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

Chapter 30 Miao's Pregnancy

Miao rolled her eyes and said unhappily, "Madam, the old lady hasn't spoken yet, why are you so anxious?"

Xiao Shirong was about to lose her temper when Pei Yuan yelled at her impatiently, "That's right, grandma didn't say anything, who are you trying to show off to?"

Xiao Shirong choked up in his throat and almost vomited blood.

The old lady looked around, still with a kind face, and said cheerfully: "If you don't want to kneel, then don't kneel. What's the big deal? As long as Brother Yuan likes it, it doesn't matter."

Miao stroked her belly and said, "Grandma, it's not that I don't want to kneel, it's just that I'm pregnant and the doctor said I can't kneel."

Suddenly, everyone fell silent.

After the night banquet, the news that Miao was pregnant spread like wildfire.

Even the maids and servants were talking about how Xiao Shirong had been married to Pei Yuan for several years but had no children.

Although she did not consummate her marriage with Pei Yuan, she always controlled the pregnancy of her concubines and did not allow any of them to have a baby.

Now, Miao has come and become pregnant with the eldest son of the Pei family before her. I wonder how angry she is now.

After the night banquet, Xie Fei returned to Songyueju.

Fu Yu took the ointment and applied it on the wound on her knee again, and mentioned that Miao was pregnant.

"After the banquet tonight, Master Pei went to the Madam's room for a long private conversation. From what he said, he must have gone to warn the Madam not to take action against the Miao family."

Although Pei Yuan was dissolute, he was by no means a fool. He just didn't want to pay attention to the open and secret struggles in the backyard.

Now that the woman he likes, Miao, is pregnant, he naturally has to stand up for her, lest Xiao Shirong be blind and hurt the person dear to his heart.

Xie Fei was not interested in anyone's pregnancy, as long as he could return to the farm and stay away from the center of the vortex.

"The old lady and the eldest lady have no time to pay attention to me. We will go back to the farm early tomorrow morning." Xie Fei was worried, and seeing Fu Yu also looked distressed, he said with a smile, "I packed a roast suckling pig for you, go and eat it quickly."

Fu Yu pouted and said, "Eat, eat, eat. Do you think I'm a pig? You're injured like this, and I still have the mood to eat?"

Xie Fei smiled and touched her forehead.

"Silly girl, unless the sky falls, you have to eat as much as you can. Only when you are full will you have the energy to think about how to survive."

Fu Yu was still reluctant to leave her, and stayed quietly beside her with a gloomy expression.

The next morning, Xie Fei left the mansion and returned to the farm.

The first thing she did after arriving was to listen to Yuan San and ask Fu Yu to call Sun over.

The Sun mother and son were notoriously annoying people on the farm, and they did not get along well with people like Mama Liu.

The mother and son are ambitious and want to squeeze out Mother Liu and Chen Dafa to become the housekeeper and head of the village.

However, the Chen family had a high prestige and was united, so the mother and son could never succeed.

When Sun arrived, Xie Fei was spreading the tung fruits from the woodshed out in the yard to dry.

"Mrs. Xie, are you looking for me?" Sun was unsure of what Xie Fei meant, so she was very cautious and kept looking at her face.

Xie Fei said kindly: "I heard that your Dalang is free, I want to ask him to help me press tung oil, I wonder if he has time?"

Sun looked at the black dried tung fruits all over the ground and was quite puzzled.

Although tung oil is expensive, Xie Fei is a noble concubine. She wouldn't go to the mountains to pick tung fruits just for a little tung oil, right?

Besides, oil pressing is a strenuous job. Just collecting the seeds from tung fruits takes a lot of effort.

What if Xie Fei just asks me to do the work without paying me?
Thinking of this, Sun said, "We should listen to your instructions. But you don't know that my Dalang is busy right now and can't spare the time." Xie Fei asked curiously, "The busy farming season is over. I think everyone in the farm is quite idle. Has your Dalang found a new job?"

Sun waved her hands hastily: "No, no, I misunderstood. I..."

"Since there is no new job, just do it for me." Xie Fei said with a smile: "Do you think I will let your Dalang work for nothing without paying you?"

When she heard that there would be wages, Sun immediately put on a smile without even a word of transition.

"That's not right, little lady Xie. If you have anything to say, just tell me. Why are you still talking about wages?"

Soon, Sun called her son Sun Dalang and asked them to search the ground for tung fruits.

Xie Fei asked Fu Yu to give five cents of silver, which made Sun's mother and son smile happily, and they promised to send the squeezed tung oil soon.

After they left and the courtyard gate was closed, Yuan San came out of the house.

"I'll keep an eye on Sun's company these days."

Xie Fei's eyes wandered, as if thinking about something. "If it was really her who snitched, I would be relieved."

Sun was not welcomed in the village, and Mother Liu had specifically told others not to let anyone know that Xie Fei had saved someone.

Therefore, Sun's mother and son knew very little about the news, and when they went to the old lady, they would definitely exaggerate the news in order to get the reward money.

The matter was exaggerated so much that the old lady could not help but be skeptical.

It is much easier to remove.

At Pei's house, Xiao Shirong was furious and could not control himself.

"How dare a wimp, a down-and-out girl, embarrass me in public?"

She paced around the room, and suddenly raised her hand to overturn the whole table, and teacups and teapots fell all over the floor.

The maids and servants all knelt down and trembled.

Xiao Shirong still hadn't vented his anger and was acting hysterical as if he was crazy.

"What? So what if she's pregnant? What can be inherited from this Pei Mansion? Marquis Mansion? What the hell is a Marquis Mansion? You sent a bitch like this here to make things difficult for me, right?"

No one in the room dared to comfort her, except Su Lu, who was beside the old lady, who came forward as ordered and stood there quietly.

After waiting for a long time, seeing Xiao Shirong was exhausted and calm, Su Lu said, "Madam, don't be angry. Miao Xiaoniang is not a blessed person. She will have to rely on you to raise her concubine's children in the future."

Xiao Shirong was extremely disgusted, "Do you think I'm going to rush over to raise that bitch's child?"

Su Lu added: "You don't have to bear children for your lord, but at least you have concubines by your side."

Xiao Shirong said coldly: "I am waiting for Pei Yuan to die, and then I can go back to Fanyang and continue to be my daughter of the Xiao family."

These words were so outrageous that even Su Lu fell silent, and the others did not dare to breathe.

Old lady Ji Miaoxuan just walked in. After hearing this, she ordered everyone except Su Lu to leave.

After the outsiders were gone, the old lady said, "With your temper, if you had really entered the East Palace, the entire Xiao family and even the Ji family would have been implicated by you."

Xiao Shirong said angrily: "If it were you, Auntie, would you accept a playboy who is uneducated and spends his days drinking and partying?"

Ji Miaoxuan said: "You asked for it if you can't accept it. Now that you are a wife of the Pei family, you must show your ability and don't bring shame to the Xiao family."

After a pause, Ji Miaoxuan continued, "Miao was sent by the Marquis' Mansion, so you can't deal with her openly. But the child in her belly, as long as you train her well, will be your support in the future."

(End of this chapter)