Chapter 144: Everyone gets the same treatment, except her
Fengyun Building, second floor.
Su Rui leaned back on the warm couch, flipping through the incoming accounts with bored fingers.
Fengyun Tower was being run much better than she had imagined. Although the people who came at first were maids sent by various families, the ones who came recently were the real owners.
After some time, some words will be spoken.
However, even though everything was going well, Su Rui felt restless and annoyed at everything she did.
I couldn't even concentrate on the accounts; I just felt the numbers were annoying.
This kind of irritability made her feel out of control, but she was helpless.
Could it be because of that bastard Yun Ji?
Thinking of Yun Ji, Su Rui felt even more depressed.
In the past, he was a stinky stone that could not be moved no matter how hard you poked him. Now he is a stinky hedgehog covered with thorns. You never know when one of his thorns is touched, and he will change his expression at any time.
After being in Yanzhou for dozens of days, not a single piece of news was reported to the capital.
Not a letter, not a thing.
It's clear that he is in a cold war with her.
Waiting for her to give in and give me a way out.
In the past, she would.
But now, she doesn't want it.
Even though he was her thigh at the moment and she should have held him tightly, Su Rui was unhappy and unwilling to do so.
There was a fire that came out of nowhere, and no one knew where it came from.
"Concubine, Madam Pei is here." Luo E beside her reminded in a low voice.
Su Rui looked down through the window and saw Madam Pei walking in from outside with a veil on.
But his body looked a little hunched and his steps were unsteady, as if he was sick.
After all, this shop belongs to someone else, and they are also partners. Su Rui paused and said, "Go and invite Madam Pei to come over for a gathering."
Luo E went to invite someone, and soon she led Mrs. Pei, who had taken off her veil, into the house.
Su Rui was even more shocked when she saw Mrs. Pei taking off her veil.
His eyes were red and swollen like walnuts. I don’t know how long he had been crying. There were dark circles under his eyes and his cheeks were thin and yellow. Although he was wearing a big coat, it could be seen from his skinny fingers that he had lost a lot of weight in just a few days.
Is this a blow from some kind of attack?
"Mrs. Pei, what's this?"
"I'm sorry for calling you Concubine Su." Madam Pei lowered her head and forced an awkward smile.
"It's okay. Everyone has troubles at home." Su Rui didn't ask directly, but just waited for Madam Pei to come forward.
Mrs. Pei hesitated for a moment, but she still walked forward and sat on the other side of Su Rui. After pursing her lips, she seemed to be about to speak but stopped herself.
Su Rui understood and waved her hand, letting Luo E and the others retreat.
Even without anyone around, Madam Pei still paused. After she picked up the teapot and poured herself a cup of tea and drank it, she seemed to have made up her mind and said, "Concubine Su, I want to try the method you mentioned last time."
Last time?
Su Rui recalled.
The last time was when Madam Pei took the second batch of ointment from her.
She used it up very quickly. A batch of five bottles of ointment, covering her from head to toe, was supposed to be enough for a month, but she finished it in half a month.
Although this ointment can make people look radiant, it contains snake venom and several other poisons. It can only be used slowly and in small amounts. If you use too much or too hastily, it will have the opposite effect.
But Madam Pei would not listen to these words. Su Rui mentioned it that time. Instead of doing that, it would be better to use a method that would solve the problem once and for all. However, that method was too torturous. It would be like being broken into pieces and reborn. Moreover, she would be unable to give birth.
I originally wanted to use this to wake up Mrs. Pei, who had already started to go crazy, but I didn't expect that she had become obsessed to the point of madness.
"For Deputy Commander Pei? Is it worth it?"
Mrs. Pei was stunned.
She couldn't really tell whether it was worth it or not.
"I just want... I want him to look at me too." Mrs. Pei raised her head, tears streaming down her face, her eyes full of humility, pity, and persistence.
Maybe there was no one to talk to, or maybe Su Rui's identity allowed her to be less cautious and pour out the words she had been hiding for many years.
She said that she just wanted him to look at her and spend time with her like he did with his concubines, or even sit down and have a meal with her.
Her marriage to him was arranged since she was a child. Her mother told her that she would marry the promising young master of the Pei family in the future. She was required to be virtuous and capable of managing the inner house and keeping her husband.
She didn't understand at that time and didn't know what Pei Yan was like. It was not until she was twelve years old that she met Pei Yan for the first time and he saved her.
At one glance, she fell in love.
Whenever she thought that this was her future husband, she couldn't help but blush and smile.
Day and night, I hoped that the time would pass quickly, that I could grow up quickly, and that I could marry him quickly.
I kept looking forward to the year when I would come of age.
When they were about to exchange the engagement letter, he rushed in in fine clothes and on a horse, saying that he did not want to marry a merchant's daughter.
They said she was ugly, rude and disrespectful, and not worthy of being the wife.
She cried for several days, and when her mother came to ask her, she was still unwilling to give up the marriage.
She thought that Pei Yan had never been with her before and was just angry at the time. After they got married, after they had been together, after... they went to Wushan together, he would naturally accept her and love her like his father did his mother.
Therefore, even if Pei Yan proposed marriage, she would agree if he wanted to take in several beautiful concubines after she entered the house.
But since they entered the marriage, not to mention getting along, even on their wedding night Pei Yan stayed at the concubine's place, making her a laughing stock in Shengjing City. Even her mother's family was ridiculed for using money to force this marriage and being ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth.
Her parents-in-law were very nice. They had lectured Pei Yan and comforted her, but Pei Yan still did her own thing.
There were more and more concubines in the mansion, and they all received the same treatment except her.
She has been living alone in an empty house for several years, and her life has become a joke, but she is still unwilling to give up the young man who is full of vigor and vitality in her heart.
She thought it was because of her appearance.
So, when she saw how well Su Rui's ointment worked on Tang Yuli's face, she was immediately attracted to it.
After using it a few times, one day when she was paying her respects to her mother-in-law, she met Pei Yan. Pei Yan said that she seemed to have become more beautiful, and she was so happy that she couldn't sleep all night.
Later, he took a number of ointments for different parts of the body from Su Rui and used them according to Su Rui's instructions.
Seeing her skin become tighter and her figure become better, she mustered up the courage to ask someone to invite Pei Yan to dinner.
He was actually invited.
That night, they had their wedding night.
Even though he was very rude and her body was covered in bruises, she was overjoyed and wished she could cover her skin with the ointment every day, just to be better and more beautiful and keep Pei Yan by her side.
Until one of her favorite concubines caused trouble. She thought she was different from before, so she could no longer tolerate her and punished her.
Unexpectedly, Pei Yan confronted her the next day and demanded that she kneel down and apologize to her favorite concubine.
She then realized that the reason he was willing to come to her room to have dinner with her and spend the bridal chamber with her that day was because his father-in-law had forced him not to let his wife become a joke and to have a legitimate son.
His rude behavior made him pour all his dissatisfaction and resentment on her. He hated her for forcing him everywhere. No matter what she looked like, even if she was better than a fairy, she was still as ugly as a ghost in his eyes.
He also said that if he shouldn't have saved her back then, he wouldn't be haunted by this evil ghost.
"The first encounter that sustained me for so many years, in his eyes, is a regret, a haunting of evil. I..." Madam Pei smiled in an extremely ugly way, looking at Su Rui, but not Su Rui. "Am I really that unbearable?"
Su Rui did not answer.
Whether it is true or not, people who are too stubborn cannot tell the difference, and it is useless for others to tell them.
Besides, this matter has nothing to do with her, and she has no time to meddle in other people's love affairs.
"I can't help you with anything else, madam, but if you need ointment, you and I are partners, so I will take care of it..."
Before he could utter the word "enough", there was a loud crash downstairs.
Looking down, I saw that the door was blown open by something, and only human figures could be seen in the dust.
Mrs. Pei recognized that figure at a glance.
It’s Pei Yan!
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