Chapter 6 6

The next morning, after Shuying finished her grooming, she went to her parents' room to say hello.Keming was writing letters in his study, and when he saw her, he asked a few words with a smile.Mrs. Zhang had just combed her hair in the back room, and ordered Mrs. Wang to tidy up the dressing room.Shuying invited Ann, and stood behind her mother, looked at her smooth black hair, and said with a smile: "Mom, your hair is more than mine, it's thin and soft, it's nice. "What's the matter! Mom is in her thirties, and you're still joking with Mom," said Mrs. Zhang with a smile on her upright face.Then she said: "I have something to discuss with you. Let's talk outside so Mrs. Wang can clean up the back room." She stood up and walked outside with Shuying, which was the Keming couple's bedroom.Mrs. Zhang sat down on a chair next to the square table next to the wall, and Shuying took a low stool and sat in front of her mother.She was a little nervous and couldn't guess what her mother was going to talk about.

"Second daughter, you know that I will live the day after tomorrow," Mrs. Zhang said with a smile.Shuying quickly nodded with a smile and replied: "Of course I remember." Zhang went on: "Grandma just sent someone to pick me up to play. I plan to stay for a few more days, just to avoid death. I just told your father As I said before, he wanted me to go home the morning after tomorrow to worship God. Then I will do this: if I don’t come back the night after tomorrow, I will come back in the morning the day after tomorrow. After worshiping God, I still go to my grandmother’s house. That day your aunt accompanied me to go shopping, Do some shopping. She wants to invite me to have breakfast outside. I will take Qiwazi and Nanny Yuan with me today. You can stay at home and look after the house.” “Mom, don’t worry, I will take care of the family’s affairs,” Shuying said. said laughingly. "But I also want to spend my life with you." "It's fine if I take you to grandma's house the day after tomorrow," Mrs. Zhang continued. "But I remembered one thing. The last time I went to Feng's house to pay respects to Mrs. Feng, Wan'er told me that she would come to pay respects to me on the day of my birthday. Although it was just a sentence, I don't know if she could Come, but I miss her very much." "Did Wan'er really say she would come?" Shuying asked pleasantly.She stood up, walked to her mother, and gently leaned on her mother's left arm.

"Second daughter, you are really! If she doesn't tell me, why am I still telling lies?" Mrs. Zhang blamed with a smile. "Wan'er is coming, I'll wait for her at home," Shuying replied straightforwardly. "In case she really comes, you can accompany her to grandma's house for lunch. Grandma's family is small, and she has no strangers," Zhang continued. "But I don't even have a cousin. It's really no trick for Wan'er to go," Shuying said.She doesn't like to go to her grandmother's house on weekdays, because both her grandmother and aunt like boys, and they treat Jueying and Jueren better than her.Moreover, my aunt had only had three cousins, and I couldn't even find a single person to talk to her at my grandmother's house.

"Second girl, you always have your weird ideas. She came here to pay my respects, not to play tricks. If it is said to play tricks, the Feng family will definitely not let her out," Zhang said disapprovingly.Seeing Cuihuan walk into the room, she told Cuihuan: "Go out and ask Second Master Wen to call me two sedan chairs. I want to take Seventh Young Master and Nanny Yuan to the old lady's house." Cuihuan agreed, Just as she was about to go out, Mrs. Zhang ordered again: "By the way, you call Nanny Yuan, and ask her to change the seventh young master's clothes, and leave without breakfast!" Sure enough, Mrs. Zhang came back alone on the morning of her birthday.Keming asked someone to carry an empty sedan chair to pick her up early in the morning.After the joss sticks were lit in the main room, Mrs. Zhang dressed neatly, walked to the worship mat covered with red felt, and respectfully kowtowed three times.The Zhou family, the Ke'an couple, the Shen family, Juexin, Shuhua, and Shuzhen all came to congratulate her and Keming.The Shuying siblings had already put on new clothes, and they also came to kowtow to her and her father.Everyone chatted in the main room.Mrs. Zhang went back to her room next to Guitang, talked with Keming for a while, and gave some instructions to Shuying, Cuihuan, and Mrs. Wang. Before eating noodles, she got into the sedan chair and left.

Keming then went to the law firm.He was going to defend a criminal case in court in the afternoon, so he went to the office to prepare. Seeing that her parents were not at home, and that birthday noodles were prepared in the kitchen, Shuying invited sisters Shuhua and Shuzhen to come and eat noodles with her.The three of them, plus Jueying, each sat on a side, with Cuihuan and Mrs. Wang waiting on them.They had just picked up the noodle bowls, picked up the noodles with chopsticks, and had two or three bites when they heard Qian'er and Xi'er calling out the window in unison: "Second Miss, Second Miss!" They were talking happily as they walked.Shuying responded and put down the bowl.Cuihuan said, "Probably Wan'er is here," and ran outside.Jueying was still eating noodles with big mouthfuls.His three older sisters put down their bowls and waited.

Cuihuan really took Wan'er, Qian'er and Xi'er in.As soon as Wan'er entered the room, she called out affectionately: "Second Miss," and then said, "I'm here to pay my respects to my wife. Unfortunately, my wife has gone out." When she arrived in front of Shuying, she was about to bow down to pay her respects. .Shuying quickly pulled her back, and said with a smile: "We can't do that now. Let's pay our respects." "Miss Er, I have served you before, so I should greet you," Wan'er said with a smile. Although her long and delicate face was thinner than before, this smile reminded Sister Shuying of the lively young girl she used to be.

"Now you're not a girl. Wan'er, I'm a straightforward person. You must greet me, and I will ignore you! The second sister and the fourth sister ignore you," Shuhua became anxious, and hugged her from behind as she spoke. Wan'er's body urged Shuying: "Second sister, hurry up!" Xi'er also said next to her: "Sister Wan'er, just listen to the young lady and don't be polite." Shuying joined hands and bowed.Wan'er had no choice but to return the gift according to Shuhua's wish.Then she bowed to Shuhua, Shuzhen and Jueying, and finally she also bowed to Qian'er, Xi'er and Cuihuan.

"Sister Wan'er, how polite you are!" Qian'er said with a happy smile. "That's right," Xi'er continued, looking at Wan'er with a smile all over her face: "Miss Wan'er is not only polite, you see how well-dressed and beautiful she is, just like a bride!" She laughed , a white round face is really like a full moon. "Bah!" Wan'er blushed, and spat at Xi'er, "I'm kind enough to greet you, but you still want to spoil people!" Shuying saw Wan'er wearing a pair of long-sleeved shorts with jade-colored lake crepe. She wears a fashionable short jacket with big cuffs and a pleated skirt of pink lake crepe. She asks Cuihuan to accompany Wan'er to her room to loosen the skirt, and then returns to the dining room to eat noodles.Wan'er followed Cuihuan away.Qian'er and Xi'er also went out with them.

"Second Sister, did you see it?" Shuhua waited until Wan'er walked out, and immediately blinked at Shuying and asked suddenly. "I don't understand what you said you saw," Shuying asked inexplicably. "Wan'er's belly," Shuhua picked up the noodle bowl and replied with a smile. "Third sister, what are you talking about?" Shuzhen asked in surprise. "I know, I'm happy," Jueying interjected triumphantly. "I don't want you to interrupt! The young master's family takes care of this kind of thing. Shameless!" Shuhua reprimanded angrily.

After finishing eating, Jueying put down the bowl, and said calmly, "Then your young lady will have the nerve to take care of her stomach!" He burst out laughing. "Fourth brother! You still have to talk back!" Shuying said loudly in annoyance. "Forget it, there are too many of you, so I have no choice but to let you. There will be a period later!" He purposely cupped his hands and ran out smugly. "I don't know where I learned this!" Shuhua shook her head and cursed.Shuying didn't answer.With the bowl in her hand, she looked at the door Wan'er went to, and whispered to herself, "She should be able to live a better life in the future." "A better life? Second sister, you are too loyal. Do you think Does that old thing still have a heart?..." Before Shuhua finished speaking, Shuzhen hurriedly interrupted beside her in a low voice: "Sister, don't tell me, she is here." Shuhua also heard footsteps sound, shut up.

Wan'er walked into the room while talking with Cuihuan.Shuying and Shuhua pulled her to sit in the upper position, and still occupied one side alone. "Why did you take so long to come here? Are there some people talking privately there?" Shuhua asked.Wan'er smiled, but didn't answer.Mrs. Wang brought a large bowl of steaming glutinous rice noodle soup from the kitchen and put it in front of Wan'er.Wan'er wanted to pick out half of the noodles from the bowl, but Shuhua forced her to finish the bowl.They ate while talking, and Shuhua was the one who talked the most at the table.She told Wan'er everything about the Gao family.Both she and Shuying asked Wan'er a lot of questions, but Wan'er answered very simply. They left the dining table and went to Shuying's room.Shuzhen said that she had something to do and she wanted to go back to the house first, and left.Shuhua was the first to sit down on the rattan chair in front of the desk, while Shuying and Wan'er sat on the ebony chairs at the left and right ends of the desk.As soon as they sat down, Cuihuan brought teacups to them.Wan'er quickly stood up and said, "I dare not take that." Then Cuihuan sent another hookah to Wan'er. "Sister Cuihuan, I don't know how to smoke. You are so polite, it really annoys me!" Wan'er stood up again and said with a smile.She looked at Shuying again: "Second Miss, look, she treats me as an outsider, so I dare not come here for two days." Both Shuying and Shuhua laughed.Shuying said to Cuihuan: "Cuihuan, why do you want to get a hookah!" She then said to Wan'er: "Don't blame her. We miss you and hope you will come to play more. Look, you won't come for more than half a year "The second lady is right. Sister Wan'er, both ladies miss you very much," Cuihuan said with a smile, and she walked out of the room to eat noodles. "We're still worried that you've forgotten us," Shuhua interjected. "Ouch, Second Miss, Third Miss, how could I forget you?" Wan'er argued with a smile. "I don't have a home, your mansion is my home. How can I not want to go back to the mansion?" Her face began to change, and her voice also began to change. "But I'm a member of their family now, so how can I decide on my own? If I didn't come to pay my wife's birthday today, I wouldn't be able to get out! I thought about it yesterday: get dressed early and leave. Who would think of us The old lady has a lot of cutscenes. She washes her face, combs her hair and binds her feet for two or three o'clock a day. She is sixty years old, with that wrinkled face and a few strands of hair, washed and washed, combed and combed I have to put on rouge and powder. She passed by without me before, and now she wants me to serve her. Today, I finally let her out after serving her happily. If it wasn’t for her, I would have come to see my wife a long time ago. It's gone." Wan'er's eye circles were already red, and her voice was a little hoarse.But she only turned her eyes out of the window for a moment.She did not shed tears.She added angrily: "It's all caused by that old goblin." "It doesn't matter, Mom said she wanted me to accompany you to grandma's house," Shuying explained with a smile, and she bit her lip lightly. , She was also angry for Wan'er, but she didn't want to talk about such unpleasant things at this time, adding to Wan'er's troubles. "Second Miss, I don't think it's convenient for me to go," Wan'er said thoughtfully. "Mom told you to go, it's rare for you to come out, anyway, I'll go with you, it's not inconvenient," Shuying said enthusiastically. "I'm worried that if I go back to Yan, I will—" Wan'er said a bit embarrassed. "What are you afraid of! If I were you, I would simply play with it for a day, and let the two old things scold them when I go back. They will never scold you to death!" Shuhua interrupted Wan'er angrily.She stood up. "Third sister, you are silent and everyone is like you: you are not afraid of heaven and earth!" Shuying reprimanded Shuhua with a smile.She disagrees with Shuhua.But Shuhua's words made her feel better. "Miss San's words are also reasonable. Sometimes I think like this: I don't care about you beating and scolding me, and I don't care about anything. If you hit you, I'm still mine. It's because of this way of thinking that I didn't give them Tortured to death," Wan'er said with resentment, she let out a long breath with her head held high, and a pair of long green jade earrings she was wearing swayed several times in succession. "You said they still beat you?" Shuhua sat down again and asked in surprise.She moved the wicker chair to the corner of the desk, leaned forward slightly, and waited for Wan'er's answer. Wan'er's face flushed.She turned her head and looked around, buried her face, and used her right hand to pull up the big cuff on the left.The first thing Shuhua and Shuying saw was a gold circle on the wrist, then two blue-purple scars two or three inches wide on the white arm, and a little further up, there were some tooth marks.Wan'er whispered excitedly: "Second Miss, Third Miss, this is the most recent injury. I can't even count the previous ones." Shuying was terrified, and Shuhua was furious.Shuhua couldn't help but suddenly stopped her feet, tilted her head up, and said loudly, "Second sister, I'm so mad!" "Be quiet. Third sister, what's wrong with you?" Shuying said in surprise.Wan'er immediately pulled down the sleeves of her fashionable clothes, and called out gratefully: "Miss San." "Wan'er, is that old goblin bullying you? Tell me quickly, we will ask Dad to help you with the lawsuit!" Shuhua asked anxiously, she couldn't sit still on the chair.Shuying also asked Wan'er: "Did Mrs. Feng beat you?" Wan'er shook her head and replied in a low voice, "Old Mrs. Feng is insidious. She has many tricks. She is really capable of torturing people. She swears, she can swear all kinds of obscene words. But she doesn't beat people. In front of people, she will also pretend to be a Bodhisattva. My injuries were all caused by Mrs. Feng. Not only did he beat people, he also bit people. I've never seen a monster like him! When he's happy, he treats you like a treasure, and even spends time teaching you to read and write poetry. When he gets angry, he's not a human, but a beast. Beating and biting, He can do anything. He's got the window stick on my arm! His teeth marks. I hate him sometimes. But it's no good. They're many, old man, The old lady, the master, the wife, and Young Master Sun... all vented their breath from one nostril. I am alone, and I have no relatives—" "Don't say that, my second sister and I are your relatives. You Listen to me, we will help you sue Feng Leshan, and we will ask the third father to defend in court!" Shuhua interrupted excitedly, she felt the blood all over her body rushing upwards, she endured the anger, and couldn't find it. Go somewhere to vent.She wished Feng Leshan would stand in front of her so that she could slap him hard on the mouth!The scar in Zihong must be played to eliminate the hatred in her heart!But there were only three of them in the room, and Shuying had tears in her eyes, and dared not even say a word of anger.Wan'er is complaining again that she is "alone"! "If only sister Qin was here!" She suddenly thought.Then she thought: Why can't I help?So she thought of going to court, and she also remembered that Shuying's father was a famous lawyer. "Miss San, don't mention the lawsuit!" Wan'er shook her head, looked at Shuhua with wide eyes, and reminded in pain. "That old guy." (Here she gritted her teeth, revealing her hatred for a person.) "He is rich and powerful, has many friends who are high-ranking officials, and everyone respects him. This year there is another man named Shazi Commander Wang came to his mansion to eat and play cards, and gave him a lot of gifts. He was so proud of himself that he said that the supervisor would give up three points when he saw him. Speaking of lawsuits, he got a lot of money from lawsuits "" Strange! He is not a lawyer, nor is he a litigator, how can he make a fortune from litigation?" Shuhua asked with interest.At this time, Cuihuan came in from the outside and sat down on the square stool in front of the second cabinet. Wan'er "hummed" with a wry smile, and said, "I don't know. Once an old lady Ding came to Feng's house to quarrel and scolded that old thing really badly. I heard that she was his only one." An old friend's wife. The man died, leaving orphans and widows. At that time, the Feng family didn't have much money. The Ding family had a lot of money. Mrs. Ding was a woman, and the young master was only a few years old. There was no reliable person to manage the house. Mrs. Feng was Mrs. Ding asked him to help manage the money. The Ding family lent him a lot of money. Not to mention that he didn't write an IOU for borrowing money. All the red deeds of all the good fields in the family were deceived into his own hands, and suddenly he turned his face and refused to recognize anyone, and he refused to admit anything. The Ding family had no choice but to hire a lawyer to file a lawsuit. He asked Chen Ke's family to defend in court. Chen Ke's family was his good friend , I am also very familiar with the lawyer hired by the Ding family. Mrs. Feng spent a sum of money and won the lawsuit. The Ding family went to court for two years, and even the mansion they lived in was sold. Every time Mrs. Feng talked to Mrs. Feng When you quarrel, you always have to scold him: bullying orphans and widows is unreasonable. He dare not answer back. I can't imagine that this kind of person is respected everywhere. Even the third master respects him like that! I don't know if the third master knows Do you know these things?" Shuying sighed, Shuhua let out a sulking breath, Cuihuan listened attentively, but she often turned her head to look at Shuying.When Wan'er mentioned the name of Chen Ke's family, Shuhua repeated the name after her, Shuying was startled, and Cuihuan gave Shuying a sympathetic look.After Shuhua let out a sigh of relief, she still felt very uncomfortable.She never imagined that there were such people and such things in the world!And the man who did such a thing was a gentleman respected everywhere!Her third uncle and deceased grandfather all respected this man as a sage.At first, she thought that the things she saw at home were the dirtiest. The fourth and fifth uncles she usually hated plus the fourth and fifth aunts and Aunt Chen were the worst people.Only now did she know that these people were far behind Feng Leshan.The greater the misdeed, the more respected she was, and she could not understand this anomaly.But she knew one thing: she couldn't help Wan'er in the lawsuit.The "lawsuit" she imagined is not like this at all, it is just her personal dream.But she was not convinced.When she saw Wan'er wiping her eyes with a handkerchief, Shuying said, "The third master probably doesn't know," she buried her head and fell silent. Cuihuan stood up silently, and went to them to exchange the teacup for new tea.Such silence made her uncomfortable.She paused again and said angrily: "Chen Ke's family, Feng Leshan...they're all of the same species! The third father will know. Don't go to court! I really hate it!" Shuying raised her head and complained in surprise: "Three Sister, where did you learn to stomp your feet? It's a good scare! Which one do you hate?" "I hate, I hate them all! I hate that I'm not a man! If I were a man, I must punish Feng Leshan! "Shuhua earned a red face and replied. "Miss San, you are really different from others," Wan'er glanced at Shuhua enviously, her eyes had already been wiped dry.She changed into a vengeful tone with a bit of schadenfreude and said: "But you don't have to be too upset. The retribution is coming. Mrs. Feng's son suffered from paralysis two months ago and couldn't get out of bed. He shit and urinated on the bed The two young masters Sun and the second young master of Chen Ke's family are very close. I heard that the three of them eat, drink, prostitute and gamble outside, and do everything. Mrs. Feng likes them, but the old man dare not beat or scold them, so he is secretly angry. They will die of anger one day His!..." "It's the same as fifth dad pissed grandpa to death," Shuhua suddenly interrupted happily. "Third sister, keep your voice down!" Shuying felt very upset when she heard about the second young master of the Chen family, and then she warned in annoyance when she heard what Shuhua said. "Second Sister, what's the matter with you today? Let me have a quick word, okay?" Shuhua deliberately talked back to Shuying, with a smug smile on her face. "It's for your own good. If you don't care, I won't care. You will be responsible for any trouble!" Shuying frowned and complained gently.She was afraid of hearing people talking about such disturbing things, so she told Cuihuan: "Go out and ask someone to hire two sedan chairs, we are going to the old lady's house." Cuihuan promised to go out, when Shuhua Quickly went on to say: "Don't worry, play for a while, I still have to talk to Wan'er." "I see how much you can't finish talking! When the sedan chair comes, you should have finished talking," Shuying said , She said to Cuihuan again: "Cuihuan, don't listen to her! You go!" Cuihuan walked out. Wan'er stood up, turned around, and looked out the window for a moment, Guitang was still the same as a year ago.While watching, she stretched out her right hand and pulled out the silver needle from the long bun at the back of her head, lightly picked it twice on the black oily hair, wiped it down twice, and then inserted the silver needle back into the bun.When she lowered her right hand, the gold circle on her wrist lit up. "How many months have you been?" Shuying walked up to her and whispered in her ear. Wan'er was slightly taken aback, and turned her head to look at Shuying, she saw Shuying's eyes resting on her stomach, she immediately blushed, looked out of the window, and softly replied: "It's been more than four months." "You have to take care of your health! Do they treat you better? I see that you are dressed well," Shuying asked in a low voice with concern. Wan'er turned her head to look at Shuying again, and still whispered: "The old master beats less. The old lady is still as fierce. Their daughter-in-law speaks harsh words and sarcasm all day long. But I'm not afraid..." Well said, I agree!" Shuhua stood behind them and listened casually to their speech, and when she heard this sentence, she deliberately praised it loudly. Wan'er and Shuying turned around together.Wan'er looked at Shuhua and continued: "When I first came to Feng's house, I cried a lot. My eyes were often swollen from crying, I was scolded and beaten, I couldn't eat, and I lost weight. I only blame myself for my bad life." I would rather die early and reincarnate as a human being. At that time, I really wanted to follow the path of Mingfeng. Now I have changed too. Since it is all my life, why should I be afraid of them! If you deserve to die, you should die, if you don’t deserve to die, just live. They bully me, I I don't care. I think I am young, I am not yet twenty years old this year, and I will always die behind you. I will see the results of you one by one. Second Miss, you just said that I am well dressed when I go out. Others see Wake up, gold rings, gemstone earrings, and silver jewelry are all there. But when I get back to Feng’s house, I have to return these valuable jewelry to the old lady to pick them up immediately after entering the house. Nothing is missing. I go out three times, just to come back to see my wife. It’s not easy to come here in the future. At home, I have to come out to meet guests on a big wedding, and I also wear these valuable jewelry. They want you to wear them, and you can’t do without them. Others look like , how well the Feng family treats me, I really can't argue!" "This is a hypocrite, a hypocrite! I hate this kind of person!" Shuhua cursed angrily.She then said to Wan'er encouragingly: "You are right! The two old monsters of the Feng family are forty years older than you, and they must die before you. People like them will not have good results!" She just said When I got here, I heard someone saying: "I can't see that Miss San can tell fortunes!" This was Cuihuan joking with her.She gave a chuckle, knowing that the sedan chair had been hired, and Shuying and Wan'er were about to leave. "I'm not blind, how can I know how to tell fortunes? I never believe in fortunes!" Shuhua looked at Cuihuan with her head up and smiled, and said proudly.She then said affectionately to Wan'er who was tying the skirt: "Wan'er, come and play more in the future!" Shuying went to the back room. Wan'er tied up her skirt and replied gratefully: "As long as they let me out, I will definitely come! Miss San, I have never been as happy as I am today in the past half a year. After telling these things, my heart is much happier. ’ she smiled happily.