It has been a long time since Ye Kui last saw Concubine Pei.

At that time, she was still an unmarried girl from the Ye family, but now she entered the palace as the Pei family. So this time, the eyes of Concubine Pei looking at her were very different from those in the past. Ye Kui looked calm and let her look.

Pei Changge is still alive, but Concubine Pei shouldn't know yet.

This alone is enough to make Concubine Pei feel uncomfortable when she looks at Ye Kui.

She always treats her youngest brother like a son. In her eyes, Pei Changge is no different from the Thirteenth Prince. No matter who has something wrong, it seems like a piece of flesh is cut from her heart, making her so painful that she can't breathe.

In silence, after a while, she moved her gaze to Ye Kui's bulging belly and said, "How many months have you been?"

Ye Kui lowered her eyes and said respectfully: "It's been six months."

Concubine Pei nodded expressionlessly and said, "It's almost done." After saying that, she suddenly reminded Ye Kui, "Since that's the case, you should keep it well in the mansion, and you don't have to think too much on weekdays. Xiaojiu... If Xiaojiu knows about it under the spring, she will definitely hope that you, mother and son will be safe."

Hearing this, Ye Kui raised his eyes and said softly: "Empress, there is a saying that a wife does not know whether she should speak or not."

"What do you mean?" Concubine Pei frowned and asked in confusion.

Ye Kui looked at her with her clear eyes open and said seriously: "The Marquis is sick."

"What?" Concubine Pei was surprised and blurted out in surprise. But before the words could be finished, she immediately pursed her lips and her eyes dimmed. Yong'an Hou was sick, but no one informed her. The news was learned from Ye Kui. How could she not be surprised? She had been struggling in this deep palace for so many years, no matter how stupid she was, she should have thought something was wrong. If Ye Kui had not been Xuan into the palace because of Princess Liu Zhu today, wouldn't she have known that her father was sick?

Besides, since no one from the Pei family came to inform her, it means that the matter was difficult to handle. For no reason, everyone has decided to hide it from her.

But at this moment, Ye Kui said it in front of someone else.

Is there any explanation that the key thing she accidentally missed?

In just a few short sentences, Concubine Pei's heart was already twisted and turned.

Ye Kui was even more step by step, and he had to think repeatedly in his heart every word he said before he dared to say it. But on the surface, no one of them could show any conspicuous actions. She finally waited for such an opportunity, and she should have directly told Concubine Pei that they had discussed many times after hearing it. However, after a conversation with Princess Liu Zhu just now, Ye Kui was sure that it would be impossible for her to avoid talking to Concubine Pei alone.

It is precisely because Concubine Pei's identity and power can almost be left sideways in the harem except for the queen that they have to be more cautious. After all, as long as one step is wrong, it will be a disaster.

So she simply told the story of Yong'an Hou's illness at this time.

The incident of the Yong'an Marquis was ill for a long time. If they continued to hide it, it might be counterproductive. At the beginning, they thought that Emperor Chengzhen might immediately attack the Pei family, so they deliberately concealed this matter. However, what happened later, at the beginning, almost completely took the opposite path. The death of the Seventh Prince was always a huge blow to Ye Kui.

As soon as he died, many of the things she thought of at first and the chess she was about to play had to be rethinked. It was almost a loss in the whole game, so she could only start all over again!

But misfortune is the basis of good fortune, and the death of the Seventh Prince also gave them a chance to breathe.

There have been too many disasters in Fengcheng recently. One after another, it makes people feel panicked when they think about it. It just so happened that Princess Liuzhu’s marriage was imminent, so something might happen to the Pei family before Princess Liuzhu successfully married Amobi.

As an emperor, Emperor Chengzhen was a must-do to stabilize the hearts of the people, so he could not attack the Pei family at this critical moment. Once he attacked the Pei family desperately, then the aristocratic families, officials, and relatives in Fengcheng that were already worried would have different views on Emperor Chengzhen.

So Ye Kui was sure that it was already at this time. Emperor Chengzhen would not take it seriously whether the Marquis of Yong'an was sick or safe or healthy.

Otherwise, Emperor Chengzhen would not have allowed her to enter the palace to meet Princess Liuzhu.

At this moment, Emperor Chengzhen's heart was no longer afraid of the Pei family.

"When did my father get sick? Why didn't he send someone to come in to talk to me about this?" Concubine Pei came to her senses, narrowed her eyes and asked.

Ye Kui's eyes fell on the slender white jade hand that Concubine Pei was tightly clasped on the armchair. "There are so many things happening in the mansion recently, and she was so busy that she forgot to come and deliver a letter to the empress."

This is wrong!

Concubine Pei immediately turned cold, but after a while, her hands tightly pressed on the armchair slowly loosened.

Ye Kui's words, there is a problem.

Since the mansion is busy and chaotic, it is necessary for someone to tell her that. After all, she is the empress in the palace, and even if there is something wrong, she can help her. The married daughter is poured out water, but in a family like them, there is no such thing at all. Who doesn’t know that the reason for marrying a daughter is to marry a higher family is that she hopes that the married daughter can also bring some help to her parents’ family.

Otherwise, wouldn’t those who got married because of the marriage of two families have to cry to death?

The parents’ family needs to support the married daughter, and the married daughter naturally needs to earn face for the parents’ family.

She is the noble lady who is always favored in the palace, and she is a celebrity in front of Emperor Chengzhen for several years. How could something happened to the Pei family, and she forgot to inform her just because of the word "busy"? And although Ye Kui only said so short, she already knew that her father, Yong'an Hou, was sick, probably even the emperor didn't know.

This is even more impossible to be reasonable just by the word "busy".

Concubine Pei frowned slightly and said to Ye Kui: "I will find a way to go back to see my father when I look for a day."

When Ye Kui heard this, she knew that Concubine Pei understood what she meant. She immediately breathed a sigh of relief, lowered her head respectfully, and replied: "Yes."

Concubine Pei looked at her, but her eyebrows never stretched out for a long time.

She guessed it. In fact, what she said just now was just trying to let her go out of the palace. But where could the concubines leave the palace so easily? She had been in the palace for more than ten years, and the imperial city was not much away from Badeng Lane where the Pei family was, but she never went back once...

This time, what was wrong? She had to be allowed to go back to the Pei family before she could say it?

Concubine Pei was in a state of confusion, and a strong sense of anxiety suddenly surged in her heart. This strange emotion came quickly and uneasy, and instantly it poured into her limbs and bones from the bottom of her heart, causing her to even her fingers to tremble.

But this time, she went back to Pei's house to visit her.

Emperor Chengzhen's love with her for more than ten years would be agreed no matter how she went back. This time she went back, it was not considered a visit to her relatives, but as a daughter and elder sister, she went back to her parents' home to visit her elderly and sick father, and to sing a stick of incense for her younger brother who died young.

She couldn't help but look at Ye Kui quietly with her inquiring eyes, and sighed in her heart: Maybe, she should take the Thirteenth Prince with her to move forward.

The Thirteenth Prince is less than seven years old this year, but the children who grew up in the royal family will not have real children. Now, it is time for him to meet the people of the Pei family. After all, it is not certain that the Pei family will collapse soon. At that time, she will lose her parents' family that can support her, and the Thirteenth Prince will also lose a capable foreign family. In this way, the road he will take will only become more and more difficult.

She thought, and sighed again.

Xu Ye was really a coincidence. She only thought of the Thirteenth Prince, and the Thirteenth Prince came to see her with small and square steps.

Ye Kui was the aunt of the Thirteenth Prince, not an outsider. Concubine Pei asked someone to bring the Thirteenth Prince in directly, pointing at Ye Kui and explaining to him: "This is your little aunt."

Pei Changge was at the end of the Pei family. The Thirteenth Prince used to just say that he was his uncle, so when he met Ye Kui, he called him aunt.

"Please greet my aunt." After hearing Concubine Pei's words, the Thirteenth Prince gave a big greeting to Ye Kui.

Although the two of them had the seniority, he was the prince, and Ye Kui didn't feel that he was such a big gift. But she was unable to move and could not avoid it for a while. She could only watch the Thirteenth Prince saluted and stood up straight again.

"Your Highness has ruined his wife." Ye Kui sighed and said.

When Concubine Pei heard this, she waved her hand and said, "You are his serious aunt, you can bear it."

After all... Pei Changge is no longer alive... She has no way to continue to face her sister-in-law whom she originally didn't like. But she felt strange in her heart as she said such words. She knew that although she was thirteen years old, she rarely made mistakes in her eyes. She was even more stern in doing things, but today she gave a big gift to Ye Kui. She looked at her son's serious face and understood it in her heart.

This child likes his uncle.

Now, he also knew that his uncle would never show up again, would never hold him to teach him to shoot arrows, or would never take him to play with him.

I am afraid that it is precisely because of this that when he saw his aunt whom he had never met before, he subconsciously gave a big gift. This gift was both for Ye Kui and for Pei Changge.

Concubine Pei thought about it and felt a little sore in her nose. She finally managed to hold back her tears.

"Mother, will my uncle really not come back?"
Chapter completed!