Qixing Courtyard has been empty since Tianxuan got married, and it has not been let for the girls behind to move in for so many years, and no one dares to live in it, but sends someone to clean it every day. Tianxuan looked at the small courtyard with a bright and clean window, and felt a sense of emotion.

Shen Tianjue smiled and recalled the past: "In the past, Sister Ah liked to read under that wisteria trellis, and I also came over to join in the fun, but I didn't do it to read, I was here to eat Sister A's snacks." "When she was a child, she was fat, and Liu strictly controlled her diet, so that she scratched her heart and wanted to eat, Tianxuan felt sorry for her, and would secretly give her some, but not much.

Tianxuan also remembered the scene when Shen Tianyu was pitiful and wanted to eat, and couldn't help laughing: "When you were a child, you just wanted to eat, and An An, this girl, is up to you." ”

Shen Tianjue was happy: "It's a blessing to be able to eat!" The princess is growing her body, so don't hold her back. ”

Like when she was a child, Tianxuan pinched her face: "Are you remembering your sadness when you were a child?" If it weren't for your mother to control you, how could you have such a good figure now. ”

Talking and laughing, the sisters revisited their old place, recalling the past with emotion, and did not leave until the banquet was about to start.

Jiang Zheng and Tianxuan did not stay long, they left after eating the banquet, and they could not enjoy themselves as guests. After the emperor and queen left with the crown prince and princess, sure enough, the atmosphere was instantly high, and the boss dared to make loud noises and frolic.

This excitement did not end until the bright moon hung high, and some guests who came from afar simply stayed in the Shen Mansion for the night.

Liu, who had been busy for the birthday banquet for a while, rarely got up late, and was told when he got up: "Grandma and Grandma have been waiting in front for a while. "The Sun family has already moved away because they can't afford the human contacts and expenses in Xindu, so Shen Ming's family, who came back to celebrate his birthday, lives in his mother's house.

Liu's action was paused, because of the excitement of last night, she specially instructed her children and grandchildren not to come over this morning to say goodbye.

Liu sighed: "Hurry up." ”

A few maids responded, speeding up the movements of their hands. After a while, Liu was dressed properly, and left the bedroom after a little breakfast.

Shen Ming, who was waiting, got up when she heard the movement, and saw the maid raise the curtain embroidered with Aoxue Hanmei, and bowed down: "Mother is early!" ”

Liu smiled: "It's not that you don't have to come here today, it's good to rest, but you didn't have a good rest yesterday." ”

"It's good." Shen Ming said busily.

Liu sat down at the top and said with a smile: "That's good, you don't need to be polite in your own home, just give orders if you don't need anything." ”

Shen Ming smiled and responded. He opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak. And Liu lowered his head and drank tea slowly, and the needles could be heard in the room.

Shen Ming's expression gradually became embarrassed, and she moved her feet uncomfortably.

After drinking tea, Liu raised his head and smiled: "It's rare for you sisters to get together, it just so happens that the plum blossoms outside are blooming well, so it's better to invite them all to come and enjoy the flowers, and also take advantage of this opportunity for you sisters to get together." ”

Shen Ming's smile froze, and he forced a smile: "It's naturally good, but I'm ......."

Liu Shi looked over and looked at her lightly.

Looking at Shen Ming like this, she only felt like she was on pins and needles, the expression on her face became more and more stiff, her mouth was like a ball of cotton, and she almost wanted to swallow the words back, but she suddenly remembered her two daughters, especially the eldest daughter, her daughter was well-behaved and sensible, but she was affected by their incompetent parents.

"Mother, I want to go into the palace to say hello to my mother, is it okay?" She didn't have a chance to say a lot of things yesterday, and she didn't have the qualifications to enter the palace alone.

Liu lowered her eyes, not surprised, when she came back this time, she found that Shen Ming was different from before. When she sits with several younger sisters, she is ashamed of herself, especially when their children stand together, that kind of difference, as long as you have eyes, you can see it, and many things are just afraid of comparison. Among the daughters of the Shen family, she is the worst to marry, not to mention compared with the line of Changzhi, that is, several aunts and grandmothers in the side branches are married better than her, but who can blame her, Sun Yinghua was chosen by herself with great effort.

The most ironic thing is that the marriages of other aunts and grandmothers of the Shen family are all set at home, and they may not all be like glue, but at least they respect each other like guests, and they are generally happy and happy. She was the only one who asked for it, but she was the poorest.

"What do you have to say to my mother alone?" Liu said to himself.

Shen Ming's face was embarrassed for a moment, she lowered her head, and wanted to say that she just wanted to ask for peace, but remembering Liu's shrewdness, she immediately swallowed her words back, Liu is a human spirit didn't know her thoughts, and it was better to tell the truth than to hide her humiliation. Thinking of this, Shen Ming took a breath: "Yingying was tired by me, I watched it yesterday, watching her make the princess happy, if the mother doesn't dislike it, I thought, can I let Yingying enter the palace to be a playmate for the princess, and her identity will be long, so that people will not look down on her in the future." ”

Later, tears were already in her eyes. When his niece and niece were held by the stars, his daughter could only stand alone and out of place.

Liu twisted the Buddha beads on his wrist: "Don't think about it." ”

Shen Ming's face turned white, and her eyes pleaded: "Mother, help me!" ”

Liu waved his hand and motioned for her not to speak: "Niangniang has long passed the words, and she will not bring the girls in the family into the palace, no one can do it, you see that Sister Lu and An An are a year apart, and they didn't go in." The implication is that with the relationship between Tianxuan and Shen Tianshu, Shen Tianshu's youngest daughter can't enter the palace, let alone Sun Yingying. It was she who went to beg, Sun Yingying entered here, how could Tianxuan explain to Shen Tianshu. Thinking about it further, it is clear which weight Shen Tianshu and Shen Ming have in Tianxuan's heart.

Shen Ming faded her blood, her lips squirmed twice, and she couldn't help but say, "Wouldn't Niang Niang rather than an outsider than a family member?" ”

Liu's eyes were cold, and he sneered in his heart, this is a blame. Why doesn't Tianxuan want the girls in the family to enter the palace, the Liu family understands, in addition to being reluctant to let the child suffer, there is another point, she is afraid of making some bad things about her cousin and cousin, and she will grow up in a small piece, what if she falls in love for a long time, but the Shen family has already produced a queen, and the next queen cannot be related to the Shen family, at most she can only be a concubine. In this way, how can the future crown princess deal with herself, the friendship that she grew up with, and Tianxuan's mother-in-law, how can the princess feel at ease, which is not conducive to the peace of the back house.

These concerns, Tianxuan and Liu talked through them, she didn't want to be separated from her mother's family for this life. The Shen family also understands that Jiang Zheng treats the Shen family well, but it is impossible to let the Shen family be so powerful as to threaten the imperial power, not to mention that Shen Tianshu's eldest son Shen Ximo is the prince's companion, and with this friendship and blood, the next generation of the Shen family does not need to worry. Therefore, they have never thought about this, and they are reluctant to let their girls enter the palace and suffer.

But what about Shen Ming, the Liu family is really not sure if she has this mind now, people's hearts are fickle!

"Brother Mo is already the prince's companion, if the princess's companion is related to our Shen family, what do outsiders think of our Shen family, how do they look at Niangniang." Liu sighed: "Niangniang sits in that position, others look glamorous, but we ourselves know that it is really like walking on thin ice step by step, how can you make her embarrassed again, you say it's not the reason." ”

Liu Shi looked at Shen Ming, Shen Ming's pale face was cold, and his hands and feet were cold.

Liu Shi retracted his gaze and said lightly: "I see that you are a little unwell, I'm afraid that you got up too early and didn't rest well, go back and lie down for a while." ”

Shen Ming replied sneeringly: "Mother forgives her sins, and her daughter retired first." ”

Liu nodded, looking at her blank expression, the shallow lines in the corners of his eyes, and his tone softened a little: "Go back and have a good rest, everything will be fine after a good sleep." "It's a poor one, too! But the bubbles on these feet came out by themselves.

Coming out of the Yusheng Courtyard, Shen Ming was a little depressed, and returned to the guest house where she was temporarily living in a daze, which frightened Sun Yingying, who was staying in the courtyard and playing with her sister.

Shen Ming squeezed the corners of her mouth and rubbed her daughter's head: "I didn't wake up from yesterday's wine, my mother is going to rest for a while, you take your sister to play with your cousin." ”

Sun Yingying nodded, looked down at the young sister who looked down at the chrysanthemum and kept smiling, the chrysanthemum fell in season, but the Shen family has a conservatory, so each yard can get a few pots to relieve boredom, and my sister is very surprised and can't put it down. looked at his mother who was unsteady again, and ordered: "Take care of the second girl, I'll go see my mother." As he spoke, he chased after him.

Seeing her daughter running in, Shen Ming panicked and quickly turned her face to wipe her tears.

Sun Yingying was stunned, walked over and turned her face to wipe her tears with her handkerchief, not wanting to wipe more and more.

"Mother, is it for my business, in fact, I am reluctant to you and my sister, I don't want to be separated from you." Sun Yingying said in a low voice. Last night, her mother asked her if she would like to go into the palace to study with the princess. The situation in her own family Sun Yingying is already very clear, her father is unreliable, and she will only ask her mother for money, so their family avoided it. The father is weak, although he loves them, he can't do it, he can't do it, he can't do it, he can't rely on it at all, and his mother doesn't treat them closely.

If he can enter the palace, at least the relationship between his mother and his family can be eased, and when he grows up and marries a good family, his father and sister will have something to rely on. So she nodded in front of her mother, and her mother went to see her grandmother early in the morning and came back crying, thinking that her grandmother did not agree.

Her daughter's words did not comfort Shen Ming, but made her sad and tears rained down. The more well-behaved and sensible her daughter is, the more she feels sorry for her daughter, who can grow up like her cousins, instead of relying on the elders to reward a few luxurious clothes and jewelry.

Shen Ming hugged her daughter and cried, crying so much that Sun Yingying also burst into tears, and the mother and daughter cried together. In the end, Sun Shuo, who was looking at the flowers in the yard, was attracted over, and the little girl's mother and sister cried, and immediately grinned and cried.

With such a movement, Liu naturally got the news, shook his head helplessly, and sighed: "It's a pity!" "I don't know if it's a pity for Shen Ming or a pity for the two children, or a pity for Shen Miaojiao.

After Shen Ming left, Mama Yuan, who took care of and took care of Shen Miaojiao in the family temple, came on the back foot.

Six years ago, Shen Miaojiao ran back to her parents' house with her month-old son in the ice and snow, and the child immediately developed a high fever, and finally although he was rescued, he fell into a weak disease, almost died several times, and is still lying on the hospital bed.

Zhan Wangshu was angry and divorced with Shen Miaojiao, everyone knew that Zhan Wangshu and divorced, and it was □□ that his son almost died of illness, and a big reason was that Bi Xiuying said that Shen Miaojiao lost her virginity before marriage.

Shen Miaojiao, a fool, was arrogant to her family, but when she was questioned by Zhan Wangshu, she was exposed. not only broke himself by Xie Boyong, but was even abused by others, drunk Zhan Feiyang and deceived him into marriage...... All the mess came out, and Liu didn't know about many things.

Things have come to this point, how can the two of them get by, that is, the Liu family feels that the Shen family is too deceitful to let Zhan Wangshu and Shen Miaojiao live again.

After the discussion between Shen Zhan and the two families, Shen Miaojiao and Zhan Wangshu reconciled, and half of Shen Miaojiao's dowry was left to the child, and if the child died young, it was donated to the nursery in the name of the Shen family, and a reliable servant woman was sent to take care of it. The Shen family doesn't covet this dowry, but they don't want it to become a child's life-saving talisman, the wealth is moving, and Shen Miaojiao's dowry is prepared by Mrs. Shen with all her might.

The remaining half still belonged to Shen Miaojiao, and Shen Miaojiao, who came back with half of the dowry, was sent to the family temple the next day. Ren is old lady Shen is tired of life to no avail, her beloved daughter was sent to the family temple to suffer if her marriage failed, her grandson was in danger, the old man's ruthlessness, and Mrs. Shen died of illness the next year.

As soon as Mrs. Shen left, Old Man Shen was disheartened by Shen Miaojiao, and no one would think about Shen Miaojiao who was still in the family temple, and she stayed for six years. Only the Liu family can receive news about Shen Miaojiao from the family temple every month.

Liu folded the letter, resisted hysterically from the beginning, tried all means to escape, and gradually accepted his fate. The news in recent years has been about how obedient she is. It can be seen that there are really no children in this world who can't be taught well, only ruthless parents.

"Hand it to the old lady." In winter, the old man's health is getting worse and worse, and Shen Miaojiao can't let him go down among many children and grandchildren, if the old man feels sorry for the girl and wants to take her from the family temple, whether it is placed in Zhuangzi or someone to marry, as long as he is happy.

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Liu told Tianxuan about these news the next time he entered the palace.

After hearing this, Tianxuan sighed and didn't say much. talked to Liu's family, and before leaving, she brought a few baskets of newly paid fruits, and the cold winter wax moon was also this singularity.

However, after Liu left, looking back on the past, Tianxuan couldn't help but be depressed. It wasn't until the palace people reported that Jiang Zheng was coming, Fang put away his gloomy color and got up with a smile.

Jiang Zheng held her hand and asked casually, "Unhappy?" ”

Tianxuan's footsteps paused: "As soon as my father's birthday banquet is over, the sisters will leave, and I don't know what year or month it will be when we get together again." ”

"There is a banquet in the world, if you really think about it, inviting them to Beijing on your birthday is also a decent one."

Tianxuan smiled, how could she toss people so much, and changed the topic: "It's early to go down today!" ”

Jiang Zheng took Tianxuan and sat down on the Luohan bed in front of the window, and said softly: "Towards the end of the year, there will be fewer things." ”

"You can be clean during the New Year."

Jiang Zheng played with her fingers and said with a smile: "At this time, I can accompany you out for a walk." An An shouted that she was going to the suburbs to plum blossoms, where do you look, I will send someone to do it? ”

Tianxuan was stunned, and a smile slanted down from the bottom of her eyes, spreading her whole face: "Just Jiumei Villa, speaking of which, I haven't been there for several years." ”

"Yours!" Jiang Zheng leaned on the pillow with a smile on his face.

The red plums blooming outside the window are bright and dazzling, clustered and clustered, like flames jumping on the branches.