Chapter 269 The Heart Opened by the Spring Breeze (3 more)
Shen Yunrui couldn't help but retort on behalf of her mother: "Is it possible that talking to elders like this is the rule that my second sister learned in Yongzhou Mansion? That is really different from our family!"
"As long as Third Aunt behaves like an elder, I will naturally respect her. But if I don't respect myself and treat my younger generation strangely, please forgive me for not being able to respect her."
After all, Shen Yunrui was young and was not as sharp-tongued as Shen Yunyao. After a few words of exchange, she ran out of words. Shen Yunyao would only blame Shen Yunyao for not respecting his elders. Shen Yunyao was running away from him. Tears welled up, so pitiful.
Just as Madam Dong was about to step forward to persuade her, she heard someone outside shouting: "The old lady is here."
Everyone watching the excitement in the room immediately calmed down their expressions and stood back to where they should stand.
Even Shen Yunrui was pulled back by Mrs. Shen San, leaving Shen Yunyao alone in the middle of the huge main hall, not knowing where to go.
As soon as Mrs. Shen entered the house, she said, "I could hear the mess in the house from far away. What's the noise like so early in the morning?"
In front of her, no one dared to say anything more.
"If you have anything to do, tell me at home. Don't wait until you go out to make trouble again. I can't afford to embarrass this person with you!"
As Mrs. Shen spoke, her eyes fell on Mrs. Shen first.
Mrs. Shen San knew that no matter how big or small the family affairs were, she could not hide them from Mrs. Shen. Someone must have told her what happened in the main room just now, so she hurriedly admitted her mistake and said: "It's all because of my wife's fault and her unbridled talk." , I casually made a joke with Yunyao, but the little girl turned out to be so thin-skinned that I couldn’t stop talking."
Immediately afterwards, Shen Yunrui's eyes were red and she pitifully admitted her mistake: "Grandma, even if the second sister said something rude to my mother, I should not have quarreled with the second sister. I know I was wrong and I will never dare to do it again."
One of the mother and daughter evades the important and the other shirks the responsibility.
But Mrs. Shen did not speak, but slowly turned her gaze to Shen Yunyao.
Everyone in the room also focused their attention on Shen Yunyao.
Shen Yunyao was dissatisfied. In today's matter, it was Mrs. Shen who was at fault in the first place. She was just fighting back at best.
She bit her lower lip and persisted silently.
But in the end, the hard work of following the rules during this period suddenly came to her mind, and she succumbed to Mrs. Shen's increasingly sharp gaze.
Shen Yunyao lowered her head and swallowed more: "Grandma, I shouldn't contradict my elders, and I shouldn't argue with my sister. I won't dare to do that again."
Mrs. Shen finally withdrew her gaze with satisfaction, regained her kind attitude and said: "When you go out for an outing today, don't just have fun. Keep an eye on the children in each room, and don't get hurt.
"There must be many other people going for an outing on the mountain today. There are all kinds of people. Everyone must remember to be kind to others and take a step back when something happens. You must not quarrel or quarrel whenever you disagree like before. .
"Otherwise, wouldn't it just be a joke and people would say that our Shen family has no rules?"
Although Old Mrs. Shen was talking about an outing, she was actually taking the opportunity to hit the three people who had just quarreled.
Shen Yunyao had never suffered such grievances since she was a child. She felt sad and dissatisfied, but she did not dare to show it. She could only hang her head lower and hold back the tears that had begun to well up in her eyes.
It was also difficult for a large family to go out. There were nearly ten mule carts lined up for the female family members alone.
Most of the men were riding horses, but a few young ones were detained by their mother's side and rode with them in the carriage.
They refused to be content in the carriage, and everyone held the windows open and refused to get out. They looked at the uncles and brothers riding horses outside with envy, thinking to themselves when they would be able to ride a tall horse.
Perhaps because of the previous quarrel, Shen Yunyao was not placed in the other sisters' car, but was taken into her own mule cart by Mrs. Shen Dong.
Mrs. Dong is a soft-hearted person, and it is precisely because of this that Mrs. Shen has always been worried about letting her take over the housekeeping, fearing that she would not be able to control the big family.
After getting in the car, he saw that Shen Yunyao was unhappy all the time, so he relieved her and said, "Yunyao, my aunt told you that your third aunt is just that kind of person. As the saying goes, it's easy to change the situation, but it's hard to change the nature.
"She has been like this since she got married, and now that she is the mother of several children, she is still the same, unable to speak her mind.
"But when you get along with her for a long time, you will know that she is just a bit mean-spirited and loves to joke and sarcastically, but she has a good heart..."
"Well, thank you, auntie, I'll take note of it." Shen Yunyao responded casually without raising her head.
She thought in her heart that she would have to return to Yongzhou Mansion sooner or later. Maybe when her father got promoted, she could go to Shuntian Mansion with her, so there would be no need to spend too much time with her.
Seeing that there was something else she didn't understand, Mrs. Dong realized that what she said was in vain, and Shen Yunyao didn't take it to heart at all.
Although she is soft-hearted, she is not stupid and is too lazy to waste any more words.
It's not my own child anyway, my parents are both here, and what's more, there's an old lady above me.
As an eldest aunt, she could do her best with just a few words.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Dong stopped talking and leaned against the wall of the carriage with her eyes closed to meditate.
Shen Yunyao also felt bored. She turned her head and stared at the scenery outside the window in a daze, feeling extremely homesick.
After the family arrived at the mountain, they found that it was already very lively.
Colorful paper kites in the sky are showing off their figures in the wind, and on the ground are the lively figures of children running around.
The adults were all gathered in small groups, eating and talking, watching the children running and jumping, looking happy in the spring breeze.
If you like the excitement, you can also walk further afield.
Many people gathered in a circle and were fighting cocks. The fighting was fierce, with shouts and sighs alternating.
There are also jugglers performing on the floor, taking advantage of the crowds to come and earn a few coins.
Seeing such a scene, the spirits of everyone in the Shen family were lifted up, and groups of three or five went to find places to have fun.
Only Shen Yunyao was not interested in any of this.
In her eyes, the mountains are full of country people dressed in rustic clothes, and even the games they play to relieve their boredom are not as elegant as those in Yongzhou Prefecture.
She simply avoided crowded places and found a quiet place under a tree where she would not be easily disturbed. She took out a volume of poetry that she had prepared long ago and held it in her hands, pretending to be reading poetry in the beautiful spring scenery. In fact, I didn’t even notice half of the word, and my mind had already wandered to who knows where.
It's a pity that the carefully selected place only allowed her to be clean for less than half an hour before someone came to break it.
"Does the girl also like Xiangshan layman's poems?"
The clear male voice is very easy to impress, so Shen Yunyao, who was disturbed in her quiet time, could not get angry at all, and looked up at the person following the sound.
The person who came was a handsome young man with starry eyes and long eyebrows, and his hair was tied up with a bamboo hairpin. He wore the most ordinary Tsing Yi shirt with a different look from others.
Shen Yunyao suddenly felt that her cheeks were slightly hot, as if her heart was suddenly blown open by the spring breeze, and there seemed to be something in her chest that was ready to take root and sprout.