The daily struggles of divorced women in ancient times

"It's not difficult to kill Chen Er, but it's more difficult to prevent the appearance of Qian Er and Wang Er." Xia Mianwan thought about it and felt that there was no particularly good way, unless he found the mistakes of the Duke's Mansion, the Marquis' Mansion, the Zheng Family, and the Zhuang Family and caught them all in one fell swoop, which was obviously more difficult.

Pei Yanxu thought for a moment and said, "I'll ask the secret guards to check it out. You'll need to pay more attention to the rest."

Xia Mianwan smiled and agreed.

"I brought back some good things today, crabs shipped from Jiangnan. The emperor rewarded me with a few baskets, and I gave one basket to my mother. We will eat the rest ourselves. I have already given it to the small kitchen to process." Pei Yanxu said with a smile.

Xia Mianwan had indeed not eaten crabs for a long time, and she missed them for a moment. She said with great interest, "Husband, how about we have a candlelight chat at night?"

Pei Yanxu looked at Xia Mianwan in confusion, "Why are we having a candlelight night talk?"

"Wait a minute, I'll have someone prepare it. By the way, has it been sent to the main kitchen?" Xia Mianwan asked.

Pei Yanxu nodded, "Sent it."

"That's good." Xia Mianwan said as she got up and went to the small kitchen. Yujieer and Chengeer both liked to eat crabs, and today was a perfect day. After everything was ready, she asked Chengeer and Yujieer to come to Shaoguangyuan for dinner.

The moonlight was bright today, so Xia Mianwan sent people to set up a few candles on the stone table in the yard, and also had people set up candles around the yard.

Crabs, "Gu Meng" and ginger tea. I won't eat anything else today, just steamed crabs.

Pei Yanxu had just finished discussing something with Qian Da. When he stepped out of the study, he heard laughter in the yard. He walked over and saw Xia Mianwan, Chen Ge'er and Yu Jie'er sitting nearby and joking with the maids.

Pei Yanxu coughed lightly and walked over.

The maids still had a sense of propriety when facing Pei Yanxu. None of the maids around Xia Mianwan wanted to be concubines, let alone betray Xia Mianwan, so they stayed away from Pei Yanxu as if it was a tacit understanding that they could not dispute.

"Pei Yanxu, you're here. The crabs are not ready yet." Xia Mianwan smiled and called Pei Yanxu to come over to them.

"What are you talking about?"

"Daddy, we didn't talk about anything." Yu Jie'er was very smart. She had been getting along pretty well with Pei Yanxu these days. Pei Yanxu tried to please her in every way, and she became closer to him.

But Chen Ge'er always felt that Pei Yanxu had bad intentions. As soon as Pei Yanxu sat down next to Xia Mianwan, Chen Ge'er immediately squeezed in between the two of them.

Xia Mianwan laughed and tapped Chen Ge'er's forehead.

Pei Yanxu was not a fool, and he touched his nose awkwardly. After all, he really had ulterior motives towards Xia Mianwan, and he was no longer the frank gentleman he had been before. He hated himself for talking nonsense. Xia Mianwan was really frank with him, and when they were together, Xia Mianwan often made him blush and thicken his neck.

Pei Yanxu cleared his throat and asked, "How is Chen'er's academic performance recently?"

Now, three pairs of eyes looked at Pei Yanxu at the same time. Pei Yanxu was completely confused. Did he say something wrong?

Xia Mianwan rolled her eyes and said unhappily: "Pei Yanxu, what you said is so disappointing. If you want to be a father, take Brother Chen to the study."

Brother Chen also complained about Pei Yan for many things. Although Pei Yan's knowledge was indeed good, but... he now wanted to have a good time with his mother and sister.

If the crabs had not been brought back by Pei Yanxu, Brother Chen might really have found a way to drive Pei Yanxu away.

Xia Mianwan crossed her arms and watched Pei Yanxu and Chen Ge'er doing their own little tricks. At this time, Yu Jie'er came over and whispered to Xia Mianwan, "Mother, father and Chen Ge'er don't seem to like each other."

Xia Mianwan nodded seriously, "How about we make a bet?"

"What are you betting on?" Yu Jie asked curiously.

"Who will have the upper hand between the two of them?"

Sister Yu frowned, "Then Brother Chen will definitely win."

Now it was Xia Mianwan's turn to be curious. She opened her eyes wide and asked, "Why?"

Sister Yu said like a grown-up: "Father is just teasing Brother Chen. Besides, Brother Chen has me. I will never let him suffer any loss."

Xia Mianwan tapped Yu Jie'er's head gently, "You're such a mischievous ghost."

The duel between the men over there had not yet been decided, but Xuan Xue had already come out with crabs and prepared drinks. The drinks were for Chen Ge'er and Yu Jie'er, while Xia Mianwan and Pei Yanxu had rice wine.

"Why not 'old dream'?" Pei Yanxu saw the "old dream".

Xia Mianwan smiled and said, "Gu Meng is not for drinking now, but for drinking after eating crabs. Crabs are cold, so it's better to drink with rice wine."

"What about us?" Brother Chen also wanted to drink, because Pei Yanxu had already taken the bowl of rice wine handed over by Xia Mianwan.

Seeing that Pei Yanxu's eyes were full of satisfaction, Chen Ge'er also asked for some rice wine.

"Drink ginger tea. Xuanxue specially made it for you and Yujie." Xia Mianwan said disapprovingly.

Chen Ge'er was just a little childish in front of Xia Mianwan, and Yu Jie'er naturally wanted to drink, and was thinking about how to persuade her mother. Pei Yanxu saw that the two children were frowning and hesitant, so he said, "Madam, you don't drink every day, why don't you let them drink a little today?"

Chen Ge'er and Yu Jie'er both blinked and stared at Xia Mianwan. Xia Mianwan was instantly touched by her cuteness and said, "Okay, okay, just one bowl."

Pei Yanxu persuaded Xia Mianwan and winked at Chen Ge'er and Yu Jie'er proudly.

Brother Chen felt his fist harden.

Yu Jie'er doesn't care about all that, as long as there's wine to drink, it's fine.

Xia Mianwan asked all the maids to go downstairs. Crabs are more delicious if you cook them yourself. She rolled up her sleeves, opened the crabs, and ate them with relish.

Chen Ge'er and Yu Jie'er also know how to eat crabs. They ate them often when they were in Yanzhou. But Pei Yanxu is not like that. He seldom eats crabs. He only bites the crab shell with his teeth, and a lot of crab meat is left in the crab shell.

Now it was Chen Ge'er's turn to be proud. Chen Ge used tools to disassemble a crab and handed it to Pei Yanxu, saying, "Father, eat the crab meat. This is my son's way of honoring you."

Pei Yanxu laughed at Chen Ge'er's smug look and said, "Thank you, my good son!"

Yu Jie'er smiled secretly when she saw this, and Xia Mianwan couldn't hide her smile either.

The moon gradually rose to the center of the night sky. After coming out of the mountains, Xia Mianwan rarely felt so comfortable. She ate crabs and drank wine, as if all her worries had disappeared.

"The moonlight is so beautiful!" Xia Mianwan unconsciously looked up and saw the moon in the sky and exclaimed.

"The moonlight... is so beautiful!" The tenderness in Pei Yanxu's eyes was about to overflow.