After the favored concubine remarried, the aloof and powerful minister forcibly took her away.

Chapter 47 You and your mother are the same kind of people

Pei Feng walked over from a distance and picked up Mo'er.

Mo'er was already terrified by Chenghua's actions and burst into tears. Pei Feng wiped away Mo'er's tears while comforting him.

Pei Feng's gentle words of comfort finally stopped Mo'er from crying.

He placed Mo'er in Rongniang's arms and told her to take the child back to the house.

"Chenghua".

However, Pei Yanzhi was not one to give up easily.

Chenghua had already blocked Rongniang's retreat with his men. When Rongniang saw these servants, she hid behind Pei Feng in fear.

"uncle……"

Pei Feng reached out and patted Rong Niang, softly offering a word of comfort.

Then she turned to Pei Yanzhi and asked, "What are you going to do?"

This was the first time the father and son had spoken seriously to each other after many years.

Pei Yanzhi's expression was indifferent, but when he looked at Pei Feng, the pressure emanating from him was so overwhelming that even Pei Feng was somewhat unable to withstand it.

For the first time, Pei Feng seriously examined his son, and his impression of him was still that of him standing in front of Qin Bijun when he was a child.

I asked him if he could not leave looking like that.

“What can I do? If the old man can’t teach him the rules of being an illegitimate son, I will.”

"Or do you think that, as his older brother, I'm not qualified to teach him?"

Pei Yanzhi spoke coldly, and after he finished speaking, he turned his gaze to Rong Niang.

She was a woman who wasn't too young, but dressed in simple clothes, she was very gentle and graceful.

Compared to the always hysterical Qin Bijun, Rong Niang was the confidante in Pei Feng's heart.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to coax Pei Feng into keeping her away from home for over ten years, never even returning.

"You bastard, I am your father! Are you trying to act like the head of the family in front of me?"

Looking at Pei Yanzhi's cold face and hearing his threatening words, Pei Feng immediately raised his hand and struck him.

Xiang Ning, standing next to Pei Yanzhi, saw Pei Feng raise his hand, her eyes widened, and then she pushed Pei Yanzhi directly.

Pei Feng's slap, delivered with full force, landed on Xiang Ning's head.

The blows made her ears ring, and her hairpins fell to the ground.

Xiang Ning tilted her head and staggered a few steps. Pei Yanzhi pulled her into his arms and held her head: "Xiang Ning?"

"Master, I'm alright."

Thankfully, the slap landed on her. If it had landed on Pei Yanzhi, the person she had just coaxed would have turned into an iceberg again.

Xiang Ning didn't want to see Pei Yanzhi angry again, otherwise she would be the one suffering and having to serve him, not Pei Feng.

"Idiot, do you think I need you to block this?"

Pei Yanzhi held Xiang Ning in his arms, feeling a mix of emotions he couldn't quite describe.

The bad mood that Pei Feng had just brought on was instantly relieved by Xiang Ning.

He was skilled in martial arts, so he could easily dodge Pei Feng's slap. He didn't need her to protect him or take the slap for him.

Xiang Ning was so clumsy and stupid, yet she still managed to stir up ripples in his heart.

She is so pitiful.

"Let's go back to Mosong Garden first. I'll handle things here, okay?"

Pei Yanzhi sighed softly, released Xiang Ning, reached out and rubbed her head, then had the servant behind him take Xiang Ning back to Mosong Garden.

"Master..."

Xiang Ning called out to him, tugging at his sleeve: "Master, please don't be angry, this servant will wait for you at Mosong Garden."

She was afraid that if she left, Pei Yanzhi would do something else, and she would have to be the one to put out this powder keg.

Upon hearing this, Pei Yanzhi nodded and said, "Listen to me, go back."

Since he had said that, Xiang Ning had no choice but to turn and leave. Her reluctance to leave, turning back every few steps, had already calmed Pei Yanzhi's anger considerably.

After Xiang Ning left, Pei Yanzhi turned his gaze back to Pei Feng.

"Father? So someone who has never fulfilled his fatherly duties deserves to be called a father."

"But while I still have the patience to talk to you properly, don't provoke me any further."

Pei Yanzhi stepped into the Begonia Garden and looked at Rongniang and Mo'er in her arms: "Since you are a concubine, you should abide by the rules of the master's family. Logically speaking, you and this child should both pay their respects to me."

In the Pei family, Pei Yanzhi is not only the eldest grandson of the main branch, but also the next head of the Pei family.

Rongniang was merely a concubine, and Mo'er was only a son born out of wedlock; they should naturally bow to each other upon seeing him.

When Ke Mo'er saw Pei Yanzhi, she not only didn't bow, but also said those kinds of things to him.

Pei Yanzhi used his elder brother as a pretext to teach him, which was reasonable and in accordance with the law.

"Pei Yanzhi, get out of Haitang Garden."

Pei Feng listened to Pei Yanzhi's talk of concubines and illegitimate sons, and his dissatisfaction was about to overflow.

“If it weren’t for my mother, I would never have come back. You and your mother are the same kind of people.”

Pei Feng looked at Pei Yanzhi with disgust, as if he saw Qin Bijun's shadow in him.

In the past, Pei Yanzhi would definitely have cared about it.

Now, it doesn't matter anymore.

“If you feel uncomfortable staying at the Pei residence, you can leave now. But since we’re bringing him back and registering him in the Pei family’s genealogy, I’m his elder brother.”

Neither Pei Yanzhi nor Pei Feng was willing to back down, and the two remained deadlocked.

Seeing this, Rongniang immediately knelt down with Mo'er: "It's all Rongniang's fault. Please, Master and Young Master, don't argue about this."

After saying that, she made Mo'er kowtow to Pei Yanzhi: "Apologize to your elder brother."

Having endured and bided her time for over a decade, Rongniang waited for Pei Feng to take her back to the Pei residence.

Pei Feng disliked the Pei family, so she could only pretend not to care and accompany him outside.

But only by returning to the Pei family can Mo'er have a chance to compete, be included in the Pei family genealogy, and take the imperial examinations in the future.

And she was no longer a mistress who was even less than a concubine.

"Rongniang, get up."

Seeing that Mo'er was about to cry again, Rongniang pressed Mo'er's head down and made him kowtow heavily to Pei Yanzhi.

Children's skin is naturally delicate, and they were pampered by Pei Feng as they grew up.

With a resounding thud, Mo'er's forehead was covered in bloody welts.

Pei Feng pulled the person up with a pained expression: "Are you satisfied now?"

"Then please, Aunt Rong and my seventh brother, behave yourselves well."

Pei Yanzhi glanced at them indifferently, bent down to pick up the hairpin that Xiang Ning had dropped, and then turned to leave Haitang Garden.

Seeing Pei Yanzhi leave, Pei Feng angrily cursed him as a rebellious son.

Pei Yanzhi, who had already walked far away, naturally did not hear it.

“Rongniang, it’s my fault. I made you suffer such humiliation on your very first day in the manor.”

Hearing this, Rongniang shook her head with tears in her eyes: "With Master's protection, Rongniang's suffering is nothing."

As she spoke, she looked at the wound on Mo'er's head with heartache.

Unexpectedly, Pei Feng's eldest son is so difficult to deal with. It seems that she will have to be more careful in the future.

Pei Yanzhi is already so old and holds an important position in the court, so the Pei family naturally values ​​him even more.

If Mo'er and I want to gain a foothold in the Pei family, it seems we still have to curry favor with that old lady.

Rongniang leaned against Pei Feng's chest, her reddened eyes filled with clarity.

(End of this chapter)