Chapter 124 I Don’t Want Her Kindness
Pei Xiang's face was full of enthusiasm. "Cousin, my aunt asked me to come."
"My aunt said that you have been away from the capital for too long and don't recognize the noble ladies of Shengjing. She asked me to take you to meet them more often."
In fact, she really needs this opportunity!
Ever since the Pei family separated from the Prince Regent's Palace, the Pei family lost the halo of the Prince Regent and was gradually marginalized by the noble families in Shengjing City.
In addition, they lived in a farm outside the city.
Those ladies and young ladies can't remember them even more.
Zhao was anxious, and Pei Xiang was even more anxious.
She was about to reach the age of marriage.
If Cheng Shuyi had not returned to Beijing with his son, she would have already become the object of marriage for the young men in the capital.
Why would he need to rush to take advantage of the title of Regent like he is doing today?
"Why should I go see them?"
Cheng Shuyi took out the key to the Pearl Tower and opened the door.
Pei Xiang followed in.
The Pearl Tower has not been opened to the public except for Cheng Shuyi and the workers who came to decorate it earlier.
There is no plaque hanging on the door.
Pei Xiang thought that Cheng Shuyi's shop was still doing those low-level businesses that were not presentable.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered the door, she was stunned by the pearl jewelry in front of her.
The Pearl Tower is designed mainly with pearls.
Whether it is buildings, tables and chairs, or tabletops, everything is round.
In the three halls on the first floor alone, the jewelry tables are filled with pearl ornaments.
Necklaces, earrings, hairpins, head ornaments, round fans, and baskets of unprocessed pearls filled the entire shop.
The four words "jewelry" are really presented in a simple and crude way.
During the Great Sheng Dynasty, the formation principle of pearls had not yet been studied, and there was no artificial cultivation.
So good pearls are rare.
There was only one piece of pearl jewelry in Pei Xiang's jewelry box, and it was a very small one.
At this moment, I saw that in Cheng Shuyi's shop, there were as many pearls as water droplets, big and small, white and pink, covering the entire building as if they were free.
Her eyes widened and her legs were unable to move.
My cousin is willing to spend so much money to open a pearl house for her?!
No wonder her cousin hasn't treated her as well as before these days, and her aunt has reduced her monthly salary to only thirty taels.
So they were all given to Cheng Shuyi!
Pei Xiang secretly tightened his hands holding the hand warmer and even burned himself.
"hiss--"
Pei Xiang took a deep breath and looked at her scalded palms. She glared at the maid beside her.
He blamed the maid for his burns.
The maid was glared at and immediately lowered her head in fear.
I'm afraid I'll be beaten again if I go back.
Pei Xiang threw the hand warmer to the maid, walked to the front of the table, and looked at the exquisite pearl jewelry greedily.
Cheng Shuyi hadn't heard her speak for a long time, so he turned around and looked.
Pei Xiang has already started trying on jewelry in front of the mirror.
She raised her eyebrows and looked at Pei Xiang. "That pearl hairpin costs ten taels. Miss Pei Xiang, do you want it? I'll give you a discount."
As he spoke, Cheng Shuyi hung the price tag he had made in front of the pearl hairpin in front of Pei Xiang.
Pei Xiang put the pearl hairpin back and controlled her expression to hide her embarrassment.
"Cousin, your aunt means well. You will eventually be interacting with the ladies of various families in the capital, and your aunt is doing this for your own good."
"Then go back and tell Madam Pei that I don't want her kindness."
Since Zhao couldn't control Pei Yanli, she wanted to control her?
When it comes to breaking off an engagement, she is much more ruthless than Pei Yanli.
Not afraid of moral kidnapping.
"Cousin, how could you do this?!"
really.
Cheng Shuyi said directly to Pei Xiang that he didn't want Zhao's kindness. Pei Xiang was surprised and angry.
She had never seen anyone so disrespectful to their elders.
"You don't respect your elders and you have no manners. You are simply... simply uneducated!" Pei Xiang stomped his feet in anger.
Cheng Shuyi shrugged nonchalantly, "Zhao is not my elder, and don't you know what she's planning?"
Pei Xiang knew it of course.
She still said stubbornly: "Aunt is doing this for your and your cousin's good, what could she possibly do?"
How come Cheng Shuyi brought out everything that everyone knew?
How can we play this?
"Alright then." Cheng Shuyi said perfunctorily, "I'll convey your kindness to the prince for you."
"Cousin's wife!"
Pei Xiang got anxious when he heard this: "Don't tell Brother Yanli about women's affairs."
My aunt repeatedly warned me not to let Pei Yanli know what happened today.
Otherwise, the misunderstanding between mother and son will be even greater.
"I'm just passing by today. Since my cousin's wife is busy, Pei Xiang won't disturb her." Pei Xiang took a lingering look at the jewelry in the Pearl Tower and left with gritted teeth.
Passing by?
Blocking people passing by the shop door?
Cheng Shuyi sneered.
After a while, the manager and employees she hired arrived.
She began to train her speech skills.
These pearls were rare in the Great Sheng Dynasty, and the employees had to have sufficient knowledge about them before introducing them to the guests.
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When Pei Xiang returned to Zhuangzi, he ran to Zhao and cried and scolded Cheng Shuyi.
Second Madam Lu was also crying beside them.
She really wanted to cry.
His son Pei Ye was thrown into prison by Cheng Shuyi and could not take the imperial examinations, but he has not yet denounced Cheng Shuyi for this matter.
Now she even refuses to let Cheng Shuyi take Pei Xiang to some tea parties.
If Pei Xiang doesn't show up, how can those young men be interested in her?
These are all top priorities!
"Sister-in-law, how could our Pei family end up in such a state in less than half a year?"
Mrs. Lu was heartbroken and cried, "Yanli married a disaster, and Ye'er was unjustly imprisoned. What did we do wrong to deserve such retribution?"
Pei Xiang cooperated from the side: "Mother, this is not retribution for our Pei family, it is Cheng Shuyi who brought bad luck to our Pei family!"
"Aunt, Mother, do you still remember the Marquis of Changyang Mansion?"
Zhao and Lu's expressions changed.
There are too many marquis families in Shengjing City.
Like the Changyang Marquisate, it is a small marquisate with no male members and low-ranking officials.
The powerful people in the capital didn't take them seriously at all.
Back then, the Marquis of Changyang's mansion was taken over by a relative, and the mansion's only daughter was plotted against.
It was also because of Pei Yanli that everyone was able to chat for a few minutes.
No one knows the reason.
It was only when Cheng Shuyi showed up with his two children, wanting to trace their ancestral roots, that Zhao asked Pei Yanli and found out a little bit.
Think about it carefully.
On the day when the Pei family married Sheng Tinglan, Cheng Shuyi happened to show up.
Ye Ge'er's imprisonment was also related to her.
And the matter of dividing the palace was instigated by Cheng Shuyi!
All these matters are related to her!
Pei Xiang was right. The retribution of their Pei family was not brought upon themselves, but upon Cheng Shuyi!
Zhao's eyes flashed with ferocity, and she already had something in mind.
Cheng Shuyi has no regard for female virtues, secretly meets a man, and even gives birth to a pair of bastards!
The Pei family would never acknowledge such a woman and those two children of unknown origin!
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