I am the stepmother of my son, and the little villain has changed into a little cotton-padded jacket

Before Pei Sheng could speak, Song Zhoubai at the side spoke first with a smile.

"Madam Wen, please stop calling me Master Pei. Ah Sheng is now the head of the Pei family. You should call him Master Pei."

Wen Shutang was stunned when he heard this, and then looked at Pei Sheng with a bit of surprise in his eyes.

It's been less than a month, and Pei Sheng has already become the head of the family? Is he so resolute? It seems that Pei Sheng, who will become an imperial merchant in the future, is indeed extraordinary. Wen Shutang sighed in his heart.

Pei Sheng had a decent smile on his face, and his eyes were still gentle when he looked at Wen Shutang. He did not become arrogant at all just because he became the head of the family.

"Congratulations, Mr. Pei." Wen Shutang nodded slightly and congratulated Pei Sheng.

She had been prepared for this matter for a long time, so she was not too surprised when she heard the news.

Pei Sheng looked at her expression with some confusion. It seemed as if she had expected that he would become the head of the family.

"Thank you Madam Wen for this. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have recognized Pei Yu's true face." He said in a gentle voice, then turned his head to look at the entourage following him.

The attendant nodded, turned around, took out a wooden box from the carriage and handed it to Wen Shutang with both hands.

Wen Shutang was stunned and took the wooden box from his hand and opened it. Inside was a land deed. She didn't understand why Pei Sheng gave her this, and then cast a puzzled look.

"This is a small restaurant of my Pei family. Business is not very good but I can make a lot of money. Let's give it to Madam Wen as a thank-you gift." Pei Sheng saw the puzzled look on Wen Shutang's face and immediately explained with a smile.

Wow, is this guy so generous? He always gives away restaurants?

Wen Shutang smacked his lips and couldn't help but sigh, is this the life of rich people?

"It's too valuable. I didn't do anything. Mr. Pei's success was due to his own efforts. It has nothing to do with me. You should take the deed back." Wen Shutang waved his hand and stuffed the box back into the follower's hands.

Pei Sheng didn't expect that Wen Shutang would actually refuse. Most people would have held on to the deed to the restaurant after seeing it, but she actually refused?

But on second thought, Wen Shutang seemed to be indeed different from others, and Pei Sheng immediately felt relieved.

"This is Pei's intention. Madam Wen, please don't shirk your responsibility. This restaurant is in Baiping Town. Although it is not as good as Azhou's Zhaixing Restaurant, it can still make a lot of money."

Wen Shutang shook his head and glanced at Pei Sheng to see if he had accepted the wooden box.

"Then I can't accept it either. How about this? Master Pei, you run the restaurant well, and let me be the second boss, the kind that doesn't care about anything."

Hearing her say this, Pei Sheng could not continue to persuade her, so he nodded: "Okay, let's do this, you will be the biggest owner of this restaurant, and I will have someone send you monthly salary every month from now on."

Wen Shutang then started to laugh. She liked the feeling of earning money without doing anything.

"Okay, that's it, don't stand outside, come in and talk."

Wen Shutang motioned for them to sit down, then poured a glass of water for the two of them: "It looks like you've had a good year. You two both look great."

Song Zhoubai took the cup and took a sip. "It's all thanks to you. Just from the perfume, the money I earned in the past few months is almost equal to what my Song family earns in half a year. On New Year's Eve, my father praised me in front of the clan members."

A smile appeared on his face, and there was some excitement in his tone.

The decision to do business with Wen Shutang was the best decision he had made since taking over the industry.

At the same time, Song Zhoubai was also very glad that he did not look down on Wen Shutang just because she was a village woman, otherwise such wealth would have been lost by his own hands.

Wen Shutang laughed and looked at Pei Sheng. She was quite curious about how Pei Sheng became the head of the family in such a short time.

"Mr. Pei, your story should be very interesting." She propped up her head and looked at Pei Sheng. It was not difficult to hear the teasing in her tone.

Knowing what Wen Shutang was referring to, Pei Sheng smiled and spoke slowly, "I didn't do anything. I just sent a copy of the account book to each of the elders in the collateral branch. They found out that Pei Yu secretly embezzled a lot of money that should have belonged to them, so they all gave up supporting him. In addition, I found out the relationship between that group of bandits and Pei Yu, and confirmed that he wanted to kill me, so he naturally lost the opportunity to become the head of the family."

Wen Shutang raised his eyebrows and couldn't help but smacking his lips and sighing silently, Pei Sheng is indeed a scheming businessman.

Embezzlement and murder of the legitimate son, just one of these two things would make it impossible for Pei Yu to make a comeback.

It seems that Pei Sheng is indeed very resourceful, but he was reluctant to use it on Pei Yu because of his brotherly feelings.

Now that Pei Yu's true face has been recognized, Pei Sheng's true nature has also been revealed. It's true that you have to be more cautious when working with such a scheming person, Wen Shutang thought silently in his heart.

"Mr. Pei has some means." Wen Shutang nodded and praised.

Pei Sheng shook his head and said nothing more. His father was seriously ill and bedridden and no longer had the ability to lead the family. After knowing what Pei Yu had done, his father was completely disappointed and directly announced that he would be the new head of the family.

After successfully sitting in this position, Pei Sheng went to see Pei Yu once. The brother with whom he once had a close relationship was now locked in the woodshed wearing tattered clothes.

Pei Yu looked decadent and gloomy. He clearly remembered the cold hatred in Pei Yu's eyes when he looked at him.

He said: "The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. I am ashamed of myself. Legitimate sons and illegitimate sons are born different. You are respected and I am humbled. I was born to be your stepping stone. I have always understood this, but I just don't accept it. Why should there be such a big gap in status just because we have different mothers?"

Pei Sheng felt indescribably depressed when he saw his younger brother, who had grown up with him, becoming so crazy.

He wanted to tell Pei Yu that he would treat his younger brother well regardless of whether he could become the head of the family or not, but all the words were stuck in his throat and finally turned into a deep sigh.

Pei Sheng said nothing. After leaving the woodshed, he asked the housekeeper to send Pei Yu to a farm in the suburbs and provide him with good food and drink until the end of his life.

Thinking of this, Pei Sheng raised his head and looked at Wen Shutang, his mood not as high as before.

Wen Shutang noticed the change in his mood and realized that it was because of Pei Yu, so he sighed imperceptibly.

Feudal ideas are deeply rooted, with distinctions between the superior and the inferior, and between the old and the young, and the difference between legitimate and illegitimate children is so huge that such tragedies are not uncommon in history.

Wen Shutang has been educated with modern ideas of equality, so seeing such things happening now inevitably makes him feel helpless and powerless.