Splendid Book

30 The time has come
After Shen Lingcheng flicked his sleeves and left, Lin's face turned red and white, and changed again and again. After a long time, his eyes were still red.Shen Jin just looked at her father strangely, then turned her head to show Lin Shi the new toy she got in her hand.

These days, she lives in the Lin Mansion in the capital.She is a serious daughter of the Duke's Mansion, so from the old lady of the Lin family to the young ladies of the Lin family, all of them treat her with tenderness and consideration.The old lady liked her even more, even more than her own granddaughters.This is the treatment that Shen Jin will never enjoy in Duke Wei's mansion. After all, there are three older sisters, and the old lady loves her the most.

As for the cousins ​​of the Lin family, they also flattered her everywhere, and they were the first to think of her whenever there was anything interesting.

So when Shen Jin was in the capital, it could be said that she couldn't think of Shu very much.

"Mother, what's the matter with you," Shen Jin asked curiously seeing that Mrs. Lin didn't smile as usual.

Lin didn't want to talk to her at first, so she called the servant girl over to carry Shen Jin over.But who knew that Shen Jin asked, "Mom, can I go and play with my third sister?"

"Third sister, third sister, it's her again, I think you really have no brains," Lin immediately hated iron and steel, and reached out and tapped heavily on her forehead. Unexpectedly, her nails were a little long, probably because of pain When she fell asleep, she burst into tears.

Seeing her crying, Mrs. Lin became even more upset, pointed at her and cursed: "What did I tell you before, don't hang out with Shen Changle, but you just didn't listen. Look at yourself, then look at her , are all the same prostitutes, why should you be worse than her?"

Although Shen Jin was still young, she already understood Lin's words. She knew that her mother didn't want her to play with her third sister.But my mother said before that the fourth sister is just a daughter born to my aunt, and she is not qualified to play with her at all.At that time, she didn't quite understand what it means to be qualified.

Of course, she listened to her mother's words and did not associate with her fourth sister.But it is clear that the third sister is the same as her, so why doesn't the mother let her play with the third sister?
Seeing her daughter looking at her stupidly, Mrs. Lin immediately became angry. She said: "Look at your third sister, and then look at yourself. You are eating together in the old lady's yard. If she moved her chopsticks a little more in which dish, the maids below would have to look more. Look at yourself, you are also the granddaughter of the old lady, why are you not as favored as her?"

Shen Jin only felt aggrieved, but her mouth moved, and she couldn't speak for a long while.

Seeing her constantly scolding Miss Wu, Zhang Momo next to her persuaded in a low voice: "Madam, Miss Fifth is also tired today, why don't He Xiang and the others lead the girl down to rest?"

Mrs. Lin was also tired of scolding, and waved her hand impatiently, He Xiang hurried forward and took the teary-eyed fifth girl away.

After all the maidservants retreated, Zhang Momo said softly: "Why should my wife be angry with Miss Wu? When I think about it later, it's not your heart that hurts me."

When Lin thought of Shen Lingcheng's contemptuous eyes, a wave of evil fire couldn't go away in her heart.Yes, her Lin family is indeed not as rich as the Marquis of Ji'an's Mansion, and she has known this since she was a child.She has followed her mother to the Marquis of Ji'an's mansion often since she was a child, and she is afraid that she will never forget the look in the eyes of the maids in that mansion.

It's the kind of look in the eyes of poor relatives who come to blow the autumn wind.

I still remember that at that time, she had reached the age where she liked clothes and jewelry.But whether it is the clothes or jewelry on Zhang Ru or Zhang Rong, she has never seen them before, and she has never had the means to own them.What kind of colorful satin, silk from the south, and gems the size of pigeon eggs, those things that made her jealous, were nothing but ordinary things in front of the two sisters.

Once Zhang Rong saw that she was really greedy for her pair of bracelets, so she decided to give the bracelets to her, but because of this incident, she was ashamed.

Because Zhang Rong gave her the bracelet in private and didn't ask the maid to register it, so after she took it back, the maid in Zhang Rong's room looked for the bracelet but couldn't find it.Later, when she went to the Marquis of Ji'an as a guest, she was accused by the maids in Zhang Rong's yard of stealing their girls' belongings.

Although Zhang Rong also helped her clarify later, she will never forget that look in her eyes and that contemptuous tone in her whole life.

She secretly swears in her heart that she will become famous in the future and marry a well-known man, so that her daughter will be the envy of everyone.But her daughter did become the noble daughter of the Duke's Mansion, but she was still overwhelmed by Zhang Rong's daughter.

Although she got the title of Mrs. Zhang thanks to Zhang Rong's blessing.But now this position is hers, no matter how great the kindness is, it has long since vanished.Besides, Lin always felt that the reason why the Shen family was willing to ask her to fill in the house was that the Zhang family was just leading the way, and it was Shen Lingcheng who really liked her.

"The fifth girl is your own. Even if you have sex with anyone else, you won't have sex with you, right?" Nanny Zhang is the housekeeper she brought over from her natal family. The road got more and more crooked, but no matter how much she tried to persuade her, she was still just a slave, and her words were insignificant.

"I just don't want her to get close to Shen Changle. It's not like you don't know the child's attitude towards me." When Lin thought of Shen Changle, she felt like a knife was being stabbed in her heart.

The two elder brothers in front are now old and have their own yard.In addition, apart from greeting the old lady on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, she would not normally see the two of them.But Shen Changle was different. Every time Lin saw her, she would be amazed how there could be such a beautiful child in this world.

She is obviously only a six-year-old girl, but her black hair is like a waterfall, her lips are red and her skin is fair, she can be called beautiful.

Such a beautiful little girl, not to mention that Shen Jin can't keep up, even if Shen Jin and Shen Yue are tied together, they can't keep up with her.So it doesn't matter that Shen Jin's status can't keep up with her, but now even her appearance has been greatly inferior by others, you say that Lin's mother, seeing Shen Changle again, will feel like she has a knife in her heart.

"Madam, this is not the time to get angry with the third girl. To put it bluntly, even if the master and the old lady dote on her again, they will marry her off without paying a sum of money, but..." Nanny Zhang glanced outside, and said softly: "But the title of the Duke's Mansion is the most important thing. This time when you come back, I think you haven't forgotten what the old lady told you."

Lin's soft and fair complexion turned red, revealing a shy expression.

How could she forget this matter, since the moment she came home, her mother has been busy, taking her to see a doctor, and taking medicine for recuperation, in order to let her give birth to a son as soon as possible .

"Aside from other things, just the young man is so big, if the wife doesn't work hard, I'm afraid the title will really be handed over to someone else," Zhang Nanny said anxiously.

She is Lin's dowry companion, so she naturally hopes that Lin can be proud of everything.But everyone knows the current situation of the Shen family. The children left behind by the former wife are all good people. Although the three of them lost their mothers, just like this, the Lin family did not please the three of them.Even though the third girl has grown to such a big age, the old lady still excuses her from saying hello to her wife because of her poor health.

So Nanny Zhang was also anxious, and reported the matter to the old lady of the Lin family as soon as she went back this time.Fortunately, the old lady of the Lin family was also a decisive person, so she directly found the best gynecologist in the capital to take care of Lin's body.To put it bluntly, now Lin only has one daughter, and she can't stand upright, so the most important thing is to have a son.

Lin naturally knew that it was important to have a son, but the key to this hard work was that she couldn't do it alone.If Shen Lingcheng can't come to her yard, what's the use of her efforts?
Besides, she wasn't the only one staring at Shen Lingcheng in the yard.

As soon as Mrs. Lin came back, Shen Changle asked Chunliu to tell the servant girls to be more honest and not to bump their heads.No matter what, she felt that her stepmother came back from the capital this time with a rather menacing posture.

Shen Changle naturally didn't care, she was about to go to school.She knew that the women's school in Beijing was famous all over the world, but it was a women's school that had been established since the beginning of the dynasty, and its establishment time was no shorter than those boys' schools.Therefore, the noble women in the capital are all proud of being educated by women.

It's just that she didn't succeed in her last life, because on the day of the women's school exam, she was unwell and couldn't take the exam.At that time, she was quite arrogant, so she didn't want to take the second exam, so she just invited her husband to teach at home.

But Shen Jin went to a women's school, and she made a lot of friends in the women's school, so Lin often flaunted it.

So in this life, she is not in a hurry yet, but Shen Lingcheng has already started looking for a husband for her.Ordinary masters naturally disdain to teach a girl like her, and those people Shen Lingcheng may not think highly of them either.So Shen Lingcheng has been looking for a husband since last year, but who knows that he found it this year, but he hasn't found it yet.

So Shen Lingcheng was also in a hurry, and he wrote to the Marquis of Jining in the capital to read it.

These days, Shen Changle has been recalling exactly who the Shen family returned to the capital in the previous life.It was when she was six or seven years old, but more than ten years have passed, and she has long forgotten these things.

As for the fact that Aunt Shun was driven away in the previous life, it didn't happen.It's just because Aunt Shun's family has a lot of things to do now, her son is not in good health, and he often asks for leave.So Nanny Xu gradually became the nanny in charge of the yard.

She is the nanny brought by Shen Changle's mother, so she has been serving in Shen Changle's yard, no one would doubt her.If Shen Changle hadn't become somewhat suspicious because of the events of the previous life, I'm afraid she would still be deceived in this life.

In this life, she also specially handed over the keys to her own warehouse to Madam Xu, so Aunt Shun, who had the upper hand at first, seems to be gradually being overtaken by Madam Xu.It's just that Nanny Xu is so cautious. In the first year she took the key to the warehouse, nothing was wrong.It's just that in the past six months, she has slowly revealed her flaws.It is said that when Madam Xu's daughter-in-law was working in the yard, she was wearing gold and silver.

The outsiders naturally envied her, they only felt that the third girl was generous to Madam Xu.But when Shen Changle heard the news, he naturally sneered.She didn't know when she rewarded Mother Xu so generously.

But even so, she still pretended not to know.So the maids and mother-in-law in the yard also started to flatter her, and Shen Changle just pretended not to know about the changes in the yard.However, Chunliu and Luwu are still in charge of her eating, and they must be there when ordering food.

For Madam Xu, she just let her go slowly.She is just a nanny, even if she does evil again, it is at most greedy for money.Besides, it's better to put an exposed chess piece by your side than to let Lin insert another chess piece after getting rid of this chess piece.After all, it will take a lot of trouble to find a new chess piece, and this chess piece that has been exposed, she can sometimes use her to pass some news to Lin.

"It's really unlucky," Lu Wu spat as soon as he entered the room, with an unlucky expression on his face.

Shen Changle rarely sees her like this, Lu Wu's temperament is really refreshing, so she likes it very much.It's probably because she was too aggrieved in her previous life, so in this life she likes such a straight-forward maid who speaks whenever she has something to say.

Chunliu was about to wink at her, telling her not to talk nonsense in front of the girl.But as soon as Luwu opened her mouth, she crackled like a cannonball, and she said: "It's really unlucky. I went to the sewing room to ask for needles and threads, but I ran into the An family."

"An's family?" Shen Changle thought for a while, then remembered, it turned out to be Aunt An's natal family.

She squinted her eyes and looked at the fish tank in front of her. This was made by her father at Liulichang in the capital, and the coral in it was even more valuable.I'm afraid that the least expensive ones are those few koi.She likes red ones, so besides the red ones, the koi are also red and yellow. It is extraordinarily festive to see them wandering back and forth in the clear water.

At this time, the breeze is blowing, and the surface of the transparent fish tank is rippling. The green silk grass is gently swaying in the water, and the koi shuttles back and forth between the coral and the aquatic plants.

She asked softly: "Aunt An is not from a maidservant background, how come her family is still here?"

"The girl doesn't know, this Aunt An also sold her death contract to enter the mansion, but she still has a mother and an elder brother in her family. As long as the servant girl wants to, she can even secretly communicate with her family members," said Chunliu next to her. What she didn't say is that, not to mention that Aunt An has been in the position of Aunt An, so she can naturally communicate with the family.

Shen Changle nodded, Aunt An in the previous life was really honest, and Shen Yue was not outstanding enough, so everyone's eyes were on the two concubine daughters, and who would care about a concubine girl.Therefore, it was the first time she had heard about Aunt An's family background.

"These words shouldn't be said in front of the girl, but the An family is really too much, so many people in the house can't stand it," Lu Wu said angrily.

They were all born as servant girls, Chunliu was born in the family, and my mother, brother and sister were all working in the mansion.As for Luwu, she was a maid bought from outside, but she was sold on a death contract, and she entered the mansion since she was a child.I heard that she married her stepmother because of her own father, and the stepmother gave birth to three boys in one go, and the family couldn't support so many people, so she sold her as a maid.

It is said that if there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather. Shen Changle is fortunate that her own father has always been her own father.

However, Aunt An was sold by her mother. I heard that her father died early, and her mother had to raise the first three children in the family, and she really couldn't support them.Her mother sold her and her sister, but Aunt An's sister's life was not as good as hers, and she was not able to serve her master. It is said that she worked in the laundry room. One winter, she washed clothes in the yard. At that time, one of them lost his footing and fell into the well.

This is what Shen Changle found out later.

Today Luwu just said angrily: "I saw that Mrs. An came in, she must have come to ask for money again. Her family lives on the same street as mine. Who doesn't know now that her daughter is our country's father-in-law?" My aunt also gave birth to a girl, and the whole family is doing nothing anyway, just waiting for Aunt An to take care of her."

"Okay, what are you talking about in front of the girl?" Chunliu immediately interrupted when she saw that she was talking more and more.

Lu Wu smiled, and said with a smile: "I also ask the girl to forgive me, the servant girl said these things really polluted the girl's ears."

Shen Changle shook her head, but she didn't think there was anything wrong with these.Everyone has everyone's helplessness. Others look at them as masters, who are busy eating or dressing all day long, but others can't understand the sad things behind this.

It's just that she didn't understand why Shen Yue allowed Aunt An to continue to subsidize An's family since the An's family was so unbearable.As far as Shen Yue's current performance is concerned, she feels that her fourth younger sister has changed even more than her.

In the previous life, Shen Changle was a quiet girl with a gentle personality, so in this life she is looking forward to a prosperous life for herself, even if she is happy, she should be prosperously happy.

In the previous life, Shen Yue was a submissive little girl who would only follow behind Shen Jin, but in this life, she was more ambitious than anyone else.If it wasn't for her ability, which was not enough to support her ambition, the Shen family's back house would have been turned upside down long ago.

"The smell in your room is really delicious," Mrs. An looked around as soon as she entered the room. Although she came several times, every time she came, she felt that her eyes were not enough to see.

If Aunt An hadn't said it several times, she would have wished to touch it everywhere.After sitting down on the edge of Luohan's bed, she said with a smile: "Your house is really rich."

When Aunt An heard her words, she rolled her eyes to the side.Although they are mother and daughter, the relationship between mother and daughter has been worn down in these years.When the news came that her sister was gone, she couldn't help being afraid.

She knew that her sister fell into the well because she didn't have enough to eat.She was prettier than her elder sister, so she was chosen to serve in the courtyard of the Grand Duke, who was still an uncle at that time, and it was at that time that she didn't want to live such a poor life for another day.The little sisters around took the moon silver, either thinking about buying flowers or rouge and gouache, but she and her sister were thinking about how to save the money.

Because the family needs to build a house, because the elder brother wants to marry a wife, because the sister-in-law wants to have children, because...

Every time there is always a new reason, every time there is always a new argument, again and again.

"What's the matter this time?" Aunt An looked at her and said lightly.

Seeing that she was so indifferent, Mrs. An immediately pulled the corners of her mouth upwards, and said with a sneer, "I won't be needed this time, so why are you talking to your old lady like this?"

Seeing that no one brought tea for so long, Mrs. An couldn't help raising her voice, and shouted: "People are dying, this is dying of thirst. Going into my own daughter's room, it's going to kill me. The old woman is dying of thirst."

Seeing her being so vulgar, Aunt An immediately frowned, wishing she could get up immediately.But when she thought of what happened before, she didn't dare to turn on her face.After a while, Lianpeng came in with a teacup, and the tea fruit was the leftover persimmons eaten by the girl yesterday.

When Mrs. An saw the golden and oozy persimmon, she reached out and took a piece, stuffed it into her mouth, and praised again and again: "This is a good thing. I haven't eaten such a good thing for many years. It's better with you. Anything that comes out is a good thing.”

After she ate a persimmon, she wrapped the remaining persimmons on the plate and put them in her arms. She grinned and said, "Your nephew has never eaten such a good thing since he was a child."

Aunt An was impatient to hear her, so she said, "What's the matter with you?"

"Your sister-in-law is pregnant again, so I thought about repairing the house again, so that your eldest nephew will not be born, and you won't even have a shack to live in," said Mrs. An, with the powdered sugar on the dried persimmons sticking to the corner of her mouth. The opening and closing of the words gave Aunt An a headache.

She immediately retorted: "It's not like you don't know my situation. I only have so much money every month, and I have to take care of maids. Money is always tight."

"Money is tight," Mrs. An said, staring at the hairpin on her head, "The medicine you asked me to grab earlier cost a few taels of silver."

Aunt An knew that she would bring this up, she lowered her voice and said, "Didn't I tell you, don't talk about it again? If people in the house know about it, I'm afraid I'm going to be in bad luck. If you still want money, shut up as soon as possible."

Mrs. An snorted, and suddenly the curtain was lifted, and a little girl in a light green dress came in. She had a long life lock with eight treasures hanging around her neck, and a pair of gold rings on her hands. Delicate and cute, Mrs. An's eyes are hot when she sees it, and she can't wait to come up and pull it into her arms.

When Aunt An saw that it was Shen Yue who came in, she frowned and said, "Why did Sister Yue come here, didn't she let her go out to play?"

Shen Yue smiled and replied: "It's very boring outside, I don't want to go out to play."

When Mrs. An started talking to Shen Yue, she naturally talked about her family's eldest grandson, Shen Yue's cousin. She said that her cousin thought about it, and she didn't know when he could come in to play with her.When Aunt An heard this, her head almost exploded.Now in the entire Shen family's big family, only Shen Yue is from a concubine, needless to say the third girl's natal family, that is the Hou's mansion.Even Miss Wu's natal families are officials and officials, but her sister Yue's life is miserable, and she is implicated by her aunt, all of whom are relatives who are not on the table.

So she didn't want to talk to Mrs. An, so she just led Shen Yue into the inner room.She opened the box by herself, grabbed a handful of money in a hurry, and then went outside to hand it to Mrs. An.

When the servant girl led Mrs. An away, Aunt An came in and saw Shen Yue sitting on the couch in the inner room, her face was not unhappy at all.She knew that her daughter, although young, had big ideas.

Shen Yue turned her head to look at her with a trace of pity in her eyes. If she had a choice, she would rather this family disappear in front of them forever.But now she has no one in her hands, so she can only use this family.

For Mrs. An, Shen Yue never thought that she was her grandmother, this woman was just someone who sucked her mother and her blood.I still remember that after she married someone in her previous life, the An family actually found her house again.At that time, the elder sister-in-law who was in front of the family actually led people to her yard, so within a day, everyone knew that the relatives of the second grandma's aunt's family had come to the door.She is the daughter of the Duke's Mansion, but it cannot be erased, she is just the daughter of an aunt.

A look of cruelty flashed in her eyes, once she had the ability, she would never let such a lowly family appear in front of her again.

When Luwu secretly came to tell Shen Changle that the ginseng in the warehouse was short again, and when Longjing tea was short of a penny, and many other medicinal materials were also short, she knew that Madam Xu His courage is getting bigger and bigger.

Lu Wu was still filled with righteous indignation when she said it, Shen Changle just smiled casually, not angry.

After another month, the shortage of things in the warehouse not only did not decrease, but more and more.The corners of Luwu's mouth were bubbling anxiously, and he asked anxiously, "Girl, when can we get rid of that old bastard?"

Now that Lu Wu sees Nanny Xu, although she is respectful on the surface, in her heart she wants to swallow her alive.What's more, those little maids who rely on Madam Xu seem to have become a climate in Shen Changle's yard, scolding chickens and chasing dogs all day long, and the yard is very lively all day long.

Even if some maidservant sues Xu Momo, Xu Momo generally prefers those little maids whom she trusts.Therefore, big maids like Chunliu and Luwu who don't buy into her are having a hard time now.

And Aunt Shun asked the old lady for leave within a month. The old lady asked her to go back to take care of her son first, knowing the situation at home.As for Shen Changle, Mother Xu is here, they are all at ease.

It's just that they didn't expect that this would let Shuo Shu into the rice vat.

And Shen Changle was still not in a hurry, even the good-tempered Chunliu couldn't help but say: "Girl, when are we going to tell the old lady about this?"

Shen Changle pursed his lips and smiled, which would tell the old lady that Madam Xu was the one who was punished.And if Mother Xu didn't have Lin's backing, would she dare to treat herself like this?
She snorted coldly, she was really used to being a cat in the past, this time, her cat was about to stretch out its claws.

(End of this chapter)