Chapter 23: Returning Home
Shen Moqing said "Sister!" Almost startled Shen Moyun into a cold sweat.
I haven't seen her for more than four years, but this sister-in-law who is seven months younger than herself can still recognize herself?
"Sister! Your carriage is so beautiful! Sister, you are so beautiful, like a fairy daughter! ”
Shen Moyun listened, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, yes! She has grown from a nine-year-old child to a Qianqian girl, not to mention Shen Moqing, Aunt Xia, even if it is Shen Mu and Shen Ling, who are connected with her blood, I am afraid that I will not be able to recognize myself.
"Mother, you see, this sister's carriage is so magnificent!" Shen Moqing looked at the carriage with bright eyes, and smiled at Aunt Xia. Her appearance is innocent and lovely, which matches her sweet appearance very well, although she has not yet saluted, but it is not easy to be annoying, but she thinks that this girl is innocent. Come to think of it, this is the biggest shining point of my second sister.
When Aunt Xia saw Shen Moyun and Mrs. Huang Yushi's family getting out of the car together, she naturally thought that she was the Huang family. They saluted each other.
Shen Moyun bowed his head and saluted, "Hello aunt!" Hello sister! ”
"Kind young lady!" As soon as Aunt Xia saw the carriage, she guessed that this girl was either rich or noble, and she was brought by Mrs. Yushi, so she couldn't tell which noble lady it was.
Aunt Xia's heart was hot, so she wanted to step forward and take Shen Moyun's hand, but she was avoided by Shen Moyun sideways. Aunt Xia couldn't help but smile at Mrs. Huang embarrassedly.
Mrs. Huang looked at Shen Moyun and then at Aunt Xia, only smiled and walked into the hall.
Shen Moyun and his party immediately followed into the hall.
"Good sister! Where is your carriage custom-made, remember to tell me later. That Shen Moqing was a person who didn't have the eyesight to see, and watched those people enter the hall, and didn't forget to add a sentence behind them.
Aunt Xia stomped her feet silently, hum, what's the big deal, she has endured this kind of look for more than ten years, and those genuine ladies and Miss Yan are so dog-eyed. Bah! How's it going? How is my aunt? Bear with me! In a few days, see how rude they will be!
Chunsheng saw that Shen Moyun had entered the hall safely, so he drove the carriage out, and the sparkling water ripples of the carriage shone with golden light in the sunlight, shaking the eyes of Aunt Xia and Shen Moqing......
The earth dragon of Ronghui Hall was burning hot at the moment, and the hall was full of all kinds of flowers and fruits, and the spring in this room made Shen Moyun think of her mother.
Sixteen years ago, the Shen Mansion was just a medium-sized four-entry courtyard, which was bought by Old Lady Shen when he was a Beijing official.
Less than a year after Shen Moyun's mother Qin Lan married into the Shen Mansion, the old lady Lu Dingfang "took a fancy to" a five-entry house in the north of the city. At that time, Shen Mu only had a hundred taels of silver a year, and he didn't have enough money to socialize, so where did he have money to buy a house. Besides, the northern city is close to the imperial city, and it is a place where dignitaries and nobles live, and the housing prices are more than three times more expensive than the southern city.
Old lady Shen Lu Dingfang is the daughter of the old Lu Guohou, after marrying into the Shen family, due to her prominent status in her mother's family, she herself has a domineering temperament, but poor old lady Shen is a non-assertive, and the Lu family gradually said nothing in the Shen family, and responded to every call.
The Lu family spoiled the two shrewd and calculating daughters very much, and after Shen Mu got married, several people came up with such a greedy daughter-in-law to marry.
The Lu family makes trouble every day, Shen Mu is a well-known filial son, coupled with the instigation of the two aunts and grandmothers, Qin Lan, who had taken over at that time, couldn't stand the pressure of a few people, so she could only grit her teeth and buy the Sijin courtyard outside Fan Yuan, who was about to return to Suzhou next door to the east to retire.
However, the old lady, who held the profit of more than a dozen shops, only took out a symbolic amount of 800 taels of silver, but the cost of buying a garden and repairing it was more than 2,000 taels. Qin Lan couldn't, so she could only sell a Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing that she was marrying. That Zhuangzi was rewarded by the first emperor when her father joined the cabinet, and Qin Lan was heartbroken, and she was seriously ill for it.
Immediately afterwards, under the encouragement of her aunts and grandmothers, the old lady Lu Dingfang proposed the idea of building earth dragons in the main houses of the two gardens since they were to be repaired. Although this idea is beautiful, but the old lady of the West Courtyard lives in the Ronghui Hall is very old, digging tunnels again, paving the dragon, there are many difficulties, this one tossed down and spent hundreds of taels of silver, there is no silver taels in the public, Qin Lan can only sell a pen and ink shop again......
Shen Moyun was still immersed in thoughts, and a gentle voice pulled her back to reality, "This girl, what about your parents?" ”
She looked up and saw that it was Mrs. Huang, who had just walked in front of her, who was in her thirties, but she was smiling with kindness and no malice.
Just now, a group of people followed them closely, saluted together, and entered the door together, and it was impossible for the other party not to notice. Now that the other party sees that he is just going to the banquet alone, he must have doubts in his heart. Since Mrs. Huang didn't wear herself in front of Aunt Xia just now, this gift always has to be returned.
"Little girl Shen Moyun, I've seen Mrs. Huang!" Shen Moyun looked around, no one paid attention to them, she was grateful in her heart, this salute was done with full sincerity.
"Shen, Shen Moyun? Shen Moqing? You and the Miss Shen family...... That Shen Moqing is you...... Younger sister? Mrs. Huang's daughter, Huang Yingyang, glanced at Shen Moqing, who was being pulled by a group of young ladies to laugh, and looked at Shen Moyun carefully.
"Yes! I ......" Shen Moyun seemed to be very embarrassed to speak, lowered his head and said softly: "I just returned home from the countryside, and my family doesn't know ...... yet"
As soon as Shen Moyun's words came out, Mrs. Huang and Miss Huang couldn't help but widen their eyes and open their mouths. What is this called? As far as they knew, Shen Moqing was Aunt Xia's eldest daughter, and since the girl in front of her was Shen Moqing's sister, she must be the daughter of Shen Mu's original wife, the Qin family.
Mrs. Huang of the Qin family knows, she was once a talented woman who was amazing and famous, but unfortunately her fate was not good, and she went early and left only a daughter who was filial piety in the countryside, could it be that Shen Mu's eldest daughter is the one in front of her?
Also, the girl said that she came back from the country, and the family did not know about it? Why not know? Could it be that Shen Mu has always refused to let this daughter come back?
In the Great Zhou Dynasty, the eldest daughter was a serious master in everyone's mansion. Why sneak into Beijing? Why did she only have two maids with her? Why don't you dare to enter the mansion openly, and sneak in behind the guests? ……
Today is her father's thirty-sixth birthday, and there are dozens of tables of banquets in the inner courtyard alone, but no one goes to the countryside to pick up this lonely child and go home to celebrate his father's birthday?
A series of questions popped up in Mrs. Huang's heart one by one, but the poor woman in front of her was only a teenager, although the light purple clothes on her body were of good material but extremely average in style, there was not even a decent golden hairpin on her head, only a simple and simple insert of an antique mutton fat hosta and a delicate smoky purple velvet flower. There are no earrings and no wrist ornaments.
Such a dress, if it weren't for the strong persistence in this girl's eyes, and the indifferent and noble bearing that was different from her peers, she was afraid that it would be difficult to find out if she threw it casually into the maid's bushes.
By the way, why didn't Aunt Xia recognize her when she entered the door? Why didn't Shen Moqing recognize her? Why didn't even a single subordinate recognize him?
How could the eldest lady fall to such a point, how could there be a home that could not be returned, how could there be a home that did not dare to go back?
There is a huge Shen Mansion, and there is not even a person who knows the eldest lady!
Thinking that Shen Mu has always flaunted courtesy, righteousness and filial piety, how could he be so confused? There is no distinction between concubines and concubines, and it is a big taboo in the Great Zhou Dynasty. No, I'm going to have a good talk with the master when I go back later......
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To explain, some readers may be curious that since Shen Moyun's mother, Qin, was born in a famous family, and her father is still a high-ranking cabinet official, how could she marry such a sesame official as Shen Mu?
Of course, there is a reason for this~ I will explain it slowly.
There will be a lot of new characters in the next few chapters, and in order not to confuse everyone, the author will try to make them appear in batches! ~
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