The High Gate Mistress of Rebirth

Chapter 52

When she got into the carriage, Jing Shu was still in a drowsy state. As soon as the carriage rolled up, she leaned on Li Ling's shoulder and closed her eyelids and fell asleep.

"It's almost there, wake up." It wasn't until Li Ling called her that Jing Shu opened her eyes in a daze, opened the curtain of the car and glanced outside, the horses and carriages had entered the alley, and they would be home after a short walk.

Having not returned to her mother's house for half a year, Jing Shu is ready to return home at this moment, she took out the small bronze mirror from the package, took a photo from left to right, and tidied up her clothes quickly.

She hasn't been home for so long, she has to let her family see her glamorous self.

Jing Shu was here, but she saw Li Ling beside him cast a serious look at him, she looked at him with a stiff face and said, "Why are you looking at me like this?"

Li Ling didn't speak, but pouted towards his shoulder.

Jing Shu took advantage of the situation and looked over, only to see that there was a small piece of wet there.

Could it be that when I leaned on him to sleep just now?
Jing Shu subconsciously covered her mouth with a veil.

"I'm going to go to the palace to face the Holy Spirit later." Li Ling said with a heavy glance at her with his deep eyes.

Jing Shu turned sideways, quickly wiped his wet clothes with a handkerchief, and said with an embarrassed smile, "I'm really sorry."

Li Ling snatched the handkerchief, slapped it a few times, gritted his teeth and said to her: "When you go back tonight, you will wash this official uniform for me yourself. If you can't wash it well, you won't be able to sleep tonight."

Jing Shu let out a "tss" and retorted him: "If you hadn't been too much last night, how could I have fallen asleep in the car from exhaustion, and how could I have spit on you."

Li Ling tugged at her ear angrily: "You have reason, don't you?"

Jing Shu opened his hand and gave him a blank look: "You deserve it for dirtying your clothes!"

With a gloating expression, she looked very annoying.

Li Ling's face sank, he glared at him and said, "Talking to me like this is going against you!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to grab her ear again.

Jing Shu hurriedly opened the curtain of the car, and shouted to the family members waiting at the door: "Father, mother, I'm back."

With that said, the car arrived at the gate of Shen's house, the driver stopped the car, Li Ling got up first, before getting out of the car, he turned his head to Jing Shu, and said bitterly in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "You are so arrogant! ! Let's see how I deal with you when I go back tonight."

Li Ling jumped out of the carriage and reached out to help Jing Shu out of the carriage.

Shen's father, his step-wife Wang, together with sister Shen Jinglan and Wang's youngest son Shen Xing, the whole family had been waiting at the gate for a long time.

Shen's father, Shen De'an, was naturally delighted to see that the son-in-law of a high family also accompanied his daughter to celebrate his birthday. Wang half-hid behind Shen's father and glanced at the extraordinary son-in-law and the brilliantly dressed stepdaughter, his eyes darkened, and couldn't help it. He looked towards his two sons and daughters.

The two daughters she gave birth to were naturally extremely beautiful, but they lost their luster in front of this stepdaughter.

It's no wonder that I was just Jiang's handmaid back then, so how could her daughter be compared to Jiang's daughter.

Wang Shi was making random calculations here, and Shen Jingshu had already walked up to her in a graceful manner, and greeted her with a smile.

Wang quickly came back to her senses, and exchanged warm greetings with her stepdaughter.As they got closer, the tired look in Jing Shu's eyes naturally fell into her eyes. She remembered that her stepdaughter was also like this when she returned home in Sanchao.

She is someone who has experienced it, so she naturally knows why the woman is so tired.

He couldn't help but look at the noble son-in-law who was chatting with her husband: After being married for so long, this son-in-law is still so enthusiastic about his stepdaughter, and her heart sank again.

My eldest daughter is now at the age of marriage, so it would be great if she could also get such good luck.

Li Ling wanted to rush into the palace, he exchanged greetings with Father Shen at the gate, ordered his attendants to present the birthday gifts they had brought, and left in a hurry.

Seeing that my uncle had left, Mrs. Wang couldn't help but asked, "My uncle came here so easily, why did he leave without entering the door?"

Jingshu replied: "He is going to the palace to face the saint today, so there is no delay."

Shen Jinglan asked: "Then will brother-in-law come back later?"

Jing Shu smiled: "If you come back early, you may be able to catch up with your father's birthday banquet, but if you are late, there is nothing you can do."

Shen Jingxuan looked at Jingshu, and said quietly: "Brother-in-law is so handsome!"

Shen Xing also echoed: "Brother-in-law is really a handsome man!"

Shen Jingxuan glanced at her younger brother as if she was a bosom friend, and muttered: "If you can't come, brother-in-law will be really at a loss."

Shen Xing wondered: "Why did brother-in-law lose money?"

Shen Jingxuan rolled her eyes at her younger brother, and said angrily, "What a nerd, my brother-in-law has given you so many birthday presents, if you don't get the birthday banquet, you will be at a disadvantage."

Jing Shu looked at the young girl and said with a smile, "Xuan'er still hasn't changed her gluttonous temperament."

Shen's father echoed: "Her! I can't change it, and I don't know what will happen in the future to marry such a glutton as a daughter-in-law."

Shen Jingxuan was so ashamed that she hid behind Jingshu. Shen Xing heard his father taunting Sister Xuan, and clapped his hands happily: "If the third sister can marry, a sow can climb a tree!"

Shen Jingxuan was so angry that she beat him, and the siblings chased him all the way in.

The whole family entered the mansion lively, and Jing Shu accompanied her father and Mrs. Wang to chat in the front hall for a while, and then proposed to go back to the courtyard in her boudoir. Father Shen said: "Your mother knows that you are coming back today." , took people to clean up last night, you just go to rest."

Shen Jingxuan heard the words, and said unfairly: "Eldest sister is married, I want to live in my sister's yard, but my father just refuses, it's really partial."

In front of the father, the siblings often complained about the father's partiality, but Shen's father had long been accustomed to it, and he did indeed favor the eldest daughter.

The eldest daughter is the son of the first wife, so it is different in terms of affection.

Jingshu said to her father: "If Xuan'er wants to live in that courtyard, just let her live in it. Now that I'm out of the pavilion, why should I leave it empty?"

"That's right." Shen Jingxuan agreed with her lips pouted.

Father Shen glared at Xuannv, and replied: "Although you are out of the pavilion, you will always go back to your mother's house. If you have time, you can stay for a few nights. I am afraid that you will not be used to living in other places."

Her father had been planning for her wholeheartedly since she was a child. Her father was born in a merchant family, but he was talented. Her mother, who was born in an official family, had taken a fancy to her father's character and talent.The grandparents had only one daughter, and although they had a poor background, they agreed to marry her to satisfy her wish.

After marriage, the two were naturally in harmony, but later the father was promoted and went to the capital, and the mother was pregnant with her and her body was weak. When she arrived in the capital, she was not acclimatized, but she returned to Chaozhou to raise a baby, and she hurt her body when she gave birth. , has been staying in Chaozhou.

The mother is a very kind and good-natured person. She was worried that her father would be left alone in Beijing without anyone to take care of her, so she raised her personal maid, who is now Mrs. Wang, as his father's concubine, and asked her to come to Beijing to take care of him all the time. Should live.

Although his father had a concubine, he had always had a deep affection for his mother. Whenever he had free time, he would go back to visit their mother and daughter regardless of the severe cold and heat. Later, he tried many times to bring their mother and daughter back to the capital.However, Xu Shi's mother had no chance with this prosperous capital after all, and every time she came to Beijing, she would get seriously ill.

When she was six years old, her father was promoted to participate in politics from the fourth rank, and she was busy with political affairs and had no time to go back to Chaozhou, so her mother took her all the way to the capital. She was seriously ill again, and in the end there was no cure , just left their father and daughter behind.

When my mother passed away, my father was only 30 years old. He was a friendly and honest official, and there were many people who came to my grandmother's house ahead of time. When she was young, she was angered by her stepmother, so she helped her concubine Wang to be upright. He thought that Wang was an honest person and that she was his mother's personal maid during her lifetime, so she would definitely not let her be wronged.

Although Wang gave birth to two daughters and a boy for her father, her father preferred her the most among these children.

The younger siblings naturally complained about their father's partiality, but fortunately, the elder sister treated them kindly, so the father's partiality did not cause any rift between her and the younger siblings.

(End of this chapter)