Chapter 29: Since ancient times, scholars have been mostly unfaithful
Su Wanwan's kiss was not as passionate as hers, but gentle, like a dragonfly touching the water, which separated immediately after touching, with a moist and soft feeling.
Pei Changfeng licked his dry lips and pushed her cheek with a smug smile away, "Wanwan, you are naughty again."
Pei Changfeng always treats Su Wanwan with a tolerant attitude, and Su Wanwan likes his tolerance and forbearance.
She hugged Pei Changfeng's arm and said sincerely: "My husband, you are so kind. You don't hit me or scold me."
"Why did I beat and scold you?" Pei Changfeng stroked the stitches on his clothes and smiled gently, "You didn't do anything wrong."
"That's because you are reasonable, my husband. Many people are unreasonable," Su Wanwan leaned her head on his shoulder, "Do many men need to be reasonable when they beat their wives? When they are young, they beat their wives, and when they are old, they beat their daughters, and they treat their sons as treasures. People like this, humph!"
As she spoke, she seemed to be mad at herself, and she pressed her chest and closed her eyes.
Pei Changfeng plucked a broken hair from her face, and his eyes met hers as he moved his hand away.
He pretended to be nonchalant, "There is hair."
"Husband, what do you think we should do if Mrs. Cai comes again?" Su Wanwan rubbed against him.
Pei Changfeng moved aside and said, "We have never helped your friend leave. This is a fact."
"Yes, but didn't I say that not everyone is reasonable? Caidie has a brother, and Mrs. Cai might bring her family to cause trouble," Su Wanwan sighed, "Why do so many things happen every day?"
Indeed, Su Wanwan has never had a single day of peaceful life since she got married. Pei Changfeng looked at her sideways. Her brows were slightly furrowed, as if she was extremely distressed.
"Why don't we move to town?" Su Wanwan suggested. "We still have some money in our hands. We can rent a house in town first, a bigger one. Then you can find a few students to teach, and you won't have to worry about not making money."
She seemed particularly determined to let him become a teacher. Pei Changfeng pondered for a moment, "If we move to the town, what will happen to the land at home?"
"Rent it out," Su Wanwan blinked, "The house can also be rented out."
The idea of most people in this world is to stick to their hometown, even if they die, they want to return to their roots. It is rare to have such an idea as Su Wanwan, no, it should be rare.
Pei Changfeng's nose brushed against the top of her hair, and the scent of gardenia filled her face.
"I'll do whatever you say."
Pei Changfeng pulled his arm out, and Su Wanwan immediately wanted to go to the town excitedly to look at houses, but it was just talk. After all, it was raining and the money could not be really spent.
Two people squeezed on the floor, and because one of the quilts was wet, they slept in one bed.
Pei Changfeng's body had actually recovered a lot and he had regained vitality, but Su Wanwan was worried that he would be cold, so she wanted to sleep close to him.
It is especially easy to sleep on rainy nights, and Su Wanwan fell asleep in no time.
Listening to the sound of rain, Pei Changfeng turned sideways, faced Su Wanwan, touched the ends of her hair, and slowly fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Mrs. Cai came with her people.
It is really nice to sleep on rainy days. Su Wanwan was woken up and immediately became irritable. She crawled out of Pei Changfeng's arms and was about to go out to show off to Mrs. Cai when she was stopped by Pei Changfeng.
Pei Changfeng glanced at her messy hair, then at her messy clothes that left a piece of her shoulder exposed, and said simply, "Please clean it up first."
Mrs. Cai brought her son Liang Dahu, as well as her daughter-in-law Li and grandson Liang Douzi, and they kept banging on the door.
Pei Changfeng came to open the door holding an umbrella. Mrs. Cai rushed in first, but she fell flat on her face.
"Oh my teeth." Mrs. Cai covered her mouth and cried out.
Liang Dahu went to help Mrs. Cai and also fell down. Then came Li and Liang Douzi. The whole family fell down together.
Pei Changfeng put his feet back into his clothes and said, "The road is slippery in the rain. You are too careless."
"You tripped me. I saw it." Liang Douzi's face was broken into pieces and he was crying.
"You fell down by yourself," Pei Changfeng laughed, "Children should not talk nonsense."
As soon as Su Wanwan came out, she saw the Liang family rolling on the ground. The yard was full of mud and they were as dirty as pigs in a pigsty.
Su Wanwan said with disdain: "Aunt Cai, why do you come to my house to roll around when there is no mud at your house?"
"Pay me back the money!" Mrs. Cai got up from the ground, and her daughter-in-law, Li, was also panting like an angry wild boar, "Pay me back the money!"
Li used the 15 taels of silver as her own money, and how could she accept that it was all gone? Moreover, there was a drunkard named Luo who was waiting for her at the door every day, so she didn't even dare to leave the house. She didn't know how many people were gossiping about her outside. She was so embarrassed!
"Your family is really weird," Su Wanwan was very impressed by their shamelessness. "I told you to provide evidence. Do you have evidence to prove that I helped Liang Caidie escape? If you don't have evidence, why did you come to my house to make trouble?"
She ran to the door and saw that a piece of the door panel was smashed. "Okay, you broke my door, you have to pay me!"
Liang Dahu opened his eyes wide, relying on his fat body to bully others, but just as he stood up, Pei Changfeng poked his knee with his crutch, causing him to kneel down and fall flat on his face.
"Speak nicely." Pei Changfeng remained calm.
"Okay, you want evidence," Mrs. Cai said confidently, "Liang Caidie, that bitch, came to look for you the last day before she ran away. She looked for you for several days in a row! Who would believe you if you said it wasn't you who instigated it?"
Su Wanwan laughed, "Liang Caidie borrowed fifty taels of silver from me before she ran away. I didn't intend to ask her for it back, but since you guys came to my door, shouldn't you pay me back?"
"You're talking nonsense!" Li was anxious, "How could she possibly ask you to borrow money?"
"How is it impossible? She's about to run away, why wouldn't she ask me to borrow money?" Su Wanwan counted with her fingers, "So, you said I instigated Liang Caidie to steal thirty taels of silver from you, and she also borrowed fifty taels from me, and you can give me another twenty taels and the matter will be settled."
"You mean fifty taels?"
"Yes, it's fifty taels," Su Wanwan said as a matter of course, "She comes to my house every day, borrows money and then disappears. If it wasn't you who instigated her, who did it? I think your family is trying to cheat me of my money, otherwise why would she go there early and come back late every day? Just to report the progress to you!"
She said it as if it was true, and Pei Changfeng secretly curled his lips.
Mrs. Cai was not here to reason, they just came to ask for money, and seeing that they couldn't get what they wanted, they decided to use force.
It's just a woman and a disabled person, what can they be afraid of?
Liang Dahu rolled up his sleeves first to beat Pei Changfeng, while Mrs. Cai and Li surrounded Su Wanwan from the left and right.
Su Wanwan is not afraid of fighting, she is just worried about Pei Changfeng.
Seeing Pei Changfeng nodded, she felt relieved, and then kicked Li in the stomach as he was about to pounce on her.
Mrs. Cai hugged Su Wanwan's waist. Su Wanwan pulled her hair and pressed her face against the wall, then took the opportunity to step on Li who had climbed up.
Li's face was stepped on and she screamed in anger. She pinched and scratched Su Wanwan's legs. Su Wanwan felt the pain and stepped even harder, crushing her with her feet. She used her other two hands to pry Cai Po's fingers down. Cai Po cried out in pain.
On the other side, Pei Changfeng quickly dodged to the side when Liang Dahu pounced on him, then turned behind Liang Dahu and hit him on the head with his crutch, and while Liang Dahu was in pain, he quickly scooped a bucket of water and poured it on his head.
Liang Dahu was humiliated in this way and was furious. He tried to catch Pei Changfeng regardless of anything, but Xiaoxiao pushed him into the water tank from behind.
Pei Changfeng pressed Liang Dahu's head with his crutch, and he could only flutter his arms and legs for help.
Four people came from the Liang family, and now only Liang Douzi is still alive and well.
Su Wanwan looked at Liang Douzi, who was also used to being violent at home. He tried to push Su Wanwan, but was knocked to the ground by Xiaoxiao.
Liang Douzi wet his pants the instant he was knocked down by such a big and vicious dog.
Su Wanwan couldn't help but laugh at him, "You peed your pants, aren't you ashamed?"
Liang Douzi burst into tears with a "wow".
Pei Changfeng let go of Liang Dahu's hand only when he was almost out of breath. Liang Dahu knelt on the ground and spit out water, his face turning purple from choking.
Su Wanwan also released Li who was under her feet and Mrs. Cai who was pressing on her from behind. Both Li and Mrs. Cai lay on the ground crying in pain.
"We've already had a fight. When will you pay me back the money I owe you?"
Mrs. Cai was so angry that she said something she didn't want to say. "You cheap woman, whore, you have such a vicious heart. No wonder you killed two men. You deserve it! I don't know when you will kill the third man!"
Su Wanwan's face darkened, and she pressed Mrs. Cai's face into the mud. "Say it again?"
Mrs. Cai had a mouthful of dirt and was sobbing. Finally, when Su Wanwan saw that she was almost unable to move, she let go of her hand.
Pei Changfeng frowned, "Go away."
Li went to support Liang Dahu and took Liang Douzi away. Mrs. Cai glared at Su Wanwan fiercely, and when she saw that Su Wanwan was going to hit her, she hurried away.
"What bad luck!" Su Wanwan was so angry, "There are really all kinds of birds in a big forest."
Seeing that Pei Changfeng was soaked, Su Wanwan hurriedly pulled him into the house and wiped him with a towel, "Don't get sick."
Pei Changfeng took the towel and wiped her hair. "Don't be angry. It's not worth getting angry over these people."
"I'm not angry for them," Su Wanwan said aggrievedly, "It was that old lady Cai who cursed you. I will beat her up every time I see her in the future!"
"Are you unhappy about that sentence?" Pei Changfeng paused his hand that was wiping her hair.
"Yes," Su Wanwan looked up at him, "You are my husband, no one can curse you."
Pei Changfeng suddenly smiled, "I know."
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When Zhou Chanyue was sent back to the Zhou family, he was already in a trance.
Wu Sanniang glanced at her and said, "Don't pretend. You're not going to get married in the future. Go and be Mr. Song's concubine. Good days are still ahead. Don't blame me, your mother, for not reminding you. You are Mr. Song's woman now. Don't do things that you don't have all day long."
After hearing her words, Zhou Chanyue, who had been silent, suddenly burst into tears, "You are a bastard, you did it on purpose! You deliberately asked me to deliver the message!"
"So what if he did it on purpose?" Wu Sanniang said impatiently, "Your brother is doing this for your own good. Young Master Song has a great family and wealth. If he could just give us a few sesame seeds from his fingers, it would be enough for us to eat for a year. Don't be so ungrateful and act like a spoiled brat."
Zhou Chanyue felt pain all over her body. She didn't know how she had gotten through the day. She hated Song Ming, and she hated Wu Sanniang and Zhou Lingshan even more. The two of them couldn't deal with a loser like Pei Changfeng and yet they pushed all the blame onto her.
"It's all your fault!" Zhou Chanyue was hysterical. "It's all your fault that you were greedy and wanted to harm my cousin. If you didn't harm my cousin, he would definitely pass the imperial examination and marry me! You are all beasts! Beasts!"
Wu Sanniang slapped Zhou Chanyue and cursed, "I'm telling you, it's because of you that my butt was beaten to pieces. It's also because you didn't go to Pei Changfeng's house with your brother that your brother lost half of his hand and his leg. You have to support me and your brother for the rest of our lives!"
Zhou Chanyue went to fight Wu Sanniang, and Wu Sanniang's wound split again, and the blood soaked her pants. Zhou Lingshan, who was next door, heard the news, looked at the twenty-tael silver note given by Song Ming's people with a gloomy face, and threw the inkstone at hand to the ground.
He took two deep breaths and opened the secret drawer in the desk, revealing another 150 taels of silver.
Song Ming gave Pei Changfeng two hundred taels for crippling him, and he kept one hundred and fifty taels for himself.
But one hundred and fifty taels were not enough for him to live on for the rest of his life. He had become like this, and his life was over!
At the same time, in the capital city, the Song family.
Song Ming casually burned the letter sent by Zhou Lingshan and sneered, "Killing someone will lead to lawsuits. I just wanted to cripple Pei Changfeng's legs, but these idiots wanted to kill him and even wanted to force his sister to be my concubine. Do you really think I'm stupid?"
"But twenty taels is not a bad deal for a little fun." Song Ming sighed contentedly, "A bunch of idiots."
"Sir, you don't need to have too much contact with them, just use money to get rid of them," Song Ming's servant said flatteringly, "The autumn examination will be held in two months. The master has invited a teacher to predict the questions for you in advance. Do you think you should ask the teacher to come to the capital, or should you go to the capital?"
Cangzhou, where they were, was not far from the capital, only two days' journey away. Song Ming changed to a comfortable position and lay down, "Forget it, let's go to the capital."
It's the end of June.
Su Wanwan discovered that although Pei Changfeng said he didn't study or take exams, he actually just read books whenever he had free time.
The pens, ink, paper and inkstone in the room were the ones Chen Liang brought back from the academy. Pei Changfeng seldom wrote on paper. Most of the time he used tree branches to write on the ground. He only used paper occasionally when he taught Su Chaochao.
That day, Su Wanwan came into the room and saw Su Chaochao actually writing those scribbles on the paper. She felt distressed and said, "You can just keep it for yourself. Why write it for him?"
Su Chaochao pursed her lips and said, "My brother-in-law wrote it for me voluntarily."
Pei Changfeng said gently: "You have to write with a pen on paper, otherwise you won't be able to control the pen when you write in the future."
Su Wanwan was not worried about anything else, but Pei Changfeng. She just didn't believe that a piece of paper could be so expensive.
The next morning, Su Wanwan took a ox cart to the town, intending to buy paper for Pei Changfeng to write. She brought one or two taels of silver with her, as she didn't believe that she couldn't even afford a piece of paper.
She went straight to the bookstore, and the bookstore owner saw her and glanced at her, "What are you buying?"
"Buy some paper," Su Wanwan said, "the kind used for writing."
The bookstore owner took out a stack of papers from under the cabinet and said, "Five cents a piece. How many do you want?"
Su Wanwan frowned. This thin paper could be torn by the wind. There was also some dirt on it. How could she write on it? And she still wanted five cents for a piece of paper?
"Is there anything better?"
The bookstore owner glanced at her again and asked, "Are you sure you want it?"
"Sure, let me see."
Su Wanwan thought that the paper Pei Changfeng was using now was not so bad. Since she had come here with great effort, she should buy some good paper to take back.
The bookstore owner opened the cabinet at the back and took out the wrapped paper from the bottom. This time the paper looked much better, thicker and not dirty.
"How much is this paper?"
The bookstore owner held up two fingers and said, "Twenty cents per copy."
Su Wanwan quickly retracted her hand that was about to touch it, "Twenty cents a piece, is this paper made of gold?"
"Why else would you say it's hard to be a scholar?" The bookstore owner was not surprised. "Do you want it? If not, I'll keep it."
"Yes, yes, yes," Su Wanwan took out a tael of silver from her purse, "Ten, no, five of the good ones, or at least twenty."
"Buying it for your husband?" The bookstore owner smiled, weighed the silver and cut off two cents, "Thank you for your hard work. When your husband passes the exam, you will enjoy life as an official's wife."
Su Wanwan was coaxed into smiling from ear to ear. While the boss was wrapping the paper, she looked around the bookstore. She saw an inkstone on the clip, which looked more exquisite than the one Pei Changfeng was using now. She asked about the price and was shocked to learn that it cost two taels of silver.
"No wonder there are so few people who study. How can we afford it?" Su Wanwan muttered, "But if I give birth to a son as smart as my husband, I will support him even if I have to sell everything I have."
"Everyone thinks so," the bookstore owner stretched, "but scholars can make money. Look, I sell handwritten books here for one tael of silver. If you work hard, you can copy three or four books a month."
"What kind of manuscript?"
The bookstore owner took out a book and said, "That's it."
Su Wanwan took a look and saw that there were so many words in it and they were so dense. After thinking about it, she decided not to let Pei Changfeng do it.
"Young lady, do you love your husband? It would be nice if your husband would love you like this when he becomes rich in the future."
Su Wanwan smiled, "Of course, my husband will support me for the rest of my life."
The bookstore owner smiled but said nothing, not telling her that since ancient times, many scholars have been unfaithful, and that there are countless men who abandoned their wives after becoming successful.
Su Wanwan put the paper away and planned to buy some vegetables. As soon as she went out, she bumped into Mu Chen who was coming towards her.
Mu Chen seemed to be passing by as well, and was very surprised to see her, "Wan Wan, why are you here?"
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