Chapter 85: Breaking up reveals a person's character! (Second update)

Zhuang Wan waited until she dozed off, and dozed off with her eyes closed in the rocking chair by the waterside. The breeze from the lakeside made her feel refreshed.

Gradually, her thoughts were also brought into the dream.

She dreamed that she was running barefoot on the street late at night. No, to be exact, she saw a woman who looked exactly like her running on the street late at night.

She was very tired from running, perhaps because she was weak, and her speed soon slowed down.

The people behind her quickly caught up with her. They surrounded her with torches in their hands, and the woman's desperate face was reflected in the firelight.

"Miss Zhuang, come back with us. Don't make me angry. You don't know how much I love you. I built a golden house for you and gave you servants to run around. Apart from the stars and the moon, what else do you want that I haven't given you? How come you don't know how to cherish such a good life?"

"You're a convict, without a bond or money. Where can you go? You might be caught and sold before you even leave the city. If you end up in a brothel, life there will be miserable, right, Miss Zhuang?"

The woman covered her face and cried, her voice filled with resentment: "Tell him, I will never follow him even if I die. His father killed my family, and he is also the culprit for deceiving me. I only regret that I was blind to follow him. Kill me, I won't run away, and death will put all things to rest."

After saying this, she resolutely rushed towards the stone pillar not far away. But just as she hit it, someone rushed over and hugged her tightly.

Seeing who was coming, the woman struggled fiercely: "You are so cruel! Let me go! Let me go!"

Zhuang Wan desperately wanted to see the man's face, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't. Soon, the man and the woman left, and the group of people chasing them followed suit. The night became quiet again.

In this eerie silence, Zhuang Wan slowly opened her eyes.

She was calm and puzzled.

Obviously, the scene in the dream was not her own. The book did not mention the original body's specific experience, but she knew that this dream was very similar to the one she had been locked in the small dark room before, and perhaps it was the original body's previous life.

I just don’t know why I dreamed of it again after such a long time.

She shook her head. Things were different now. Her original self was dead, and her time traveling through time had gradually changed the course of events. The scenes in her dream naturally had nothing to do with her. Right now, her only goal was to leave the palace.

She looked at the sky and saw that it was already past noon, so she asked Lixia, "Does your master have any message for me?"

Lixia shook her head.

"Did he look at the account books?"

Lixia said, "I heard that the adults have been busy and haven't had time to read it."

Zhuang Wan sneered. How could she not know that this was Pei Xingju's delaying tactic?

So, I immediately got up and wrote a note to urge him.

When Pei Xingju received the note, he was accompanying the Emperor in selecting horses. The Emperor planned to host a polo match at the palace in the next two days, and he would personally participate. The Emperor was young, only sixteen, and in his prime, he was enjoying himself. He was eager to try his luck, and as soon as he left court today, he had Pei Xingju accompany him to select a good horse.

When the eunuch handed the note to Pei Xingju, Pei Xingju unfolded it, took a look at the crooked handwriting, and calmly threw it into the manger.

Soon, the note and the bran cake went into the horse's mouth and were chewed up in two bites.

The eunuch was surprised and whispered, "Sir, Miss Zhuang is still waiting for your reply."

Pei Xingju didn't care: "Then let her wait."

Fortunately, the eunuch did not tell Zhuang Wan about Pei Xingju throwing the note, otherwise she would be so angry that she would vomit blood.

But later on, I almost vomited blood.

Zhuang Wan waited from morning to noon, and from noon to sunset, and what he finally got back was an account book with more crosses on it.

She opened the account book and saw a lot of crosses on it, and she got angry.

Fuck you! Is he grading homework?

There were also several clear signs on it saying "Wrong amount", "Handwriting too illegible", "Watch out for typos"...

The most hateful thing was that he actually crossed out the salary she calculated and commented: "According to the regulations of the Dazhao Commercial Market, the salary of peddlers and hawkers cannot be higher than that of a ninth-rank official. The current monthly salary of a ninth-rank official is five taels. You have exceeded three taels. Recalculate!"

Zhuang Wan was really about to vomit blood!

She worked hard every day and took great pains to prepare meals and desserts for him. She was also kind enough not to take advantage of him, so she paid him eight taels of silver a month, which was the salary of Guard Lu.

But unexpectedly, the other party thought that even eight taels of silver was too much.

"A man's character is revealed when he breaks up! The ancients were right!"

Zhuang Wan viciously drew a turtle on the paper and wrote Pei Xingju's name on the turtle's back. He called Qiu Tan to get a kitchen knife and chopped the turtle into pieces.

She did this without hiding anything from anyone, and Lixia and Jingzhe saw it clearly from the doorway.

Lixia was terrified: "Miss Zhuang, aren't you afraid of angering the adults by doing this? This matter... should we tell the adults?"

They were responsible for protecting Zhuang Wan, but they also had to report her actions to Pei Xingju. She could forget about the other details, but Lixia didn't dare report the incident of drawing a turtle and then hacking at Pei Xingju with a knife.

Jingzhe said expressionlessly, "Our duty is to report everything in detail. If you don't want to be punished, tell the truth."

Therefore, before Pei Xingju went to sleep, he received the message from Zhuang Wan calling him a scumbag. It is said that he was slashing with a knife while cursing.

The corners of his mouth twitched.