Chapter 400

It was autumn at this time of year, but the daytime was still hot with the autumn sun shining high.

I don’t know if it was for this reason, but after Song Yixiao sat in the pavilion, instead of feeling cool, she felt indescribably anxious.

She forced herself to calm down and watched as Yuan Xue Pei lifted the teapot in front of her and poured a cup of tea for each of the two of them – waiting for him to put the pot down before speaking, “What did you ask me to come here to say?”

“Two things.” Yuan Xue Pei picked up his own cup of tea, blew on it, took a shallow sip, and didn’t beat around the bush, speaking warmly, “The first thing, the truth about the death of your wife, Princess Wei …”

He paused, then said, “I’m one of the masterminds.”

“What about the second one?” Before Song Yixiao came, she had envisioned a situation where Yuan Xue Pei had confessed to having plotted Wei Mengying’s murder, and at that time she thought she would be furious, angry, questioning, and … but when it really came to this moment, she realized that she was surprisingly calm.

It wasn’t a forced calmness, but a sense of relief like “this is it” or “it’s finally here”.

Vaguely, it actually seemed like a relief.

So much so that she didn’t even pursue the cause, instead she asked about the second thing Yuan Xue Pei had to say without even thinking about it.

This kind of reaction was obviously unexpected by Yuan Xue Pei as well, and he was clearly stunned for a moment before he said, “It’s better to finish the first thing first, right?”

“You say.” Song Yixiao also realized that she had lost her temper, and the hand in her wide sleeve clenched hard, saying.

“Princess Wei is also my aunt when all is said and done, back then I went out with the army and entrusted my sister to the Hengshan Royal House, and I have not suffered much from her care during the six years.” Yuan Xue Pei searched for a moment and said, “Coupled with my relationship with A Xu and my scruples towards you, ma’am, I will not move her unless I have to. These words are from the bottom of my heart, I don’t know if madam can agree?”

Song Yixiao absentmindedly rattled the jade bracelet on her wrist and said, “Speak on!”

“I initially to Wei Wangfei produce killing intent, because my brother-in-law’s out of the succession …” Yuan Xue Pei words to here, originally still seems a little cold Song Yixiao suddenly raised his head, straight hooked look at him.

He was slightly stunned, but he saw Song Yi smilingly staring at him for a moment, and said word for word, “Third Duke Lu out of the succession, it was my idea!”

“But madam must have good intentions.” Yuan Xue Pei sniffed and exhaled, but said, “If I’m right, madam should be afraid that if he continues to stay in the Hengshan Royal Mansion, he’ll follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandmother, yes or no?”

This time it was Song Yixiao who was stunned, “Do you know that Hengshan Wang Daifei …?”

“You don’t think that Princess Wei’s plan was so seamless that no one could see it, do you?” Yuan Xue Pei snorted, “Speaking of which, this matter has not been publicized until now, all because A Xu sensed something was wrong and asked me to take care of the aftermath-otherwise, I’m afraid that someone would have already alerted my royal uncle!”

Speaking here to see Song Yixiao expression change, he shook his head, “I target Wangfei Wei, and my grandmother has nothing to do! After all, you know: when my sister and you live in Hengshan Wang Fu, my grandmother is only a granddaughter, but only think of her precious grandson Lu Guanlun, and Aunt Wei. A full six years, not much care about my sister. So although I know the truth about this elder’s death and asked me to avenge her, I don’t have that free time.”

Although he said so, but Wei Mengying in the end counted the death of someone’s first grandmother – even if it was initially Hengshan Wang Tai Fei wanted to harm Wei Mengying – Song Yixiao this will still feel blocked in the heart, she pursed her lips . She pursed her lips for a moment before saying, “In fact, Lu San Duke continues to stay in Hengshan Wang Fu, may not be able to do son. I’m not speaking for my birth mother, but even without her, based solely on that earlier second young granny Jin, Lu third son may not have a chance. The Third Prince is a good man, but he really isn’t good at hooking up, and neither is Xue Calyx, neither of the couple have much of a city. On the other hand, the water in the Hengshan Royal House is that muddy, so I’ve always felt that by passing them on, they could have a good life instead.”

After a pause, he continued, “Of course, I made the decision for them without consulting them at all on this matter, and it was me who overstepped my bounds. The consequences …”

“I had murderous intentions towards Princess Wei here, but because I was afraid of you, madam, and because Princess Wei is not that good to lay hands on, I held back for the time being.” Yuan Xue Pei, however, shook her head and interrupted her words, saying, “Then after dragging on for some days, the Xue Calyx couple were living well again, and frankly speaking, my killing intent gradually faded … After all, just as madam said, since Lu Guanlun passed on, Wangfei Wei didn’t look for trouble with them again. The young couple is living their lives behind closed doors, but also free.”

“I thought that this is not bad, after all, I also think that Lu Guanlun is not suitable to inherit the Hengshan Royal House – if he were to continue to stay in the Royal House, I’m afraid that he wouldn’t even be able to have any peace of mind up to this point, let alone meditate on his studies and take the exams. The most important thing is my sister, Xue Calyx, if she were in the royal residence and Princess Wei was there, she would have to serve her mother-in-law, and let me put it in a bad light: Aunt Wei as a mother-in-law is not a good one to serve!”

“Even now that Princess Wei is gone, whether or not Uncle Hengshan Wang will renew his marriage is not to be mentioned; the getting along between sisters-in-law alone is enough for me to worry about!”

“So seeing that they are doing well, my resentment towards Princess Wei is not so deep, or at least I won’t be preoccupied with how to eradicate her and give my sister and brother-in-law an outlet!”

Yuan Xue Pei said this and paused for a moment before continuing, “Just when I was planning to quietly stop, your father approached me!”

“How did he know you had murderous intentions towards my mother?” Song Yixiao frowned.

Ever since Su Shaoge explained that secret guard token for her, she had suspected that Song Yuan had gotten the idea to die with Wei Mengying a long time ago.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have given the token to her, the eldest daughter, for safekeeping right then and there – but how did he think of finding Yuan Xue Pei as an ally?

“Because since I had had murderous intentions towards Princess Wei, I naturally sent someone to make preparations, and it was during such preparations that your father noticed.” Yuan Xue Pei said calmly, “Although it is said that I am not familiar with your father at all, it is not a secret that I love Xue Calyx, as well as the fact that Xue Calyx’s husband was passed over. It’s not strange for your father to surmise my malice towards Princess Wei from this.”

“But it’s also possible that you actually didn’t fade away your killing intent because of the passing of time, so you took the initiative to find my father.” Song Yixiao fell silent and said, “Anyway, my father is dead now, so who actually sought out whom, it’s still not just you talking?”

Yuan Xue Pei gently retorted, “Even though I took the initiative to approach your father, it was still your father who insisted on killing your wife, Princess Wei, with his own hands. This is something that I’m sure Your Ladyship has long confirmed from the old people left behind by Princess Wei, otherwise how could Young Granny Cao still fall ill at once when she’s already on the mend?”

“…” Song Yi smiled speechless.

“In a nutshell, Cui Hua Mountain Valley’s calculations failed, originally your father wanted to kill your hall, but in the end, it was your hall that killed your father in return–but Madam probably didn’t know that Grandma Lu was watching this entire process!” Yuan Xue Pei’s tone was flat, “So when I received the news, in order to keep it a secret, I promised to help her plot against your Tang to avenge her husband’s death!”

Seeing Song Yixiao sniffing and her gaze turning cold, he laughed a little, “Actually, of course this is a lie to her!”

“Your Ladyship must know that I don’t care much for anyone else, including my foreign family, the Hengshan royal family, except for my sister, Xue Calyx, and A Xu, who are more attached to me.”

“So Lu although witnessed the scene of your father killed for your hall, heartbroken look very poor …”

Yuan Xue Pei laughed sarcastically, “What does that have to do with me? Who asked your father to change my plan without authorization? If it wasn’t for the fear that the truth would be exposed and I wouldn’t be able to clean up the mess, I would have hated to kill Lu’s stupid ass as well – in fact, after using revenge as a bait to stabilize her, the first thing that came to my mind was to kill her and her children, so as to put an end to the trouble forever! After all, this is a much smaller risk than murdering Princess Wei, and with Lu’s brain, it would be much easier for me to coax her to willingly seek her own death than to scheme against Princess Wei.”

He was frank to the point of indifference when he said this, and it was clear that he genuinely did not hold any favor with Lu’s mother and son.

“Then why did you change your mind later?” Song Yixiao took a deep breath and asked.

Yuan Xue Pei laughed a little and said meaningfully, “This is related to the second thing I’m going to say!”

After … witnessing Song Yixiao being flanked and leaving, Yuan Xuepei s face squarely surfaced with an obvious lack of color.

“Marquis!” Yuan Zhan worriedly handed over ginseng tea and said in disbelief, “Why did you have to tell that much truth with Mrs. Yan?”

Yuan Xue Pei just told Song Yixiao, although can not say that every word is true, but there are 90% is the truth – the rest of the 10%, Song Yixiao slightly speculation can be clear, Yuan Zhan do not understand their own marquis this in the end how do you think?

Obviously in the past for that maid Zhiqin, are on Song Yixiao scorned, and finally took a lot of effort, the party to put an end to this account.

Now it involves Song Yixiao’s birth mother – to find Song Yixiao showdown not to mention, but also really self-admitted mastermind, this is not intentionally do not want to get better?

“The smallpox thing is too sudden, originally Mrs. Song suspected me, favor Lu Xu’s expose Lu’s, I just don’t ask this Mrs. Song to come out this day, she find out the truth is also sooner or later thing.” Yuan Xue Pei sipped the ginseng tea, slowed down the spirit, lightly pinched his brow, tired voice, “rather than wait for her to figure out everything with hatred to find the door, it would be better for me to take the initiative to ask her to come out to make sense of it – at least she is willing to sit down and listen to me to finish my words, if she knows, you say she still cares about me to do what? ”

“But Mrs. Song …” Yuan Zhan face worried: that Mrs. Yan, is not an oil lamp ah!

“And wait and see!” Yuan Xue Pei’s certainty about today’s meeting wasn’t actually very high, but it was the best option at the moment – he was silent for a moment, sighed silently, and said, “Go back to the mansion!”