Upon seeing this, Sanyuan Sanbao immediately stopped and returned to Ji Tingyou. Both of them still had a look of unsatisfied feeling on their faces. They felt relieved, so relieved!
After Ji Tingyou let go, he added something infuriating: "Tingxuan, today you committed treason and spoke foul words, truly bringing disgrace to our family. As your elder brother, I'm teaching you the rules for your own good. You must never do that again. Do you understand?"
Su Li nodded secretly with satisfaction. Ji Tingyou was really good. He reacted so quickly and was able to fight back against him. He was truly a teachable kid.
"You..." Ji Tingxuan stared at Ji Tingyou, and tried hard to hold back the bad words that were about to come out of his mouth.
He had long since learned from his mother to show weakness in front of others. Now, of course, he had to maintain his image and show weakness in front of the many servants and managers: "Big Brother..."
Just as he was about to say something specious to mislead everyone and gain sympathy, Su Li interrupted him and praised him, "Master Ji is really doing this for his brother and the reputation of Duke Ji's Mansion. It's really admirable."
Ji Tingyou remained calm and said steadily, "My elder brother is my father. This is what I should do..."
The two men sang the same tune, and Ji Tingxuan had no chance to speak at all. He was so angry that his lips were shaking. Finally, seeing that he could not gain any advantage, he looked unwilling and glared at Su Li before walking away in disgrace with the two servants.
"It's okay, it's okay. Let's all go back to work..."
Ji Tingyou dismissed the shopkeeper and his employees who came to mediate, and took Su Li to his own tavern nearby to drink.
Two pots of wine came up. Ji Tingyou first poured a glass of sweet wine for Su Li, then poured himself a glass of strong liquor, and raised his glass: "Sister Su, I toast to you!"
"good!"
"cheers!"
After clinking glasses, they both drank it all in one gulp.
"It feels good! It feels really good!" Ji Tingyou said with a smile.
He has always suffered at the hands of Ji Tingxuan since he was a child. Now, he finally understands the feeling of making others speechless. It feels so good!
"Sister Su, you are so amazing. With just a few words, you made Ji Tingxuan so angry that he jumped up and down, leaving him speechless." If Sister Su hadn't reminded him, he wouldn't have known how to respond.
Su Li smiled and said, "I'm just giving him a taste of his own medicine..."
Ji Tingyou was puzzled: "Treat others in their own way?"
"Hmm..." Su Li asked, "Your father must be quite partial, right?" She actually wanted to say that her father favored his concubine over his wife, but knowing such words in one's heart was one thing, but she couldn't say them casually, especially in front of Ji Tingyou.
Ji Tingyou smiled bitterly: "He is more than partial..."
"So, Ji Tingxuan has your father's favoritism, so he deliberately shows off what he has in front of you to provoke you. As for you, you only need to stimulate him with what he doesn't have in front of him, suppress him, and he will have no power to resist."
"What I have?" Ji Tingyou quickly realized, "My legitimate status..."
"That's right," Su Li nodded. "He has the favor of the Crown Prince, but you have the status of a legitimate daughter that he can only dream of. As long as you are a legitimate daughter, he will never be able to surpass you, and your status as a legitimate daughter will always suppress him. Just like you just said, if he disrespects you, you can always use your status as a legitimate daughter to teach him a lesson. The laws of the Great Jin Dynasty clearly state that there is a difference in status between legitimate and illegitimate children. In this matter, even in front of the Crown Prince and the Duke, you are completely right."
Ji Tingyou suddenly realized that just now, under Sister Su's guidance, he had used her own method to fight back: "Why didn't I think of this before?"
He had suffered so much for nothing. No one had ever told him that he could do this before...
"Read more, young man."
“…”
Picking up the wine glass, Ji Tingyou drank two more glasses in a row: "Sister Su, do you know? My mother is my father's wife who was married in a formal ceremony, but he doesn't like my mother, and he doesn't like me even more. He has never been nice to me since I was a child. The only time was when I was kidnapped. He went to Taohua Village to pick me up in person, but that was because he wanted to use this to plead for his concubine... She almost killed me, but she was only confined for half a year and then she could appear in front of me as if nothing had happened. Isn't that ridiculous? If she didn't do it, I suspect my father wanted me to die outside, so that no one would compete with Ji Tingxuan for the position of the prince in the future..."
Since then, he no longer had any expectations for his so-called biological father...
Su Li was also shocked after hearing this. It turned out that the person who asked someone to sell Ji Tingyou to the mine was actually Ji Shizi's concubine, Liu Furong!
A concubine who almost killed the legitimate son of the Duke's Mansion was only confined to the house for half a year. Prince Ji did more than just favor his concubine over his wife.
Tsk tsk! Ji Tingyou is really a bit pitiful.
She didn't know what to say to comfort him, but at this moment Ji Tingyou might not need comfort, he just simply wanted to talk.
Ji Tingyou drank another glass of wine and wanted to pick up the wine pot again, but Su Li held the wine pot and advised: "That's enough. Didn't you say that the Duke asked you to look after the shop? Don't get drunk..."
"Oh, don't worry, this little bit of alcohol won't make you drunk." He can drink a lot.
"Then don't drink anymore. It's getting late and I should go back."
"Shall I send you in my carriage?"
"No, I have a carriage." The carriage she hired had been waiting for her on Long Street.
"Okay, let's go down together. I'd like to go check out the shop too." Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to explain if his grandfather asked him about it when he got back.
After leaving the tavern, Su Li separated from Ji Tingyou, walked alone to the place where the carriages stopped on Chang Street, and took a carriage directly back to Jufu Inn.
After having dinner at the inn and taking a bath, Pei Ji came back.
She glanced at the hourglass and saw it was not yet eight o'clock.
As soon as Pei Ji entered the guest house, he said directly: "I came back to get some clothes. I have to go to the Dali Temple later. My senior brother and I will be there to investigate the salt tax case for the next few days. I won't be back tonight..."
"Oh, okay," Su Li pointed to the bedroom on the left, "your room is over there. I've moved all my things in there."
The guest house where she lived was on the first floor of a building behind the inn's facade. It had two bedrooms, a small reception hall, and a small courtyard.
Her bedroom was in the middle, the largest one, and Pei Ji's was on her left.
"good."
Pei Ji answered and went into the house.
"Do you need help?" Su Li asked.
Pei Ji was stunned for a moment, then remembered the hidden arrow he had promised her yesterday, and said, "Okay."
Then he went into the house first.
“…”
Su Li was confused. This guy was quite honest. She was just being polite.
When I followed him into the house, Pei Ji had already lit the lights and was fiddling with his small boxes at the desk.
Su Li ignored him and opened the wardrobe to help him pack his clothes when Pei Ji called her.
"Ali."
She tilted her head: "What's wrong?"
"come over."
Su Li walked over in confusion, and Pei Ji opened a small box.
She hesitated and said, "Is this a hidden arrow?"
"Um."
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