After the new year, the taste of the year is even stronger.

The husband of the private school also went home for the New Year, and Sheng Jinxu was at home on vacation, wearing the rabbit fur hat that Sheng Yanqing had newly given to set off firecrackers in the yard.

The hat is made of white rabbit fur, with two rabbit ears hanging down on it, and when she has nothing to do, Hexiang always likes to play with the rabbit ears.

Fuyunju also began to buy New Year's goods, looking at the mountains of things piled up in the warehouse, Shen Yu was puzzled: "It's only a few days for the New Year, and so many things are purchased, isn't it going to be broken?" ”

Granny Jiang put down the needlework in her hand and reminded in a serious voice: "Grandma, this year is your first year in the Sheng family, you have to move around, the elders, and the juniors of the Sheng family, none of them can be negligent, these are gifts prepared by Hexiang." Moreover, at the end of the year, I always have to go back to my parents' house to send the New Year, and there are few things. ”

"New Year?" Shen Yu raised her hand and pinched the corner of her forehead, she married the Sheng family for half a year, and had very little contact with the Shen family, so she naturally forgot about this so-called maiden family.

The Shen family has repeatedly intervened in the Sheng family's business, and Shen Yu has already made her position clear, since she is married to Sheng Yanming, she will not return to the Shen family.

However, these are all private entanglements between her and the Shen family, and outsiders don't know about them.

Granny Jiang has been in Fuyunju for a long time, and she also knows something from Hexiang's mouth, and she said bitterly:

"Grandma, my mother's family is the foundation of a person, and if I don't have a good relationship with my mother's family, I will be laughed at by outsiders. Anyway, the Shen family is also a big family in Qingshui Town, and something is better than nothing. If you still have to go to send the New Year, you have the right to go through the motions and make a show in front of outsiders. ”

Shen Yu nodded, it seems that she has to go to this New Year, and she has to go if she doesn't go.

Otherwise, the eldest lady would definitely poke her backbone and taunt, and the second lady did not know what kind of rumors to walk in private.

Make up your mind, take advantage of the morning and not the evening, on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, Shen Yu took a large bag of gifts and went to Shen's house.

In the central street of Qingshui Town, the Shen family and the Sheng family are only separated by a few streets, the vermilion lacquer gate is majestic and magnificent, and there are two grinning stone lions standing in front of the door.

Hexiang stepped forward and knocked on the door, and after a while, the maid opened the door lazily.

Seeing Shen Yu, the maid lazily closed the door again and said, "Wait!" ”

Shen Yu didn't expect that she would be so unpopular in the Shen family, and looked at Hexiang suspiciously.

He Xiang also felt that the Shen family was too arrogant and rude, her eyebrows wrinkled into Sichuan characters, and said: "Although the slave maid is the maid of the young lady's dowry, it was temporarily set before the marriage, so the slave and maid don't know about the young lady's past." ”

"But then again, don't hit the smiling person, we brought something over, and we kindly came to send the New Year, they are too much!"

Shen Yu took two steps back, thought about the stone lion at the door, turned to the Sheng guy who was carrying the gift, and said, "Come on, come on, just put the things here, the heart has been delivered, let's go back." ”

The Shen family put up a shelf in front of her, and Shen Yu didn't want to be trampled on.

The left and right are made for others to see, and the inside is gone, so what's the use of saving face?

The servants of the Sheng family were ordering the gifts to be neatly placed outside the gate of the Shen family, but the door creaked open.

A thin mother came out of the door, her hair was meticulously combed, her face was coated with grease, her back was straight, she pinched her handkerchief, and stood firmly in front of the door to look at Shen Yu.

"Mother Lu? Mrs. is here, and the young grandmother is back to send the New Year. Hexiang stepped forward.

Mother Lu reached out and stroked the hair on her sideburns, and said indifferently, "Come in." ”

Shen Yu has a little impression of this Lu's mother, when she married into the Sheng family, Lu's mother once came to the Sheng family and asked her whether she was going to stay or staying, thinking that she was a celebrity in front of Mrs. Shen.

Mother Lu led the way in front with her little feet, and Shen Yu put her hands behind her back, while walking, she leisurely looked at the Shen family's house.

The Sheng family is a scholarly family, and the servants have been working for a long time, and they are as modest and polite as the master, speaking softly and softly, and smiling from time to time.

The Shen family's compound is as majestic as the two stone lions standing outside the door. The servants were buried in their work, there was not even basic communication, and the silence in the courtyard was terrible.

After walking for a long time, all the way through the corridor and through the courtyard, Lu's mother finally stopped in front of a courtyard gate in the backyard.

To Shen Yu's surprise, this courtyard was incompatible with the prestige of the Shen family's compound, and from the outside, it was an ordinary farm yard.

Mother Lu covered her nose with a handkerchief and snorted softly: "Mrs. Shen is busy entertaining distinguished guests in the main hall, this time for the sake of your sincerity, let your mother and daughter meet." She's right in there, look at her and go quickly. ”

Shen Yu stood outside the dilapidated wooden door and stared at the dilapidated courtyard for a while.

"Our mother and daughter? Could it be that my mother lives here? She muttered.

He Xiang also looked ignorant, she was arranged by Mrs. Shen to serve Shen Yu before the wedding, and she didn't know much about Shen Yu's affairs.

Now that I think about it, Mrs. Shen did this in order to conceal the truth.

A gray-haired woman came out of the room, wearing a shabby black cloth cotton jacket, she came out with a basin to pour water, and when she looked up, she met Shen Yu's puzzled gaze.

The basin in the woman's hand fell to the ground with a clatter, and she looked up to say something, but her throat stammered.

Mother Lu pointed to the gift behind Shen Yu, and said coldly: "Your good girl has come back to see you, it's okay, it's okay, people have seen it, and things have been delivered, let's go." ”

As she spoke, Mother Lu began to push and shove, urging Shen Yu to leave quickly.

The woman in the courtyard finally couldn't help crying, she walked a few steps quickly to catch up, and looked at Shen Yu, her face full of tears.

Shen Yu's heart shrank into a ball, and before she could ask clearly, the maid slammed the dilapidated wooden door shut, blocking her vision.

Mother Lu's voice sounded in Shen Yu's ears, "Shen Yu, don't think that you have been the eldest and youngest grandmother of the Sheng family for a few days, and no one will look down on you, don't forget, you are just a maid next to my young lady." You grew up eating the rice of the Shen family, and you and your sick mother don't know how much favor you have received from the Shen family, you had better remember this clearly. ”

Mother Lu is the person next to Mrs. Shen, and she is obviously used to being arrogant, and her words are full of ridicule.

Shen Yu came back to her senses, she raised her head, swept her eyes, her cold gaze slid over Mother Lu's face, and she said leisurely: "Mother Lu, there is a Shen family in Qingshui Town, but don't forget, there is also a Sheng family." Listen to your accent is a native of Qingshui Town, I don't know how many people in your family have planted a few acres of land, and where are your husbands and children begging for a living? ”