Chapter 50: Surrogate Mother Divorces Husband "Give it to me." Chang Feng said, "This young master...
As soon as he finished speaking, people in various places in the venue kept raising their hands and the price rose rapidly.
Pei Yixue didn't move. He came here today to get the Seven Heroes Cliff. He didn't want to get involved in the fierce competition ahead and would just wait until the final bid.
But since he didn't raise his hand, some people would inevitably suspect that he had no money to bid.
"Five million four hundred thousand." After Chen Jia raised the sign again, he looked at Pei Yixue with contempt, "I thought that Manager Pei must have prepared a lot of money to come to Jiuding Hall, but I didn't expect that he didn't even dare to touch the number plate! In my opinion, you should go back and guard the post station early, so as not to occupy a place here for nothing."
Pei Yixue hadn't done anything yet, but Chang Feng couldn't sit still anymore. He had never known what "lack of money" meant since he was a child. Now he was questioned about whether he was not worthy of the seat because of lack of money, and he laughed out of anger on the spot.
"It's only 5.45 million, in whole and small. I'm afraid that all the money you can take out now is only 4.5 million taels. How dare you bark like that?"
"A mere 5.45 million, are you so arrogant? Dare you raise your hand again and confront me again."
"Master Chang..." Pei Yixue didn't give him the letter, so Situ Jin didn't dare to act rashly. But in the end, he couldn't twist Chang Feng's arm and raised the number plate. Chang Feng said, "Nine million taels!"
Everyone in the front wanted to test each other's money, so the price increase would not exceed 100,000 taels. However, Chang Feng raised the price to 4.55 million taels, which attracted everyone's attention.
When Situ Jin heard the price, he couldn't help but take a breath and looked at Pei Yixue: "Boss..."
Pei Yixue glanced at Chang Feng and comforted Situ Jin: "It's okay."
After Chang Feng's intervention, 4.55 million was added in one go. The people who were originally bidding in the venue did not speak for a long time. It was obvious that raising 9 million taels in one day was their limit.
"You are showing off too much!" The Chen family members gloated: "If no one continues to raise the price, you can't come up with 9 million taels, and you can't leave Jiuding Hall."
"Since no one is raising the price," Chang Feng stood up and glanced at the Chen family with contempt. "Give me the deed, we'll pay and leave."
The smiles on the faces of the Chen family members froze, and the auctioneer also reacted after hearing what he said: "Nine million taels at a time——"
"Nine million two hundred thousand taels!" At this time, another bidder shouted loudly, his eyes full of determination to win.
"The Ji family from Mengze Province is here too." A low voice was heard from the crowd.
The bid of 9.2 million taels of silver came from the Ji family, a commercial giant in the neighboring Mengze Province. Mengze Province had a vast salt lake, which was granted to the Ji family by the imperial court. Most of the salt used by the people in Daqing was supplied by the Ji family from Mengze Province.
It's not surprising that he can easily take out 9.2 million taels.
"Alas, if I had known earlier that the Seven Heroes Cliff would be put up for auction today, I would have been able to scrape together the nine million."
"Come on, since the Ji family is here, spread the news as soon as possible. The Seven Heroes Cliff will eventually be taken over by the Ji family."
"It's strange," a man thought. "I don't know what the government was thinking. If they had released the news earlier to give us time to raise the funds, wouldn't they have been able to raise the price of the Seven Heroes Cliff? Why did they have to rush it?"
"When to tell and when to auction, it's just a matter of a word from the superiors. They can think whatever they want. They have a good conscience to auction it off."
"Nine million three hundred thousand taels!" Another voice sounded, it was from Liao Qiubai and others.
Pei Yixue couldn't help but look over again. Nine million three hundred thousand taels of silver might require selling all the Pei family pharmacy. However, Liao Qiubai would never sell the Pei family pharmacy for the Seven Heroes Cliff. So he could only get the money from other places.
The exact number is still unknown.
The Chen family laughed and challenged: "It's only 5.45 million. If you have the guts, keep shouting!"
Chang Feng wanted to take the license plate, but this time Situ Jin reacted very quickly and held the license plate in his arms.
"Give it to me." Chang Feng said, "Today I will show this dog-eyed idiot what 'a mere 5.45 million' means. Pay less on the account book, and take the things!"
Situ Jin held the number plate and moved towards Pei Yixue. Pei Yixue raised her hand and snatched the plate from Situ Jin's arms. Under everyone's gaze, she raised it and shouted, "Nine million and five hundred thousand taels!"
"It's only an additional two hundred thousand." Having said that, Chang Feng couldn't help but smile. After all, this was the first time in such a long time that Pei Yixue didn't go against him, and it was what he wanted.
"I lack everything except money. Even if you raise the price, I can afford it."
Pei Yixue took the number plate and glanced at the last two people who were bidding against him. The other party was also looking at him at this moment, with a curious look on his face, and it was estimated that the money he had prepared had already run out.
Pei Yixue still has three times the current price in his hands.
After several rounds of bidding, the price of Qixia Cliff was finally raised to 16 million, which was the price Liao Qiubai paid with gritted teeth.
After the price was announced, Pei Yixue raised the sign in his hand slowly, his voice still calm: "One thousand six hundred and five thousand taels."
Only 50,000 taels were added, and Liao Qiubai fell completely silent. Pei Yixue looked at the Mengze Ji family, and the other party had no intention of raising the sign again.
The auctioneer asked three times, but no one answered. Finally, he made the final decision: "One hundred and sixty-five thousand taels, sold!"
"It's not the Ji family from Mengze Province!" Everyone was excited as if they had just woken up from a dream.
"They raised 16,050,000 taels in one day. The Jishi Posthouse was established less than a year ago, and I didn't expect to have such a profit. The owner is so young. Could it be that there is a backer more powerful than the Ji family behind him?"
"The man next to him just called himself 'Master', and his last name seemed to be 'Chang'. Could he be from the Chang family?"
The crowd was bustling with discussions about Pei Yixue, and the rumors were getting more and more outrageous. Some people even said that Pei Yixue was a scion of the Chang and Wei families in Daqing, who were rich enough to rival a country and had come out to make a living under an assumed name.
Pei Yixue was waiting for Jiudingtang to deliver the land deed, but unexpectedly, the person who arrived first was Liao Qiubai.
The auction was over, and Liao Qiubai and his group had some time to spare. They started by labeling Pei Yixue an unfilial descendant.
"In order to raise money to buy the Seven Heroes Cliff, you sold the Pei Mansion for three million taels of silver, leaving your grandmother, who is already over sixty years old, homeless. Have you ever thought that your grandmother, who is so old, can't stand the hardship and may even die from it?"
The Chen family narrowed their eyes and immediately added fuel to the fire: "Is that so? He just spent thousands of gold without blinking an eye, but he secretly sold his ancestral home for three million taels and abandoned his grandmother."
Pei Yixue slowly picked up the cup and drank the tea. He ignored the Chen family's words and asked Liao Qiubai, "How can I get the title deed of Pei's house?"
Liao Qiubai was immediately speechless.
"Why don't I speak for Madam Pei?" Pei Yixue still had a warm smile on her face. "Twenty years ago, the Pei family was not surnamed Pei, but Wang. The Pei family wouldn't think that just because they have occupied the Wang family's house for twenty years, they belong to the Pei family, right?"
Liao Qiubai was extremely angry: "You also have Pei family blood in your body, and you have always been a member of the Pei family. The father is the leader of the son, and the husband is the leader of the wife. As a son, you are simply a traitor."
Pei Yixue smiled, "If we talk about bloodline, Pei Jun entered the Wang family as a son-in-law, and it is his duty to continue the Wang family's lineage."
After that, Pei Yixue began to list Pei Jun's crimes one by one: "As a father, Pei Jun treated his wife's children harshly and favored his concubine's children; as a husband, he relied on his wife's family's wealth and status to support his concubine and her children; as a son-in-law, after his father-in-law's wife passed away, he occupied his wife's family's property and designed to drive his wife and children out of the house."
"Everything is enough to show that Pei Jun is not worthy of being a father, a wife, a son-in-law, and even less worthy of being a human being."
"Don't talk nonsense! It was clearly that idiot from the Wang family who had been pestering my father, and the Wang family used their power to force my father to divorce his wife and marry into the Wang family." Liao Qiubai was not clear about the past affairs of the Pei and Wang families, and he had only heard them from others. Seeing that Pei Yixue spoke so convincingly, he did not even have the confidence to refute.
Hearing the Pei family's shameless statements to the outside world again, especially from the mouth of Liao Qiubai, a vested interest, Pei Yixue felt filled with resentment.
"Madam Pei can go back and ask Mr. Pei whether I am talking nonsense or not."
At this moment, the title deed to Qixia Cliff had also been delivered. Glancing at the white paper and ink on the tray, an idea flashed through my mind.
Pei Yixue stood up, pulled out a piece of white paper from the tray held by the Jiudingtang servant, and spread it on the table.
Time and time again, he was really fed up with it. Now that he had grown up, he no longer needed to worry about the Pei family, so he decided to start with Pei Jun.
The truth behind the death of Wang family's silly Shuang'er should be revealed.
Pei Yixue glanced at Liao Qiubai, picked up the pen, and wrote on the paper.
"Mr Pei is a ruthless, disloyal and unrighteous man, not worthy of being a human being, let alone a father or a husband. I used up all the millions of dollars left by my grandfather to buy the letter of severance of relations with the Pei family.
"Now that my mother has passed away, I, as a son, am afraid that my mother will not rest in peace in the afterlife, so I hereby divorce her on behalf of her!"
Liao Qiubai was so angry that he was shaking, his eyes were red and filled with tears, and he cursed: "You are so treasonous!"
After writing the last word, Pei Yixue picked up the divorce letter and threw it to Liao Qiubai.
"Take him back to Pei Jun and tell him that I'm waiting for him at the government office. Also, ask him for me if he sleeps well in the middle of the night and whether he dreams of Shuang'er from the Wang family, who has a three-year-old mentality and died innocently."
Liao Qiubai held the divorce letter in his hand and looked at Pei Yixue with red eyes, as if he had just met Pei Yixue for the first time: "Father has never blamed the Wang family for forcing him to separate from his beloved flesh and blood, and has never thought of divorcing your mother, but you turned against her and did such a ridiculous thing!"
"Madam Pei, just convey your original words. The government will make the final decision on right and wrong." Pei Yixue turned sideways, and the servant of Jiuding Hall respectfully handed the tea tray to him.
Pei Yixue took the sales contract and quickly scanned it. Then he picked up the pen, signed his name, took the deed to the Seven Heroes Cliff and went to the exit.
Chang Feng looked at Pei Yixue's back, reached into his sleeve and took out his private seal, wanting to instruct Jiudingtang, one of his own businesses, to withdraw money from his account.
Yu Guangzhong and Situ Jin took out a wooden box first and handed it to the people from Jiudingtang to count the silver and money.
Chang Feng was surprised that Pei Yixue had actually collected so much money, but he didn't have time to think about it at the moment. Looking at Pei Yixue's back getting farther and farther away, he quickly chased after him.
The crowd in the hall has now shifted their focus from the auction to Pei Yixue's surrogate mother divorcing her husband.
"I know that Pei Jun treats his wife and children harshly. It's OK that they are short of food and clothing, but do you know why Manager Pei left the Pei Mansion and started his own business?"
"Why?"
"It is said that Shopkeeper Pei was nearly dying of illness at the time, and the Pei family plundered all the inheritance left by Shopkeeper Pei's grandfather and kicked him out to fend for himself."
"That's right. The reason why Shopkeeper Pei was so ill at that time was because he was starving and poorly clothed at the Pei family."
How can one person's words outweigh the voices of many people? Liao Qiubai's rebuttal could only be drowned out by the crowd.
The reason why everyone can tell these secrets is because of the cause planted by Pei Yixue half a month ago.
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