When Shen Rui opened his eyes again, it was already dark. Liu Ya is not in the house, and the cover on the ground has been collected. Hearing the movement of him getting up, Wang's mother came up with a porridge bowl, and Liu Ya followed behind with dark circles under her eyes.

Mother Wang served Shen Rui to freshen up, and Fang stepped forward with a porridge bowl.

It was still a crystal clear porridge, and there were no side dishes to accompany the meal, but Shen Rui didn't say anything, and used it up one bite at a time. Mother Wang's expression was complicated, and she explained that Liu Ya was good to serve, so she took the porridge bowl out of the house.

Mrs. Hao came over again, but did not come to the upper room, but entered the wing.

Liu Ya stood in front of the window and saw it, and quietly told Shen Rui.

Shen Rui thought for a while and said in a low voice, "Is there always someone outside the door staring at this courtyard in the past two days?" ”

Liu Ya thought for a while and said, "I don't know, but there are always girls outside." ”

Shen Rui couldn't help but be afraid for a while, but fortunately he waited patiently until the third watch last night and everything was quiet before he came out.

Because Liu Ya was timid, he was afraid that she would make a mistake, so Shen Rui pulled Liu Ya to "practice" and corrected her from her expression to her tone. The little maid, who was originally a little cowardly, unconsciously felt a little more flexible on her face. The master and servant slept late last night, and the exercises were almost the same, so they lay down one after another, and then saw Zhou Gong.

It wasn't until noon that Wang's mother came in with another porridge bowl, and the master and servant woke up.

Shen Rui was in bed and thought about things again. As long as his mistreatment is exposed, no matter what Lao Anren and Shen Juren say, the seeds of doubt have fallen in the hearts of others.

The Sun family had many good deeds during his lifetime, and there were many people who were good friends among the clansmen, and only if someone could stand up for him, his situation would change.

But that's not enough, in the end, it's a four-room family matter, even if the clan has grievances, it's just a few words that don't hurt. As long as he is in the Shen family, he will still fall into the hands of Lao Anren and "Erniang" after all.

Whether it is from the perspective of the dignity of the concubine, or from the distribution of the Shen family's property in the future, he is the thorn in the side of the "Erniang" who is about to be corrected. In the eyes of the world, Lao An, who will shelter and love him, is a person who really hates himself.

Before the owner was disposed of, there were "Erniang" and Shen Jin in the big play, who knows if they and Lao An are in a nest of snakes and rats. It seems that not only does he have to expose his mistreatment, but also thinks of ways to avoid this family.

Now Lao An people and "Erniang" mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are working together, and the contradictions are all in themselves. If there are other changes in the situation, can the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law still be so united?

Mother Wang served Shen Rui with porridge, and when she saw Liu Ya's double eyelids fighting, she reprimanded her twice, but she did not reprimand, and when she was timid and didn't dare to sleep at night for the first time, she said good things on her behalf in front of Shen Rui and told her to go down and rest.

Shen Rui had already slept enough, and he was afraid that Wang's mother would return to the wing, so he pestered her to talk.

One sentence in the east, one sentence in the west, and sometimes insert a sentence that I want to ask, and I have got a lot of useful news one after another.

For example, although there is no one in Sun's mother's family, he is not from a small family, and when he first married into the Shen family, he was wearing ten miles of red makeup. In this family, even if Lao An has the highest seniority, he has never despised the Sun family. Because the Sun family is not only close to the female relatives of the clan, but also several official wives of Songjiang Mansion, they also have contacts with the Sun family from time to time, and they have a lot of friendship.

Songjiang "cloth is the world", every family has a loom, and large households have weaving factories, but the two weaving factories under Sun's name are still counting. In addition to the weaving factory, Sun's dowry shop also included a grain store and a grocery store. Although the Shen family is a prestigious family, there is no shortage of ladies from official eunuchs who marry in, but there are really few dowries that are richer than the Sun family.

The partial-born Sun family is not arrogant, pities the poor and the weak, and does many good deeds, and is not the only one who receives his favor among the neighbors.

Sun treated Lao An people to filial piety during his lifetime, not to mention the bird's nest shark fin offering, and the silver money filial piety was never less. Even the brothers and nephews who took Lao Anren's mother's family have a lot of help from the Sun family, and they don't need to worry about their livelihoods. When Sun's family was sick, he entrusted the weaving factory to Lao Anren's mother's family to take care of, which made the life of the old uncle's family more and more prosperous.

Shen Rui listened and listened, and noticed that something was wrong, and Mother Wang had more words today.

It can be seen that his words and deeds in the past few days are not people who talk much.

In the memory of the master, he has no impression of Liu Ya, after all, he is just a rough maid who has just bought it for a few months, and it is easy to miss the opportunity to be in front of the master. For Wang's mother, the owner knows it.

Wang's mother is the daughter of Zhang Lao'an's companion, when she was young, she married with her parents to the Shen family, and I heard that she also waited by the side of Lao'an when she was young, and later pointed out that she gave birth to a son in the Shen family, but she was a thin one, and she lost her husband and son soon after she became married, and returned to the house as an errand. When her parents, brother and sister-in-law also died, she was left alone, watching the garden in the backyard.

The people in the house disliked her and avoided her like a snake and scorpion. It's just that she is Lao Anren's companion, and the Sun family treats her generously, but no one bullies her.

When the owner was young, he was coaxed to the garden by the little maid, and on the eve of the four-room flower-viewing feast, he picked more than a dozen pots of flowering hibiscus that had been placed in the past.

Mother Wang was stunned at the time, but in front of Lao Anren and Sun, she only knelt down and confessed, and did not say the owner. It's still the little guy who is quick to talk about the master's picking of flowers.

For this reason, Wang's mother was not punished. And the owner, under the protection of the Lao An people, did not receive any beatings. Only that little guy, because of Sun's mention of "no rules, no square circle", suffered twenty boards, raised injuries for several months, and lost the errand of the owner's personal servant.

When Sun taught his son in private, he also mentioned Wang's mother to the owner, only saying that she seemed to be wooden, but she was not a fool.

For some reason, Shen Rui also felt this way at this time, as if Wang's mother was deliberately telling herself something, and mentioning something to herself.

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The world attaches great importance to white things, and the Sun family is the head of the Shen family's four rooms, and the people of the near tribe are constantly hanging sacrifices every day. Seeing that tomorrow is a big day like the "first seven", not only the clansmen gather, but also the official yamen may come, according to the situation on the day of the "third day", several officials and relatives who have good dealings with the Sun family even if they do not come in person, most of them will send their juniors and servants to come to pay tribute.

Although the Shen family is a prominent family, there are also officials in the clan who go to the Jingtang, but the fourth master is only famous, not famous, and he has to be careful and careful in dealing with officials and dependents.

Regardless of whether there are people in other houses, no one is stupid to neglect the relatives of the official lords and officials in Songjiang officialdom. Although it is said that "the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake", it can be "the county that breaks the family, and the mansion Yin who destroys the door", and the county officials are also in charge.

As for the government, the Shen family lives here, is the head of the gentry, and there are people in the clan who are in the Jingtang, and the relationship with the yamen should be one of mutual help, and it is harmless to make good friends.

Discussing this stubble, everyone became more and more obedient to Sun in their hearts.

The people in the fourth room have withered, and they have already declined, but since the Sun family married into the fourth room of the Shen family, the days of the four rooms have become more and more prosperous. Not only is Sun's own dowry weaving factory doing good business, but several shops under the name of Sifang that are not very profitable are also taking advantage of Shanghai businessmen, and there are many turnarounds. is not only financially smooth, but also has a wide range of financial resources, and even the communication with the Shen family's four rooms has also reached a higher level. It is not difficult to become a guest of the magistrate's wife, but the Sun family has a good relationship with the magistrate, where is the magistrate's wife, but the prefect's wife.

If only one prefect's wife had a good relationship with the Sun family, the clansmen would not have admired him like this. In fact, the Sun family has been married into the Shen family for more than 20 years, and Songjiang has changed four prefects. Except for the wife of the prefect who caught up with the officialdom in the middle and was dismissed by the official less than a year after taking office, the three prefect wives in front and behind all have a relationship with the Sun family.

Sun's actions are not like merchants' methods, blindly offering cadres and other knots, but they have a bit of a compatible.

Because of this, even though the Sun family has no children for more than ten years, he still sits firmly in the fourth room. Lao An people are dissatisfied with their daughter-in-law, but under the mediation of the old patriarch, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law did not tear their faces.

On this day, the people who came to the door were several famous old and young masters in several clans and their daughters.

One of them had to watch.

Although the Shen family is a big surname of the wang family, they are cultivated and read as heirlooms, but it is so easy to take the imperial examination. Hundreds of thousands of scholars, only three years to get 100 to 300 jinshi, there is not one in 10,000.

On the "water word generation" of the Shen family, there are five Jinshi and Tongjinshi, and more than a dozen people are raised and shown. Stranded in other provinces, such a backward and extraordinary family has long been one of the best families. But in the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the style of study is prosperous, although the father and son Jinshi and the brother Jinshi are good stories, it is really not unusual.

What really made the Shen family famous was Shen Li, the champion of Hongzhi who produced a teenager in the third year. Shen Li married the daughter of the champion father, and he also won the champion. Weng's son-in-law is the double champion, and it has become a good story in Shilin.

Now that seven years have passed, Shen Li has been promoted to the sixth rank of the servant. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, due to the death of his widowed mother, he returned to his hometown with his wife and children to guard the system. Since the burial of his widowed mother, he refused relatives and friends, and built a grass hut in front of the grave to guard filial piety.

Shen Li is a side branch of the outer nine rooms, and the fourth room of the Shen family has already come out of five suits, not even "frank and exempt relatives", it is "no service relatives", just wear plain clothes. But since Sun's death, after reporting the funeral to relatives and friends that day, Shen Li returned to the city to mourn, wearing Qi Yuanxiao, as if he was in accordance with the clothes for his uncles and aunts to keep filial piety.

The people of the tribe did not find it strange.

In addition to the five suits, there are also "righteous suits", although the Sun family is only a clansman, but if she does not have her help for more than ten years, she will not provide a champion.

Shen Li is not a person who loves to socialize, but for the sake of Sun's funeral dignity, he has no objection to accompanying Shen Juren to treat officials and guests tomorrow. It's just that since the funeral in the fourth room, he has come to mourn several times, but he has not seen Shen Rui, which makes him very worried.

can ask Shen Juren, Shen Juren only said that Shen Rui was young and frail, and it was difficult to withstand the pain of losing his mother, and he was bedridden. When Shen Li wanted to visit, he was obstructed for various reasons. Although Shen Li was favored by the Sun family, he had been away from his hometown for many years, and he was not familiar with the other people in the fourth room of the Shen family, so it was difficult to break into the inner house.

After coming and going, Shen Li couldn't help but be suspicious, when he received the post to discuss the matter this day, he brought his wife Xie Shi with him in the name of condolences to Lao Anren, and secretly asked his wife to bring a few more foster mothers and maids, so as to take the opportunity to inquire about one or two in the inner house.

Shen Li was worried about Shen Rui, and patiently coped with Shen Juren for a long time, and when he said goodbye, he got into his wife Xie's carriage.

"How? But did you see Regoer? As soon as the carriage moved, Shen Li asked eagerly.

Xie shook his head and said: "Lao An only said that Second Uncle Rui was afraid of the wind in bed and refused to let him see guests. ”

When Shen Li heard this, he couldn't help but change his face, and said: "It's weird, I have already inquired about it, Sifang only invited a doctor on the day of my aunt's death, and it was Shen Jin who saw it, and said to the outside world that it was Wen Mother's funeral and fell, and he knocked his head sadly, hum, he did a good job as a filial son." ”

Xie Shi looked strange and said: "What Xianggong said is good, but it is really strange. When he went to Xiaojie under the moon, he was mistaken and listened to an important sentence. ”

Shen Li said: "What words? ”

Xie Shi frowned and said, "'Lancao, the second brother is going to die'." ”

Shen Li was puzzled: "What second brother is going to die!" As soon as he finished speaking, he reacted to the taste, and immediately changed his face: "Second brother?!" Regoer! ”