Chapter 50 Regret
Pei Yuanjun pulled Qi Yunran away from Wang Shi's touch.

He looked at Pei Shuya again, his face expressionless: "Big sister, are you satisfied?"

"Brother, I...I'm not..."

Pei Shuya looked to Wang for help.

Seeing her daughter wronged, Madam Wang immediately retorted angrily, "Eldest son, are you going to fall out with your mother and your eldest sister for that bitch Qi Yunran?"

Pei Yuanjun's eyes were sharp: "Mother, I have said many times that Qi Yunran is my wife."

"And eldest sister, what did you take from Ranran? Please hand it over!"

“I… those things were meant to be given to Mother. How could a woman like her earn four hundred taels of silver notes and those land deeds? Weren’t they all given to me by you, Dalang? What’s wrong with me bringing them back to Mother?”

"Mother, you agree with what she said?"

"Then...it was given to her by you in the first place, wasn't it?" Wang's tone was somewhat uncertain. She did want to deal with Qi Yunran, but she didn't want to fall out with her son and become estranged from him.

"Mother, take those things out?"

“No way.” Pei Shuya was the first to object. She couldn’t get the house deed and land deed, but her mother, Wang, had given her two hundred taels of the four hundred taels.

She didn't know how important money was when she was a girl, but she realized how important it was after she got married. Her husband was a secretary, and he had to entertain guests above and bribe officials below.

Money is needed everywhere, but once it's in her pocket, she'll never take it out.

Madam Pei didn't want to take it out either; the silver hadn't even warmed her hands yet! She had never seen so many silver notes in her entire life.

But not wanting to cause a scene with her son, she reluctantly took it out.

Finally, he even advised Pei Shuya: "Shuya, take it out quickly."

"I don't understand what Mother is talking about?"

At this moment, Pei Yuanjun spoke up again: "This is what I'm entrusting to Ranran for safekeeping; it will be our travel expenses when we go to the capital."

Upon hearing that it was for travel expenses to the capital, Madam Wang immediately became anxious and said, "Hurry up and take out the silver notes! You want to embezzle your brother's travel expenses to the capital? Where is your conscience? Take them out now. Do you even want your husband to get promoted in the future?"

Since it concerned her future wealth and honor, Pei Shuya didn't hide it anymore and immediately took out the silver notes. She handed them to her mother, who counted the four silver notes and immediately gave them to Pei Yuanjun.

"Look, brother, your mother hasn't touched a single thing; they're all here."

Pei Yuanjun took it and handed it to Qi Yunran. Qi Yunran counted four, which was exactly right. She put it into her purse.

Pei's mother and Pei Shuya looked away with heartache. Dalang would rather believe Qi Yunran than his mother. She must have said something to Dalang. They felt extremely disgusted with Qi Yunran.

Qi Yunran didn't care what they thought. She was relieved when the silver notes were back in her hands.

"What about the house deed and land deed?" Qi Yunran asked.

Pei Yuanjun also looked at his mother.

Under pressure from Pei Yuanjun, she returned the land deeds and house deeds to Qi Yunran.

He tentatively asked, "Brother, what are you going to do with all this land?"

"Ranran wants to build a house here for us to retire in, so she wants to finish building the house while I'm back, so we can come back and live here when we're old."

Pei's mother was pleasantly surprised, as this was the first time her son had mentioned their trip to the capital: "Then...when are we going to the capital?"

Pei Shuya also listened intently, regretting that she had married so early; otherwise, she could have married into the capital. She should have listened to her eldest son back then.

But at that time, she was already overjoyed that she could marry into the family of a county clerk, going from a small village to a family in the county.

A thousand pieces of gold cannot buy a cure for regret.

Unlike now, her husband wanted to take a concubine after seeing that she hadn't given birth in three years. If it weren't for the fact that her younger brother had become an official in the capital, he probably would have brought his mistress and her children into the family.

Let her come back first to find out the truth.

Pei Yuanjun's cold gaze swept over his mother: "I returned this time to request a six-month leave from the Emperor."

(End of this chapter)

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