Chapter 762 - 762: Abnormality

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

There must be something fishy about this. Recalling what Li Yan had done in the past, Pei Xuanxin became vigilant.

However, this time, Li Yan hid the gold ingot very well. Moreover, she didn’t show any abnormality in the next few days, so Pei Xuanxin didn’t find anything unusual.

Later on, after Pei Xuanxin became busy with work, he couldn’t care less about this matter.

Unfortunately, that slight negligence caused him a lot of trouble.

At first, Li Yan was very careful.

She didn’t dare to tell Pei Xuanxin about the gold ingots, but she was also worried that the person who gave her the money would find Pei Xuanxin and tell him about this.

Li Yan had already made up her mind. As long as Pei Xuanxin asked about this, she would say that she didn’t know.

Anyway, no one had seen the servant give her the basket.

To be on the safe side, Li Yan took out the basket and cloth containing the gold ingots and secretly burned them in the stove.

Since Pei Xuanxin didn’t ask about this, as time passed, Li Yan relaxed.

When she thought that it was safe enough, she began to think about the gold ingots.

After they arrived in the capital, the house they lived in was rented. It was small and inconvenient.

However, Pei Xuanxin’s previous salary could barely support them, so it was impossible for them to change to a bigger house.

Now that Li Yan had gold ingots, she wanted to live in a better place.

However, it would be difficult for her to explain the source of this money.

In the end, greed overcame her rationality. Li Yan felt that she should buy a house and live in it herself.

In the future, even if Pei Xuanxin discovered that she had taken the gold ingots and abandoned her, she could have her own place to stay.

The more she thought about it, the more Li Yan felt that this was feasible. Therefore, when she went out to buy groceries every day, she secretly searched for a house to buy.

Li Yan really found a place.

It was said that this house had been bought by a businessman.

The businessman had spent a lot of money to repair it, but before he could move in, something unexpected happened, so he could only sell the property to pay off his debts.

Li Yan happened to come over and bumped into the seller. Then, she bought this house through the broker.

After getting the key, Li Yan bought a new lock and changed out of the old one.

After that, Li Yan walked to her house with a happy expression.

Now, she had a house in the capital!

The next step was to buy fields or farmsteads, or buy a shop to do business.

It had to be said that during this period of time in the capital, Li Yan had broadened her horizons.

Therefore, after she obtained money, she planned to buy some shops and farmsteads as well.

When the broker heard that Li Yan wanted to buy a farmstead and shop as well, he immediately became enthusiastic.

For the next few days, Li Yan spent a lot of money and bought many shops and a farmstead.

Because she didn’t know how to run it, the shop was rented out.

As for that farmstead, after she bought it, she would let the farmstead continue to be managed by the same people. She just needed to go over and take a look from time to time.

Li Yan did these things behind Pei Xuanxin’s back.

However, there was no such thing as an airtight wall in this world!

Li Yan’s every move had been seen by many people.

One day, when Pei Xuanxin went to work, he was called aside by a colleague.

“Pei Xuanxin, I think you’re a down-to-earth person, so go back and investigate where your wife got the money to buy a house, shop, and farmstead. If you don’t figure this out, I’m afraid you’ll be in trouble!” Pei Xuanxin was shocked when he heard his colleague’s words.

“Brother Yuan, what do you mean? Please enlighten me!”

Seeing that Pei Xuanxin was at a loss, his colleague lowered his voice and brought him to the side.

“Let me ask you, has anyone come to your house to send you anything since you took office?”

“No! No one has looked for me. No one has sent me anything!” Pei Xuanxin said.

“Don’t answer with such certainty. Go back and ask your family! Hurry up and return anything they accepted! The capital is full of schemes. If you don’t even know who the other party is, but you dared to accept his things, you won’t even know how you died in the future!” The colleague reminded, “Even if you didn’t accept it, your wife might have accepted it! Otherwise, where did your wife get the money to buy a house, shop, and farm?! Hurry up and go back to investigate!”

When Pei Xuanxin heard his colleague’s words, his heart skipped a beat and he had a bad feeling.

At this moment, Pei Xuanxin could no longer sit still. He cupped his hands and thanked his colleague before rushing home.

As Pei Xuanxin’s colleague watched Pei Xuanxin leave, he shook his head.

“She has probably accepted their money already! Sigh, a good official is ruined now! Therefore, one should always marry a virtuous wife!”

Pei Xuanxin rushed home, but Li Yan wasn’t at home at all.

Pei Xuanxin poured himself a cup of tea to calm down before going to see his mother.

“Mother, has anyone come to our house recently and given us any gifts?” Pei Xuanxin asked softly.

Mrs. Pei shook her head when she heard Pei Xuanxin’s words.

“I’ve been sitting at home. No one has come to visit, let alone given us gifts!

Son, what happened?”

When Pei Xuanxin heard that his mother hadn’t received anything, he immediately heaved a sigh of relief.

“What about Li Yan?” Pei Xuanxin recalled his colleague’s words and asked again, “Did Li Yan accept anything?”

When Mrs. Pei heard her son’s words, she pondered over it carefully.

“I don’t know! My daughter-in-law has been very secretive recently. She goes out to buy groceries for the entire morning and stays out in the afternoon. I often can’t find her!”

At this point, Mrs. Pei suddenly thought of something.

“Son, by the way, do you remember the time when my daughter-in-law suddenly bought a lot of meat to eat? That day, my daughter-in-law clearly only brought one basket out, but she brought two back. Later on, she ran out to buy a lot of meat. I thought we had two baskets at home, but when I went to look for the baskets later, I only saw one. I don’t know where the other basket went!”

“Later, I asked my daughter-in-law, and she said that the basket was broken, so she burned it! At that time, I felt that something was wrong.. We had just bought the basket, so how could it be broken?!”