Chapter 134: Gossip, Troublemaker
Pei Zhiyu was very angry and insisted on going back to the Pei family to explain the situation. Lu Yao had no choice but to let someone follow him back to the Pei family.
"If a fight breaks out, protect the prince consort, okay?" Lu Yao instructed the guards at the princess's mansion.
After all, the prince consort's three-legged cat skills are really embarrassing.
"Yes." The guard responded and immediately caught up with Pei Zhiyu and followed him back to the Pei family.
The concierge was surprised to see Pei Zhiyu and hurriedly announced, "The Prince Consort is back."
"Pei Yuqin, get out of here." Pei Zhiyu went straight to the second room with a cold face.
Pei Yuqin heard the servant's report and thought to herself that this was bad.
My second cousin must have known the nonsense she said outside.
She regrets it terribly now.
Despite those rumors, Gu Chushuang still passed the exam.
In this case, all her efforts would be in vain.
She hid in the house and dared not go out.
Pei Zhiyu didn't care. He stood in front of Pei Yuqin's yard and started cursing.
"What is your intention in spreading rumors that I have an affair with another woman?"
"Do you think I've lived too long, or do you think the Pei family is living too well?"
"You are a girl, and you spend all day thinking about such crooked things. Do you still have any shame?"
Pei Zhiyu's voice was very loud, and Pei Yuqin in the room could hear it clearly.
After all, she was just a teenage girl. She couldn't bear being pointed at and scolded, so she just started crying in the house.
When the servants saw this scene, they thought something bad had happened and quickly went to inform the first and second wives.
Second Madam Pei arrived first. She came late and only heard Pei Zhiyu scolding his daughter for being shameless.
Her eyebrows knitted together, and she said in a bad tone: "Zhiyu, Yuqin is your sister, how can you humiliate her like this?"
"I treat her as my sister, but she doesn't treat me as her brother." Pei Zhiyu sneered.
"No matter what, you can't scold Yuqin in front of so many people. She is a girl. How can she live her life in the future if you scold her like this?" Mrs. Pei didn't expect Pei Zhiyu to be so stubborn and she gritted her teeth in anger.
"Ask her what she did, is it something a human being can do? She is so young, but she is a gossip-teller and a troublemaker. I think whoever marries her will be unlucky." Pei Zhiyu's tongue was venomous and merciless.
If he had not been thick-skinned enough and pestered the princess to tell him the truth, the two of them would have definitely become estranged because of this groundless rumor.
He finally married his sweetheart, how could he not be angry?
"What's wrong? What happened?" Mrs. Pei also hurried over.
"How would I know? As soon as your second son came back, he rushed into our Yuqin's yard and started swearing. He didn't act like a brother at all. Sister-in-law, do you think this is appropriate?" Mrs. Pei looked at the first wife angrily.
"What's inappropriate about that? I didn't beat her because of our brother-sister relationship. If the emperor gets the ears of this matter, haha." Pei Zhiyu sneered and didn't finish.
"What's the matter? It's so serious?" Mrs. Pei was shocked.
Mrs. Pei also became nervous.
Pei Zhiyu then told Pei Yuqin about the rumor that he had an affair with another woman, and emphasized that the matter had also been reported to the empress.
Because Lu Yao went to the academy today and the Empress was also there, he assumed that the Empress also knew about this.
Upon learning that Pei Yuqin had done such a big thing in silence, Mrs. Pei Da and Mrs. Pei Er took a deep breath.
"Second brother's wife, how has our Zhiyu ever been unfair to his sister Yuqin? Why would she frame her own cousin like this?" Madam Pei was also angry.
"Yuqin would not do such a thing. Maybe someone is talking nonsense in her name." Mrs. Pei flatly denied it.
We can't let this matter be blamed on our daughter. If this matter gets out, how will she find a husband in the future?
"Mom, let's divide the family." Pei Zhiyu was too lazy to argue with her.
Anyway, I feel great cursing.
"Your grandparents are still alive, why divide the family?" Mrs. Pei II objected first.
"If we don't split up the family, and this matter gets out, people will say that all the girls in the Pei family are gossips. What if Yuzhi is dragged down by then?" Pei Zhiyu accurately grasped his mother's mind.
Mother has only one daughter, Yuzhi, so she will definitely consider her in every way. Yuzhi is thirteen this year, and in two years she will be able to meet her in-laws when she reaches the age of marriage.
The Pei girl has a bad reputation, and she won't be able to find a good husband.
If the family could be divided in advance before this matter spread, then people would only say that the second branch of the Pei family was uneducated, instead of implicating the entire Pei family.
Mrs. Pei's face changed when she heard this.
"Okay, I'll go find your father and ask him to talk about the division of the family."
"No!" Mrs. Pei tried to stop him.
The second branch of the Pei family is not as good as the first branch. If they split up, how can they rely on the first branch's face in foreign affairs in the future?
Madam Pei scolded with a cold face: "Instead of trying to stop the division of the family, you might as well teach your daughter a lesson."
Mrs. Pei stamped her feet in anger, but it was no use.
The people from the Pei family's eldest branch ignored her.
Mr. Pei originally thought that the little girl was just ignorant, but Pei Zhiyu analyzed the consequences for him.
He immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
The emperor is a very protective person.
If he knew that his eldest daughter was bullied and attacked the Pei family as "the Ninth Princess", the Pei family would be finished.
It’s better to draw a clear line with the second room as soon as possible.
Mrs. Pei couldn't stop the eldest wife's actions, so she had to rush into her daughter's yard, grab her ears and scold her.
"Mom, it wasn't me. I didn't say it." Pei Yuqin saw that the consequences were so serious that she dared not admit it. She could only cry and say that she didn't do it.
But the eldest wife was too determined, and Pei Zhiyu was a reckless person. He threatened that if the family was not divided, he would come back every day to make trouble. As long as Pei Yuqin was in the Pei family, he would not be.
The old lady of the Pei family knew the pros and cons of which granddaughter had a better future, a granddaughter who was still unsure whether she could get married or a grandson who married into the princess's mansion but could still enter the officialdom.
In the end, Pei Zhiyu got what he wanted and successfully separated the family.
After returning to the princess's mansion, he told Lu Yao the good news.
"I destroyed half of her dowry. She must be so mad. Let's see if she dares to talk nonsense again in the future." Pei Zhiyu snorted, then blinked his big eyes and looked at Lu Yao.
It seems to be saying: Praise me, praise me.
Looking at his expression, Lu Yao suddenly thought of the puppy she raised in the princess's mansion.
Every time she praised the puppy, the puppy would have such a silly and proud expression.
Lu Yao burst out laughing and reached out to touch his head.
"Very smart, well done."
Pei Zhiyu was very happy, but after a moment, he frowned.
Why did he feel that this scene looked familiar?
When the silly dog learned to shake hands yesterday, the princess seemed to touch its head and then praised it: "Good dog, so smart, well done."