That night, Shen Zhonglei closed the door and severely criticized Shen Yunyao, and even Mrs. Xu also had a meal and hung up.
In the end, Shen Yunyao was punished with a month-long ban and was ordered to copy the female commandments twenty times.
Shen Yunyao was almost furious.
One month? By the time she was released from confinement, she would have already passed her childhood.
She was destined to miss all the banquets and events in the city the previous year.
"Why! Why did Shen Tianshu make a mistake and her father only punished her by copying the women's commandments ten times? He didn't even say how long the grounding would last. He could let her out at any time. Now when she comes to my place, she is grounded for a month. Why didn’t he tell me to stop being grounded at home all those years ago?”
Shen Yunyao went crazy and threw the pillows and cushions on the soft couch all over the floor, crying and venting at Mrs. Xu.
"A few years ago, girls from several houses were hosting banquets. I had already collected several invitations and prepared clothes and jewelry. What should I do now? Do you want me to turn them down? Do I lose my face? How will others see me and say something about me then?
"I am also his biological daughter. Why am I always inferior to Shen Tianshu in his eyes?"
Shen Yunyao's last words hit a painful spot in Xu's heart.
She hugged her daughter into her arms and said with tears streaming down her face: "It's because my mother is incompetent. She can't even compare to a dead person, so you have to follow my mother and suffer injustice everywhere."
But Shen Yunyao gritted her teeth and said: "It's that Shen Tianshu who pretended to be naive and stupid at first, and took advantage of her losses every day. We have been fooled by her for so many years, and now she seems to have found some support, and suddenly pulls her away. Get up, besides dad, who else in this family does she pay attention to now?"
The speaker has no intention, the listener has intention.
Listening to Shen Yunyao's words, Mrs. Xu suddenly remembered what Grandma Guo had said before.
It is still a mystery how Shen Tianshu got involved with Liu Yuyi when he was away from home.
She pulled out the handkerchief and wiped the tears from Shen Yunyao's face, and coaxed her: "Good boy, you just pretend to be at home and copy the books. Then wait until your father's anger subsides, and then mother can go and give her some advice." Please beg for mercy and ensure that you can go to the banquet, okay?"
Shen Yunyao was also tired by now, and she had no other choice but to accept the request humiliatingly.
Mrs. Xu left Shen Yunyao's yard, but was not in a hurry to return to the main house. As she walked towards the garden, she asked Hanqiao behind her.
"I remember that Grandma Guo's daughter is still working as an errand in the mansion?"
"Madam, you remember correctly. Yu Juan works as a steward in the kitchen. Last time, I only punished Aunt Guo and did not involve her family."
"You go to the kitchen, say I'm hungry, and ask someone to make a midnight snack."
Han Qiao understood and went down, and not long after, a woman in her thirties, somewhat stout, entered the garden with a nervous look on her face. It was Grandma Guo's daughter Yu Juan.
On winter nights, the back garden was so deserted that there wasn't even a mouse.
Yu Juan quickly found Mrs. Xu who was standing next to the rockery, walked forward and knelt down on the ground, whispering: "I have seen you, my wife. Your wife misses you every day at home, and my eyes are almost blinded by tears. "
"Having been a master and servant for so many years, when your mother goes to the village, it seems as if something is missing from me. It's empty."
What Xu said was true, but she missed Aunt Guo, not entirely because of the master-servant friendship for many years, but more importantly because Aunt Guo could help her with some ideas.
Now if she had anything to do, she could only discuss it with Hanqiao.
Although Hanqiao is quite smart, she is still young and has not experienced as many things as older people and has experience.
But now Mrs. Xu also wants to understand that although Aunt Guo is no longer by her side, she can move around more freely outside. If she has anything to do, she can help her investigate and investigate.
"You go back and tell your mother and ask her to wait for me in the restaurant where I go most often the morning after tomorrow. She will naturally know."
When Yu Juan heard this, the joy in her heart almost overflowed. Is Madam going to reuse her mother again?
"Don't worry, ma'am, I will take care of things properly, and no other person will know except my mother."
Mr. Xu took the maid away with satisfaction, leaving Yu Juan alone in the cold back garden, her face flushed with excitement.
You know, since Grandma Guo was punished to go to Zhuangzi, her status in the kitchen has been greatly reduced, and others are almost stepping on her head.
Although she didn't know why the madam suddenly thought of her mother again, Yu Juan understood that as long as my mother did not lose favor in front of the madam, sooner or later she would be able to repay the snobbish group of people with double the anger she had suffered recently.
Mrs. Xu was planning to ask Aunt Guo to find out about the recent movements of Shen Tianshu's family and see if anything happened that she didn't know about.
Xu Yihao, who had been reluctant to go out to meet people for a long time, now went to knock on Shen Yunyao's courtyard door without a servant. He avoided the woman who was watching the night in the dark.
"Cousin?" Shen Yunyao was already lying down. When she heard the maid came to report, she washed her face again and put on a half-worn home-made jacket. "It's so cold outside. What can I do for my cousin? Please send the maid.
You just said no, why did you come here on your own?"
Xu Yihao looked around, trying to get Shen Yunyao to send away the maid, but even though they were cousins, there were differences between men and women, so in the end he let her keep a personal maid.
Ever since Mrs. Xu took Xu Yihao out last time, she said that Xu Yihao was ill. Shen Yunyao has never seen Xu Yihao again since then.
Now that he saw that he was much thinner than before, his facial contours were sharper, his expression was a little haggard, and his eyes that were always squinty now started to shine with a sinister light, Shen Yunyao couldn't help but feel
Fear.
Shen Yunyao quietly grabbed the armrest of the chair and asked, "Cousin, what happened? You are so scary."
Xu Yihao was also looking at Shen Yunyao. Seeing that her eyes were red and swollen and her voice was a little hoarse, he sneered and asked, "I heard that you have been grounded? It seems that crying and fussing is useless, right?"
Shen Yunyao's face suddenly darkened and she said: "My cousin came here in the middle of the night, could it be that he came to see my jokes? Then please come back, cousin!"
"You are so restless and brainless, no wonder you can't beat Shen Tianshu!" Xu Yihao continued to poke Shen Yunyao's lung tube.
"You..." Shen Yunyao was so angry that she stood up to greet the guests and said, "It's getting late, and it's already inappropriate for my cousin to come to my room. If you didn't force me to make a fuss, my father would definitely stand by me.
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"You don't need uncle to scare me." After Xu Yihao stimulated Shen Yunyao's face to change, he finally revealed the reason for his visit, "I just want to tell you that to deal with Shen Tianshu, your little quarrels with your daughter's family are completely useless.
It won't hurt her at all. If you really want to get angry, how about my cousin helping you?"