The Autumn Examination would not end until three days later. Su Li did not wait for the exam to be over. He hired a carriage and took Pei Chuer back to Taohua Village.
On the way, she was surprised when she opened the silver bag Pei Ji gave her. There were not only twenty taels of silver in it, but also eighty taels of silver notes!
The calligraphy competition held by the county school actually has such a high prize money!
"mother?"
Just when she was feeling happy, Pei Chuer suddenly called her.
"What's wrong?"
"Mom, how did you save that old lady at the inn just now? You felt so awesome!"
"Hmm?" Su Li was a little surprised. She didn't expect her to be interested in this. She couldn't help but ask, "Do you want to learn?"
"I want to!" Pei Chu'er's eyes lit up, "Mom, teach me!"
"good!"
"When a foreign object gets stuck in a person's throat, the first thing to do is..."
It was already mid-afternoon when Su Li got home. The first thing he did was to feed the two chickens. He had only left them enough food for one day yesterday, so they must have been hungry for most of the day.
When the two chickens saw her, they clucked happily. There were two eggs in the chicken coop next to her. After feeding the chickens and taking the eggs out of the chicken coop, she heard someone calling her outside the door.
"Mrs. Scholar, are you home?"
"I'm here, wait a minute!" She went into the kitchen to wash her hands and then opened the door.
"Village head?" The person outside the door was Pei Lizheng from Taohua Village. Two tall men in blue stood beside him. Su Li remembered one of them, the guard named Ah Qi in Ji Tingyou's mansion.
He just bowed and said, "Madam Pei, I am Pei Qi, a guard at the Duke's Mansion. I'm here on the orders of the Duke to bring Madam Pei a thank-you gift."
As he said this, he took the wooden box from another guard.
When he heard the word "Duke", the headman next to him widened his eyes in disbelief. He knew that these two were from officials in the capital, but he didn't expect that they were from the Duke's Mansion.
The Duke's Mansion, what a high-ranking official position that is. How did this scholar's wife get to know the Duke?
Su Li wasn't surprised at all, and said calmly, "It's just a small favor, there's no need for you, Duke..."
"Everyone in the Duke's Mansion is very grateful to Madam Pei. This is just a small token of the Duke's appreciation. Madam Pei, please do not refuse."
Seeing that he couldn't refuse, Su Li simply took the wooden box.
The mission was completed, and Pei Qi did not stay any longer. He said goodbye and left.
"I'll see you two off!" the village head said hurriedly, and followed them.
After entering the house and opening the wooden box, Su Li was stunned.
There were several large-denomination silver bills lying quietly in the box. She counted them and found that there were a total of ten thousand taels of silver bills!
I felt like I had suddenly transformed from a poor peasant woman into a wealthy woman.
Ten thousand taels! This is the first time I’ve had so much money in my hands since I came here. I feel so safe.
There was a small box next to the banknotes. She opened the box and found a pair of gold bracelets with auspicious dragon and phoenix patterns inside. Judging from the style, they must be very expensive. However, these bracelets did not seem like a thank-you gift from a man, but rather like those prepared by a woman.
In the original novel, the Duke's wife had long since stopped caring about household affairs. If this bracelet was prepared by a woman, it could only be the Crown Prince's wife, Ji Tingyou's mother.
It was getting dark. Su Li put her things away and went into the kitchen to cook dinner.
At night, it rained all night.
The next morning, the sky finally cleared up.
When Su Li went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast, he found water all over the floor.
The roof is leaking...
It was wet everywhere, and the firewood was wet too. She was in no mood to cook, so she simply took Pei Chuer to the town for breakfast.
When I passed by Wang Sheng’s lantern shop, I happened to see that a shop next to him was for rent.
I was thinking of renting a shop to paint portraits for people. Nowadays, fewer and fewer people come to the village to paint their portraits. It is always better to do business in the downtown area than in the village.
The shop was to be rented out by a couple who originally ran a garment shop here. However, since they were going to the provincial capital with their son to do business, they planned to close the shop.
When Su Li entered, the two of them asked enthusiastically, "Madam, do you want to rent a shop?"
Su Li nodded. She didn't know the layout of the shop very well, so she asked, "Is there any room to live in this shop?"
Her house was leaking, so she planned to find someone to fix it and renovate all the houses at the same time. Then, she would not be able to live at home for a period of time. Since she had to rent a shop anyway, she might as well choose a shop that was habitable and kill two birds with one stone.
"Yes, would you like to come with me and take a look?" the woman asked.
"good!"
As the woman entered from the back door, it turned out to be a two-entry house with a spacious small courtyard in the middle and a small peach tree. In front of the courtyard was the shop they had just entered. Behind the courtyard were four rooms, two bedrooms and a kitchen. There was also a toilet in the corner of the courtyard. The whole house covered a large area. In this town, it was basically the largest house.
The layout was quite to her liking, so she asked, "Are you selling this house?"
"Sell?" The woman was a little surprised. She didn't realize that the young woman in ordinary clothes in front of her was actually a rich person.
She hurriedly said, "Please wait a moment, I'll go ask the child's father..." It would be good if it could be sold. Anyway, they were going to move to the provincial capital and they had a house not far away. This shop could be rented out. In fact, because the house was too big, it was not easy to rent or sell it. She was very happy that someone would come to buy it.
After waiting for a while, the couple came in together. In the end, Su Li bought the two-story house for three hundred taels of silver.
That is to say, prices in small towns are low. If you were in a provincial capital with a good economy, you would definitely not be able to buy such a big house with a shop.
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