The country gentleman thought about how Pei Yan was obviously protecting the Yu family just now, and when he heard that Pei Yan wanted to keep Yu Wen alone to talk, he couldn't help looking at Yu Wen with a bit of envy.

As the saying goes, a new emperor appoints his own ministers. This is also true for families and places. Whoever is in power always uses a few people he knows, is familiar with, or admires. Pei Yan just took over the position of the head of the Pei family, but because he was still in mourning, there was not even a big celebration. In addition, Pei Yan used to be arrogant and was not the eldest son. Pei Yan's elder brother was a man of both talent and virtue. No one expected that the position of the head of the Pei family would fall on Pei Yan. As a result, no one is very familiar with Pei Yan, let alone have any friendship. Now everyone is trying their best to find ways to talk to Pei Yan. Suddenly seeing that Yu Wen has such an opportunity, who wouldn't be moved?

Especially Mr. Wu. He and the Yu family are neighbors, and he felt that he had helped the Yu family a lot this time. He was also a smart and adaptable person. Upon hearing this, he immediately pushed Yu Wen and whispered to Yu Wen: "Mr. Wei and I are waiting for you outside with the children. Let me know if you have anything."

Yu Wen, however, was in a state of confusion.

Before, he wanted to thank Pei Yan many times for Chen's illness, but Pei Yan obviously didn't want to pay attention to him. He now felt that the friendship between gentlemen was as plain as water, but Pei Yan kept him in front of so many people.

He didn't think Pei Yan was trying to show goodwill to him. He thought Pei Yan probably had something to tell him about the matter between the Yu and Li families.

Since everything from investigating to arresting people to asking Pei Yan to be the middleman was Yu Tang's idea, he couldn't help but look at Yu Tang.

Yu Tang didn't know what Pei Yan was up to, but Pei Yan asked her father to speak in front of so many people, and it was not logical for them to refuse Pei Yan's request.

She had no choice but to whisper to her father: "As long as it does not conflict with what happened just now, just agree to it. Master Pei San has been very kind to our family."

Apart from anything else, her mother still has to go to the eldest wife of the Pei family to get Yang Douxing's pulse check every month!

Yu Wen thought that a gentleman should be able to speak freely, and his family had done nothing wrong, so he had nothing to fear. He suddenly felt very open-minded. He smiled and thanked the local officials who came to be witnesses, told Yu Tang and Yu Yuan not to run around, and whispered to Mr. Wei and his son, and Mr. Wu, saying "wait for me to come out", and then stayed in the hall.

Pei Yan had been paying attention to the movements of the Yu family father and daughter. When he saw him stop Yu Wen to talk and Yu Wen wanted to look at his daughter, he had a bad feeling in his heart. But that was his character. If there was anything he didn't know, he had to find out. No matter what happened between the Yu family father and daughter, he would not let it go.

He simply told Pei Man: "Please invite Master Wu and Master Wei to the flower room next door for tea. We will finish our talk soon."

The last sentence was directed to Yu Tang and others.

Master Wu was worried that he would not be able to meet Pei Yan. Hearing this was like someone offering him a pillow when he was sleepy. He was afraid that Yu Tang and Master Wei would not know the importance of this opportunity and would easily give up this opportunity. Without waiting for Master Wei to say anything, he quickly bowed to Pei Yan and said with a smile, "Then I am sorry to bother Master Pei San."

Pei Yan nodded slightly.

Mr. Wu took Mr. Wei and left the hall.

But outside the hall, there were small bridges, flowing water, and overlapping rockery, and the scenery was so beautiful that it was difficult to tell the directions for a moment, let alone where the flower hall that Pei Yan was referring to was.

The servant who led the way couldn't help but smile, but his tone was still respectful as he said, "Please follow me, gentlemen."

"Oh, oh, oh!" Mr. Wu responded and straightened his clothes. Thinking that no one had noticed his embarrassment just now, he took the lead and walked in front of the crowd. He followed the servant through a winding red-painted corridor, walked past a flower wall, and arrived in front of a flower hall with colorful glazed doors on all sides.

"Oh my God!" Master Wu stared at it with his eyes wide open, "How much silver does this cost?" After saying this, he realized that he had lost his composure and hurriedly explained to Master Wei, "I have seen this kind of colored glass before, but it was in the homes of officials in the capital. The last time I came to Pei's house, it seemed to be covered with silk gauze, but this time it has been changed to colored glass. A small one-foot square piece costs fifty taels of silver, let alone such a large piece. I'm afraid it would be difficult to buy it even if you have money. This is more magnificent than those officials in the capital!"

Master Wei didn't notice Master Wu's incoherent speech. He was still worried about Yu Wen, but he was also stunned by the glazed doors in front of him. He looked at the doors and murmured, "This is so beautiful! It's the first of its kind in Lin'an City, right? Look at the painting on it, it's a picture of joy, right? It's also inlaid with gold foil. How was it inlaid? This craftsmanship, is it from overseas? This is the first time I've seen it."

Yu Tang, Yu Yuan and Wei Xiaoyuan were also amazed by these glazed doors.

Yu Yuan and Wei Xiaoyuan were meeting for the first time, while Yu Tang was remembering things from his past life.

After the Li family got rich from the maritime business, they also replaced the doors of the flower hall with colored glass. However, unlike the flower hall of the Pei family, the Li family's flower hall only had eight doors on the front, while the Pei family's flower hall had doors on all four sides, twelve on each side of the east and west, and twenty-eight on each side of the north and south... The doors of the Li family were decorated with plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum, the four elements of a gentleman, while the doors of the Pei family were obviously much more complicated. In addition to flowers, there were also some birds and animals, with peacocks and cranes being the most common. The feathers were exquisitely painted, gorgeous, and the light shining on them was like treasures.

The Li family's doors were clearly a poor imitation.

Even so, Lin once proudly told the guests at home: "All of them were brought back from overseas, and are more valuable than gold. They were specially customized. Otherwise, all you would see are pictures of foreign women with blond hair and green eyes, which are so ugly."

These doors of the Pei family must have been specially customized and brought back from overseas!

Then the Pei family should have already started dealing with those who do maritime business at this time.

At least, the Pei family is a big customer of those merchants.

Yu Tang was a little surprised.

It was not the first time that the servant who led the way saw a guest with such a shocked expression.

He let the guests look at the doors, and said proudly: "These were brought back by our third master to honor the old lady. After the old lady passed away, the third master wanted to replace these doors with plain white glass, but our old lady An said that the old lady loved to receive relatives and friends here when she was alive. If the third master is filial, he should keep the things that the old lady liked." Speaking of this, the servant may have thought of The scene at that time, "Puchi" laughed and then continued, "The third elder said, since the old lady likes it so much, then let the old lady be buried with it. Old Anren disagreed, saying that the third elder was going against the old lady. The old lady obviously liked to brag in front of relatives and friends that these doors were given to him by the third elder, but the third elder insisted on offending the old lady. Later, it was the second elder who stepped in and made the decision to keep all the doors."

Master Wu laughed and chatted with the servant: "That's right, that's right. If I had a son like this, I would have to brag about him every time. But Master Three is really generous. It must have taken a lot of effort to build such a flower hall, right?"

"That's right!" The waiter was obviously not entertaining such guests for the first time. After inviting them into the flower hall, he pointed to the roof of the flower hall and said, "Look, the lamps are also made of colored glass. At night, when the candles are lit, it is simply more beautiful than fireworks. Look at the ivory on the antique shelf over there, which is longer than a person's arms. It's rare, isn't it? It was given by our third grandfather to the old lady as a gift. And the eight treasures on it are not what we saw in the temple. They were all brought back from overseas."

Mr. Wei was fine, but Mr. Wu was a businessman and he immediately smelled something different.

He casually chatted with the boy, "These things are so rare, where did you get them from?"

The servant puffed out his chest proudly and said, "Of course it was brought from the capital. Our Third Master's second elder brother is the current Pavilion Master. Our Third Master is the last disciple of Minister Zhang and has a very good relationship with the elder brothers above him. If our Third Master wants to get something rare, he can just ask for it. Those who do maritime business in the capital are all rushing to get in front of our Third Master!" He suddenly sighed and said, "No wonder our Third Elder was not used to it after he came back. Anyone who is used to the prosperous and splendid days will feel a little uncomfortable when returning to a place like Lin'an City. So the people in our Lin'an always say that our Third Elder is filial. Before the old lady died, she left all the big stalls of things to the Third Elder. Although the Third Elder was unwilling in his heart, he still resigned and came back to be the leader of the clan."

Wasn't it a mourning period? How did it become resignation?

Master Wu couldn't help but ask, "Is your Third Master no longer going to get back on his feet?"

The servant smiled and said, "The Pei family has family rules. The clan leader must stay in the ancestral home to guard the family business. He is not allowed to go out and work as an official."

Everyone was stunned, feeling that it was both unexpected and logical.

Many big families do this, and when they become the head of a clan, they stay in their hometown to maintain the business and no longer go out to serve as officials. What surprised everyone was that it was a pity to let a young talent like the Third Elder stay at home to maintain the business at such a young age.

When you think about it this way, the rumors out there don't seem very reliable.

Being a clan leader is important, but if one can have a smooth career and leave a name in history, wouldn't it better reflect one's own value than being a clan leader who preserves the business?

Pei Yan became the patriarch of the Pei family and was also a sacrifice, which he might not be willing to do.

Yu Tang felt as if something hit his head. Many thoughts came to his mind and he couldn't figure out what he was thinking about.

In his previous life, Pei Yan did not serve as an official again, and she thought it was natural. But looking back now, she felt a sense of incongruity no matter how she looked at it.

Old Master Pei seemed to favor Pei Yan, but it also cut off Pei Yan's career. On the contrary, the eldest son of the family seemed to have lost his position as a royal family, but the two sons were free to participate in the imperial examinations and become officials. As for the second son, since he was rumored to be the most incompetent among the brothers, why not let him stay at home to carry on the business?

The eldest and second houses seemed to have been treated unfairly, but the one who was actually trapped at home was Pei Yan from the third house, and there was a great possibility that the descendants of Pei Yan's house would also be trapped in Lin'an City.

Yu Tang's mind flashed with Pei Yan's face, which always had a hint of indifference and even gloom between his brows.

Is that why he is always unhappy?

Yu Tang's heart was pounding, and he always felt like he had accidentally seen something.