It just so happened that the weather was fine today, so Princess Rui took Shen Qi and Shen Jin to the small garden in the main courtyard. Princess Rui watched the small courtyard clean up with her own eyes, and it was elegant and ingenious.
The maid had cleaned up the gazebo in advance, Princess Rui sat behind, Shen Qi and Shen Jin sat beside her, the maid ordered tea and fruit, and stood outside, without delaying the service or disturbing over their conversation.
Princess Rui then said, "Qi'er, do you know where your mistakes are?"
Shen Qi froze for a moment and said, "Mother?"
Princess Rui looked at Shen Qi, and after a long time she sighed and said, "Could it be that you haven't realized it yet?"
Seeing that Princess Rui was teaching the elder sister, Shen Jin obediently shrank aside and drank rose clear dew with both hands. He hadn't seen her for more than a year, but some places in this yard have changed.
Shen Jin looked at Princess Rui, pursed her lips and said, "Mother, just tell me."
Princess Rui glanced at her daughter, "Talk to girl Jin."
Shen Qi was stunned for a moment, and Shen Jin also heard his name and looked over with a puzzled expression. Princess Rui leaned against the wooden railing and said nothing. But did not elaborate.
After finishing speaking, Princess Rui looked at Shen Jin and asked, "If it were you, what would you do?"
Shen Jin blinked, her slender eyelashes fluttered, and said, "It's fine not to let her in."
Shen Qi was stunned, but Princess Rui smiled lightly and said, "Talk to your eldest sister, your eldest sister is just a fool."
Shen Jin said, "Mother Concubine, Eldest Sister has done a good job."
Shen Qi asked instead, "Sister, please tell me carefully, if it were you, how would you deal with it?"
Seeing this, Shen Jin thought for a while and said, "Since we are relatives, we can't just leave it alone. Send some money away. If Mrs. Yongle Hou is not happy, at worst, I will give some more money to the cousin's family to rent a house and buy a few servants to serve her." .”
Shen Qi also understood why her mother was so disappointed, she was wrong from the beginning, for the sake of being wise and to please her mother-in-law, she agreed to allow her cousin's family to enter the house, and only then gave her a chance to seduce her husband.
"Sister, although that cousin looked pitiful and weak, she was able to find the capital safely all the way, which is amazing." Shen Jin said with a sigh, "Husband took me back, and encountered many things on the way."
"That's right." Shen Qi sighed, "I only thought about her poor background, but I forgot that if she can be found, she has an idea." She was also deceived by her cousin's pitiful appearance.
Shen Jin nodded, and looked at Shen Qi approvingly, Shen Qi couldn't help pinching Shen Jin's cheek lightly and said, "Why do I see you getting fat?"
"No." Shen Jin stared at Shen Qi with wide eyes, and said, "Big sister, I have grown taller!"
"Haha, okay." Shen Qi was amused, and her dull mood dissipated a little, "Then what?"
"Ah?" Shen Jin looked at Shen Qi in some confusion, "Oh, yes, after moving in, since she is willing to be a concubine, let her be a concubine. Why do you still enjoy the treatment of relatives when you are a concubine?"
Shen Qi was stunned by the question, turned to look at Princess Rui, and saw that although Princess Rui didn't say anything, the expression on her face agreed.
"It shouldn't be like this." Shen Jin said solemnly, "Etiquette and law are inconsistent."
Shen Qi has always felt that Shen Jin has a soft personality and no temper. Even if she is bullied, she just sits on the sidelines and likes to eat. She looks innocent and cute, but it is the first time that she finds that this younger sister thinks more about some things than she does. clear.
Perhaps it was because of Shen Jin's embarrassing position in the mansion that she developed such a temperament, but what about her? They are a bit competitive, wanting to be top-notch in everything, but there is no such thing as perfect.
Shen Qi is now the master of the Yongle Hou Mansion, and he doesn't want people to say that he has treated his relatives badly, and he has indulged that cousin a lot, at most, he is out of sight and out of mind, but this has only raised her heart.
Princess Rui said, "Your elder sister ate a bowl of food brought by your elder brother-in-law, and the child died."
"Ah?" Shen Jin couldn't help but exclaimed, then covered her mouth with her hands and looked at Shen Qi.
When Shen Qi thought of that child, her eyes turned red and she turned her head slightly without saying anything.
Shen Jin stretched out his hand to hold Shen Qi's hand, and comforted, "Eldest sister, it must not be brother-in-law."
"I also know that although your brother-in-law is a bit...but he is his eldest son." A man's feelings for the first child are different. Thinking of her husband's expression at that time, Shen Qi pursed her lips and said, " I know who it is." No matter what, I can't escape those people.
"Then why didn't big sister deal with it?" Shen Jin asked back.
Shen Qi didn't know what to say, what could the mother-in-law do if she was protecting her husband? He shook his head and said nothing.
Shen Jin looked at Princess Rui, and Princess Rui said, "If one lives a lifetime, if one pays too much attention to fame, one's life will inevitably be unhappy."
"Mother." Shen Qi covered her face with a handkerchief, and cried in a low voice, "I wish I could beat that little bitch to death, but I have no proof."
Looking at Shen Qi's appearance, Shen Jin didn't know how to comfort her. Princess Rui looked at her daughter with hatred, "Then why don't you take this opportunity to force them to let all those concubines sign contracts of sale?"
Shen Qi kept shaking her head, crying so hard that she couldn't speak.
Shen Jin thought about it, wrapped it in a handkerchief and took a piece of hibiscus cake that Shen Qi loved most before she got married, and said, "Here, big sister, don't cry."
Shen Qi looked at Shen Jin upon hearing the words, and saw the piece of pastry she held in her hand, Shen Jin said, "It's delicious, I just tasted it."
No matter how sad she was, she couldn't cry anymore, Shen Qi took the hibiscus cake and ate it slowly, Shen Jin said softly, "Big sister, don't cry and don't be sad anymore, it's already like this, it's useless for you to feel sad. "
Shen Qi swallowed a mouthful of pastries, and it wasn't like she didn't swallow it. Looking at Shen Jin, she saw Shen Jin's sincere face persuading her, and Princess Rui laughed softly, "That's true, it's over, I'm sad and regret it What's the use? People have to look forward."
Shen Jin nodded in agreement, Shen Qi finished eating and said, "I see."
Princess Rui called Cuixi, took Shen Qi down to wash her face, then looked at Shen Jin and asked, "Bo Yongning also has such a cousin?"
Unlike Shen Qi, Princess Rui noticed that Shen Jin probably thought about this question for a long time before she had such a decision in her heart. Shen Jin looked at Princess Rui in surprise, with the words "Mother and Concubine" all over her face. Well, I don't think I said that.
Princess Rui pursed her lips and smiled, sighing lightly, "What a blessed child."
The prince of Yongle Hou was also selected by Princess Rui for his daughter. He is excellent in all aspects, and he is a bit weak in temper. Princess Rui also knows this, but her daughter is a bit competitive. This is how it is now.
And what about Shen Jin? From Yongningbo's words and deeds, it can be seen that he really puts people on the cusp of his heart, but considering the situation in the border town, it can be considered extremely peaceful.
But it's also because the child has a good temper, sees clearly but never likes to care about it, has his own calculations and bottom line, although he is a little confused about small things, but he is very clear about big things.
Shen Jin smiled with crooked eyes, and Princess Rui said, "Tomorrow when your elder sister invites you to the mansion as a guest, I'm afraid that concubine will come out on her own initiative."
If it wasn't for Princess Rui who spoke, Shen Jin would have said the three words "no, right". What does it mean that the person jumped out when the sisters were talking? I didn't see that even Concubine Chen and Concubine Xu didn't come out today
Concubine Rui just mentioned a word and stopped talking, just happened to come to report that Shen Zi brought her husband, and Shen Zi's husband is the eldest son of the Zheng family, Zheng Jiaqu. And looks polite.
When Shen Zi arrived, she saw Princess Rui drinking tea and chatting with Shen Jin, and after Shen Zi greeted Princess Rui, she said with a smile, "Second Sister."
"It's different for the third younger sister to become Mrs. Uncle." Shen Zi sat opposite to Shen Jin. In the past, when she came to see her in the mansion, Shen Jin would stand up, but today she sat firmly. It's really raising people, the third sister seems to have gained weight and become more stable."
Shen Qi said that Shen Jin was a bit fat, it was because he felt it after pinching his face, and Shen Zi was obviously sarcastic, who knows that there are barbarians in the poor mountains and bad waters in the border towns.
"En." Shen Jin nodded and said, "If the second sister likes it, come over with her brother-in-law, and I'll treat you to roast whole lamb."
Shen Zi's complexion changed, "Who would like it." Usually people would go to such places only if they were exiled, and she felt that Shen Jin was mocking her.
Shen Jin looked at Shen Zi with confusion in his eyes, and then... "Oh."
Shen Qi had finished redressing and came over, Princess Rui glanced at it and said with a smile, "Okay, you sisters, talk, I'll ask someone to call the fourth and fifth girls, and I won't be in the way here."
"Mother Concubine." Both Shen Jin and Shen Zi stood up.
Shen Qi sent Princess Rui out with a smile, and she didn't look like she had just cried at all.
After Princess Rui left, Shen Jin sat down with Shen Qi when she came back, and Shen Zi sneered without hesitation, "After the third sister went to the border town, she forgot all the rules she learned in the capital. "
"En?" Shen Jin looked at Shen Zi and tilted his head slightly.
Shen Qi came to his senses, saw that Shen Zi hadn't sat down in the pavilion, and said with a smile, "Second sister is so arrogant."
Shen Zi didn't dare to bully Shen Qi, but said, "We are three sisters, the father and mother have always taught the elders and the younger to be orderly. Before I, the elder sister, sat down, the third younger sister sat down."
"But I'm Mrs. Uncle." Shen Jin also understood, a little dazed and somewhat taken it for granted, "Second brother-in-law... doesn't have an official position or title."
"Third sister has a good memory." Shen Qi smiled, looking at Shen Zi, she felt that she was getting more and more stupid, thinking that now is the beginning? "After all, you are at home. If you are outside, the second sister has to salute the third sister."
Shen Jin held the rose dew in both hands and continued to drink, and said in a soft voice, "It's all from my family, the second sister doesn't care, please sit down."
Shen Zi's complexion changed, she was neither sitting nor standing, Shen Jin said that it was as if she was not sitting down because of her low status.
"Huh? Second sister?" Seeing that Shen Zi didn't sit down for a long time, Shen Jin looked over after drinking the clear dew in the cup, as if she understood Shen Zi, Shen Jin smiled, "It's really not necessary to be so polite , although the second elder sister values the rules the most, but they are all from their own family, so it’s good to be like this outside.”
Shen Zi looked at Shen Jin's smiling face, felt aggrieved and irritable in her heart, smiled distortedly as if thinking of something, and sat down, "I haven't asked how the third sister is doing after getting married? I heard that Yongning Uncle kills, is the third sister okay? But the third sister is also pitiful, she has lost a lot of weight, but she is scared when she sees Uncle Yongning? I don’t know when I open my eyes to see such a hideous face... The third sister is so pitiful, she is so emaciated A lot."
"..." Shen Jin looked at Shen Zi, what would the second sister say? Why do you feel that you don't understand, "Second sister just said that I am fat."
The corner of Shen Zi's mouth twitched, how could he pay attention to what was there and what was not.
Shen Qi glanced at the complacent Shen Zi with some sympathy and said, "Did you come directly to the backyard just now?" If you met Yongning Bo, how could you say such a thing.