Chapter 224: Confiscation and Exile Control Group 30
He really shouldn't have been so obvious about favoring the eldest wife before. He never expected the current situation!
Boss Pei was completely dissatisfied and glared at the eldest lady with a sidelong glance, feeling extremely angry.
The second brother was able to return to Beijing most likely because the Lin and Zheng families in Beijing helped him.
If he had married the daughter of a civil servant in Kyoto, his father-in-law would surely have been able to bring him back to the capital!
The eldest lady rolled her eyes at him, feeling aggrieved.
Pei Xinmei had an expression that said, "As expected."
In the previous life, the second wife had made great contributions and was reinstated and returned to Beijing, and his own family also benefited from it.
There is no need to rush now, the imperial edict ordering your family to return to Beijing will be read out soon!
Just when everyone in the main room was thinking about their own things, the eunuch coughed twice and started reading a different imperial edict.
The general content is that General Pei and the eldest wife of the Pei family were pardoned and allowed to return to Beijing to live because of the second master Pei's plea and merits!
When General Pei and Boss Pei heard this, they were really surprised!
In their hearts, even if the second brother took them back to Beijing out of consideration for their feelings,
There will definitely be some conditions, and then we will take them back after the second brother returns to Beijing!
They never expected that before they could even say anything, the second brother had already done everything he should have done.
General Pei felt very complicated!
At the same time, he was also full of pride, thinking that raising this son was not in vain!
Boss Pei was still a little unhappy. The second brother had begged for mercy, saying that he would take our family back to Beijing, so why didn't he ask for an official position for me?
Are you trying to humiliate me on purpose?
General Pei had been with his eldest son for a long time, and he knew what he was thinking just by looking at his expression.
After receiving the imperial edict, General Pei did not let Boss Pei speak. He just discussed the departure time with the second master, exchanged a few words with those who came to congratulate him, and then dragged Boss Pei back to the main room.
Master Pei II handed a big red envelope to the eunuch who announced the decree and invited him to have a cup of tea.
The second wife asked someone from the Lin family to take the eunuch who announced the imperial decree to the inn in the town to stay.
The truth is that this house is too small and there is no room to entertain the emperor's entourage.
Fortunately, the people who announced the decree had lived in the town before, and they knew in their hearts that they could not be accommodated here, and there was not even a place to sit.
The chief steward of Censor Lin’s family is pretty good!
After sending away the people who announced the decree, the old lady and the people from the Zheng family went back to the main hall to talk, leaving the family of five to entertain those who came to congratulate them.
Three days later, the Pei family set off for Beijing in a grand procession.
After returning to Beijing, the first and second wives lived separately and did not live together.
The second wife was quite kind. She bought a two-story courtyard for the first wife and built two farms and two shops. If the first wife was content, there would be no problem for her to support herself.
If one does not think about pursuing high positions and generous salaries, the eldest wife can actually live a life of contentment with a small fortune.
But Boss Pei is very ambitious and is always unwilling to give in!
He immediately sold the farm and used the money to smooth things over for himself.
As a result, all efforts were in vain and nothing was caught.
If General Pei had not discovered the last two shops in time and rushed to stop them, they would have been sold by Boss Pei.
Because of this, Boss Pei often complained to Boss Pei for not helping!
But General Pei knew in his heart that it was not that the second brother did not want to help, but that he could not help at all!
The second brother had no involvement in the fight for the throne, and since he had made great contributions to the current emperor, he was able to be reinstated.
The boss's situation was completely different back then.
He stood behind the late crown prince wholeheartedly, waving flags and cheering for him. The current emperor was already showing great favor by letting them return from exile. It is absolutely impossible for him to give the eldest brother any official position!
Boss Pei might not have failed to think of this, but he was still unwilling to accept it!
General Pei regretted more than once that he had spoiled the eldest son so much that he didn't know what was going on!
After Boss Pei was stopped by him from selling the shop, he stayed at home all day drinking to drown his sorrows, and his days were muddle-headed.
General Pei tried to persuade him several times with kind words, but it was of no use at all. In the end, he could only let him do what he wanted!
After that, every year during the holidays, the second branch would come to visit General Pei and give him gifts.
Whenever there is something good, he is always the one who gets a share.
The more this happened, the more he regretted it when he saw the boss's expression!
As soon as Pei Xinmei returned to Beijing, she went to find the third prince and told him what happened that night.
But Pei Moli had already raised the Third Prince's favorability very high, so Pei Xinmei's efforts were basically in vain!
During that period, the two sisters made a lot of jokes!
In the end, Madam Pei had no choice but to marry Pei Xinmei to a young general from the northwest. The farce came to an end.
There was no news of Pei Xinmei after that!
The former crown prince's son was preparing to rebel, but before he could take action, the emperor had already learned the news.
The emperor set up a trap to catch the former prince's men in one fell swoop.
The incident had a very small impact, and no one else received any news except those in the palace.
Surprisingly, the third prince also participated in the rebellion.
He thought that the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. When the son of the former crown prince rebelled, he neither stopped him nor reported it to the emperor. Instead, he secretly hid behind the scenes and prepared to reap the benefits.
Little did he know that the emperor had been watching his every move.
If the third prince did not take any action, he would still be his good son, but once he took any action, it would be better not to have this son.
The royal family has an unwritten rule that identical twins are not allowed to survive.
Back then, when the three prince brothers were born, the emperor was still a prince!
At that time, the emperor had only two sons, one of whom was weak and it was not known whether he could be raised to adulthood.
As for the other one, he has foreign blood and according to the rules, he naturally has no right of inheritance.
Unfortunately, at this critical moment, the emperor was injured and it is very likely that he will never be able to have children again.
In this way, the newly born twin sons seem extremely precious.
He couldn't bear to lose either one, so he kept the other one secretly in the dark.
After the emperor ascended the throne, the third prince's performance over the years had already made the emperor extremely disappointed. He was basically certain that the third prince had no talent and could not be a good emperor!
The emperor has already made plans to push the prince hiding in the dark in front of everyone.
So, the third prince was already twenty-two years old, but the emperor had never found him a wife.
This is so that there will be less trouble when changing your identity in the future!
Originally, the emperor felt reluctant to abandon the third prince, but who could have expected that the third prince would insist on committing suicide!
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