Chapter 1303 - 1310: Jiujin Gets Married (5)
Behind her, the trumpet and suona were still blaring wuliwawa, and Cai Wei, having nowhere else to go, decided to buy some snacks and sweets, along with rice, vegetables, and other provisions, hire a carriage, and visit the Nursing Homes.
While she was selecting items on the street, she suddenly heard a tentative cry, "Sister Wei, is that you?"
Cai Wei turned around and saw a middle-aged woman wearing a green pure cotton thin cotton jacket, carrying a basket, and looking at her puzzledly.
Cai Wei laughed and said, "Eldest Auntie Zhou, what are you doing here?"
This woman was once the most prestigious woman in Mu Family Village, Lady Zhou, the wife of the patriarch of Mu Family Village. According to seniority, Cai Wei should call her Eldest Auntie.
Mu Family Village was poor. For more than ten years, only Lady Zhou could afford a cotton jacket that did not need patching. But now the situation was completely different. Not to mention the family of Scholar Mu who was out of the village, nor the family of Third Elder Mu, even the family of Mu Zhongli could now afford silk and satin garments. Unfortunately, that family had suffered a misfortune a few days ago; otherwise, they would have come to the town to show off by now!
While examining Cai Wei from top to bottom, Eldest Auntie Zhou clicked her tongue and said, "My, my, no wonder your grandparents said you have become wealthy in the capital—it seems to be true! Look at these clothes, these designs, we don’t have them here. Really, they must cost at least ten or twenty taels."
Cai Wei was wearing a gilded hundred butterfly-through blue Shu brocade thin jacket, overlaid with a colorful silk pomegranate green silver rat coat, underneath a jade sprinkled flower smoke skirt, and on her feet, a pair of soft-soled embroidered shoes adorned with purple pearls, brilliantly embroidered as if she were an imperial concubine, all of which together were worth a total of one thousand taels.