After transmigrating into the body of a widow, I became the richest man in the capital.

Chapter 154 Paying Imperial Grain

Su Xiaoxiao asked and found out that no one knew how to cook the eel soup.

"I just saw that some of the eels still had their internal organs cleaned. Wouldn't it be very dirty to eat them directly like that?"

Although Pei Yuan didn't dare to look at Su Xiaoxiao, he still expressed his thoughts.

Su Xiaoxiao used her chopsticks to pick up a smaller eel, whose internal organs had not yet been cleaned out.

Su Xiaoxiao used chopsticks to hold the eel's head firmly, then used another chopstick to pick out the eel's spine from the middle, along with all the eel's internal organs.

What remained was the white, firm flesh of the eel, which looked incredibly delicious. Su Xiaoxiao put the eel in her mouth, and it immediately melted in her mouth.

Su Xiaoxiao ate very happily, and then it was Da Bao's turn. He immediately followed Su Xiaoxiao's example and started eating. Unexpectedly, he did the same and started eating right away.

Meanwhile, Su Xiaoxiao started drinking the eel soup. It turned out that the essence of this dish was in the soup. In fact, the vegetables in the soup were the best part. Su Xiaoxiao slurped the soup with great enjoyment.

Chunxiang and Qiuye had already started enjoying the eel soup, while Pei Yuan was the only one whose stomach was growling as he watched everyone else eat.

"It smells so good! Daddy, if you don't come and eat soon, there won't be any left!"

Da Bao reminded Pei Yuan at the right moment that if he didn't come to eat soon, the eel soup would be gone, and he would probably go hungry.

At this moment, Pei Yuan couldn't care less about anything else. He simply couldn't resist the aroma of the eel soup; otherwise, he wouldn't have come to eat it.

Compared to all that, Pei Yuan felt it was more important to fill his stomach first.

After eating it, Pei Yuan completely forgot what the eel looked like at first; all he could taste was its freshness. The eel soup was just too delicious.

Pei Yuan ate bowl after bowl of rice, unable to stop. He hadn't tasted Su Xiaoxiao's cooking in a long time; even all the chefs in his household combined couldn't compare to hers.

In Pei Yuan's heart, Su Xiaoxiao's cooking was the best.

After lunch, Su Xiaoxiao was busy sending Chunxiang and Qiuye away.

At first, Pei Yuan disagreed, saying, "I brought this to serve you, why should you refuse my kindness?"

Pei Yuan said that after the meal, the two of them could clean up the table, and there was no need to trouble Su Xiaoxiao with any more trouble.

Su Xiaoxiao shook her head and said, "If you still have that general's temper and need someone to serve you, you might as well leave with us and take all the odds and ends you brought with you."

Upon hearing Su Xiaoxiao's words, Pei Yuan quickly compromised.

He had no choice but to say to Chunxiang and Qiuye, "You two go back to the General's Mansion first. We don't need you here."

The two maids hurriedly asked Pei Yuan, their voices trembling with tears, "General, did we misbehave? Is that why you sent us away?"

The two thought to themselves, "We've come all this way and haven't done any work. We've been served by Su Xiaoxiao and eaten such a delicious meal. It must be that Su Xiaoxiao thinks we're just here to eat and not do any work, which is why she's treating us like this and is planning to kick us out."

The two maids were terrified
Pei Yuan quickly shook his head and said, "No, this is Miss Su's idea."

"We're leaving." The two maids were quite reluctant to part, since Su Xiaoxiao hadn't asked them to do any work since they arrived.

This seems quite comforting. Secondly, it seems they have never eaten such delicious food in the General's Mansion before.

She wondered why her General Pei Yuan would be willing to come here. Regardless of whether he liked Su Xiaoxiao or not, Su Xiaoxiao's cooking was absolutely delicious.

After Chunxiang and Qiuye left, Su Xiaoxiao saw Pei Yuan begin to arrange his things in the room.

He first went to Su Xiaoxiao's room, intending to put his luggage in there as well.

Su Xiaoxiao quickly stopped him, "Wait, what are you thinking? Da Bao and Xiao Bao each have their own room now, and you actually want to come and sleep in the same room as me? No way!"

"what?"

Pei Yuan then put on his innocent, coquettish face again, "No."

Su Xiaoxiao firmly refused Pei Yuan, and in the end, Pei Yuan had no choice but to choose a room that was closest to Su Xiaoxiao's room, which was about the same size as the room across from Su Xiaoxiao's room, and put all his things in it.

Su Xiaoxiao had no other choice but to let Pei Yuan do as he pleased. Oh well, what could she do when the children all liked him?
After learning Pei Yuan's true identity, Su Xiaoxiao remained resentful that he had concealed it from her, feeling that he had deceived her.

However, Su Xiaoxiao could never let go of Pei Yuan. After Pei Yuan left, she missed him terribly.

I can't sleep every night because I think about him, but I still can't accept the fact that he lied to me.

What's more, Pei Yuan also had a marriage arranged by the Emperor, which made it even harder for Su Xiaoxiao to accept.

Su Xiaoxiao knew that after Pei Yuan moved in, Tang Xiaoman would inevitably come over to bother him every day, and things would probably get lively then.

Xiao Bao is particularly attached to Pei Yuan, always pestering him to teach her to read. Whenever she sees Pei Yuan resting, she goes up to him, hugs his neck, and takes out a copy of the Three Character Classic. Although she is only three years old, if she had started reading early, she should have started receiving early education by now.

For example, poetry, songs, and simple arithmetic should not be neglected.

Su Xiaoxiao and the others took a nap at noon. In the afternoon, the village head came from house to house to inform them that it was time to pay the government grain tax. Su Xiaoxiao's household registration was in her uncle and aunt's Su Family Village in the neighboring village, so she had to take the grain there to pay it.

In ancient times, taxes and corvée labor were a huge burden on the heads of ordinary people, which they could not escape.

At this time, the borders were unstable, and the country still needed to maintain its army for fighting, so the taxes on the people naturally became much heavier.

The people are already suffering enough, and some officials are even exploiting them relentlessly.

What's most infuriating about these people is that no matter how badly those poor people are doing, to the point where they have no food left to eat, they still have to hand over grain to the emperor.

Su Xiaoxiao arrived at Su Family Village, the place where she was born, the place where the original owner of the body was born, which held her childhood memories. But now she saw her fellow villagers being oppressed by the soldiers who were collecting grain, and of course she couldn't stand it and had to come out and meddle.

"Sir, we can't deliver this grain. We don't even have any surplus grain for the New Year. What can we give to the country?"

(End of this chapter)