Chapter 380 I Will Support You
In a panic, Bu'er walked a few steps to the second concubine and started to search her body.
"You, what are you looking for?"
"A piece of tassel fell off this hairpin. I put it in your purse, Second Wife. Where did the tassel go?"
"What are you talking about, Liusu? Bu'er."
Master Pei's face suddenly turned cold. He had seen clearly when Bu'er searched the second concubine's body just now. This action made his eyes look surprisingly cold.
Mrs. Pei was also shocked. This hairpin should have been given to Song Ci by the second concubine, and it was found from Song Ci, so how did it end up in her possession?
"Master, I didn't take this hairpin. It must be Songci. She put it on me when no one was paying attention."
She remembered that Song Ci had messed up her hair today. She only felt someone pulling her hair. It was probably at that time that the hairpin was placed on her head.
Damn it, she finally remembered.
Mr. Pei looked at Mrs. Pei with a deep gaze, not saying a word, letting her cry and blame everything on Song Ci, and even blaming the second concubine.
She cried sadly, and after a while she raised her head to look at Master Pei, only to find that his eyes were dark and he looked at her with a distracted look.
Her heart skipped a beat and she felt something was wrong.
"master........"
"You guys, come with me to the study and talk." Master Pei said, then flicked his sleeves and left.
Everyone watched the excitement, discussing what had just happened. It was so unexpected. Moreover, Mrs. Pei, who had always been so noble, beautiful and dignified, actually cried in front of everyone.
This made the ladies who were usually looked down upon by her feel a little pleased.
When they arrived at the study, Mrs. Pei was about to continue speaking when Mr. Pei interrupted her, "Don't say anything. Song Ci, Second Concubine, tell me, what's going on?"
The second concubine's eyes were ignorant and innocent, as if filled with ripples of spring.
"Master, what hairpin, what tassel, I, I don't know."
Her voice was so soft and clear that people couldn't help but believe what she said.
Master Pei looked at Song Ci again.
Song Ci: "Father, I really don't know about this. Second Concubine never gave me a hairpin. I don't know why Bu'er suddenly said this..."
Bu'er immediately panicked, with shock and fear in her eyes.
She couldn't figure out when Song Ci and the second concubine realized her betrayal and how they saw through her plan.
Bu'er cried and yelled at the Second Concubine, "Second Concubine, please say something. You can't slander me. This hairpin was clearly given to the young lady by you personally. How can you not acknowledge it?"
She cried and tried to tear the second concubine apart. The second concubine was so frightened that she took a few steps back.
"I, I didn't." The second concubine's pearly teeth were sunken into her plump lips, and her face was terrified.
Master Pei scolded coldly, "That's enough."
Mrs. Pei couldn't believe it.
Has the master chosen to believe Song Ci and the second concubine?
Why!
How can that be?
Master Pei said to the Second Wife and Song Ci in a gentle tone, "You go back first, and don't tell anyone about what happened here."
The second concubine looked at him worriedly, then nodded slightly.
The two of them walked out of the study and walked a distance away. The second concubine felt cold sweat on her back.
"Young Madam, how did you know about their plan?"
"I'm just guessing. But I didn't know Bu'er put the tassel on you."
"After the young lady reminded me just now, I suddenly remembered this and found a place to throw the things away." The second concubine was still frightened.
At the time, she wasn't sure Bu'er was a traitor out to frame her, but she was just taking precautions. Unexpectedly, this move turned out to be the right one.
Song Ci comforted her, "Now that the traitor has been found, there will be less danger around the Second Concubine in the future."
The second concubine looked sad. "I trusted her all these years, but I never expected that she would help Madam to frame me. How have I wronged her?"
Song Ci said, "Whether she deserves it or not is not important. She made the choice, so she must bear the consequences of this choice. Second Concubine, you don't have to be sad."
The Second Concubine nodded, very grateful, "Thank you very much for today, Madam. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would be finished today."
The Madam had been very kind and generous to her over the years, providing for her food and drink expenses very well. She was very grateful to the Madam for a time, even giving her way and giving her the upper hand in everything.
When Mr. Pei stayed at her place for three consecutive days, she would persuade him to go to the lady's room and sit there.
She has done so much, and the lady still wants to harm her.
The second wife was both angry and furious.
Song Ci returned to the yard, and the rest of the things happening outside had nothing to do with her.
Seeing how nervous Mr. Pei looked, you could tell that this hairpin was no ordinary thing.
This time, Madam Pei might have lost both her wife and her army.
She shook her sleeves and opened her palms, where lay quietly the roll of paper she had taken out of the hairpin.
At night, Pei Ji looked at what was written on the paper with a frown on his face.
Song Ci: "This is a serious matter, and I still need you to make the decision."
The content on the paper was too shocking, and since it concerned the Pei family, Pei Ji should be the one to make the decision.
Pei Ji closed his eyes silently, and opened them after a while, his eyes were gloomy as if filled with thunderclouds.
"He is so unwilling to give up that he even wants to unite with the Queen and the Crown Prince and use the influence of foreign races to help the Crown Prince ascend to the throne. Foreign races have long coveted the territory of the Great Zhou. I don't know what promises they made to make them agree." Pei Ji said sarcastically.
His judgment is not without reason.
Acting for one's own selfish desires and risking the destruction of the Zhou Dynasty is really too cold-hearted and selfish.
He ignored the people and the territory of the Great Zhou.
Song Ci: "What are you going to do?"
Pei Ji: "I will go to the palace to see the emperor and tell him about this."
Song Ci was speechless, "Then, then father..."
Pei Ji: "He must bear the consequences of his own mistakes. I only hope that the emperor will spare my father's life in consideration of my contributions over the years."
Pei Ji's words were like a thunderclap in Song Ci's ears.
I also gained some new understanding of him as a person.
His ambition, his ideal, might be that the Zhou Dynasty could prosper and the people could live and work in peace and contentment.
Being able to sacrifice one's own family for the sake of justice. Putting himself in their shoes, Song Ci felt that he might not be able to do so.
Song Ci: "They will blame you."
Pei Ji hugged her from behind, and his nose was filled with her unique faint fragrance, which made him feel inexplicably at ease.
Pei Ji: "Yes, father will definitely blame me. No one in the Pei family will forgive me, but so what? I can't let the Pei family become the culprits of the Great Zhou Dynasty."
The hand around her slender waist was very tight. Song Ci patted the back of his hand and said, "Since you have made your decision, I will support you."
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