After greeting, Lin glanced at the maid next to her, and one of them came forward and placed a cushion in front of Xie Zhichan. Pei Yi's situation was special, so he didn't need to kneel.

The maid who served tea came forward with a tray. Pei Yi took the teacup and handed it to the King of Yan, saying, "Father, please have some tea."

The King of Yan happily accepted it, and solemnly placed the prepared red envelope in Pei Yi's hand, squeezed his hand, and said, "Take good care of yourself first, and don't think too much."

Pei Yi took the red envelope and replied with lowered eyebrows: "Yes".

The maid brought another cup of tea and placed it in front of Xie Zhichan.

Xie Zhichan did not pick up the teacup immediately. She saw that the tea the maid had just given to Pei Yi was warm before being brought to her, while the one she got was a cup of boiling hot new tea.

She looked up at Lin and saw Lin asked with a smile: "What's the matter? Princess Consort is dissatisfied with the marriage and doesn't want to offer this cup of tea to your wife?" The look on her face clearly showed the pride that you are holding in my palm now.

Xie Zhichan sneered in his heart. This little trick couldn't embarrass her. Let's see who will be the unlucky one.

With a thought, she took out a cooling gel from the space under the cover of her sleeve and applied it on her fingertips. It had an excellent heat-insulating effect.

Then he smiled and responded, "Princess, you misunderstood. The emperor has granted the marriage, and the prince has also got the good looks of the late princess. Why should I be dissatisfied?"

Then he took the teacup and handed it to King Yan: "Father, please have some tea."

Lin suddenly felt a sense of uneasiness in her heart. This girl really knew how to make her angry!

But she was indeed very jealous of Ji Wanyun's title of the most beautiful woman in the capital, and her children were not as good-looking as Ji Wanyun's children.

Pei Yuan was obviously not bad looking, but her son and daughter did not inherit his good looks. They were ordinary looking, which made her feel very unhappy.

She opened her eyes slightly and glanced at the maid who was serving tea. She had clearly been instructed to serve a cup of boiling tea to the Crown Prince's wife, but she couldn't even do such a small thing.

The little maidservant was frightened by Lin's glare and was puzzled. She had clearly poured boiling hot new tea and the splashing water droplets had scalded her hands, so how come the Crown Prince's wife didn't feel anything when she was holding the tea?

Prince Pei Yuan of Yan did not suspect anything and went to receive the tea with a smile. He did not like Xie Zhichan's reputation, but he did not expect that her act of getting married would actually wake Yi'er up, and he immediately regarded her as the lucky star of Prince Yan's Mansion.

Xie Zhichan handed the teacup to King Yan, then immediately loosened his grip, leaned back slightly, and knelt down with his buttocks resting on his calves.

Then, the Prince of Yan knocked over the teacup in his hand, and the scalding hot tea spilled on his legs. He cried out in alarm, stood up, and hurriedly pulled at his clothes and trousers to prevent the scalding tea from sticking to his skin.

Xie Zhichan seemed to know nothing and also shouted nervously: "Father, what's wrong? Is the tea very hot? It's all my fault. When I served the tea, I really didn't feel that the cup was too hot."

After saying that, he glanced at Lin as if in retaliation.

Lin knew that the little girl did it on purpose, but she didn't know why the prince, whose hands were thick from martial arts training, felt the heat when it was clearly a scalding hot teacup, but the little girl was fine?

What was even more frustrating was that even if she knew that the girl had done it on purpose, she had no way to punish her - should she say that she had deliberately asked the maid to prepare boiling hot teacups for the Crown Prince's Consort, but in the end the Crown Prince's Consort was not burned but the Prince was?

Besides, there was no time to care about so many things at the moment. The whole cup of tea spilled on the prince, and he must have been badly burned. He immediately ordered the servants to get the burn ointment and let the prince go back to the bedroom to apply the ointment.

The living room was in chaos, and the only sound was the King of Yan cursing: "Damn you slave! You can't even prepare a cup of tea! Send the steward to take him away and give him ten big beatings!"

The girl who served the tea immediately knelt down and kowtowed to apologize, but she dared not say anything else.

When Xie Zhichan saw this, he knew that the maid's bond must be held by Lin, who had the power of life and death over her, so she dared not resist.

However, as long as her step-father-in-law is not a fool, he will definitely be able to guess who is the mastermind behind this.

Therefore, the tea ceremony had to end early.

Pei Yi just raised his eyebrows and glanced at Xie Zhichan, thinking that this little fox could really not suffer any loss no matter where he went, so he asked her to push him back to Tingxueju.

As soon as he walked out of the hospital gate, Xie Zhichan heard a soft voice behind him calling, "Sister-in-law!"

It took Xie Zhichan a moment to realize that someone was calling her. He turned around and saw a young girl with two hanging buns, each with a butterfly and flower on it, decorated with kingfisher feathers. She was about fourteen or fifteen years old, with a sickly pale face, but already showing the outline of a beauty. He thought that this girl should be Pei Jingyu, Pei Yi's biological sister.

Before she got married, Xie's mother specifically asked Nanny You to tell her about some of the situations in Prince Yan's Mansion.

Pei Yi also has an older sister, Pei Jingshu, who is from the same mother as him. After she got married, she was transferred out of Beijing with her husband, so she couldn't see him today.

Pei Jingyu saw Xie Zhichan looking back, and stepped forward and placed a purse with a picture of mandarin ducks playing in the water in Xie Zhichan's hand, and said in a voice as soft as a mosquito: "This is my wedding gift for my sister-in-law. Thank you for taking care of my brother."

Seeing that she was timid, Xie Zhichan still mustered up the courage to give her a gift, and his voice could not hide the request.

I thought that this was a smart and insightful person. He must have thought that given his brother's situation, an ordinary woman would definitely be dissatisfied with this marriage and might even take her anger out on her brother.

This girl hopes that she can be nicer to her brother in the future.

Because of her thoughtfulness, Xie Zhichan also felt touched.

She took off a butterfly hairpin inlaid with red and blue sapphires and inserted it into Pei Jingyu's bun, saying with a smile, "It's impolite not to reciprocate. Thank you for the gift, Third Sister."

It gave Pei Jingyu peace of mind.

Afterwards, he pushed Pei Yi back to Tingxueju.

On the way back, Pei Yi suddenly said, "When my mother died, Jingyu was still young. I went to the battlefield at the age of fourteen and paid little attention to her. Now that I am in this state, it is not convenient for me to go in and out of the boudoir. If it is convenient, please help me take care of her more. She has been weak since she was a child and rarely goes out. She has no mother to protect her, so she is so timid and cowardly, not very likable."

Xie Zhichan could sense the heavy tone in his words, but replied lightheartedly: "Your sister is a good girl. I like kind-hearted girls."

Pei Yi was silent for a moment. He thought that a woman with a calm temperament and strong heart like her would also like a woman as strong as her. After all, it is normal for people to admire the strong.

He only felt that the melancholy in his heart dissipated in an instant, and something else was growing. After a long time, he said "hmm".

She seemed to have a magical power that could calm people's hearts.

Tao Yi was in the middle but was not very calm.

It's totally out of this world.

Lin smashed all the porcelain cups and plates within reach in the room, then sat on the edge of the bed wiping her tears.

She was scolded by King Yan and sent back.

She said that she was unable to discipline the servants in the mansion, and if she couldn't do it well, it would be better to hand over the household affairs to Yi'er's daughter-in-law to avoid embarrassment and causing a mess when serving tea.

Lin's biological daughter Pei Jingrou sat beside her and advised her, "Father was just speaking in anger. He is a face-conscious person. He lost face today and is taking it out on mother."

Lin cried, "He only vents his anger on me like this. When Ji Wanyun was alive, did he ever give her a cold shoulder?"

Pei Jingrou smiled and said, "Mother, you remembered it wrongly. Father and the late princess clearly quarreled with each other frequently."

Lin said angrily, "What do you know? Whenever they quarreled in the past, he was the first to bow his head to please Ji Wanyun. Have you ever seen him bow his head to coax me? For so many years, I have been able to persuade myself and get through it."

Pei Jingrou frowned and said, "Mother, why do you have to go to such extremes? Are you expecting father to coax you? I didn't expect that the wedding really made big brother wake up. Now that big brother has married the crown prince's wife, even if he can't have children, he can still adopt a legitimate son and inherit the Prince of Yan's Mansion in the future. Mother should think about how to plan for Song brother."

A word to awaken the dreamer.

Lin clenched the handkerchief in her hand, thinking of the past, and said indignantly: "Ji Wanyun has taken my position as the legal wife, I will never let her son take my son's title again! I must take this opportunity to let Pei Yi return the position of the crown prince!"

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