Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 776 - 774

Chapter 776: 774

Mrs. Gu indeed went out early in the morning because Madam Gu came over early in the morning to say that Gu Hongxia was unwell, and the doctor said that she needed very expensive medicine to save her life.

Gu family could not afford the medicine for Gu Hongxia, so she came over to Du Mansion early in the morning to find Mrs. Gu for a solution.

Gu Hongxia was injured by the young master of Du Mansion, so naturally, the money for the doctor and the medicine should be paid by the Du Mansion!

On her way over, Madam Gu tried to figure out how to get silver from Du Mansion.

She never expected that Mrs. Gu, upon hearing of Gu Hongxia’s illness, would take the jewelry she had secretly picked up yesterday and leave Du Mansion along with her mother.

Madam Gu started to feel optimistic! It seems like after marrying the prince’s son, Du Yijin’s life at Du Mansion had improved tremendously!

In the past, when she came to Du Mansion to ask her daughter for silver, she would always claim to have none. Every visit would earn her only ten or twenty coins, like a beggar’s reward!

Now things were looking up; the hard times were finally over, and the good days were back for their family!

She decided that, once they had silver, she would buy wasteland like Du Yijin and plant walnuts. Those walnuts were quite valuable, they could be sold for several dozen taels or even a few taels of silver, they were virtually golden fruit!

Madam Gu daydreamed about shimmering walnuts, and Mrs. Gu brought her to a pawn shop.

Mrs. Gu brought out the jewelry, causing Madam Gu to widen her eyes in greed at the sight of the glittering pieces.

Good heavens! She had never seen such beautiful and dazzling jewelry in her life. How much silver were these worth?!

Seeing the silver that Mrs. Gu brought out, the pawnshop owner hurriedly straightened his back.

These kinds of jewelry were not something ordinary people could have.

He sized up Mrs. Gu and then asked:

"Madam, is this jewelry yours?"

After hearing this, Mrs. Gu answered without hesitation, "Of course it’s mine! It’s my daughter’s dowry! She gave it to me out of respect! How about it? This isn’t something that ordinary people can have, it’s worth a great deal of silver, isn’t it?!"

Upon hearing this, the pawnshop owner thought it must have been some noble who fancied Mrs. Gu’s daughter and gave her these gifts.

Wow, this woman must have a good daughter, who has she been married to as a concubine? These items were so exquisite, they must have been made at the General Reserve Department or the Manufacturing Office.

The jewelry sold in various stores could only rival these pieces in terms of workmanship, quality, and production by Pohli Jewelry, but these were not pieces by Pohli Jewelry. Therefore, they could only have been made by the General Reserve Department or the Manufacturing Office.

"Madam, would you like to pawn or sell?" If these pieces could be sold, it would be great. Looking at these pieces of jewelry, the pawnshop owner’s eyes grew increasingly bright: each of these pieces could definitely sell for over 500 taels! Especially the bracelet, which could sell for nearly 10,000 taels! Meeting a generous person, they might buy it without bargaining at 10,000 taels. Good jade is priceless! This sort of jade bracelet could even be kept as a heirloom!

He had been a pawnshop owner for several decades and yet this was the first time he had seen such a high-quality jade bracelet! Naturally, it was also the first time someone had something from the General Reserve Department or the Manufacturing Office to pawn.

"Sell. I need the money to save my cousin at my mother’s house." She didn’t have the money to redeem things, why keep them in the pawn shop? They should be sold, at least that would result in a little more silver.

"Yes, yes, shopkeeper, please appraise it quickly, my grandson is waiting for this silver to go buy the life-saving medicine!"

So they needed money to save a life! No wonder they were willing to pawn these pieces of jewelry. The owner of the pawnshop nodded upon hearing this, "These pieces of jewelry are not bad. If you want to sell them, this bracelet is 1,000 taels, these added up are 500 taels, a total of 1,500 taels!"

1,500 taels?! When Madam Gu heard this, she was astounded!

Oh my god! This really is... Madam Gu was too excited, this was simply fantastic!

Mrs. Gu was not a first-time pawnshop visitor, she just visited different pawnshops each time.

She knew that pawnshop owners always offered a lowball price first, allowing for the other party to counter-offer.

Suppressing the excitement in her heart, Mrs. Gu feigned calm and said: "2,000 taels, if it’s a single tael less, I won’t sell! I will find a second shop! Even with silver, these pieces of jewelry can’t be bought by ordinary people!"

Jewelry from the royal mansion, they couldn’t be found just anywhere, right?!

2,000 taels, he thought she would ask for 2,500 taels. The pawnshop owner heard this and said: "Fine then, 2,000 taels it is. I thought you were in a hurry to get silver to save a life, that’s why I made such a high offer. I am even worrying about running a loss and getting scolded by the boss."

Leaving the pawnshop with 2,000 taels in silver banknotes, the two were both dazed.

Mrs. Gu could not have imagined that those few pieces of jewelry could be pawned for 2,000 taels!

Just for that single jade bracelet, she could get 1,000 taels.

She was starting to regret not taking more jade bracelets at the time. If she had, she might have been able to pawn them for several thousand taels. How would she worry about not having silver to use in the future?!

After leaving the pawn shop, Mrs. Gu and Madam Gu planned to go to the pharmacy to get the medicine.

Madam Gu pondered for a moment and then tugged at Mrs.Gu’s clothes: "Pan Nan, you have been out for half a day already, your son-in-law must be looking for you. You also know that he does not like you interacting with us, hand me the silver banknotes and I will go to the pharmacy. You should hurry home!"

Mrs. Gu thought it made sense; her husband was at home today. If he asked about her whereabouts and was told by a servant that she had gone out with her mother, he might suspect that she had taken something from Du Mansion to subsidise her family again.

"Alright, I’ll give you 100 taels for the medicine. Mother, after getting the medicine, please also hurry home."

There was a total of 2,000 taels of silver, and she was only being given 100 taels? It’s true what they say about daughters being like water you’ve dumped out once they’re married. Raising her was a complete waste! Madam Gu managed to keep the anger off her face as she pulled out a handkerchief soaked in chili water that she had prepared before leaving the house and wiped it on her eyes, crying, "Oh Pan Nan, the doctor said that Hongxia’s injury this time was more serious than Honggen’s, she needs millennia-old ginseng to hang onto her life. Honggen’s body hasn’t fully recovered either and he should also eat some millennia-old ginseng to recover, these hundred taels probably aren’t even enough to buy a root of millennia-old ginseng!"

This serious? But even if Mrs. Gu knew nothing else, she still knew that millennia-old ginseng was priceless. Whenever a pharmacy announced that they had millennnia-old ginseng, wouldn’t it be snatched up and have its price driven to tens of thousands of taels by those big, old families?

"Then what do we do? Millennia-old ginseng is not easy to find!" She did know that the betrothal gift given to Du Yijin by Prince An’s Mansion had a piece of millennia-old ginseng, she had even thought about secretly taking it. If she had known, she would have only taken the ginseng instead, she made such a big loss.

"The doctor said he still had a small half of a millennia-old ginseng, but it requires 3,000 taels. Give me 2,000 taels first and I will let the doctor prescribe a little medicine for your poor nephew and niece to take. Please try to make up the remaining 1,000 taels as soon as possible." After Madam Gu had said this, she reached out to pull out the silver banknotes that Mrs. Gu was holding in her arms.

Mrs. Gu did not stop Madam Gu’s actions, she had become accustomed to her doing things this way.

She was just anxious about the remaining 1,000 taels, and how she could make up for them!

After Madam Gu took the silver notes into her hand, she sent Mrs. Gu home.

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