A Blessed Daughter - Chapter 380

A Blessed Daughter
Chapter 380 – Direct confrontation (2)

Translator : Virichime
Editor : Chu
This translation made by Virichime.
Please read my translation only at Moonlight Teatime. 
If you like my translation, please support me on Patreon or Ko-fi.

From any perspective, Yun Shi believed that the money simply should not have been taken.

“Mother, don’t be angry. While what Sister did wasn’t right, it’s not such a serious matter either,” Wei Qingwan tried to console her.

“I wouldn’t be this angry otherwise, but your sister doesn’t show me any respect at all!” Yun Shi sighed once again—it was hard to count how many times she had already sighed.

As her mother, she had just said a few words, yet her daughter had talked back to her without the slightest sense of having done anything wrong.

Wei Qingwan gently said, “Mother, your health is what matters. There’s been a lot happening in the household lately, and you’re already exhausted. If you keep getting angry, I truly worry for your health.”

Yun Shi sighed again. “If only your sister could be half as considerate as you.”

“Mother, your daughter is useless—I’m not as capable as eldest sister. I can’t do much else, only say a few words to comfort you. I can’t help in any meaningful way,” Wei Qingwan said softly, lowering her head as she spoke.

“Wanwan, don’t say that. There are some things you indeed don’t handle as well as Ruo’er, but you have a kind heart. Your sister is capable, yes, but with the way she behaves now, she doesn’t see me as her mother at all,” Yun Shi said, feeling even more drained.

Wei Qingwan continued to say comforting words, repeatedly soothing Yun Shi , never uttering a single bad word about Wei Ruo. While this eased Yun Shi’s mood a little, it also deepened her dissatisfaction with Wei Ruo.

###

Wei Ruo did not heed Yun Shi’s words. After leaving Cangyun Courtyard, she turned around and left the Colonel’s Residence, heading straight to the estate outside the city.

“Miss, please don’t be angry,” Xiumei, who was driving the carriage up front, said worriedly as she glanced back at Wei Ruo.

“I’m fine now, my mood has improved. I was just throwing a little tantrum earlier—once it passed, I was okay again. After all, the silver I got is real and solid.” Wei Ruo’s tone had already returned to a lighthearted and cheerful tone.

“As long as you’re fine, Miss. Loquat syrup can sell for such a high price—why don’t we just sell more medicine in the future? I feel like this makes more money than farming,” Xiumei couldn’t help but say.

A jar of loquat syrup cost less than one tael of silver to make, yet it sold for ten taels. Such profit was incomparable to farming.

No matter how high the yield from the fields, it wouldn’t produce such good returns.

“Meimei, we still must farm the land. Grain is extremely important,” said Wei Ruo.

-grain

“Why? If you have money, can’t you just buy lots of grain?” Xiumei asked.

“If the weather is bad and the total grain output isn’t enough to feed everyone, then someone is bound to go hungry or starve to death. If you make money and can afford to buy grain, it only means that you go from being the one who doesn’t have enough to eat to the one who does. But the grain you buy with money doesn’t appear out of thin air. It means someone else won’t be able to eat. It doesn’t change the overall situation.

Money determines what proportion of resources you can obtain in this group—how much of society’s resources you can mobilize—but it cannot change the total grain output, nor the objective fact that the grain produced isn’t enough to feed everyone.”

Wei Ruo explained to Xiumei.

“Miss, you’re talking about those deep and hard-to-understand things again. I don’t really get it, but I know what you say is right!” Xiumei said with a smile. She supported her miss unconditionally.

After arriving at the manor, Wei Ruo first went to see the hired laborers working there.

If you want to read the advanced chapters of ‘A Blessed Daughter’,
you can support me on Patreon
or you can purchase stars to read advanced chapters.