In total, Sheng Weiqiao has not seen the Shen family for several years. Except for a quick glimpse of Shen Silang when he returned to Chang'an, when Sheng Lanxin came back to visit and persuade Mrs. Ming, she did not see him because she was in the Feng Mansion. To that aunt.
After entering the door, I quickly scanned the room and felt that my uncle Shen Ji and my aunt Sheng Lanxin looked as if they had aged several years.
In front of them was a ten-year-old boy, the youngest son, Thirteenth Lang. The cousin was a bit taller than when they met a few years ago. His shy temperament didn't seem to have changed much. Sheng Weiqiao was As soon as I saw it, my face suddenly turned red. I begged if I could walk alone in the chair at that time, and almost wanted to hide behind my parents.
That familiar reaction made Sheng Weiqiao couldn't help but think of the scene when her aunt and her family came to the Sheng Mansion to congratulate Mrs. Sheng on the eve of her birthday, and her heart ached.
She suppressed her emotions and patiently finished the process of greetings and greetings, and then she couldn't wait to ask: "My aunt and uncle's cousin came unexpectedly. Is there anything you can do?"
"Is there something wrong?" When Shen Ji and Sheng Lan heard this, they both showed complicated expressions. They glanced at each other wrongly and then whispered, "There is news from Jiu Niang!"
Although Sheng Weiqiao had made such speculation before coming here, when he actually heard those words, he felt a little unbelievable.
She pressed her chest, forcing herself to calm down, and then asked: "What kind of news? Where is Xiao Qiao? Ruming is fine? When can we reunite?"
There were so many questions that Shen Ji and his wife didn't know how to answer them for a while.
After hesitating for a while, Shen Jifang said: "That matter... they don't know very well. It's clear that she is in the north, and it's not going well now. Of course they don't want her to be able to reunite. If she came back a month ago, she would... If she had a special situation, she would not be able to return to her hometown for a while. Moreover, she herself had no intention of coming back... After all, back then... "
"North?" Hearing the location, Sheng Weiqiao suddenly remembered that when he evacuated from Western Xinjiang, the porcelain hairpin that he put in the package with his own legs but disappeared. An idea flashed in his mind, and Dong asked consciously, "Xiao Qiao Are you supposed to be with Mi Zhen?!"
Shen Ji and his wife were immediately shocked: "How did I know?!"
"..." Sheng Weiqiao was silent for a while, then looked up at the couple and didn't shut up for a long time.
Her eyes are shaped like apricots, and they are beautiful, but not as powerful as those with red phoenix eyes. In addition, she was born very spoiled and did not develop an arrogant, domineering and bullying temperament, so her temperament is gentle and non-aggressive, so she cannot get angry. , in fact, it is not easy to suppress people.
But I don't know if it was because of his identity. At that time, the niece stared at him silently for a moment. Both Shen Ji and his wife felt like they were sweating. They asked in a low voice: "County Master, you... what's wrong with you?" "
"Mi Zhen went to the grassland alone, and went deep into the grassland. He must have avoided people on purpose. In the wilderness, he didn't think he could meet Xiao Qiao by such a coincidence..." Sheng Weiqiao did not answer immediately. After a while, Seeing that the aunt and uncle in front of him were already starting to fidget, he slowly asked, "Since Xiao Qiao is with him, then, was Xiao Qiao in King Ruru's tent before?"
Seeing Shen Ji and his wife nodding a little cautiously, she sneered, "When did we know about that?!"
Without waiting for an answer, Sheng Weiqiao added, "Don't tell him that we didn't know that!!!"
Shen Ji and his wife were speechless for a while, wanting to say something. Sheng Lan, who was in charge at that time, resigned from Fang Chawan and said gently: "Sister, brother-in-law, it's that time. What should I do if I want to keep some things secret? And be good. Do we also know about the relationship between Nan and Jiuniang? Over the years, Jiuniang’s incident has not only made us feel uncomfortable, but also the good girl is still worried about it? Now that it’s not easy, things have turned around and there is hope, so why beg for it? There's a quarrel? Is my dear girl too old?"
He added, "Besides, if we come to the door tomorrow and take the initiative to tell this matter, we must have thought about asking to tell the truth. If we see the face of my good girl, why should we hide it?"
"Brother, of course they came here after thinking about it." Sheng Lanxin heard this, smiled bitterly, and said, "Just that matter... How should I put it? I don't know when to start talking about it?"
She turned to look at her husband, her eyes dim, "He even didn't know about it until recently."
Shen Ji lowered his head guiltily and did not shut up.
Sheng Lanci had originally planned to mediate a few words, but Sheng Weiqiao had lost his patience. He turned the tea bowl beside his legs a little irritably, raised his head and asked, "Auntie, you just learned about it recently. What is it? If you really don't know, When do you want to start talking about it? Can you answer it?"
Before Sheng Lanxin could agree, she asked first, "Has Xiao Qiao been a member of the Wang's Account before? What is her status in the Wang's Account? How did she get here all those years ago?"
"...Ruru's rich and powerful people like to be pretty and charming, and they have the custom of buying Mu girls from caravans to serve as slaves or pets." Sheng Lanxin opened her mouth and said with some difficulty, "Back then, Xiao Qiao didn't She was bought and sold by such caravans and pirates! Because of her good looks, she was adopted by the heirs of Ruru's predecessor Khan Denchen Riyu, and she was said to be very favored. Later Denchen Riyu died, She... She seems to have followed the new Khan Nafuzhen again. Both of them were ordinary people at that time, so he thought it wouldn't be too difficult? "
When Sheng Weiqiao heard this, he didn't know what to feel. He couldn't help but said: "Earlier... when Nafu Zhen invaded Western Xinjiang for the first time, because of his grandfather, he left the city of Yizhou in the east and wanted to take it. Don him! And although Xiao Qiao is not named Sheng, she is still of the blood of her grandfather! How can she live well in King Ruru’s tent? "
Seeing that Sheng Lanxin's face suddenly turned miserable and crumbling after hearing those words, she felt a little regretful.
In fact, Sheng Weiqiao also knew that Sheng Lan might not have thought of that. The reason why she didn't say "it shouldn't be too difficult" was not so much that she thought it was true, but rather that she hoped it.
"Aunt, I can't help but he shouldn't have said that." Sheng Weiqiao calmed down, apologized in a low voice, and finally asked, "Auntie just said, did you know about Xiao Qiao's whereabouts recently, so... But before? Who has been hiding this from you?"
When asked whether to ask that, her eyes were already fixed on Shen Ji.
Bu Nao Sheng Lanxin sighed and said, "No, father-in-law."
Noticing her niece's gaze, she shook her head, "I don't doubt my uncle anymore. He was kept in the dark. A few months ago, Mi Zhen sent a letter to the Shen family, saying that Jiuniang would return to Damu before the month was over. The couple were just told! Otherwise, how could they know that the Jiuniang people were in the enemy's country and yet do nothing for those years?"
"Old Master of the Shen family?" Sheng Weiqiao was startled by that answer, but she didn't show too much surprise. Could it be because she remembered that Rong Suihe had hinted to her in the early years that the Shen family owned a caravan specializing in the northern Xinjiang trade route? , on the surface it seems to have nothing to do with General Zhou, but privately it may not be the case!
When I heard this, instead of feeling shocked, I felt relieved that "it's true" and blurted out, "By doing that, does it mean that Mi Zhen will not be able to go deep alone this time?!"
That time Sheng Lanxin opened her mouth and said nothing, then burst into tears.
When Shen Ji saw this, he coughed dryly and said in a low voice: "My father's original idea was... to dedicate Jiuniang to Ruru's then Khan Denchen Riyu, but he didn't expect that Denchen Riyu was already old, and because of his early years After being injured during the war in Liudong, Yue increasingly felt the threat of his half-brother Na Fuzhen. At that time, he no longer had any thoughts about women, but he was thinking about how to eradicate Na Fuzhen all day long. Going around and around, Jiuniang In the end, it was returned to the heirs of Denchen Riyu... As for whether it has anything to do with Prince Mi Zhen's lone army going deep this time, they don't know."
He added, "Even my father doesn't know. Because the caravan that took Jiuniang away was not owned by the Shen family."
Seeing Sheng Weiqiao's face turned ugly, he hesitated, looked at the people around him, and said, "County Lord, although you don't believe it, the fact is that when Jiuniang was taken away by the caravan, it was not true. I know the original. Did she do it voluntarily?"
"...Why?" Sheng Weiqiao was thinking that whether the old lady of the Shen family was second to the old lady Sheng, she would wrongly treat Ruru and not hesitate to use her direct bloodline as a bargaining chip. She was in confusion and couldn't help but be startled when she heard this.
When Shen Jiuniang's accident happened, Sheng Weiqiao was only half a year old. Because she had always been in the center, they were racking their brains to do her good, and there was no need for her to find ways to understand their situation. She couldn't do that to her cousin. I know everything about him, but because I ask to see him several times every year, I still don’t know anything about him.
Shen Jiuniang can't say that she has no interest in the righteousness of her family and country, but she is not like Mrs. Sheng, who has the courage to sacrifice everything to eradicate Ruru... After all, Shen Jiuniang is a girl raised in a boudoir in the south. A young lady from a rich family would never mention Ruru once in a few years of conversation, so how could she come up with the idea of volunteering to be an adulterer in Ruru? !
"Because at that time Jiuniang had been killed by those beasts of the Han family..." Shen Ji said bitterly, "Didn't the Sheng family ask the Tortoiseshell Island Gang to go there at that time? In fact, the Shen family learned that Jiuniang was missing, and it was possible that she had fallen into After the Han family was in the leg, there was no action. The father of the family stepped forward and entrusted a caravan that had dealings with the Han family. He asked them to come forward and pretended that he was attracted by Jiuniang's appearance and treated it as an ordinary person. Buy and sell, get people out.”
"Then my father personally met with Jiuniang privately and told her two options: one is to follow Rao'er, ah, or do the same as the head of Fuchang County, deny all the experiences and return to the Shen family, two years later When the news goes away, we will find a place far away to leave the palace; one way is to reject the suggestion from the caravan leader and let Jiu Niang go to Ruru to try out whether she can become Denchen Liyu's concubine."
"The latter suffered a lot, but the leader of the caravan also promised that Jiuniang would not die and would ensure a good future for her in the future."
At that time, Sheng Lanxin smiled miserably and answered: "I should also know about the situation of the Shen family, Qiaoer: You can't say how harsh girls are, but the preference for boys over girls is real! After Fuchang returned that year , what the Sheng family was thinking about Dongbu Sheng, at least no one said anything to her face. But what the Shen family said... "
"..." Sheng Weiqiao remained silent. She remembered that she had heard by chance when she was a child that Sheng Lanxin relied on Sheng Lanci, the eldest brother, to break out of the siege in the Shen family's backyard and gain the power to be the mistress of the family.
In this case, there are some conflicts between the sisters-in-law.
How can the children of Didong not be influenced by their parents
In that situation, if Shen Jiuniang returned to the family at that time, the cynicism among her peers, the contempt of the people in Didong... 80% of them would be indispensable.
It is true that the Sheng family can let Shen Jiuniang live in the Sheng family and not go back to the Shen mansion, but this will further confirm the rumors that the Sheng family has not acknowledged until now; secondly, Shen Jiuniang is not surnamed Sheng, even if the Sheng family wronged her. She was treated equally with her own girls, and after living there for a long time, it was hard for her not to feel like she was living in someone else's home.
The most important thing about life is that Shen Jiuniang's grandfather personally chose these two paths for her.
Which one does Mr. Shen want his granddaughter to choose... Is it necessary to say
Sheng Wei Qiaodong consciously tightened the handkerchief on his leg, and after a while, he suddenly sneered: Perhaps in Mr. Shen's mind, the granddaughter has already suffered a loss anyway, so there is nothing wrong with sending her to serve Ruru... It can be used as waste. A good chess piece? !