In the past few days, Shen Ruolan washed the wound on her neck with the water of Baicao Spring every day. The water of Baicao Spring really had a miraculous effect. In just a few days, the wound not only healed and scabbed, but even the scab faded away, leaving only a shallow scar. Light marks, if you don't look closely, you can't see it at all.
To be on the safe side, Shen Ruolan went to a silver shop after returning to Jizhou, bought a relatively thick turquoise necklace, and wore it around her neck, so that the scar could be completely blocked behind the necklace, and everyone could see it not coming out.
After returning home, I found that the uncle's family was gone. My parents were overjoyed to see Shen Ruolan coming back, and my mother told Shen Ruolan what happened during this period.
When Shen Ruolan heard that Shen Ruomei had disappeared, although she didn't gloat, she didn't feel any sympathy or heartache, as if something happened to an unrelated person, it didn't affect her emotions at all, and couldn't be in her heart. Make a little bit of a stir.
Life at home is still how to live, without being affected by Shen Ruomei at all, father stays at home with mother most of the time every day, and only occasionally visits dim sum workshops and hot pot restaurants; At seven or eight, now not only can I move freely, I can even do some female red needlework, and once I accompanied Shen Dejian to a dim sum workshop and a hot pot restaurant, and I walked back and forth without being tired. .
Zhu'er still goes to school every day, Ju'er is at home every day, either learns sewing from her mother, or learns to cook from her sister, Shen Ruolan goes to the place where those talented girls live every day, tells them stories, and asks them to record , so as to keep it for publishing and publishing, and occasionally go to the printing factory to see, buy goods, collect money, and live a peaceful and warm life.
Shen Ruolan's family enjoyed this faint warmth and were content.
Only Chunyu Yu was very dissatisfied, no, not dissatisfied, but very dissatisfied.
why
It turned out that because Shen Dejian came back, Ju'er couldn't sleep with her mother, so she had to move back to Shen Ruolan's room. The two sisters lived together, which meant that he couldn't dive into the boudoir at night with his little girl. Ears and temples rubbed together.
Qi Ye couldn't accept this loss no matter what, so he raised a strong protest, and even tried to repeat the same trick by coming to the door to propose marriage. Shen Ruolan was afraid that he would really do such a ridiculous thing, so she had to make a concession: The wing room was tidied up and moved to the east wing room.
Now, Uncle Qi got what he wanted and was finally satisfied.
Lan'er lives in a single room. Although it is a wing room, there are no "neighbors" on the left and right. They don't have to worry about being overheard if they make a little noise. They can toss as much as they want...
Happy and warm days continue...
A few days later, one morning, when Shen Ruolan went to the printing factory, Uncle Shen and Aunt Shen called him to the backyard. As soon as he entered, Aunt Shen grabbed her and said tearfully, "Lan Ya Ah, Grandpa and Madam really have nothing to do now, so I can only open my mouth and shamelessly beg you."
Before the aunt could speak, Shen Ruolan basically guessed what the aunt wanted to ask for? Except for Shen Ruomei, there is no one in this world who can make the aunt beg for help like this. Shen Ruolan seems to have a clear heart, and she has made up her mind not to help Shen Ruomei, but on the surface she still pretends to know nothing, saying, "Auntie, we are all one family. If you want anything, just ask. As long as I can do it, I will definitely do my best."
In other words, if you can't do it, you can't do it.
"You can do it, you can definitely do it." The aunt said firmly.
While talking, he secretly poked Uncle Shen.
Uncle Shen was poked by the old woman, so he had no choice but to wipe his old face and speak with difficulty.
"Lan Ya, Sister Mei has been missing for so long. We have tried our best to feed the baby, but we just can't find anyone. You think, Jizhou is such a big boss. Finding someone is like finding a needle in a haystack. If you rely on ordinary people like us to find it, I am afraid that if you find it, you will not be able to find it next year... So, so... "
He glanced at Shen Ruolan uneasily, and said with difficulty, "I heard that you have some friendship with His Royal Highness King Zhan, please see if you can help my uncle and aunt to ask His Highness King Zhan to help you find it. If King Zhan agrees to help you find it, you will definitely be able to find your sister Mei."
After finishing speaking, she looked at Shen Ruolan nervously, and Aunt Shen also stared at her nervously, not missing any of her expressions.
Shen Ruolan frowned. Unexpectedly, the uncle and the aunt would put all their ideas on that person, so she dared to think about it. It seems that for Shen Ruomei, the two of them also went all out.
However, if she dares to think, she doesn't want to, even if they think of flowers, it's useless. She doesn't want to beg him for Shen Ruomei, even for the sake of the uncle and aunt.
Because in her ideology, public is public and private is private, Shen Ruomei is Shen Ruomei, uncle and aunt are uncle and aunt, their attitudes and feelings towards her are direct and cannot be changed. Shen Ruomei has repeatedly bullied and humiliated her over the years, wishing she would die, which cast a lot of shadows on her childhood, so she does not deserve my help, and she will definitely not give up because of a few soft words from the uncle and aunt. Change the principles and reach out to help her.
"Uncle, aunt, you are flattering me too much. Although my family lives with King Zhan's mansion for many times, I am not familiar with King Zhan. At most, I just know him. I can't talk at all. I'm afraid—I'm going to disappoint you. "
When Aunt Shen heard Shen Ruolan's refusal, she hurriedly said, "Lanya, Madam knows that you and your sister Mei are not getting along, but no matter what, you two are sisters after all, and now your sister Mei is miserable enough, the child lost , was kicked out by Lao Ding's family, and now her life and death are uncertain, and her whereabouts are unknown. No matter how angry you are, you should calm down because of the crimes she has suffered. I beg you, please. Please do me a favor, let go of the grievances of the past, and help Sister Mei, even if the aunt begs you!"
Shen Ruolan said, "Ma'am, it's not that I don't want to help, but that I have more energy than I want!"
Aunt Shen twitched the corners of her mouth, a flash of light flashed in her eyes, and said with a sneer, "Lan Ya, don't hide it from us, we have all heard that when your mother celebrated her birthday, King Zhan gave you The rich reward from the family, why is this? Also, when your mother's life was hanging by a thread, who was the noble son who came back with you to deliver the medicine? Also, who was the doctor who treated your mother? Did you send it?"
"Lanya, Madam knows that your sister Mei did go too far in the past. You don't blame your sister Mei for not wanting to help her, but I don't blame you, but I am worthy of you. Can you just see me Auntie's face, why don't you help the uncle and the aunt? My uncle and I have only you, sister Mei, who grew up in the palm of our hands. If there is something wrong with her, it won't kill our old couple. Yet?"
Speaking of this, Aunt Shen was so sad that she almost patted her thigh and cried again. If it wasn't for the business and business to do, she would break down and cry again in all likelihood...
Hearing this, Shen Ruolan complained a little to Brother Fu Cun and Brother Jin Cun in her heart, complaining that they both told the uncle and aunt about those things, which made them have other thoughts for no reason. It's all right now, they're all focused on King Zhan's idea, if she doesn't agree, the uncle and aunt will definitely resent her...
But even if it was resentment, she would never agree.
"Uncle, aunt, I don't know what Brother Fu Cun and Brother Jin Chun said to you, which caused you such a big misunderstanding. What I just want to tell you is that King Zhan and I really don't know each other enough To the point of begging others to do something, you should think of other ways?"
"Lanya, if we have other ways, how can we dare to ask him? Isn't this really hopeless? You are a good boy, so please help the uncle and aunt. I beg you."
While speaking, Aunt Shen pulled Uncle Shen, and was about to pull Uncle Shen to kneel down to Shen Ruolan.
How could Shen Ruolan make them kneel down? Isn't it to shorten her life to let the elders kneel down for her
"Master, aunt, please don't do this..."
She hurriedly pulled, but Aunt Shen seemed determined to kneel down to her, how could Shen Ruolan pull? She knelt down on the ground with a plop, and even kowtowed to Shen Ruolan.
Shen Ruolan was forced to have no choice but to agree, "Okay, okay, you guys start talking first, hey... are you guys getting up?"
Seeing that the old couple stubbornly wanted to kneel down to him, Shen Ruolan was forced to have no choice but to say, "I just promise..."
When Uncle Shen and Aunt Shen heard it, they were overjoyed immediately, and Aunt Shen said tearfully, "Lanya, since you have agreed, why not go to King Zhan today, and you can find your sister Mei one day earlier. It might as well save her from the crime of a day earlier!"
"I see!"
Shen Ruolan replied resentfully, but there was a voice in her heart telling her: Never help them.
Seeing how pitiful the aunt and uncle were begging, she had no choice but to agree to it as a way to delay the attack, but in fact, she would never speak to him for Shen Ruomei.
After escaping from the printing factory, Shen Ruolan didn't go to the printing factory for several days in a row, for fear of being blocked by grandpa and auntie and embarrassing her.
However, sometimes, difficulties and disasters will not disappear just because you want to avoid them. It just corresponds to the saying: When it is your time to be unlucky, you can drink cold water between your teeth. Even if you avoid this worry, the next bad thing will come to you...
Although Shen Ruolan escaped the entanglement of the uncle and the aunt, but encountered another worrying thing!
This matter is too big. For Shen Dejian and Mu Shi, it was like a thunderbolt today, a catastrophe. After hearing the news, Mu Shi passed out immediately!
The thing is like this, one afternoon, the governor of Jizhou ordered Shen Dejian and his wife to go to the government office of Jizhou.
Shen Dejian thought that Shen Ruomei was missing, and the government was looking for him to file a case, so he brought Mrs. Mu to the mansion, but when he arrived at the mansion, he saw the master of the mansion in Jizhou City talking with a fat man with a beardless face Woolen cloth.
Seeing their husband and wife coming, Mr. Fu Yin didn't talk nonsense, and directly nodded and bowed to the fat man with white face and beardless: "Eunuch, please declare the decree."
The father-in-law coughed, put the teacup on the table with his orchid fingers raised, a pair of shrewd little eyes quickly swept across Mu's body, and then looked hard at Shen Dejian before retracting his eyes. Holding the imperial decree, she said sharply: "Mu's Wanqiu accepts the decree..."
Mrs. Mu never expected that the imperial decree was for her, and suddenly her heart skipped a beat and she knelt on the ground mechanically, to be exact, she collapsed on the ground, unable to move at all.
After the Xuanzhi eunuch frightened the Mu family, he picked up the Queen Mother's edict and read it aloud.
The content of the Yizhi is very strange, it is actually to ask Mu Shi to go back to Beijing, because it is said that Princess Rongjia decided to accept Mu Shi into the princess mansion as a concubine for the concubine..."
"Elder-in-law, are you mistaken? I'm already... I'm already... married and have children, and I have several children. How could it be..."
Mu's defense was trembling, his whole body trembling like sifting chaff.
Shen Dejian also stammered and said: "Elder-in-law, please go back and tell the empress dowager that my wife is unwilling to enter the princess mansion. She is content with me and a few children."
The father-in-law who passed on the queen mother's edict looked at Mu and Shen Dejian coldly, and said with a smirk, "If you have anything to say, you can go and tell the empress dowager yourself, the miscellaneous family is just a messenger, just bring the empress dowager's edict to you. For the rest, our family can’t control it, and we have no right to control it.”
When Shen Ruolan came back from the outside, before entering the door, she heard a suppressed cry coming from the room, the voice of Ju'er.
Shen Ruolan was startled, and hurriedly opened the door and ran into the house.
When I entered the room, I saw that my father and mother were at home, but they were facing each other and weeping secretly. Ju'er was sitting on the side, already crying like a tearful person.
"It's fine, what's the matter?" Seeing that the whole family was sitting together crying, Shen Ruolan was also startled.
Seeing her daughter came back, Mrs. Mu choked up and said, "Lan'er, our family is going to be in disaster. You should take your younger siblings away from here and go away..."
"What's going on? Why is it that disaster is imminent?"
When Shen Ruolan heard her mother's words, she was puzzled like a monk at Zhang Er for a while, but judging from her parents' expressions, something happened at home, and it was a serious one, so she was also anxious.
"Lan'er, do you still remember what father told you about your mother's life experience?"
Shen Dejian said sadly, "It's been more than ten years since this incident, but for some reason, a eunuch suddenly came today, with the order of the empress dowager, saying that he wanted to send your mother to Beijing, so that you Mother is going to be a concubine in the princess mansion, and she is still telling her to leave early tomorrow morning!"
"Ridiculous! Ridiculous!"
Shen Ruolan beat Kang Yan'er angrily, and said angrily, "My mother has been married to you for more than ten years, so what does it have to do with that bastard son-in-law? The queen mother clearly did this to embarrass our family? Bully our family Woolen cloth!"
Shen Dejian sighed a long time, and said, "Even if we deliberately make things difficult for us and bully us, what can we ordinary people do? Don't we have to be manipulated and bullied obediently? Hey!"