Chapter 399 Extra 9

On Yu Tang's side, the couple went to see their son. On Gu Xi's side, because the house in Tongzhou was small, her son and wet nurse were arranged to live in the same room with her, and Pei Tong and Pei Hong slept in the same room.

After Gu Xi coaxed his son to sleep, he went to where Pei Tong lived.

Pei Hong went to talk to Shen Fang and the others.

Even so, Gu Xi couldn't go into the house, so he stood outside and talked to Pei Tong: "Second uncle said he would give you a lecture, has the time been set?"

Pei Tong said: "How can it be so fast? We also need to see if other people have time!"

Gu Xi frowned upon hearing this and repeatedly reminded him: "We don't live in Pei's house. You must find out the news there. Do you want to invite Shen Fang to your home?"

Given the relationship between the Shen family and the Pei family, if Pei Xuan described the hobbies and habits of each examiner in detail, he would definitely not miss Shen Fang.

Pei Tong had made up his mind to invite Zhang Hui and the others to his home, but he didn't know whether Zhang Hui and the others would agree. He just responded vaguely and asked Yuan Ge'er, "I saw his eyes were red just now. What happened?"

Gu Xi frowned as he listened and said, "Nothing. He wanted to play with Jiang Ge'er, but Jiang Ge'er wanted to take Qian Ge'er with him and didn't want to play with him, so he started crying and it took a long time to coax him."

Pei Tong didn't agree and said with a smile: "This child has a bit of a temper. When I was little, I only liked to play with Ah Hui. It will be fine when he becomes a big brother."

Gu Xi's heart skipped a beat as he listened, and he was unable to utter the following half-hearted complaints.

After they returned to the capital and had lunch at the Pei Mansion, Old Madam Pei and the Second Madam did not invite them to stay for dinner. They wanted to help Pei Xuan and the Second Madam settle Pei Yan and others, but Pei Xuan refused with the reason that "everyone is very tired, the wind and snow are too strong, you should go back early and have a good rest."

But when she got home and found out why they had not come home all night, the eldest wife couldn't help but get angry again.

Pei Tong still lowered his head, and said nothing to his mother. Pei Fei, who had been living outside for a few days, seemed to have suddenly changed his nature, and said in a gloomy tone: "You didn't go to pay your respects to grandmother, and we, as sons, are the younger generation, so we have nothing to say. But you can't blame and scold my brother just because he fulfilled his filial duty on your behalf. Whose family has such an elder? Isn't this the Yang family's style?"

"You evil thing!" The eldest wife grabbed the teacup at hand and threw it at Pei Fei.

Pei Fei jumped up and dodged, staring at the eldest wife and about to speak, but Pei Tong quickly pulled him aside and whispered, "Say less."

Pei Fei glanced at Pei Tong, snorted coldly a few times, then slammed the door and left.

The eldest wife was so angry that she kept cursing.

Veins popped out on Pei Tong's forehead.

Gu Xi was hoping that the mother and son would quarrel, but he still went forward hypocritically to stop Pei Tong: "You go out first, mother-in-law is here, I'm here!"

Pei Tong thought that Pei Fei now had a bad temper and was afraid that he would run out and cause trouble, so she simply left the place to Gu Xi and went after Pei Fei.

Pei Fei wandered around outside for a few days and realized that life there was getting hard, so he wasn't so stupid as to run out again.

When Pei Tong chased him out, he was sitting in the warm room eating a snack. Pei Tong breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help criticizing him: "After all, my mother is my elder, how can you talk to her like that?"

Pei Fei sneered and said, "I'm not as foolishly filial as you!"

Pei Tong didn't know what to say for a moment.

Pei Fei continued, "Do you know what the Yang family did with my five thousand taels of silver?"

Surely it's not a good thing?

Pei Tong also wanted to know.

He subconsciously asked, "What are you doing?"

Pei Fei said disdainfully: "Do you still remember that when the fourth cousin of my third uncle's family got married, she left five thousand taels of silver in the box? Is that the five thousand taels of silver that our family took?"

Their cousin is the one who married into the Dali family.

Pei Tong didn't believe it. Although the Yang family was powerful, they were not shameless. He asked, "Who did you hear that from?"

"Fifth cousin." Pei Fei was not prepared to hide it from Pei Tong. Not only that, he also hoped that Pei Tong would know about it and reconcile with the Yang family, so he spoke in detail, "I met fifth cousin in the teahouse on East Street a few days ago, and he told me in person. He also said that my grandfather originally wanted to marry fourth cousin to our family, but at that time, third uncle fell ill in Lingnan and had to see a doctor. After repeated consideration, my grandfather told fourth cousin about her current family, but he was afraid that others would look down on fourth cousin and use our five thousand taels of silver as a deposit."

The fifth cousin of the Yang family is the illegitimate son of his third uncle. After his third uncle was exiled, no one cared about him, so he quietly hung out with a few idle gangs in the capital.

Although he is looked down upon by Pei Tong, he is not a person who talks without thinking.

Pei Tong had guessed it before, but he didn't want his brother's relationship with the Yang family to become more strained and make his mother embarrassed. Now that it came to this, he couldn't persuade his brother to keep quiet. After all, the five thousand taels of silver belonged to Pei Fei.

"Just know it in your mind. For the rest, you make your own decision." Pei Tong felt sorry for his father because his younger brother was still young. He touched Pei Fei's head lovingly.

Perhaps it was because there were few such warm moments in recent years, Pei Fei said excitedly: "Brother, I don't want to study anymore. My fifth cousin said that you need someone at home to study. There is no one in our family. Even if I study, someone like me can only pass the imperial examination after I am 40 years old. What is the meaning of life? I want to do business with my friends, and then you can study hard at home. Just like my second uncle and third uncle, what do you think?"

Pei Tong naturally disagreed, but Pei Fei was determined, and the two brothers parted unhappily.

But the next day, Pei Fei still packed up and dressed, took his nephew, and went to the Pei Mansion with his brother, sister-in-law, and mother.

The old lady didn't want to see her eldest daughter-in-law at all, but she had to give face to her two grandsons. She said a few words to the first wife in a lukewarm manner, then pushed her to the second wife, saying that she was tired, and asked Yu Tang to help her back to the inner room.

Jiang'er was practicing calligraphy in the old lady's room, while Qian'er and her brother were leaning over a large desk, drawing cats with pens beside them.

The Persian cat raised by the old lady lay obediently on the embroidery cushion and let everyone look at it.

Seeing his mother helping his grandmother back, Jiang Ge'er was about to put down his pen and call for help, but Old Man Pei waved his hand and said, "You guys write your words, don't worry about grandma, grandma will talk to your mother."

Jiang Ge'er agreed and continued writing with his head down.

However, Qian'er's eyes rolled around, she dropped her pen, threw herself into Yu Tang's arms, and called out "Mom" softly.

Yu Tang took advantage of the situation and hugged his son, then touched the tip of his nose affectionately and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xi Ge'er glanced at the old lady.

The old lady laughed and said immediately, "Don't look at me. I won't help you even if you look at me. Your brother always gives in to you. I can't help you bully your brother." Then she pointed at the cat squatting on the embroidery cushion and said, "Take your cat away quickly. Your brother needs to do his homework."

Jiang Geer was half like Pei Yan, with a bad nose. Besides not being able to smell strong fragrances, he was also afraid of cat and dog hair, so there was no pet in the family. But Qian Geer really liked it. That year when I went to Ku'an Temple, I saw that Miss Pei had a cat, and it couldn't even walk.

Miss Pei was particularly fond of Xi'er and said that if her cat gave birth to kittens, she would give one to Xi'er.

Qian was still young at that time, and didn't know that her brother and father had bad noses. She had been looking forward to Miss Pei's cat giving birth to kittens. When Miss Pei really sent a cat, Yu Tang wanted to give it to the eldest daughter of the Zhang family, but Jiang kept it and begged Yu Tang: "Let my brother raise it! I just need to stay away from the cat! He really likes it."

Yu Tang disagreed, and Qian'er cried loudly. Finally, Pei Yan stepped in and sent the cat to Old Madam Pei to be raised. When Jiang'er passed away, the cat was sent to Aunt Chen. As a result, Qian'er often stayed at Old Madam Pei's place for half a day. In addition, Old Madam Pei found that Jiang'er was very good at accounting like her and Yu Tang, so she intended to teach Jiang'er arithmetic. As a result, Old Madam Pei taught Jiang'er arithmetic in the house, while Qian'er played with the cat outside.

Mrs. Pei was happy in her heart, but she wanted to take credit when she met Pei Yan: "I didn't teach you three brothers like this when you were young. If your son can't pass the exam, it will be a shame for my hard work."

Pei Yan despised this statement and said with a curled lip: "My son is not a fool, why should he seek such attention? You can teach him if you want to, and don't teach him if you don't want to. Whose top scholar would take the arithmetic exam?"

Mrs. Pei was so angry that she didn't talk to her son for several days. She also complained to Yu Tang in private: "How can you stand him? He might as well not say anything. Once he opens his mouth, he can make people angry to death!"

Yu Tang felt that Pei Yan's temper had become milder over the years, perhaps because he had become a father. Even if Qian Ge'er spilled soup on him, he could continue eating without changing his expression.

Of course, these are all interesting things in their lives. Qianger looks docile and shy, but actually he is full of ideas. Compared with Jiangger who looks serious, Qianger is easier to be fooled. When his eyes roll around, it means he has some ulterior motives.

Sure enough, after hearing Yu Tang's question, Qian Ge'er smiled and whispered to her mother, "I want to go see my second sister!"

Second Miss?!

Yu Tang was surprised.

Mrs. Pei laughed out loud, pointing at Qian Ge'er and said, "This clever little guy! Nothing can escape his ears. Ji mentioned it to me, and he remembered it in his heart." She said, turning back to look at Yu Tang, "You don't have to be surprised. The other day, the second aunt came to say goodbye to me, and I told her that I would come to the capital at the end of the year. She said that she was also going to come to the capital to check her illness. If she really couldn't do it, she would adopt a child as soon as possible while she was young. She might have arrived earlier than us. Qian Ge'er must have heard it and thought that his second sister was also in the capital!"

Strangely enough, Yu Tang and the second young lady's relationship was never romantic, but the second young lady got along well with Qian'er. Not only did they raise cats together, but whenever she returned home to greet the elders, she would definitely go to see Qian'er. If there was anything delicious or fun, she would also have someone send a portion to Jiang'er and Qian'er.

Of course, Jiang Ge'er benefited from Qian Ge'er.

Yu Tang pondered after hearing this and said, "Should we send someone to the Yang family to ask around?"

See if Miss Pei has arrived.

(End of this chapter)