Chapter 294 The Emperor's Night Walk
Chapter 294 The Emperor's Night Walk
Pu Fanmeng's mother did give countless good things to the Lin family, or to be exact, to Xiao Yining.
Silks, satins, exquisite jewelry, bird's nest supplements, and so on are countless.
This once again refreshed Xiao Yining's perception that this person was super rich, since the last time he paid 5000 taels for a painting.
Wan Niang looked at these things and her expression did not look good. "I thought these were thank-you gifts. I was flustered for a while. I kept thinking about what Qing Jieer had done in the girls' school. I didn't expect it was an apology."
"But I still feel uneasy." Wan Niang sighed.
She looked at the two naive little kids browsing the treasures, shook her head silently, glanced at Pei Yi, and said softly, "Ayi, I think you still need to stand up for yourself, otherwise if you accept the apology today, you will be retaliated tomorrow."
Pei Yi naturally understood this principle.
He looked at the pile of gift boxes and remembered the condescending tone Pu Fanmeng used when talking to Xiao Yining. He nodded and said, "Cousin-in-law is right. They are just scared for a moment. What we need to do is to be afraid of ourselves, not the people behind us."
The emperor’s grace is the most unreliable love in the world, but it is the grace that everyone fears.
They are not the only ones who have concerns.
Little Yining also looked at something in deep thought.
It was nothing originally, she was just bullied by Pu Fanmeng once. Now the wife of the Minister of Revenue was forced to send these things under the power of her uncle, and she is completely jealous of her family.
She still remembered that her great-uncle would not live for many more years, and if he died, she would be doomed too.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yining couldn't help feeling a little heavy in his heart, but he still forced a smile, put his things away, and planned to go find his mother.
Wang Gungun watched her movements and asked in confusion, "Is there nothing here that Sister Qing likes?"
"No." Xiao Yining shook his head. These were simply like death warrants. Who would like them?
Who knows, one day Pu Fanmeng might hold him by the neck and laugh at him, saying that he would be alive to get it but not to enjoy it.
“Oh.” Wang Gungun also closed the box, muttering, “These things sent by the Shangshu’s wife are probably the worst items she has picked out of her family. The good things are all kept in the vault. How could she possibly give them to you?”
Hearing this, Xiao Yining paused. Vault?
She pretended to snort casually and said proudly, "No matter how good the things are, can they be as good as what my uncle gave me?"
"Tsk, that's hard to say. His treasury is even bigger than the emperor's private treasury." Wang Gungun clapped his hands and replied with a smile.
Xiao Yining's eyes suddenly lit up and a sly smile appeared on his face.
She turned around and looked behind her. Her mother had left at some point, and only the fellow villager was left, with his arms folded across his chest, staring at Wang Gungun with bright eyes, and his thoughts were obvious.
As expected, he slowly said, "Better than what the emperor has, this is a bit of a rebellion. Sister Qing, let's go pick one we like tonight."
Wang Gungun looked at him in disbelief and asked in shock, "Boss, do you know where his vault is?"
Pei Yi smiled meaningfully, "Of course I know."
Xiao Yining also looked at him in astonishment.
This, now I know, Wang GunGun didn’t say anything!
Night... dark... windy... high...
Three black "kittens" sneaked to the door of the Wang family's main house and waited for the opportunity.
Wang Gungun couldn't help but whispered, "Boss, how do you know that grandpa will go out tonight? He hasn't been out recently."
Wang Ersheng's hobby of strolling at night was no secret to anyone except Wang Lin, even Li Anhe followed him.
However, recently, this person has changed his night owl nature and started to live a healthy life of rising during the day and sleeping at night.
Wang Ersheng: Oh, I have saved enough money for my two sons to marry, and I have a wife to support myself. Life is such a good one, why should I make things difficult for myself?
"Wait." Pei Yi uttered a profound word, then took the two kids to squat in the shadow not far away to feed mosquitoes.
Wang Ersheng woke up alertly the moment the three kids arrived. He squinted his eyes, got up quietly, looked down at his wife who was sleeping contentedly, and walked out wearing his coat.
Sure enough, as soon as he stepped out of the door, he saw three pairs of bright eyes staring at him.
Wang Ersheng: …
He tiptoed quickly to the three little ones and found that they were all dressed the same, all in black.
Wang Ersheng frowned as he passed by the two energetic boys, fixed his gaze on his granddaughter's red face, and whispered, "Qing Jie'er, why aren't you sleeping yet? Be careful that your mother will find out and beat you. Now there's no one to beat you for your mother."
Little Yining looked extremely aggrieved and timidly called out "Grandpa..."
"Oh, what's the matter?"
She repeated what she had said during the day, "Mom only has five taels left!"
Wang Ersheng was stunned for a moment, and for some reason he didn't dare to look at his granddaughter's eyes.
Oh, I was careless. I took care of my son's share but forgot about my daughter's. I thought she was counting money at home every day and had no shortage of money!
"Uh..." Wang Ersheng looked at Pei Yi again and asked, "What are you going to do now, kid?"
Pei Yi had already prepared an excuse, "Uncle Wang, I lent all my money to my cousin's wife. Money makes money now, and I won't have money to buy medicine next month."
Wang Ersheng: ..., my daughter is so poor that she has to ask other children to borrow money?
He looked at Wang Gungun and said, "I'm the one supporting you, you're not short of money, are you?"
Wang Gungun grinned and said, "Sister Qing asked me to pay for the meal. Grandpa, you know I didn't make any money from fortune-telling."
Wang Ersheng glanced at his little granddaughter speechlessly, and saw her smiling shyly at him.
He really has no way to deal with these three little kids. It's really worrying to have too many children!
He felt around his body, but unfortunately he was in his pajamas and couldn't put any money there.
Wang Ersheng said helplessly, "Then you guys go to sleep first. I'll go for a walk outside and see if there's any money to pick up."
"No need, Uncle Wang. Time is running out. We have already found a place where we can pick up money. You just need to lead us." Pei Yi stood up and replied confidently.
Wang Ersheng: …
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Pei Mansion
Sheng Jingchen drank tea boredly, but his eyes were fixed on the night sky.
At this time, a blue smoke bloomed silently in the air and then slowly dissipated.
Pei Dafu immediately reminded, "Your Majesty, that boy has moved."
Sheng Jingchen slowly put down the teacup and chuckled, "Let's go. I want to see what the thing Pei Yi said is better than what I have in my private storehouse looks like."
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