leisurely wife

Chapter 34 Departure (3)
The big family pays attention to eating without talking or sleeping. After the meal is quiet, each servant girl will bring tea in a small tea tray, rinse her mouth and wash her hands, and serve the tea again. Mrs. Shi said: "I am out today. , what kind of situation is it?"

Du Yingran's words to Haitang were the same to her grandmother, Mrs. Shi, as before, just like Haitang's, with a hesitant voice, with some uncertainty at the end.

Mrs. Shi fiddled with the Buddhist beads in her hand, and each one was shining brightly under the illumination of the palace lantern, and she raised her eyes to look at Du Yingran.

Mrs. Zhou sat at the bottom, and said with a smile at this time: "It's good to take a walk outside, but you are too quiet, and Hua'er is not in the mansion, so I can't blame you for being lonely."

Du Yingran lowered her head slightly, as if hesitating to speak.

Mrs. Shi said, "Yingran, what's the matter today? Even your grandmother wants to hide it?"

"Don't dare to do that." Du Yingran said, "Going out today, there is indeed something wrong, I don't want to talk about it."

"Oh?" Mrs. Shi said, "Tell me what you say."

"I went to Jidi Alley today, but I never thought I would meet my father." Du Yingran bit her lower lip with her beautiful white teeth, with a look of thought for her father, "Daddy said that he wanted to settle down in Beijing and let Ying However, Yingran agreed to her sister before, and has been staying in the Qi residence, and I..." The older sister here refers to Qi Zhuohua.Back then, Qi Zhuohua took great pains to keep Du Yingran in Beijing, and even made Du Yingran swear.

Mrs. Zhou patted Du Yingran's hand with a smile, her phoenix eyes were soft, and said: "What happened to me at that time, it's hard for you to have a heart, and I still remember Hua'er's words. It's just the words of children, it's rare that you Daddy went to Beijing to accompany him, that's why."

"Sister really won't blame me?" Du Yingran raised her head and looked at Mrs. Zhou, "I made an oath with my sister." She lowered her head as if embarrassed.

The original Zhou's treatment of Du Yingran can be said to be mediocre. When Du Yingran was lively at the beginning, she still felt a little naive and cute. Since Du Yingran's courage became smaller day by day, she couldn't get along with her, let alone such a timid Du Yingran. It was even more awkward and displeased to be favored by the mistress of the Meng family.Knowing from Haitang that Du Yingran intends to leave the Qi mansion, the Zhou family planned to facilitate this.

"I raised her since she was a child. How could I not understand her thoughts?" Mrs. Zhou said about Qi Zhuohua, with a proud and complacent expression on her face, "What I said before was just a joke when I was a child. She seldom returns home, so she must hope you will be happier, and it's rare that your father will live in Beijing for a long time, which is also a good thing, don't you think, old ancestor."

Mrs. Shi took a look at Du Yingran, "Did your father say when he will come to Qi Mansion?"

"Daddy has a cold." Du Yingran said, "I still need to take a few doses of medicine. If I say I'm well, I'll come to visit."

"That's fine." Mrs. Shi said, she narrowed her eyes slightly, as she was getting older, she felt sleepy after meals.

When Mrs. Zhou heard Mrs. Shi say this, a smile appeared on her face, but she didn't notice the same smile on Du Yingran's face, although it was fleeting.

(End of this chapter)