stern wife

Chapter 23
"Yes, yes, it's fun up there! We've all been there before!" The two concubine girls standing beside Pei Youmin quickly agreed.

Pei Xiaoran grinned, and finally understood why she foolishly went to play on the ice last time.

When she fell into the water last time, she was still a real six-year-old child. It is not impossible for her to be stupid, but the bigger reason is probably because of this cousin's instigation.

Children can't stand being teased the most, they are naive but also stupid, they will foolishly believe anyone's words, let alone the person who said it is her family.

Unfortunately, the former Pei Xiaoran was such a child, she was not Pei Huayu or Pei Shuli, she was guided by Aunt Zhao with ulterior motives.

She only has a kind mother and a few brothers who are not malicious, so since she was a child, she mistakenly believed that everyone around her was a good person and would never harm her.

But the truth...is often the opposite.

Pei Xiaoran turned his gaze to the lake again. On the east side of the lake, there was an obviously uneven ice surface, which was completely different from the smooth ice surface around it. It should be the place where she fell into the water and was rescued last time.

That's the lesson.

Also - she will never believe anyone's beginning rashly again.

Looking back, Pei Xiaoran looked up at Pei Youmin with sparkling eyes, raised his little hand and tugged at her sleeve, and said in a very affectionate tone:

"Cousin Youmin is right, skating is fun! There are a lot of big fish under the ice! However, I am afraid to go up alone, why not...cousin Youmin can go up with me, okay?"

Want her to go skating?She didn't want to be drowned!

Pei Youmin's face froze slightly, she pulled the sleeve out of her hand with a dry smile, and found a reason to refuse:
"I'm already an adult, I can't go up and play anymore."

Pei Xiaoran pouted in dissatisfaction, and asked, "Why? Why can't Cousin Youmin go up because she's an adult?"

"This……"

Pei Youmin thought for a while, and quickly replied with a smile:
"Because adults are heavier, they fall down as soon as they go up. It's not like you children, they are light, so you can play on it to your heart's content." He sighed exaggeratedly and said regretfully:

"I really want to go up and play, but it's too heavy, so I can't play with you."

"Oh, so it's like this..." Pei Xiaoran's round eyes rolled and turned, and then turned to the two concubine girls next to Pei Youmin, and the two concubine girls followed suit and waved their hands again and again:

"We are too old to go up."

Pei Xiaoran frowned pretending to be unhappy, then looked at Pei Huayu and Pei Shuli who were following him, and suddenly clapped his hands and said with a smile:
"Isn't there still Seventh Sister and Eighth Sister here? I know the three of us are the same age, how about we go up and play together?"

Hearing this, everyone present except Pei Xiaoran changed their faces.

Even the maids of Pei Huayu and Pei Shuli who were standing not far away rushed over after hearing this, holding the hands of the two little masters and shouting:
"Miss, absolutely not! If you go up, you will be drowned!"

When Pei Xiaoran fell into the water last time, Pei Huayu and Pei Shuli were also there. Naturally, they saw the whole process of Pei Xiaoran's fall into the water, and they were terrified on the spot. They were comforted by Mrs. Zhao for a long time before they recovered.

So when they heard this, the two sisters all showed horror in their eyes.

However, Mrs. Zhao gave them another order, saying that as long as it was something Pei Xiaoran asked them to do, no matter what it was, they had to do it.

Pei Shuli shrank back into the arms of the girl next to her in fear, but Pei Huayu bit her lower lip, stepped forward and said:

"If Sixth Sister really wants to go up and play, I, we are willing to accompany Sixth Sister!"

Pei Xiaoran looked at her small face, which was obviously pale with fright, but insisted on standing up to go on an adventure with him, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

It's no wonder that in her previous life, she treated them as sisters who were closer than her own. With such a person around her who is willing to share weal and woe with her, who can resist giving her sincerity?

Now experience it again, but only feel full of absurdity and ridiculousness.

All of this... turned out to be false.

It's also hard for them to act against themselves from such a young age.

Then should I hate their hypocrisy, or should I pity their hard work?

Suddenly there was a warm and soft touch in his hand, Pei Xiaoran looked down, it turned out that Pei Huayu took his little hand, and held it tightly, as if she would give up her life for her.

Pei Xiaoran stared at those two tightly clasped little hands for a moment, but the faces of her sister-in-law and the children of the Pei family in the previous life appeared in her mind...

She pulled her hand out of Pei Huayu's little hand as if being stung by a wasp, and explained with a quick smile under Pei Huayu's astonished gaze:
"My hands are too cold, don't freeze my sister. Also, I lied to you just now, my brother won't let me go up to play, so even if I want to play, I can't go, or my brother will be angry. "

After hearing this, Pei Huayu and Pei Shuli were visibly relieved.

However, Pei Youmin felt depressed for a while. You must know that in the past, no matter what she asked this cousin to do, she would do it. Why is she disobedient this time?
She heard from her mother that the old lady doesn't like concubines, so she tried her best to hang out with the concubines to please the old lady. She also heard from her mother that the old lady especially hated the eldest son's concubine, so she tried her best to suppress the eldest son with the concubine sisters. of the descendant.

It's just that she is small and weak, and others can't move for a while, only this cousin who is six years younger than herself, Pei Youmin is confident that she is more than enough to get rid of her, so she came up with such a plan.

Of course, the reason why Pei Youmin wanted Pei Xiaoran to disappear from this world was that besides wanting to use Pei Xiaoran's life in exchange for the old lady to look at her, who was also born as a daughter, in a different way, there was another more important reason that no one could tell——

If Pei Xiaoran died, wouldn't she be the only prostitute in Pei's mansion?

The only daughter-in-law of the Duke's Mansion, this name makes people feel extraordinary.

In addition, Pei Xiaoran has attracted much attention since the moment he was born. Not to mention the auspiciousness from heaven, he even got the name bestowed by the emperor himself. In the whole city, which daughter can have such an honor?

Not only that, the emperor also gave her a lot of privileges, allowing her to show off, and as the daughter of the Pei family, she has nothing, how can Pei Youmin not be jealous and hate?
Just as he was thinking of any other way to justifiably let that dead child go to see the King of Hades, he saw that dead child turn around, grinned at him unpreparedly, and said with a stupid look on his face:

"Cousin Youmin, my brother won't let me play in the lake, so I won't go. However, cousin Youmin is right, the lake is indeed fun. Cousin Youmin can know that last time I was in the lake What did you see?"

(End of this chapter)