After being bought by seven rough men and taken to the deep mountains, I was pampered.

With five hundred taels of silver in her pocket, Su Wan now stands taller than anyone else.

Once inside the cloth shop, no matter how tattered the Qin brothers' clothes were, the shopkeeper dared not neglect them.

After that battle at the rouge shop, these gentlemen's reputations have spread throughout the entire street.

"Bring out all your finest cotton fabric!" Su Wan waved her small hand, her words brimming with generosity. "Five bolts of black, three bolts of blue, and ten bolts of fine white fabric suitable for making undergarments!"

Qin Meng, the third brother, who was holding onto the coarse linen cloth with great reluctance, was startled when he heard this and almost tore the cloth in his hand.

"Sister-in-law... Sister-in-law! Why buy so much? We can wear the coarse linen, it's durable! This fine cotton... that's for women... no, for pampered ladies!"

As he spoke, he looked at the fabric with a pained expression. He had never worn clothes without patches in his life, let alone fine cotton cloth; wouldn't it be so slippery that he couldn't work in it?

Su Wan turned around, looked at the big, clumsy man, and tiptoed to pat the dust off his shoulders: "Third Brother, are you silly? We're rich now. You and Big Brother do heavy work every day, what if your clothes get chafed? I'll be heartbroken."

Heart...heartache? Qin Meng's dark face instantly turned a deep purplish-red, his heart feeling as if it had been stuffed with a warm, comforting cotton ball.

Now that my sister-in-law has money, the first thing she thinks of isn't buying jewelry, but worrying that they might get chafed and sores? This daughter-in-law... she really cherishes them!

"I'll listen to my sister-in-law!" Qin Meng sniffed and thumped his chest loudly. "I'll wear whatever my sister-in-law buys me! I'll wash them every day from now on, and I promise I won't get my new clothes dirty!"

Having settled things with the third brother, Su Wan turned and walked towards the innermost corner of the fabric shop. There, a pink curtain hung, indicating the area that specialized in selling women's underwear.

Although Qin Meng was simple-minded, he knew that it was a forbidden area for men, so he obediently stood guard at the door like a doorman.

But as soon as Su Wan lifted the curtain and went inside, a tall, slender figure slipped in silently from behind her, like a slippery snake.

"Huh? Why are there only tiny pieces of cloth here?" Qin Yue waved his fan, looking at the bellybands hanging on the rack with a "curious" expression, unable to suppress the smile on his lips.

Su Wan blushed and glared at him: "Get out! Is this a place for you to look?"

"Sister-in-law, what are you saying? I'm in charge of paying, so I should at least check the goods, right?" Qin Yue not only didn't leave, but instead took advantage of the situation and moved closer to Su Wan. The narrow cubicle was instantly filled with his faint scent of soap and his uniquely masculine aura.

His gaze swept across the rows of bellybands, and finally, with a flick of his long, slender fingers, he picked up a bright red bellyband embroidered with "Mandarin Ducks Playing in the Water".

That red was as red as blood, as red as fire, as red as the most fervent desire.

"This is good." Qin Yue licked his dry lips, turned around, and casually held up the red bodice to Su Wan's chest.

"My sister-in-law's skin is as white as snow. If she wore this red dress..." He lowered his head slightly, his gaze shifting back and forth between the bright red fabric and the small section of Su Wan's snow-white neck that was exposed. His Adam's apple bobbed violently: "That scene... tsk, just thinking about it makes my nose bleed."

Su Wan felt a surge of heat rush from the soles of her feet to the top of her head. Had this man gone mad?! This was a fabric shop! There were people everywhere outside the curtain!

"You...you let go!" Su Wan blushed deeply and reached out to snatch the undergarment.

But Qin Yue reacted extremely quickly. He flipped his wrist, not only not letting go, but also grabbing Su Wan's outstretched hand, and then—pressing it forcefully against his chest.

boom! boom! boom!

Beneath his palm, the man's heart pounded violently and powerfully, like a wild beast trying to break free of its cage.

"Can you feel it, sister-in-law?" Qin Yue stopped smiling.

His usually affectionate peach blossom eyes were now as deep as a whirlpool, locking onto Su Wan's panicked gaze. His voice was hoarse, as if it contained grit: "It's beating so fast because of you."

He took her hand and gently stroked the red bodice, his tone almost pleading and shameless: "Buy this one. I made you a cushion all the way here... This reward isn't too much to ask, is it?" "I want to see... I want to see it tonight."

Su Wan felt as if her hand had been burned; she couldn't pull it back even if she wanted to. This wasn't a discussion; it was blatant flirting!

"I'll buy it! I'll buy it, okay?!" Afraid he might do something even more outrageous in that small cubicle (like taking measurements), Su Wan could only grit her teeth and compromise, "Let go! Someone will see!"

Qin Yue finally released his grip with satisfaction, casually giving the soft palm a little tug. "Shopkeeper! Wrap up this red one! Pack it in the best box!"

……

Emerging from the fabric shop, Qin Yue couldn't hide his smugness. Qin Meng, watching Lao Si's boastful demeanor, felt a strange itch in his teeth, sensing that something extraordinary had happened inside.

Next came the real sweep.

Grain store. "Fine rice! I want the best pearl rice, five hundred catties!" "Flour! Five hundred catties too!" The shopkeeper looked at them as if they were gods of wealth. In these years of famine, only wealthy families or bandits dared to buy grain like this.

At the butcher shop, Su Wan pointed to the freshly removed spare ribs and pork belly on the cutting board: "I'll take all of these spare ribs! And that pork belly, cut up twenty catties! Ten catties of lard too, to render some cracklings at home!"

Qin Meng was in charge of carrying the bags.

He was drenched in sweat from exhaustion, but his mouth was stretched wide from ear to ear. He used to go a whole year without eating meat, but today he was buying enough meat for a lifetime! Sister-in-law, you're awesome! Sister-in-law, you're amazing!

Finally, Su Wan led the two of them to the entrance of a bookstore.

"Sister-in-law, what are we doing here? We can't read." Qin Meng scratched his head.

Su Wan didn't say anything. She went inside and picked out a piece of fine Huizhou ink, a stack of Chengxintang paper, and a wolf-hair brush. This set cost her a total of twenty taels of silver.

"I bought this for my second brother." Su Wan held the paper and pen, her eyes crinkling with joy. "My second brother is a scholar. He can't always use that broken bowl to grind ink. His writing doesn't look neat at all."

In the future... we'll have to rely on my second brother to pass the imperial examination and earn an official title for our Qin family."

Qin Yue stood to the side, watching Su Wan's gentle expression when she mentioned his second brother, and suddenly his fan stopped moving. Half of the smugness he felt at the fabric shop vanished instantly. He felt sour. So incredibly sour.

"My sister-in-law is biased," Qin Yue muttered under his breath. "I earned you five hundred taels, and you only bought me a set of clothes. My second brother sits at home, and you buy him such expensive writing materials..."

Su Wan heard him, turned to look at him, then suddenly leaned in and whispered in his ear, "That red one... wasn't it worn for you?"

Boom—! Fireworks exploded in Qin Yue's mind. All the sourness vanished into thin air, leaving only a brain full of red, stale information.

"Let's go! Home!" Qin Yue, as if injected with adrenaline, snatched the rice sack from Qin Meng's shoulder and threw it onto the cart. "Third brother, hurry up and catch the cart! I can't wait until it gets dark!"

Qin Meng: "???" What's with the darkness? Has this fourth brother taken the wrong medicine?