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

Chapter 296 The General Goes to Work in the Fields
Everyone else had already left the table, and Su Xiaoxiao had finished eating, but Pei Yuan was still eating his noodles.

"You don't need to be so supportive."

Su Xiaoxiao said this to Pei Yuan only after everyone was gone.

"No, it's really delicious! The noodles you made are amazing. You must have kneaded them for a long time, right? Let me see your hands are all red!"

Su Xiaoxiao spread out her hands for Pei Yuan to see, and Pei Yuan took her hand and kneaded it for a long time. At first, Su Xiaoxiao thought he was worried about her hands hurting from kneading the dough, but she found out that he was just touching her hands and wouldn't let go.

"Oh, it's such an honor to have married a wife like you! I'm so happy. I could eat your noodles every day, I could die happy."

As he spoke, Pei Yuan pretended to wipe his cheek, as if he were wiping away tears.

Su Xiaoxiao was stunned. Where did General Pei learn this from after not seeing him for so many days?

"Honestly, you really have a talent for cooking. The noodles I eat from other people are never as good as the ones you make. They're always so chewy. The length and width of the noodles are just right for my taste. It's the perfect texture, it's just perfect."

Su Xiaoxiao couldn't help but laugh happily when Pei Yuan commented on her like a gourmet.

"Well, it's been a few days and you've even started writing food reviews. That's impressive."

Su Xiaoxiao poured a little vinegar into Pei Yuan's bowl, and seeing how satisfied he was with the food, she couldn't help but smile.

"Eat slowly, no one's going to take it from you."

Pei Yuan ignored all that, saying, "If you keep eating noodles like this without any decorum, I'm afraid even your subordinate Bei Yan will be disappointed in you."

"What? Let him be disappointed. We're fighting on the front lines, and sometimes we eat even faster than this. It's not like he's never seen that before."

Su Xiaoxiao thought to herself, "This person is quite clear-headed, and he's also quite open-minded in front of his subordinates."

Since you don't care about your image, then come and work in the fields with me after you finish eating!

After Pei Yuan finished eating, Su Xiaoxiao didn't give him time to rest. She pulled him out to harness the mule and get ready to work in the fields.

After finishing their meal and resting for a while, Bei Yan and Su Lie were already waiting in the courtyard. Bei Yan borrowed a donkey and some plowing tools. They waited together for Su Xiaoxiao to prepare to leave.

"I borrowed this donkey. I wonder if it will be more obedient than that stubborn mule."

Bei Yan looked at his master with concern, "Are you sure you can handle this?"

Pei Yuan ignored him, smiled without saying a word, and calmly went to lead the donkey.

Of course, he had already changed into the farmer's clothes that Su Xiaoxiao had prepared for him, and after taking off the handsome armor he had just worn, he immediately transformed into the most handsome farmer.

There's no way around it; some people still look incredibly stylish even when they're dressed very simply.

Even a thick cotton-padded coat from Northeast China takes on a different feel when worn by a fashionable person.

Pei Yuan did everything with such ease that even his subordinate Bei Yan found it amazing.

"What are you doing?"

It looked quite convincing. After harnessing the mule to the plow, he gently raised the whip.

"Giddy up!"

Su Xiaoxiao asked in surprise, "You know how to plow the land?"

"I learned it in the military."

A man like that, capable of both fighting and farming, isn't he a hot commodity? Seeing him working, Su Xiaoxiao thought he was even more handsome. "Xiaoxiao, you can go rest over there, I'll take care of all the work."

Upon hearing this, Su Xiaoxiao thought, "That's even better!"

Then he saw Bei Yan next to him, who was so angry at the newly borrowed donkey that he was about to faint.

The donkey was disobedient; it wouldn't even walk in a straight line, it just tilted its head back and brayed wildly.

"You damned beast, if I had known you weren't borrowed, I would have definitely given you a good beating."

With no other option, the donkey finally lay down on the edge of the field and pretended to be dead.

Pei Yuan walked up to Bei Yan and said to him, "You have no patience even with livestock? You're always so impatient?"

Helpless, Pei Yuan went to help.

Bei Yan humbly followed and learned from him.

Pei Yuan walked up to the donkey and whispered a few words to it, pressing his ear close to its ear. Unexpectedly, the donkey opened its big eyes and nuzzled its head against Pei Yuan in a friendly manner.

It was done quickly. Pei Yuan put the plowing tools on the guy and then said to Bei Yan, "Watch and learn from him."

Helpless, Bei Yan had no choice but to humbly follow Pei Yuan and learn from him. He rolled up his sleeves, held the plow handle in one hand and the whip in the other, and began to shout.

After a long day of work, Su Xiaoxiao was exhausted by evening.

Pei Yuan said to Su Xiaoxiao, "Why make things difficult for yourself? I can support you even if you don't farm."

Su Xiaoxiao said Pei Yuan didn't understand, "It's a kind of sentiment, okay?"

Pei Yuan smiled but didn't say anything. "However, I think it's a pity for you. Will it hinder your future if the children and I keep you trapped in this remote mountain valley?"

"What are you talking about?"

Seeing Pei Yuan glaring at her, Su Xiaoxiao quickly explained, "What I mean is, I think you're a great general, and it's such a waste of your talents to be farming in this mountainous area with us. You're destined for great things..."

Pei Yuan stared blankly at Su Xiaoxiao, "What do you mean by that?"

"Have you considered?"

Pei Yuan stared at Su Xiaoxiao, carefully discerning some information from her eyes.

"I've made up my mind. Once this crop is planted, I'll travel the world with you and we'll do things we've never done before."

Although she is set up as a farmer, she doesn't want to be trapped by the fields for the rest of her life.

There are still many things a person can do. Now that the person you love most has appeared by your side, wanting to do anything you want with them—isn't that the meaning of life?

Pei Yuan seemed quite surprised, staring blankly at Su Xiaoxiao, seemingly very moved. He grabbed Su Xiaoxiao's hand, his calluses quite thick, and said, "Yes, we'll travel the world with the child, doing whatever we want, going wherever we want. Life couldn't be better, and we won't have to see the child's grandmother's face anymore."

"Yes, that's the decision we've made."

Pei Yuan came over and hugged Su Xiaoxiao, and the two whispered sweet nothings to each other for a while.

Su Xiaoxiao now has a jade bracelet on her wrist, which Pei Yuan put on her.

The patterns on the jade bracelet were quite strange, with a bit of a Western Regions style. Pei Yuan said that it was a war trophy he had captured while fighting on the front lines.

(End of this chapter)