Feng's and Xiao's sisters-in-law were carried out by the old lady to the guest courtyard when their nephews and nieces were tortured on their conscience.
Di Shi, who was already drowsy at the end of the day due to traveling and socializing, suddenly opened her eyes wide: "Discussing a marriage?! How can there be such a thing!"
Ao Luanjing, who was still a little shy at first, turned pale instantly and said in shock, "No? Mom, are you sure?!"
"Of course not!" Mrs. Di knew the reason for her family's visit this time, so she spared no effort on the way to tell her daughter to be gentle, generous, humble, sensible, and courteous after she came to Sheng Mansion... Who would have thought that her daughter would actually Do you want to discuss marriage
She said hurriedly, "It's nothing! Your Uncle Sheng Shi went to our house to discuss other important matters, which had nothing to do with you. Seriously, how could you think of such a thing? You don't want to think about it either. , if it’s a marriage proposal, will my mother give you a break? At least I should hurry up and make you two new sets of clothes, get some jewelry and other things to dress you up before leaving, right?”
At this point, she saw Ao Luanjing biting her lip and Danfeng's eyes filled with tears of shame and anger. Di Shi realized that her daughter had always been arrogant, but now she had misunderstood such a shameful thing. Wasn't it just that she couldn't stand down
He hurriedly comforted: "I think it's because your cousin Sheng was in adolescence and Xiaojing was born well, so he looked at you a few more times out of curiosity - don't worry about it for your grandfather's sake, huh?"
"What does it mean to not care about it!" Ao Luan Jing was feeling ashamed. Hearing what Di said, he became even more embarrassed. He couldn't help but beat the table and cried, "Since he is the son of Sheng Shibo, he has also studied. Don’t you know that you should look at no evil?! I thought it was because the elders of the two parents had a private agreement, so he was so bold! Who knew... Who knew that his conduct was so corrupt!!!"
In fact, Ao Luanjing may not really think that Sheng Suihe's moral character is corrupt at this moment. He is probably aware of the shame after the misunderstanding and is venting his duplicity.
But Mrs. Di didn't understand her daughter's thoughts, and thought she was really angry with Sheng Sleeping He, so she quickly comforted her: "My son! Have you forgotten? Although your cousin Sheng is the flesh and blood of your uncle Sheng Shi, he is just a child." Because your Aunt Feng had no children, she recognized him as a foreigner. When he was outside, even if you, Uncle Shengshi, helped him from time to time, his life would not be bad. But a woman who is a foreigner can be What's the best way?"
"Like mother, like son. How could his upbringing be any better?"
"After all, we are guests now, so you have the right to bear it for the sake of your grandfather!"
"Next time, if he is still rude to you, Mom will tell your Aunt Feng for you! Okay?"
Ao Luanjing's eyes flickered for a long time, then he stood up with a stern face: "Forget it! That's it."
She wiped her face carelessly and went back to the wing where she lived. She seemed expressionless on the way, but her heart was very complicated: "It turns out that the two families have not discussed marriage, so the reason why he secretly spied on me is not because I got some advice from my elders, but I decided to do my own thing..."
Thinking like this, she subconsciously pressed her chest: If she were told that a young man she just met peeked at her while they were walking together, even if they were family friends, she would definitely be unhappy and think that this man was frivolous and rude. , unbearable.
But for some reason, this person was Sheng Sleeping Crane, but Ao Luanjing couldn't get rid of her hatred for him.
"My mother said that he was born outside the family, so he lacked education. But before Sheng Shibo and the others arrived, when he and his cousin greeted us, there was something wrong in his words and deeds. Obviously, although he had just returned to Sheng Mansion recently, Yes, it's not like Uncle Sheng Shi didn't teach him attentively when he was outside." Ao Luanjing's heart was in a mess, and she fell into a trance several times while dressing up. After finally cleaning up, she lay down on the couch. She was obviously very sleepy, but she was tossing and turning. No, he thought to himself, "It can be seen that he has a bad background, but he works hard - when it comes to his background, this is not his own choice, so how can you blame him?"
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that Di's previous words were too much for Sheng Suihe, but the more she felt that Sheng Suihe was actually very good.
Especially the beauty of her appearance was something she had never seen before in her life.
Recalling the way cousin Sheng curled his lips and smiled, there seemed to be tiny stars twinkling in his dark pupils, Ao Luanjing's heart couldn't stop feeling numb and tingling, that indescribable feeling of fullness, as if there was something filling and filling her heart. , it wants to flow out.
Ao Luanjing wasn't the only one who couldn't get a good rest that night.
Second room, mourning hall.
The bleak night wind blew in, causing the ever-burning lamp in front of the soul to sway for a while.
The filial piety curtain flew high in the wind, revealing a lonely figure on the left and right of the coffin.
Although it was midsummer, because Bai had passed away for many days, a lot of ice was placed inside and outside the coffin to prevent the body from rotting, making the entire mourning hall as cold as late autumn.
Sheng Weixing, who was wearing a linen shirt and wearing a mourning shirt, shivered slightly due to the night wind and subconsciously wrapped himself in a linen shirt.
"Fifth brother, how are you?" Sheng Weirao, who was across the coffin from him, seemed to be aware of it and asked softly, "If you are really sleepy, you can go to the back to rest for a while. I can guard here by myself."
"I'm fine!" Sheng Weixing was actually very tired. After all, he was only ten years old. After losing his mother, he lost his supporter, his sister openly offended his grandmother, and his servants were not so dedicated in serving him. In the past two days, His life was really not going well and he was already trying to hold on, but he still said, "I want to stay with my sister!"
Sheng Weirao sighed: "No one will come this late at night. Just be obedient and go get some sleep! I'll send someone to call you when it's almost dawn!"
After a pause, he added, "Although eldest brother is in the room, Nian Xian and Nian Jie are in the back now. Please be gentle when you enter so as not to wake them up."
"They are so unfilial!" Sheng Weixing heard this, was silent for a while, and suddenly said angrily, "Even if my mother is not their biological mother, she has been their aunt for more than ten years—and she found an excuse to leave right after noon! It’s okay for the eldest brother. He is the legitimate son of his first wife, and he was called away by his father. How dare the two concubines, Sheng Nianxian and Sheng Nianjie, so despise their mother’s affairs! When my grandfather wakes up tomorrow, I will definitely send someone to report it. , give them a good look!”
Sheng Weirao listened silently, and finally said bitterly: "Fifth brother, do you think that my grandfather who agreed to my request to report to the official before... will stand by us in everything?"
Without waiting for Sheng Weixing's reply, she continued, "Why do you think I want you to kowtow to the Ao family with me today to apologize? The person that my mother hated the most during her lifetime was the Ao family... Because she worked so hard, she finally snatched it from the Ao family. When dad arrived, Ao turned around and remarried, and his life was even better than in the Sheng family! But mom, on the other hand, was gradually neglected by dad, to the point where she was about to resign! "
"If I were not desperate, do you think I would be willing to bow to the Ao family?!"
Sheng Weixing was startled and said uneasily: "Sister, I know what you mean. Now is no better than before. We must be careful in our words and deeds. But just because my mother passed away, we have no backer in this second house. Sheng Nianxian and Sheng Nianjie are so disrespectful. We are becoming more and more intolerable! Otherwise, if this hole is opened, wouldn’t everyone be able to step on us in the future?”
"I'm very happy that you can think of this. But have you forgotten? My mother was not popular in this family during her lifetime. Even my grandfather didn't look down on my mother very much. He also never treated us siblings indifferently. It's hot." Sheng Weirao tried hard to suppress the sobs that rose up in her throat. "This time, in order to seek justice for my mother, I greatly offended my grandmother, and our father, Sheng Nianxian and Sheng Nianjie. Although they are both concubines, their biological mothers are both exist!"
"Those two aunts were frightened by my mother's presence in the past. They were very obedient to us and didn't dare to make any mistakes!"
"But now that my mother is gone, our siblings have also offended our grandmother and father. Do you think they will let this opportunity to add insult to injury go?"
"So how can we still take the initiative to stir up trouble now?"
Sheng Weixing bit his lip, clenched his fists, and said after a while: "Then... won't we all have to live like cowards in the future?! What's the point of living like this!"
"So you have to work hard!" On the other side of the coffin, Sheng Weirao dug her fingernails into her palms. Tears were already streaming down her plain white cheeks. She tried her best to keep her tone steady and said word by word, "This family member , the reason why we, mother and son, have never looked down upon us, is not only because the way my mother entered the family was disgraceful, but also because my mother did not have a good mother-in-law, and our siblings have not shown anything worthy of their high regard! "
"My sister is a female prostitute and has had previous experiences. This life is over."
"But fifth brother, you are different!"
"You are a man, you can study and take scientific examinations - as long as you can gain fame, even if my grandmother still hates us, my grandfather and uncle will definitely value you and cultivate you!"
"At that time, Sheng Nianxian and Sheng Nianjie, how dare you disrespect your aunt and take us, our two eldest sisters and eldest brothers, seriously?!"
Sheng Weirao said in a deep voice, "This is the only chance for our siblings to not be bullied in the future - fifth brother, if you don't want to be stepped on by Sheng Nianxian and Sheng Nianjie, and you even need to look at the faces of Ruoliu Fuyan and the two aunts, you just have to If we can study hard and get some results, our siblings will have a chance of survival!"
"Otherwise... I'm afraid that the methods my mother used to deal with Ruoliu Fuyan back then will, sooner or later, be doubled upon us!!!"
"Sister, don't worry!" Sheng Weixing's face turned red, he gritted his teeth, and his breathing was a little quick, and he said in a deep voice as if he was swearing, "After I finish keeping my mother's body alive, I will study hard, and in the future I will be named on the gold medal list and give my mother a royal decree. Let us mother and son, in the Sheng family and in Nanfeng County, be completely proud!!!"
Sheng Weirao seemed to be crying with joy, and said repeatedly: "Okay! Okay! This is my brother - but if you want to read good books, you must pay attention to your body and bones. Now listen to my sister and go and have a rest, ah?"
Sheng Weixing took a deep breath, stood up somewhat staggeringly, rubbed his numb legs and feet, and said, "I'm going to take a nap for a while. I'll replace my sister later!"
What he didn't know was that as soon as he walked out of the mourning hall, the happy smile on the corner of Sheng Weirao's mouth disappeared without a trace in an instant. With the light of the bright lamp outside the filial curtain, he could only see a fierce look between her beautiful eyebrows. !