Chapter 179: The Concubine Is Promoted (6)_1
Qian Wanxiu had no choice but to compromise.
Pei Qin then asked, "What are the rules for promoting a concubine to the principal wife?"
With one question, the faces of Pei Zongli, Qian Wanxiu, and several others all turned green.
"You shameless creature! Wanxiu has already been humiliated enough, agreeing to perform the rites as the succeeding wife, what more do you want!? Who do you think you are!?" Lady Zhu wished she could tear Pei Qin’s mouth apart.
Qian Wanxiu trembled with anger and cried with a face full of pear blossom tears, "Pei Zongli! I humbled myself to marry you, bore you two sons, never wronging you in any way, yet you let me suffer today’s indignity!"
"Wanxiu..." Pei Zongli was also unwilling, but now that he had returned, he could not fail to consider the overall situation of Old Pei’s House.
Grandma Fang, however, thought that Pei Qin was genuinely astute, just like the Fang family’s granddaughter, and watched Qian Wanxiu sneer, "Pei Zongli had a legal wife, and you knew it when you married him yet refused to acknowledge you were a concubine! Now the legal wife is gone, and you, the concubine, wants to be the succeeding wife. You must be promoted from concubinage! What’s with the crying and complaining now, what are you pretending for!?"
"I am also a daughter of a wealthy family. If it weren’t for having no other choice, I would not have condescended to marry you. You... all of you... If the Pei family doesn’t acknowledge my status, then I shall leave! I’m leaving!" Qian Wanxiu wouldn’t stay, in this broken home, enduring the vulgar and base people like Lady Zhu, and even having to respect them. Now even a child born by a concubine like Jian Xiao was trying to trample her down, she would take her sons and leave!
"Wanxiu! Wanxiu, listen to me!" Pei Zongli chased after her.