Unlimited Resources: Raising a Minister with a Space Supermarket-Chapter 412 - 383: No Need to Force Connections

Sun Dalin’s wife didn’t quite understand her husband’s father’s actions, "Dad is really something, siding with outsiders. We have leverage over Li Wenyuan, and if we don’t extort him properly, we’ll all..."

"What do you know, you woman? What do you understand? And what leverage do you have over Li Wenyuan? Has he done anything against heaven and morality?" Sun Dalin was rather indignant.

In his opinion, the blame lies with his daughter. Why tear up those two pieces of paper for no reason? Isn’t that just asking for trouble?

Sun Manyu sneered with disdain, "Dad, you and Grandpa are just too timid!"

Sun Dalin instantly blew up in anger, "Your grandpa said it’s better to leave a way out for yourself, where both sides are good. Get out, don’t let me see you, seeing you makes me angry!"

Sun Manyu didn’t leave, instead, she sat down by the bed, "All the other rooms are packed, only you and mom have room here. If you chase me out, I have nowhere to sleep!"

Besides, none of her sisters-in-law are fond of her.

Sun Dalin’s wife pulled Sun Manyu up, "Did you search through that camphor wood box? Is that bag of silver wrapped in clothes? You and mom should search again!"

"Mom, I’ve just searched everywhere, really there’s nothing..."

Sun Manyu saw her mom frantically winking at her, and held back her words, "Should we go search again?"

Li took Sun Manyu straight toward the courtyard, walked to the wooden box, saw some kids circling around, climbing up and down playing, and angrily chased them away, pulling Sun Manyu to pretend to rummage through the box.

Li said quietly as she rummaged through Sun Manyu’s clothes, "Manyu, in the three years you’ve been married, your father has changed a lot. You mustn’t speak to him like you used to, if you anger him, he might hit you."

Sun Manyu didn’t marry far, just to the neighboring Xinghua Village, so she had somewhat noticed her father becoming tougher than before. When she was living with the Li Family, she felt that even if her father’s temper became volatile, it had little to do with her, but now it’s different. She might have to stay at her parents’ house for quite some time.

"Mom, does that mean we both have to live by dad’s whims in the future?"

"Which woman doesn’t live by a man’s whims? We can’t be exceptions." Li helplessly said, "You don’t know, now your dad has a good reputation in the village. Many people in the village want to work at the Yu Family, and they ask your dad for help."

"Hmph, they’re just taking advantage of my dad being honest." Honest people are easy to talk to!

"The most annoying is that widow Lu under the big Chinese scholartree at the east end of the village. She often tries to seduce your dad, though your dad doesn’t pay her much attention, it still makes me infuriated."

That widow Lu is Jiang Dingcai’s mother-in-law, Lu’s elder mother.

The widow Lu isn’t young anymore, not much younger than Li, looks quite average, but her reputation in the village isn’t good, and the women of the village forbid their husbands from associating with the widow Lu.

The widow Lu saw Sun Dalin as honest and tried to coax some silver from him, but Sun Dalin didn’t think of her at all.

The widow Lu deliberately dropped a load of water near Sun Dalin, and he just walked past like he didn’t see it.

The widow Lu said her ducks were missing and asked Sun Dalin to help find them, he replied, ’How should I know where your ducks went? I tell you, I didn’t steal them!’

The widow Lu didn’t give up, often "accidentally" meeting Sun Dalin in various fields, either getting stuck in mud pits or tripping in furrows. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Yet everyone understood what was going on, except Sun Dalin. Stuck in mud pits? Tripped? Twisted an ankle? What does that have to do with him?

In Sun Dalin’s eyes, the widow Lu is a meddlesome person, and he only sees her as annoying, not captivating.

But as the saying goes, you can’t breach an unwavered wall, but men can be. So Li is still quite afraid that one day Sun Dalin might genuinely fall for the widow Lu, since she hasn’t given up yet.

Sun Manyu said, "Mom, don’t be upset. I’ll help you vent your anger in a few days!"

"Ah!" A daughter’s still the best, she complained to those daughters-in-law but they acted like they didn’t hear!

Yu Xiaolian was in a room on the third floor of Zhenpin Pavilion, looking at a book with stories that Su Jingchen had recently gotten for her, when Zhao Erya knocked and came in.

"Lian’er, someone downstairs wants that Granny’s perfume, it seems to be from Prince Jin Mansion." Zhao Erya clearly remembered that Yu Xiaolian had only sold one bottle of that Granny’s perfume, and that was to Fu Zihan.

So, downstairs that maid, although dressed like an ordinary person, Zhao Erya instantly knew she was with Fu Zihan because nobody knew about that perfume except Fu Zihan.

"What did she say?"

"She came in holding the empty perfume bottle, saying she wants to buy another one!"

Yu Xiaolian let out a soft "oh", thinking that Fu Zihan didn’t know she was the only buyer of this perfume. Yu Xiaolian kept this perfume for her own use; she didn’t want anyone else wearing the same scent. But a few years ago, she had just begun establishing herself in Luocheng when she knew Fu Zihan would be the future Empress, and wished to build a good relationship with her, selling her the best perfume at a bargain price.

Now, she doesn’t know how she offended Fu Zihan, who treats her like a stranger, and Yu Xiaolian feels there’s no need to force a connection.

"Tell her the perfume is out of stock!"

Zhao Erya instantly understood Yu Xiaolian’s meaning and turned to go downstairs.

"Sorry, I just checked the upstairs storeroom, and this perfume is sold out."

The maid furrowed her brows, "So when will new stock arrive?"

Zhao Erya replied with a light smile, "This item is from the Western side, we depend on when the Western merchants bring stock across!"

"Then... if there is stock, please save a bottle for my lady!

This... this is the deposit!" The maid took out a silver ingot worth ten taels and handed it to Zhao Erya.

Zhao Erya didn’t take it, "I won’t accept the deposit. As I heard from our boss, this perfume is very rare and unpredictable in availability. The next batch’s arrival time isn’t certain!

We have other scented perfumes in our store, do you want to have a look?"

The maid didn’t dare make a decision for the Princess Jin and had to reluctantly take back the silver and go back to report to Fu Zihan.

Fu Zihan loved this perfume; when she presented the Empress’s birthday gift, she was internally torn for several days.

Logically, she should give the expensive Granny’s perfume to the Empress as a birthday gift and keep the cheaper osmanthus perfume for herself.

But in the end, she kept the best for herself. Luckily, though the Empress was noble as the mother of the nation, she hadn’t seen such a curious thing before, and she loved the osmanthus perfume.

Fu Zihan used her perfume sparingly, only spraying a bit on her clothes each time, and it lasted three years until it was finished.