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

Chapter 60: Extravagance
Xie Fei knew that she had something on her mind, so he just smiled and said, "I am worried about your health. You are the only one who has ever been pregnant for the Lord. In the future, the burden of carrying on the Pei family's legacy will still fall on you."

Miao was pleased to hear this, but before she could feel complacent, another concubine, Wu, started laughing sarcastically.

"She hasn't been favored by the master for several days, and you still expect her to have children? Sister Xie, you have found the wrong person. It's better to rely on yourself than on her."

Miao's face changed and she retorted, "The master is just taking care of my health. He will naturally favor me when I get better. But you, sister, I heard that you haven't seen the master for more than half a year. I wonder if the master has forgotten you?"

Wu snorted coldly, "I have been with my master for five years. My master has deep feelings for me. Whenever he is upset, he always comes to my room to listen to music. I don't know what Sister Miao is like five years later."

The two of them started arguing again.

Xie Fei just listened to them quarreling but did not stop them, just treating it as the birds chirping.

This Wu's name was Wu Shanyue. She was once a famous singer in the capital. Her voice was like the sound of nature, and she attracted countless men.

Five years ago, when Pei Yuan just returned to the capital, he fell in love with her at first sight. He spent a large sum of money to redeem her and took her as his concubine, doting on her for quite a while.

However, Pei Yuan was a man who easily got bored with the old and loved the new. In less than three months, he had completely ignored her.

Fortunately, Wu Shanyue had a beautiful voice but an average appearance and a straightforward personality. She was not the type who was gentle and seductive, so she was not targeted by Xiao Shirong and stayed safely in the corner.

After arguing for a while, Miao was the first to leave in anger, and the others also left one after another.

Only Wu Shanyue sat at the bottom and complained to Xie Fei.

"To be honest, my sister Xie, I feel very miserable. I am already 27 or 28 years old. It's ok that I don't have the love of the master, but I don't know how miserable my later years will be without a child."

When Wu Shanyue talked about her sad moments, she actually started to cry.

Xie Fei blinked, looking sad. "Sister Wu is right. I have been in the mansion for so long, but I still cannot please the master. Sister Wu and the master were once in love, but I..."

She was dejected and forced a tear out.

Wu Shanyue originally came to ask Xie Fei to find a solution, but she didn't expect Xie Fei to cry even more sadly than her, which made her feel helpless.

"This, Sister Xie, I, I didn't mean to bring up your sad memories, please stop crying!"

Xie Fei wiped the corner of his eyes, wiped away a hard-earned tear, and choked up and said: "My sister and I share the same suffering. Thinking of your situation, I can't help but sigh."

Wu Shanyue thought to herself, that’s not the same.

After all, she was once Pei Yuan's favorite, and was still superior to Xie Fei, who was not even looked at by Pei Yuan.

This idea could not be expressed out loud, Wu Shanyue was anxious and decided to make his intention clear.

"I'll be frank. Sister Xie is now in charge. You are much kinder than the eldest lady, so I dare to come to you for help. Sister Xie, please think of a way to let me meet the master."

Xie Fei actually guessed Wu Shanyue's intention, but he didn't expect her to be so straightforward and not even beat around the bush.

"This," she pretended to be embarrassed and said, "It's not that I don't want to help my sister, but I can't see the master myself, so how can I think of a solution?"

Wu Shanyue said excitedly: "You are the housekeeper now, you have plenty of opportunities to get close to the master. As long as you let me meet you, I can talk to the master and give birth to a child, no matter it is a boy or a girl, so that I can have someone to rely on when I grow old!"

Xie Fei: "..."

Too straightforward!

Isn’t it said that ancient people were shy and reserved?
This Wu was just short of saying "I want to sleep with my master"!

But as the mistress of the house, does she have to arrange for someone to sleep with her?

After a brief thought, Xie Fei said, "I really can't influence the master's decision." Wu Shanyue's eyes dimmed instantly, but then she heard Xie Fei say, "Although I am not the mistress of the house, since I manage the house on behalf of the mistress, I should naturally help the sisters solve their problems."

Wu Shanyue's eyes suddenly lit up again.

In the afternoon, Xie Fei went to Qiong Yu Garden to pay his respects to Xiao Shirong.

Xiao Shirong got up late and was greedy for breakfast, so he ate too much. As a result, he had no appetite at noon and delayed his meal.

So when Xie Fei arrived, she was enjoying a late lunch.

"I heard that Sister Xie is very good at managing the household. Whether it's concubines or servants, they are all trembling in fear and doing everything meticulously under your control?"

Xie Fei said shamelessly: "Madam, you are too kind to me. The reason why I manage well is that I follow your example."

Xiao Shirong was no longer calm.

This lowly concubine's daughter really couldn't understand. Was she being sarcastic?
Also, what does it mean to follow suit?

No matter how evil she did, she never burned down the old lady's Buddhist temple!

Putting down the chopsticks, Xiao Shirong said worriedly, "I don't want to eat anymore, let's go."

The servants came forward and cleared the table of exquisite dishes one by one.

Xie Fei noticed that Xiao Shirong barely touched any of the dishes on the table, and didn't even touch some of them.

When she checked the accounts, she found that Xiao Shirong's daily meals were extremely expensive.

A breakfast costs several taels of silver, and lunch and dinner are even more sumptuous, costing more than ten or twenty taels.

The mistress dined alone, and she had to prepare at least twenty or thirty dishes.

Such as braised pork head, prawns, whole chicken with fragrant sauce, braised pigeons in red sauce, etc., each one is a famous dish.

We hire different famous chefs to cook according to local cuisine, and the ingredients we choose must be the highest quality and freshest.

She would give away the food she couldn't finish and had never touched, unless she felt like giving it to her confidants. No one else was worthy of eating her leftovers, and they were all thrown into the slop bucket.

This is just the luxury on food. The other big expenses include clothes and jewelry, collecting rare flowers and plants and rare animals for appreciation, listening to music and watching plays in the mansion every day, keeping a troupe of actors and singers and dancers, etc.

It’s no wonder that the Pei family has to sell off their land to make ends meet. Fortunately, there are only two or three masters like them.

If it were a big family with 10 to 20 masters squandering like this, the Pei Mansion would have been emptied to its core.

Xiao Shirong drank the tea and rinsed her mouth, then said slowly, "My sister comes from a small family after all, so it's really difficult for you to let my sister manage the household. If you really can't stand it, you can go and ask the old lady for help."

Xie Fei said: "Thank you for your consideration, Madam. I was just looking for an opportunity to ask the old lady to take back her decision, but she always avoided me."

Maybe she was afraid that she would do something weird again, so the old lady was afraid of her and refused to see her no matter how she asked.

Xiao Shirong was happy to see the joke, and said with a fake smile: "In this case, I have to ask my sister to worry more."

Xie Fei also mentioned that he wanted to hold a small family dinner tomorrow night for the concubines to have a simple meal together.

Xiao Shirong disdained to sit at the same table with concubines, so she found an excuse to send Xie Fei away and was unwilling to keep the appointment.

Xie Fei just needs her to agree and not cause trouble when the time comes.

(End of this chapter)