The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 1240: Shu's Angry Words
"Sister-in-law, what nonsense are you talking about in broad daylight? If my elder brother wasn't our parents' biological son, with my father's temper, would he be willing to spend money and effort to raise him? The elder brother over there is still my father's nephew. Do you think he loves him more?
If it is true as my sister-in-law said, that my eldest brother is not our biological son, my father would rather marry him than adopt him. If that were the case, you would not be standing in the mansion crying and making a scene in front of the elders like you are now!"

The appearance of Sheng Yuan startled Shu, who was already crying loudly. When she heard her unreasonable words, she was choked and fell backwards.

"You, you, you..." This was the first time that Shu had seen Sheng Yuan being so impolite since she married into the Yongxing Marquis' Mansion. She was shocked and angry, but also a little at a loss.

"Sister-in-law always says that your Shu family governs the family with etiquette, but you don't know that the younger generation ran to the elders' courtyard and made a lot of nonsense, crying and asking what etiquette is. Why don't you publish a book so that we can see it and learn from it."

Shu was flustered and at a loss for words for a moment, but Sheng Yuan's sarcasm did not end. She walked up the stairs with a smile on her face, stopped two steps higher than Shu, and looked straight into her eyes.

He didn't look stern, but when those dark eyes looked at her brightly and coldly, Shu shuddered inexplicably.

"Yuan Jie'er, you don't know anything. It's inappropriate to talk like this, right?" Shu Shi reacted and stared at Sheng Yuan with embarrassment. "I am your eldest brother's legitimate wife after all. Which married sister-in-law would talk to her sister-in-law like this?"

"Look at what you're saying! I don't know if other families have such sisters-in-law, but we do! Look, I'm standing right in front of you, what? Can't you see it?!"

Sheng Yuan gestured, sat on the chair brought by Xiaoyao, tilted his head to look at Shu, and looked at her with curiosity: "Don't talk to me about your eldest brother's 'legitimate wife', how can you be so embarrassed!

You are disrespectful to my parents, and you are still arguing with me about the rules! If I get angry, I might not even recognize my eldest brother, let alone his "legitimate wife"!

If I really want to argue, I would like to take you to Shuntian Prefecture and accuse you of being disrespectful to your elders and unfilial to your uncle!"

Sheng Yuan nodded at the other party with a half-smile, showing off his authority, saying in a strange and merciless tone: "Oh, look at my memory. You just said that I didn't know the previous situation and shouldn't get involved, right?! You probably don't know my temper?! I'll teach you, as long as it has something to do with my parents, I will always be more lenient with my relatives! If anyone makes my parents unhappy, I will make her whole family unhappy! Oh, the 'family' here refers specifically to your Shu family."

"Sheng Yuan!" Shu looked at Sheng Yuan in front of her and felt that she had seen the real version of a treacherous minister. He was so hateful!

"Why are you shouting so loudly? Did you cry so hard that your ears were deafened? Do you think you spoke too softly?" Sheng Yuan looked at him sympathetically and raised his chin towards Yun Jing next to him. "I'll ask the court doctor to go to your Zhengyuan Hall and have a look. Maybe a few injections will help him recover!"

"You, you, you, you are so unreasonable!" Shu felt like there was a ball of anger in her chest that was about to explode. She turned her head to ask her parents-in-law to take care of it, but when she looked over, she found that the old couple were no longer there.

"Madam, Marquis Ancheng just coaxed the Duke and his wife into the house." Yun Jing lowered his head, pursed his lips, and reminded in a low voice.

"..." Shu held her head and pointed at Sheng Yuan, wanting to scold her. Unexpectedly, Sheng Yuan spoke faster than her. Before she could finish her words, Sheng Yuan's sarcastic words reached her ears again, "Unreasonable? Even if it is unreasonable, it is better than being ignorant and fearless and making trouble out of nothing!"

"You!" Shu's face changed. She heard the hidden meaning in Sheng Yuan's words and looked at him in surprise and suspicion.

Sheng Yuan stood up slowly, holding the handrail: "The wife of the Yongxing Marquis's son, the future wife of a super-class marquis...isn't this honor enough? You want a position of power that doesn't belong to you, but don't you consider whether you can afford the price you have to pay?"

"What do you mean by enough? What do you mean by not enough? People go to high places and water flows to low places. If you don't take what God gives you, you will suffer the consequences. You must understand this, right? " When it comes to the thing that Shu cares about most, she forgot about her fear.

Sheng Yuan sneered, "You are right, but what has God promised you? What has the emperor given you? Are you relying on your imagination to rise to the top? If you really want to make progress, you can! The current court has given girls many ways out... whether it's taking the imperial examinations, doing business, or even writing books and compiling history to leave your name in the future! That's a real talent! It's not that I look down on you, but if you have the ability to stir up trouble over the issue of the crown prince, can't you step out of the Marquis's mansion and take a look at the world?"

"You said all this just to mock me, thinking that I didn't have real ability to ascend to the throne by relying on my husband and children! But what's the difference between me marrying into the Yongxing Marquis' Mansion and you being born into the Yongxing Marquis' Mansion? They say getting married is a second reincarnation. You and I were both born into a good family by chance. Why can you be born noble and proud, while I have to be treated coldly and looked down upon because of it!"

"Since you married into the Marquis' Mansion, my parents have never been harsh or contemptuous of you, and my sister and I have been respectful and humble to you! Have you forgotten all the things you have done time and time again? If it were someone else, the divorce papers would have piled up like a mountain! It's you who refuses to be content and insists on conspiring with the Shengguo Mansion! How come you're already quarreling over the uneven distribution of spoils before you've even achieved your goal?"

Sheng Yuan laughed out loud: "Although I am used to seeing such cases in Shuntian Prefecture, Dali Temple, and Metropolitan Procuratorate, I still find it funny whenever I hear something like this!"

"It seems... you know everything." Shu narrowed her eyes and looked at Sheng Yuan.

"Haha, the abacus beads between you and Duke Sheng have jumped out two miles away. It's hard for me not to figure it out!" Although Sheng Yuan didn't know the reason why Shu was crying, it didn't affect her from asking questions indirectly.

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"Since you know clearly, you should know that things have different priorities and people have different closeness and distance!" Shu looked at Sheng Yuan in confusion, "You have a grudge against Duke Sheng, so you should not support his offspring to become the candidate for the Queen's adopted son."

“……” Sheng Yuan really didn’t know about this.

"Are you out of your mind? The Crown Prince has only been missing temporarily, and the Emperor and Empress are now trying their best to find him. You and Duke Sheng are suggesting that the Empress adopt a child at this time?! Are you afraid that the Emperor and Empress are too rational?!" Sheng Yuan had never seen such a blind person.

"If we don't mention it now, what about in the future? There must be a rule for this matter, right? Others may not say anything, but the people involved... are they going to pretend to be ignorant?!"