Chapter 30 Breaking His Cognition

“Pah…”

"despair……"

It's the sound of ink dripping on the ground.

When the eldest son was lying on the table and sleeping out of boredom, he pushed his pen, ink, paper and inkstone to the edge of the table. When he was awakened by Shunzi, the expensive inkstone worth hundreds of taels was knocked over, and the ink inside dripped out.

In the dead silent study at this moment, the noise was deafening.

Zong Wenxiu was the first to move. He walked over calmly, turned the inkstone over, and skillfully found a rag to wipe off the ink marks on the ground.

This is not the first time that my brother has knocked over the inkstone.

Zong Wenxiu has always felt bad for those valuable things that were wasted for no reason. Sometimes he would wake up in the middle of the night when he thought about it, and cry and ask his mother why people here are like this, when those wasted things could save so many people.

His mother told him that this was another world and that he only needed to accept it as a great gift and must not do anything out of the ordinary, otherwise they would lose it all and return to that dark, damp and hopeless place.

Zong Wenxiu didn't want to live that kind of life anymore and wanted to stay here to live and study well, so he began to learn to hide his emotions so that no one could find out.

But when he said these words to his brother just now, his emotions could not help but fluctuate, which was directed to Jing Jingchen... He wanted to see how his spoiled brother would react to this.

Zong Jincheng stood there in a daze, unable to believe it.

"You are lying to me!" He was very sure. How could the twenty taels of silver in his mind be so different from the normal amount?

Zong Jincheng looked at Shunzi, and Shunzi nodded, but he still thought it was impossible!

Zong Wenxiu said, "If everyone is as rich as the Marquis's, why don't Zhai Yao and his friends buy their own precious horses that cost 500 taels each? Why can't any of the three of them afford one?"

"If even the eldest son of the noble family can't afford a precious horse, then what kind of life do ordinary people outside live? Do you know all this?"

Zong Wenxiu tried to keep his voice free of emotion. His younger brother was not a bad kid. He was just a gifted child who was born and raised in wealth. He didn't even know that he was enjoying a rare luxurious life in the world.

Zong Jincheng backed out of the door.

I had only taken a few steps back when I felt I bumped into someone. When I turned around, I saw the woman, as well as the familiar Cuizhi and Cuiliu.

Xu Wan was just about to come in and tell the little devil that the three precious horses were about to be returned, but as soon as she arrived in the yard, she heard Zong Wenxiu's explanation with a bright smile on her face.

This little helper really found the right place.

Zong Jincheng saw her smile and found it even more impossible. "You must have bribed them to deceive me! I knew it! It must be fake!"

Xu Wan felt even happier as she looked at the little devil with his forehead throbbing. It was over. She was getting more and more interested in seeing this little devil get angry. This bad taste... had to be controlled.

She cleared her throat, suppressed her smile and said, "If you don't believe me, go out of the mansion and take a look. See what the world is like outside and see if I have bribed everyone in the capital."

"Of course I will go! I will expose your lies! Liar, what do you mean by 4,000 kilograms of food? If food is so cheap, why does a meal cost me tens of taels?"

Zong Jincheng ran as he spoke, his calves clattering on the corridor. The clean ground did not raise a speck of dust. It was made of Yushan stone, carefully crafted to be flat and smooth by skilled craftsmen, and then mopped three times a day by servants, so there was no way there would be any dust.

Xu Wan looked at his back and said to Zong Wenxiu, "Look at this child, he is carefree. The old lady loves him like a treasure. He lives a more comfortable life than any other nobleman."

Zong Wenxiu nodded and said, "This is actually quite good. We can live happily all our lives."

Xu Wan smiled and said, "This may be what the old marquis and the old lady considered eight years ago. I wonder why they have changed their minds now."

At lunch time, the little devil had not returned yet, so Xu Wan asked Zong Wenxiu to eat first.

He scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "I'd better wait for my brother."

"Don't wait any longer. Look at that kid, he's not convinced. He's going to go around asking around in several streets and he won't be back until the evening." Xu Wan took the lead in sitting down and starting to eat.

Zong Wenxiu also sat down and asked, "You really don't want anyone to go with you?"

Xu Wan raised her eyebrows: "Are you still worried that he has a poor psychological endurance?"

"After all, my brother is two years younger than me..."

Xu Wan smiled unceremoniously and complained, "You think too much. Although he is a coquettish person, he is thick-skinned. Otherwise, why would he always want to torture others? Speaking of which, if your grandparents didn't disagree, that kid would be quite suitable for martial arts training. He must have thick skin and flesh to withstand training."

Zong Wenxiu remained silent.

In the evening, the little devil came back angrily, and along the way he kept saying incredulously:

"How can food really be so cheap? Five cents! I've never heard of such a small amount of money in my life!"

"And those linen clothes, how could they only cost a dozen taels? Then why do the clothes I wear cost tens or even hundreds of taels?"

"And Zui Xiang Lou! They charge me tens of taels for meals every day. Aren't their chickens hatched from eggs? Aren't their dishes cooked in a pot?"

"What area? Even in the most prosperous area of ​​the capital, you can't sell me a roasted goose for two taels! A live goose is only a few dozen coins!!"

"It's such a rip-off! I was fooled by them!!!"

“…”

Xu Wan was sitting in the yard, leisurely reading a storybook. She heard these complaints and laughed so hard that she couldn't concentrate on the content of the book.

She closed the storybook, looked at the little bastard who came in through the door, and asked with a smile: "How's the questioning going? Have I bribed all the people on the street outside?"

Open wide and close to the face.

It is extremely insulting and even more harmful.

Little Devil: “!!!”

This woman is going too far!

They actually blocked his yard and laughed at him! !

Believe it or not, he ran away from home right away!!!

Zong Jincheng was so angry that his face was puffy and his cheeks were still red, no different from a red-hot iron.

Xu Wan thought that if she continued to laugh at him, this boy would probably explode on the spot and die with her.

The kind-hearted stepmother said, "Butler Liu has helped you get those three precious horses back, but it is said that your friends reacted strongly, saying that you went back on your word and wanted to take back what you had given away."

"Especially the one called Zhai Yao, who said that if you don't go to his house to apologize to him, we will no longer be friends."