Hao's mother has already repented of her intestines, and this hungry Shen Rui led out the Sun family's "Orphan Minister" is her idea for Zhang Lao'an. Now don't settle the account, if you wait until the matter is open, where will there be Lao Anren's fault, most of it is her mouth owes.

Hao's mother thought about Mother Wang and Liu Ya, who were beaten and sold, where did they dare to get involved here, so she only changed the topic and said: "My cousin and grandmother are the most filial to Lao An, and they are no different from Lao An's own granddaughters. If Lao An people speak, let alone Zhang Luo's 'Sanqi' for the lady, there is no reason to keep the spirit every day. Where would she hide a traitor like the big lady next door, but she just took a name, but she was reluctant to bring her sister over. ”

Zhang Lao'an not only complains about his grandson these days, but the second most serious grievance is Shen Li and the five-room family next door. After hearing Hao's mother's words, she had to curse a few more words, but the idea of calling her niece and granddaughter to preside over the "Sanqi" festival became more and more real.

When the hangers in the front yard were almost gone, Zhang Lao'an immediately invited Shen Juren to come over. Unexpectedly, she calculated properly, but she touched a nose of ash here in Shen Juren.

"No, how can it be like that? According to the world, 'Sanqi' is regarded as 'daughter seven', but not every family has a married daughter, and there is a common practice of not being a 'daughter seven'. Yan Niang is just a cousin's niece, not a daughter of the Shen family, how can she come forward to make seven for the Sun family? Shen Juren was obviously also troubled by the old mother's thoughts, and refused without hesitation.

Zhang Laoanren's heart, liver and lungs hurt when he was topped, and he stiffened his neck and said, "Why can't it?" As far as your Shen family is expensive, the Zhang family is not human!? The old man knows that you look down on your uncle's family, and only think that your uncle is taking advantage of you by helping you take care of the industry. But it is precisely because he is an uncle that he bothered to help you guard the family business. Those surnamed Shen are all separated from the room and out of five suits, but the Zhang family is your own uncle. Do you really want to ask the niece of the unserved clan to be the main priest of the 'married girl', and you don't want Yan Niang to help? Those people can't wait to come up and suck your blood, but you have a lot of successes, don't be blinded......"

Shen Juren no longer understands economic affairs, and if you look at the account book, you can still see the number of numbers. As early as the first two years, the Zhang family began to meddle in the four-room industry under the proposition of Lao Anren, and the benefits handed over every year gradually decreased. In the case of fields, it is just that there is a lot of rain, and the terrain is concave. In terms of shops, it is said that there are many shops in the south, and business is not good.

There are all kinds of things, there are always words, Shen Juren doesn't like to care, but his heart is transparent. It's just that they are all close relatives, and he is willing to pull his uncle's family. Besides, the heirs of the four houses are not complicated, and he has several generations of single inheritance, and he has no uncles and nephews to support each other, even if several cousins and cousins-in-law are willing to help him take care of the housework, he also receives everyone's face.

Even if the Zhang family is greedy, they have never gone over the big folds, and Shen Juren only respects his uncle's family. It's just that after the Sun family was sick and the Zhang family completely took over the Sun dowry industry, they began to act arrogantly. The old shopkeeper who has used it for more than ten or twenty years, said that he would be able to send the seventh and eighth aunts on errands, but the monthly income has decreased sharply.

No matter how generous Shen Juren is, he is not a fool, so he had to invite Uncle Zhang over and ordered a few sentences. Unexpectedly, Uncle Zhang gritted his teeth and didn't admit it, and he also said that he had worked hard and wronged, and the two nephews and uncles broke up unhappily.

Zhang Lao'an is soft-eared, and he doesn't feel that his mother's family takes advantage of his family, but his son Geng Jie can't speak, and he doesn't understand his uncle's hard work. Shen Juren took care of his face, unwilling to tear his face with his uncle's family, and had long thought about waiting until the Sun family was angry, and recovering the industry in the name of rectifying the housework, and it would be difficult for relatives to do it at that time.

I don't know if the Zhang family is aware of it, they were eager to come to the door every day, and the old and young ladies came to Lao Anren and Sun to flatter; Since Sun's serious illness, there are fewer and fewer people.

In the half month since Sun's death, the Zhang family only showed up during the "third pick-up", and even the "first seven" did not show up.

Thinking of the Zhang family's new mansion last year, and the two fans that the eldest cousin had wrapped up in the past six months, Shen Juren really didn't respect his uncle's family. Therefore, listening to the words of Lao Anren, who are relatives of the Zhang family than the Shen family, Shen Juren couldn't help but feel irritable, frowned, and said: "Since the Zhang family is the same as our family, why haven't you seen each other these days?" Over the years, the major events encountered in the family are only this one, and the clansmen all know how to come to help, why didn't the Zhang family show up? ”

Zhang Lao'anren let his son say that his mother's family was not good, and argued: "Who is idleness like those broken households, your uncle led your cousins to take care of Zhuangzi shops for you." Flesh and blood relatives, not like those outside the eight roads, can only talk, but they are all solid to help you contribute, you have to know what is good, don't be like before, listen to the wind is rain, hurt your uncle's heart. ”

Shen Juren sneered: "Could it be that my son has treated my uncle badly? However, after two years of hard work, my uncle's family built a new house and added land. ”

Zhang Lao'an only felt embarrassed, and said to himself: "That loser lady has been throwing money all over the world all these years, and I haven't seen you say a 'no' word, pulling your uncle, what a big deal, it's worth talking about." ”

Shen Juren had a deal with the Zhang family in his heart, so he didn't talk to Zhang Lao'an, and only said: "Yan Niang is close to the family, and she is also a cousin, and there is no reason to wear linen and filial piety in the Shen family." 'Sanqi' is only like this today, and there is no need for a person to make a sacrifice. ”

Zhang Lao'an was depressed in his heart, but he also knew that his son had taken the idea, and it was not something he could persuade, so he thought of Sun's missing land deeds and house deeds, and said: "You must also keep in mind what I told you last time, or send the housekeeper to go to the county office quietly to make up for the province's worries." ”

Shen Juren waved his hand and said, "It's not proper, it's not proper, don't worry about it, mother." In the past few days, when the Sun family is mourned, the son will send someone to take care of it. Don't make another accident and cause the people to laugh. ”

Zhang Laoan couldn't, so he could only worry secretly.

In these days of mourning, Shen Juren did not go close to the concubine's room, and only stayed in the study every day, but remembered the good life of the original wife. For a while, I felt that the family business was revitalized in my own hands, and the Sun family was really a virtuous wife; For a while, I felt that my fate was pitiful, I lost my father when I was young, and I lost my wife in middle age, and I became a widower.

Shen Rui and Shen Jin stayed in front of Sun's spirit all day after day.

Zhang Lao'an couldn't remember, and Shen Juren couldn't take care of it, so Shen Rui continued to be placed in the front yard guest room, and there were a few people around him to serve. Two are the maidservants arranged by the housekeeper, one is the winter joy left by the Guo family, and the other is the adoptive mother Han's mother who was sent by Shen Li and his wife.

Han's mother is in her thirties, and she makes good soup, and she doesn't work hard, and she can make more than a dozen sweet and salty soups with just a small stove in the pantry. Dong Xi is fifteen years old, with beautiful appearance, quick hands and feet, good needlework, from morning to night, he never leaves his hands, and in a few days, he added several pairs of shoes and socks to Shen Rui. Compared with these two people, the Shen family's own maidservants are one level worse, one happens to be the bluegrass that Liu Ya once mentioned, and the other is called Lilac, who is about the same age as Dongxi, and they are all clever in dealing with it, and they are from the courtyard of Lao Anren, which is very big.

It's just that the four-person main family is three, and no one can control anyone.

Mother Han and Dongxi came on order, only abiding by their duties, staying in the guest house, taking care of Shen Rui's daily life and diet, and not worrying about bluegrass and cloves. Orchid grass and cloves, the temperament is very lively, looking for a son to go to the mourning hall to find Shen Rui's affairs, I can't wait to go eight times a day. When he arrived at the mourning hall, he was talking to Shen Rui, but his eyes were glued to Shen Jin.

Shen Rui was both detached and had no interest in surrendering. He was kind to him, and he was polite; Far away from him, he should not have seen it.

It was still Shen Jin who saw that Lancao and Lilac had a big affair and went to the mourning hall to look for Shen Rui, and lost his respect between his words, and scolded a few words, not allowing them to come to the mourning hall again, and the two were separated.

"Sanqi" is the same as "Erqi", a full set of rituals, and there are many hangers, many of whom have the intention of watching the excitement, but it is an ordinary past. is only the same as "Erqi", and he did not make "Daughter Seven", and he did not make any jokes.

By the time the "May Seven" approached, it was already the month of Layue.

There are two more charcoal basins on the mourning hall, and the thin cotton clothes on Shen Rui's body have also been replaced with thick cotton, but the mourning hall is still cold. But during the filial piety period, it was not easy to change fur clothes, so Dong Xi made sleeveless cotton shoulders and asked Shen Rui to wear them closely, and made new cotton knee pads, and the cotton pants were also changed to thicker hips, so that Shen Rui could suffer a little cold.

Shen Rui was dressed closely, and he couldn't see anything outside, but his body was very warm. At present, it is an era when people can die from colds and colds, and Shen Rui is ruthless in his life. In his previous life, he grew up beside his maternal great-grandfather when he was a child, and practiced Xingyi Quan with Zong Lao, and now he picked it up again, and after a month, his arms and legs were stretched. Therefore, his small side looks clear, but in fact it is much stronger than in the past.

Coupled with Han's mother's daily warm and nourishing soup, Shen Rui guarded the spirit for a month, and his body was in good condition. It was Shen Jin, who had been immersed in hard study before, and was already negligent in his activities, and when he was growing his body, he was sick when he was on the "fourth seventh".

Fortunately, Shen Rui found out early, and seeing that his nasal voice was heavy and his voice was hoarse, he asked the little guy to help him down, so he didn't delay. Shen Jin took the decoction for two days, and when he came out and wanted to continue the vigil, it was Shen Rui who persuaded him to go back with "the hair and skin of the body, the parents who received it, and cherished it for filial piety".

After all these twists and turns, although there are still not many words between the two brothers, there is a little more tacit understanding. It's just that he doesn't show it in front of outsiders, but he can't hide it from Shen Quan, who is keeping a spiritual guard with them.

Shen Quan looked at it, and only felt that the friend of the two brothers in front of him, Gong Gong, was not very old, and he acted and spoke in the style of a gentleman, only he was thinking nonsense on the side, thinking for a while whether Shen Jin was "a traitor and loyal", and he was hiding evil thoughts; For a while, I wondered if Shen Rui would hold back and regard his siblings as mortal enemies, but he was like a villain.

On this day, it was the thirty-fourth day of Sun's death and the day before the funeral.