Chapter 843: Deceiving the Scum (4)
Mo Yan suppressed her anger, resisting the urge to confront Du Wencai. She didn’t want to tip him off and let the scum escape. After thinking for a moment, she led Da HongZao to a nearby area where carriages could be parked. Having paid a two-wen parking fee, she quietly followed a man and a woman who had left the jewelry stall and were heading west down the street.
Along the way, the pair visited numerous stalls. Du Wencai was quite generous whenever the woman showed interest in anything. Without bargaining, he would immediately pay with silver. Despite the low value of the items at the stalls, the vendors saw Du Wencai’s generosity and deliberately raised their prices by a few wen. In less than two hours, he had spent at least two hundred wen.
Du Wencai, who came from a poor background, refused to earn silver taels by copying letters for others, like many other impoverished scholars. He thought it beneath his status. Such a person, now in his twenties, has probably never earned a single wen by himself.
Given the Du Family’s dire circumstances, even if the Liu Family had cleared their debts, they couldn’t have given Du Wencai much silver to spend at will. This money must have come from the several women of the Du Household, who washed perhaps a hundred pieces of clothing in exchange for it—only for Du Wencai to blow it all on winning a lady’s smile.
Though this pretentious behavior was utterly contemptible, it was nothing compared to his selfishness and cold bloodedness in squandering the hard-earned money of his relatives, which was truly infuriating.
"Scum!"