Chapter 294 The Old Wives

Aunt Zhao looked incredulous after hearing what the gardener said, "What do you think happened?"

The gardener mumbled, "It seems... it was gnawed by mice..."

In fact, it doesn't look like it was gnawed by mice, but it seems that there is no other explanation! The roots of these flowers were damaged by something, as if they were gnawed.

Some have a hole in the middle, and some are half gone, but they are still barely supporting the branches. The soil in the flowerpot also has traces of being turned over, as if it was dug up by something, and many of the roots underneath are broken.

Unless it was done by a human, otherwise, it can only be done by mice!

The gardener didn't expect that it was done by two birds!

After all, he had never heard of it, let alone encountered such a thing as birds doing it. Generally speaking, the birds at most hurt the flowers in order to eat nectar, and a few petals fell off.

So the gardener thought it was a mouse.

"Mice, how could it be a mouse? Why don't you find someone to drive the mice away!"

Aunt Zhao could only believe this explanation. Looking at the flowers that were about to fall after being bitten, she felt distressed and ordered the gardener angrily and anxiously: "You want to save these flowers! I spent so much money to buy them, and they have only been blooming for a short time. You must save them!"

The gardener knelt on the ground and took a look. He felt so bitter in his heart!

It's like this, it's probably impossible to save them.

But he couldn't say that. Aunt Zhao looked like a flower, but she was actually very powerful! Only the old man thought she was a weak and kind person.

The gardener complained in his heart, and responded with a fearful look on his face: "I will do my best."

The gardener was still thinking about how to save it a little bit, but who knew that the next morning, Aunt Zhao's yard was noisy again.

Aunt Zhao was awakened by a burst of noise.

The old man came over and saw the flowers last night and was really unhappy, so he left early! She was full of anger and didn't sleep well the whole night. Now she was woken up again, and her temper became even more irritable.

"Aunt, it's bad, those flowers in the yard...those flowers are all gone!"

Hearing the noise, Aunt Zhao's personal maid walked in and said anxiously.

Aunt Zhao hurriedly put on her shoes and clothes, casually tied her hair and ran out. When she looked, she was stunned!

The flowers that were still standing yesterday, now all the branches were broken, and even the roots were dug out and thrown all over the ground, and the soil was also scattered all over the ground!

Yesterday they were still colorful, but today they are withered!

Pei Shaorong woke up at the appointed time as usual, combed her hair and had breakfast step by step.

However, just after she finished eating, someone hurriedly came from the main courtyard and said that the old lady had forced the lady to go there early in the morning.

When Pei Shaorong heard this, her heart tightened. She didn't have time to ask more questions and hurried over.

She hurried to the courtyard of Old Madam Pei, paused slightly before entering the house, took a breath, calmed her slightly rapid breathing, and then walked in.

As soon as she entered the room, she felt the tense atmosphere in the house. She pretended not to know and looked at Madam Pei with some surprise and asked, "Why did mother come to pay respects to grandmother so early?"

Madam Pei said in a gloomy tone, "I don't have the blessing to trouble Madam Pei's master."

Pei Shaorong was angry when she heard this, but she smiled and explained, "Grandma still likes to joke so much. It was the doctor who said that mother should stay in bed and rest, and grandfather also said that mother should rest and recuperate first, otherwise, mother would definitely come to pay respects every day."

She brought up the imperial physician and Pei Taifu, and Madam Pei did not hold on to this issue and snorted.

Pei Shaorong had just sat down when Madam Pei couldn't help but said, "As the legitimate daughter of the Pei family, you should also persuade your mother. As the mistress, you should also be tolerant."

Madam Pei's face turned black.

This old hag is going too far! How can a grandmother let her granddaughter interfere in what happens in her son and daughter-in-law's room? She is shameless herself, and she wants others to be shameless with her!

"If I didn't have the tolerance to tolerate others, how could outsiders only know Aunt Zhao and not Madam Pei? How could there be rumors in the capital that Master Pei favors his concubine over his wife? My mother ordered me here early in the morning, saying that I killed the flowers in Aunt Zhao's yard. It's ridiculous!"

"If I want to make trouble for Aunt Zhao, I don't need to do these petty things that are not presentable! I am the mistress of the Pei Mansion. If I want to deal with an aunt, I have plenty of fair and just methods, and Aunt Zhao has to bear it!"

Madam Pei was also very angry.

This old hag insisted that she had someone secretly destroy the flowers planted by Aunt Zhao. How ridiculous!

Not to mention that she disdained to deal with Aunt Zhao, even if she wanted to deal with her, she would not use such a ridiculous and childish method!

Mrs. Pei blushed and became furious at her words. She looked at Madam Pei with deep disgust, "How dare you!"

Madam Pei sneered, "Yes, how dare you, a lowly concubine actually slander the mistress! Only the Pei family is so unruly. If it were someone else's family, they would have been dragged out and beaten to death!"

Pei Shaorong was terrified. Without waiting for Mrs. Pei to say anything, she hurried over and stood beside Madam Pei, blocking her sight. She said anxiously, "Mother, what's wrong with you? Don't be angry. The imperial physician said that you should rest and recuperate!"

As she spoke, she quietly reached out and pinched Madam Pei.

Madam Pei raised her eyes in confusion and looked at her questioningly.

Pei Shaorong blinked at her quickly, and the tacit understanding between the mother and daughter finally came, and Madam Pei reacted quickly.

She closed her eyes and tilted her body——

"Mother, mother! Hurry, call a doctor, my mother is fainting!"

Madam Pei, who had not yet had time to attack, was so angry that she fell backwards after hearing this.

The daughter-in-law was already sick, not to mention the people in the mansion, even outsiders knew it. But now she fainted in front of her mother-in-law early in the morning!

Madam Pei is not shameless, but her ideas are weird, and her brain circuits are different from those of normal people.

She thinks it is human nature for her to pamper Aunt Zhao, and she is reasonable. Because Aunt Zhao is her niece from her mother's family, she is one of her own, and Madam Pei is an outsider. Then of course she favors her own people.

In the past, when she made things difficult for Madam Pei, she put herself in the position of Aunt Zhao to hypnotize herself. She stood on Aunt Zhao's side with a clear conscience and made Madam Pei feel uncomfortable together with her.

But this does not mean that she is willing to bear the stigma of being harsh to her daughter-in-law. Because if she does that, wouldn't she become a wicked mother-in-law?

So now when she heard that Mrs. Pei was fainted from anger, although she suspected that she was pretending, she did not dare to stop her. She watched helplessly as her eldest granddaughter and the old woman carried Mrs. Pei away.

Originally, she wanted to call Mrs. Pei over to scold her and vent her anger for her niece, but she didn't expect that she would be the one who got angry in the end!

When the old man comes back, he will definitely scold her again!