I'm already a concubine, who wants to fight with you?

Chapter 116 Why are you so nice to her?
Since Miao had said so, the old lady was too lazy to mention it again. She said something else and then asked the two to leave.

It was late at night, and heavy snow was falling. The yard was wet. The red light of the lanterns under the corridor shone on the snow, reflecting an eerie and dark glow.

The maids of both men were waiting in the yard with umbrellas, ready to take their masters back.

Miao caressed her belly, and her eyes did not hold the tenderness of a loving mother, but rather a calculating and ostentatious look.

She said, "After this baby, even if you are the eldest lady, you will have to be inferior to me in the future."

Xie Fei remained silent.

Seeing that Xie Fei didn't respond, Miao looked at her again, smiling and saying, "But don't worry, sister. As long as you don't compete with me for the favor of the master, behave yourself, and don't try to harm me, I will naturally not do anything to you."

Xie Fei said: "Sister Miao, you are worrying too much. Although I am a concubine, I have no beauty and no family background. The master neither loves me nor fears me. Let alone competing with you, I am not even as good as Sister Wu."

Miao said proudly: "You have self-knowledge, which is of course the best! You must know that the master will never take a second look at someone like you who has no talent or looks. So don't waste your efforts trying to replace me!"

Xie Fei lowered his eyes, extremely respectful, "I definitely don't mean that, Sister Miao can rest assured."

Miao looked at her condescendingly and said disdainfully, "You don't have to tell me. I won't think too highly of you."

Just as Xie Fei said, Miao felt that she had no chance of winning favor.

The master of the Pei family is really a playboy and a lecher.

Beautiful, he tried every means to get his hands on it.

If someone is not good-looking, even if they are a princess or a princess consort, he will never even look at them twice.

Xie Fei was the latter. Pei Yuan was used to seeing thin and plump women, so he felt disgusted by her ordinary appearance.

Miao felt that instead of targeting Xie Fei, it would be better to fight with the eldest lady.

She wanted to use the child in her belly to bring down the eldest lady. When she became the principal wife, wouldn't it be easy to control a concubine like Xie Fei?

Miao's face was filled with joy, and even her steps became much lighter. She left Xie Fei alone and led her men away.

Xie Fei stood in the corridor for a while, and Fu Yu came over with an umbrella, looking at her with complicated eyes.

"Girl, are you okay?"

Xie Fei came back to his senses and asked with a smile: "The Lantern Festival is over? Did you have fun?"

Fu Yu felt aggrieved and distressed, and tilted the umbrella mostly towards Xie Fei, blocking the falling snow.

"Don't mention the Lantern Festival. Are you going to just listen to Miao Xiaoniang when she humiliates you like this?"

Xie Fei said with a smile: "It's the truth, how can it be considered a humiliation?"

To say the least, she wished everyone thought so.

Otherwise, if Pei Yuan really took a fancy to me, my life would be hopeless.

It was too cold in the snowy wind blowing in the corridor, so Xie Fei took Fu Yu away.

Fu Yu said that the Miao family was in the limelight at today's Lantern Festival.

First, she personally took people to the drugstore and bought out all the precious medicinal materials such as ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, Polygonum multiflorum, etc., and asked the doctor to take her pulse and prescribe the best pregnancy-stabilizing medicine.

Afterwards, she went to a silk shop, saying that she wanted to prepare clothes for her unborn baby, and carried more than ten boxes of silks and satins.

There were many women at the Lantern Festival. Miao went up to everyone she met to greet them. From her words and deeds, she felt that she was qualified to be Pei Yuan's legal wife, so she asked people to visit her more often.

When it came time to release river lanterns, Miao was even more flamboyant, asking her servants to release many lanterns and not allowing anyone to get close. While praying, she said loudly that she had dreamed of the birth of Wenquxing, and that the child in her belly was definitely extraordinary, and not only would he be blessed by God, but he would also be made a marquis and a prime minister in the future, bringing honor to the family.

The momentum was so huge that she wished that the whole capital city would know that she was pregnant with Pei Yuan's child.

When they arrived at Songyueju, Xie Fei took off his cloak and took out a hand warmer to cover himself.

"This Miao is also strange. You say she is stupid, but she is not completely brainless. You say she is smart, but she is not smart in the right way."

Although she is beautiful, she is somewhat superficial, and this kind of character is most deadly in the backyard of a wealthy family.

However, these are none of Xie Fei's business. Miao family wants to deal with Xiao Shirong anyway, and Xiao Shirong will not let Miao family go.

The next day, Xie Fei wanted to go back to the farm, but Mrs. Zheng, the eldest wife, came in person to thank her.

Naturally, generous gifts were prepared, and boxes of good things were carried directly into Songyueju, making people jealous.

In the main hall, Madam Zheng held Xie Fei's hand, calling him a good boy all the time, not at all as cold and arrogant as before.

The old lady knew about Shanbao's situation and asked, "That child suffered, is he fine now?"

Madam Zheng looked distressed and sighed, "He is much better now. He can cry and eat these days. His grandfather and father took turns holding him, and neither of them wanted to let go."

As she spoke, she looked at Xie Fei with loving eyes and said, "Fortunately, you were there last time, otherwise I really don't know what to do. The whole big house will remember this kindness.

Remember, if you are wronged in the future and feel you have nowhere to go, just come to me. As long as I am alive, the door of the big house will always be open to you!"

These words were not directed at Xie Fei, but were meant to remind the old lady that Xie Fei had the support of their eldest wife.

Xie Fei said obediently: "Thank you for your kindness, Madam. My old lady and eldest lady are also generous and compassionate people. They often told me that I have just arrived and if there is anything I am not used to, I must tell them and they will help me."

Mrs. Zheng smiled meaningfully, "Your mother-in-law is a kind-hearted person who eats vegetarian food and chants Buddhist scriptures. It's only natural."

The two of them were singing the same tune, and the old lady couldn't remain indifferent, so she started to change the subject.

"I heard that Shanbao suffered such a great crime. Sihui felt very upset and fell seriously ill. I wonder if she has recovered after these days?"

When talking about Ban Sihui, Mrs. Zheng's smile froze noticeably.

She said indifferently, "With Hong Lang by her side, she was fine after being sick for a few days."

Xie Fei didn't pay attention to what was happening in the first house. From what Mrs. Zheng said, it was probably that after the last accident, the matter was left unresolved.

It makes sense. After all, Ban Sihui gave birth to three daughters and one son, and she is in a marital relationship with Pei Honglang.

Even if Mrs. Zheng wanted to divorce her daughter-in-law, she had many concerns.

Mrs. Zheng didn't want to mention Ban Sihui, she only spoke a few words to Xie Fei, treating her like her own daughter and loving her very much.

By the evening, Ban Sihui also learned the news.

"Mother-in-law, bring a generous gift and go in person to thank me?"

The maid said sourly, "That's right, several boxes filled to the brim with goodies. Even the New Year gifts for your parents' home wouldn't be this generous!"

Ban Sihui's hair was disheveled, and under the candlelight her face looked sallow and haggard.

Thinking about Mrs. Zheng's recent lukewarm and completely indifferent attitude towards her, she felt really uneasy.

"Lian Yi, why do you think mother-in-law treats the girl from the Xie family better than my family? Could it be that she really thinks that the girl from the Xie family's sister is very good and wants to marry her, so she went to find out the news first?"

(End of this chapter)