Zhu Men Ji Shi

Chapter 34 The Dowry
Lu Qiufeng walked around the official's house all the year round, and he knew how to speak and handle things. He nodded repeatedly and said: "Don't worry, old lady, I only practice medicine to save people and treat diseases. I won't say a word that shouldn't be said."

After Lu Qiufeng left, the old lady returned to the inner room, and she couldn't help feeling sour when she met Shen Yuechen's slightly red eyes from the pain.Originally, I had planned everything well, as long as this marriage is facilitated, I can sit back and relax.Unexpectedly, they encountered such a problem. A woman who is infertile is like a useless person. Sooner or later, she will be abandoned by her husband and kicked out of the house... If this is the case, wouldn't the Shen family have to use a bamboo basket to fetch water?

Thinking of this, the expression on the old lady's face suddenly became sad.

Yao shi was beside her, and couldn't help saying sarcastic remarks: "My body is so weak, I should have confessed earlier, so that we can find a way to take care of you! It seems that you are all about to get married. , how can you still be so confused?"

Shen Yuechen sweated profusely from the pain, bit her lip slightly, and said softly, "I'm useless, that makes grandma and mother worry so much..."

According to her previous status in the family, let alone abdominal pain, even if she died of a sudden illness, no one would care.So it's useless to say it, obviously they are indifferent to her, but now, everything is her fault.

Shen Yuechen felt like a dumb person eating coptis. Fortunately, the old lady still had a conscience. She glared at Yao Shi and said angrily, "As a mother, when you see your child is sick, you should take care of it with your heart. Why bother?" He also said such nonchalant sarcastic remarks, which made people feel uncomfortable."

No matter how much you don't care about it in your heart, at any rate, you still have to work hard on the surface.

Yao Shi is usually good at everything, but his mouth sometimes speaks too harshly, which often makes people feel bored.

Hearing the words, Yao Shi felt a little unconvinced, thinking that Shen Yuechen's body was useless, and even if she entered Zhu's family, she would be rejected by her husband's family, so she continued: "Mother, I feel worthless for you! In order to prepare a dowry for her, you even paid for your own money..."

"Money, money, money! You know money!" The old lady shook her head again, and interrupted her with a sigh: "Money is not the only important thing in this world. A child is so young, and he has to suffer like this. Don't you It doesn't hurt to look at it... Forget it, go back and rest first, I don't need you here."

Yao shi was pushed back by the old lady's few words, his face turned red and white at times, so he could only turn around and leave resentfully.

She never expected that the old lady would speak so harshly for Shen Yuechen herself, she was furious for a while, and lost her temper after returning home.

The old lady stayed in Shen Yuechen's room all the time, watching Wu Ma feed her ginger and brown sugar water spoonful by spoonful.After drinking some hot water and putting on the stove again, Shen Yuechen's abdominal pain began to gradually ease. She lay down on the bed with her long eyelashes flickering. People are distressed.

The old lady looked at it, and for the first time felt a little distressed for her from the bottom of her heart. She sighed lightly, touched Shen Yuechen's head, and said: "Don't take what your mother said to heart, you are still young. Slowly it will be fine.”

In fact, she also suffered from body cold and abdominal pain when she was not out of the cabinet. She married into the Shen family for three years before she gave birth to a son for the old man. After Shen Zhiyun was born, her abdominal pain problem also disappeared.

Shen Yuechen raised her head slowly, and said softly: "Grandmother, Yuechen doesn't really want to hide it, it's just that this body doesn't live up to expectations..."

"Well, I know." The old lady nodded, with a look of helplessness on her face, sighed, and said, "Son, after all, it's all because we didn't take good care of you back then, which made you suffer." ah."

Perhaps, because she is also a woman, she can understand the pain that Shen Yuechen has suffered, and it is rare for the old lady to hold her injustice with her conscience.

When Shen Yuechen heard the words, he couldn't help but gently covered his stomach with his hands, and his eyes turned red silently. How do you know how much I have suffered?
Seeing her drooping her head and looking like she was about to cry, the old lady comforted her and said, "Good boy, you don't have to worry about anything with grandma here. We have money, and we will take good care of it in the future, and there will always be good ones." One day, don't be sad." After finishing speaking, she pulled Shen Yuechen into her arms, patted her shoulder lightly, and sighed repeatedly.

Since she was born, no one in this family has ever hugged her like this, and this is the first time.

There were crystal tears in Shen Yuechen's dark eyes, but she bit her lower lip slightly, without saying a word.

In the dead of night, when the old lady left, the maids also retreated, and Mama Wu quietly closed the door alone.Shen Yuechen, who was lying on the bed in the back room, moved slightly, turned his back to Mama Wu, and asked in a low voice, "Is that Mama Wu?"

Wu Ma responded softly.

Shen Yuechen still turned his back to her, and continued to ask: "How is the big room?"

Wu Ma leaned over to the bed and replied in a soft voice: "The eldest lady and the master had arguing all night, it was quite noisy, and finally it was the old lady who came forward to stop it. The old lady is really moving today. In a fit of anger, in front of all the maids and mothers-in-law, he scolded the eldest wife... so that the eldest wife is still crying in the room."

Wu Ma said this, looked at Shen Yuechen's thin back, and asked: "The old lady has made a name for the young lady today, the young lady must be very happy."

Shen Yuechen's shoulders moved slightly, as if smiling: "The old lady is different from the eldest lady. The old lady is a smart person, and she will not offend others at such a critical time. I know very well in my heart that the reason why they treat me well is because Because of the Zhu family, I don't have to keep this kindness in their head, I might as well remember the Zhu family's kindness more."

After hearing this, Wu Ma felt mixed emotions in her heart, and she simply continued to ask: "Actually, it may not be good for the young lady to tell the old lady about the abdominal pain. After all, the marriage has not yet been consummated. What if something changes?" ..." She only finished speaking halfway, because the following was too inauspicious, so she couldn't continue.

Shen Yuechen turned over, lying flat and looking at the top of his head, the expression on his face was somewhat sad. "It's the most appropriate thing for me to tell them. If it comes out from the Zhu family in the future and embarrasses the old lady face to face, then they will definitely hate me."

It is a fact that she is not in good health.Moreover, things like little days happen every month, and she can't hide it for a while, and there will always be a day when people know about it.

Hearing this, Wu Ma felt that her mind was too heavy, but she didn't dare to ask further, so as not to make her sad, so she quickly changed the topic: "It's getting late. Go to sleep, girl, tomorrow The tailors are going to make a wedding dress for you!"

When Shen Yuechen fell asleep with his thoughts on his mind, Yao Shi in the long room was crying all the time, Shen Zhiyun was disturbed by her, and went to his aunt Qiao's place to rest.The old lady has nothing to do with her, she just makes trouble with her alone.When it was almost the second watch, Yao finally stopped her crying, washed her face, lay down and rested, and the maids who had been following her all the time finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The next day, Shen Zhiyun went to the yamen early to handle errands. The old lady came to Yao Shi and had a long talk with her, asking her to show the generosity that a housewife should have, and not to throw temper tantrums at every turn.He also asked her to read more Buddhist scriptures when she had nothing to do, and calmly learn the principles of life.

On the surface, Yao agreed, nodded slightly and agreed, but secretly, he disdained the old lady's words.

Later, the old lady went to look at Shen Yuechen again, and seeing that she was still lying on the bed and didn't like to move, she asked Mother Li to push the tailor who came to the door, so as not to be known by outsiders.

The old lady was not a short-sighted person, she secretly sent people around to look for reliable prescriptions to nourish the woman's body and warm the palace, and even paid close attention to the folk remedies that were not good.

After the little days passed, Shen Yuechen quickly recovered.When she recovered, the old lady sent Nanny Li to teach her etiquette, from standing posture, sitting posture, to greeting posture, and posture of serving food and tea.

Although Shen Yuechen usually did a good job, he still had to learn from scratch.

The Zhu family is a well-known family, so they should pay attention to rules and etiquette. The old lady did this for her own good. It is a little bit to learn a little. As the saying goes, it is not surprising that there are many people who are polite.

Shen Yuechen studied hard, and by the time she had finished her studies, the wedding date was approaching.

Because they were going to get married in the old mansion in Dezhou, the old lady brought Shen Yuechen back to prepare first, while Shen Zhiyun and Yao shi postponed their departure for a few days until everything was sorted out.

Because she was a girl who was going to get married, Shen Yuechen received preferential treatment everywhere in the Shen family, and everyone around her looked beaming, always with a happy smile on her face, as if she was the one who was going to get married.

As the big day drew nearer, Shen Yuechen calmed down instead, practiced handwriting and handwriting down-to-earth, racked his brains day by day to kill the time, beside her, except for the red hand-embroidered wedding dress, All the other dowries have already been sent to the Zhu family, so she doesn't need to bother.

The dowry of 5000 taels is really not a small sum for the Shen family.However, in the eyes of the Zhu family, these may not be very valuable.Back then, when the Qin family married into Zhu's family, they brought a dowry of tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Seeing the things in his room being tidied up bit by bit, and the stacks of books in the cabinet were also boxed and sealed, Shen Yuechen couldn't help but feel heavy in his heart.

It's only been a few months, and her situation has changed drastically. In a few days, she will no longer be a member of the Shen family, and she will suddenly become a respectable young mistress in the Zhu family's mansion.

Shen Yuechen stretched out his hand to caress the delicate gold thread embroidery pattern on the red wedding dress, his heart trembled slightly, and he kept asking himself repeatedly: "Is this how you get married? Just accept your fate like this, accept it?"

In fact, she never thought about what kind of person she would marry in the future.After so many years of lonely and hard life, she has gradually developed a heart that sees through the world, and her thoughts on people and things have become much lighter.If it wasn't for self-protection, he wouldn't be obedient to the old lady in every possible way.Now, she has all the preferential treatment. Although it feels a bit like suffering, she has already felt a deep sense of crisis.

Shen Yuechen thinks that she is not a peaceful woman willing to spend the rest of her life on the back of others, if time permits, she still wants to leave, get away from this cumbersome and tangled worldly relationship, and find a small place where no one knows her, Don't fight or fight, have simple tea and light food, three meals of food and clothing, and live a happy and stable life that belongs only to you.

Thinking of this, Shen Yuechen immediately pursed her lips and smiled slightly. Such an ordinary and humble wish is now an extravagant wish for her.However, even if it is an extravagant request, she must be prepared.

In Shen Yuechen's hands, there was still some money close to his body, which added up to enough money to buy a few fertile fields in the countryside.However, as a female family member in a deep house, it is not easy to do some business and save some private money without the eyes of everyone. She needs a reliable and responsible person to run errands instead of herself, and at the moment she Besides Wu Ma, there was no one she could trust by her side.

While thinking about it, Chun Ming came into the room to exchange tea, and when she saw Shen Yuechen staring at the wedding dress, she smiled slightly and said, "Miss, do you want to practice calligraphy today?"

Shen Yuechen came back to her senses, took a careful look at Chunming, and suddenly realized that she was also a pretty woman from a close look, with regular features, delicate features, and a pair of bright eyes.Looking at it, she slowly began to think about it.

(End of this chapter)