klisemfg Chapter 1126 Chapter 1126
Chapter 1126 Chapter 1126
Pei Qiuyu suppressed his anxiety, used Qingzao to adjust the flowerpot, and then went to the prince's main room. Aunt Li leaned against the door, her face full of reluctance to leave.
Mrs. Su was the one who did the rough work in the courtyard. She came forward to support Aunt Li and said, "Young lady, you have your own plans. It's better than you worrying about it day and night."
Aunt Li laughed at herself, "...How could the Crown Prince's wife be so fond of this Purple Butterfly Blue Orchid? It was she who gave two of them to Aunt Fang. It was just a scrap of something. Yu'er never understood it."
"Auntie, you have to give it a try. After all, the Crown Prince's wife is the one who makes the decision. If it doesn't work, you can ask the eldest young master's wife."
Aunt Li shook her head and laughed.
"Right now, the one who has the most say in the mansion is the Fourth Young Master's wife, but she doesn't like to get involved in these matters. Yu'er has an impatient temper and never knows how to be tolerant. She rushed around recklessly and angered the Fourth Young Master's wife."
Otherwise, the fourth young lady would have said to the fourth young master, "Why would the daughter of a noble family have to worry about getting married?"
Absolutely not!
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It was not a good time for Pei Qiuyu to come over. The prince's room had been in a mess these days. After the small banquet at Shaohua Garden, Pei Chen and Xiao Yinxiu had a big quarrel, and the two of them almost came to the point of fighting in the room.
The maids and old women were pulling each other, and Xiao Yinxiu was crying non-stop.
Pei Chen stiffened his neck and said, "If you don't want to live a peaceful life and insist on finding fault with the Fourth Old Man's family, don't say I can't protect you. Just see if your own parents can tolerate you."
This one sentence made Xiao Yinxiu heartbroken.
Of course, cursing the heavens and the earth was out of the question. "What the hell is she? She's a piece of shit. To think her parents were also deceived by her!"
Seeing this, Pei Chen sneered, walked forward, grabbed Xiao Yinxiu's collar, and lifted Xiao Yinxiu directly from the ground. Shuangyue and Aunt Chu stepped forward to beg for mercy and stop the fight, but were punched and kicked away by Pei Chen.
"You heartless fool. Song Guanzhou is the savior of your two sons and your brother Xiao Cang. You've never forgotten his kindness, and instead act like a mistress everywhere. What's going on? Are you really afraid that I won't dare to relieve you of the household responsibilities?"
Xiao Yinxiu argued strongly.
"How could it be that she saved them? She was just trying to save the Tenth Prince, so she helped Ling Ge'er and his brother. As for Xiao Cang, it was just a subconscious act, so how could it be considered a life-saving grace?"
"How could the Xiao family produce another heartless person!"
Pei Chen threw away her collar and nonchalantly smoothed out his wrinkled robe, his disgust evident in his words.
Xiao Yinxiu felt even more uncomfortable. She leaned against the bed frame, tears streaming down her face as she sneered, "The Xiao family has no conscience? Your Pei family has a conscience? My aunt has been tortured by my uncle until now—"
"shut up!"
Pei Chen stepped forward, pressed on Xiao Yinxiu, and said bluntly, "I'll report to my father and send you to the small Buddhist temple to serve mother for a few days so that you don't worry about her."
"You dare! Pei Chen!"
Xiao Yinxiu grabbed Pei Chen's collar, tears streaming down her face. "Pei Chen, am I wrong? My aunt was imprisoned above you, and have you, her biological son, ever gone to beg for mercy?"
"What are you begging for? Are you begging father to send you and mother to the Jingzhao Yin prison in the Dali Temple for the sake of justice? You two, aunt and niece, bribed that crazy woman to torture and kill the fourth brother's family. Father is using Wenxi Villa to suppress Guanzhou's grievances for you and niece. Why, Miss Xiao, are you not satisfied?"
This was the first time Xiao Yinxiu heard Pei Chen mention this. She had always thought that no one knew about it.
"In this mansion, you are the mother of honor. Father has explained everything clearly to my two uncles and aunts. You know exactly what mother has done. Although she always thinks of me, I don't care. How did Che Ge'er get in her way? How could she be so vicious!"
Pei Chen took two steps back. "Uncle knew you were unreliable, so he pushed Cang'er out. If he could marry my second sister, the Duke's Mansion and the Xiao family would still be one family. But unfortunately—the women in this mansion are all capable. Even my illegitimate sister is so arrogant that she looks down on your own brother. Tsk tsk—you are a bunch of idiots. Cang'er was trying to help you with your precarious future, but you were blinded by greed and even disgusted with your own brother."
Pei Chen straightened his collar and said, "Among my four brothers, I'm the most mediocre. But you, woman, made the same mistake as I did with my biological mother. You all thought I hated Che'er. No! You're all wrong..."
This was probably the most common thing the couple had said to each other in all these years. Pei Chen turned around and looked at the silent maids and servants in the room, sneering and scorning without disguising himself, "If you have the ability, try to coax your wife to behave herself. If you continue to do evil and stir up trouble, don't think that I, the prince, am just saying nice things!"
After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and left.
Xiao Yinxiu was immediately frightened and had a high fever that night. He took several doses of medicine the next day and the fever subsided, but he felt lazy and weak.
Just as she was about to rest, Shuangyue came in and whispered, "Madam, the second young lady comes to pay her respects to you."
"not see!"
Xiao Yinxiu refused without even thinking.
Shuangyue was stunned for a moment, a little hesitant. Xiao Yinxiu looked up at her, as if he wanted to say something. He asked lazily, "Now you don't even dare to send a girl to my door?"
As the Crown Prince's wife, she is really useless.
Shuangyue quickly knelt and smiled apologetically, "Not really. The second young lady said that they've grown a purple butterfly orchid in full bloom in the yard, and she sent it especially for you."
"May I ask what kind of rare thing that is?"
Xiao Yinxiu pointed at the orchids on the high table next to the bed and said, "Apart from Zhengxian Pavilion, I don't know where else in this mansion can you find a pot of orchids like this one?"
She had sixteen purple-butterfly blue orchids in this pot, planted in a large blue and white porcelain square bowl one foot long and wide. They were lush and green, and the number of flower spikes that had sprouted from them was exactly eight, no more, no less.
It is covered with moss and has a delicate and small porcelain figurine of a flower farmer. It also has a small bridge and flowing water, which is graceful and quiet. Can it compare with Pei Qiuyu's plant?
Seeing this, Shuangyue had no choice but to agree, "Then I'll go and send the second young lady away."
When he retreated to the screen and was about to turn around and leave, Xiao Yinxiu changed his mind and said, "Call him in."
"……Yes!"
After leaving the house, she looked at Aunt Chu and sighed, "This second girl came at the wrong time..."
Pei Qiuyu and Qingzao were standing under the flowers and trees in the courtyard. When they heard Shuangyue approaching to invite them, they hurriedly thanked her, "Thank you very much, sister. Did I delay your meal?"
Shuang Yuelian said he didn't dare.
"We ate it early, but the weather was hot, so the Crown Prince's wife didn't eat much."
Pei Qiuyu frowned slightly, worry showing on her face. "This year's sun is hotter than usual. We, the idlers, are constantly suffocating in the house, not to mention my second sister-in-law, the housekeeper. She has to take care of everything inside and outside the house. I'm afraid that she'll lose her appetite due to the busy schedule."