After Jiaojiao got pregnant, her husband who died in the war came back

Bai Zhi is the only woman among Pei Jingyi's attendants, and she has always been proud of her noble character.

In her opinion, Xie Shuyao had a long history of bad deeds and was not worthy of the general at all, and the general would definitely look down on her.

Thinking of this, she couldn't hide the disgust in her words.

After hearing Bai Zhi's words, Pei Jingyi looked at her disapprovingly.

Bai Zhi was met with cold stares, but she didn't think she had said anything wrong. She just thought Pei Jingyi disliked her for being too quick-witted and shouldn't bring such things up in public.

She lowered her eyes and said in a steady voice, "General, Bai Zhi was the one who spoke too much."

Pei Jingyi didn't have time to take care of her now. Thinking of the family dinner at the Fan Mansion, he decided to deal with business first.

He thought for a moment and said, "Since the Fan family is hosting a banquet, we should send a gift to them, Jiangdong."

Jiang Dong responded: "Yes!"

After Pei Jingyi finished his instructions, he did not forget to instruct Jiang Dong: "Wait for her to come back and let her come to see me."

Jiang Dong didn't react at first. She? Could it be the lady?

Seeing that he had no response, Pei Jingyi looked at him.

Jiang Dong quickly replied, "Oh, ok, I'll remember that."

After finishing his instructions, Pei Jingyi's eyes flashed with interest. He was already looking forward to Xie Shuyao's expression when she saw him giving her a gift.

That woman is such a good actress, I wonder if she will lose her composure this time.

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Xie Shuyao accepted the invitation from the Fan family, and Meng Nianrui naturally went as well.

Since no one was helping her, she planned to ask for help herself.

Speaking of banquets, she has attended quite a few since she married into the Xie family and is quite familiar with them.

But today, for some reason, she felt something strange as soon as she entered the door.

However, Meng Nianrui didn't think much about it, but greeted the acquaintances she met as usual.

However, to her surprise, the noble ladies who used to be on good terms with her all avoided her as if she were the devil when they saw her.

Before leaving, he was pointing at her and muttering something.

The situation becomes more obvious as you go further in.

"Isn't this Meng Nianrui? How dare she come here?"

"Really? What valuable things does she have in the Duke's Mansion? She even wrongly accused the Fan family of stealing her things. I don't know how she has the nerve to do that."

"Stop talking, she's coming, let's go quickly and stay away from her. It will be bad if we get implicated."

No one knew why Emperor Qingyuan imprisoned the Fan family. After all, it was not easy to publicize the fact that officials in the capital were collaborating with the enemy and committing treason, and the prince handed the evidence to the emperor in secret.

People only knew that Meng Nianrui and Xie Shuyao had been summoned to the palace. Combined with the incident with Jia Xuerui, it was logical to think that the Fan family was imprisoned purely because of the Meng family.

Faced with everyone's strange looks, Meng Nianrui looked a little ugly.

She saw a girl with whom she had a very good relationship, so she walked over to ask about the situation, but the girl seemed not to see her and turned in the opposite direction.

Meng Nianrui trotted over and followed: "Shi Wanqiu? Shi Wanqiu, I've called you several times, why are you walking so fast?"

The girl called Shi Wanqiu looked around warily, then shook off Meng Nianrui's hand and said with a evasive look, "Hey, why are you pulling me?"

Seeing her reaction, Meng Nianrui's heart suddenly sank, "Are you the same as those people?"

Shi Wanqiu pulled the distance between them, with a hint of sarcasm on her lips, and said quietly:

"When you, the Duke's Mansion, wanted to trick the Fan family, you should be prepared to fail. It's not others' fault. It's really you who did something wrong."

Meng Nianrui didn't know how the rumors spread outside, so she explained, "But they did steal things from the Duke's Mansion. It was originally the Fan Mansion..."

When she heard that she was still going to criticize the Fan family, Shi Wanqiu hurriedly stopped her: "What Fan family? The one who stole the things was someone from your Meng family, and he was also the one who gave the gift. The Fan family has been implicated by you guys, isn't it enough? How dare you say that?"