Chapter 46 - Everybody Loved That Dress, Go Get It (1/2)

Chapter 46 Everybody Loved That Dress, Go Get It

“Yes, just dye it this way. I’ll ask Huamo to fetch the dress early in the morning the day after tomorrow. However, if someone else vies to have the dress that day, you can sell it to them too.” Wei Yuewu blinked her long eyelids. She stood up and uttered those words meaningfully with a smile.

“Then do you want the dress to be smaller, Mistress Cousin?” The shopkeeper looked at Wei Yuewu and asked.

The dress obviously didn’t fit Wei Yuewu. Ready-to-wear dresses often fit the general body shape. As Wei Yuewu hadn’t grown up yet, her figure was a bit smaller for the dress, and the lower hem would even be on the ground when she wore the dress…

“No need for that. It’s fine to me.” Wei Yuewu shook her hand.

The shopkeeper was really puzzled about Wei Yuewu’s intentions. However, observing that Wei Yuewu acted like an adult despite of her young age, he somehow agreed. He immediately asked a worker to dye the dress and finish the job the next day so that Huamo could see the new dress tomorrow.

By now Wei Yuewu had gotten back into her carriage. She took away a dress that looked similar but was actually different upon close inspection. The carriage was slowly driven towards the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang. Yan Huaijing hadn’t forced her to go along with him. Since he had left with his servants, Wei Yuewu was able to get on her carriage without being surrounded and watched by passers-by.

After that, she went to a pharmacy and bought some medicinal ingredients. She was going to make some medicinal powder by herself!

After entering the gate, the carriage stopped at the parking place of the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang. The two maids followed behind Wei Yuewu, looking very excited.

“Miss, that scarlet dress is really beautiful. It looks really nice on you. You’re the first daughter of the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang. Who else in the mansion deserves to wear such a dress except you?” Shufei persuaded with a smile.

“That’s right, Miss. That dress is truly beautiful. It’s even prettier than the one the Madam Dowager made for you. If you wear a dress like that to the banquet, you will definitely impress all the people with your beauty.” Huamo also took a few quick steps forward and chimed in, nodding her head vigorously.

“But grandmother…” Wei Yuewu looked like she was in a dilemma.

“Miss, it doesn’t matter. You just need to bring along the dress the Madam Dowager asked you to wear. You can wear that beautiful set first and bring with you the set made by the Madam Dowager. In this way, you are also obeying the Madam Dowager’s wish.” Huamo came up with such an idea.

It was a custom of aristocratic young ladies to take a spare set of dress with them when they went out to a banquet, in case they would encounter accidents at the banquet and had to change their clothes.

“Is that appropriate?” Wei Yuewu was still hesitant, but she looked inclined to agree.

“Yes, absolutely, miss. I heard that the other young ladies would also go to the banquet. This is your first time attending such a banquet. You must outshine all the other young ladies. And you will definitely look extremely glamorous in that dress.” Shufei took special care to look around when she said those words…

It seemed as if she didn’t want to be overheard by anyone else. However, they were walking along the main road to the backyard and it was really not a place where her words would be neglected by others. Especially when Shufei mentioned “the other young ladies,” a few maids who were passing by slowed down their paces.

“Miss, if you wear that dress, you will at least be more beautiful than the Second Young Lady.” Huamo was even more straightforward. Seeing that Wei Yuewu didn’t agree in a while, she went straight to the most effective point. “If you appear in front of people in that dress, Marquis Jing Yuan must bitterly regret what he had done.”

Nobody knew whether it was because Wei Yuewu wanted to be prettier than Wei Yan or because she wanted to make Mo Huating regret. Finally, she nodded her agreement after thinking for a while, saying softly, “Alright. Huamo, you go and buy that dress for me in the morning the day after tomorrow. Be sure to go there earlier.”

“Yes, Miss. Don’t worry, I won’t have a moment of delay.”

The banquet was on the very day after tomorrow. So Wei Yuewu would put on that dress as soon as she had it and wouldn’t even compare that dress with other ones. It was obvious how much she loved that set of dress or how beautiful that dress was in her eyes.

Therefore, when those words reached Wei Yan’s ears through some maid, Wei Yan immediately exploded with anger. Prettier than me? She even wanted to make Mo Huating regret? Where did that little bitch get such confidence to say those words? Wei Yan threw away the Buddhist scripture she had been transcribing and was about to look for Wei Yuewu. However, she was tightly seized by her nanny and Shuiyue beside her.

‘”Second Young Lady, you can’t get involved in any trouble now. The Madam Dowager has become more lenient by now, but if you cause trouble again at this time, it’ll be really impossible for you to go to the banquet. And you will be at a disadvantage again if the Sixth Young Lady says something bad about you before the Madam Dowager.” The nanny, whose surname was Xu, tugged at Wei Yan’s sleeve for fear that Wei Yan would rush out recklessly.

The nanny knew Wei Yan’s temperament very well, so she used those words that would be most persuasive. “Second Young Lady, just think about it. If the Sixth Young Lady goes to the banquet this time but you don’t show up, you will be in real trouble if some new rumors about you and Marquis Jing Yuan are spread. So you must suppress your anger right now. You must go with the Sixth Young Lady together that day. The Sixth Young Lady won’t dare to speak nonsense when you’re there too.”

Nanny Xu tried her best to persuade Wei Yan.

“What does that little bitch have to compare with me?” Although Wei Yan was persuaded, she still uttered those hateful words. She had always been conceited about her appearance and was widely acknowledged as a beauty in the capital. How could she swallow her wrath when she heard that skinny little girl claimed to be more beautiful than her?

Her eyes lit up and a crucial idea suddenly struck her. “Nanny Xu, you ask someone to follow Wei Yuewu’s maid in the morning the day after tomorrow. You must get that dress before her maid buys it. It doesn’t matter if the dress gets broken when you snatch it away. That little bitch actually wants to steal the limelight from me. There is no way for her to think about it!”