Originally, only Shen Bowen and Shen Boteng were talking in the hall, but Shen Ting suddenly said from behind him: "Liang Sheng, what are you doing standing there?" ”

The two people in the hall suddenly looked at the place where the sound originated at the same time, and when they saw me standing upstairs, a trace of surprise flashed between their eyebrows.

I ignored their glances and quickly turned to look back. Shen Ting was walking towards the corridor, he had a coat draped over his shoulders, and only a pajama was worn under the coat, he had just woken up from a nap.

I immediately trotted over, and when I reached him, I stretched out my hand to hold him, and said with a smile, "Bowen and Patten are here." ”

Shen Ting asked in surprise, "Really?" When did it come? ”

I said, "I don't know, I was just about to go downstairs when I saw them sitting in the hall, and I was trying to inform you, but I didn't expect you to wake up so soon." ”

Only then did Shen Ting remember that today was Shen Boteng's return to China, and he looked down at the road under his feet and said, "Help me down." ”

I said, "I won't go down, because I just promised the eldest wife." I'm going to go to her room. ”

Shen Ting heard me say this, thought for a while, and said, "It's okay, then you can go into the house, and I'll talk to them about this matter." ”

Hearing Shen Ting say this, I smiled. When I sent him to the staircase, I stopped and didn't go any further, watching Shen Ting's slightly rickety body slowly descend the stairs, until he arrived safely in the hall, I turned around and left from the staircase and went to the eldest lady's room.

When she arrived at the eldest lady, she was sitting in her room combing her hair, holding an old mahogany comb in her hand, and even though she was in her fifties, her hair was still soft, but it was a little light.

She sensed that I had arrived in her room and did not look at me, but put down the mahogany comb in her hand. Looking for something in her hair in the mirror, she turned over for a long time, and suddenly she didn't dare to move her two hands on her hair, but said to me at the door: "Liang Sheng, come and help me." ”

When I heard her, I had to follow her instructions and walk behind her, only to find that she was holding a strand of white hair between her fingers, and the eldest lady said, "Help me pull it out." ”

I saw the thinner top of her head and realized the reason for her low hair, and I said, "The more you pull it out, the less hair it will have." ”

The eldest lady said, "Of course I do. But it's better to have less hair than to have a full head of gray hair, the hair is gone, at least there is a wig to wear, but the hair is white, you can't cover it with a wig. ”

Since she wants me to pull it out, then I'll pull it out.

I brushed away the black hair on the top of her head, grabbed the one accurately, and then pulled it lightly, and the white hair disappeared from her scalp.

But there are still many more after slowly rummaging, and the eldest lady saw my face and asked, "Is there still a lot of it?" ”

I said, "Yes, there are quite a few." ”

The eldest lady said, "Let's pull it out together." ”

I didn't talk nonsense with her this time, so I seriously plucked her white hair, and after pulling a few in succession, the eldest lady kept staring at my long hair through the mirror, and she said with emotion: "You know what." Once upon a time, I was as young as you, and I had long, black, straight, and beautiful hair like you. ”

I said, "You're young now, too. ”

She smiled and said: "Don't comfort me, I know what I look like, I can see from the way the old man looks at my face, a long time ago, his eyes would glow when he looked at me, but the more time passed, the more people came to this family, and the more he looked at me, the more dim his eyes became more and more dim, so that now." She stroked her wrinkled face and said, "The light in his eyes went out." ”

I smiled and said, "He has a lot of respect for you." ”

The eldest lady said: "It is a sad feeling to be respected by my husband, because I will never be able to cry when I am sad, smash everything in the room when I am jealous, buy drunk with wine when I am sad, and ridicule each other when it is unfair." ”

I said, "But the third lady will never be able to be qualified to hold a qiē for the lord like this, and have the right to speak in the Shen family, and get the respect of the master, right?" ”

The eldest lady said, "If it were you, which one would you choose?" ”

I said, "Won't be any of you." ”

The eldest lady smiled when she heard my answer, and she said, "At the beginning, I was like you, thinking that I would not become either of these two, but after so many years, unconsciously, you have become like this, and you will never be able to match time, because no matter how powerful everything in the world is, it will always be stronger than time." ”

I said, "You didn't come to me just to talk to me, did you?" ”

She withdrew her gaze from the mirror, and then remembered that there was something else, so she smiled and said, "Today I will take you to meet the ancestors and ancestors." ”

She took the gray hairs I had plucked out from my hand, opened the drawer, and put them in a square wooden box, all of which were gray hairs.

She carefully put it in, as if she were carrying some precious object, and when it was ready, she closed the box, stood up from the vanity mirror, and said to me, "Let's go." ”

After we arrived at the ancestral hall, the eldest lady and I held a few pillars of incense in our hands, and solemnly saluted the spiritual position of the ancestors of the Shen family three times.

After all the qiē was finished, the eldest lady looked at me and said, "From today on, you are the master's woman, and you can only be the master's woman in this life, if something unchaste and unclean happens in the future, all the gods of the Shen family will punish you, remember?" "It's a long bird.

She was ringing a wake-up call to me, and the gods have always believed that there is no such thing, and I don't believe in theism, so there is no sense of threat to me in such a warning, so I naturally agreed: "Remember." ”

When the eldest lady saw that I had answered so easily, she smiled and said, "Don't be perfunctory to God." ”

I smiled and said, "I'm religious." ”

After we finished worshipping the ancestors and ancestors in the ancestral hall, the eldest lady went back to her room, and I also went back to the hall according to the same way, Shen Boteng, Shen Bowen and Shen Ting were not in the living room, there was no one on the sofa, only a few servants were there to clean the house.

I turned around, and then stopped a servant in the middle of the room and asked where Shen Ting was, and the servant replied to me, "After the master and the two Mr. Shen finished talking, they went upstairs." ”

I nodded, didn't continue to ask, but went upstairs to my room, just arrived at the door, a servant came over with a cup of health tea, she saw me, called: "Fourth wife." ”

I was still a little uncomfortable with this title, but I still hummed, and when the servant was about to enter my room, I asked, "Is the master in my room?" ”

The servant said, "Yes, rest in your room." ”

I looked at the tea in her hand and said, "Give it to me, I'll bring it in." ”