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Chapter 29 No matter how good it is, it is not Xie.

At night, Shen's father tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. For a while, he thought that Xie's father could hide, and the twists and turns in his stomach could make zongzi, and for a while, he hated himself for being blind. Hardly found it.

But then I thought again, isn't it because Xie Yuan is so good that people don't want to believe that she is a girl?
That's why he ignored so many suspicious things.

Hey... Xie Yuan is a girl, it would be great if he were a boy, God is so violent!
... But Xie Yuan is a good girl, and she never imagined that Xie Yuan could be his daughter-in-law before.

After thinking about it, he began to hate his son for not living up to expectations, so he simply ran to his son's bedside and slapped him up:

"Lazy! You don't want to let you practice martial arts. Xie Yuan's family status is higher than yours, and his fists are better than yours. From now on, you will only have to be beaten!"

Shen Liuzhen slept so sweetly that he was woken up by his father in the middle of the night. He should have gotten up angrily, but his father's inexplicable worry completely overwhelmed him.

He rubbed his eyes, looked at his father's dark circles, and asked speechlessly: "Father, don't you, you stay up late at night, worried that I will be beaten by A Yuan?...Obviously you beat me more, A Yuan has such a good character, so he won't hit people casually!"

"Bah! Am I afraid that you will be beaten? I hate you for not being able to live up to your expectations!" Father Shen also felt that he was a little nervous, so he scolded you on the air of being a father, turned around and left.

Shen Liuzhen looked at the wide open door, the moon was shining brightly outside.He sat on the bed in a daze, so angry that his stomach hurt, he closed his eyes for a while, and fell asleep again.

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In the memory of the two nine-year-old children, the so-called marriage contract is nothing more than what an adult has mentioned.

They are still young and don't know the importance of this marriage contract to a person. They still go to class together, fight and bicker together, and occasionally join together to skip class.

They lived innocently as before, Xie Yuan was obsessed with martial arts, Shen Liuzhen was obsessed with the books in Xie's library, holding a book all day long and couldn't take his eyes off.

But even if they are so heartless, they can still feel that the atmosphere at home is quite different from before.

On this day, Father Shen still did not come back from the barracks.Shen Liuzhen came to Xie's house for dinner as usual.

Mrs. Xie was sitting at the dining table, looking at the table full of dishes and losing her appetite, she just kept staring at the two children opposite.

Father Xie knew that she had a heavy heart recently, so he thoughtfully put root vegetables in her bowl, and gently reminded her:

"Ma'am, eat quickly, what are you doing in a daze?"

Mrs. Xie didn't move, she looked at Shen Liuzhen dimly and said, "... Liuzhen is good, but no matter how good he is, his surname is not Xie."

Shen Liuzhen and Xie Yuan didn't know why, so they raised their eyes and looked at her.

At this time, Father Xie sighed, and comforted him: "Madam...it doesn't matter what your surname is. The key is the classics and knowledge passed down by the Xie family. We live next to each other, and Liu Zhen is one of our sons."

Father Xie said, as if he was afraid that his words would not be convincing enough, he turned to Shen Liuzhen and asked with a smile:
"Liu Zhen, would you like to be my wife's son?"

Although Shen Liuzhen didn't know what Mrs. Xie was worried about, she still replied obediently:

"I have long regarded my wife as my own mother... I have lost my mother since I was a child, and my wife is my own mother. I will definitely honor my wife in the future."

"Look..." Father Xie turned to look at Mrs. Xie.

But Mrs. Xie's eyes were blurred with tears, she looked at Shen Liuzhen and Xie Yuan, and cried out loudly as she watched, sobbing so hard that she couldn't make a sound.

She felt that she had broken the etiquette of her elders by being so gaffe in front of her children, so she quickly got up and turned her head back.

Father Xie was in a hurry, told the two children to have a good meal, and rushed over to see her.

Xie Yuan put down his chopsticks, took a few steps forward, hid behind the pillar, and listened to them.

I only heard her mother say intermittently:

"If A Yuan is a son, I don't have to feel guilty to this point... You don't care if the Xie family has a descendant, it's because the reason is not on you... If I die, what will the ancestors who met the Xie family say?...Why? Said, it was all because of me being unvirtuous and unvirtuous. After Xie’s family was left out in the cold, I can’t bear such a big crime... Don’t talk about it, I have made up my mind... If you don’t take a concubine, I will hang myself Kill yourself to make room for future generations!"

"Ma'am!" Father Xie's soft and gentle voice suddenly rose in fear, and then he heard her mother, Mrs. Xie's extremely wronged cry...

Xie Yuan stood in front of the pillar, at a loss. He couldn't understand that her parents had always been kind and loving...why did they quarrel like this?

Just because there is no son in the family?

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For the next few days, the mansion was always gloomy. Even when Father Xie was teaching them, his mind was always distracted, he would sigh at every turn, and before he could say a few words, he let the two of them figure it out by themselves, and then went out.

Mrs. Xie's health was also deteriorating, the bedroom was always filled with the smell of medicine dregs, and even the servants and maids below would often gather together to chirp in a low voice, revealing a gloomy atmosphere of an imminent event.

Seeing Xie Yuan pass by, he would change the topic and make fun of her, saying:
"A Yuan, where's your little husband, why isn't he with you?"

"Who said he is my husband? It is my wife! I am his husband!" Xie Yuan frowned, passing by with a condensed face, and said dissatisfied.

"Hahahahaha..." Those who were covering their mouths, and their eyes were flying, were laughing at her.

Xie Yuan ran to Shen's house and complained to Shen Liuzhen:
"My mother is ill, my father is in a state of distress every day, and the maids and servants in the family are really getting worse and worse."

Shen Liuzhen was sitting under a tree reading a book. After hearing this, he sandwiched a red thread between the books, closed the book and stood up, saying:

"You teach them a lesson!"

"Come on, when will I do it well? If I do it, my father will definitely think that I am bullying the servant." Xie Yuan lowered his eyes, clasped the bark of the tree with his hands, and said aggrievedly.

Shen Liuzhen smiled, showing two innocent and lovely dimples on his cheeks, and said, "I'll help you. If you take care of them, they can be cured, but they can't be picked out."

So for a long time later, Shen Liuzhen carried a picture book with him, with an inkstone and a brush in his strap, and he chose a place to sit and start drawing.

It is said that Father Xie assigned the homework. Recently, Xie Yuan and Xie Yuan have to draw more than ten pictures every day, and then hand them over to the owner at night.

Is that painting good? It's not very good.At the beginning, people said that Shen Liuzhen was purely dealing with errands, and the painting was a joke, until later the servants of the Xie Mansion discovered that the people and objects in the painting knew who they were, where they were, and what they were doing at a glance. Gradually figured out the taste...

(End of this chapter)