The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family-Chapter 1130 - 258: All the Lakes and Seas Are Your Mother

After leaving the Anping Prince Mansion, Pei Qin wiped the cold sweat from her brow, "Thank goodness we don’t have a son! Seeking a marriage partner is like performing some sort of task!"

Mo Heng smiled and embraced her, "With our two daughters, we’ll just wait for those boys to come asking for their hands in marriage, and we’ll pick and choose one by one, vetting them thoroughly!"

"That’s for certain! Those rascal boys can forget about taking away our precious daughters!" Pei Qin nodded.

So, the Princess Anping had similar plans, "What’s Pei Wendong count for? Dream on about marrying off my daughter!"

Prince An Ping’s face grew dark, "I already warned Xi Yun not to get involved with Pei Hansan..." Now that this incident had happened, even if the Mansion of the General Zhaoyong kept a tight lid on it, they couldn’t hide the fact that Xi Yun had been slighted.

Princess Xi Yun’s attitude was even more resolute, "As for that man, forget about it! Let him disrespect me and find fault with me; let him be responsible for that good-for-nothing Xie Yi! I will kill Pei Hansan!"

At the Mansion of the General Zhaoyong, Pei Qian and Pei Yuan, among others, were hoping this marriage would go through. Not to mention that Princess Xi Yun was beautiful and noble, but it meant that Pei Wendong wouldn’t have to marry Xie Yi. Even if she was a bit weak and incompetent, she was always devoted to Pei Wendong, bearing his children and teaching them. But it was clear she had a malicious nature!

"This marriage doesn’t seem likely! Prince An Ping looked quite displeased, and the Princess even more so," Pei Qin clicked her tongue.

"Even if they continue to disapprove, with Princess Xi Yun and Wendong having shared intimacy, this marriage is as good as confirmed! Let’s visit them again tomorrow! Have Wendong apologize personally. Seeing his sincerity, Prince and the Princess will agree!" Pei Qian indeed thought the marriage was settled.

"Have you spoken to Xie Yi about it?" Pei Qin asked Pei Wendong. It would be better for him to address the matter, as one should be responsible for their own affairs.

Pei Wendong nodded with a troubled expression, "Her... mood is not very good."

"What do you mean ’not very good’! She clearly made a scene! She even questioned why she wasn’t the one to be made the official wife instead of just a concubine! Didn’t we discuss an engagement? It was they who didn’t want to settle it, scheming on my brother-in-law! Now she wants to be the official wife, and how does she deserve it?!" Pei Qian spat bitterly.

Fang Liuming nudged her, having just advised her against this.

"What are you nudging me for! Just because we don’t have proof or caught her red-handed doesn’t mean she isn’t doing it!" Pei Qian retorted angrily, turning to glare at him.

Fang Liuming motioned her to look at Pei Wendong.

Pei Wendong was in agony, was Xie Yi not a naïve and gentle young girl, untainted by the world? But now she had become like this; had he failed to see through her from the beginning, or could she not resist the temptations from outside?

Although Pei Qian wanted to protect him, she was still annoyed at him. Chang Yonglin and Xiao Yong had been with him, and neither was deceived by that shameless Xie Yi. It was only him who had been bewitched, paying no attention to his elder sister who raised him! His heart was set on that woman!

"Enough! This matter is settled! As for Xie Yi, I will talk to her once she calms down tomorrow," Pei Qin said sternly.

Before she could talk to Xie Yi, Xie Ze came to settle accounts with Pei Wendong, "What’s wrong with my sister that you have to humiliate her like this?! You promised to marry her, but now you’ve climbed up the social ladder and want to marry the Commandery Princess; you’re forcing my sister to be a concubine. Do you want to drive her to death?! Pei Wendong, is your word worth nothing?!"

"I won’t force her to be a concubine," Pei Wendong said coldly.

"Clearly you had an agreement with my sister, but now you are pursuing the Commandery Princess, are you not forcing my sister to be a concubine?! Is there anything wrong with my sister, anything that makes her unworthy of you? You promised to treat us well, and now my sister is in so much pain she wishes she were dead! You’re nothing but a heartless scoundrel!" Xie Ze had had enough of his days in the Pei family; every day he felt slighted, humiliated, and degraded!

Pei Qian despised Xie Yi and was even more fed up with Xie Ze, pushing past Fang Liuming to confront him, "What right do you have to accuse us? You eat at our home, live at our home, even your teacher and the cloth for your clothes are chosen to match the Young Masters of the Aristocratic Families! You buy as many books as you want! Isn’t everything about you bought with our money? And you still have the face to accuse us?!"

Xie Ze was filled with humiliation and rage, "It was Pei Wendong who promised to treat us well and to take responsibility for my sister! We haven’t just mooched off you! We have our own family wealth. He offered to help us reclaim it! It’s all of you who have been bullying us, humiliating me, and bullying my sister!"