Chapter 100: The Big Brother Calculation

Chapter 100

Jiang Sheng wanted to eat candied haws, even though she had just eaten some not long ago. But her eldest brother Xu Mo felt that eating too many candied haws would rot her teeth, so he forbid her from eating them frequently.

With no other choice, even though Jiang Miss had lots of money given to her by her third brother, she still listened to her eldest brother the most. She could only drool when seeing the candied haws.

If possible, she hoped the candied haws could be more sensible and fall into her mouth when she opened it.

Unfortunately, the candied haws were never that sensible.

The carriage sped by, and the red and juicy fruits just brushed past her. Jiang Sheng sucked in her drool and sat back in the carriage, only to find all five of her brothers staring at her meaningfully.

Oh my, that was five pairs of big eyes, all looking at her meaningfully. If Jiang Sheng was not so bold, she probably would have pissed her pants in fear.

Before she could angrily ask what they were doing, eldest brother Xu Mo spoke first, "Little Jiang Sheng, do you want to eat candied haws?"

Of course she wanted to, she dreamed about them all the time.

Jiang Sheng grinned widely, but the wariness cultivated since young made her quickly hide her smile and look at Xu Mo cautiously.

As the old saying goes, strange things happening means there must be a sinister plot. Big brother himself does not allow her to eat candied haws frequently, and now he brought up candied haws on his own initiative, he must be up to something fishy.

Another old saying goes, deal with the unexpected by staying the same.

So little Jiang Sheng pursed her lips and stared back at him with eyes as bright as candles.

For a moment, the six pairs of big eyes in the carriage engaged in a staring contest, no one blinking.

After a while, Zheng Ruqian could not take it anymore. He rubbed his temples and yelled, "What are you all doing, having a staring contest like turtles and green beans?"

Wen Zhiyun let out a light sigh, blinked his eyelids, feeling like tears were about to spill out.

Fang Heng and Chang Yan also lowered their heads, gently massaging their eyes.

Only Xu Mo kept staring steadily at Jiang Sheng. After a long while, he let out a sigh, "I feel this is not good, Jiang Sheng is too young after all."

After he spoke, he lowered his gaze.

Now Jiang Sheng was curious. She grabbed her heart and looked at Xu Mo, "What's wrong with big brother? Did something happen?"

Could it be he wanted to give her more money? That's fine, no matter how much he gave, she could hold it. She just needed to exchange it for silver notes.

Jiang Sheng was very pleased with herself and grinned widely.

But unexpectedly, Xu Mo shook his head again, "No, you can't do it."

But she only had so few clothes. They sorted through them again and again, but could not pick out a single good, presentable one.

Zhang Xianglian regretted, "I've been so busy making preserved meat these days, I forgot to make a couple sets of clothes for little Jiang Sheng."

But it was too late to make them now.

They could only reluctantly pick out a moon white cotton skirt, paired with a snow green cotton long jacket. Tie two little braids hanging past her ears, along with Jiang Sheng's round little face, at first glance she looked like a clean and lovable little girl.

When it came to accessories, Jiang Sheng was even more destitute. Forget gold and silver jewelry, she didn't even have a flower hair tie.

Auntie Zhang didn't have any either. She could only pin a little wild flower on Jiang Sheng, and said gently, "Our little Jiang Sheng is like a wild flower, lively and vibrant, no one can extinguish her."

The metaphor was great, Jiang Sheng happily nodded again and again.

When she finished dressing up and jumped in front of her brothers, the little girl even pulled at her skirt and spun around, "Do I look pretty?"

"Pretty." The brothers with no sense of aesthetics all nodded.

Only Wen Zhiyun's eyebrows knitted slightly, feeling his little sister's head was too plain.

"Then I'm going out now." After showing off, Jiang Sheng bounced and skipped outside.

Fang Heng put on a cone hat, and brought Jiang San and Jiang Si to follow far behind her, watching as she walked out of Hairpin Courtyard, watching as she approached Yuzhen Store.

The original plan of the brothers was to have Jiang Sheng wait at the entrance for Qiao Yuhe, either pretending to bump into her or asking her for help, to avoid other troubles appearing inside Yuzhen Store.

But plans could not keep up with changes. Jiang Sheng had just arrived when she saw Qiao Yuhe leading some servant girls into Yuzhen Store.

With no other choice, Jiang Sheng could only follow inside.

But she was stopped at the entrance.

The one blocking her way was a woman. Her brows and eyes looked rather kind. "Which family's servant girl? Do you have a reservation?"

Jiang Sheng was startled, only then realizing that because of her plain clothing, she had been mistaken for a servant girl here to fetch clothes.

She intended to smoothly make up an identity, but also afraid of being found out, so she obediently said, "I'm from the Jiang family."

Jiang Sheng, Jiang family, it matched seamlessly.

She was feeling pleased with herself, when the woman at the door heard it as "Jiang family", and quickly opened the door, "Miss, please come in."

She also loudly called out, "Third young miss from the Jiang family is here to fetch clothes."