Jiapingguan Chronicle

"more than?"

Shen Zhonghe looked at Liang Jieque. He suddenly felt so powerless and didn't know whether he should sigh. In these short two hours, he felt like he had lived in vain for decades. He thought he knew everything and had everything under control, but the reality slapped him hard. He knew nothing, not even the origins of his family.

He suddenly felt at a loss, not because his elders had hidden many things from him, but because he really, as Liang Jieque said, didn't care about his family at all.

"sorry!"

Shen Zhonghe suddenly said such a sentence, which startled Liang Jieque, but when she saw Shen Zhonghe with a guilty look on his face, she breathed a sigh of relief and showed a faint smile towards him.

"You don't have to feel guilty and feel like you don't pay attention to us. In fact, this is a decision we made. If the grudges are resolved in our generation, then naturally you don't need to know. You don't have to be like us for this. , you are on tenterhooks all day long, right? Seriously, these people have more or less nothing to do with you, right?"

"Although that's the case, as a member of the Shen family, I shouldn't just ignore everything and ask nothing."

"Isn't it all in the past?" Liang Jieque smiled, "It's not too late for you to know now. Anyway, in your generation, this remaining problem will always have to be completely solved. It can't be solved again." Keep going.”

"You're right." Shen Zhonghe thought for a while, "Just now you said that the nanny not only said those words, but what else did she do?"

"Because your grandfather didn't know that her purpose was to be his concubine, and he didn't know that this was how your grandmother's dowry girl came, so he didn't take her seriously. Your grandmother asked her to be a wet nurse. The only request he made was that the nanny must not live at home. In fact, this request was unreasonable, at least when your second uncle was still very young and had not yet been weaned, this was indeed too much. But your grandmother agreed, The wet nurse stayed at home during the day and returned to her own home at night. To make it easier for the wet nurse to come to work at home, your grandmother also lent her a small yard under her name to live in. This small yard is very close to our home, just a few steps away. We can reach it all the way, and if there is an accident and we need her help, we can get there in time.”

"Looking at it this way, her grandparents are very good to her family. She actually treats her like a donkey. Isn't it a little too much?"

"If she had known what it meant to repay a favor, things like what happened later would not have happened." Liang Jieque sighed, "They say people's hearts are not as good as snakes swallowing elephants, and we have learned the lesson from her. To be honest, my father, mother, and even my eldest brother and sister-in-law don’t know very well whether my adoptive mother agreed to her request, so she regarded the Shen family’s things as her own and did those things as a matter of course.”

"What request did you agree to?" Shen Zhonghe frowned slightly and said, "Did I want to give her something, but before I could give it to her, my grandmother passed away. So, she desperately wanted to ask for what she thought was hers. Her stuff.”

"It's possible." Liang Jieque nodded, "But no one knows exactly what happened."

"My grandfather doesn't know either?" "I don't know!" Liang Jieque shook her head gently, "If she knew, wouldn't it be easier to handle? We wouldn't let her act like this, right?"

"That's true." Shen Zhonghe nodded, "So, what did she do?"

"Finding that she couldn't get close to her adoptive father and couldn't have a relationship beyond master and servant, she had no choice but to keep driving a wedge between her eldest brother and her second brother. She told her second brother that the eldest brother didn't like her when her adoptive mother was pregnant. He always looked at his adoptive mother's belly with a gloomy look, saying that after he was born, his eldest brother tried to get rid of him several times."

"This kind of thing, if you just say it without any proof, you have to come up with real evidence, right?"

"This kind of thing that scares children and talks nonsense to children needs real evidence." Liang Jieque sneered, "She kept instilling in the second brother that the eldest brother didn't like him, and she kept instilling that everything about the Shen family was It belongs to the second brother and has nothing to do with the eldest brother. Then she slandered the eldest brother in front of her adoptive father, saying that the eldest brother disrespected her and touched her. He also said that the eldest brother was not good to the second brother and had a tendency to abuse the second brother."

"Does my grandfather believe it?"

"Of course I don't believe it!" Liang Jieque rolled his eyes, "Do you think your grandfather is a fuel-saving lamp? Although he changed his surname to Shen, he is still a small clan left over from the previous dynasty. That is the real origin of family education. Those Children from small clans can learn everything. There is nothing you can’t think of. There is nothing they don’t learn. From music, chess, calligraphy and painting to dealing with people, including how to manage household affairs, they must be proficient in everything. Those cultivated by such a family are not wet nurses. Those who come from a short-sighted family can compare. So, what the nanny says, the adoptive father listens with one ear and listens with the other, and he is not worried at all that the nanny will lead the second brother astray. "

"Why?" Shen Zhonghe was puzzled, "My second brother was still a child at that time, so it's easy to listen to other people's beliefs, isn't it?"

"Although he didn't have any judgment ability at the time, as long as he was sent to school, he would correct himself. And he believed in his son very much and would not be taken away so easily. What's more, although the eldest brother seemed a bit unapproachable on the surface , but he is still a very good person. I have been playing with my second brother since he was very young. The relationship between the two brothers is not as tense as the wet nurse said, so the adoptive father is not worried at all. "

"Is it really?"

"Yes, in fact, your grandfather was right. The eldest brother is indeed a bit busy and is always away from home, but he likes and cares about his younger brother very much. He will bring anything interesting he sees to his second brother. One share, if other people’s children have it, he must have it too.”

"This..." Shen Zhonghe nodded, "That's true. Until I was born, I had the impression that my father always bought whatever good things were on the street for my second uncle, whether they were fun or good. Food is always given to my second uncle first, and then to me. It’s just that occasionally, my father doesn’t care about me, and it takes several days before he thinks of me.”

"Indeed." Liang Jieque nodded, "When I was young, I always got angry because of this kind of thing. I would fight with your second uncle and rob your second uncle's things. But all of this was because this wet nurse was kicked out. Otherwise, , it won’t be so good. This time the eldest brother was killed, there was some resentment and strangeness between the brothers, mainly because the second brother unilaterally had some resentment towards the eldest brother. "