Chapter 17: I can't say it
The angrier Wang got, the more her stomach ached. She had to eat something quickly and couldn't continue arguing with Jiang Zhaoyue. She could only hastily say, "You two can go."
Jiang Zhaoyue replied readily: "Okay, then my daughter-in-law is leaving."
"Mother, Heng'er has left too." Pei Heng immediately caught up with Jiang Zhaoyue.
As soon as they left Songqing Hall, Wang quickly ordered Yinping to bring some snacks.
She quickly took a few bites, and the pain was instantly relieved. She began to annoy again: "What sin did Jingzhou commit to marry such a woman, who has no words, virtue, appearance, or skills."
Yin Ping comforted him, "Second Master is proficient in etiquette, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics. Second Master—"
"That's why I'm angry. How can she be worthy of my Brother Zhou!"
Yinping lowered his head and said nothing.
"Look at her, she looks so weird, how can she look like a lady from a noble family?"
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"There is nothing dignified about what you say and do."
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"Even when she's drinking tea, she seems to be seducing me!"
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"She's even hanging out with her brother-in-law! That's outrageous!"
“…”
Before breakfast arrived, Wang had already criticized Jiang Zhaoyue from head to toe.
Jiang Zhaoyue sneezed twice in succession while walking on the road.
Pei Heng raised his head and asked, "Second sister-in-law, have you caught a cold?"
Jiang Zhaoyue shook his head: "No."
"That's two sneezes!"
"One thought, two curses, and three means I'm sick, so there must be some bad guy cursing me behind my back."
"Why am I scolding you?"
"Bad! Bad guys don't need a reason to curse people!"
"Bad thing!" Seeing Jiang Zhaoyue cursing, Pei Heng followed suit with a common hatred for the enemy.
Wang sneezed twice in Songqing Hall at that moment. Jiang Zhaoyue didn't know about it. She looked at Pei Heng and asked, "Where are we going to play sepak takraw?"
"Go play in a big place." Pei Heng said.
"Okay." Jiang Zhaoyue agreed.
"Second Madam, aren't you going back to have dinner?" Yingge'er asked.
"I'm full just now." Jiang Zhaoyue ate a lot of snacks and fruits.
Pei Heng replied, "I ate it too."
Jiang Zhaoyue looked at Yingge and said, "You and Nanny Sun go back. Brother Heng and I will play sepak takraw for a while and then we'll go back."
Pei Heng nodded: "Yeah."
The Second Master only instructed to accompany the Second Madam to Songqing Hall, and did not say to go anywhere else.
Yingge didn't want to follow Second Mistress around. She still had things to do back in Linhua Courtyard, and maybe Second Mistress would be back soon, so she and Nanny Sun answered together, "Yes."
Jiang Zhaoyue and Xiang Qiao followed Pei Heng and his maids to an open space.
"Kick it." Pei Heng said.
Jiang Zhaoyue asked Xiangqiao and other maids to stand aside, and she stood there, stretching her hands and feet and twisting her waist.
"Second sister-in-law, what are you doing?" Pei Heng asked with his chubby face tilted.
"Warming up." Jiang Zhaoyue replied.
"What do you mean by warming up?"
"It's just to warm up the body so that you don't get injured during exercise later."
"Then I'll warm up too." Pei Heng threw the sepak takraw to the ground, and his chubby little body began to twist like Jiang Zhaoyue.
The little guy is so cute now.
Jiang Zhaoyue finished warming up and said, "Come on."
"Come!" Pei Heng was full of fighting spirit.
The two, one big and one small, started playing football, chasing the ball non-stop, kicking it in various ways, and becoming more and more addicted to it.
Xiangqiao and other maids were addicted to watching it.
Although Jiang Zhaoyue treated herself as a five or six-year-old child and played with Pei Heng, she would occasionally praise Pei Heng for his good kicking skills and quick mind as the second sister-in-law.
Pei Heng became more and more excited. After catching up with the sepak takraw, he turned to look at Jiang Zhaoyue and said, "Second sister-in-law, I can also kick the sepak takraw high, so high it's scary!"
"Kick me!" Jiang Zhaoyue said with a smile, "I'm not afraid of you."
"Okay!" Pei Heng took a few steps back, took a run forward, and kicked hard with his short legs.
The sepak takraw really took off, and before Jiang Zhaoyue could catch it, it flew into the small yard next to it, and a scream came from inside: "Ah——"
Jiang Zhaoyue was shocked.
Pei Heng's little body trembled.
Jiang Zhaoyue looked at Pei Heng and said, "You hit someone!"
"Did I hit someone?" Pei Heng was stunned.
Jiang Zhaoyue nodded: "Yes."
"Who did I hit?"
"have no idea."
"What should we do then?"
"Go and apologize, let's go." Jiang Zhaoyue took Pei Heng's hand and quickly walked around the entire wall towards the courtyard gate. Looking up, she saw a plaque: "Pear Blossom Garden."
"Where Fifth Sister and Aunt Tian live." Pei Heng said.
"Then who did you hit just now?" Jiang Zhaoyue asked.
"Let's go in and take a look."
"Walk."
When the two walked to the gate of the courtyard, they heard bursts of screams from inside.
Their hearts tightened, and without thinking twice, they pushed open the courtyard door and saw Aunt Tian hitting Fifth Miss Pei Sijing with a feather duster, cursing, "Useless thing!"
They were stunned.
Aunt Tian paused.
Pei Sijing looked over with tears on her face.
"Auntie Tian! Why did you hit my fifth sister?!" After Pei Heng reacted, he immediately rushed forward, stood in front of Pei Sijing, and stared at Auntie Tian fiercely.
"Oh, it's the Fifth Master and the Second Madam." Aunt Tian instantly smiled.
Pei Heng remained unmoved and continued to ask, "Why did you hit my fifth sister?!"
Jiang Zhaoyue initially thought that Pei Heng was a willful and naughty child. After getting along with him, she found that although the little guy was a little willful and rude, he was good in other aspects. Today, he even stood up for his sister.
"I just teach her how to behave." Aunt Tian said.
“Is beating someone teaching?”
"Of course."
"It's wrong to hit people."
"Your fifth sister needs a beating before she'll behave herself."
"No fighting!"
Although Pei Heng was a bastard's son, his biological mother, Aunt Chen, was Wang's distant cousin.
When the two were waiting to be married, they encountered bandits on their way to burn incense.
Aunt Shen injured her leg while saving Wang and walked with a limp, making her marriage difficult.
Year after year passed until I was twenty-five.
Being a concubine's daughter, she was increasingly disliked by her brother and sister-in-law.
Wang then took charge and asked Pei Maokun to take Concubine Chen to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.
Aunt Shen has been raising flowers and small animals in the yard these years and rarely comes out to see people.
Perhaps it was God's mercy that she gave birth to Pei Heng, the youngest son of the Duke of Zhenguo, when she was in her thirties.
Pei Maokun likes her, Wang dotes on her, and the entire Zhenguo Mansion pampers her.
Aunt Tian usually treated him with great courtesy, but he was only five years old and didn't understand anything, so she coaxed him, saying, "A filial son or daughter is born under the stick."
Pei Sijing lowered her head even lower when she heard this.
Pei Heng felt that what Aunt Tian said was wrong, but his little head didn't know much, so he opened his mouth, not knowing how to refute Aunt Tian.
He quickly walked up to Jiang Zhaoyue, pulled her finger and called out, "Second sister-in-law."
"What are you doing?" Jiang Zhaoyue asked with his head down.
Pei Heng looked very discouraged and whispered, "I can't argue with her."
Jiang Zhaoyue saw it and nodded: "Yeah."
"Please help me speak up for her!" Pei Heng said.
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