Pei Jian did stop as she wished, and did look down at her face that had been beaten into a pig's head.
He frowned slightly, and she thought he saw her injuries and disapproved of Tu Qingyu's actions.
Unexpectedly, the next moment, Pei Jian spoke: "If you don't make your mother angry, I will be at peace."
She didn't know if it was because the rain was too cold, but at that moment she felt cold all over.
Pei Jian ignored Xu Ying who looked dazed and walked straight towards Tu Qingyu.
He brushed off a few drops of water that had fallen on his body, then bent down and softly asked Tu Qingyu, who was lying in the rocking chair, "Have you had dinner?"
"I have used it. You are so late today."
"Sorry, something urgent happened." He rubbed her head and sat down next to her again.
"Why are you out here in the porch today? It's raining heavily, be careful not to get wet."
"I'm just looking at the scenery. I won't get wet." She raised her chin towards Xu Ying.
"Did she piss you off?"
"How could she make me angry?" She shook the Buddhist beads in her hand. "I did it on purpose. I just wanted to discipline her."
"Yeah." He smiled and nodded, then asked, "Did you go out to see a play today?"
"Well, it really is quite a scene." She clicked her tongue and shook her head. "You have no idea how impressive your son is."
"Tell me, how majestic is he?"
"When he's out and about, all he has to do is say he's the heir of the Duke of Dingguo's mansion, and people will just give him the benefit of the doubt. From what I've seen, he uses this title quite skillfully."
She sat up and held Pei Jian's face with both hands. "What? Do you really want him to be the crown prince?"
“Never.”
Even though his mother adopted him, he had never thought of letting Pei Kangsheng become the prince of the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion.
He knew very well what Pei Kangsheng was capable of.
His original plan was to donate his family belongings to the clan and become a monk after everything was arranged.
It is better to have no Duke Dingguo if he is incompetent.
In this position, if you are not careful, you will implicate others.
Now that he has this little darling by his side, it is even more impossible.
If they have children in the future, the position of crown prince will belong to their children. If they don’t have children, Qingyu can do whatever he wants with the child after he dies.
Tu Qingyu nodded with satisfaction, "That's good. Otherwise, I wouldn't agree to it, and our future children wouldn't agree to it either."
Speaking of children, Pei Jian subconsciously looked at her flat belly.
Tu Qingyu followed his gaze and covered it, "What are you looking at?"
"Nothing." Pei Jian picked her up and said, "I was wondering when our child will come."
"You, you have no shame."
"I have no shame? Weren't you the one who said it first, kid?"
“But you…”
"Me what?"
"No more, hum."
…
Xu Ying just watched Pei Jian gently carry Tu Qingyu into the room.
No matter how many times she saw Pei Jian when she was with Tu Qingyu, she was always shocked.
How could there be such a terrifying yet gentle man in this world?
He was so terrifying that he seemed to be able to kill people with just one look, yet he also seemed to be more gentle and considerate than any other man in the world.
This thoughtfulness belongs only to Tu Qingyu.
Why is that?
How exactly is she worse than Tu Qingyu?
How come she has never been able to compare to this person since she was a child?
She lowered her head, feeling the shame in her heart, while wondering if there was any other way to kill Tu Qingyu.
Before she could think of a solution, another person knelt beside her.
When she turned her head, wasn't it her husband who had been missing for the past two days?
"Ah!" Before she could speak, Pei Kangsheng cried out, "Who are you?"
The rain was so heavy that he could only see a swollen face, which really scared him.
He opened his eyes and looked for a long time before he realized that this was his wife who had just been married to him.
"Xu Ying, why did you become like this?"
Xu Ying didn't answer, but just glanced at him coldly, the meaning in her eyes was very clear.
"Why am I like this? Don't you have any idea?"
Pei Kangsheng smiled awkwardly, "This... just bear with it for a while. I can't do anything about it now. Who told you to provoke her in the first place?"
Xu Ying moved her lips, "You didn't provoke me?"
Pei Kangsheng: "I did marry you when I was engaged to her...but it's not entirely my fault. Who made her so willful and capricious?"
He muttered quietly, "I don't know what father is thinking. How could he tolerate such a vicious woman..."
The rain gradually subsided. Xu Ying could hear what he said, but she didn't want to say anything.
When the time came, she asked the maid beside her to help her up.
As soon as he stood up, he fell down again, and this time he was really dizzy.
"Grandma, Grandma!"
"Someone, Grandma has fainted, please call the doctor!"
Pei Kangsheng wanted to take the opportunity to stand up, "I, I'll take her back first."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Shan pushed him back, "Master, you have to kneel for two full hours."
The two sentences Tu Qingyu said to Pei Jian prompted Pei Jian to send someone to investigate what Pei Kangsheng had done today.
So Pei Kangsheng was arrested as soon as he entered the house after he had just settled Tang Fu in the villa.
Pei Jian's order was to make him kneel for two full hours, so the Pei family's servants would naturally not let him kneel for even a quarter of an hour less.
"What are you doing? Didn't you see Ying'er fainted?"
He seemed anxious, but in fact he just wanted to take this opportunity to avoid punishment.
Yanshan remained unmoved and forced him to kneel again. "Grandma, the imperial physician will go back and treat you. Master, the master's order is two hours."
"you!"
Pei Kangsheng was almost pissed off by Yanshan, but looking at Yanshan's cold face, he didn't dare to resist.
He knelt in the main courtyard for two hours before being carried back.
After that night, both the husband and wife developed high fever and were sick for several days.
Tu Qingyu was still thinking about how to trouble someone next time when he was summoned into the palace by the Empress Dowager's imperial decree.
It was another flower viewing banquet, but this time it was the Lotus Banquet.
Princess De'an did not choose a suitable prince consort last time, so this flower-viewing banquet will naturally be held again.
De'an kept telling the Queen Mother in the palace, "Sister-in-law, there's really no need to do this. I already have someone I love, and I'll never marry anyone else in my life!"
"Nonsense! How can you, a princess, marry a poor scholar?"
The restrictions on the imperial consorts in this dynasty are not severe, and the princess does not need to marry into another clan. Now that Pei Jian is in charge, the princess is no longer a tool to imprison ministers from aristocratic families.
So the princess has many choices.
"He's not a poor scholar. He's a newly minted scholar who will take the imperial examination next year. We've agreed that once he passes, he'll ask the emperor's nephew to marry me."
"Let's do this one last time. If we still can't find it, then the Empress's sister-in-law will wait until next spring's imperial examination to see if the scholar can pass."
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