Chapter 10 Jealousy
Apart from the servant who was working with his head down, there were only his elder brother Pei Jingchuan and Xu Qingyan standing in front of him.
Pei Jinyu shook her head. Could it be that she was hallucinating?
At the same time, Pei Jingchuan frowned. Will his sister live such a miserable life in the future?
"Brother, don't be fooled by this concubine's daughter. She tried so hard to snatch your marriage, you should send her back. Even if you can't marry Sister Qingyue, she, a concubine's daughter, is not worthy of you!" After Pei Jinyu came to her senses, she advised Pei Jingchuan in a bad tone.
Pei Jingchuan looked displeased and was about to continue scolding his sister, but before he opened his mouth, Xu Qingyan started complaining in her heart again, and he couldn't help but listen.
[Pei Jinyu, you are being used as a gun! It was clearly Xu Qingyue and Pei Jingyuan who had an affair without a matchmaker, and they designed a marriage exchange, but she was the first to file a complaint. Oh... However, Pei Jinyu has always had a bad brain. She always thought that Xu Qingyue was her savior, but she didn't know that Xu Qingyue lied to her. The person who saved her when she fell into the water was a man!] Xu Qingyan couldn't help but shook her head and continued.
[The man was afraid of affecting Pei Jinyu's reputation, so he ran away after saving the man when no one was around, allowing Xu Qingyue to take advantage of him. If Pei Jinyu had any brains, she would know that when she woke up and saw Xu Qingyue, her clothes were all dry, so how could she jump into the water to save someone? What's more, Xu Qingyue can't swim at all! Over the years, Xu Qingyue has benefited a lot from Pei Jinyu's reputation. Last month, she even cheated a set of ruby headpieces from Miss Song San! ]
"What? Xu Qingyue is not her savior?" This time, Pei Jinyu finally knew that the voice came from Xu Qingyan. Rather than being able to hear her inner voice, she was more surprised at what she said, that Xu Qingyue had lied to her.
She tried hard to recall the scene after she fell into the water, and she realized that Xu Qingyue's clothes were indeed dry. And a few days ago, Miss Song San did hint to her that she owed her a favor.
Pei Jinyu began to waver. How could Sister Qingyue be such a person? No, this must be Xu Qingyan lying! She was just jealous of Sister Qingyue!
"Xu Qingyan, why do you always bully Sister Qingyue? Is it because she is the legitimate daughter and you are the illegitimate daughter that you target her everywhere?" Pei Jinyu pointed his finger at Xu Qingyan angrily.
"How dare you! She is your sister-in-law now, Pei Jinyu. How can you be so disrespectful to your elders? Have you learned all those rules?" Pei Jingchuan couldn't help but scold her angrily when he saw this.
Pei Jinyu immediately felt wronged when she heard Pei Jingchuan's words, and said sadly: "Brother, how can you scold me because of her? Don't you love me the most on weekdays? She is such a vixen, shameless!"
"Pei Jinyu!" Pei Jingchuan looked at her angrily, her name almost squeezed out from between his teeth, with a strong sense of warning.
Pei Jinyu instantly closed her mouth in fear, and her eyes were filled with tears.
[Ah... this sister-in-law is so pitiful! She is kind and simple by nature, and is willing to stick her neck out for her friends. It's a pity that she made the wrong friends and married the wrong person!] Xu Qingyan looked at Pei Jinyu with sympathy.
[She recently met the Phoenix Man through Xu Qingyue's introduction. Tomorrow, the Phoenix Man will ask her out, and then design her to fall on him in public. Everyone in the Duke's Mansion opposed them being together, but Xu Qingyue instigated them to elope, and the matter was settled, which started her miserable life. Forget it, she won't bother with this poor sister-in-law. Not long after, she ran away with the Phoenix Man, and she won't be able to jump around for long. ]
Pei Jinyu was shocked and even opened her mouth slightly in shock. She thought: "How did she know that Sister Qingyue recently introduced a friend to her?"
Some time ago, she went out for a trip with Xu Qingyue and indeed met a distant cousin of Xu Qingyue.
That man was gentle and elegant, talented, and very much to her liking. She had a good impression of him. These days, the two of them had been exchanging letters, and tomorrow he had asked her to go to the Wen Ya Studio to watch their scholar's calligraphy and painting meeting!
Tomorrow? Thinking of this, Pei Jinyu was suddenly stunned.
Didn't Xu Qingyan just talk about tomorrow? Thinking back to what Xu Qingyan complained about at the beginning, saying that she would be deceived and have a miserable life... She suddenly felt a little creepy.
No! This must not be true! Pei Jinyu suddenly felt a little scared. She didn't dare to stay here any longer and turned around and ran away.
Pei Jingchuan looked at Pei Jinyu's running back and the surprised and guilty expression on her face just now, and he guessed that she must have been able to hear Xu Qingyan's thoughts. However, she didn't dare to believe it. So he kept an eye on her.
————The next day————
Just as he was about to leave for his post, he received news from his subordinates.
"My Lord, the Third Miss did go out early this morning. She went to Wen Ya Zhai and she went with the Second Young Master's wife."
Pei Jingchuan paused when he heard this, turned around and said, "Go to the Ministry of Personnel to ask for leave for me, and go to Wenyazhai now." He couldn't bear to watch his sister get into trouble.
————Wenya Zhai————
The top floor was filled with young students and many young ladies drinking tea and chatting.
They sat together, exchanging poems and painting, laughing a lot.
At this moment, Pei Jinyu was fascinated by the talent of Xu Qingyue's distant cousin Lin Yanbang, and completely forgot what he heard from Xu Qingyan yesterday.
Lin Yanbang first wrote a few vivid poems, and then began to paint. When his paintings were displayed in front of everyone, the crowd couldn't help but sigh.
"Wow! The woman in this painting is so lively! She seems like a real person. Brother Lin, your painting skills are really great!"
"Good painting skills are secondary. The most important thing is to put your heart into it. The most difficult thing in painting is to draw people, especially their spirit. If it's not someone important to you, I'm afraid you won't be able to draw them so vividly!"
"Hey! Look, why do I feel that the woman in Brother Lin's painting looks so much like a girl here?"
"Really? Who does she look like? Oh... I seem to remember, isn't this the third young lady of the Duke's Mansion?"
The shouting in the crowd instantly attracted all eyes towards Pei Jinyu.
Pei Jinyu's face instantly turned red, and she felt extremely shy.
"Don't talk nonsense, this... this is not me, not me..." She was still an unmarried young woman, so naturally she was embarrassed to admit it.
The people around were arguing more and more loudly, and Pei Jinyu's face turned red. Just at this moment, Xu Qingyue came over and gently held her hand.
"Jinyu, I'll take you away from here first." Then, Pei Jinyu was taken away by Xu Qingyue's hand.
But before he took two steps, Lin Yanbang's anxious voice came from behind: "Jinyu, wait for me!"
Pei Jinyu turned around when she heard the voice, and saw Lin Yanbang squeezed out from the crowd and ran towards her. When he was about to run in front of her, suddenly Lin Yanbang seemed to lose his balance and pounced towards her.
"Ah!" Pei Jinyu was frightened and screamed in panic, but Xu Qingyue had slipped away from her side without her knowing when.
Just when she thought that she was going to be knocked down and pinned down by Lin Yanbang, suddenly, she felt someone pulling her, and her body swayed a few times before she could barely stand firm.
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