One hundred and ninetieth chapters proud of the spring breeze (5)
Shen Jue, Shen Qin, and Shen Bao were all waiting for news about Shen Rui in Jiuruju.
When Shen Rui came back and heard that Xu had agreed, everyone was a little excited.
Shen Rui looked at the hourglass on the window sill and said, "Have you forgotten that there are classes in the afternoon? Uncle San hasn't asked for leave yet, so he can't let me go up and top the tank this time, right?"
Shen Qin patted her chest and said, "Let's go over there. I'll talk to my third uncle."
The third master was reluctant to leave his wife. When the time came, he reluctantly went to school.
When the third wife saw this, she felt sweet and a little uneasy. She sent all the maids away, leaving Mother Guo alone and said: "Mom, am I wrong?"
Seeing her worried look, Mother Guo hurriedly said: "Madam, where are you thinking about this? It's like this when you have twins. It's easy to think wildly. Madam, please think about it."
The third wife looked in the direction of the front yard and said after a while: "If I had insisted on taking concubines for the master back then, maybe the master would have had children... Mom also saw it, the master is looking forward to his own flesh and blood..."
Mother Guo knew everything about what happened back then.
After the third wife got married, she was infertile for three years and felt guilty. She once offered to bring in a concubine for the third master to multiply his bloodline, but the eldest wife did not nod.
The eldest lady sent for an imperial doctor, and without telling the third master, he quietly showed the third lady to see her, and confirmed that her body was in good shape and that she had no symptoms of uterine cold, which would make it difficult to conceive. Only then did she persuade the third lady.
Because the infertility may be caused by the third master, the third wife has kept silent about the children since then.
After so many years, when she thought about what happened back then, she felt a little unsure: "Perhaps it is my children's poor fortune that delayed the master for so many years..."
"My good wife, I don't dare to think like this. God is wise. You and the third master are both good people. Good people are rewarded. This is God's blessing... Madam, don't think about these unhappy things. Please be careful, young master. Li was also annoyed, but she still wanted to be happy, so that the young master could be happy too..." Mother Guo comforted her repeatedly.
When the third wife heard this, she became more worried: "The whole family is looking forward to it. It would be great if I give birth to a brother, but if I give birth to a sister, what will happen if the master is unhappy?"
Mother Guo could only persuade her patiently: "Who said that I don't care about my daughter? I have loved Madam Jade as much as my elder brother over the years..."
The third wife was diverted by her words and muttered: "Since Brother Rui, Brother Jue and the others have been studying with me in the front yard, it's hard for Sister Yu to come over..."
In the classroom in the front yard, Shen Qin suppressed her temper and listened to the Third Master after a short lesson, then she rushed over: "Third Uncle, how is Third Auntie doing? Teaching my nephews, will it delay Third Uncle's company? Third aunt?"
The third master rolled his eyes at him: "Well, there are more than a dozen people in the aisle, and none of them are stable enough to know that I left you and your third aunt to come out. Just listen to the class and study harder. Tell me, what is going on? I want you to follow. It’s like I can’t sit still with my tail on my back.”
Shen Qin said "hehe" twice: "Third uncle, wasn't it yesterday that the eldest uncle was going to take Brother Rui out of the city to pay tribute... Later, third aunt felt uncomfortable, and the eldest uncle didn't go out. She arranged for Brother Rui to leave the city tomorrow... We Several brothers from the tribe thought that the elder of Brother Rui was also our elder, so they couldn't let Brother Rui go out alone to pay tribute, so they wanted to take a two-day leave from their third uncle and accompany Brother Rui there."
The third master listened with a smile at first, but at the end, his face showed a bit of solemnity.
"Yes, the day after tomorrow is March 25th, when Mr. Sun will be alive. Is your aunt going back this time?" The third master looked at Shen Rui and said.
Shen Rui said: "Auntie, I can't say anymore. She is offering incense to my grandfather at home..."
Speaking of this, Shen Rui felt even more weird.
The eldest husband and his wife were ordered by the second wife and third wife to look after Mr. Sun's tomb, which was barely acceptable. But the family still enshrined Mr. Sun's spiritual tablet. If so, why didn't they ask the grandson Shen Rui to pay homage to the deceased?
But the third master looked like he was used to it, and nodded and said: "I should also go and offer a stick of incense in front of the master..." At this point, he hesitated: "How about I take you out of the city tomorrow?"
When Shen Rui heard this, he was startled and hurriedly waved his hands and said: "No, no, third aunt needs someone to accompany her now. Third uncle, you should just stay at home with third aunt..."
However, the third master did not do it on a whim, but was sincerely grateful to Mr. Sun.
He vaguely remembered things from his childhood.
Mr. Sun was more than ten years older than his father. He was already in his sixties at that time, but he really loved his brothers. He often held his youngest nephew on his lap.
There was also Sun Min who was following the eldest lady. The third master also remembered it. After all, when Sun Min left, he was already five or six years old, the age to remember.
By the time Mr. Sun passed away, the third master was already in his teens, and he followed his eldest brother and sister-in-law to watch Mr. Sun's funeral. Because of this, he even fell ill.
At that time, I only knew that the Sun family’s great-grandfather had saved his life, and he also vaguely knew the reason why his second brother and second sister-in-law were kicked out. However, he did not expect that the Sun family’s care for the Shen family’s second wife would not follow the Sun family’s care.
It ended after his death, and his small life was supported by the money of the Sun family.
In addition to gratitude, the third master only felt ashamed.
Mr. Sun treats them as nephews, but they do not regard Mr. Sun's only flesh and blood as sisters. If the eldest wife had not mentioned it, the third master would have forgotten who Sun Min was.
Thinking of this, the Third Master looked at Shen Rui with an even softer look: "Okay, I won't go with you this time just... When your second uncle comes back and the official ceremony is held, I will kowtow in front of Mr. Sun's tomb..."
After receiving these words, the third master also forgot about their "kill first and report later" matter, and only told: "You guys are not allowed to be naughty when you go out... If it makes people worry, don't think about it during the next ten days holiday...
Shen Rui and others all responded honestly.
There was no words for the whole night, but when the next day, Shen Rui, Shen Jue and others went to the eldest wife to say goodbye and were led to the front yard by Zhou's mother, they couldn't help but be shocked.
In addition to the five carriages, there were Guan Fu and Shi San, the second housekeepers of Shen House, and four horse servants in front of them.
Besides Zhou's mother and three other mothers, there were four maidservants who were thirteen and fourteen years old.
Including the four sons of the Shen family and their respective eldest followers and servants, the group totaled more than thirty people.
When Shen Qin and Shen Bao saw this, they felt that it was too much work to mobilize the troops, so they hesitated and looked at Shen Rui, waiting for him to take the lead.
Shen Rui didn't say anything. After meeting Guan Fu, he followed Zhou's mother's arrangement and got into one of the carriages with Shen Jue.
Shen Jue realized that something was wrong: "It's not like I'm being disrespectful when I go out to perform sacrifices. Why did my aunt use incense as a cover two days ago?"
Shen Rui shook his head: "Who knows, I wanted to ask yesterday, but I saw that my aunt didn't have the intention to say anything, so I didn't ask..."
Shen Jue opened the curtains, looked at the cart of sacrifices behind, and asked in confusion: "It was necessary to use a pretense before, but why is it not needed now?"
Shen Rui still shook his head: "I can't think of it either. How about Brother Jue help me think about it..."
In fact, although Xu didn't say anything, Shen Rui could guess something from her whereabouts.
Xu's move must be to hide it from someone in Shen's house. She had just planned to use incense as a cover to take Shen Rui out of the city a few days ago.
There are only five elders in the Shen residence now. Needless to say, the eldest master is one with the Xu family; the third master and the third wife have always been indifferent to external affairs and are only friendly and close to Shen Rui; there is only one left, so there is no need to guess.
Which one has a grudge against the Sun family or the Sun family?
Shen Rui touched his chin and was thinking, when Shen Jue said in surprise: "Is it to hide the truth from the second aunt?"
Obviously, he also thought about this.
"Second Aunt is about the same age as Aunt Yuan. She won't fall out with her younger sister. Is there any grudge in the early years?" Shen Jue felt like gossiping.
"How big a grudge? You have to remember it for thirty years?" Shen Rui frowned.
He didn't like this secretive feeling. If Mr. Xu felt that his presence would cause a strong reaction from the second wife and affect the family and everything, he shouldn't have taken him to Beijing by force.
Shen Jue shook his head and said: "The great hatred in the world is the hatred of taking away my wife and the hatred of killing my father... The second aunt looks very squeamish, and Aunt Yuan is a kind person. It is a joke to let these two people use knives. ...The remaining two women will have no wives to take away..."
Having said this, Shen Jue was stunned for a moment.
The next sentence would be disrespectful to say.
It is not impossible, as the second master is only one year older than Mr. Sun.
Shen Rui was also dumbfounded.
In the past few months, he had been thinking about what grudges the Sun family and the Shen family might have besides grudges, but he had never thought about marriage.
After all, the second wife and the third prince had already reached the position of Dajiu Qing, and the Sun family was just a family of merchants. No matter how good the relationship with the second wife was, the family status of the two families was too far apart, and in the eyes of the world, they were mismatched.
But when I think about how Third Master acted, he did not take worldly considerations into account. Instead, his thoughts were constrained by rules and regulations.
In this case, it seems to make sense that Sun married far away and never mentioned a second wife.
Mrs. Xu didn't know that her previous excuse for going to incense had caused Shen Rui and Shen Jue to guess the past events many years ago, and they even guessed very closely.
She was instructing people to keep the matter in the front yard a secret from the other side of the house.
Hearing that the second wife went to the third room yesterday and brought ginseng, bird's nest, etc., Mrs. Xu was not surprised.
Perhaps the second wife had been arrogant in her early years, but after being a wife for many years, her arrogance has almost subsided.
He took the initiative to come to her to plead guilty, and then went to He's house to apologize to Mrs. He. No matter whether the second wife was sincere or she was doing it to show the second master, she was willing to do it after all.
Although the second wife has never complained to the third master and the third wife, she has always been alienated from the third wife in recent years due to the difference between the legitimate concubines.
Although the third master is recorded in the name of his legitimate mother, he may be able to hide it from others, but he cannot hide it from the third old lady’s natal family, the Qiao family.
Now that the second wife is willing to take the initiative to befriend the third wife, Mrs. Xu can only be happy...