Pei Li was afraid of affecting their relationship, so she quickly said good things about Pei Jing.
"Sister-in-law, don't blame my brother. I didn't tell him. Every time he asked me, I said he was very good. In fact...it's actually very good now. Compared with when I was a child, he took me wandering and I was hungry. It’s much better to have one meal and no next meal. Besides, my brother is also busy on weekdays..."
Sheng Ningning was helpless.
"Okay, I won't scold your brother anymore. But with my support in the future, you can't be so timid and cowardly anymore. You have to remember that this family is named Pei, and it is your family, not your uncle's family. You are the one who He is the master of this family."
Pei Li nodded in understanding.
Sheng Ningning suddenly asked: "Pei Li, are you literate?"
Pei Li: "My brother found a private school for me the year before last. I studied for a few days and I know a thing or two about it, but I'm not very proficient."
Sheng Ningning: "You haven't read it now?"
Pei Li whispered: "My aunt said that my daughter's family doesn't need to read so many books. She just asked me to learn about female celebrities at home."
Sheng Ningning took a mouthful of old blood and almost fell asleep.
"Your aunt doesn't want you to study because she can't afford the money. Does your brother know about this?"
Pei Li felt guilty: "I didn't say anything."
"..."
A heartless man coupled with a coward, and then faced with a family of money-grubbing people!
Sheng Ningning really felt that this family was amazing.
She made a decision in her heart: "I will invite a private school teacher to come to the mansion for you tomorrow. You should study hard."
Pei Li was a little shocked.
Sheng Ningning: "I remember that the fifth day of the next lunar month is your haircut ceremony. I have a rule in the Jin Dynasty that women who have passed their haircut can enter the palace as a companion. At that time, it will be better for you to go to the palace to be a companion to my sixth sister, rather than in this mansion. You're wasting your time with that aunt of yours!"
Pei Li was still a little scared.
"Sister-in-law, I'm afraid I can't do it well."
Sheng Ningning knew Pei Li's worries and comforted her: "Don't worry, my Sixth Emperor sister is a little younger than you and is easy to get along with. Besides, my sister-in-law is here, what do you have to be afraid of?"
After Pei Jing left, Sheng Ningning was planning in her mind how to go to Northern Xinjiang with him.
But Pei Jing left Yaomei and the entire Pei family in her hands, and she promised to take good care of them.
Therefore, before leaving Bianjing, she had to settle down where Pei Li would go.
All she could think of was to send Pei Li to the palace as a companion, so that he could both read and make friends. Besides, her Sixth Emperor sister was gentle and obedient to her words.
Therefore, it was the best place for Pei Li to serve as a companion to her Sixth Emperor Sister.
Just wait another month.
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The next day, Sheng Ningning invited the best private school teacher in Bianjing City to teach Pei Li how to read and write. Pei Li had some basic knowledge, and he was smart and used his brain, so he learned quickly.
My aunt visited Pei Li several times, but Sheng Ningning dismissed her with the excuse of studying hard.
This time I finally complained dissatisfiedly, "Li'er is a girl. Why do you study so hard? She doesn't want to take the top prize."
Sheng Ningning wasn't polite to her aunt either, and shouted back on the spot.
"Pei Li is a girl who works so hard. As a man, my cousin should work harder than her. If my aunt has time to come to Dongyuan to visit, she might as well spend more time supervising and supervising my cousin. She must seize the time to get the honors, so as not to waste her time. ah!"
My aunt was choked and had nothing to say, so she left angrily.
After returning to Xiyuan, my aunt saw her unsatisfactory son drinking and having fun. She felt even more angry and cursed: "You still have the heart to drink here, your wife is almost running away."
When Ren Mao heard this, he quickly asked: "Mother, what do you mean? Is it possible that Li'er has a sweetheart behind my back?"
The aunt said bitterly: "Under the instigation of her sister-in-law, that girl will enter the palace in a few days to be a princess. Think about it, if she enters the palace and is attracted by a prince, she will not look at her when she comes back. Fuck you mortal!"
Ren Mao became anxious upon hearing this.
"Mother! Mother! You have to help me! I really like Li'er. Didn't you raise her just to be my child bride?"
The aunt thought about it for a long time, and the mother and son looked at each other and came up with a solution tacitly.
“Rice is cooked!”
My aunt said, "You have ruined Pei Li's reputation. Let's see if she still has the nerve to get married. By then, the Pei family will not be ours."
Ren Mao heard that it made sense, "But Princess Jiashan stares at Pei Li every day, so she doesn't have time at all."
Auntie calmed down and said, "Let me think of something."
That night, Ren Mao couldn't eat anymore, so he couldn't bear his temper and ran to Dongyuan to block Pei Li.
Pei Li was pulled into the rockery by Ren Mao just after class, and her mouth was covered. She was so frightened that she panicked and struggled wildly.
Ren Mao couldn't hold her down any longer, so he had to explode: "I'm cousin, Li'er. If you don't call me, let go of you."
Pei Li nodded hurriedly.
Ren Mao slowly let go of his hand and saw Pei Li retreating in fear.
"Li'er, I didn't mean to hurt you."
"Then what are you doing now?"
"I heard from my mother that you want to enter the palace and be the princess's companion?"
Pei Li looked at Ren Mao warily and nodded slowly.
Ren Mao was furious: "No, you can't leave! You want to marry me!"
Pei Li looked at Ren Mao in disbelief, "Cousin, what are you talking about? When did I say I wanted to marry you?"
Ren Mao: "My mother has said since I was a child that you were a child bride for me!"
Pei Li: "I will never marry you even if I die!"
Pei Li has hated his uncle's family since he was a child.
But she was young at that time. After her parents died, the brother and sister were helpless. Pei Jing took her wandering for a while and came to live with his uncle's family.
His aunt was not willing to take them in. At that time, in order to let his uncle take them in, Pei Jing handed over the ancestral tourmaline bracelet that was his parents' relic, and he barely managed to get a bite of food in exchange for it.
Pei Jing was just a teenager at the time. During the day, he went to the dock to help carry goods to earn money, and when he returned home, he would fetch water and chop firewood.
In order to relieve Pei Jing's pressure, the young Pei Li would help learn to sweep the floor and do laundry. She slept in a woodshed, had no food, no warmth, and endless work. As long as she was with her brother and had a place to go, she had no regrets.
It was also at that time that Pei Li learned to listen carefully, obey, and please her aunt's family.
Two years later, it was time for the military conscription. Pei Jing wanted to improve Pei Li's living conditions, so he went directly to the battlefield.
Pei Jing never talked about the hardships he suffered in the military camp, but as soon as he got his salary, he quickly sent it back.
Just because Pei Jing was able to make money, his uncle and aunt had a better attitude when they took money. However, without the support of his brother, Pei Li often did not have enough to eat and clothing, and grew up in a state of confusion.
As she grew older, she became more and more beautiful, and was spotted by Ren Mao.
Ren Mao and his aunt would often say, "child bride, child bride, child bride." Pei Li came to be Ren Mao's child bride. She used to swallow her anger and pretend not to hear.
But now Ren Mao has become more serious and actually took action.
Pei Li was filled with hatred.
"Pei Li, you are going to marry me anyway, so just obey me!"
"Ren Mao, you are so disgusting!"
Pei Li was so angry that her face turned red. She raised her hand and slapped Ren Mao with a ferocious face.
"You dare to hit me?"
Ren Mao pinched Pei Li and cursed at the top of his lungs: "Do you think that since you are protected by that Princess Jiashan, I won't dare to touch you? Today I want to kill you. I think that prince and nobleman dare to marry you!" "
Pei Li fainted from being pinched, and her whole body softened.
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