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Chapter 300: An awkward relationship

The wheel rolled forward, and the lady in the carriage was tightly squeezing her hands. From time to time, she looked up at the window. Even the always careless pinks could see her nervousness. So she helped peel a pine nut from time to time and put it next to the lady. It seemed that she didn't know who told her that eating pine nuts after pregnancy would make the child smarter. As a result, she bought a lot in the small market.

"My wife, relax, you see, the pink ones have peeled a bunch of pine nuts!" Li Xiu pointed to the pine nuts beside the mother of Yi's wife and said, "Fan'er only knows how to peel the pine nuts, but dares not disturb the mother of Yi's wife, so she didn't eat any of the pine nuts.

Hearing Li Xiu's words, Yi Niang turned her head and saw the pine nuts beside her. She couldn't help but smile apologetically at the fan, then grabbed some pine nuts and tasted them, "The taste is good. Did you stir-fry these pine nuts by yourself?"

"Yes, I bought fresh pine nuts from the market and then fry them myself. Madam, please eat more and give birth to a smart baby in the future, just like the master!" Fan'er immediately narrowed her eyes happily when she heard the praise from the lady of Yi, saying that she hoped that the lady of Yi would give birth to a baby more than anyone else, so that she could take the baby to play with her in the future.

"Haha, I see you are so happy. You are still a child!" The lady in the air couldn't help but smile when she saw Fan'er smiling. Before marrying Li Xiu, Fan'er was her closest person. In her eyes, Fan'er was her sister and needed care like her own child.

While talking, the carriage finally arrived at the door of Pei's mansion. As soon as the carriage stopped, the lady Yi immediately became nervous again. This made Li Xiu smile slightly, reached out to hold her little hand, and then asked the fan to come forward and called the door. In a short while, he saw the old Fu jogging out before. When he saw Li Xiu and the lady Yi, he also said excitedly: "I will meet my son-in-law, madam!"

"No need to be polite, Pei... How is Mr. Pei now?" Li Xiu wanted to call him father-in-law, but he couldn't say anything, so he finally used the original name. After all, although he didn't care about Pei Ju's calculating about him, it was difficult for him to truly recognize this relative.

"The master is resting at home. I have sent someone to report it. And the master has been talking about his wife and son-in-law these days. Unexpectedly, the two of them finally came!" Lao Fu was also excited and burst into tears at this time. However, the Fu Grandma, Yi Niang and Fan Er both reacted coldly. It seemed that they had a lot of opinions about Lao Fu.

"Since Mr. Pei is in the mansion, let's visit him and ask General Fu to lead the way!" Li Xiu could not act like a little girl, so he could only smile and speak.

Lao Fu was very happy to see Li Xiu acting so kindly, so he immediately asked them to get off the carriage and took them to the mansion. At this time, a middle-aged man quickly walked out of the mansion and whispered: "This is my brother-in-law. My father is seriously ill and cannot greet him in person. He can only come to greet his brother-in-law for his brother-in-law!"

I saw that the middle-aged man was tall and thin, with a somewhat similar appearance to Pei Ju's son, probably Pei Ju's son. At this time, Lao Fu also introduced that as Li Xiu guessed, the man's name was Pei Ying, and he was Pei Ju's eldest son. However, he only noticed Li Xiu inside and outside, and did not express anything to Yi Niang. Yi Niang looked at him like a stranger, and he had no enthusiasm for brothers and sisters to meet. I guess Pei Ying didn't know that he had such a sister at home before.

Li Xiu and Pei Ying were polite, and then he took him into the mansion. At this time, the Yi Niang whispered to Li Xiu: "When I was at home, I heard of a big brother, but it was rare to see him once a few years. I heard that he had served in the Ministry of Works before, but later he was dismissed from the office for some reason and has been staying at home to do housework."

Li Xiu nodded when he heard this. Although Yi Niang didn't know why Pei Ying was dismissed from office, he had long heard that Pei Ju's sons were not good. Judging from his performance just now, he only cared about greeting himself and ignored Yi Niang. From this point of view, we can see that he is a short-sighted person. I guess such a person is not doing well in the officialdom, so he was squeezed out.

Pei Ju's mansion was very big. After walking for nearly a cup of tea, he came to the room where Pei Ju lived in the inner house. As soon as he entered it, he immediately smelled a pungent smell of medicine. Turning over a screen, he saw an old man lying on the bed in the bedroom. After a few days, Li Xiu could hardly believe that the old man in front of him, who looked like a twilight year was Pei Ju who had just met some time ago. You must know that Pei Ju was old, but he was able to get on the horse and ran wildly, and his spirit was not worse than that of a young man.

Pei Ju on the bed had closed her eyes. When she heard the sound of Li Xiu and the others coming in, she opened her eyes with difficulty. Then she grinned and showed a forced smile, and forced herself to sit up and said, "My lady, you...you...you are finally here, hurry up...please sit down!"

Seeing Pei Ju's old look, the eyes of the lady next to her also turned red, but she was stubborn and did not let her tears flow out. Instead, she pulled Li Xiu down calmly. After a while, she spoke: "I heard that you were injured, I don't know how it is now?"

"Haha, I accidentally hurt my leg, and after I came back, I got cold again. The injury was even worse, and I almost killed me, but now it's much better." Pei Ju squeezed out a smile on his wrinkled old face and said. He was still very kind to the lady in the clothes. Whether it was true love or falsehood, he was better than his son Pei Ying just by this.

"Well, I have prepared some supplements for you, don't forget to have someone cook for you!" The lady in the air was silent for a moment and finally said dryly. To be honest, there was really nothing to say between her and Pei Ju, and she even felt extremely embarrassed when she sat together.

"That... Yi Niang was pregnant before, so I'm afraid I couldn't come to visit Mr. Pei often!" Li Xiu also felt a little embarrassed and wanted to say something for Yi Niang, but in the end he only thought about Yi Niang's pregnancy, which should be good news for Pei Ju.

Sure enough, Pei Ju heard that Mother Yi was pregnant, which made him widen his eyes and a look of surprise on his face. His whole face looked different. Then he said in an excited tone: "Okay! OK! Among Mother Yi's brothers and sisters, Mother Yi is the youngest and my last daughter to marry. Now you are finally pregnant. If you have a child in the future, I will be in peace even if I die!"

Hearing Pei Ju’s words, the lady suddenly felt her nose sore and tears almost shed. However, for some reason, she finally held back her tears. After all, she used to being stubborn in front of Pei Ju, so she didn’t want to show her weak side in front of him.

The lady Yi didn't speak, so Li Xiu had to force herself to talk to Pei Ju. However, after all, it was all unnutritious circles. Even Li Xiu felt that he couldn't listen. Instead, Pei Ju recovered a little bit of energy at this time and kept reminding the lady Yi to pay attention to when she was pregnant, which made the lady Yi even more embarrassed.

"Father, you are not in good spirits when you are sick, so you should take more rest. I... want to go to the place where you used to live!" The lady in the air finally couldn't hold on anymore, so she stood up and spoke. She really felt like she was sitting on pins and needles. No matter what Pei Ju said, she felt uncomfortable.

"This..., the family is still the same, and there is nothing good to look at. Why don't you let your elder brother host a banquet to entertain you?" Pei Ju said in a hint when she heard this. She looked at Li Xiu when she spoke, because the yard where the wardrobe lived was not very good before, and he was afraid that Li Xiu would have a worse impression of him after seeing it.

"No need, I miss the old yard very much, and I didn't take some things away, so I didn't let others live there, right?" Yi Niang insisted at this time. She and her elder brother Pei Ying were almost strangers, and she had nothing to say at all when she had dinner with each other, not to mention that Li Xiu was very embarrassed when she got along with the Pei family.

"No, I have someone keep your yard, and there are still people going in to clean it!" Pei Ju replied immediately. In order to win back the father-daughter relationship between him and the wardrobe, he was very considerate.

After hearing this, Niang Yi nodded, then said goodbye with Li Xiu and left. When they left the room, they almost let out a long sigh of relief, and felt much more relaxed. Then they also looked at each other and smiled. What Pei Ju did before had already pushed away their relationship and would probably not be able to bridge it in this life. At most, he was sick. Niang Yi came to visit him. If he passed away one day, Niang Yi would come to attend the funeral. However, she would never get along like an ordinary father and daughter. Niang Yi only understood this after she came back. However, after thinking about this, she felt relieved and would not be as entangled as before.

At that moment, Li Xiu accompanied Yi Niang to the yard where she used to live. The first yard was when she lived before she got married. It was the yard that Pei Ju changed for her after Li Xiu became famous. Yi Niang's house was very good. Yi Niang's things were also inside. However, in addition to this yard, there was also an old yard where Yi Niang lived with her mother since childhood, but it was in a corner of Pei's house. Even though Pei Ju had been repaired, it was still a bit dilapidated. Yi Niang stood in the yard and looked at it for a long time before she left silently with Li Xiu.

Although Pei Ju and Pei Ying and his son tried every means to keep him, Li Xiu and Yi Niang did not stay for dinner. On the carriage when they returned, Yi Niang was much more relaxed. Not only did he talk and laugh with the fans, but he also peeled pine nuts for Li Xiu. However, Li Xiu did not like the taste of pine nuts very much. He liked sunflower seeds more. However, when the bearded guest went to America last time, he did not bring the sunflower back. This was a small regret in his heart, and he could only make up for it in the future.

As soon as he got home, Yuechan immediately stepped forward and said, "Master, that Wei Xima has just arrived again. He left when he saw that you were not here, but he asked you to go to the Ministry of Agriculture!" (To be continued.)
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