The daily struggles of divorced women in ancient times

Xia Mianwan and Pei Yanxu speculated for a long time and roughly sorted out the relationship between these people and things. After finishing the sorting, Xia Mianwan stood up and said, "Husband, how do you plan to deal with Aqi?"

Pei Yanxu said: "I'll leave all these matters to you. I'll come forward to solve them after they're settled. If you come forward and don't do a good job of getting involved, I'm afraid mother will have a knot in her heart."

Xia Mianwan smiled, "Okay, thank you husband for your careful consideration. I will go to my second sister first and ask her clearly so that I can know whether our speculation is true or not. But...husband, you have to be careful. If they are really coming for you, I am afraid that the evidence has been forged and is just waiting for you to step in."

"It's fine. If the guess is true... Ah Qi is a very important chess piece. If we don't fall into the trap in the first step, the difficulty for them in the next step will increase. With one less link, their plan will not be so easy to come true. However... it seems that the Third Prince will soon be unable to hold back. By then, I'm afraid it will be a war between the open and the open."

Seeing that Pei Yanxu knew what was going on, Xia Mianwan raised her chin and turned to go to Pei Yanqi's yard.

Xia Mianwan could still hear Pei Yanqi cursing at the door. Xia Mianwan asked Rumeng to open the door. Pei Yanqi heard the noise and stopped cursing.

"You don't look like a lady at all... You don't remember anything I taught you before." Xia Mianwan sat down at the round table and poured herself a cup of tea.

Pei Yanqi stared at Xia Mianwan coldly with a vigilant look on her face, "What are you doing here?"

Xia Mianwan smiled and took another sip of tea. "I'm here to listen to the story. Listen carefully, Aqi. I'm only giving you one chance. If you tell me everything about you and the Marquis of Jinyang without hiding anything, I can still give you a way out. Otherwise, you can choose between the rope and the poison."

Pei Yanqi looked at Xia Mianwan in disbelief and said, "You are so arrogant, so my brother won't care about you?"

Xia Mianwan smiled and said, "Before, when you were with mother, you kept talking about the status of the crown prince and the situation in the court. Why didn't you understand that you are not that important to your eldest brother and the Pei family? Unimportant things are easily abandoned if they make mistakes. If... you want to live, you have to prove that you are useful."

Xia Mianwan's face was as gloomy as water when she said these words. Pei Yanqi didn't say anything, but just sat quietly aside. After a long time, Pei Yanqi asked: "Can you keep the baby in my belly?"

Xia Mianwan said: "That depends on whether I will soften my heart after listening to your story."

Pei Yanqi said slowly, "We met when I was selling embroidery. The prince said that I was elegant and kind, with a calm temperament. Later, after we became familiar with each other, I took the prince to my place. The prince was very puzzled as to why I lived there, so I told him that I was a girl from the Pei family. As long as the prince was willing, he could find out these things, so I did not hide it from him. I swear, it was the prince who took the initiative at the beginning, and then we became familiar with each other. The prince would occasionally give me some silver, but I had my dignity and I did not accept it. Later, the money was not enough, and my eldest sister came to give me silver several times. The prince and I get along very well. I really have never met anyone who understands me better than the prince. Later... the prince kept telling me that he and the Cui family had a bad relationship and wanted to marry me back, but the Cui family had a really good reputation and a strong family background. Only then did we think of using the child to force the Pei family to come forward, so that the prince and I could be together."

"Did you all come up with the idea of ​​using the child to force the Pei family to intervene?" Xia Mianwan asked softly.

Pei Yanqi hesitated for a while and said, "It was the prince who brought it up first."

"Have you ever thought about how you and your child would cope if the prince disowned you later?" Pei Yanqi fell for such a simple scam so easily...

Pei Yanqi said: "No, the prince said he had asked Marquis Jinyang for help, and the Marquis agreed."

After hearing this, Xia Mianwan was certain that Pei Yanqi had indeed become a very important chess piece in this situation just as they had thought.

"Sister-in-law, can you please help me? I promise that as long as I can marry the prince, I will never make trouble again." Pei Yanqi said with tears in her eyes.

Xia Mianwan sighed and said, "Aqi, your child will never be born."

"Why, why? She's just a co-wife. If it doesn't work, I'll accept you as your concubine." Pei Yanqi said gritting her teeth.

"You are a girl from my Pei family. How can you be so self-deprecating? Aqi, you are so disappointing." Xia Mianwan did not want to tell the truth that the prince was using Pei Yanqi as a scapegoat. If she did, something unexpected might happen.

Pei Yanqi cried bitterly, "But sister-in-law, I really like the prince. The prince is the person who understands me the most in my life. He respects me and loves me. I will never meet anyone better than the prince."

Xia Mianwan sighed heavily, "Aqi, you said the same thing last time. You said you would never meet someone better than Tan Yuming in your life, and what happened?"

Pei Yanqi cried and shook her head: "Sister-in-law, this time is different, the prince is different from others. I really only want to be with the prince. Sister-in-law, as long as you help me to be with the prince and help me, I will definitely thank you in the future, and I will never mess around again."

Xia Mianwan asked, "Last time you also said that Tan Yuming was different from others. Look... now you still think that the prince is different."

Pei Yanqi burst into tears and couldn't tell what was wrong, but she just wanted to marry the prince.

"Aqi, if you take one step back, you must take all the steps back. If you are a concubine, you cannot do that. If you still want to retreat, then you can become a concubine..."

Pei Yanqi cried heartbrokenly and kept begging Xia Mianwan. Xia Mianwan waited until Pei Yanqi's crying subsided before saying, "Aqi, you can't keep your child, and you and the Marquis of Jinyang can't be together."

"Why are you so cruel!" Pei Yanqi looked at Xia Mianwan with hatred.

"Yes, I am cruel. Did you know this on the first day? So, you'd better stay in the mansion honestly. After the child is aborted, you will have a chance to start over. If you are still so stubborn, don't blame your brother or the Pei family." Xia Mianwan left after leaving these words.

Pei Yanqi looked at Xia Mianwan's back with hatred and started to think of a solution again. It was no use asking the people in Pei Mansion for help now. She had no choice but to go all out and make the bigger the better. Only when Marquis Jinyang came to her house would there be a chance of turning things around.

But how could she make a big fuss? Looking at the maids who were on high alert, Pei Yanqi fell into deep thought.