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

Chapter 179 Accusations
Xiao Shirong snorted coldly and said bitterly, "If it weren't for that beast Pei Yuan who stopped her, Miao's body would have been burned long ago. Is it necessary for the Marquis' Mansion to intervene?"

Ji Miaoxuan said nothing and recited the Buddhist scriptures in her mind before she slowly became relieved.

"Miao is a decent girl, and two lives were lost. How could her family let it go? Moreover, this girl was sent by the Marquis' Mansion. The old lady has evil intentions. I have told you before, don't act rashly."

"If I don't take action now, will she give birth to my first son and become the master over me?" Xiao Shirong was furious and could not understand Ji Miaoxuan's painstaking efforts.

Ji Miaoxuan had been extremely disappointed with her, but due to her sister and the Xiao family, she repeatedly tried to pull her back from the brink of losing control.

"I agree with killing the mother and keeping the child. You just need to wait for the day when Miao is about to give birth and take her child away. This will not only destroy your opponent, but also give you a support for the future. Why can't you figure this out?"

Xiao Shirong said coldly: "What about you, aunt? You married a man you don't love, and you are so cold to your own son. How can you ask me to take care of the flesh and blood of a bitch and a beast?"

Ji Miaoxuan was speechless for a moment.

Although Xiao Shirong didn't know what the rift was between Ji Miaoxuan and General Pei, she understood from Ji Miaoxuan's attitude towards Pei Yuan that this was no longer just a question of love or not.

Her aunt hated the Pei family and General Pei so much that she even felt disgust towards her own flesh and blood.

That's why she let Pei Yuan indulge in self-degradation, and even though he was about to die, she didn't feel the slightest bit of heartache.

Xiao Shirong could almost see his own future from Ji Miaoxuan.

She lived a dark and gloomy life as a widow with Pei Yuan and Miao's children.

Such a life is terrifying just to imagine.

Xiao Shirong gradually calmed down and was about to speak again when a maid ran in and said that the mansion had already arrested the person.

The people Xiao Shirong sent to kill Miao that night were immediately taken to the Marquis' Mansion.

Under the threat of interrogation in the Marquis' Mansion, they were bound to tell the truth, but Xiao Shirong was no longer as panicked as before.

Seeing Xiao Shirong's arrogance, Ji Miaoxuan couldn't help but ask: "Now that things have come to this, don't you know how to reflect on yourself?"

Xiao Shirong said desperately, "Aunt, even if I just killed a lowly concubine like Miao, what can the government do to me?"

She has the Xiao family as her backing and is a member of the Marquis' Mansion. Even if she killed a disobedient concubine, could the government still put her in shackles and throw her in jail?
So after thinking it over, Xiao Shirong was not in a hurry at all.

Ji Miaoxuan looked at her and said firmly: "You are really crazy."

Xiao Shirong said: "Ever since I married into the Pei family, everything has been driving me crazy! If I don't live well, the Pei family and even the Marquis' Mansion will never have peace!"

Ji Miaoxuan closed her eyes and felt weak.

Back then, when Xiao Shirong was going to marry into the Pei family, neither she nor General Pei was optimistic.

General Pei sent an urgent letter from the border to the emperor, saying that Pei Yuan was arrogant, reckless and frivolous, and was not a good match for Xiao Shirong, and hoped that the emperor would reconsider.

Ji Miaoxuan also went to the palace again and again to ask to see the queen, hoping that the royal family would revoke their decision, but it was of no avail.

Precisely because they are relatives, the couple understand Xiao Shirong's temper better than outsiders.

Now it seems that their original obstruction was right.

After a long while, Ji Miaoxuan said, "If it weren't for you, whether the Pei family prospers or declines, or even is completely destroyed, I wouldn't have the slightest concern."

Xiao Shirong said: "Then destroy the Pei family completely. From now on, I will still be my daughter of the Xiao family!"

Ji Miaoxuan shook her head slowly.

"From the first day you married into the Pei family, there is no possibility of remarrying."

Neither the Xiao family nor the Pei family would allow her to remarry.

In the Marquis's Mansion, Xie Fei stayed in the side room. After reading all the storybooks, he still felt uninterested.

Just when she was feeling extremely bored, Yuan San appeared again quietly.

Xie Fei wondered, "Can you come and go freely even in the Marquis' Mansion?"

If it was one of the other houses, Yuan San had worked there before and was familiar with the layout of the courtyard, so it would be fine if he could avoid the guards. But this was probably his first time in the Marquis' Mansion, so how could he sneak in so accurately?

Yuan San sat down, poured himself a cup of tea, and drank it in high spirits.

"Good news or bad news, which one do you want to hear first, girl?"

"Good news," Xie Fei said, "otherwise you will faint after hearing the bad news and miss the chance to hear the good news."

Yuan San looked at her with a smile, "The good news is that the Marquis' Mansion has caught the murderer who killed Miao."

This was expected. Xie Fei asked, "What about the bad news?"

Yuan San's tone deepened, "The bad news is that when Xiao Shirong faced the accusation, he also said it was a fabrication and refused to plead guilty."

This was not bad news. Xie Fei felt that if Xiao Shirong pleaded guilty as soon as she was accused, it would be too inconsistent with the style of this arrogant lady.

"So what does our old lady say?"

Yuan San said: "Of course, it means that those servants committed murder for money and framed the mistress."

Xie Fei spread his hands and said, "What can we do? Xiao Shirong didn't do it herself, so there's no evidence to prove it."

As long as Xiao Shirong denies it, those servants under her orders will be unable to do anything to her even if they insist on dying.

So the matter came to a stalemate, and it was impossible to put Xiao Shirong in jail just because of the testimonies of a few murderers.

However, the good thing is that Xie Fei has completely removed it.

Yuan San also said that Miao's family refused to acknowledge the child and they were determined to seek justice for their daughter, so they wanted to go to the government office and get a thorough investigation.

Xie Fei asked, "Does the old lady agree?"

Yuan San sighed, "You didn't go to the front hall to see how fierce the argument was. Our old lady even moved out of the Zhongshan Ji family just to support the eldest lady."

The atmosphere in the front hall was filled with tension. The servants were all driven away, leaving only the masters arguing fiercely.

Especially the old lady and the old mistress, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, threw away all the kindness and filial piety they had in the past, and every word they said hit the nail on the head. Whenever Xie Fei went there, he had to shout "Six".

Yuan San lay on the roof eating melons, just to come back and tell Xie Fei about it.

Xie Fei said with great interest: "The mistress of the third house, Pang Yizhi, is a relative of Miao Feng'er? The old lady and Pang Yizhi are also relatives? This means that the old lady and the Miao family also have a little blood relationship?"

Yuan San nodded and said, "That's true in name only."

As for how far this blood relationship goes, it probably has to be traced back to five hundred years ago, when everyone still had the surname Miao.

Xie Fei added: "I heard before that the old lady was not from a high-class family?"

Yuan San's bony fingers stroked the teacup carefully, picking out unimportant clues and telling Xie Fei.

"The old lady was an orphan in the mountains whose parents died early. She was raised by uncles and aunts with the same surname in the same village, and later met the old marquis by accident."

Xie Fei suddenly became more interested.

She had heard that the old lady did not come from a high-class family, but she did not expect that this was basically equivalent to having no family background.

Although the old marquis's family had fallen on hard times, he would not marry an orphan girl from a mountain village with no identity or background as his wife.

What kind of fate brought together two people who should have had nothing in common?
Xie Fei had just finished reading the storybook and was still unsatisfied, so he immediately pestered Yuan San and forced him to tell more.

Yuan San didn't want to mention this at first, but Xie Fei grabbed his arm and shook it hard, making him dizzy.

"Stop shaking, let me think about how to explain it to you." Yuan San's eyes went dark, and he had to hold down Xie Fei's hand and gave up.

Xie Fei immediately put on an attitude of listening to a story, holding his chin with both hands, looking at Yuan San with bright eyes and great expectation.

(End of this chapter)