stern wife

Chapter 73
Pei Xiaoran shook his head firmly, and said:

"It's true that it's a family, but one yard is worth one yard. Out of the 100 taels, 20 taels will be given to uncle, and the remaining 80 taels will be given to the person that uncle invited for help. This matter is no small matter for Xiaoran. Please both of you take care of yourself."

Wu Zonghuan looked at her who looked like a little adult, not joking at all, his curiosity was completely aroused, and he couldn't help asking:

"What's the matter?"

Pei Xiaoran waved his little hand at him, and after he bent down, he whispered in his ear for a while.

After finishing speaking, Pei Xiaoran carefully pulled out the blueprint from his arms, unfolded it and handed it over, saying:

"This is what I'm looking for, and I'm asking my uncle to help pass the blueprint to that person."

Wu Zonghuan took the drawing with a puzzled face, looked down, and saw a beautiful pattern drawn on it, with the word 'Baili' written in the middle.

"This is……?"

"This is what the jade pendant I'm looking for looks like."

After a pause, Pei Xiaoran said again:
"Uncle, just ask that person to do what I say. If you can find the best one, it doesn't matter if you can't find it. The reward will be calculated. Just send someone to inform me of the result before the day after tomorrow."

Wu Zonghuan stroked the short beard on his chin, and felt that this little girl was quite capable of being a human being, so he responded:

"Okay, uncle agrees with this matter."

He saw that Pei Xiaoran cherished the blueprint very much, and he didn't dare to ignore it. He folded the blueprint carefully like her, and put it in his arms.

Just at this time, the maids came in with hot tea and snacks, and a box of dried fruits, which contained all kinds of dried fruits, including walnuts, pine nuts, melon seeds and peanuts.

After talking about the business, Pei Xiaoran's expression relaxed, and he climbed up a stool to take a rest. By the way, he reached out and took out a peanut from the box, peeled the shell and stuffed it into his mouth.

Peanuts are newly fried this year. After taking a bite, his teeth and cheeks are fragrant. Pei Xiaoran squinted his eyes in satisfaction. With the appearance of a child who is very easy to satisfy, how can there be half of the seriousness and seriousness just now?
Wu Zonghuan looked at her in amazement, and thought that this little girl is not simple, she already knows how to entrust someone to do things by herself at such a young age, which is much better than the kid in my family who still needs to be reminded everywhere.

If he could marry back and be his daughter-in-law, maybe he could save a lot of worry.

Just as he was thinking, the door was suddenly knocked twice. After Wu Zonghuan yelled 'Come in', the people outside slowly opened the door and walked in.

It was a young boy of about ten years old, wearing a bamboo green robe, with delicate features, and a gentle and fair face. When he saw Wu Zonghuan, he saluted in a proper manner, and then said:

"Father, there are guests at home just now, and grandpa asked you to go to the front to entertain them."

"Got it," Wu Zonghuan patted the snack crumbs on his hands and stood up, turned his head to look at Pei Xiaoran who was eating, smiled, and said to his son:

"Ziying, you stay here to play with your cousin, take her around our house, if there is something interesting in your place, don't be stingy, take it out to play with your cousin, understand?"

Wu Ziying bowed her head and said, "Yes, the boy knows, and the boy will definitely take good care of his cousin."

"Well," Wu Zonghuan nodded in satisfaction, then turned and left.

Wu Ziying sent Wu Zonghuan to the door, and didn't jump up until he could no longer see his father's figure, and approached Pei Xiaoran with a smile, saying:
"Cousin Xiaoran, let's go out to play? It's boring in the house, go outside, it's fun outside!"

In his previous life, Pei Xiaoran didn't have much contact with this cousin, and only met once during the holidays. However, he was deeply impressed by his 'double-faced' style.

It's not unusual to see him turning his face like a book now, so he just said leisurely:

"If you want to go outside to play, go by yourself, don't drag me, I'm afraid of the cold, don't worry, I will never tell uncle."

After finishing speaking, he waited for Wu Ziying to leave by himself.

Unexpectedly, instead of running to play by herself as she expected, Wu Ziying looked around and saw that there was no one else in the room, so she asked in a low voice:

"That... I heard that you shot a big tiger to death, is it true?"

Pei Xiaoran paused, frowned and turned to look at him, with an unkind expression on his face:
"how do you know?"

"Hey, it's spread all over the world! I also heard it from a buddy of mine. I thought he was teasing me. I didn't expect everyone to say that..."

Everyone says that?

Pei Xiaoran recalled the situation on the night of the palace banquet. When the tiger was shot and killed, many people were present and saw it. The Holy Majesty did not order to conceal it. It would not be surprising if it spread...

Seeing that Pei Xiaoran just frowned and didn't refute, Wu Ziying couldn't help asking:

"Sister Xiaoran, tell me if this is true or not!"

Pei Xiaoran glanced at him, then continued to lower his head to peel the peanuts, instead of answering directly, he only asked:
"What do you want?"

Wu Ziying rubbed her hands, hehe smiled and said:
"If you can shoot a tiger, you must be good at it. Teach me! My father only wants me to read and write all day long, otherwise he just reads the book to learn abacus. It's meaningless at all. I'm getting bored to death! I said I want to learn martial arts. I wanted to go to the battlefield to fight and defend my family and country, but my father refused to let me go, and even beat me up, alas...why is my life so hard..."

Wu Ziying is most afraid of his father, don't look at his father's kindness in front of people, it's scary to get angry!Every time he made a mistake, his butt would turn red from his father's anger, and he couldn't get out of bed for several days...

So every time in front of his father, he behaved like a little white rabbit, and only after his father left, he dared to show his monkey grandson nature.

Pei Xiaoran shook his head and laughed, and said:
"I can't learn the 'two strokes' overnight. When I was three years old, my master started to teach me the basic skills, so now I dare to fight a tiger, but... if I can choose, I will definitely not I would choose to practice martial arts, and I would choose to read and write, or to learn abacus from a ledger.”

Wu Ziying said curiously:

"Why? That's boring!"

Pei Xiaoran turned to look at him and asked:

"Cousin is the only child in the family, right?"

Wu Ziying was taken aback for a moment, then nodded in confusion: "Yes, yes..."

"I told my cousin about my family's situation. My father had two older brothers who were also my two uncles. They practiced martial arts since childhood, then joined the army, and finally became generals. Then...both of them died in battle. Fortunately, my grandfather gave birth to four sons, two died, and there are two more, but for the mother of my two uncles, her two sons have all died, so the wife of my grandfather , followed her two sons soon after..."

(End of this chapter)