Yu Yanqiu's funeral was personally handled by Xie Changning, and no one interfered, in order to deal with this matter, he once shortened the time he went to the county government every day, and only slept for a few hours a day.

The people who were arranged to serve Yu Yanqiu in the east chamber before, except for the rough maid who was responsible for sprinkling and sweeping, was punished a little lighter, only fined half a month's wages, and the rest of the people who were on duty in the house were not only deducted from their wages, but also received a cruel board, and the maid who was serving them was directly sold.

This is the first time Xie Changning has intervened in the affairs of the inner house, for the sake of his beloved woman. If it weren't for the fact that he had a beautiful wife and concubine and had both children and daughters, and Yu Yanqiu also married someone else, this could barely be regarded as a commendable deed. It's a pity that he and Yu Yanqiu missed it after all, and they have nothing to do with each other, where did he put his wife and children when he did this?

After Yu Yanqiu was buried, Xie Changning went to the West Courtyard, not to visit Aunt Zhou, but to tell her to hand over the housekeeping to Shen Shu. This time, his attitude was no longer as casual as before, and he was determined to do it.

After he left, Aunt Zhou finally couldn't help crying, and her body was not good, so she almost lost her breath several times. Even so, she didn't dare to disobey Xie Changning's words, endured all the grievances and pains, and sent someone to the East Courtyard to invite Shen Shu to come over.

This time, it was no longer that she was pampered and arrogant and didn't take Shen Shu in her eyes, but that her body was so bad that the doctor told her to stay in bed to recuperate.

There was no conflict of interest, and Shen Shu was not interested in falling into the well and taking the opportunity to toss Aunt Zhou, and the maid came to invite, so she went over directly. However, because of Yu Yanqiu's incident not long ago, Shen Shu still has a bit of a psychological shadow, worried that Aunt Zhou will also follow the example and stage another drama of killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred to pull her back, she doesn't care whether Xie Changning is favored or not, what she is really worried about is that it will affect her plan.

In the end, although Shen Shu's worst worry didn't really happen, Aunt Zhou didn't let her go lightly. She is not happy, and she also wants Shen Shu to taste this taste.

Aunt Zhou said what she heard from Yu Yanqiu's mouth with added fuel and vinegar.

Shen Shu was so surprised to know the truth of the year.

As Sister Hui said before, Master Xie and Master Yu were officials in the same dynasty, and the two families happened to live in the same alley, so they naturally intersected. Xie Changning and Yu Yanqiu can barely be regarded as childhood sweethearts who grew up together, and the two got engaged early, and they were ready to get married after Yu Yanqiu and Lu.

It's a pity that before that, Master Yu was dismissed from his official position and demoted to a commoner because of corruption and bribery, and his family property was confiscated, not to mention Dongcheng, where powerful people gathered, and even Jian'an City couldn't stay.

If Yu Yanqiu was really just a commoner girl, the Xie family might be able to reluctantly let her be the wife that Xie Changning was marrying, but after she was a corrupt official, her father had a bad reputation, but it was impossible for anyone with a little face to accept such a daughter-in-law.

Because Xie Changning couldn't give up, Master Xie said to Master Yu that for the sake of the deep relationship between the two children since childhood, the Xie family could not dislike Yu Yanqiu, but she could only be a concubine. Master Yu said that he couldn't make decisions for his daughter, and he needed to ask Yu Yanqiu's opinion. Yu Yanqiu almost didn't hesitate at all, and declined the kindness.

The Yu family then left Jian'an, and Mrs. Xie also began to look for a wife candidate for Xie Changning again, but Xie Changning was devastated because of this matter, depressed and lost for a long time, and this matter somehow spread among the family, and those who came and went, not to mention the right family, even the slightly worse family, were unwilling to marry their daughter to him.

That's why Shen Yu picked up the leak.

After Aunt Zhou finished talking about this, she looked at Shen Shu with a desolate gaze, "Shen Yu and I are just substitutes for that slut, both are losers, the difference is that she was luckier than me, she met the uncle in advance, and was able to marry him as the main room, and I can only be a concubine because I am one step late." ”

"And you, Shen Shu, you just have such good luck, Shen Yu is dead, and now I am being calculated by that slut, orange clam fighting, you don't have to do anything to get a profit, and now you are alone. Uncle has been out for three years, and now it is the first year, and there are still two full years to go, which is enough for you to win the favor of the uncle. ”

The more Shen Shuyue heard her words, the more she felt that it was wrong, she looked at Aunt Zhou suspiciously, and asked, "Do you want to take care of the orphans?" Let's say it first, I have already taken over four children, and I really have no interest or energy to take your two more children. ”

Aunt Zhou never imagined that she would come up with such a sentence, her whole head was empty for a moment, and she looked at Shen Shu in a daze.

When Shen Shu saw her reaction, she felt that she was probably thinking too much, so she said, "It's okay if it's not." You continue. ”

Aunt Zhou came to her senses, and looked at Shen Shu with a very complicated look, she didn't know how to take it after she was so confused. Although she is a little worse now, she is not yet in a state where she can't survive, so it would be good to recuperate for a while. When she said that, she just wanted to provoke the relationship between Shen Shu and Shen Yu, give Shen Shu a reason to step on Shen Yu, and let Shen Shu know that although she is only a stepfamily, she doesn't have to be worse than Shen Yu, Shen Yu can marry into the Xie family, it's just luck, and luck is such a thing, she doesn't, or even better.

Aunt Zhou doesn't know how long it will take for Yu Yanqiu's matter to pass completely, and during this period, Xie Changning probably won't have any good looks for her, which means that she has fallen out of favor. She used to have Xie Changning's favor and didn't take Shen Shu in her eyes, but now feng shui takes turns, and Shen Shu has become a winner. If she was just alone, but she still has two children, her brother Yi and sister Xian'er are still so young, she showed favor to Shen Shu, just hoping that the other party could be less prejudiced against the two children, she didn't want them to follow in the footsteps of Brother Yan.

It's just that Shen Shu didn't know what to think, and she actually felt that she was going to be a lonely.

Aunt Zhou was speechless for a moment before she said to Shen Shu, "Madam, the doctor said that I just need to stay in bed for a period of time." ”

Shen Shu said casually, "Then you have a good rest, I'll go back first." ”

Aunt Zhou was stunned again when she heard this, and quickly came back to her senses and hurriedly called Shen Shu, "Madam, wait!" Xie Changning instructed her to hand over the housekeeping to Shen Shu, and she only cared about saying those words, and she hadn't mentioned the matter yet. Because the situation is special now, it is better to do it as soon as possible, if it is late, I am afraid that it will make Xie Changning even more angry.

Shen Shu was about to walk to the door, and when she heard this, she stopped and turned to look, "What's the matter?"

"Uncle told me to give you the pair. Aunt Zhou said, let the waiting maid take the right cards.

Shen Shu originally wanted to refuse, but suddenly remembered the previous conversation with Sister Hui, and promised to let her come to the housekeeper, so she couldn't say anything if she refused, and stood there waiting for the maid to hand over the pair of cards to her, and then turned around and went out.

Not long after she returned to the East Courtyard, Sister Hui came over and asked her with some concern what Aunt Zhou had said, but she had embarrassed her.

Shen Shu wanted to laugh a little when she heard this, most of the conversation with Aunt Zhou couldn't be told to Sister Hui'er, as for whether Aunt Zhou embarrassed her, she could answer, she shook her head and said, "How could she embarrass me, let people come and invite me over, just to give me things in person." While she spoke, she took Sister Hui'er's hand, spread it out, palms up, put the pair of cards in her hand, and gently closed her hand, "This matter was promised to you before, and this will be handed over to you in the future." ”

Sister Hui was stunned when she heard this, slowly spread out her palms, looked at the pair of cards lying in her hand, and was a little surprised and ...... Dazed. In her previous life, she tried her best but failed to snatch this thing back from Aunt Zhou's hands, and later after returning to the Xie family's mansion in Jian'an, all the affairs in the house were taken care of by the second aunt, and it was her turn to interfere. Later, he married a gentleman who didn't learn and didn't know how to do it, nominally the main room, but he was not favored, and he still let his aunt take charge of the house, and finally ended up with a tragic ending.

Seriously, she actually didn't take charge of the house, although she was sure with Shen Shu before, but now that she suddenly got this thing, she was a little at a loss, "Mother, it's better for you to keep it, I'm afraid I won't do well......"

Shen Shu shook her head and said with a smile, "Sooner or later, you will have to do this one day, it is better to start practicing from now on, if there is anything you don't understand, or when you can't pay attention to it, just ask me." ”

Sister Hui hesitated for a moment, but in the end she nodded in response, laughed too, and said coquettishly, "If I do something bad, don't forget to remind me." ”

Shen Shu nodded in response.

After this episode, Shen Shu's life has almost returned to what it was before, every day is to tease children and read books, although there is one more Cui Yijing, but he is a well-behaved child, never noisy, a gadget can be played for a day and is not tired, almost no impact on Shen Shu's life.

If there is any change, it is that her scope of activities is no longer limited to the East Courtyard, and she will occasionally go out with the maid, not for anything, just wandering around the county town aimlessly in a carriage, and after coming back, she spreads paper and inks and writes down some things. Liuli glanced at it a few times by chance, and couldn't understand what was written at all.