Chapter 18 - Singing

　　Although she did not witness the incident with her own eyes, Peony subconsciously thought that Liu Chang was the Lord and would not take the initiative to stir up the matter, and that this conflict should have been provoked by Li Nympho, and that the purpose of the provocation was to widen the scandal so as to arouse the dissatisfaction of the He family. At this moment for her, the best way is to hide away, don't care, don't ask. 　　But this is the Liu family in the end, Peony was afraid that Li Nympho would suffer, so she begged Lady Bai: "My cousin is a person who doesn't have any bad intentions, it's just that he's impulsive by nature, so I'd like to ask you and Shizi Master to help persuade and advise him, so that he doesn't become a foe because of this." 　　Mrs. Bai said with a straight face, "I know, I'll let my son go and mediate." After saying that, she really led the people to go in a hurry. 　　When Peony returned to the courtyard, it was already the beginning of the year, and as soon as she entered the door, Mrs. Lin asked her what had happened to her. Peony thought that she would always know, so she said very subtly, "At that time, the county princess and the prince were both inside." 　　Lin mother's face changed, then she clenched her teeth to the point of grating, circling back and forth in the room a few times, wanting to comfort Peony, but she felt that there was no way to do so, wanting to say a few words to vent her anger, but she didn't dare to say too much because there were ears on the other side of the wall. She could only look at Peony with a sad face, worrying for her. 　　Peony sat in fear for about half an hour before Yu He replied, "Young Lady, it's already over, the cousin has gone home. Outside the room, there were drinks, songs and dances again, and the Prince was still presiding over the banquet." 　　It turns out that Liu Chang is gambling with someone happy, Li Nympho slash kill out, without saying, killing to bet with him, how can Liu Chang directly admit defeat? How could Liu Chang admit defeat directly? He naturally responded to the battle, and then he lost, and lost miserably. Somehow, the two words on the conflict, they started to fight, some people say that the first move is Li Nympho, and some people say, in fact, is Liu Chang. It doesn't matter, in any case, the two of them fought into a ball, Liu Chang's two eyes black, Li Nympho's nose bleeding. From the beginning to the end, the Qing Hua Sheriff did not reappear. 　　It was hard for him to continue hosting the banquet even though he had become a crow-eyed chicken, he was really tough. Peony breathed a sigh of relief and was about to loosen her hair and lie down for a while when a granny came in quickly and said, "Young Lady, Madam has an invitation." 　　Peony had no choice but to rewash her face, purse her hair, and head to Madam Qi's courtyard. 　　Biwu was sitting on the porch holding Qi'er, teasing a Persian cat with a ball of string, seeing Peony enter, she sneered and got up to greet Peony with a standard bow of blessing, "Young Lady, today's banquet broke up really early, I don't know if the banquet was wonderful?" 　　Peony also smiled, "It didn't break up, it was wonderful, there was a horse dance performance, and Princess Qinghua brought a hu xuan'er to perform a wonderful hu xuan dance, all of which were applauded by the audience. Unfortunately you did not go." 　　The swollen face is just fat. Biwu skimmed her lips, "Princess Qinghua is very pretty, isn't she?" 　　Peony laughed, "Of course she's pretty, she deserves to be from the royal family, and she has an air of elegance that not many people can match." 　　Biwu was puzzled, in the past, Peony had to cry once when she saw Princess Qinghua, but why was she so happy this time? She thought she was pretending to be generous in order to curry favor with the Prince, which she would also do. She sneered, "That's natural, she is a famous beauty, her status is noble, she is generous, she has seen many scenes, not ordinary people can compare." 　　"Well, well, exactly." Peony said in her heart, by the time the Qing Hua County Mistress becomes your main mother, you will appreciate her beauty and nobility, and her grandeur and generosity even more. 　　Biwu still wanted to pester, Nian Nu'er hit the curtain and poked her head out, smiling sweetly at Peony, "Young lady, madam invites you in." 　　As soon as Peony entered the house, Biwu immediately threw the ball of thread in front of the curtain, guiding Qi'er and the cat to go over, and she herself logically squatted in front of the curtain and listened with her ears perked up. 　　When Mrs. Qi saw Peony enter the house, she placed the tea bowl in her hand heavily. 　　Peony had known that there would be no good results, in the end, the one who hurt Li Nympho, she would be angered no matter what; what's more, according to Mrs. Qi's character, in order to prevent the He family from coming to ask for an explanation, she would definitely have to frighten herself a lot first, put all the faults on herself, and then pretended to be magnanimous, coaxing and cajoling. Then calmly give Mrs. Qi salute: "Mother hail." 　　Mrs. Qi took a good break before faintly saying, "You get up." She also called Sister Zhu, "You bring a stool over for the young lady." 　　Peony swept over Sister Zhu out of the corner of her eye and saw her eyes glittering, knowing that she must have had something to do with this, and that she had said something bad about herself in front of Mrs. Qi. Then sideways in the crescent moon stool sat down, said: "I do not know mother called daughter-in-law to what?" 　　Mrs. Qi glared at Peony fiercely and suddenly said in a loud voice, "Nianjiao'er, go and take a look! Who's making a lot of noise outside, it's out of order!" 　　Bi Wu bluffed, not waiting for Nian Jiao Er to go out and drive people away, first stammered, "It's the kitten ......" and then hugged Qi Er and hid away in a puff of smoke. 　　Packed up the dishonest Biwu, Mrs. Qi Fang sternly said: "daughter-in-law! Zishu he confused, you as a wife to remind him, for him to round is! You are good, not only do not help him, but also brought outsiders to see his jokes! You encouraged your cousin to provoke him in public and beat him up like that! He's got no face, so you've got a face? What are you going to do? When things go wrong, you don't stay by his side, but sneak back to your own yard to hide. It's a waste of my heart for you!" 　　Peony secretly laughed coldly, the word "bitch" is the way of the world, a thousand mistakes are all her fault, bitchy men and women how all have reason. Only this time is not the time to defend, still have to let this tigress finish venting before she can open her mouth, so she didn't reply, she got up and stood with her hands hanging down to listen to the lecture. 　　"Mrs. calm your anger, the young lady has always been honest and generous, how could she intentionally do such a thing? It must be an unintentional mistake." On the surface, Sister Zhu was trying to persuade Madam Qi, but in reality, it was the same as directly convicting Mudan, and she passed a cup of tea to Mudan under false pretenses, "Young Madam, you can't blame Madam for being angry and losing her temper, what she hopes most is that you and His Excellency will have a good time, and when she encounters something like this, she can't help but be angry. You should hurry up and offer a cup of tea to madam, and just admit your mistake." 　　Peony cursed a perverted old pious woman, took the tea and handed it to Lady Qi, quietly saying, "Mother's criticism is extremely true, daughter-in-law is incompetent. Neither can she become husband's wise wife and persuade him not to do confusing things, nor can she stand up for him when he encounters things and shield him from calamities. She only thinks about her own family's lack of face and hides in her own yard, so she is really incompetent." 　　Mrs. Qi froze, swept a stern glance at Peony, and without taking her tea, coldly said, "What do you mean, am I wrong about you?!" 　　Peony's head bent even lower, but her tone was forceful: "Daughter-in-law wouldn't dare. Today's matter is indeed the daughter-in-law's incompetence. When the county princess summoned, she didn't dare not to go, when the world's son wanted to secretly follow to see the joke, she was powerless to stop it, and when her husband had an argument with a guest, she didn't even have the guts to go up and persuade him. So what mother said is right. Daughter-in-law wants to change, her ability is limited and she can't, please forgive me mother." 　　Mrs. Qi has never been touched with a soft nail like this by her, so angry that she took a deep breath, wanted to say something, but in the end did not say it, hatedly pounded the table and said, "It's just! I expect too much from you, too difficult! I don't expect you to have much success, from tomorrow onwards, you don't go anywhere, just be at home to recuperate your body, and give me a full grandchild sooner! Your parents are very old, can't you do something to save them from worrying about you, so that they can have peace of mind?" 　　Peony thought to herself, this is about to get to the point. 　　As expected, Mrs. Qi said, "In the past years since you got married, you should know in your heart how I treat you, I have never underfed you, and I have never underdressed you, and you are respected by everyone in the family. It is Zishu heart twisted, and you can not get along, I also only scolded him to persuade him, his temper is bad, but also did not put you how, wife is a wife, concubine is a concubine. Who hasn't been young and foolish? The farmer received three or five buckets more, but also want to keep a concubine! What's more, this kind of outside, but just a novelty, after a few days will be thrown away. If you have the time to be angry, you might as well think about how you can keep your husband's heart!" 　　Peony didn't say a word, only hanging her head. The He family had given the Liu family so much money, and she herself had a dowry, so how she ate and dressed herself was not too much, so why did it seem like the Liu family was supporting her for nothing? 　　Mrs. Qi looked angry, and take her nothing to do. 　　Liu Chengcai came in from outside and sighed: "It's just, it's not all her fault. Zishu is also too ignorant! Daughter-in-law, you go back first, I'll talk to Zishu later and tell him to change these temperaments, so you two can live a good life in the future." 　　Mrs. Qi grunted, "One or two of them are both unsettling. You rest early tonight and come over first thing in the morning to wait for the Imperial Doctor." 　　One sings the white face, the other the red face, just afraid that the He family will come and make trouble. Peony obediently responded. 　　Nian Nu'er sent her to the courtyard entrance, and suddenly said in a very low voice, "Young Lady, you can rest assured that the County Lord's Maiden won't be able to enter our house no matter what." 　　"Huh?" Peony was about to ask, but Nian Nu'er had already entered the courtyard with quick steps.