Xu Feng was soon to be the young mistress of the Xuan family, and he wanted to uphold the status of the family from afar. He wasn't expecting to show a young mistress's temperament so soon, but a certain salesperson came to test his patience.
As soon as the man assessed Xu Feng, he looked over at the other three that came with Xu Feng, and a look of utter disdain crossed his face. The look showed his disgust at 'such' people entering his store.
It was a quick glance, but it wasn't fast or sly enough to avoid Xu Feng's sight. His eyebrows wrinkled in disgust before he smoothed out his face and lifted his chest.
The coldness in Xu Feng's voice made Si, San, and Erlang look at their mistress with shock for the first time, "Show me the most expensive items you have in this small town."
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"Young mistress…" San trailed, off still in awe, as the four sat comfortably inside a small tea house.
It wasn't the nicest tea house in the town, and with all the teals of silver Xu Feng had gotten that morning, they could afford a nicer place. Either way, this was the nicest place the three had ever eaten at.
But that wasn't what had San in awe, it was their young mistress, Xu Feng. First, he turned into a real young mistress with a temper and demanded to see all the expensive goods in the store.
He completely disregarded the store clerk and accused him of trying to cheat him with cheap goods. While Si didn't notice the store clerks disdain the sharper San and older Erlang knew they were being looked down on.
This wasn't something new to them.
At the time, the young servants thought their young mistress had shown his true colors, from a smiling Buddha to a disdainful rich miss. But now they knew it was all an act to get back their honor.
Xu Feng had whiplashed the store clerk with the most refined words, making it impossible for him to rebuke their young mistress. Then finally, the store owner needed to be called when Xu Feng upped his fake distress.
When the store manager hurried to the cloth store, Xu Feng quoted the prices given by the flustered store clerk, who took him as a big sheep. In the end, instead of making a sale, the store owner who came with the store manager saw the goods Xu Feng came with and bought the entire four baskets worth of goods.
After going to a back room with both the store manager and store owner, Xu Feng and his group left with empty back baskets and a heavy coin purse or two.
"The young mistress is powerful," Si said as Erlang nodded.
Xu Feng laughed as his dimples softened his face even further. From the icy young mistress to the normal bright young mistress.
"Yes, and you are this young mistress's people, no one can look down on you when I'm around."
The three servants looked at their young mistress, it had only been under a month since they met Xu Feng, but their lives had only gotten better.
They got more food, and the two aunties, Auntie Lan and Auntie Lifen, didn't take the good things from their food anymore.
Life was better with a young mistress.
"Let's eat." Xu Feng called out to the three children. Although Erlang was 15 years old and only a year younger than his current body, Xu Feng was really three to four years older than the boy.
At that call, a big bowl of wonton was placed in front of each of them. The auntie even put an extra few wontons in Xu Feng's bowl. Seeing the bonus treatment, Xu Feng's dimples once again made an appearance.
"Thank you, Auntie."
"Yes, yes," the auntie's face reddened as she looked into the eyes of the silver-haired beauty, "Eat well, you are too thin!"
*Ahem
The uncle of the wonton shop cleared his throat loudly before the auntie went away, leaving the four to eat their ravioli.
After walking and spending so much time in the cloth shop, the food they ate in the ox cart had already been digested. Xu Feng was starving so the other three who lifted things all morning should be hungry too.
Xu Feng chose this stall because of the scent he smelled from a distance, which made him greedy for good food. The full raviolis were floating in a crowd, with some green onions and drops of sesame oil sprinkled on them. The fragrant smell increased one's appetite.
After taking a single bite, Xu Feng felt the good taste fill his mouth. The skin was thick and the meat was abundant. The portion was also fairly large, the only thing missing was some hot sauce or chili sauce.
Xu Feng hadn't eaten Homestyle wontons cooked with a wood fire since he was a little boy and visited his grandma in the countryside.
Unlike many modern noodle dishes that were sprinkled with chicken essence and MSG, this wonton filling was the original pork filling. It was beyond delicious.
"Is it delicious?" Xu Feng watched the three little greedy goblins eating wontons. He added a wonton to each of their bowls. They had worked hard that morning, and they rarely ate meat in Nanshan estate after Lady Xuan left.
Even the betrothal gifts barely had much meat, dried or fresh.
Si nodded her head with no shame and continued scarfing down wontons as Erlang and San blushed but didn't pause their chopsticks.
'These children are probably considered well-fed in this era.' The thought saddened Xu Feng. He would need to make sure these good kids were well taken care of.
He now had a small fortune, 320 taels of silver from the sale of high-quality cloth and a few lower-mid quality jewelry. Both were rare in Yilin town.
Xu Feng wasn't planning on using this money frivolously, like the renovation money. This money was his and he didn't need to send the excess he couldn't spend back to Lady Xuan.