She had no intention of making peace by giving someone a slap and then offering a sweet date. In the eyes of others, the original owner was still alive, but only she knew that the original owner had died long ago. She had no reason to reconcile with the people who killed the original owner. In the future, she would at most maintain superficial friendship with them for Pei Zheng's sake.
He turned around and looked at Pei Xiuli on the other side with a sinister look.
Pei Xiuli trembled with fear, her face full of fear: "Sister-in-law, I was wrong, I won't dare to do it again, I won't dare to do it again, don't hit me!"
When she met Su Li's eyes, Pei Xiuluo was so frightened that she begged for mercy repeatedly: "Sister-in-law, I was wrong too. I, I won't dare to do it again..." Then she began to cry.
Mentioning the chicken coop, Su Li glanced at them and said, "I'm going to lock the door, why don't you leave?"
"Let's go now, let's go now!" The mother and her two children supported each other and walked out of the yard with difficulty.
After locking the door, seeing that it was almost noon, she got on the donkey cart and went straight back to town.
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The Chinese New Year is just a few days away. Most families have already started buying New Year's goods, and the town is more lively than usual.
Su Li thought that the house had not been properly decorated since it was bought, so she planned to buy some big red lanterns, door god stickers and other decorations to create a festive atmosphere for the New Year.
Rumors about Pei Ji spread throughout the town. Naturally, the owner of the lantern shop next door also heard about Pei Ji, and when he saw Su Li, he also greeted him.
"Madam Pei, have you done any portraits for others recently?"
"Not recently." Because of Pei Ji's matter in the past few months, the portrait shop she had originally planned to open has not been opened. However, she has no plans to open it for the time being. After all, she will go to the capital after the New Year, and she has promised Pei Zhao that she will go to see him.
After buying two red lanterns, Su Li returned home in the evening. Pei Ji had not returned yet, and he probably would not be back tonight.
After cooking a bowl of noodles and eating it, Su Li boiled a pot of hot water and took a bath. Then he lay comfortably on the soft big bed and fell asleep.
Pei Ji did not return home until noon the next day. He said that he had dinner at the home of the dean of Changqing Academy. It was too late, so he stayed overnight at the dean's house.
"Do you want to go back and see your father-in-law later? I haven't told him that you're back yet."
"Okay, I was just thinking of going there." He took out a stack of banknotes and handed it to her.
Seeing those hundred-dollar bills, Su Li was shocked: "Where did you get so many bills?"
How can a person who reads every day have time to make so much money?
Pei Ji said calmly, "This is a bonus from the imperial court for winning the Autumn Imperial Examination. I've been away from home, so I went to the academy to collect it now."
"Oh!" It turns out that there is a bonus for winning the first place in a province in the State of Jin.
After counting them, there were actually ten of them, which means one thousand taels in total.
It seems that the treasury of the Great Jin State is quite rich. A top scorer in the Jieyuan exam can get such a high bonus. It's really pitiful that the original owner had to save those few taels of silver before.
She put away the banknote and said happily, "Let's go!"
"Where are you going?"
"Let's go to a restaurant..."
After having a sumptuous lunch in a small restaurant, the two went to various shops to buy gifts, and then hired a carriage directly back to Taohua Village.
Pei Zheng knew his son had returned when he was in town yesterday, but when he went to his son's house, the couple were not at home.
Just when I was thinking about going there again, my son and daughter-in-law came with a lot of bags.
He looked at Pei Ji's feet and felt relieved when he saw that he was carrying a lot of bags and walking normally, and he felt relieved.
"Dad, I'm back."
"I'm glad you're back. Is your leg healed?"
"Yeah, totally fine."
Pei Cheng's face was full of joy and he said several good things.
"Brother!" Pei Cong was also happy. His brother's foot was fine, so he could participate in the scientific expedition! That's great!
Zhang's mother and daughter were also there. When they saw Su Li, there was some interest in their eyes. Su Li pretended not to see it and simply greeted them.
Afterwards, everyone had dinner together. After dinner, Su Li took out three hundred taels of silver notes and said, "Dad, this is from Pei Ji."
Zhang's eyes widened at a table.
Three hundred taels! She had never seen so much money in her life!
Pei Cheng was stunned and repeatedly declined: "Aji, keep the money. You still have to go to the capital to take the exam after the New Year. You will need money for many things, and the cost of living in the capital is high. Take the money back."
Pei Ji was also stunned. He didn't expect Su Li to give his father a banknote. He had overlooked it. He hadn't even thought of honoring his father...
Then he said, "Dad, I have money, don't worry."
"Yes, Dad," Su Li explained, "Pei Ji passed the imperial examination and received a bonus from the court. We are not short of money. Besides, this is Pei Ji's filial piety to you, so please accept it."
She is now Pei Ji's wife, and in the eyes of others, they are a family.
Pei Ji's father gave him money, which was equivalent to her accepting the favor. At least she should repay the favor.
Seeing that he couldn't refuse and knowing that his son was rich, Pei Cheng had no choice but to accept the banknote, but he was very happy in his heart.
This was the first time Ah Ji gave him money. His son had grown up and was filial to his father...
After dinner, Su Li and the others still took the carriage they came in back to the town. It was a carriage she had hired specially for the whole day, so it would naturally be waiting for them.
Along the way, she was thinking about whether she should buy a carriage for herself so that she wouldn't have to hire a car everywhere she went.
However, she didn't know how to drive a carriage, so if she bought it, she would have to hire a coachman. So she thought it best to forget about it for now and wait until she settled down in the capital before buying it.
The next morning, the two went to the street to buy a lot of gifts, and then hired a carriage to go to the original owner's parents' home.
Su's father and mother were very happy to see the two of them. This was the second time Pei Ji and Su Li went back to her parents' home together. The last time they came back was when the original owner was pregnant.
After the child was born, the original owner was busy taking care of the child, and Pei Ji was busy with his studies. In the past few years, it was her family members who went to Taohua Village to visit them.
Su Shen was a scholar and had always admired his brother-in-law Pei Ji. As soon as Pei Ji arrived, he pulled him aside to ask questions.
"What? Do you think I'm not teaching well enough?" Su Zheng glared at him.
Su Shen chuckled and said, "Dad, don't you often say that when three people walk together, there must be one who can be my teacher?"
Su Li couldn't help but laugh, and ignored them, going into the kitchen to help Su cook.
"Zhao'er and Chu'er are both five years old this year, right?" Su's mother asked while cooking.
"Yes, mother."
"When will you and Aji have another one?"
"Ah? What do you want?" Su Li looked confused.
"My child, don't you plan to have two more children? Remember Xiaoyue, who lived next door to us when we were little? She gave birth to her sixth child this year. How wonderful! More children, more blessings."
"Six, six..." Su Li was stunned.
Not to mention that she was a non-marriageist in her previous life, and she would never get married and had never thought about having children.
Besides, even if she really wanted to have a baby, she couldn't do so given her and Pei Ji's respectful marriage.
The original owner's mother probably didn't know that since the original owner married Pei Ji, except for the time when Pei Ji drank too much on their wedding night, the couple had not slept together in the past five years.
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