บท 85: Chapter 85 The insistent guest inquires

Well, now she was in a pickle. Her two carefully-selected, simple and elegant tables and chairs were far from enough, and the ambiance she had meticulously crafted was wasted.

...Well, not entirely wasted, haha. Two children took a fancy to the cloth patchwork paintings she had hung on the wall and bought three pieces at a high price. Each painting sold for two taels of silver, so three paintings amounted to more than a month's rent, with almost zero cost.

Those six taels of silver clearly told Ye Xinyan that her meticulously made cloth paintings failed to resonate with the sophisticated tastes of the ancient literati; they only managed to pique the interest of children and earn their admiration.

After much contemplation, Ye Xinyan finally understood that her paintings were likely too straightforward, only appealing to untrained children. In other words, Ye Xinyan's cloth patchwork was, to put it kindly, simple and childlike, or bluntly, lacking depth and too superficial.