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

Chapter 51 Injured

Fu Yu became more confused as he listened.

the truth?

Isn't the truth that the servant accidentally gave Miao musk, and the snake crawled out on its own?
Maybe Miao's pregnancy came at an unfortunate time, and God took it away.

As soon as Xie Fei saw Fu Yu's innocent eyes, he knew that this girl really believed Su Lu's words.

She had no choice but to say, "Don't you think about it? Everyone knows that pregnant women should avoid using musk. Miao is pregnant, and the servants in her courtyard dare to use musk. Isn't this courting death? Besides, musk is so precious, can the servants really get it easily?"

Fu Yu thought hard and finally felt that something was wrong.

Xie Fei added: "As for the poisonous snake, its story is even more ridiculous. How did it happen to appear next to Miao Xiaoniang and Li Xiaoniang?"

Even the arrangement of the standing positions is so perfect.

As soon as Xie Fei said this, Fu Yu finally realized what was happening and began to sweat coldly.

"In other words, there really is someone behind this?"

Xie Fei slowly stroked the gold ingot and said, "Even if there was, it's gone."

Fu Yu said, "Miss, you are so roundabout in your words."

Xie Fei patted her head and said, "Go hide these gold ingots and silver notes together."

"Yes."

Fu Yu went to the next room to hide the gold and asked again, "Miss, then tell me, how did the musk get into Miao Xiaoniang's body? Was it really someone in her courtyard who was bribed and did it secretly?"

Xie Fei asked: "How should I know?"

Fu Yu didn't ask any more questions.

Xie Fei picked up the teacup again and looked at the reflection on the water under the mist.

Miao had a very fragrant scent. Incense was always lit in the house all year round. Whenever we met, she always had a rich fragrance on her body.

But that day, Xie Fei and others entered Miao's house, but did not find the incense burner.

Before she left, she casually asked someone in Miao's house and learned that the day before the incident, a servant accidentally broke the incense burner while cleaning and was punished by Miao.

Even she could see that Su Lu, who was full of tricks, could not have failed to notice it.

The reason why he remained silent was probably because of the old lady's instruction.

Xie Fei thought that this old lady was also very interesting.

Even if she looked down on Miao, the baby in Miao's belly was still her grandson after all.

In order to protect Xiao Shirong, she could simply not pursue the matter.

After all, nieces are more important than grandchildren?
Pei Mansion, inside Huiming Hall.

Xiao Shirong knelt in front of the Buddha for a whole day with her plain clothes loose.

The old lady came out slowly, holding a Buddhist rosary, and asked, "Do you know you are wrong?"

Xiao Shirong looked up at the compassionate Buddha statue and sneered, "What did I do wrong? Was it because I didn't listen to my aunt's arrangement and protected a little girl who wanted to climb over my head? Was it because I didn't expect that in the next few decades, a concubine's child who was not born by me would block my way?"

"You are so stubborn!" the old lady was angry.

Xiao Shirong stroked her cheek. Pei Yuan's slap that day wasn't actually very heavy, so she didn't feel any pain now.

But the humiliation that came with it was enough to make her remember it for the rest of her life. Her face was distorted, and she said aggressively: "Aunt, don't you know better than me how painful it is to be with a man you don't love? Anyway, once Pei Yuan dies, I will have the opportunity to remarry. Do you want me to erect a chastity memorial arch and remain a widow for the rest of my life just to preserve the reputation of the Xiao family?"

She can do without love, but she must be given enough power.

If she has no power, and is asked to remain a virgin to a disgusting man and raise a child for him, isn't that crazy?

Love and power, you have to have one!
The old lady looked at the indignant Xiao Shirong with an extremely cold expression.

Still too young.

She thought that when she was a girl, the doting of her father and brothers and the love of her relatives were unconditional and would accompany her for the rest of her life.

Little did she know that from the moment she sat on the bridal sedan and entered the Pei residence as a daughter of the Xiao family and became a wife of the Pei family, she could no longer be just the noble and innocent daughter of the Xiao family.

The love she received in her youth will turn into an invisible shackle, forcing her to shoulder the honor and reputation of the women of her mother's family, becoming the rotting mud of a centuries-old clan, and spending her entire life repaying the Xiao family for bringing her up.

At the farm, Yuan San carried a few baskets of charcoal.

He went deep into the mountains to cut down trees, and after burning them into charcoal, the charcoal was uniform in size and of excellent quality.

Xie Fei picked up a few pieces of charcoal and examined them. He couldn't let them go. "No matter how cold this winter is, we should be able to get through it."

Yuan San took out two pheasants from his backpack, still alive, and said, "Game is becoming scarce in the mountains. Those that need to hibernate have gone deep into the mountains to find places to hibernate. I caught these two chickens. I only come across two of them when I'm just wandering around for a day."

As he spoke, he carried the pheasant to the chicken coop. There were already four or five pheasants in the chicken coop. When they saw someone coming, they flapped their wings and cackled.

Xie Fei followed him and asked, "How much more charcoal do you want to burn? I see the weather is getting colder, you should come back to the village."

"I still have some firewood to burn. From November this year to February or March next year, I'm afraid I'll have to rely on charcoal for heating."

Xie Fei shuddered at the thought, "So cold?"

"So you have to prepare in advance, otherwise you will be frozen." Yuan San closed the chicken coop and picked up the coarse grains next to it to feed the pheasants.

He hadn't come down the mountain for several days. Because he was often burned by the fire and smoke in front of the kiln, his neck exposed outside his clothes seemed to be burnt a little darker, and his arms were also a more rugged and bold dark color.

Xie Fei's eyes fell on the back of his hand, and he saw a hideous scar on it, with flesh and skin flying around, which was very scary.

She subconsciously grabbed Yuan San's hand and asked anxiously, "How did you get hurt?"

Yuan San didn't care much. "When I went to the mountains to chop wood before, I encountered a hungry leopard. During the struggle, I was accidentally caught by it. It's a pity that my axe flew away, otherwise you could have eaten a few meals of leopard meat."

"What are you eating? Do you think I'm floating jade?" Xie Fei ran back to the house angrily and took out the newly made ointment.

Yuan San was still feeding the chickens. He scattered a mixture of coarse grains and green vegetable leaves into the pen and clucked like a rooster, which made the pheasants flutter their feet even more happily.

"Yuan, big, boss!" Xie Fei put his hands on his waist and roared in a deep voice.

It was like the sound of a death knell. Yuan San dropped the feed bowl with a start, leaving it clanging on the ground. He then rushed towards Xie Fei, fearing that if he was a second late he would be hit on the head by the girl.

Xie Fei pulled him to sit down at the stone table and asked him to show his scars.

Yuan San placed his hand on the table. The scar on the back of his hand had never been treated and was deeper than when he was injured. The white bone was vaguely visible.

There was ash and charcoal between the flesh and blood, and it felt a little burnt.

Xie Fei looked at the wound carefully and couldn't help but said angrily: "Don't you know how to bandage it yourself? If you really don't know what to do, why don't you come down the mountain to find me?"

Yuan San smiled indifferently, "It's just a small wound."

Xie Fei couldn't hold back any longer, he slammed the stone table and roared, "You call this a small wound? You are made of flesh and blood, you will be in trouble if you get infected! You are so old, you have died once, why don't you know how to treat yourself better? If something happens to you, don't expect me to buy you a coffin! I will dissect you directly, make you into a human specimen, and hang it on the beam to ward off evil spirits!"

(End of this chapter)