The daily struggles of divorced women in ancient times

Lord Pei was in a good mood today, and everyone in the court could see it. Usually Lord Pei was always in a bad mood, looking like he couldn't get along with anyone, but today, after being teased by the Prime Minister for a long time, he was still in a good mood.

The emperor looked at him without saying anything. After the court session, he hurriedly called Pei Yanxu to the imperial study, "Yanxu, did something good happen to you?"

Pei Yanxu smiled and said, "No, nothing special happened. I just got a beautiful jade pendant recently." Pei Yanxu showed it to the emperor as if he was presenting a treasure.

The emperor looked at the jade pendant from left to right but could not see what was so good about it, so he asked, "What is so special about this jade pendant?"

Pei Yanxu smiled and said, "It was given by my wife."

emperor:"……"

The emperor recalled carefully, and it seemed that he sent Pei Yanxu to Yubei only seven days after his marriage, which seemed a bit unkind, so he did not despise Pei Yanxu's worthless appearance in person.

"The Queen often gave me gifts, but as she gave me so many, I felt that I was not outstanding. Now it seems that I am to blame..." The emperor also showed off the gifts he received from the Queen.

Pei Yanxu didn't dare to respond to this, but it was true that he was in a good mood. In the end, it reminded the emperor of the rumors that he was henpecked, and for a moment he was speechless.

"My dear minister...is it a good reputation to be afraid of your wife and daughter-in-law?" The emperor couldn't help asking in the end.

Pei Yanxu happily played with the jade pendant in his hand and laughed very stupidly...

……

Pei Yanxu and Xia Mianwan spent a long time relaxing, and then the day of the marriage between the Li and Pei families came. After Pei Yanxu told Xia Mianwan not to take care of the marriage, Xia Mianwan really never asked about it.

This made Madam Pei very busy. Fortunately, Aunt Qin was still in the capital and helped Madam Pei to deal with it. But on the wedding day, Xia Mianwan couldn't just leave it alone. After all, she was the mistress of the house and had to come out to greet the guests.

Xia Mianwan was dressed very luxuriously and stood beside Mrs. Pei to greet guests. She was exhausted from receiving and seeing off guests all day. Thinking that Mrs. Pei had been busy these days, Xia Mianwan also asked Xuan Xue to send some special supplements.

Tomorrow, Li Yaoyuan will serve tea, and Xia Mianwan, as the sister-in-law, also needs to prepare some things.

"Husband, what do you think about me giving you this white jade bracelet?" Xia Mianwan said as she picked out a white jade bracelet from the brocade box where the jewelry was kept.

Pei Yanxu thought about it, stood up and took out a large treasure box from the secret box in the study. This treasure box was larger than an ordinary brocade box. Pei Yanxu opened it in front of Xia Mianwan.

There is a huge pile of gold, silver bills and jewellery in here.

Xia Mianwan's eyes widened. She didn't expect Pei Yanxu to have hidden something private!

Pei Yanxu scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "I wanted to give it to you a long time ago, but I forgot about it because I was busy. Madam, this is all my belongings. I give it all to you. Just give me some monthly allowance every month."

Xia Mianwan didn't act pretentiously. He picked them out one by one and looked at them. There were about 30,000 taels of silver notes and 1,000 taels of gold.

"I didn't expect my husband to be quite rich..." Xia Mianwan joked.

Pei Yanxu chuckled, took out an ordinary gold bracelet and said, "No need to give something as good as white jade, a gold bracelet will be enough."

Xia Mianwan was very surprised. Pei Yanxu seemed to be annoyed with Li Yaoyuan. "My husband, do you want to be so disrespectful to your sister-in-law?"

Pei Yanxu shook his head and said, "It's not that I want to give her face, but I want to let her know not to dream about things that don't belong to her. You are the mistress of the Pei family and you can only be you. Don't rely on your status as a noble lady to do things that are not worthy of being on the stage. I didn't want Yanshu to marry these noble ladies in the first place, and I can't say much because of the Queen Mother's order. But if the girl from the Li family marries in and still can't be on the same page with Yanshu, and even comes to harass you, then I won't be polite to her."

This is because she was still angry about Mrs. Li’s bad attitude towards Xia Mianwan.

Xia Mianwan was touched, and she gently stroked Pei Yanxu's brow with her fingers, "Don't worry, no one can bully me. As long as you can gain a foothold in the court, no one can bully me."

Pei Yanxu grabbed Xia Mianwan's hand and placed it on his lips, gently kissing her, "I'm still very happy that I met you when I went to Yanzhou."

"I'm glad too."

……

On the second day, during the tea ceremony, Li Yaoyuan came to the main hall with Pei Yanshu.

A nanny introduced them to Li Yaoyuan one by one, and Li Yaoyuan obediently offered tea to each of them. However, she was slightly stunned when she received Xia Mianwan's gold bracelet after offering tea.

This gold bracelet was a very ordinary thing to Xia Mianwan, but she was given such an ordinary bracelet in front of her mother-in-law. What did it mean?

Li Yaoyuan felt ashamed and felt unhappy, but she still smiled and said, "Thank you, sister-in-law."

Xia Mianwan smiled and didn't say anything.

Everyone was going to have dinner together today. Li Yaoyuan smiled and took Mrs. Pei's arm and said, "Mother, I won't go back to my own yard. I will stay here and drink tea with you."

Mrs. Pei smiled and patted Li Yaoyuan's hand and said, "Okay, okay."

Seeing that the sunshine was pretty good today, Xia Mianwan suggested, "Why don't we go to the yard to drink some tea? It's still a long time before lunch."

Mrs. Pei also thought it was a good idea, so they all went to the yard together.

Xia Mianwan was just helping Yu Jieer roll up her sleeves when Li Yaoyuan came over and said, "Sister-in-law, let's go for a walk together."

"Okay." Xia Mianwan responded.

Li Yaoyuan and Xia Mianwan walked along the cobblestone path into the garden. Li Yaoyuan asked with a smile on her face, "What does sister-in-law usually do at home?"

"I didn't do anything. I was the housekeeper for one day."

"Sister-in-law, I want to say sorry to you. My mother came to the house to discuss marriage and was a little out of line because she was worried about me. I hope you don't take it to heart." Li Yaoyuan said.

Xia Mianwan said calmly, "Since you brought it up, I'll make it clear. Sister-in-law, I am the head of the Pei Mansion, and we should have some sense of propriety between each other, which is good for the entire Pei family. I know what you think of me and the Pei family. But the Pei family is supported by my husband, so I will not tolerate things that I cannot tolerate. I've said the ugly words in advance, and I hope that my sister-in-law and I will not have conflicts in the future because of our different ideas."

Li Yaoyuan didn't expect Xia Mianwan to speak so directly. She was annoyed at being exposed, but she quickly recovered and said with a smile: "Of course."