Chapter 117: Private Settlement
Even though Manager Guo was extremely unwilling, as things had gotten to this point, he had no choice but to bring a lot of gifts and money to settle the frame-up privately the next day.
Shopkeeper Guo looked at Pei Yian's expression. The other party had a smile on his face and there was no resentment in his eyes or expression. He also said that this matter was over and the two of them were still friends, so he relaxed.
Anyway, Baiwei Restaurant accepted all the reconciliation gifts. He was afraid that something unusual would happen and someone would discover it, so he left in a hurry after the "reconciliation" was completed.
But for some reason, he felt a chill down his spine, as if he was being stared at by a ferocious beast.
Shopkeeper Guo turned around with some suspicion, and there was only Shopkeeper Pei standing behind him, waving goodbye to him with a smile on his face.
He thought it might be an illusion, and he must have been too tired recently, so he left the place in a hurry.
When the person turned around, Pei Yian's expression quickly restrained, and there was an unfathomable coldness between his eyebrows.
Ji Zhisui opened the gifts and found that there were a lot of cloth, silk, spices, women's jewelry, and thirty taels of silver.
These added up are not cheap, much better than Du Xuan's arrogant and empty-handed attitude yesterday. It seems that Ang's threat yesterday was quite useful.
Ji Zhisui stroked the silks. Although they were not very expensive and smooth materials, they were not coarse linen. Perhaps these could be used to make some new clothes for his family.
Pei Yian watched Manager Guo leave with a cold gaze, then turned around and saw Ji Zhisui touching and bumping into the gifts, which was extremely funny.
The coldness on his body quickly melted away, like a blooming spring flower, and he walked towards the direction where Ji Zhisui was.
"Sui Niang, you take care of these!"
"This shopkeeper Guo is quite good at giving gifts. I plan to use these silks to make clothes, the spices to cook, and these jewelry to share with my family." Ji Zhisui planned the use of these things.
Then she took out ten taels of silver from the thirty taels and placed them in front of Pei Yian, saying, "Brother An, this is your reward."
If it weren't for his threatening words, Manager Guo probably wouldn't have compromised so easily. The ten taels of silver were what he deserved.
Pei Yian accepted the ten taels of silver and handed the money back to Ji Zhisui.
Facing Shang Sui Niang's puzzled look, Pei Yian said calmly, "I'll keep it for you."
Ji Zhisui looked at the ten taels of silver in front of her and was very curious. There was a question that had been bothering her for a long time. Seeing An Ge's serious expression, she couldn't help but ask, "An Ge, don't you keep some for your own pocket money?"
Baiwei Restaurant was doing very well. Even though it was owned by their family, Ji Zhisui still paid everyone their wages as before.
Even the people who were bought, such as Sister You, were the same. Although the amount was not small, when they received the copper coins, the joy on their faces was written all over their faces. The two people who were already efficient at work became even more motivated.
The suffering they had experienced probably stopped the moment they met Miss Ji. As bought servants, they met a very good master, who also said that he would pay them every month. Miss Ji treated them not as slaves and servants, but as ordinary people!
Everyone would keep the money that Ji Zhisui distributed, except Pei Yian. He would only keep a little bit after each distribution and give the rest to himself, under the pretext of letting him keep it.
Now Ji Zhisui's own small treasury not only contains the money she earned, but also a portion belonging to Pei Yian, which is also a considerable amount. It can be said that most of his assets are in his own hands.
Sometimes she really doubted whether the little money Pei Yian received was really enough for his daily life.
"No, I don't need it." Pei Yian still gave the same answer.
Seeing her stubbornness, Ji Zhisui had no choice but to accept the ten taels of silver, intending to put it in his own private treasury when he returned.
"Brother An, you seem to not value money at all." Ji Zhisui muttered. This was the opposite of herself. She liked the jingling of silver coins the most.
"Don't they say men become bad when they have money? So Sui Niang, you have to take good care of me and keep me under control." After saying these somewhat explicit words, Pei Yian's heartbeat quickened a bit, and his hands hanging by his side slowly tightened.
At the same time, Pei Yian's gaze fell on his side, and he began to carefully observe the changes in Sui Niang's expression.
"Okay!" Ji Zhisui replied. Although she felt that the saying that people become bad when they have money would not be true around Pei Yian, since he said so, she couldn't just ignore it.
Pei Yian's money plus her money, when added together, is not a small amount. Every time Ji Zhisui counts how much money he has, even though some of it does not belong to him, his joy will still double.
She felt that there was no problem at all with managing the money, but the sentence at the end made her feel weird. What did it mean that she should also keep a good control over him?
Does this mean that as a younger sister, I have to take care of my brother? This sentence is really ambiguous and doesn't seem appropriate here. It's really weird!
Forget it. Ji Zhisui naturally ignored the things that she couldn't figure out. She planned to take these silks to the ready-made clothing shop to have a look.
Pei Yian, who was anxiously waiting for an answer, was so excited and happy after hearing Sui Niang's affirmative answer that it only took a few seconds for him to notice the other party's ignorant look.
He knew that Sui Niang did not fully understand the meaning of this sentence.
All of this seemed to be just his own carnival...but who made him fall in love first?
Forget it, at least Sui Niang is willing to take care of herself, right?
When Pei Shi knew that Sui Niang was going to take the silk to the clothing shop, she quickly stopped her and said, "Sui Niang, have you forgotten that I can make clothes? I can do it myself. It's a waste of money to go to the shop."
With her skills, she could easily make a few pieces of clothing. She had been to a clothing store before and found that many of the clothing styles were very old and not very good-looking.
When she was the Duke's wife, she was very knowledgeable about clothing styles.
After this reminder, Ji Zhisui slapped his forehead and thought that he was so busy that he forgot about this matter. In this way, he could indeed save a lot of money on making clothes.
"Mother, I'll leave the making of the clothes to you." Ji Zhisui handed the silk to Pei.
"No problem. By the way, Sui Niang, can you help me measure the sizes of my family members?" Everyone has changed a lot in the past few months, and the previous data is no longer useful.
Ji Zhisui nodded and accepted the task assigned to him by Pei.
She took a tape measure and started measuring the size of each family member one by one, first Pei who was by her side, then the two children, Mrs. Pei and Mrs. Pei.
Ji Zhisui completed the measurement of these people smoothly, leaving only Pei Yian, which also made her feel troubled.
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