Chapter 171 Pei Zitian feels guilty and is blocked
If he had the ability or opportunity to resolve this conflict, he would be willing to do so even if it cost him a lot.

Just as I was thinking this, I heard footsteps outside. When I turned around, I saw a face that looked very similar to my own, except that she was younger and, of course, paler.

"Second sister, why are you here? Didn't you say you were feeling unwell these past two days? Why are you going out?"

Pei Zixing is the youngest daughter of the Pei family and the only child that Aunt An saved after she recovered from her illness.

After experiencing that hemorrhage, Aunt An became pregnant three more times in succession, but failed to keep the baby each time. Not only did she suffer a serious blow to her health, but the doctor also diagnosed that she could no longer have children.

It was certainly a big blow. Although she already had a son, Pei Zitian, given the love she and Pei Laoshuai had, how could she let it go since they had no children? Therefore, when she learned that she was pregnant again, she tried every possible way to ensure the birth of Pei Zixiang.

Unfortunately, because her mother was too weak, the child has been in poor health since birth, basically the same as Jiang Shiyuan, with congenital deficiencies, and needs to rely on precious medicinal herbs to stay alive.

Therefore, she was loved even more than Pei Zitian by everyone in the mansion.

Unfortunately, Pei Zixing was very ungrateful. She attributed all her physical discomforts to her aunt's incompetence. Therefore, in many cases, she enjoyed the love from her father because of her aunt, but at the same time she hated her aunt for not being able to take one more step forward and make her and her brother's identities more legitimate.

So her feelings towards Aunt An were contradictory, and her feelings towards her father were equally contradictory. She had both admiration and flattery. Only towards her brother, who was also her fellow countryman, could she still be somewhat pure, so she spoke as soon as she opened her mouth.

"I heard from people around you that you have been in a bad mood since you came back from the east city. Have you encountered any difficult problems? Can you tell me? I will see if I have any ideas and help you think of them?"

Pei Zixing is in poor health, but he is a rare intelligent person in the Pei family.

She had been ill and could not go out, so she could only stay at home and read a lot of books. As a result, she had knowledge of all aspects. Unfortunately, the result of reading so much did not make her broad-minded, but made her more scheming.

She spent the whole day thinking about how to drive away the people from the first house, so that she and her brother could naturally become the most dazzling children of the Pei family and make the world remember their abilities.

Pei Zitian obviously did not have the same ambition as his sister, so he sighed and told her about his meeting with Pei Zisu and his new sister-in-law outside today.

"Have you met the new sister-in-law? What do you think of her?"

"She is a perfect match for my eldest brother, and I think she is a person who knows how to act and retreat. With her assisting my eldest brother in the future, many things in the Pei family may be able to move to a higher level."

Pei Zixing listened to his second brother's positioning of his eldest brother and new sister-in-law, and felt like a hopeless case. His eyes were full of disdain, and he couldn't help but say something.

"Second brother, don't you have any ambition to make progress? Do you think it's enough to have these shops and land in your hands? You should know that the Pei family army is the foundation of the Pei family. Everything you are doing now is just to prepare wedding dresses for others. It's just military pay. Do you think that the annual supply from the Prince of Han's Mansion to the Pei family is little? So your current position can be replaced by others at any time and anywhere. You don't even think about danger in times of peace. Instead, you are still thinking about some nonsense. I don't know whether the new sister-in-law can make the Pei family reach a higher level in the future, but your simplicity has already revealed some stupidity." Hearing such words, Pei Zitian did not waver.

Although he has always been gentle, he has very righteous ideas in his heart.

And I have always understood that although the relationship between father and aunt came first, since my aunt allowed my father to marry Mrs. Pei, then they were the most legitimate. If I had not been accidentally pregnant by my aunt, these things would not have happened.

So he blamed all of this on himself, and every time he saw his sister saying such conscienceless words, he couldn't help but comfort her.

"I am stupid, but I am more scheming than you. You have been instigating Auntie all day long, trying to occupy the old house of Pei's family, trying to make my eldest brother, eldest sister and third brother leave the house and never come back, and even want to get involved in everything in Pei's army. I really don't know whether your last name is Pei or something else? Can your actions really make the family prosper?"

"Prospering? Don't be ridiculous. You make it sound like it's natural for the eldest brother to lead the family to prosper. If you and I can make the family prosper, we are just coveting something we don't deserve. I shouldn't have come to see you and let you be depressed to death."

As she spoke, the depression in her heart caused her to cough again.

Her face was not good to begin with, and now it looked even uglier than before. She shed a few tears of grievance as she spoke. She used this trick every time, but she knew that her second brother and father would fall for it the most. Sure enough, she heard her second brother Pei Zitian say helplessly.

"Okay. It's my fault. I shouldn't have said such harsh words to you. You want to ask for something again this time. I'll give it to you as long as it's within my ability. Second sister, I also sincerely want to advise you that we can't beat the eldest brother, so just focus on doing the job at hand."

If Pei Zixing could be persuaded by him in just a few words, he would not have harbored resentment in his heart for so many years. So although he did not continue to speak about Pei Zisu and others on the surface, his eyes revealed his determination to never give up, and he said to Pei Zitian.

"I want to know the origins of this new sister-in-law. I heard that she is the eldest daughter of the Jiang family. Like me, she is born with a congenital deficiency and has been taking medicine since birth. Was she seriously ill when you saw her?"

After being reminded by his sister, Pei Zitian thought about it and shook his head and said.

"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten that my sister-in-law looked very well and didn't look like she had been sick for many years. Could it be that these were just rumors from the outside world?"

"How is it possible? Even if the news outside is inaccurate, my elder brother has a rule that he sends medicine to Xijing City every six months. It can't be fake, so it must be because of that female doctor Mu Shao! It's a pity that the bitch couldn't get the mansion to treat me no matter how hard she begged, otherwise I wouldn't be in such a sickly state."

"Don't worry, she's not the only one in the world who can treat illnesses. Since we can't invite her, we can think of other ways. News has come from Minzhou that they have found a hermit. It is said that his medical skills are very good. I have ordered someone to bring him to Hanzhou as soon as possible. Wait for him to take a look. Maybe your illness will be cured."

"hope so."