Chen Ruochu suddenly felt sowhat regretful. He had grown up without his mother’s care, but Lady Liu treated him better and closer than a real mother. He didn’t want to make Lady Liu feel uncomfortable or troubled.
"Hehe, I was just saying it casually, how could I really do that?"
With an awkward smile, Chen Ruochu handed the Golden Plaque to Lin Wei, and when he turned to look at others, his face imdiately reverted to its usual polite and distant smile.
"Haha, I finally beca the shopkeeper of an Imperial rchant, haha! Just wait, I’ll make sure to swagger around when I go out!"
Liuzi laughed heartily, wrapping his arm around a young attendant beside him and patting his shoulder.
The young lad was barely a teenager, thin and small, unable to withstand Liuzi’s strong pats, and imdiately began coughing.
Liuzi realized he was too excited and lost his sense of proportion. He laughed sheepishly and quickly started to rub the young lad’s back, making outsiders feel there was sothing unusual between the two of them.
With his son’s Chu Wei Cloth Shop receiving the Imperial rchant title, as the father, Chen Haigang was naturally very happy. His usually serious face was now full of smiles, and he even laughed, which was a rare occurrence.
However, Lady Jiang on the side felt a bit sour. This brat used to not regard her at all. Now, forced out of the Chen family by her, he actually managed to beco an Imperial rchant on his own. This was really a slap to her own face!
And then there was Lin Wei. Although she wanted to curry favor with the Lin sisters, watching them living such a good life now really made her uncomfortable, what to do about it!
Watching her husband so happy he was about to dance with joy, Lady Jiang couldn’t help but think of Chen Ruochu’s humble mother.
"What are you so happy about? They’ve already left the Chen family. Even if they’ve beco Imperial rchants, they aren’t part of your Chen family anymore!"
A sentence like a bucket of cold water poured over his head, Chen Haigang’s smile imdiately froze.
However, Lady Jiang’s words did remind him. The reason Chen Ruochu insisted on leaving the Chen family was sothing he had figured out after investigating.
He had only one son. Whether he was the concubine’s son or the legitimate son, the family estate would eventually be left to him.
Now that his son was so outstanding, he felt even more assured about leaving the Chen family to him.
Since that was the case, he might as well take this opportunity to bring Ruochu back ho.
Lady Jiang only wanted Chen Haigang to not be pleased, but little did she know that her words actually reminded him of sothing. She wouldn’t have thought that her usually quiet husband had already decided to bring their son back ho.
Compared to the happiness in the Chen family, the Huo family, who had lost the Imperial rchant title, was now in a state of cold silence.
Young Lady Huo had foreseen her failure when the pressing weaving skills erged, but anticipating and accepting were two different matters.
Now, knowing for sure that she had failed, she naturally felt unhappy.
Moreover, having to personally hand over the Golden Plaque, symbolizing the Imperial rchant, was like gouging a piece of flesh from her heart.
Huo Haitang was already displeased by the way the Crown Prince and Chen Leyao had been eyeing each other, and now that the Chen family had attained the Imperial rchant status, didn’t that make them even more confident?
"It’s all because of you old guys! If it weren’t for you boosting others’ spirits, we wouldn’t have lost!"
Taking out her anger on the two master craftsn, Huo Haitang was being rather unreasonable.
The two master craftsn, being wise, had long realized that losing the Imperial rchant competition was inevitable this ti.
But upon hearing such words from Huo Haitang, they still felt quite uncomfortable.
This pressing weaving technique wasn’t sothing just anyone could think up. In the whole world, only Chen Ruochu and his wife could co up with such a thing. Does that an all other people shouldn’t exist?
The two master craftsn were old enough to be Huo Haitang’s grandfathers, yet being scolded like this, how could they keep face?
Imdiately they huffed sowhat spitefully, "Since Miss Huo thinks we’re not as good as the Chen family’s two masters, why not just dismiss us!"
"Exactly, the pressing weaving skills weren’t created by the attendants of Chu Wei Cloth Shop, but by their boss. If that’s the case, why not say that your Huo family’s boss isn’t as skilled as theirs!"
"You!"
Huo Haitang hated being told she was inferior to others. Upon hearing the old man’s words, she was so furious that she was about to lash out and hit him.
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