Shen Juren's study room is on one side of Shen's house, and the courtyard where Shen Jin lives is on the other side. There is a courtyard in between, so no movement or noise can pass through.
But when Zhang Laoan was carried out of the study, Shen Juren sent someone to ask for the doctor, and he cleverly ran to Shen Jin to report the news.
When Shen Jin heard this, she thought she heard it wrong and said quickly: "It's the old lady, not the madam?"
Isn’t it the new lady who just brought the maid to deliver soup to the study? How come it was Lao An who carried it out from the study?
The woman said: "I see it is true, how can I dare to lie to my elder brother? I am really from Lao An, and I am following Mother Hao..."
After hearing this, Shen Jin couldn't help being anxious and immediately went to Zhang Lao'an Nursing Home.
In Zhang Lao'an's courtyard, the women and maids were already in a mess.
Seeing Shen Jin coming, the maids gathered around him. Mother Hao's eyes flashed, but she did not move, still standing by the bed.
Zhang Laoan closed his eyes and lay on the bed, his face pale.
Seeing this, Shen Jin hurriedly walked a few steps and arrived in front of the bed.
Zhang Lao'an is an old lady who loves cleanliness very much. She usually has neat and neat hair, and her clothes are neatly trimmed without any wrinkles. But now her hair is a little messy, and the frame on her body is also wrinkled.
"What happened to An Ren?" Shen Jin felt very uncomfortable looking at Zhang Lao An like this.
No matter how much Zhang Laoan talks about his "grandson" these days, the love and affection he received over the past ten years is not fake.
Shen Jin is not a white-eyed wolf. He only remembers the other person but does not care about the other person's good qualities. He can alienate Shen Juren because the relationship between father and son is not deep; but he cannot alienate the old grandmother who has known each other since childhood.
Mother Hao was very embarrassed. Should she say this? Or should she not say it?
If she said it, it would seem that she was trying to make a fuss with her temper, so she might not be spared because she was the elder of the family. Previously, Mrs. Tian was beaten with a stick.
Shen Jin was a little annoyed when she saw Hao's mother hesitated to speak: "Hao's mother..."
She had to force her to tell her. Mother Hao felt uncomfortable and said vaguely: "I don't know much about this, I just know that An Ren insists on going to the master's study..."
Shen Jin lowered her face and wanted to ask more carefully, but Mother Hao turned into a clam.
Zhang Laoan had fainted and was still awake. Shen Jin couldn't punish Hao's mother at this time, so she said, "Where is the master? Why don't you see him?"
There is nothing to say about this. Mother Hao said: "My wife is also a little unhappy. I stay in the study with my wife..."
Shen Jin couldn't help but widen his eyes after hearing this.
No matter how unhappy the new wife is, can she be more serious than the old man who is unconscious and yet to wake up? The mother fainted and her son disappeared, but she went to accompany her daughter-in-law. This...this...is not in line with filial piety...
Mother Hao only said this and bowed her head beside her, but she was full of curses in her heart.
Even if the new wife was disrespectful, she didn't make a fuss outside. How could the new daughter-in-law do this without the manipulation of her master?
Even if Lao An feels sorry for his son, he should teach him a lesson. What's the point of just rushing in and scolding his new wife?
If a tender-faced person was scolded by her with such filthy words, how could he still have the dignity to live?
As for my master, his temper has become better and better in recent years. Before, he only used force against his servants and the two young masters. Now when facing Lao An, he just throws his face away. His impatient tone does not sound like that of a son. I'm talking?
Looking at that tone, it didn't seem like a joke to ask Lao An to "recuperate" outside the city.
The people of Lao An regard their master as their lifeblood. If they can't bear this, even if they faint from anger, it will be a minor event, and they will be fine if they don't vomit a mouthful of blood...
In the study, Shen Juren had already lost interest and was hugging He who was crying and comforting her softly.
He is also a man in his forties. His wife broke in and yelled at him for having fun in the boudoir, and he couldn't keep his face. Besides, He was only a teenage bride. She obeyed him as the master in everything, so there was nothing wrong with him. .
Mr. He was really ashamed.
Even though life in the ninth room of the He family is poorer, the girl was raised in a well-behaved boudoir. How could she ever hear such dirty words?
At that time, they were not the only couple in the study. There were also servants and maids in the courtyard. How could they see people in the future?
There was also Zhang Laoan who fainted here. Although it was caused by Shen Juren's rebuttal, those who didn't know could blame it on her.
"Master Wuwu, if Anren doesn't like me, just let me go back to the He family..." Mr. He cried while talking, very pitiful.
"Don't cry anymore..." Shen Juren wiped her tears and comforted her: "You'll cry like a little cat... It's not that she doesn't like you, she doesn't like anyone who comes in this door... She doesn't accept the old age and still misses her. What’s the dignity of being the master of one’s own affairs?”
Hearing that he didn't have much respect for Zhang Lao'an in his tone, even if Zhang Lao'an fainted just now, he just sent someone to send him over, so he sobbed twice and said: "It's all my fault. I won't dare to do it again in the future." Come to the study to accompany the master... Why don't you change the master in the main courtyard? If you do it a second time, it will be unbearable..." At the end of the sentence, he was trembling with fear and sadness.
Shen Juren is working so hard now. In addition to wanting to conquer the He family, he is also looking forward to having another legitimate son.
And because it was related to his heirs, Shen Juren was righteous and did not think that his husband and wife's "loyalty" was just lustful and ridiculous.
But Zhang Laoan's appearance today made him a big joke.
He felt that his patience had come to an end, and he made up his mind to send Zhang Lao'an to Zhuangzi no matter what.
When they got there, there was no more commotion, and Zhang Laoan calmed down.
"With the master here, what are you afraid of? Lao An is confused. After she goes to Zhuangzi, the family will be clean..." Shen Juren said.
Although He shed tears, his heart felt filled with ecstasy.
Even with the support of Shen Juren, there are many servants who "rely on the old and sell their old age" when Zhang Lao'an is in the family; when Zhang Lao'an leaves, she will be the real mistress of the family.
While the couple was talking, a servant came to report and the doctor had already arrived.
No matter how dissatisfied he is with Zhang Lao'an in his heart, Shen Juren still has to observe filial piety in front of outsiders.
He stood up from the bed and hesitated whether to follow Shen Juren.
Shen Juren saw that although her eyes were filled with tears, her face was still flushed despite the movement, so he pushed her down and sat down: "It's so good to lie down... I want to go over there to accompany you. You made the fire yourself. I can't do it now." No time to put out fires…
Although Mr. He had no intention to think about this, he was honest and did not dare to move at will. He sat obediently on the bed and watched Shen Juren leave.
When Shen Juren left, He's face dropped.
After living for more than ten years, this was the first time in her life that she had been insulted like this.
Thinking of Zhang Laoan's vicious words like a knife, He trembled all over.
If those words get out, she won't have to raise her head in the future.
She originally planned to use Zhang Lao'an as a decoration, and it would be over after a few moments of "keeping the water in the well away from the river". After all, people in the world value filial piety, and her identity as daughter-in-law was only for show.
But Mr. Zhang Lao'an didn't have any kindness towards her, and she only became more and more disgusted with Mr. Zhang Lao'an, and inexplicably came up with the thought of "with me but without her".
Regardless of whether Shen Juren's words about sending Lao An to Zhuangzi were true or false, He had already decided to find ways to facilitate this matter.
In Zhang Lao'an's room, the doctor sat beside the bed and checked Zhang Lao'an's pulse.
"Lao An is so angry that he faints... After all, he is an old man. It's better not to make him angry in the future..." The doctor often comes to the fourth room of Shen's family. How much does he know about the affairs of the fourth room? Knowing better, when he said this, he looked at Shen Juren with a somewhat inexplicable look.
Although Shen Juren is a little ignorant of the world, he has been sincerely filial to his widowed mother over the years; not to mention Shen Jin, who has been treated as a darling by Lao An since he was a child, and only good things happen to his grandfather and grandson.
If Zhang Laoan was so angry that he fainted, it would have been the new wife who didn't show up, if it wasn't Shen Juren and his son.
The new wife is the adopted daughter of the He family's clan, and she was married into the family with a lot of money. With such support, she is naturally confident.
This picture of Lao An is not an easy one. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are definitely at odds with each other, but I don't know which one Shen Juren, the "filial son", will help?
Perhaps in the eyes of Zhang Lao'an, the love between mother and son is natural and unchanging; but in Shen Juren's case, time and time again, only boredom remains.
However, his plan to send Zhang Lao'an to Zhuangzi to "recuperate" as soon as possible was in vain because Zhang Lao'an fell ill this time.
Although Shen Juren was impatient to be a filial son before his bedside, he was not a black-hearted person, so he could really send the sick Zhang Laoan away ruthlessly.
He was not willing to go there to attend to his illness, so he had to let Shen Jin, his son, do it for him.
However, with Shen Jin waiting at Zhang Laoan's bedside, He, the young stepmother, had no choice but to stay away from home. She only accompanied Shen Juren every morning and evening to ask about Zhang Laoan's daily life.
Shen Juren was very satisfied with He's well-behaved behavior.
But Shen Jin was so tired that he didn't even have anyone to change shifts with him. He served Zhang Lao'an day and night, insisting on not falling down. How could he still have the time and energy to study...
Beijing, Shen Zhai.
Shen Rui, Shen Jue and others finished studying in the third room and then returned to Jiuruju.
Posts for the banquet at the end of the month have been prepared and sent out. Tomorrow is the day when relatives and in-laws of the banquet family will come to visit.
One of them, Shen Rui paid a lot of attention to, and that was the former Imperial College Jiujiu Qiao family.
The Qiao family is the eldest master's family, the second master's aunt's family, and the second wife's natal family.
Mr. Qiao used to offer wine for the Imperial Academy, but he has been dead for many years. Today, Mrs. Qiao is still here. The Qiao family has three sons, the second brother and one brother of the second wife. One of the brothers was a Jinshi, and now serves as Ren Zhengwu of the Southern Zhili Provincial Envoy. Mr. Qiao was appointed as an official by Enmeng and was still working in the Sixth Ministry when he was over fifty years old. Now he is serving as a member of the Ministry of Works; Mr. Qiao was a supervisor and did not become an official.
During his lifetime, Mr. Qiao used to offer wine from the fourth rank of the Imperial Academy, but the highest of his three sons is now only the fifth rank, which shows that each generation is not as good as the last.
Back then, the old lady with the third wife and Shen Zhou chose the Qiao family and abandoned the Sun family, just to borrow the power of the Qiao family. Seeing this, the Qiao family has lost its glory...