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

Chapter 24: Killing a Concubine

Xie Fei had no choice but to reach out for the egg.

It was windy and rainy recently, and it was especially cold in the mountains. Everyone was putting on more clothes. Only Yuan San, who was not afraid of the cold, always wore only one piece of clothing.

The egg was placed in the inner pocket of his shirt. When Xie Fei stretched out his hand, it was inevitable that his skin would be touched.

Yuan San's body temperature has always been high, even in winter he is as hot as a heater.

When she was in her teens and didn't have to care too much about the difference between men and women, Xie Fei liked to put her hands on his waist and keep warm by the hot muscles.

After two years, when we grew up, there was no such intimate behavior anymore.

Now, when he touched it for the first time, Xie Fei retracted his hand as if he had been electrocuted.

But such a move is too eye-catching, and it will definitely be difficult to face it calmly in the future.

She suppressed her embarrassment and reached her hand into Yuan Sanyi's clothes, her fingertips touching the outline of his abdominal muscles.

Just like before, it is hard, firm and warm when exerting force, as if you can feel the blood vessels and nerves beating slightly through a thin layer of skin. It feels so good that you can't help but linger.

"cough."

Yuan San coughed lightly above his head. Xie Fei immediately put away his distracting thoughts, reached into his pocket expressionlessly, and tried to take out the pheasant eggs.

Her hands were small, so she could only take one at a time to avoid breaking them, so she had to move them in and out, and her slender white hands gently rubbed against her muscles.

Yuan San's jaw was taut and he had already turned his head to the side, like a fish waiting to be slaughtered.

After Xie Fei took the eggs, he said, "Okay."

"Well," Yuan San changed the subject without thinking, "I'll build another chicken coop."

"The yard isn't big enough," Xie Fei said, holding a pheasant egg. "How about we break through the back wall and build a small shed outside?"

"Okay, I'll go there." Yuan San strode away.

As soon as he left, Fu Yu came out and said pitifully, "Girl, I don't know how to frame... Hey, girl, your face is so red, could it be that the weather is so hot and cold, did you catch a cold?"

Xie Fei glanced at her and raised his voice to scold, "Can't you see that I can't spare my hands? Go find a bamboo basket to put the eggs in!"

Fu Yu was stunned for a moment, then muttered, "Just go, why are you so fierce? Miss, did your period come early?"

Xie Fei really couldn't free his hands, otherwise he would have to take off his shoes and smash Fu Yu's butt.

She looked at Yuan San again. That man had already put the chickens and rabbits away, and went to the backyard to observe the wall, thinking about where to drill a hole.

With him around, Xie Fei doesn't have to worry about these things.

Two days later, Xie Fei finished making the round fan.

This fan is a picture of plum blossoms in winter, with a beautiful snowy scene and plum blossoms about to bloom. A bird with blue feathers and a yellow beak on the branch is very lifelike, as if it will flap its wings and fly away in the snow in the next moment.

Xie Fei liked it very much and shook it in his hand all day long, which made Fu Yu feel cool.

Just after morning that day, someone came to Pei Mansion.

It is said that the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and the mansion still has to give out some rewards during festivals.

Two small boxes were brought in. Xie Fei took a look and saw that they were nothing but cloth, tea, fruits, cakes and the like.

Fu Yu was more familiar with the maid who came to deliver the gifts, so she asked, "Does only our daughter have these, or do Xiang Xiaoniang and the others have them as well?"

The maid said, "This year, the old lady prepared it, and each of you ladies has one. Thank you, young lady, for being a concubine, so you will get an extra portion."

Xie Fei realized.

She grabbed a handful of copper coins tied with a red string, gave them to the maid, and said, "It's hard for you to come here, have a cup of tea with Fu Yu, and then go back and report."

"Yes, thank you very much, young lady." The maid was about the same age as Fu Yu. After receiving the reward, she ran away hand in hand with Fu Yu.

After the two men left, Yuan Sancai walked out from the dark and took out everything in the box. There were more than ten pieces of silk, two tea cakes, a few boxes of cakes, other small items, and silver ingots wrapped in red cloth, which should be more than ten taels.

Relatively expensive is a dry goods box, which contains seafood delicacies, including abalone, fish maw, sea cucumber, scallop, etc., as well as some dried shrimps and salted fish, and the quantity is quite large.

The last time Xie Fei saw dried seafood was in his previous life.

She asked curiously, "A seafood box like this should be worth a lot, right?"

Yuan San pointed at the abalone and said, "That's all. They are delicious and rare, and more valuable than the silver ingots you have."

Xie Fei naturally didn't know the price of dried abalone in this era. After hearing what Yuan San said, he asked curiously, "Why, have you bought it and eaten it?"

Yuan San looked out the window and recalled: "When the tomb was robbed, the owner was a nobleman hundreds of years ago, and abalone was among the burial objects. You think, if they could bury dried abalone, how could it not be valuable?"

Xie Fei thought so too, and then he changed his mind and asked in surprise, "You didn't eat it, did you?"

Yuan San smacked his lips, his eyes gradually blurred, "That taste is really..."

Xie Fei choked, "Stop, stop."

When Fu Yu came back, he told Xie Fei a shocking news.

"After the old lady returned to the capital, she took back the housekeeping power from Madam Xiao, so all the etiquette for the Mid-Autumn Festival was arranged by the maid beside the old lady."

Xie Fei wondered, "Why don't you let Xiao Shirong take power?"

Isn’t she your aunt?
Fu Yu lowered her voice mysteriously, "I heard that Madam Xiao killed someone!"

First, the Anyuan Marquis Mansion sent a good concubine to the Pei Mansion.

This concubine is a girl from a good family and is very beautiful. Even Xiao Shirong can't help but feel a sense of crisis when she sees her.

She had a lover and wanted to elope but failed. Pei Yuan's favor for several days did not help her feel better. She just drank and cried in the backyard all day and was very depressed.

One day, when the concubine went to pay her respects to Xiao Shirong, she was still hungover and her hand shook when she served him tea, so she spilled the scalding hot tea on him.

How fierce was Xiao Shirong's temper? He immediately determined that the concubine had done it on purpose, and ordered someone to drag her away and beat her with a stick.

He fainted before he was even hit with a dozen boards.

Xiao Shirong was furious and ordered his men to drag him back to the yard to fend for himself, not allowing anyone to serve him or to call a doctor.

The servants were very obedient and really didn't care about it. When they went to check a few days later, the man was dead, with rotten flesh and maggots on his body.

The family of this concubine was a notorious ruffian. When they learned that their daughter was beaten to death, they immediately went to the government office and rolled around cursing, suing Pei's wife Xiao Shirong for beating the concubine to death for no reason.

There were many common people in front of the government office. When they heard the scoundrel crying, they could tell from his words that the Pei family was disregarding human life.

The common people were already very dissatisfied with the powerful, and when they heard this, regardless of the reason behind it, they all started shouting and demanding that the Pei family give this family justice.

Soon, rumors spread all over the city, and it turned into a rumor that Xiao Shirong had killed a girl who was passing by, and everyone condemned him.

However, the matter was eventually suppressed. The Pei family compensated the scoundrel with a sum of money and gradually covered it up with other things, and no one talked about it anymore.

The real reason why the old lady rushed back from the Buddhist temple was actually because of this matter.

After listening to this, Xie Fei felt that something was not right.

"It's not the first time that Xiao Shirong has taken people's lives lightly. How come this time the whole city knows about it?"

Fu Yu immediately reacted: "Miss, do you mean someone is fanning the flames?"

Xie Fei remained silent.

The person was sent by Anyuan Marquis Mansion, and maybe he is not as simple as he seems.

(End of this chapter)