The cannon fodder original wife's bad story

Chapter 45

Pei Jian felt weak and exhausted and fell on the bed. He forced himself to sit up halfway and called Pei An to his side.

"I am a Duke, and I have served my country and my people, guarding the frontier for half my life. Even though I have not made great achievements, I have never failed in my duties. Now I am retired and returning to the countryside, not caring about worldly affairs, and I only hope that everyone in the family can live a stable life."

Pei An felt a little depressed.

"What do you mean, father?"

Pei Jian smiled dejectedly, "In this mansion, I can't protect Qin'er, I can't protect Che'er, and now even Fang'er has lost her life. An'er, do you think it's necessary for your father to live?"

This is a determination to die.

Pei An immediately lifted his robe and knelt down, "Father, you must not have such thoughts. Many things in this mansion have chilled your heart, but there is always a way."

"any solution?"

Pei Jian burst into tears as he looked at his son kneeling in front of him. "In this mansion, your second brother is still incompetent, and you have just spread your wings and taken over. Even your eldest sister's son is weak and sickly... Everything is beyond our control."

"Father, there is no need to be so pessimistic. Although the mansion still cannot do without your protection, we can always get a quiet place. Why not..." At this point, he hardened his heart and said, "How about sending mother to the other garden?"

Pei Jian shook his head slowly.

"I have thought about this before. Even if it means I have to bear the stigma of abandoning my old wife, I can just send her away. But... the Xiao family! Your two smart uncles will not tolerate this. If the situation gets really chaotic, I'm afraid this mansion will fall apart."

Pei An lowered his head helplessly, "Then my father followed my second uncle's example and went to the mountains and rivers to get clean."

Thinking that he had only one son who understood his pain, Pei Jian felt relieved. He helped Pei An up with his own hands and said, "After Fang'er left, I felt tired as a father, but looking back, I have never let it go. That's all..."

"Mother...Mother is confused."

Pei An was heartbroken. What would be the gain if both sides suffered losses?

"In this house, your father must hold on until your elder sister calms down and your second brother stands up... and you, you must be sent away before I can truly let go."

When the time comes, he will go look for the poor San'er.

Depend on him and live out the rest of your life.

Pei An lowered his head. Facing the hatred between his parents, he had no way or position to comment.

After a long time, he murmured, "Father, how did Mother harm Aunt Fang?" Song Guanzhou was right, he shouldn't have interfered in the affairs of his parents' room, but he shouldn't be confused about the cause and consequence of the accident.

When he asked, Pei Jian shook his head.

"It's not good for you to know."

Pei An looked up, "If it is difficult for father to say it, why not let Linhe tell me. The future path I will take is not afraid of these." Others looked at him, Pei An, the fourth son of the Duke's Mansion, who had a smooth career, achieved success at a young age, and became the youngest Jinshi.

What is the reality?

In this house, apart from the little love and care from my father, what else is there?

His mother, Mrs. Xiao, hated that he had been delayed in being born, so she allowed Aunt Qin to give birth to Pei Che who was a few days older than him. She also hated that he had been so big since he was a child, which had damaged her health, so she gave up the idea of ​​having another child.

She hated that her birth did not win her husband's love, but instead, because of Aunt Qin's son Che Ge'er, she lost Pei Jian's entire heart.

She hated this youngest child.

But she couldn't hate him openly. On the surface, she was a loving mother who cared about him. But in reality, she would beat or scold him if they disagreed with her. When he was three or four years old, Pei Jian returned to the court and brought Aunt Qin and Pei Che with him. Aunt Qin noticed the scars all over his body and reported it to Pei Jian.

From then on, Xiao hated him even more.

In order to please Pei Jian, he even gave himself to be raised by Aunt Qin.

Aunt Qin was a concubine, so naturally she treated a legitimate son like him more attentively. As she raised him, he began to accept them as mother and son, and the two became closer.

Disasters often strike when things are at their best.

When he and Pei Che were ten years old, Aunt Qin died.

——Died of poisoning, the cause was finally traced to a maid, who risked her life by hitting herself against a pillar, leaving no evidence.

The ten-year-old Pei An secretly traveled across mountains and rivers to return to the capital with a young servant. The first thing he did after entering the Duke's Mansion was to run to Xiao and bluntly said, "You killed her!"

The motherly look on Xiao's face was torn apart by Pei An before it could fade away.

She raised her hand and slapped him hard, "You bastard, you actually disobeyed your own mother for a lowly person."

Pei An was young and frivolous, and was not afraid at all.

"I will report to the authorities. If the Jingzhao Yin dares not intervene, I will kneel at the palace gate. The emperor will definitely intervene during the Qingming Festival."

Xiao was so angry that she slapped him hard again, "What do you care? It's hard for an honest official to judge family affairs. What does it have to do with me if Zhuang Qinxin dies young?"

Pei An sneered, "Okay, swear that if you are the one who sent someone to poison and kill Auntie, then the thunder of justice will come down from heaven and take your own son's life to make up for it. Do you dare?"

Xiao naturally wouldn't swear, she just looked at him like a madman.

After a long time, he said in disappointment, "Why did I not strangle you to death when I gave birth to you? I already have two sons. You are really superfluous."

The guards sent by Pei Jian chased to the capital, and only collapsed to the ground exhausted after seeing that the teenage Fourth Young Master was safe and sound.

But the next moment, Pei An disappeared again.

They searched the entire palace and even the entire capital, but still couldn't find Pei An's whereabouts.

Half a month later, Pei An invited Xiao's two uncles to come over. Xiao fainted when she saw that her son, whom she hated so much, had actually alarmed her family. "My father is guarding the border and cannot leave his post. Although I am young, I know that human life is at stake. I ask my two uncles to come and administer justice. It will definitely not be unfair."

When things got to this point, Xiao cried out in the inner room, "My two brothers, kill this little beast for me!"

She hated this little bastard who jumped out of her belly!

Xiao's two uncles looked at the righteous child sitting on a chair in the yard and didn't know where to start.

However, Pei Jie knew Xin'er, so he dragged his sick body to the outside of his mother's main room to protect his third brother.

It was Pei Jian who brought Pei Che back from the border. No one knew what the elders had agreed upon. From that day on, Pei An and Pei Che lived with their father, and their parents had a complete break.

Pei An and his mother, Xiao, were merely maintaining a superficial relationship of loving mother and filial son.

After Pei Che got into trouble, the mother and son couldn't even maintain this superficial harmony. Xiao could only express her thoughts and concerns for Pei An in front of servants or others.

But when the two of them really sit together, they will inevitably fall out after just three words.

One thing after another, Pei An didn't find it strange at all what his mother could do.

She is the eldest daughter of the Xiao family, but she is cruel and ruthless.

Pei Jian covered his face with his hands, in great pain, "Your mother told Fang'er that it was because of her persuasion that Che Ge'er ended up in Jianshui House."

With such a sin, how could Aunt Fang survive...