Chapter 263
Chapter 263
She slowly raised her head and saw her elder and younger brothers standing behind Pei Jian. She was overwhelmed with grief for a moment, her lips trembled, and she could not utter a single word.
Seeing that she had calmed down, the two old maids went to bring the drum stool and reluctantly served hot tea. After Pei Jian and Xiao Hongyun sat down, Xiao Muxue asked sarcastically, "Brother..., when did you come to the mansion?"
"About a month."
It's been so long and you're just coming to visit her?
Xiao Muxue slowly closed her wrinkled eyelids and sighed softly, "Big brother has been at home for more than a month, and he has only just come to visit me. I'm afraid he is about to leave, and it would be inappropriate if I didn't take a look at him."
Hypocrisy!
Seeing his sister become like this, Xiao Hongyun couldn't help but feel pain in his heart, "Sister, you are old now, and good days are ahead of you, why are you so lawless?"
Beat and kill concubines and illegitimate children, and lynch daughters-in-law -
I am old! I have children, grandchildren, and even grandchildren, but why can't I let go of the past?
"Is this my fault?"
Xiao Muxue pointed at Pei Jian with disgust, and shouted, "He is so heartless and unrighteous, favoring his concubine over his wife, and even has one foot in the coffin, and he even got involved with his son's beloved and took her as a concubine! Pei Jian, I, Xiao Muxue, have ended up in this situation in my life, and it's all because I didn't know people well and got tricked for a while, otherwise -"
"Shut up! If it weren't for Chen Ge'er and Yun Niang, do you think I would keep you? My uncle and second brother are here. I, Pei Jianming, will not beat around the bush. A dead old lady from the mansion is much more cost-effective than a living Xiao Muxue!"
When Xiao heard this, she threw herself to the ground. The two old maids beside her were quick to grab her body.
"Old lady, watch your step!"
Half supporting and half forcing, Xiao was dragged back to the Luohan bed. Her body was shaking violently, as if she was cold, and as if she was afraid, "You dare not! Pei Jian——, Chen Ge'er is not only my son, but also the prince of your mansion! Pei San, that little bastard, you can never have the heart to make him the prince again, Yunniang, yes! And Yunniang, she is now the princess of the county, you dare not touch me!"
The situation was tense and merciless.
Xiao Hongyun shook his head, closed his eyes, and then slowly opened them, "——Enough!"
He looked at the old woman lying on the Arhat bed, and felt very unfamiliar. "The master has treated you well, and you should not be stubborn about the past and the future. Now it is very quiet in this small Buddhist temple. It is good to end the rest of your life like this."
what?
Is the Xiao family going to abandon her too?
She suddenly laughed miserably, tears streaming down her face, "The Xiao family is now on the rise, and you two are just ungrateful and disdainful of me, the aunt of the Xiao family?"
Xiao Hongli sighed, "Why do you say that, elder sister? We are all family, there is no such thing as dislike or anything like that."
But he wanted to kneel down and beg Xiao Muxue to stop making trouble and let the Xiao family take care of the aftermath for her. However, Xiao Muxue kept bringing up old grudges.
"Brother, don't forget, if it weren't for my own efforts, how could Xiu'er enter this mansion?"
crazy!
Xiao Muxue has gone crazy!
She didn't distinguish between relatives and strangers, and bit like a mad dog. Xiao Hongyun sighed, "You should rest well." Then he looked at Pei Jian and said, "Master, go back to your room."
Seeing this, Xiao Muxue cried out in disbelief, "Brother, how could you be so cruel? You just trust this heartless man. If you don't care about me, I will be tortured to death by him!"
"No. For the sake of Brother Chen and Sister Yun, the master will keep you. But you are not in your right mind now, you are in a daze and can no longer manage the household affairs. Your children and grandchildren are still young, and they will probably be frightened if they kowtow to you. That's all—"
After saying this, he ignored Pei Jian and Xiao Hongli, walked straight around the screen and left the hall.
The moon is dim outside and the air is chilly.
Lin Chuan had already come to serve with a lantern in his hand. He walked out in the dim light with big strides. Seeing this, Xiao Hongli could not help but step forward and growl at Xiao Muxue, "Sister, you are so confused. You are the one who is really hurting yourself. Why have you been angry with Zhan Bing all your life? She died young. Why bother?"
Xiao Muxue leaned against the cold wall, not caring how embarrassed she looked with tears all over her face, and said with a sinister smile, "You have always been like this. You only have eyes for Xiao Zhanbing, Pei Jian, the emperor, and all of you! It's better that she's dead!"
She knew it would be difficult to regain her freedom, so she bent over and cried bitterly.
Pei Jian stared at Xiao Muxue. In the past thirty years when they were married, he could not remember any tenderness or love. There was too much resentment between them. After the birth of Chen Ge'er, they were no longer husband and wife.
An Ge'er was originally an accident, and I originally thought that it was okay and the family could just get along with it.
But it was revealed that she had actually taken drugs to induce labor. Fortunately, Silang was lucky, otherwise the little body that was born two months prematurely would not have been able to survive.
After barely raising him, she felt that the child was not doing well. She even said that she was not feeling well and could not raise An'er who was the same age as Che'er.
She even sent her legitimate child to be raised by a concubine.
There are so many past events that it is difficult to record them all.
If she had not been born in the Xiao family, her children Chen'er, An'er and Yun'niang would now be prominent figures. Such a disrespectful and cruel mistress should have been replaced long ago.
It was really one wrong step, one wrong step after another.
Pei Jian no longer wanted to mention the past. As a husband and wife, there was no love left between them except sighs.
He finally stopped for a moment and had to go back.
Xiao Hongli looked at his elder sister who was lying on the bed cursing and crying, then looked at the master who was walking out. Finally, he softened his heart, walked up to Xiao Muxue, and patted her shoulder gently.
"Take good care of yourself. You can't be foolish all your life. Sister, you eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha's name every day. Buddha should have saved you."
Xiao laughed miserably and shook his head repeatedly.
"Xiao Zhanbing died well!"
And he still mentioned that gentle and quiet but short-lived sister? Xiao Hongli's face was full of pain, "Eldest sister, she and you and I are both our mother's children, and she is your biological sister. Why do you hate her for your entire life?"
"How can I not hate?"
Xiao raised her head with pride, wishing she could dig up Xiao Zhanbing's grave, cut her into pieces, and scatter her bones to ashes.
"The two sisters are five years apart in age. They were planning to get married with me, but why did everyone only see her? Pei Jian! Pei Jian, that old bastard, actually wanted to wait until she was eighteen years old. Haha, I'm the eldest sister!"
The Pei family and the Xiao family arranged a marriage between Pei Jian and Xiao Zhanbing.
Xiao Muxue's heart was broken. The people she met when she lifted the curtain were clearly her and Pei Jian, but in the end, it was that naive girl who got together.
She hates it!
But it was not her right to just crush and swallow her grievances. She thought, it was originally mine, why should I give it away?
The ridiculous marriage happened just because of her planning.
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