Yu Tang only ran a short distance before catching up with Pei Yan. Of course, this didn't mean that Yu Tang ran fast, but Pei Yan was waiting for her in front.

"I still have something to ask you!" Yu Tang panted and said unhappily, "Why are you ignoring me?"

Pei Yan looked at her with a look that said "you are an idiot" and lost interest in talking.

They were clearly at a disadvantage, and the fragrance of Miss Gu was blowing into his nose with the wind, but Yu Tang didn't react at all... Is she still a girl?

Aren't girls supposed to be very sensitive to scents?

Pei Yan asked, "Do you have anything else to ask me?"

Yu Tang asked: "Ku'an Temple... when did it start receiving funding from the Pei family? Will the Pei family continue to support them in the future?"

The women of the Pei family like to do so-called "good deeds". It is said that doing such "good deeds" can easily attract others to join, and can even encourage others. Pei Yan guessed that Yu Tang was the same. He said: "Five years ago, my father accidentally discovered this temple. There were two nuns with seven or eight homeless lay Buddhists. He felt that they were quite pitiful, so he began to support them. He helped them rebuild the main hall and the side halls, and also bought more than 20 acres of land and two hills around and donated them to the temple. So that the nuns and lay Buddhists in the temple can have enough food and warm clothes. As for the future, I will definitely continue to support them. After all, this is a good thing." After speaking, he asked curiously, "Why are you asking this? Do you have any plans?"

"No, no." Yu Tang waved his hands again and again, saying awkwardly, "I'm just asking. I saw that the people in the temple are all very poor and pitiful, and I'm afraid that your family thinks it's meaningless to support such a temple, so I came here to ask."

"How can it be meaningless?" Pei Yan frowned and said unhappily, "Did you hear something from someone? Since you said that the nuns and lay people in this temple are pitiful, you must think that their lives are not easy, right? In this regard, I think the same as my father - it is already very difficult for women, and if they meet the wrong people, they will be even more pitiful. We will help them as much as we can. You don't have to worry that our Pei family will not support Ku'an Temple. Unless the people in the temple don't care about the Pei family's support and start to harbor filth, otherwise as long as I live, I will support this Ku'an Temple."

In other words, in her previous life, she was indeed protected by the Pei family and Pei Yan.

Yu Tang was overwhelmed with emotions for a moment.

It turned out that in her previous life, she was able to live to middle age because she had received many favors and help that she was not aware of.

"Thank you!" Yu Tang murmured, his eyes moist and his mood surging, unable to control himself.

She was afraid that she would shed tears in front of Pei Yan, so she bent her knees and bowed to Pei Yan, then ran away hurriedly with Shuangtao.

Pei Yan was confused and stood there for a long time without any clue. He simply called Pei Man and said, "Go and check if anyone from the Yu family has become a monk or a lay Buddhist in Ku'an Temple."

Pei Man responded and left.

A servant came running over with a letter, panting and saying, "Third Master, this is a letter from the Sixth Master of the Gu Family in the capital."

Outside, everyone calls Gu Chang the Sixth Master of the Gu Family.

Pei Yan absentmindedly opened the letter, glanced at it quickly, and couldn't help but sneer a few times. He asked Ah Ming, who had appeared beside him out of nowhere, "Where is Lao An? Go and tell him for me. I want to go see Lao An."

Who knows Ah Ming said: "Third Master, someone from the Yang family is here. Old Anren and Old Anren Yi are talking to the Yang family." After that, he said half curiously and half remindingly: "Third Master, do you want to meet someone from the Yang family? Young Master Yan is here with them. I heard from their housekeeper that Young Master Yan really wants to meet you!"

The Yang family wants to use the Pei family to sell tea, right?

However, Yang Yan is a smart man. There are many people who want to borrow money from the Pei family. If he can get some help, it would not be a problem for him to borrow money after he gets married with the second young lady.

Pei Yan said: "Then bring him here for me to take a look."

Ah Ming left immediately.

The second young lady, however, sat in the tea room with a nervous look on her face, listening to the conversation between the fourth young lady, the third young lady, and the fifth young lady: "The maids of the Yang family all wear gold ornaments and look quite kind. I think the people in their family should be nice too."

The third young lady also said, "I don't think the matchmaker is that shrewd and cunning. It shows that the people who deal with the Yang family are all honest people. Their family tradition should be quite good."

The Fifth Miss disagreed and said, "We still have to wait and see about this matter. My grandmother said that judging a person is one thing, but we also have to find out more about him. Anyway, we know him well, and my great-aunt will not marry my second sister off so easily."

"That makes sense." The third young lady said seriously, "Look at the eldest sister. She was so happy before she got married, but her mother-in-law was unhappy as soon as she gave birth to a daughter. Every family hopes that the eldest daughter will be born first, so that they can add the word 'good' to their family. It can be seen that the eldest sister still met a bad one. But look at the eldest sister, she has the eldest brother-in-law in her hands, and her mother-in-law can only worry. I think it doesn't matter what kind of family you marry, what matters is that the husband is of the same mind as you, otherwise it will be useless no matter how good the family tradition is."

"It's better to have a good family tradition, right?" The fourth young lady hesitated, "Otherwise, if you have relatives who come and go to ask for money, you will be worried to death."

Without the presence of their elders, the three little girls said whatever they wanted to say without any reservations. The already uneasy Second Miss became even more irritated and scolded them in a low voice, "You are all young ladies who have never married. What nonsense are you talking about? Do you want me to send someone to teach you how to speak to my great-aunt?"

The little girls lowered their heads and looked submissive, not daring to say another word.

The Second Miss, who was very afraid of the future, was still uneasy. She called the maid to come in and asked about Gu Xi's whereabouts: "You were here just now? How come you disappeared in the blink of an eye?"

Before the maid replied, the ears of the young ladies of the Pei family rang with Gu Xi's sweet voice: "Didn't I just go to the official residence? What happened? What happened?"

"Nothing!" The second young lady was relieved when she saw Gu Xi. She took a few steps forward and pulled Gu Xi's hand, whispering, "Sister Gu, you told me before that I should control my own affairs. If I am weak, no matter how good my father and brother are, I will still be bullied. If I am strong, even if there is no one in my natal family, I can still live well in my husband's family. Is that true?"

"Of course it's true." Gu Xi smiled, looking at the second young lady with a piercing and determined gaze, "What kind of life a woman wants to live is up to her own management."

That's why she couldn't talk to Pei Yan, but Yu Tang walked ahead of her. Isn't that the reason?

Gu Xi continued, "This is what my mother said before she passed away. I think it makes a lot of sense. I keep it in mind all the time. I hope that one day I can live the life I want."

"Sister Gu, you are awesome!" Several Miss Pei praised.

Gu Xi smiled and said, "I went to the official residence. Where did Miss Yu go? Why didn't I see her?"

The fifth young lady smiled and answered first: "Sister Yu went to see Third Uncle for something. She should be back soon."

Gu Xi was stunned.

Yu Tang went to see Pei Yan...it turns out everyone knew...she thought she was the only one who knew?

Gu Xi's smile was a little forced, and he said, "Really? Why does she have to go to the Third Elder for something? Can't she go to Old An?"

The Fifth Miss said, "I don't know either! When Aunt Chen told us that there were guests and asked us not to move around casually, we went to invite Sister Yu to the tea room for tea. Liu Xu, who was beside Sister Yu, told me that Sister Yu had gone out to look for Third Uncle for something. It must be something very urgent, right? Otherwise, Sister Yu would definitely look for Grandmother. Or maybe there were guests suddenly in the temple, and she couldn't find Old An, so she went to look for Third Uncle."

There was no suspicion at all that Yu Tang had ulterior motives.

Gu Xi sneered in her heart. Thinking of what Pei Yan said to her, she felt like she was slapped hard in the face.

She had never been insulted like this in her life.

If she hadn't been so strong-willed and unwilling to give up, and hadn't gone back to ask Pei Yan about it, she wouldn't have known that Yu Tang had also gone to find Pei Yan, and that Pei Yan had completely different attitudes towards her and Yu Tang.

What's so good about Yu Tang? Is it worth him whispering so softly?

She was just relying on her good looks to flirt and act coquettishly.

The fact that Pei Yan likes this kind of person shows that he is not a good person either.

Gu Xi thought about it, and finally felt better, but still couldn't help but smile at the Fifth Miss: "What you said makes sense. When Miss Yu comes back later, I have to ask her what happened..."

But before she could finish her words, Yu Tang appeared at the door of the tea room and interrupted Gu Xi: "Miss Gu, what do you want to ask me?"

"Sister Yu!" The Third Miss, the Fourth Miss, and the Fifth Miss all said happily, "We were afraid that you would be late. Master Yang will come to pay his respects to the two old ladies later."

The implication was that if she came too late, she would not be able to see Master Yang.

Yu Tang couldn't help but smile.

The second young lady was a little annoyed, and said to her three younger sisters, "Can you please stop talking? What's so good about it? Isn't Miss Yu busy? Do you think everyone is as free as you guys?"

The three little girls giggled and did not argue with the second young lady.

However, Yu Tang looked down on Gu Xi for saying one thing in front of her and another behind her back. She wondered if she would set traps for her in front of everyone like she did in her previous life. She liked the young ladies of the Pei family very much and didn't want them to misunderstand her.

"What does Miss Gu want to ask?" She laughed, "I only heard half of what she said, and I don't know what exactly Miss Gu wants to ask."

Gu Xi was secretly unhappy.

She could sense that Yu Tang used to avoid her, but now he was unyielding, as if she suddenly had the courage and confidence to fight him. It was obvious who gave her this courage and confidence.

Gu Xi has always looked down on women like this.

She raised her eyebrows and smiled suggestively, "We were just wondering why Miss Yu didn't come. It turns out that Miss Yu went to see the Third Elder. We were wondering what was wrong that Miss Yu had to go to see the Third Elder. Couldn't even Old An solve it?"