After washing and changing their clothes, Yu Pinyan and Shen Miaoqi walked into the main hall. The old lady was already sitting on the main seat, and she waved to the granddaughter in her grandson's arms, "Xiang'er, come and sit next to the old ancestor."
Yu Pinyan put his sister down carefully, and sat next to her.
Lin ordered Nanny Jin to pour tea, sat down with Shen Miaoqi and blamed her, "Yan'er, clean yourself up first before coming back, see you scared Qi'er today, what if you get hurt somewhere? Besides, today is a day of great joy in our family, why did you come back with a whole body of blood, it just added a lot of bad luck!"
This is really... I haven't cared about my son for fourteen years, and I feel that my son is not clean. Do you know why he has such a strong smell of blood? Do you know what a huge price he paid to support this family? Do you know how many life and death disasters he has experienced over the years in order to let everyone live a good life? Where were you when he suffered? What right do you have to make irresponsible remarks on him
Yu Pinyan didn't speak, just glanced at her lightly. But the old lady laughed angrily, slapped the table with a bang, and cursed, "This is Yongle Hou's Mansion, Yan'er's home, he can come back whenever he likes, why was it your turn to intervene? If you dislike Yan'er Get out as soon as possible! Mother Ma, go get the divorce letter!"
Every time she talked to Mrs. Lin, the old lady would take out the divorce letter she had already written to force her to coerce her. After fourteen years, she was really tired. If she hadn't been Yan'er's biological mother, someone would have asked someone to throw her back to her natal family.
If in the past Lin would have covered her face and wept, she would have ignored the old lady's scolding, but this time her daughter was watching by her side, she felt greatly insulted, and her face flushed instantly. But she has not been in charge of the family for fourteen years, and the old lady has the final say in the house. If the old lady wants to divorce her wife on behalf of her son, she can only take her luggage and leave.
She scratched her palm secretly, and looked at her son with pleading eyes.
Yu Pinyan lowered his head to peel the melon seeds, and stuffed the melon seeds into his sister's mouth one by one, as if he didn't see or hear anything.
At this moment, there was no place for Yu Siyu to speak, so she put her head down and pretended to be dead.
The hall was surprisingly quiet for a moment, only the sound of Yu Xiang chewing melon seeds remained, and his big black and white eyes glanced at Shen Miaoqi's face.
Shen Miaoqi said in trepidation, "Grandmother, mother also felt sorry for me and she made a slip of the tongue, please forgive me."
At that moment, Nanny Jin came in with a pot of tea. She quickly poured a cup of hot tea and knelt down in front of the old lady, saying, "It's the first time for my granddaughter to come home. This cup of tea is for grandma, and I wish grandma a long and prosperous life. "Hua Luo raised his hands high and his eyes were earnest.
The old lady stared at her for a while, then took a sip from the teacup, and then handed over a purse, "You are a discerning person, get up. Put this away to keep you safe. Since you have avoided death You don't need to follow someone else's surname anymore, from now on you will be called Yu Miaoqi, and you will be ranked second, and Xiang'er's ranking will move down to Miss San."
Shen Miaoqi took it respectfully, and squeezed it secretly with her fingertips, there was only a thin piece of paper inside, she didn't know what it was.
She poured another cup of tea, held it to the red-eyed Lin, and said softly, "Mother, please drink tea. This is the first cup of tea my daughter gave you. I wish mother good health and eternal youth."
Lin immediately smiled, took the teacup and drank it down, then untied the priceless jadeite bracelet on her wrist and put it on her wrist, took her into his arms and patted her gently.
The picture of the two snuggling quietly looks very warm, but it makes everyone in the hall feel more gloomy. The old lady sneered while twisting the beads, Yu Pinyan simply turned her head away.
Worried that he was unbalanced, Yu Xiang slapped the melon seed husk off the skirt, plunged into his arms, stretched out her little hand to gently stroke his back, and told him with actions—brother, you still have me!
Yu Pinyan picked her up on his lap and hugged her well, and smiled happily.
The old lady turned her head to look at the two brothers and sisters who were very close, and her tense face gradually softened. She waved her hands and said, "Okay, now that you have met the elders, let's move to the side hall for dinner. You three sisters will meet again in private. .”
Shen Miaoqi withdrew from Lin's arms, obediently agreed, the complacency before coming here was replaced by anxiety. Lin's status in the Yu Mansion seems to be different from what she imagined, not to mention that the old lady doesn't take her seriously, even Yu Pinyan and Yu Xiang are indifferent to her.
How did the Lin family get here all these years? A sense of crisis hit Shen Miaoqi's heart.
It is rare for all the masters of the Yu family to gather together, so today's meal is particularly rich, and there is even a jar of good wine that has been smashed and placed on Yu Pinyan's seat.
After everyone was seated, the old lady took a piece of food with her chopsticks, and then waved her hand to order everyone to do whatever they wanted.
Lin kept moving vegetables into her daughter's bowl, wishing she could move all the dishes to her daughter. Yu Miaoqi reciprocated and put it back in her bowl.
Yu Xiang propped her cheek with one hand, admiring the endless intimacy between the mother and daughter.
Yu Siyu on the opposite side winked at her gloatingly. But the conflict in the hall also made her understand that no matter how much Lin Shi loves Yu Miaoqi, as long as the old lady and Yu Pinyan are around, they will not try to overwhelm Yu Xiang. Fourteen years have passed, and Mrs. Lin is no longer the uncompromising mistress of the past.
Yu Pinyan pinched her sister's chin and turned her head back, and said in a deep voice, "What's there to look at, eat. My brother will pick it up for you, so don't envy others." He also longed for Lin's maternal love, but after all these years, he Understand that it is something that does not exist. If his sister needs affection, he can give it, even more than she imagined.
The old lady also felt sorry for her grandchildren, so she brought some food for each of them, and said softly, "Eat it, just tell the ancestors what you want, and the ancestors will pick it up for you." Only this time, next time I will let the mother and daughter go twice Go to the house by yourself, this attitude is really shocking. They are also children, so you can't just favor one and treat the others as if you picked them up, right
Yu Miaoqi winked very much, and hurriedly persuaded Lin to eat by herself in a low voice, and then gave the old lady and Yu Pinyan each a piece of fish, with a shy smile on her face.
"Hey, don't give brother fish, brother never eats fish." Yu Xiang put the fish back into her bowl.
The smile on Yu Miaoqi's face froze, and she ignored Yu Xiang. Instead, she looked at Mrs. Lin and asked, "Mother, does brother hate eating fish? I really have no way of knowing when I come home for the first time. What does brother like to eat? What do you think?" I'll remember it."
Lin's expression was very embarrassed when she was asked. The son was only five years old when the husband died, and he didn't even have the ability to take care of himself. He would eat whatever he was fed. She didn't know what his son liked.
Seeing Mrs. Lin gossip about him, the old lady couldn't answer for a long time, and her face turned dark immediately. The daughter-in-law's indifference to her grandson has always been a thorn in her heart. She will never forgive her daughter-in-law's irresponsible behavior until she dies. The more she cared about Yu Miaoqi now, the more pitiful her grandson was.
A gloom welled up in her chest, making the old lady vomit or swallow, extremely uncomfortable.
Yu Xiang also turned cold, and slapped the chopsticks on the table again.
Yu Miaoqi knew that she had said something wrong, but she didn't know where it was. Even if she was not of the Shen family's blood, Shen's mother never treated her badly, what's more, she poured twice as much maternal love on her. Therefore, she could never imagine that there are mothers in the world who ignore their children so much.
As the saying goes, one peck, one drink, one repay, one repay. Lin's fall into such an embarrassing situation is also her own doing.
Yu Miaoqi didn't dare to ask the old lady with a gloomy expression, so she had to look at Yu Xiang beside her, "Sister, what kind of food does brother like to eat? I'm good at cooking, and I can make it for my brother in the future, which can be regarded as making up for the regret that our brother and sister have not seen each other for many years." .”
After hearing this, Yu Xiang would not tell her, put her arms around Yu Pinyan's arm, and asked in a ignorant manner, "Brother, what do you like to eat? I forgot too."
Yu Pinyan nodded her upturned nose, and said with a smile, "I will eat whatever you like."
Yu Miaoqi clenched her chopsticks tightly and asked persistently, "What does my sister like to eat?"
Yu Xiang tilted her head to look at her, her black and white cat pupils shone slyly, "I, I'm not picky about food, I like to eat anything."
After all, she was teasing herself. Not only was she hostile to her, but she was also very uncomfortable with herself. But why should she? What is she? Yu Miaoqi's heart was on fire, but she had a faint smile on her face, and she lowered her head to eat with tears in her eyes.
Her aggrieved gesture really softened the old lady's heart, and she picked up her chopsticks again and said, "Don't eat or sleep, let's eat in peace, today is a good day, don't waste it."
Everyone agreed in a low voice.
Yu Xiang no longer had an appetite, so she moved a plate of drunken shrimp to her, peeled off the shell, dipped it in sauce, and stuffed it into her brother's mouth. Yu Pinyan poured half a bowl of custard into a bowl, mixed it with white rice, and you fed me one spoonful at a time, filling each other half full.
The two brothers and sisters loved to eat this way since they were young, and the old lady had already seen it, but Yu Miaoqi looked at it frequently, not showing it on the face, feeling as uncomfortable as a cat scratching her heart. She could tell that in terms of ranking in the Marquis Mansion, Yu Pinyan was the real master, followed by the old lady, and finally Lin.
In order to gain a foothold in the Hou's Mansion, it is not enough to win the Lin family alone, but also to win the favor of the old lady and Yu Pinyan. However, based on Yu Pinyan's current posture of pampering Yu Xiang to the sky, it may not be easy for him to occupy a more important position than Yu Xiang in his heart.
Without Yu Pinyan's love, how would she live in the future
All kinds of calculations surfaced in her mind one by one, and Yu Miaoqi was a little overwhelmed.
Yu Xiang was also absent-minded. In fact, she really wanted to grab Yu Miaoqi and ask how her family was doing now. Although she was unwilling to leave with them, she still wanted to know their news. It's fine if you're doing well, and if you're not doing well, you can still help out a little bit, and you can count as doing your best for the original owner. However, seeing what the old lady and brother meant, they didn't intend to let her have contact with that family, so she had to pretend she didn't know it.
It's not easy to live with a clear heart and pretend to be a fool on the face.
Everyone at the dinner table had different ideas in their hearts, and the meal was over before they knew it. Yu Pinyan didn't want to stay longer, so he greeted the old lady and picked up his sister and took a step ahead.
Yu Miaoqi wanted to leave with Lin, but was stopped by Yu Siyu.
Lin was happy to see that she had a playmate, and waved her to just go.
Yu Siyu led Yu Miaoqi back to her small courtyard, and asked as soon as she entered, "Where are your original family members? Why don't you let them come and pick up Yu Xiang? Don't you hate her for occupying the magpie's nest for fourteen years? That family is a lowly merchant, and Yu Xiang should be called a merchant girl, and it is really cheap for her now."
The smile on Yu Miaoqi's face froze, and she said in a low voice, "I don't know what you're talking about."
At the same time, her affection for this concubine turned into deep malice. Mother, grandmother, brother, it's fine to know the past that she tried to hide, why does this person also know? There is no doubt that Yu Siyu has surpassed Yu Xiang and has become the obstacle she is most eager to get rid of right now.
She is the concubine's daughter of the Hou Mansion, definitely not a businesswoman!