I just smiled faintly at Shen Bowen's words, didn't give him any response, and went straight upstairs without stopping or hesitating.

In the next few days, although the aunts and wives of the Shen family did not express themselves too warmly to me, they did not be cold, and when they inevitably bumped into me, they would always smile at me, except for the third aunt, of course, the servants here said that because she was the most similar to my mother Jiang Peirong in terms of appearance and temperament, she was more favored by Shen Ting than the other two.

And the second aunt of the Shen family, that is, Shen Boteng's mother, is a gentle and elegant woman, who is wooden and does not have too many words, but once when we met in the hall, she was sitting in the living room, looking at a tree outside the gate in a daze, in addition to the hollow or empty in her eyes, it is difficult for me to imagine that this taciturn woman would actually be Shen Boteng's mother, if it wasn't revealed by the servants here, I almost didn't think about it, because the two of them don't look particularly alike, Shen Boteng's eyebrows were closer to Shen Ting.

I just walked downstairs, arrived behind her, and whispered a second wife, who was in a daze, seemed to be startled by my voice, quickly turned her face sideways, and when she saw that it was me, the surprise on her face was retracted, and then her expression was flat, and she answered me very calmly: "Oh, it's you." ”

I smiled and asked, "Are you here alone?" ”

To my question, she replied calmly: "Well, I'm alone." ”

I glanced at the brightly opened acacia outside the door and said with a smile, "You like acacia too?" ”

She didn't seem to like being disturbed very much, and didn't want to talk to people, she got up from the sofa, and finally glanced at the acacia tree outside the door, and said in a light tone: "I just think it's a little more pleasing to the eye than the usual flowers and plants, and there is nothing special." ”

After she said this, she was about to leave, and when she passed by my side, I asked in a low voice: "Everyone in the Shen family is uneasy about my arrival, why is the second wife the only one staying out of the matter, as if nothing happened, are you really not afraid?" ”

The second wife laughed twice when she heard my words, there was no sarcasm, no hostility, and even no emotion in the laughter, she said: "What's the use of being afraid, it's you who can't keep it, it's not that others can't take it away, and besides, some things don't belong to me from the beginning, why should I be afraid, only those who care will be afraid." ”

I laughed, "Oh? After a while, she wanted to continue asking, but the second wife took the initiative to speak and said again: "Of course, these things will naturally not be yours, we are just living in the shadow of others." ”

After she finished speaking, the eldest lady happened to come down from upstairs, and saw me and the second wife Rong Lan standing in the living room chatting, so she quickly went downstairs from the balcony, and asked Rong Lan with a smile Why are we both standing and chatting, why don't we sit.

Rong Lan smiled lightly at the words of the eldest lady Rong Xin and said: "It's just that I happened to have a few casual conversations, and I still have some Diamond Sutras that I haven't copied, so I'm temporarily out of company." ”

After Rong Lan finished speaking, she smiled at the eldest lady and walked upstairs by herself.

When her figure completely disappeared from the corner of the second floor, the eldest lady said to me: "Rong Lan has always had this temperament, and she often doesn't say a word to us for ten days and half a month, so don't worry too much." ”

I replied with a smile, "Everyone has their own personality, and of course I don't think much about it." At this point, I remembered one more thing, and asked the eldest lady, "Are you looking for me for something?" ”

After I reminded her, the eldest lady remembered what she had come down from the upstairs for, and she immediately smiled and said, "I do have something to do with you, but let's go upstairs first." ”

I listened to the eldest lady's cautious tone and asked, "Is it anything important?" ”

The eldest lady smiled and insisted, "Let's go upstairs first." ”

I didn't want to ask any further, so I nodded, and followed the eldest lady upstairs, and when I arrived at the eldest lady's bedroom, she beckoned me to sit down on the carved chair, and soon the servant came up with two cups of bright red flower tea, and as soon as I lifted the lid, the fragrance of the flower tea in the teacup overflowed in my nose.

The eldest lady asked me tentatively, "How about this rose tea?" ”

I smiled shyly, closed the lid of the tea on the mouth of the cup, blocked the fragrance and said: "I don't have any research on tea, I usually drink boiled water, and I have never drunk this kind of flower tea, it must be very precious, right?" ”

When the eldest lady heard this, she smiled and said: "It's not very expensive, in fact, I don't taste much tea, this flower tea is just the old man brought back to me on a business trip, because I haven't touched it for a few years, I'm afraid of mold, so I'll take it out and taste it with you today." ”

I smiled shyly and said, "I think it smells good." ”

The eldest lady asked, "Why don't you take some over?" Anyway, I'm keeping it. ”

I immediately refused, saying, "What's so embarrassing? ”

The eldest lady said: How can this be embarrassing, they are all family, and you are new to the city, it is my duty to take care of you. ”

When the eldest lady said this, I couldn't shirk it, so I could only accept it with a smile.

When the two of them were sipping the flower tea in the cup together, the eldest lady seemed to think of something, put the cup in her hand on the coffee table, and said to me: "By the way, I specially invited you here today to ask you about your future plans." ”

I said, "Going?" What is the plan? I came to my senses and hurriedly said, "My plan is to stay here for the time being, and when Uncle Shen's condition improves, I will naturally move out of here and live my own life." ”

The eldest lady smiled meaningfully and said, "Don't you have any other plans?" ”

I said, "What else are you going to do?" ”

The eldest lady looked at my face, and the love revealed in her eyes could be understood by a fool, but now Liang Sheng is just a woman from the mountains, who has worked in a coffee shop for several years and has not read many books, so she naturally doesn't understand her words full of hints.

Seeing my ignorance and innocence, the eldest lady laughed three times, she suppressed her smile and said: "I heard the lord say, you have no father and mother since you were a child, and you have suffered a lot, and I also like and pity girls like you very much, of course, the lord prefers it, since it has been such a long time of difficult days, why don't you choose a better way to live in the future?" ”

I said, "What kind of life is the eldest lady talking about?" ”

The eldest lady was surprised and asked, "You don't know?" ”

I smiled and said, "I don't understand it, please tell the eldest lady." ”

The eldest lady said directly and clearly: "The master likes you very much." She added: "You should understand that this kind of liking is not ordinary. ”