Pei Hai hummed in response, then realized what was happening and exclaimed, "Huh?"
I don't understand why his older brother suddenly brought up the time when he married his sister-in-law.
"Brother, why are you asking this? Did I do something wrong that night?"
No way, he didn't realize he'd made a mistake so early on?
Pei Hai stared wide-eyed at his older brother.
He racked his brains and thought for a long time before finally coming up with something.
Could it be that on the night his sister-in-law married into the family, his brother asked his sister to deliver food, but his mother secretly stopped him, saying that she should go hungry, and that she wanted to give her a warning and let her know that the Pei family was not an easy place to live?
He was busy with the banquet at the time and overheard it by accident. Anyway, his mother looked down on everyone, and besides, he wasn't familiar with his sister-in-law at the time. He was also the kind of person who was afraid of trouble and didn't want to meddle in other people's business, so he never thought of speaking up for her.
Later, he drank too much and couldn't remember much else.
Pei Hai was terrified.
No wonder my older brother has been getting colder and colder to them lately; did he already know about these things?
Pei Hai broke out in a cold sweat: "Brother, I didn't mean to not tell you. My friends were all drinking with me at the time, and I didn't think much of it. I thought Mom was just giving my sister-in-law a hard time and that it would be over in a while. I didn't expect her to actually not bring my sister-in-law any food."
Pei Yuchen turned his head to look at him: "What did you say?"
Pei Hai found the voice terrifyingly cold and quickly explained, "That night you asked your younger sister to bring your sister-in-law some food, but Mom secretly stopped you, saying it was to give your sister-in-law a hard time and wouldn't let you know."
The study fell into a deathly silence.
That was Pei Yuchen's first marriage. He didn't really understand it, but he thought that Song Yanzhi had come all the way here to marry him and might be hungry. There were many people attending the wedding, and he was tied up and couldn't leave.
So I asked my younger sister to help deliver food to Song Yanzhi.
Unexpectedly, even such a small matter was blocked by someone.
He drank quite a bit that night, and it was very late when he got home.
At that time, the two were not familiar with each other. She was shy, and he was also quiet. He had no idea that she had not eaten that day.
It turns out that she suffered grievances not after I left.
Instead, she was being bullied while he was there, but he was completely unaware.
Whenever he hears about things he was unaware of, his guilt deepens, like a mountain pressing down on him, making it hard to breathe.
Pei Yuchen pursed his thin lips and finally spoke in the almost suffocating atmosphere that Pei Hai was in.
His voice was a little hoarse, "It's not about that."
Pei Hai swallowed hard: "Is there...is there anything else?"
"About Zhou Qiao," Pei Yuchen said softly, concealing his overflowing thoughts.
"Zhou Qiao?" Pei Hai was stunned for a moment, then his expression changed when he realized what he meant: "Brother, you don't really still have feelings for Zhou Qiao, do you, like what outsiders are saying?"
He looked at Pei Yuchen with an expression that said, "So this is what you're like."
Pei Yuchen's face darkened; "What nonsense are you talking about? When did I ever have any past relationship with her?"
"No, no, but everyone says that if she hadn't gone to university, she would definitely be the one you married."
Pei Hai was a little unsure, but he still advised, "I see Mom calling her over all the time, and I thought she was waiting for you to divorce your sister-in-law so you could rekindle your old flame."
Pei Yuchen said in a low, cold tone, "Nonsense."
Pei Hai shuddered. "Then why are you asking me about her?"
If the eldest brother chooses to divorce Zhou Qiao and his sister-in-law, he will be the first to disagree.
Poor Xiao Bao.
Pei Yuchen sighed, "I'm asking you, on the night of my wedding, when I asked you to take Zhou Qiao home, did anything happen between you two?"
"Huh? What could possibly happen between us? You know how much she looks down on me. She wouldn't even give me a second glance. If you hadn't asked me to give her a ride, I wouldn't have done it."
Actually, he only realized that Zhou Qiao really liked his older brother when he heard Zhou Qiao drunk and crying, begging his older brother not to marry another woman.
I initially thought it was just people making things up.
At that moment, Pei Hai thought to himself, "Pah! What's the use of crying and making a scene when she's already married?" He was afraid that people would hear him, so he quickly borrowed a bicycle and took her to her relative's house.
It was too dark at the time, and he had been drinking, so he couldn't remember clearly. He only remembered that a man came over and helped him inside. Later, Pei Hai was so tired that he fell asleep by the roadside and spent the night there. He even caught a cold the next day.
He remembered this matter quite clearly and told Pei Yuchen the truth.
Pei Yuchen frowned slightly. Although Pei Hai was not a honest man, he was not a good liar.
He didn't pay much attention to Zhou Qiao. He was invited to the wedding by his mother and didn't even know where she lived at the time.
Where did you deliver it?
"Yes, it's Zhou Qiao's relative's house. It's not far from our residential compound. She boarded at her relative's house while attending high school there. You forgot? But it's been too long, and I can't remember whose house it was."
Pei Hai's face was contorted in a grimace.
"But brother, why are you asking this?"
He remembered that it was the last time he saw Zhou Qiao five years ago. After that, she seemed to have disappeared and never visited his home. Later, he heard from his mother that she had gone to university.
Pei Hai didn't pay attention either.
Pei Yuchen rubbed his temples, looking somewhat weary. On one hand, he had promised his comrades not to tell outsiders that Zhou Qiao was the mother of his two children, but on the other hand, this matter had indeed affected his own family.
Leaving aside the fact that his wife almost suspected he was the father of their two children, his mother's attitude was certainly hard to fathom.
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