Mother Chen pursed her lips and said, "It's just a hen that can't lay eggs, and she really thinks she is a noble person?" She is the wife of the uncle, she does not go to the vigil, who will? ”

"But ......"

"You, no matter how ignorant you are, see if I don't tear your mouth!" Chen's mother raised her eyebrows, quite capable of bluffing.

Shen Yu was afraid that Hexiang would be punished, so she gently stopped her, and didn't say whether she was going or not, but said, "I know." ”

He sent someone to send Chen's mother away.

Hexiang also persuaded her: "Grandma, don't be reckless for the reputation of that Laoshizi, your body is your own, and you have to cherish it yourself." ”

Shen Yu smiled, but before she could speak, Cai Wei on the side said faintly: "Alas, it's just a pity that uncle, he is so young, and there is no one who can kneel for him." The eldest grandmother is the one who is married to the door by the uncle, if she doesn't even go to the grandmother, behind the uncle, it will be too sad. ”

Shen Yu's eyebrows moved, and she asked, "Before Cai Wei, it seems that she was serving the uncle?" ”

Cai Wei lowered her eyes and said with self-pity: "I was sent to my uncle by the eldest lady at the age of thirteen, and the uncle saw that I was young, and I took care of me a lot on weekdays, so I was only allowed to serve the pen and ink, and at that time, I was ...... Alas, it's a pity that the uncle is jealous of talents. ”

The lingering meaning in the words made Shen Yu hook her lips and smile.

If the uncle of the Sheng family is still alive, this girl will be a "Qingwen" if she can't keep it.

But she is right in what she said: in the end, she wants to rely on the identity of the grandmother of the Sheng family as a shelter, and in this case, it is not good not to kneel down to this uncle of the Sheng family.

asked Hexiang to help him change into plain clothes, and carried incense, candles, and paper money to the mourning hall.

The mourning hall is located in Jiaxi Courtyard, where the uncle lived before his death, just a few steps away from Shen Yu's residence. When I arrived at the mourning hall, the sky was already dark, and the surrounding area was gloomy and silent, and the fluttering white flags were entangled in the wind, which made it more desolate.

Although Shen Yu is not afraid of ghosts and gods, she can be touched by feelings, and she can't help but think of another world, what happened behind her.

She had no parents since she was a child, and she grew up with a crazy weird old man. The old man's mind was full of tea scriptures, and since she could speak, he asked her to distinguish tea and taste tea. When Shen Yu graduated, she was directly arranged to work in her own tea company, so that a young girl could soak in tea all day long.

Shen Yu looked up at the narrow sky of the courtyard, thinking, I don't know who is taking care of the old man after she is gone?

"Sister-in-law."

Sheng Yanqing came from a distance carrying a white lantern, and the faint light illuminated half of his face, and his expression looked far more indifferent than the day.

"Second master."

Shen Yu curled her knees and saluted him back.

Listening to Hexiang, the Sheng family's big house has only two Sheng Yanming and Sheng Yanqing brothers in this generation, and now Sheng Yanming is gone, and the big house will be Sheng Yanqing's sooner or later.

If you want to live well in the Sheng family, you have to befriend this second master Sheng.

Shen Yu deliberately slowed down a few steps, waiting for Sheng Yanqing to come over and walk in with him.

The two didn't say anything all the way, and when they entered the mourning hall, Sheng Yanqing took the lead in taking the incense candle and lit it, and knelt down to put incense on Sheng Yanming.

Shen Yu took the opportunity to look at him secretly, Second Master Sheng was about twenty-three or fourteen years old, but his temperament was too calm, like a rocky reef standing still in the wind and waves, quiet, calm, and stable.

His appearance and temperament are in the same vein, with deep contours, thin lips and a straight nose, and his deep eyes seem to be able to peel off all falsehoods when looking at people, revealing the truth of **.

"I heard that my sister-in-law decided to stay in the Sheng family in the future?"

A calm and low voice pierced the silence of the mourning hall, Shen Yu came back to her senses, was stunned for a moment, and said, "The second master is so well-informed." The old lady is kind, but just ask one more question. ”

"Why don't you go?"

"Why are you leaving?" Shen Yu looked at the tablet of Sheng Yanming on the mourning hall, the bottom of the rosewood wood, and the words painted in gold, at a glance, she knew that it was a famous pen and ink.

"Sister-in-law is in her youth, and she is willing to spend her life in the back house?"

Shen Yu was stunned, she didn't expect this to be said by a man in the old feudal society. Immediately, he straightened his posture and said with a look of deep righteousness, "What's unwilling?" The Sheng family's three media and six hired me to marry me, and I should be the uncle for my whole life to repay the Sheng family's affection. ”

As soon as her words came out, there was a sudden silence in the mourning hall. She could feel Sheng Yanqing's gaze fall on her, scrutinizing and exploring.

After a long while, Sheng Yanqing said meaninglessly: "There is no wealth in the world that is easy to enjoy, and the Sheng family is the same." ”

Shen Yu met his eyes without hesitation, and replied softly: "The Sheng family is like this, and so is the Shen family." ”

Sheng Yanqing's thin lips hooked, as if sarcastic, got up and arched his hand at her, and left directly.

Shen Yu looked at his broad and tall back, and there was a trace of helplessness in her heart - it seems that the future head of the Sheng family doesn't seem to have a good impression of her.

Probably think of her as a person who is greedy for wealth, right?

Shen Yu cleaned up the ashes that had just fallen outside the incense burner, took three sticks of incense and inserted them again, looked at the curling green smoke, and thought, he is a man, so he naturally doesn't know how difficult a woman's situation is in this world. No matter how difficult the situation is, as long as she is given a glimmer of life, she will try her best to seize it and turn the tables against the wind.

Her vitality is not in the Shen family, but in the Sheng family.

Shen Yu was fragrant, so she knelt on the side, thinking about the current situation of the Sheng family.

Most of the men in the Sheng family have short lives, the eldest master and the second master Gu have passed away, and the men who are still alive are only Sheng Yanqing, the second master of the big house, Sheng Yanwei, the third master of the second room, and the fourth master who is less than ten years old.

After the death of the Sheng family's uncle, the Sheng family's chores fell on Sheng Yanqing, I heard that the eldest lady had a lot of complaints, but it was because the old lady pressed that she didn't make trouble.

Old lady ......

Shen Yu recalled the white-haired old lady who said everything, her heart moved, she lost her husband, children and grandchildren, and the most painful and tragic things in life were nothing more than that, but she was able to withstand these blows and hold the Sheng family firmly in her hands.

It can be seen that he is a capable person.

Maybe her breakthrough is in this old lady.

Just thinking about it, when she heard the deliberately aggravated footsteps behind her, Shen Yu turned around and saw a twenty-five or six-year-old man coming over with a red sandalwood box.

"Big grandma."

Shen Yu got up and curtsied, but the man hurriedly avoided it and said respectfully: "Grandma is in trouble." My surname is Xie, and I am the housekeeper of the Shengfu Mansion, and if my grandmother has anything to do in the future, just send someone to tell me. ”

Shen Yu nodded politely: "Thank you so much for the housekeeper." ”

Xie Changli didn't go around the corner, and directly pointed out his intention: "This box was given to me by the uncle before his death, saying that if the eldest grandmother stays in Sheng Mansion in the future, let me give these things to the eldest grandmother, and make a dependence on the eldest grandmother in the future." ”

He handed the box to Shen Yu, and Shen Yu took it, only to feel that his hand sank.

"Thank you for this...... It's like an uncle, he knows that his life is short. Shen Yu seemed to stroke the wooden box unintentionally, "Strange people say that the uncle is talented." ”

Her words were vague, but they all pointed out the doubts in Xie Changli's words.