Chapter 254 Ah Xu, I regret it.
Rong Baimao put down the chopsticks in his hand, his face gloomy and ugly.
Rong Jianxue remained calm and said, "On the fifth day of March next year, Pei Jingxu and I will be married."
"Nonsense!" Rong Baimao's eyes widened in anger, and he jumped up from his seat. "You, you—how could you, as the Prime Minister, marry Pei when you knew she was married before?!"
Pei Jingxu understood what he said, but Rong Boyao didn't dare to say anything more unpleasant.
He seemed to have meant to say that she was a "slut".
Rong Xuanzhou, who was standing aside, said nothing, and the knuckles holding the chopsticks turned slightly white.
Rong's face also turned pale, and her eyes were red: "Jianxue, your career is at its peak, you should think twice about getting married."
Naturally, the Rong couple were unwilling to let Rong Jianxue marry her.
Rong Jianxue is very popular nowadays. Not only the rich ladies, but even the royal relatives can get close to her.
The Rong couple wanted to use his marriage to such a powerful and unpredictable minister to advance to a higher level, so how could they bear to let him marry a powerless "second-married girl" like her?
Rong Jianxue ignored Rong's crying and Rong Baimao's anger. He said indifferently, "I came here today just to inform you two elders about this matter."
After a pause, Rong Jianxue continued, "The capital is not peaceful right now. Thinking of your elders' advanced age, I will send them to the outskirts of the capital before the New Year. You can live there in your old age."
"If there is nothing else, there is no need to go to Beijing."
Upon hearing this, the Rong couple widened their eyes and even thought they had misheard!
"Rong Jianxue, you're crazy!!"
"We are your parents! We raised you with great difficulty, and you are going to treat us like this!?"
Rong Baimao's face turned pale. "Rebellious son! Rebellious son! Are you really going to disregard etiquette and filial piety for a woman?!"
Rong Jianxue's dark eyes fell silent, and slowly fell on Rong Baimao's face: "It was not easy for you two elders to raise me. The house in the suburbs of Beijing is secluded, and you can cultivate your character there."
"The servants in the mansion are considerate and attentive, so you two elders don't have to worry."
Rong Jianxue came today not to seek their consent.
Just to inform them.
After saying this, Rong Jianxue didn't look at the two people's expressions. He slowly stood up and glanced sideways at Pei Jingxu beside him.
Pei Jingxu understood, stood up, and took Rong Jianxue's hand readily.
He waved it towards the two of them with a hint of provocation.
"Ah Xu has always been timid and reserved. You two don't need to attend the wedding ceremony in March."
After saying that, Rong Jianxue took Pei Jingxu's hand, left the front hall, and walked out of the mansion.
Behind him, he heard the shouts and curses of Rong Baimao and Rong Shi, but Rong Jianxue did not look back. He took Pei Jingxu's hand and walked out of Rong Mansion.
Outside the mansion, in the carriage.
Rong Jianxue sat upright, looking straight ahead with a calm and indifferent expression.
Pei Jingxu sat next to Rong Jianxue, looked at him several times, and said nothing.
"how?"
It was Rong Jianxue who spoke first.
Pei Jingxu smiled and shook his head: "I was just wondering if it would be bad for you to break up with the Rong family because of me."
Upon hearing this, Rong Jianxue lowered her long eyelashes, and her pair of cold black eyes fell on Pei Jingxu without fail.
"You should already know that they are not my biological parents."
Pei Jingxu nodded. "That's why they favored Rong Xuanzhou more. You went up the mountain to practice Buddhism early on, and it was only after His Majesty repeatedly invited you that you chose to come down the mountain and enter the government."
In fact, what Rong Jianxue had just said at the banquet, "It was not easy for my parents to raise me," was just some polite words.
To be precise, Rong Jianxue went to the mountains to practice Buddhism since he was young, and was enlightened and raised by Master Miaofan of the Ran Deng Temple. Later, when he came of age, he went down the mountain and became the Prince's Tutor, bringing honor to the Rong family.
Rong Jianxue has done nothing wrong to the Rong family.
Rong Jianxue looked at Pei Jingxu calmly: "I don't care too much about this."
Pei Jingxu widened his eyes slightly.
The man continued, "Master said I have no relatives to rely on and that my family ties are weak, so I don't take these things very seriously."
So Rong Jianxue could understand those partialities and calculations, but she would not expose them.
"So, even if we break up with them, there's nothing good about it."
She didn't like it, so he did it.
Hearing this, Pei Jingxu pursed his lips and smiled: "You said that family ties are weak, Rong Jianxue, am I not one of your six relatives?"
Looking at her, his brows softened a little, and Rong Jianxue chuckled.
"Then please teach me, Madam."
"Teach me how to love."
"Teach me how to love you."
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In the following days, because His Majesty was seriously ill, Rong Jianxue continued to preside over the government.
Rong Xuanzhou had come to the Prime Minister's Mansion once, saying he wanted to see her.
Pei Jingxu stood on the steps across the mansion gate, with Jiang Hui guarding him, looking coldly at the man below the stone steps.
He said, Ah Xu, I regret it.
Pei Jingxu frowned slightly when he heard this.
He said, Ah Xu, if I had known that I would miss you so much, I would not have let Bai Shutong interfere with our relationship.
Pei Jingxu scoffed and tilted his head to look at him: "Rong Xuanzhou, stop flattering yourself."
"Bai Shutong interfered with your feelings, not mine," Pei Jingxu said calmly, "You were confused and lost your sense of proportion. I did nothing wrong from the beginning to the end."
Rong Xuanzhou was disheartened when he left.
Jiang Hui, standing aside, watched Rong Xuanzhou's departing figure warily before coming to his senses: "Madam, we will not see people like this in the future."
Pei Jingxu smiled and said, "Okay, I won't see you again from now on."
Jiang Hui scratched his head, somewhat puzzled. "How strange! Ever since Bai was imprisoned, I haven't seen her children for a long time."
Pei Jingxu frowned: "Guard Jiang also couldn't find their whereabouts?"
Jiang Hui shook his head. "No, at first I thought they were all in the Second Young Master's new house, so I sent people to check. But the servants in the mansion said they had disappeared a few days ago. The Second Young Master sent people to look for them, but there was no news."
For some reason, Pei Jingxu had a bad feeling in his heart.
As if to confirm her premonition, a guard hurriedly ran to Jiang Hui from the gate and whispered, "Master Jiang, something bad has happened!"
"Bai Shutong is missing!"
Jiang Hui frowned upon hearing this and looked at the newcomer with a cold gaze: "What's going on?"
Thinking that Pei Jingxu didn't know that Bai Shutong was imprisoned in the mansion, Jiang Hui's face was solemn, but he didn't get angry in the end.
He simply bowed to Pei Jingxu and said, "Madam, please go back and rest. I still have some things to take care of."
Pei Jingxu heard this and curled his lips: "Okay."
After returning to the side room, Pei Jingxu felt even more uneasy. She called Hongyao and asked her to find out.
Not long after, Hongyao returned to the side room, her face pale and her expression frightened and ugly.
"Miss, I just went to the dark cell to check while no one was paying attention."
At this point, Hongyao's pupils widened, as if she couldn't believe what she saw: "I, I saw that the cell where Bai Shutong was originally imprisoned was actually holding her two children!"
"Both children's wrists were pierced by the chains. They have lost too much blood and their lives are unknown!"
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