Chang'an is good

Chapter 44 Correct, Objective

Seeing that Mrs. Pei didn't respond, Yao Ran asked softly, "What's wrong with mother?"

Pei Shi seemed to be trying to suppress some emotions, she remained silent and only closed her eyes.

This oppressive atmosphere shrunk the originally spacious carriage into an extremely narrow and cramped existence. Yao Ran felt breathless, and cold sweat broke out in the hands holding the handkerchief.

She really didn't know what to do to ease the suffocating atmosphere, so she could only say a little helplessly: "If mother really doesn't like such occasions, she won't come in the future..."

Hearing this, Mrs. Pei opened her eyes suddenly, and said word by word: "If it is not for your business, do you think I am willing to come, do you think I am willing to face those humble people who come from a humble family? "

Yao Ran grasped the veil tightly when she heard the words, and whispered: "My daughter knows mother's painstaking efforts, but it is said that Wei Shilang's eyes are higher than the top, and it seems that he has no intention of seeing Mrs. Zheng Guogong today... According to my daughter, there is no need to waste this matter. ..."

"Who dares you to belittle yourself so arrogantly!" Pei interrupted her coldly: "My Pei's blood is flowing in your bones! Your grandfather is the head of the Pei family, and I am the eldest daughter of the Pei family. Who dares to look down on you !"

"Even though their Wei family seems to be famous for a while, they are just upstarts. In terms of background, how can they be compared with our dignified Pei family?"

"If my daughter is willing to marry into their family, it will be their admiration, and it will be a credit to their Wei family!" Pei's words are undeniable: "Just like when I married the Yao family... If it had to be my Pei family Zhongzhu, why did your father come here today!"

Hearing the last sentence, Yao Ran bit her lips slightly, and said: "But my father is clearly a Jinshi, and he is also capable. Over the years, he has not relied on his grandparents' family... On the contrary, it was the uncle of the Pei family who was involved in the money and food case before. When it came to the imperial court, my mother asked my father to deal with it several times, almost causing my father to lose his official position..."

"Presumptuous!" Pei raised his hand, and a loud slap landed on Yao Ran's face.

The girl turned her face away from this slap, her expression dazed.

Mrs. Pei was furious: "You are indeed the same as your father, that ungrateful, wolf-hearted person!"

"If I hadn't resigned from the Jin family by accident back then, how could I have married into your Yao family? How could I have given birth to such a heartless thing as you, and because of the root cause of the disease after giving birth, it would be difficult to have children from now on... To be ridiculed like this today!"

"No one ridiculed mother..." Yao Ran's eyes were red, "Father never..."

"Of course he shouldn't and can't look down on me because of this!" Mrs. Pei tensed her neck because of excitement, and the veins on it protruded: "...he owes our Pei family and me! How dare he dare to despise me for this?" I can't give up!"

"But my father has never done anything wrong, why does my mother have to treat my father like an enemy?" Yao Ran shed tears and mustered up the courage to speak out what was in her heart: "Just because my mother can't have children, my father has been a bastard until now. Never... Hasn't my father done enough all these years?"

"Of course it's not enough!" Pei said sharply, "He has no concubine so far, it sounds nice... Do you really think it's because he doesn't want to have one!"

Yao Ran's eyelashes trembled when he heard this, as if falling into an ice cave.

So, the rumors she secretly heard are true?

There have only been two aunts in the mansion, one has been in the mansion for many years but has never been reported to be pregnant, and the other died of two deaths due to dystocia in the early years...

"Besides, his heart has never been with you, my mother, and my daughter!" Following that slap, Pei Shi seemed to be unable to suppress the resentment in his heart: "He has always had someone else in his heart!"

Facing those gloomy eyes that people dare not look directly at, Yao Ran was suffocated for breathing.

She knew that her mother was different from her predecessors, but this was the first time she saw her mother showing such a terrifying face.

Is it because of the incident she accidentally overheard that day, or because of the existence of Mrs. Chang's family, is it that the grievances that have been accumulated for many years are completely out of control?
Yao Ran's fingers were cold, and she looked away tremblingly, not daring to look into those eyes again.

"Ma'am..." The servant woman on the side spoke with a reminder.

Consciously speaking in front of her daughter, Pei gritted her teeth and closed her eyes to calm down.

"Young lady shouldn't ask too many questions about elders." The servant woman's voice sounded gentle: "Young lady only needs to know one thing, Madam is the only one under her knees, and everything she does is naturally for the young lady's future considerations, and the young lady should be considerate of Madam." It's your painstaking efforts... Hurry up and make amends to Madam."

Yao Ran sniffed lightly, and lowered her eyes: "It's my daughter's disobedience that provoked my mother's anger... Please punish her."

After being silent for an unknown amount of time, Mrs. Pei slowly opened her eyes and looked at the girl in front of her.

The excitement that was revealed just now was gone in her eyes, and when she looked at the only daughter at this moment, she seemed helpless after resentment, and like a person floating in the boundless sea of ​​suffering trying to hold onto the last piece of driftwood——

"Don't let me down again."

"Yes...Daughter, remember."

All the way without a word, only the muffled sound of the wheels rolling.

After returning to Yao's house, Mrs. Pei went back to the courtyard, and just sat down in the inner room when a female envoy brought warm tea.

Pei raised his sleeve and waved it down, his face was gloomy like water: "Get out!"

The female envoy was so frightened that she knelt down and kowtowed to admit her mistake, and at the signal of the maid beside Pei, she quickly packed up the pieces of the tea bowl, bowed her head and retreated.

"Did you see it? That little bitch... really looks exactly like the woman in the painting he hid in his study!"

"Before you said that I was suspicious, and you shouldn't mind some old things before I married him... but they didn't realize that not only did they have an affair, but that woman secretly gave birth to him!"

"He has been looking for it for so many years, and now he finally found it!"

"The next step is to bring him back... Father and daughter will meet and reunite, right?"

"Then what have Ran'er and I become? What has our Pei family become... the laughing stock of the entire capital!"

The servant woman quickly comforted her and said: "Madam, please calm down. According to the servant girl, the Lord may not have plans to admit relatives. After all, the Lord still has to worry about the official voice and our Pei family..."

"Even if I don't admit it for a while, he will recognize it sooner or later! After so many years, don't I know him? He looks kind and easy-going, but in fact he is the most self-proclaimed in his bones! He has gained a firm foothold in the officialdom now, with strong wings. I am afraid that I would like to find an opportunity to embarrass me and the Pei family, so as to show that he can take charge of himself and no longer need to rely on our Pei family!"

"But why... why did I marry him and live a life of innocence for so many years, and now I still suffer such humiliation?"

"Am I going to just sit and wait for him to bring that bastard to come and humiliate me?"

The determination that was made from the beginning made Pei grit his teeth: "It's just a little villain, even if he really knows, what can he do to me?"

"Husband and wife are separated..." She asked herself and answered, and smiled sadly and ironically: "Why did he ever give me his heart—"

"Since he never thinks of me, I can only think of myself!"

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On the other side, shortly after the mother and daughter of the Yao family left, a group of palace people came to the flower party of Duke Zheng's mansion.

The leader was a young female official, who smiled and said to Mrs. Zheng Guogong: "Not long ago, the sage sent someone to find a good-looking purple peony from Luoyang, and it was kept in the palace for half a month. Today, I specially ordered me to send it. It will add some fun with the flowers of your mansion."

Looking at the purple peony that was brought by the palace people, the capital had never seen it before, and there were exclamations from all around.

Purple peonies are rare, but what is more precious is the heart of a sage.

All the women looked at Zheng Guogong's wife, Mrs. Duan, who was saluting and thanking her, and all of them were envious and moved.

"Speaking of which, the Duan family is really lucky..." A few women who were farther away sighed in a low voice: "The Duan family is not considered a wealthy family, and it is not as good as you and me in terms of background. But when the palace chose a companion for Princess Chongyue, Her Royal Highness chose Duan who was three years older..."

"Yes, I was fortunate enough to be the princess's companion, and the younger brother of that princess was later appointed as the heir apparent... So, when it comes time to discuss marriage, he can marry into Duke Zheng's mansion."

"I got a good marriage, I gave birth to a good son, and I held an important position at a young age, and I was so highly valued by a saint... Such a good life, where can I ask people to reason?"

"Speaking of which, when Princess Chongyue chose to study with her, Madam Liang, you also went with her. In terms of family background, in terms of cleverness... Where did you lose to Duan?"

The woman who was asked mentioned this matter after many years, but she still gritted her teeth lightly: "...His Royal Highness said that she wants a pleasing company, she seems to be in a good mood."

After hearing this answer, the two women who asked the question looked at Mrs. Duan who was surrounded by everyone with complicated emotions, and then quietly looked at the person next to her...

Okay...it is indeed somewhat convincing.

One of them couldn't help but said: "Co-author...our Princess Chongyue, who has a righteous heart, is actually a person who only looks at her face?"

Not far away, Chang Suining, who had sharper ears, heard the conversation and nodded in agreement—well, correct, objective, pertinent, and to the point.

"Girl?" Xi'er looked at Chang Suining who was still nodding with some doubts.

Relying on the confidence of "brain is broken and fearless", Chang Suining did not intend to explain any strange behavior, and calmly asked: "What is the identity of that female officer?"

She looked at this person from a distance, feeling a little strange feeling that she couldn't describe.

"That's the county lord of Gu'an." Xi'er whispered to her own girl, "But now most of them call her the female historian of the Ming Dynasty—"

Chang Suining looked over: "Is she from the Ming family?"

"Yes, Ming Nv Shi is the niece of today's saint." Xi'er has always been familiar with some rumors in Beijing, and said in a low voice: "It is said that this Ming Nv Shi was born as a concubine at home. No one cares about the house, just because when I was ten years old, I met the saint once, and my fate was completely different..."

Chang Suining asked subconsciously: "How do you say that?"

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