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

Chapter 213 Getting angry
The Marquis' Mansion held a family dinner to congratulate Pei Yuan on his title of Marquis and also to comfort Pei Honglang who had just been released from prison.

However, at the banquet, except for the fourth room, no one was happy.

The old lady and the people in the first house were particularly cold and indifferent. They couldn't even put on a smile.

Pei Yuan didn't care at all. He left the table early using illness as an excuse and went to see the old marquis and Pei Sheng secretly.

In the inner hall, the female members of the family were so embarrassed by the old lady's expression that they dared not even breathe.

Pei Hongluo was squeezed next to Xie Fei and didn't even dare to raise his head.

Xie Fei was eating his food with peace of mind, but was puzzled when he saw Pei Hongluo looking timid.

"What's wrong with you? You were so lively and cheerful before, but now you're listless?"

Pei Hongluo drooped her brows and said, "Sister Xie, you don't know, my mother and I have been serving the old lady all this time, and we have been scolded a lot."

The old lady fell ill, and people from the first, second and third rooms took turns to take care of her.

Madam Zheng is the old lady's biological daughter-in-law, and Pang Yizi from the third room is also the old lady's person, so the old lady will not vent her anger on them too much.

The only difference is that the second branch was not the old lady's biological child, and Mrs. Zhu had no status or background, so she was controlled by the old lady.

Pei Hongluo never thought that the old lady who looked so kind and gentle could be so adept at torturing her daughter-in-law.

Not only that, she, the "granddaughter" who had no blood relationship with the old lady, also became one of the scapegoats and lived a miserable life.

Xie Fei was moved by what he heard, and said sympathetically: "If it really doesn't work, I will prescribe you a prescription. It will not harm your body, but you will have some symptoms of illness, so you don't have to serve me anymore."

Pei Hongluo's heart was moved for a moment, but he still shook his head.

"I don't serve, but my mother can't escape. Rather than letting my mother suffer alone, I'd rather share some of the burden for her."

Xie Fei thought to himself, this child is filial and sensible.

The two were talking in low voices, and the old lady sitting high up suddenly got angry for some reason and smashed the cups and plates to the ground.

"How presumptuous!"

For a moment, the whole room was silent and no one dared to make the slightest noise.

Xie Fei followed the voice and saw Xiao Shirong standing in front of the old lady.

It seemed that Xiao Shirong said something when serving tea that angered the old lady, causing her to become furious.

Everyone knelt down and begged the ancestor to calm down.

The old lady couldn't smile at all now. She was particularly disgusted with the people in the fourth room, so she would make a big fuss if she caught any small mistake.

At this moment, Xiao Shirong became one of the scapegoats.

"Madam, this tea is a little hot, but it shouldn't make you so unhappy, right?" Xiao Shirong smiled and said, "Or are you angry because the eldest wife lost her title, so you want to take it out on me?"

This is the truth, everyone knows it, but no one dares to say it out loud.

The old lady glared at Xiao Shirong coldly and said in a cold voice: "What a noble lady of a marquisate, now you are increasingly looking down upon me. In time, won't all the women in this family be trampled under your feet?"

Xiao Shirong said impatiently: "Old lady, you are too kind. Since I am the mistress of the Marquis's family, I know how to protect the female relatives. You don't need to worry about me."

Xie Fei listened and nodded slightly.

Whether or not she could provide protection was one thing, but she admired Xiao Shirong's attitude of neither servility nor overbearance. The entire Pei family was dissatisfied with the Fourth Branch, and blindly flattering would not have any effect, but would be looked down upon.

It would be better to adopt a superior attitude and let everyone know that the fourth room is not a piece of fish that can be slaughtered at will, nor will it be intimidated by a few words.

The inner hall was filled with the smell of gunpowder. Xiao Shirong and the old lady were at loggerheads, and their relationship was like fire and water.

Everyone else was terrified when they heard this. Pei Hongluo also pulled Xie Fei's sleeve and whispered, "Sister-in-law Xiao is so powerful. This is the first time I've seen someone who dares to talk back to my grandmother."

Xie Fei curled his lips and smiled: "There will be more such things in the future, just get used to it."

Pei Hongluo didn't understand what was going on, and saw Mrs. Zheng come out to smooth things over. She said a few nice words and cooled down the anger on both sides.

It has to be said that Madam Zheng, the mistress, has no problems except that she is too soft-hearted towards Ban Sihui.

Even the old lady showed her disgust for the fourth room on her face, but she was able to remain polite on the surface and pretend to be harmonious.

After the banquet, Mrs. Zheng took the initiative to find Xie Fei.

"I want to tell you that I have figured this out," Madam Zheng said as she pulled Xie Fei along the garden path, "The fourth house didn't plot to snatch the throne, but our first house committed the crime first, and the emperor caught us with it. If not for this, Hong Lang might still be in jail today."

Everyone covets power, so how could she not want her own family to inherit the title?
But Pei Zhaoyan advised her that as long as her family was safe and sound, that was all that mattered.

She thought, how could it not be?
At least the family was intact, no one was in trouble, Pei Sheng and Pei Honglang's official titles were not stripped, and they were still valued by the court.

Isn't it just a title? Maybe in the next few decades, if there is an opportunity, the title will eventually return to the eldest wife.

The two talked for a long time, and afterwards Xie Fei personally saw Madam Zheng out. He was still sighing in his heart that as a mistress, she really needed to be more open-minded.

When they returned to Songyueju, Fu Yu said, "Mrs. Pei is pregnant now, and Mrs. Zheng is too concerned about her daughter to care about the title. I'm afraid the old lady has something on her mind and is secretly plotting something."

Xie Fei said: "Even if she wants to make trouble, she can't do anything. At most, she will be furious."

As I said, the five branches of the marquis's family are closely related. If one of them commits a capital crime, the whole family will suffer.

Pei Yuan’s biggest secret is nothing more than the real and fake Pei Lang. Even if the old lady knew it, she would never tell the emperor.

Otherwise, her own children and grandchildren would also have their property confiscated and their clan exterminated.

Xie Fei was too lazy to care about what was happening outside, except for the inner house and backyard, where she still wanted to maintain stability as much as possible and not cause trouble for Pei Yuan.

In Qiong Yu Garden, Xiao Shirong smashed vases, cups, etc. in a rage, leaving the ground covered with fragments with nowhere to land.

Lianci hid behind the curtain and dared not come out. Mother Wen and others did not dare to step forward for fear of incurring Xiao Shirong's anger.

At today's banquet, Xiao Shirong did not simply have the advantage.

The old lady mocked her openly and secretly, saying that she was infertile and was worse than Pei Yuan's concubines of low status.

Not only that, the old lady also hinted that Pei Yuan should divorce her.

She wanted a divorce, but divorce?
Even she herself understood that if she was divorced, it would undoubtedly be a great shame and humiliation for the Xiao family, and they would never accept her again.

So she was so angry that she was almost dying, and she wished she could give the old lady a bowl of medicine so that the noisy old woman would go to the underworld and cry.

Xiao Shirong angrily smashed the whole room, and seeing that she was gradually losing strength, she stepped forward out of pity.

He was about to speak when Xiao Shirong suddenly covered her mouth and couldn't help vomiting.

(End of this chapter)