Chapter 130 Money
"Eighty-eight thousand taels, she's so bold to ask for it!"
Zhao didn't know how many cups she had broken.
Every time she took a sip of the calming tea, the cup in her hand would shatter into pieces in the next second.
Eighty-eight thousand taels of silver!
Zhao thought that for Pei Yanli's sake, Cheng Shuyi would never dare to ask her for the silver.
Even if you ask, you should just pretend to do it and take a few thousand or so to make back your investment.
Who knew Cheng Shuyi wouldn't give up a single cent!
Before the tea party at the prime minister's residence ended, he sent someone to wait at the door of the prime minister's residence and came back with her in a swagger to get the money.
In this way, in full view of the public.
Zhao had to give it!
She had emptied her dowry and added the regular silver that Pei Yanli had sent to the mansion this morning, and she was able to scrape together the eighty-eight thousand taels of silver.
But it’s only the first day of the month!
The ration money has been used up. What will the entire Pei family eat and wear next?
It's getting colder and colder, and it will snow in Shengjing in half a month.
Without the regular silver, how can we buy firewood and charcoal in the village? How can we fill our stomachs?
"Someone come here!"
Zhao threw a new cup at Pei Xiang's head, directly cutting a wound on Pei Xiang's smooth forehead.
Pei Xiang knelt there, trembling with fear and not daring to say a word.
Lu stood aside, and she didn't dare to offend Zhao, who was above her.
"Lock the young lady up in the woodshed and don't allow anyone to give her food or clothes. Anyone who violates the rules will be beaten to death!" Zhao glared at Pei Xiang fiercely.
I wish I could strangle her to death!
If Pei Xiang hadn't insisted on dragging her to the Pearl Tower today, she wouldn't have been so bold as to buy that set of headwear.
Moreover, she didn’t even touch such an expensive headpiece, and it became someone else’s!
Zhao regrets and hates it!
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Cheng Shuyi did not hide the fact that she sold the store's treasure to Zhao from Pei Yanli.
She does business by the rules.
He did not raise the price arbitrarily or take the opportunity to blackmail the other party just because the other party was from the Zhao family.
Price tags are hanging.
It was Zhao who insisted on buying it because she was too concerned about her reputation. She did nothing wrong and there was no need to hide it from Pei Yanli.
When Pei Yanli learned about this, he also felt that Zhao shouldn't spend all her family fortune just to buy a set of jewelry as a gift.
After the separation, the Pei family had no source of income.
He gave the Pei family 10,000 taels of silver every month, which was enough for them to live a decent life and have no worries about food and clothing.
It's okay now.
On the second day of this month, Zhao sent her housekeeper to cry poor.
"Your Highness, the situation at the farm is really difficult. The rice, vegetables, oil, and salt in the kitchen won't last for a few days. My wife is so worried that she's even sick."
Pei Yanli was unmoved. "Then ask father to sell the calligraphy and paintings."
The Pei family had experienced prosperity and decline, but after he became the regent, the Pei family returned to its peak.
Even if you have no money, a lean camel is bigger than a horse.
The Pei family will not fall because of a set of jewelry.
What's more, they only need to survive this month.
His regular salary will be delivered on time at the beginning of next month.
What's the difficulty?
The housekeeper returned empty-handed and conveyed Pei Yanli's words to Pei Shi and Zhao Shi exactly as they were.
The two of them felt dizzy and fell down together.
Cheng Shuyi listened to the entire conversation between Pei Yanli and the housekeeper in the kitchen.
She made breakfast and was about to wake up the two children.
The academy is closed today, so the two kids don’t have to go to the academy and haven’t gotten up yet.
"Mom, I want some pocket money."
Before Cheng Shuyi even entered the door, the little girl had already put on her clothes and ran to ask her for money.
"Pocket money?"
Cheng Shuyi went to get a comb to comb the little girl's hair. "Didn't I just give you pocket money yesterday? Have you spent it all?"
Every month she would give each of her two sons a hundred copper coins as pocket money.
“How many candied haws did you eat yesterday?”
As he spoke, Cheng Shuyi reached out to pinch the little girl's cheek and looked into her mouth.
I’m worried that the little girl will eat too much candy and get cavities.
"I didn't eat the candied haws." The little girl cried in a baby voice, "I want to buy a puppet doll and go to the theater with Brother Yanzhi and the others."
The next time we have a holiday, the academy will be on winter break.
The two cubs have been in Gudai for more than half a year and have become familiar with this area.
Holidays are what children look forward to the most.
I'm afraid these kids have already planned what to do after the winter break.
What surprised Cheng Shuyi was that they had agreed to go see a play.
The elder brother also put on his clothes and came to Cheng Shuyi to ask for his hand: "Mom, I want some pocket money too."
Their children also need to socialize.
Usually in the evening after school, we would go to the street together to buy candy figures and buns to eat, which all cost money.
And toys.
If I add the cost of theater tickets, one hundred copper coins won't be enough.
Half of the one hundred coins Cheng Shuyi gave me yesterday was spent on toys and candied haws.
Shengjing City is the capital after all.
Nothing is cheap.
But if they ask for more pocket money as soon as it is not enough, it will be detrimental to the education of the two children.
Cheng Shuyi didn't use much force, but just hit the palms of the two kids.
"Want some pocket money? Sure, I'll give you money if you do something for me."
The two kids had worked in the B&B before.
"I want to do it!" My younger sister raised her hand first: "I'll do whatever Mom asks me to do!"
"I want one too!" The brother refused to give in.
Cheng Shuyi thought for a moment and said, "After you finish breakfast, Xuxu, go sweep the fallen leaves by the door, and I'll give you three copper coins. Qiqi, run some errands for me and buy some fish, and I'll give you three copper coins too, okay?"
"Great—"
The two cubs raised their hands and cheered, full of energy.
Pei Yanli, who was preparing to enter the palace, heard this and had different opinions.
"It's just a few cents, why bother the child?"
He had never seen any child in Shengjing City who had to earn money on his own.
No one is short of these few copper coins.
After Pei Yanli finished speaking, he seemed to have thought of something and asked Cheng Shuyi for money.
"Shuyi, I'm going to go get my horse's hoof repaired on my way home. It'll cost four ounces of silver."
He gave the key to his treasury to Cheng Shuyi.
He doesn't need to carry money when he goes out, and he pays by scanning his face.
At the end of the month, all the shops he visited would come to them with their account books to ask for payment.
In addition to repairing horseshoes.
Pei Yanli only let a folk master repair his horse, and no one else could get close.
The master doesn't allow credit.
Cheng Shuyi looked up at the sky in silence. Why were all the people, young and old, asking her for money?
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