed Wei Yuewu out of the mansion. The “Brocade Clothing Shop” was famous. The coachman nodded to show that he knew the place when he heard the name. He pulled the carriage and drove it nimbly forward.

But shortly after, the carriage surprisingly stopped.

“What’s wrong?” Huamo asked.

“Miss Huamo, the road ahead seems to be blocked.” The coachman answered from outside of the curtain. He then muttered to himself in a low voice, “This is the main street. How strange it is that we can get stuck here.”

Wei Yuewu could not help sighing that the main street should be jammed too. She didn’t expect that streets in the capital could actually be so crowded.

“Miss, I’ll get off and take a look.” Shufei had such sensitive ears that she immediately caught the noise ahead that was louder than usual. She judged that something was going on there.

“Alright.” Wei Yuewu nodded. The carriage was stuck here right now. They couldn’t stay there doing nothing with the carriage being unable to move neither forward or backward.

Shufei lifted the curtain and pushed open the door to get off, when the carriage shook violently all of a sudden. She screamed out of fright. Wei Yuewu hurriedly stretched out her hand and grabbed Shufei to stabilize her body.

“Get out of the way, get out of the way.” Someone shouted, and the crowd was pushed hither.

The carriage Wei Yuewu rode stopped at the side of the road. Now being squeezed by the crowd, half of one of the wheels was surprisingly pushed towards the river.

“Sixth Young Lady, please get out of the carriage. The carriage is going to be pushed into the river.” The coachman said anxiously to Wei Yuewu through the curtain when he saw the situation was getting worse.