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After Shen Zhizhi had breakfast, she put on a red jacquard soft silk horse-faced skirt, and her beautiful face was slightly powdered, covering up a bit of glamour, not as bright and eye-catching as she used to be, with a thousand demeanors, but a little more delicate and elegant.

After finishing the makeup, Shen Zhizhi looked at the appearance in the bronze mirror with satisfaction, well, the craftsmanship has not regressed.

From today onwards, she will show people with such a look.

Anyway, her true appearance is only known to the people in the Shen Mansion, and she has never been to the flower-viewing banquets of those ladies, and she has been kept by her grandmother every time under various excuses.

In the surprised eyes of the nurse Yang, she will take Xi'er to greet the old lady, and the jealous gaze of the finch swept over Xi'er, and she couldn't help biting her lip.

is like this again, since she was sent by the old lady to the second lady as a big maid, her status is similar to that of the second lady, and she is not valued by the second lady.

No matter how she said it, she was also the old lady's right-hand man, and she was still a little decent in the Shen Mansion, and the second lady was just a concubine, so she treated her like this.

How can the finches, who have always been arrogant, endure it?

Old Madam Shen lives in Ningshou Hall in the East Garden of Shen Mansion, which is not close or far from Shen Zhizhi's Agarwood Garden, and there is a small road that is quite close, but there are fewer people on this path, and if you copy the path, it is much closer than Tinglan Garden, where Shen Wufeng lives.

According to the nurse Yang, the Agarwood Garden was where her biological mother lived, and was sealed by Master Shen, her father, after her biological mother's death.

When she turned eight years old, she was allowed to move in again.

Shen Zhizhi actually didn't understand her strict and cold father.

When passing by a rockery, Shen Zhizhi heard that the person behind the rockery seemed to mention her name, and after a pause, Xi'er was stunned, and was about to say something, but Shen Zhizhi made a look, covered her mouth and didn't make a sound.

The master and servant quietly approached the rockery.

"Lao Ding, didn't the old lady give a gag order yesterday? Why is there a rumor about the second lady all over the street this morning? ……”

"How do I know this, it's none of our business anyway, and the masters can't find out about us." Lao Ding's hoarse voice carried a hint of indifference.

"That's right, but the second lady is unlucky."

"No matter how unlucky she is, she is also the second miss of the Shen family, much better than us subordinates." Lao Ding's voice couldn't help but raise a little.

"Hey, that's hard to say......"

“……”

Shen Zhizhi's eyes flashed, and it seemed that the sky was helping her.

Seeing that the time was not early, she had to hurry to Ningshoutang, she didn't have to listen to the rest of the words, she knew what was going on, so she whispered to Xi'er.

"Xi'er, let's go."

Unlike Shen Zhizhi's good mood, Xi'er wrinkled a chubby little face, her expression was angry, she looked at the young lady's eyes and stopped talking, opened her mouth, and couldn't say anything if she wanted to comfort her.

………………

The atmosphere in Ning Shou Hall was very depressing, obviously everyone knew that the rumors of the second miss of Shen Fu had spread throughout the capital, and now the people in the streets and alleys were talking about it.

Especially Miss Shen Er's statement that she would rather marry the dead than look at Sun Shizi, which made Sun Shizi lose face.

Of course, Shen Zhizhi didn't get any good reputation, everyone had mixed reviews, and they were all watching the reaction of Jianbo Houfu and the jokes of Shen Mansion

The old lady counted the Buddha beads in her hand with a pale face.

The eldest lady sat dignified under the old lady, with a look of self-reproach, and the second lady, who was wearing a lotus scattered flower Ruyi skirt, glanced at the eldest lady, and a sneer crossed her eyes.

Phew, what a pretense.

Shen Wufang and Shen Wuwu both sat upright, Shen Wuwu's temperament was more lively, not as perfect as Shen Wuwu's ceremonial sitting posture, she couldn't stand such a depressing atmosphere, her eyes secretly rolled around, Shen Jingjing lowered her head, stood aside timidly, and tried to shrink her sense.

Old Madam Shen took the expressions of the two daughters-in-law and three granddaughters below into her eyes, and her expression was indifferent.

At this time, the voice of the mother-in-law came from outside the door.

"Old lady, the second lady is here!"

As soon as the words came out, everyone's faces were different.

Shen Zhizhi walked in with the corner of her skirt and kowtowed to the old lady with kind eyebrows and gray temples on the first seat in the middle: "Granddaughter greets grandmother!" ”

The old lady counted the Buddha's hand for a moment, raised her eyes, and suddenly found that the appearance of this second granddaughter was different, it seemed to be a lot more pleasing to the eye, she had never liked this second granddaughter, and it did have a lot to do with her too beautiful and bewitching appearance.

At a young age, she had a foxy appearance, especially her appearance similar to her biological mother, which disgusted the old lady.

"Get up."

Shen Zhizhi hid the stunned in her eyes, and quickly stood up, she is not a masochist, who likes to ask for an and kowtow, when she asked for peace in the past, the old lady directly ignored the past, and never asked her to get up, every time she asked the old lady to say goodbye, it was a very difficult thing to do.

Then he greeted the eldest lady and the second lady, and greeted the three sisters, before standing next to Shen Jingjing and lowering his sense of storage.

In Ningshoutang, the concubine is treated like this.

The people in the room apparently noticed the change as well.

Shen Wufang, who was closest to Shen Zhizhi, stared slightly, and looked at Shen Zhizhi with a hint of scrutiny.

"Zhizhi, your face is powdered?" Shen Wuxian asked in surprise, his voice soft and pleasant.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Shen Zhizhi again.

Shen Zhizhi secretly scolded Shen Wufang in his heart, and on the surface he could only nod and admit it, with a look of shame: "I...... I was scared by Sun Shizi yesterday, and I had nightmares at night, and after thinking about it, I thought it was my appearance that caused the trouble, so I put on some rouge gouache this morning to change my appearance. ”

After saying that, he lowered his head.

Shen Wuxian suddenly realized when he heard this: "I see, but you look good like this." ”

There was a sudden silence in Ning Shoutang.

"The second girl is doing a good job, it should have been like this a long time ago, so as not to make some people feel uncomfortable when they see it." The second lady suddenly covered her mouth and smiled, but her eyes turned towards the eldest lady.

Apparently aimed at the eldest lady.

The relationship between the big house and the second room is not very good, and the second lady will taunt the eldest lady when she has the opportunity, which is something that everyone in the Shen Mansion knows.

The old lady swept over coldly: "Shut up!" ”

The second lady stopped laughing.

"The matter of the second girl and Sun Shizi has spread throughout the capital, and it also involves Major General Zhao Yuanhao, who sacrificed for the imperial court, how do you say this matter should be solved?" The old lady counted the Buddhist beads in her hand and spoke slowly.

The eldest lady, who had been silent, spoke at this time, and her voice was fierce.

"Second girl, don't come and kneel yet."

Shen Zhizhi felt the cold air pressure around her, and cursed the eldest lady in her heart, kneeling, kneeling, she hated kneeling the most.

At this point, she had no choice but to step forward and kneel.

At this time, Shen Wuwu, the little angel, appeared.

"Auntie, this is not the second sister's fault, she is also a victim, we should seek justice for the second sister."

Shen Zhizhi saw that Shen Wuwu came out for her, and her heart was warm.

"Don't worry, shut up!" The second lady saw that the old lady's face changed, and hurriedly drank her daughter.

"Don't worry, do you know the importance of your daughter's family name, whether the second girl is a victim or not, it's too late to say anything now, yesterday's incident is now spread all over the street, and the reputation of the second girl is almost ruined, and even the reputation of the family sisters has been affected."

"Now there are only two choices in front of the second girl, one is that the second girl and Sun Shizi make a family appointment, and the other is to send them to the family temple as a sister-in-law......"

"Of course, my mother and I don't approve of this second choice, we can't bear to ruin your life's happiness like this."

"Sun Shizi has promised that as long as you nod and agree, he will allow you to be a wife, and Jian Bohou has no objection."

After the eldest lady finished speaking, she looked at Shen Zhizhi with a hint of helplessness and expectation.

The hat that affected the reputation of the family sisters was lightly buckled on Shen Zhizhi's head by the eldest lady.

Not only that, but he also tempted her with the position of a flat wife.

Shen Zhizhi pursed her lips, and the corner of her eyes saw the old lady nodding slightly, her heart sank, she could see that her mother-in-law was forcing her today.

forced her to choose Sun Mingwei.

Shen Zhizhi sneered in her heart, she still doesn't give up, she will let them die today, slowly raised her head, and opened her mouth word by word, her voice was firm and persistent.

"I choose the third one, I want to marry Major General Zhao Yuanhao!"