To be honest, as soon as the words came out, she was oiled by herself, and she only felt that her breath seemed to be greasy.

But seeing that the system judged it to be successful, she quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Thinking of something, she raised her head suddenly, thinking that she would see Pei Zhiheng's indescribable expression.

Unexpectedly, they met a pair of moving eyes.

Ruan Jiao: "..."

Suddenly choked.

It turns out that he is such Pei Zhiheng? !

Ruan Jiao suddenly felt a strong sense of guilt and guilt.

But thinking of her mission, her own life, and those who were struggling in the end times, she gritted her teeth and turned her face away.

Anyway, in the original book, he is also a man who has no cp until he grows old, and he doesn't even have a room. Ruining him and benefiting thousands of families is also a great virtue... right?

And if she didn't want to save herself at the beginning, she would have been under his calculations and become a lingering person, where would there be any freedom at all.

Thinking of this, Ruan Jiao instantly calmed down.

It's just that she couldn't stand his gaze, she pretended to be shy after confessing, covered her face and ran away.

Pei Zhiheng reached out and wanted to grab her wrist, but she slipped as fast as a loach, and he only had time to grab the air.

He retracted his hand, and as soon as he turned his head, he saw Pei's mother looking at him with a smile on her face.

Pei Zhiheng clenched one hand into a fist, put it on his lips and coughed lightly, hiding his unnaturalness, "Mother, why are you here?"

"It seems that you only have your daughter-in-law in your eyes. I've been standing here for a long time, and you haven't noticed me." Pei's mother looked at him with a smile, her eyes similar to his were full of playfulness.

Although Pei Zhiheng's face was still tense, the base of his ears gradually spread a touch of pink.

Mother Pei knew that he was thin-skinned, so she stopped teasing him, and only said earnestly, "Jiao Niang has a pure heart, since she likes it, then treat her well, and don't hurt her heart in the future."

Pei Zhiheng straightened his face, "Don't worry, mother."

Mother Pei came over to help him clean up his pen and ink, "We don't have any relatives who need to move around. After the New Year's Eve, you will take Jiao Niang back to your in-laws' house and stay there for half a month. After all, if everything goes well, You haven't had a chance to come back for more than a year."

Pei Zhiheng narrowed his eyes slightly, "Mother, you will come with us when the time comes."

Mother Pei's actions paused, "Where are you going? How can there be so much money, one more person will cost more money, you go, mother is in the village, what's the danger? There are big guys to take care of, Do not worry about me."

"I will earn money for the troubles on the road, but I don't feel relieved if Mother leaves you alone in the village." This is the first time Pei Zhiheng has confessed to Mother Pei in such a candid manner, "Mother, I have been working so hard all these years, and it's not that I have one. If I want to benefit the hearts of the people, all I want is to give you and Jiao Niang a good day. If you and Jiao Niang are not there, then it is meaningless for me to achieve great achievements. "

Pei Zhiheng looked at Mother Pei with a solemn expression, "Mother, I don't have a father. We have been dependent on each other since we were young. Wherever you are, is home to me, and now I have another beautiful mother. You all follow me. Let's go together so that I won't be distracted by thinking about you all the time."

Mother Pei was stunned for a moment, looking at Pei Zhiheng's face that had gradually grown.

In a trance, Mother Pei seemed to see him when he was a child, no matter what she did, she followed her step by step and looked at her with good eyes, until later he went to study in the academy, and the mother and son became more and more together, and he grew up again. , and no longer stick to him.

She suddenly laughed. She wanted to raise her hand to touch his eyebrows, but found that he had grown to a height that she couldn't reach.

There was a bit of loss on her face, she shook her head helplessly and said, "Why are you still so clingy after getting married and starting a business?"

The expression on Pei Zhiheng's face was a little stunned, and the expression on his face almost didn't hold back.

He was just worried that after Qiu Yang's failure, those people in the capital came to him, he was not at home, and Pei's mother was hurt by those people.

I didn't expect her to turn around here.

Can you say that he is a person who gets along well with Ruan Jiao's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law? His mother's brain circuit and his daughter-in-law are simply beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.

For a moment, his expression was very strange.

He didn't deny it either, he returned to normal in a second, and then changed the words and continued: "Have you forgotten the people who came to our house to inquire twice in a row before? Although it is said that this matter has passed, but I can't rest assured, even if it's for the sake of my son, you should go together, and Jiao Niang has never been far away and her face is tender, in case we both can't stand up, we will need my mother to come and help at that time."

Mother Pei thought for a while and felt that what he said made sense.

This journey has been a long way, no matter if it's the son or the sweet girl, the face is too delicate, the two of them are young, she still needs to take care of them by the side.

Seeing her move, Pei Zhiheng quickly added: "I have achieved a lot in my studies now, let's go to the provincial capital earlier, I can help some wealthy families teach their children, collect some bundles, and sell some of mine. From my reading experience, although our family does not have much money, it is enough for our family of three."

Mother Pei heard what he said, but suddenly remembered the little meatballs she and Ruan Jiao went to sell at the market a few days ago.

Instant confidence boost.

Even if her son is not very useful, when she sets up a small stall and sells food, it will be enough to earn the family's expenses.

Ruan Jiao didn't know how Pei Zhiheng persuaded Pei's mother. When they came back from Ruan's house after a year, Pei's mother agreed to go with her.

However, because she was worried that she would not have enough money in the future, Mother Pei suddenly became interested in making money.

Her embroidery skills can only support her to embroider some small pieces, and she can't make much money at all.

She decided to make food.

The last time sold small meatballs, it really gave her a lot of confidence.

The girls thought about it and finally decided to sell small meatballs.

After all, it’s easy to do, fried at home ahead of time, ready to eat dry, and to make soup.

On such a cold day, have a bowl of meatball soup, both oily and hot.

So the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law set up a small stall on the pier.

Small profits but quick turnover, a bowl of soup is almost full of vegetables, there are only two meatballs, and this time the meatballs are chopped cabbage in, but because the soup is boiled over the bones, the soup inside is thick, and the meatballs are bomby. , the cabbage absorbs the broth of the meat, and the taste is better and mellow, which makes people have endless aftertastes.

Even if it was just over the New Year, everyone couldn't help but buy a bowl.

If you have less money, you can buy a bowl of soup instead of meatballs.

I cut some cabbage and vermicelli into the soup, and soaked in the dry pancakes brought from home, so don't feel hard working in such a cold day.

Pei Zhiheng should have been reading at home, but because he was worried, he went to the pier to take a look.

Because she was afraid that her face would cause trouble, Mother Pei prepared a hat for Ruan Jiao.

Although she couldn't see her face clearly, she was still the most eye-catching one in the crowd.

However, no one dared to look at her.

When paying, can't wait to be 800 feet away from her.

Seeing this, Pei Zhiheng couldn't help but be a little puzzled, and turned to ask the old man who was also selling food beside him.

Hearing this, the old man gave him a strange look.

Then he showed a dismal expression on his face.

"I think you're still a scholar. You don't like that little lady, right?"

His eyes swept across Pei Zhiheng's bleak face, and finally fell on his slender but seemingly weak limbs, and said earnestly: "Lady, I advise you, or it's better not to provoke their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law? "

Hearing this, Pei Zhiheng groaned, "Could it be that someone has already troubled them?"

Ruan Jiao and Mother Pei came out of the village by borrowing an ox cart from the village. He followed him secretly. He couldn't ride the carriage together, so he could only come on foot, much later than the two of them.

"Otherwise?" The old man looked at Pei Zhiheng and snorted, "There is a group of thugs on the pier, who are idle all day long, doing all kinds of evil, and they are specifically watching us poor people to collect protection fees. Today, Feng San, who is the leader of them, has taken a fancy to them. That little lady was young and beautiful, so she wanted to make trouble, and then forcibly grabbed the person back."

When he said this, the old man's eyes lit up, and his cheeks were flushed with excitement, "I didn't expect that the little lady is a martial artist, so he glared angrily, 'You bastard, take a punch from me', Then Feng San flew straight out. Do you know how far he flew? He flew more than 150 feet, and his bones were all broken, hey! On the spot, there was more air and less air..."

Pei Zhiheng: "..."

Old man, you are really a condescending person to sell food here.

He didn't want to listen to the description of the change, so he went straight to his mother and Ruan Jiao.

The stall was very busy, but no one spoke.

When Pei Zhiheng walked over, everyone's eyes fell on him.

There was a hint of drama in his eyes.

Pei Zhiheng didn't take it seriously, walked closer and took the bowl from Mother Pei's hand.

Mother Pei looked up and was stunned, "Sanlang, why are you here?"

Pei Zhiheng said lightly, "I don't worry about you, so come and see."

Mother Pei's face suddenly showed a very indescribable expression. After a while, she said a little unnaturally: "It's enough to have a beautiful girl here, I don't need you, you can go back to Wenshu."

Pei Zhiheng didn't respond, but opened his mouth and said without refusing: "I've already come out. If I go back, it's still the same delay. You guys are so busy, I might as well go back here after you finish your work."

When Ruan Jiao heard the words, she immediately shoved the box containing silver coins and copper plates into his arms, and then heaved a sigh of relief, "Mother-in-law is right. Much sooner. Just in time for the husband to collect the money, I will make ball soup with you, and we will sell it faster."

Ruan Jiao's voice was not low, and everyone who heard her words cast their gazes on Pei Zhiheng involuntarily.

Pei Zhiheng's movements stopped.

Why did he feel that those people looked at him with pity written in their eyes?

Just now, he focused all his attention on Mother Pei and Ruan Jiao.

Only now did he notice that among the people who came to pay the money, there were very few coolies on the dock.

Although the action of paying is very happy, but it is written in the eyes that it is not easy to mess with.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and his hands kept moving, but he carefully looked at those people.

The more he looked at him, the more wrong he felt.

He couldn't help but grab Ruan Jiao's wrist when she was approaching, using the stall to cover her, and whispered, "This situation is not right, my mother and I are standing here first, you go to the yamen quickly."

Ruan Jiao gave him a strange look, "What's wrong?"

Pei Zhiheng's eyes fell on those fierce people, "Those people..."

Before he could finish speaking, Ruan Jiao interrupted him, "Oh, you don't think they are good people, do you? It's okay, they're here to send money, as long as they don't find fault, they're all guests."

Pei Zhiheng didn't expect her courage to be so big.

But thinking that she dared to rush up to catch the wild boar, she suddenly fell silent.

He took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "I know you are brave enough to fight, but these people are different from wild boars. Their hands are stained with blood, and there are so many people..."

At this time, a group of people suddenly appeared not far away, the thin and wretched short man at the front stared fiercely at Ruan Jiao, clutching his chest, his face pale, "Brother, it's her, that stinky bitch, not only does she not give protection Fei, and beat people!"

Hearing his words, Pei Zhiheng guessed that he might be Feng San who was beaten by Ruan Jiao just now.

He quickly glanced around to determine the fastest and safest retreat route, and his mind was running fast, thinking about the next response.

But he didn't wait for him to come up with anything.

The group of people has come to the front, and they are about to overturn the fried meatballs of Pei Mu. "Toast if you don't eat or drink fine wine, smash it for me!"

Pei Zhiheng hurriedly reached out to grab Ruan Jiao, trying to stand in front of her and his mother.

It doesn't matter if things fall, people can't have an accident.

However, he did not expect that Ruan Jiao was faster than him.

She didn't know where she suddenly pulled out a stick, and smashed it down at the man's hand, scolding coldly, "Where do you stretch your hand?"

The man immediately covered his hands and called out.

The few people he brought were stunned for a moment. After a while, they reacted and immediately surrounded the small stall Ruan Jiao and Mother Pei.

Then he came majestic, and was beaten by Ruan Jiao, lying on the ground like a lost dog.

Just now, Pei Zhiheng noticed that Ruan Jiao's movements were very neat. If she hadn't deliberately avoided it, those people on the ground would have been killed in one hit.

Originally, he just thought that Ruan Jiao was a little more powerful, and she was invincible by relying on her strength to defeat ten times. However, seeing her do it with his own eyes, he instantly realized that he was wrong.

His mind went blank for a moment.

Who is she?

Ruan Jiao didn't care what he was thinking, after hitting someone, she immediately threw away the stick in her hand and shouted as if frightened, "I, I hit someone!"

She clutched Pei Zhiheng's sleeve tightly, her knuckles were so innocent that she squeezed too hard, her face was blank, and she looked at Pei Zhiheng in panic, "Wuwu, husband, what should I do? I won't. Got caught? I'm so scared, I... I didn't mean to, I just... These meatballs are for my husband to take the exam, I..."

She deliberately acted incoherently, always like a petite flower, pinching Pei Zhiheng's sleeve tightly.

- "I was so frightened that those hooligans were not allowed to compensate me for mental damage? But if I took the initiative to touch... take it, wouldn't it be good?"

——"Hey, I knew it earlier, I wouldn't stop them from smashing their stalls just now. If everything is smashed, I can be justified if I ask for compensation!"

"Oh, if I knew earlier that I would not wear a cap, maybe a few more waves of people will send money, and the money to accompany Pei Zhiheng to Beijing can be collected."

Pei Zhiheng: "..."

He looked at her indifferently.

You have also learned to fish for law enforcement.

Someone had already looked for the yamen, and when the group arrived at the yamen, the county magistrate was speechless when he saw them.

He understood it, and let the young couple walk around the street for a few more laps, for fear that under his rule, they would not be able to pick up their belongings, and it would be peaceful.

A few thugs deliberately seek trouble, and naturally they will be sent to prison.

The county magistrate glanced at Pei Zhiheng, "Are you going to end this autumn?"

Pei Zhiheng respectfully raised his hand and bowed to the county magistrate, "If you go back to the county magistrate, the student does plan to end this autumn."

The county magistrate hummed, as a talent under his rule, he had already paid attention to it.

I had only heard his name before, but never knew him.

In the end, didn't expect him to enter the yamen three times in the past two days, and he forced him to remember it, and he would never forget it again.

He looked at Pei Zhiheng for a while before saying anything, and then he pointed out: "Since you are going to end this year, you should study your homework more at home, be skilled in diligence and leisure, and don't occupy too much for these mundane things. mind."

Pei Zhiheng knew that the county magistrate was reminding him.

Afraid that he has been wasting time and did not perform well in the rural exam.

After all, he was under his rule, and if he really passed the exam, it would be considered his achievement.

Pei Zhiheng replied yes, but he didn't take it to heart, so he withdrew.

The meatball soup could not be sold, so it was given to the yamen servants.

Ruan Jiao and Pei's mother's craftsmanship are very good. Although this soup is not worth much, it tastes very good, and the yamen are very happy.

On the way back, Ruan Jiao was always unhappy, and Pei's mother was a little bit tired.

Pei Zhiheng knew that it was because most of the meatball soup was given away today.

I thought the two of them were distressed for money.

He patted Ruan Jiao on the back of the hand and comforted softly: "The money is gone, you can still make more money, as long as the people are fine, wait for me to go back and copy a few books, you should not do this food business."

Ruan Jiao raised her eyes and glanced at him, and said implicitly: "You can only copy a book with a few dozen words, and it will delay your reading. Forget it, my mother and I will think of a way."

——“It’s too slow to make money like this, and there are a lot of troubles. If it weren’t for the busy market today, I would have laughed at the money on those few people! It hurts to think about it, no, I can’t think about it anymore. , If I think about it again, I always feel that I was wrong by a hundred million."

- "Hey, is there a cottage or something near here? Or I'll come to Boda, and I'll eat the black and rob the rich and help the poor! Anyway, those are all ill-gotten gains, and I don't take much, enough. A toll is enough! It doesn't seem to work either, if it is really robbed, I can't explain the origin of so much money."

Ruan Jiao's expression was a little distressed, and suddenly her eyes lit up.

——"Have it! When I grab it, I will dig a hole under a tree on the mountain and bury it. When the time comes, I will call the male protagonist up the mountain, and we will dig it out together. It won't be washed away! Windfall from the sky! Hey, I so smart!"

Pei Zhiheng: "..."

His pupils shrank suddenly, and he looked at her in astonishment, almost choking himself to death without a saliva.

The author says:

Male protagonist: But let you arrange it clearly

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One more, three more owed

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