Chapter 356
Chapter 356
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, looking reluctant.
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 think highly of this Purple Butterfly Blue Orchid? It was she who gave two of them to Aunt Fang. It was just a leftover thing. Yu'er could never understand it."
"Auntie, you have to give it a try. Now it's the Crown Prince's wife who makes the decision. If it doesn't work, ask the eldest young master's wife."
Aunt Li shook her head and laughed.
"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 things. Yu'er has an impatient temper and never knows how to be tolerant. She rushed around recklessly and made the Fourth Young Master's wife unhappy."
Otherwise, the Fourth Young Master’s wife could have a word with the Fourth Young Master, and ask, “Why would a girl from a noble family have trouble finding a husband?”
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 past few days. After the small banquet at Shaohua Garden, Pei Chen and Xiao Yinxiu had a huge quarrel, and the two almost came to the point of fighting in the room.
The maids and old women were pulling each other, and Xiao Yinxiu was crying and making a fuss.
Pei Chen stiffened his neck and said, "If you don't want to live a peaceful life and have to find fault with the Fourth Elder's family, don't say that I can't protect you. Just see if your own parents can tolerate you."
This one sentence made Xiao Yinxiu heartbroken.
Of course, he cursed the heavens and the earth, "What the hell is she? She is such a nobody that her parents were seduced 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 are such a heartless fool. Song Guanzhou is the lifesaver of your two sons and your brother Xiao Cang. You have never remembered his kindness, but instead act like a mistress everywhere. Are you really afraid that I dare not relieve you of the household affairs?"
Xiao Yinxiu argued strongly.
"How could it be that she saved them? She just wanted to save the tenth prince, so she helped Ling Ge'er and his brother. As for Xiao Cang, it was just a subconscious act, 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, leaning against the bed frame, crying and sneering, "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 will 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? Your aunt was imprisoned above you, did you, her biological son, ever ask for help?"
"What are you begging for? Are you begging your father to send you and mother to the prison of the Jingzhao Yin in the Dali Temple? You two aunts and nieces bribed that crazy woman to torture and kill the fourth child's family. Your father took out Wenxi Villa to suppress the grievances of Guanzhou for you two aunts and nieces. Why, Miss Xiao, are you not satisfied?"
This was the first time Xiao Yinxiu heard Pei Chen talk about this. She had always thought that no one knew about it.
"In this mansion, you are the one who is honored by your son. Father has explained everything to my two uncles and aunts. You know best what mother has done. Although she always thinks of me, I don't care. What has Che'er done to her? How can she be so vicious!"
Pei Chen took two steps back, "Uncle knows you are unreliable, so he pushed Cang'er out. If he could marry my second sister, the mansion and the Xiao family would still be one family. But unfortunately, all the women in this mansion are capable, and even my illegitimate sister is so arrogant that she doesn't even look down on your own brother. Tsk tsk, what a bunch of idiots, Cang'er came 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 am the most mediocre. But you, woman, made a mistake just like I did with my biological mother. You all thought I hated Che Ge'er. No! You are all wrong..."
This was probably the most common thing the couple had said in these years. Pei Chen looked back at the silent maids and servants in the room, sneering and showing his disdain without disguising, "If you have the ability, just coax your wife to behave herself. If you continue to do evil and cause trouble, don't think that I am just saying nice things to you, the prince!"
After saying that, he turned his sleeves and left.
Xiao Yinxiu was immediately frightened and had a high fever that night. He took some medicine the next day and the fever went away, but he felt lazy and weak.
Just as he was about to rest, Shuangyue came in and whispered, "Madam, the second young lady came 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 and seemed to have something to say. 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 down and smiled apologetically, "Not really, the second young lady said that there is a purple butterfly blue orchid in full bloom in the yard, and she sent it to you specially."
"May I ask what kind of rare thing that is?"
Xiao Yinxiu pointed at the orchid on the high table next to the bed and said, "I don't know where else in this mansion can you find a pot of orchid like this, except in Zhengxian Pavilion?"
She had a total of sixteen plants of the same purple butterfly blue orchid 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 was exactly eight, no more and no less.
There is moss covering the soil, and a delicate and small porcelain figurine of a flower grower stands on it. There is also a small bridge and flowing water, which is graceful and quiet. Can it be compared with Pei Qiuyu's plant?
Seeing this, Shuang Yue had no choice but to agree, "Then I will 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 and Aunt Chu looked at each other 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 coming forward to invite them, they hurriedly thanked her, "Thank you, 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, with a worried look on her face, "This year the sun is hotter than usual. We who eat for free are often suffocating in the house, not to mention my second sister-in-law who is the housekeeper. She has to take care of everything inside and outside. I'm afraid that she will lose her appetite due to the busyness."
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