Chapter 252 (2/2)
”No need, go back to your room to rest first. That way, it'll be more convenient to treat your injuries too.”
Still smiling, Nie Chenyu stood up. But her legs wobbled, and she needed a group of servant girls to support her as they put on her clothes for her and brought her back to her Luoyan Courtyard.
It could only be said that she didn't know how to conduct herself. She had borrowed the marquis's favor for Wen Wan to be favored herself, so she should be behaving more low-key. Wen Wan felt very angered just by looking at Nie Chenyu's overly conspicuous smile.
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However, after this one night, it seemed as if Marquis Moyu had changed his taste. He didn't go Qiangwei Courtyard again. Every time he pa.s.sed by Qiangwei Courtyard, he would head straight to Luoyan Courtyard.
It seemed that Nie Chenyu was being quite favored. Although she was still just a concubine, the marquis went over to her place every day when he had time. Even on nights where he didn't stay over, he would go there to eat dinner with her.
As a result, the servants in the marquis's estate acted pragmatically and their treatment of Nie Chenyu was on par with the treatment of a main wife's. Nie Chenyu's spoke with much more confidence.
When Ji Man brought over this month's material for fabric for each courtyard, Nie Chenyu said with a disdainful expression, ”This material is worse that what the servants wear in Nie Residence. Madam, can't you do a better job with selecting? Young sister is someone that has to see the marquis every day.”
Ji Man smiled. ”These are the rules and standards of this estate. It's a little too excessive to say this is worse than what Nie Residence's servant girls wear. Most people can't afford to wear silk fabric.”
Nie Chenyu lightly harrumphed. She looked at her in askance, ”Madam, are you feeling jealous of Chenyu?”
Utterly baffled, Ji Man asked, ”What's there to be jealous about?”
”Don't you feel resentful that the marquis favors me so much?” Nie Chenyu giggled. She picked up the silk fabric on the table and said, ”If you don't resent me, then you wouldn't send over this type of silk fabric. You're doing this so that I won't have beautiful clothing to wear in front of the marquis.”
In a person's life, you're bound to meet a couple of idiots. It would be a waste of your saliva to argue with them.
Ji Man smiled as she shook her head and said, ”If you aren't satisfied with this, then go to the storehouse with money to pick out the fabric that you want. Steward Qian manages the storehouse. You can take whatever you want, but you have to pay the original cost. Otherwise, there would be anarchy if everyone complained and insisted on having the best.”
Nie Chenyu definitely wasn't lacking in money. Not even mentioning the other items, just counting the gold bars, she had a box full of them from the dowry that her mother had secretly prepared. It was just that most people didn't know about it. Nie Sangyu thought that she didn't have money? Nie Chenyu sneered.
That afternoon, she brought money to the storehouse and exchanged it for a large pile of fabric.
Taking the money, Steward Qian didn't say any extra words. Although Nie Chenyu had taken the most expensive type of fabrics, she had given enough money for them.
However, after the fabric was made into clothing and Nie Chenyu ostentatiously paraded herself in them, a problem arrived.
There should be a difference in treatment between superiors and inferiors. So, wasn't it a bit improper for an ordinary concubine to dress like a main wife?
The people that saw Nie Chenyu silently grumbled this, but since she was favored by the marquis and also the main wife's younger sister, no one dare to say these thoughts aloud.
Translator Ramblings: It feels more like they're competing for his body. Oh Ning Yuxuan, you're like a piece of commodity that's being traded among your harem members. Too bad for Wen Wan that she never learns for long that Ning Yuxuan hates it when she does something like this.