CHAPTER 200: CHAPTER 198 REFUSAL (2)

After the chubby butler from the Yu Wen Family left, the little book boy curiously asked Pei Shenyan, "Young Master, why didn’t you agree to go when the Young Master Zan from the Marquis Zhongyi Mansion invited you?"

Pei Shenyan sneered, "What would I be going as? An attendant? His attendant student? It’s not a position earned by my ability, so what’s the point? For a position, I want to strive with my own skills."

The attendant sighed, "But the young master’s health isn’t great, and the master doesn’t care about you. How will you rise above others?"

"You little brat, looking for a spanking?" Old servant Pei Ji came over and scolded the little boy, "Has the master ever said he doesn’t care about the young master? The master is the Prime Minister, he’s busy with state affairs! The master only sees the other young masters once or twice a year."

The little attendant mumbled, "At least the other young masters get to see the master once or twice a year, but our young master?"

"Can the other young masters compare with our young master? I’ve seen the situation, the master just scolds them when he sees them, but our young master is here to recover his health! It’s not that the master doesn’t like him."

Pei Shenyan rubbed his forehead and sneered, "Stop arguing, I know very well what place I hold in his heart."

The old servant and the little boy fell silent, "Yes, young master."

Pei Shenyan looked at them and said coldly, "The reason I still keep the surname Pei is out of respect for the old lady. If it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t acknowledge this surname Pei. As for Prime Minister Pei, he can walk his wide and open road, and I’ll cross my narrow bridge. From now on, none of you are allowed to mention him in front of me, I act as if he doesn’t exist!"

The old servant looked worried, "Young master, even if the master is not good, he is still your father, if you sever ties with him, how will you enter officialdom in the future?"

"Can I even live to enter officialdom?" Pei Shenyan replied with a bitter smile.

"You will, you will, you definitely will." The old servant hurriedly said, "Young master, please don’t lose heart, the illness will surely get better."

Pei Shenyan smiled slightly, "I haven’t lost heart, I respect the facts, birth, old age, sickness, and death are natural, I’m just speaking the truth."

The old servant sighed, not knowing what to say.

Pei Shenyan continued, "Alright, alright, why are you sighing? I haven’t sighed, what are you sighing for? I’ve decided, the shop is rented out, you just focus on finding me a doctor, Fusheng will stay home with me, Pei Ji go out and seek a doctor, no matter who, as long as they can treat my illness, just invite them."

Fusheng replied, "Yes, young master."

The old servant went inside to pack a small bundle, put on a bamboo hat, and rode a donkey to find a doctor.

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The business at the Second Princess’s shop was quite good today.

After wrapping up in the afternoon, the four of them sat on the ground counting the income, surprisingly reaching a thousand coins!

The Second Princess was so delighted that her eyes widened, "Second Brother, Third Sister, did we not miscount? How could there be so much money?"

The Second Young Master laughed, "Did you even look at the cloth bag holding the money? It’s about to burst."

The cloth bag was bulging and heavy.

The total income was one thousand and eighty coins, two to three hundred more than the usual income.

Li Yuzhu said, "Second Sister, it seems the shop rental is worth it. The shop has just opened, it’s not very popular yet, not many people know there’s a shop here, yet today’s income reached a thousand coins, two hundred more than the most we earned in the past.

As time goes by and the place becomes more popular, the income will only increase. This extra income is enough to cover the shop’s costs. Besides, when you set up a stall, you can’t do business on rainy days, making at most twenty days of business a month, but with a shop, you can open regardless of the weather, ensuring income."

The Second Princess could also do the math.

She happily rubbed her chubby hands, "Yes, yes, the shop rental is worth it."

Seeing everyone happy, Liu Si Niu was also cheerful.

She remembered Li Yuzhu’s words and found things to do.

Doing things makes one seem diligent, and diligence makes people like her.

Liu Si Niu took the broom and swept the ground in front of the shop clean.

The Second Princess praised her with a smile, and Liu Si Niu swept with even more gusto.

There were a few unsellable pastries, and the Second Princess distributed them for everyone to have as dry food.

After eating pastries and drinking tea, they closed the shop and pushed the cart back.

Liu Si Niu, who had been stoking the stove all day and walked ten or so li, didn’t complain of tiredness, her whole face was filled with a constant smile.

Returning to the Li Family’s bamboo house, Liu Si Niu eagerly ran to the kitchen to find something to do.

In the kitchen, the Xue Family was washing vegetables. Seeing her barging in, she yelled to shoo her out, "Out, out, you’re filthy!"

Liu Si Niu looked at her hands, they weren’t dirty.

She walked out of the kitchen, dazed, and sat on a small bench, not knowing what to do.

The Second Young Master parked the cart beside the kitchen and went inside to get a drink of water.

He glanced at the Xue Family, ignored her, drank his water, and went back out.

The Second Princess was cheerful and chatted with the Xue Family about today’s earnings, "Sister-in-law, I earned quite a lot today, even more than usual, with an income of one thousand and eighty coins."

The Xue Family was boiling with jealousy on the inside, that chubby girl with no chin visible, could actually make so much money?

She glared at the Second Princess and slammed the knife on the cutting board.

"Oh, right, we also encountered someone from the capital, Second Brother said it’s someone from the Yu Wen Family, I don’t know what they were doing here." The Second Princess poured herself a glass of water to drink.

The Xue Family’s mind jolted, someone from the Yu Wen Family?

"Someone from the Yu Wen Family? The Yu Wen Family from the Marquis Zhongyi Mansion?" The Xue Family stopped cutting vegetables and hurriedly asked.

The Second Princess said, "I was moving things at the time, saw a carriage run past my shop, Second Brother and Third Sister were chatting, Second Brother said it was a carriage from the Yu Wen Family. Second Brother is always accurate in recognizing people, he shouldn’t be wrong, right?"

The Xue Family put down the knife, fetched a chair, and sat the Second Princess down, "Second Sister, Second Sister, tell me about what happened then."

The Second Princess blinked, "Tell you what?"

"That carriage, who from the Yu Wen Family was driving it? What were they doing here?" The Xue Family smiled faintly while looking at the Second Princess.

The Second Princess shook her head dumbly, "I don’t know, I just heard it from Third Sister and Second Brother. By the time I saw the carriage, it had already gone far."

The smile on the Xue Family’s face froze at once, she walked out of the kitchen, "Third Sister, Sister-in-law has something to ask you."

Her face was smiling.

Li Yuzhu was talking with Liu Si Niu.

Seeing her walking over with a smile, Li Yuzhu inexplicably felt something bad in her heart.

"What is it, sister-in-law?" Her expression was bland.

"You encountered a carriage from the Marquis Zhongyi Mansion at the market today, right?" The Xue Family crouched beside Li Yuzhu.

Li Yuzhu and Liu Si Niu were sitting side by side on a low stool, she nodded, "Yes, Second Brother said it was a carriage from the Marquis Zhongyi Mansion, is there something wrong, sister-in-law?"

Laughing inexplicably, what is this Xue Family plotting again?