When Shen Rui opened his eyes again, it was already bright. Liu Ya was not in the room, and the bedding on the floor had been put away. Hearing him getting up, Mrs. Wang brought the porridge bowl up, and Liu Ya followed behind with dark circles under her eyes.
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Mother Wang helped Shen Rui wash up, and then came forward with a bowl of porridge.
It was still crystal clear porridge, without even side dishes, but Shen Rui didn't say anything, picked it up and ate it up one bite at a time. Mother Wang looked complicated and told Liu Ya to serve her well, so she took the porridge bowl and left the house.
Mrs. Hao came over again, but instead of coming to the upper room, she went into the side room.
Liu Ya saw him standing in front of the window and told Shen Rui quietly.
Shen Rui thought for a while and whispered: "Have there been people outside the door staring at this courtyard these past two days?"
Liu Ya thought for a while and said, "I don't know, but there are always girls sweeping outside."
Shen Rui couldn't help but feel scared for a while. Fortunately, he patiently waited until the third watch last night and everything was quiet before going out.
Because Liu Ya was timid and afraid that she would make mistakes, Shen Rui took Liu Ya to "drill" and corrected everything from her expression to her tone. The little maid who was originally timid and dull suddenly had a lot of facial expressions.
Very flexible. The master and the servant slept late last night and had almost finished the exercises, so they just lay down on one side to see Duke Zhou again.
It wasn't until noon that Mrs. Wang came in again with a bowl of porridge, and the master and servant woke up.
Shen Rui was in bed, thinking about the matter again. As long as the harsh treatment of himself was revealed, no matter what Lao An and Shen Juren said, the seeds of doubt had already fallen in the hearts of others.
Mr. Sun had many good deeds during his lifetime and had many good friends among his relatives. As long as someone could stand up for him, his situation would change.
But that's not enough. After all, it's a family matter in the fourth house. Even if there are some grievances among the clan members, it's just a few words. As long as he is in the Shen family, he will eventually fall into the hands of Lao An and "Second Mother"
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No matter in terms of his concubine's status or the future distribution of the Shen family's property, he is a thorn in the eyes of the "second mother" who is about to be rehabilitated. And in the eyes of the world, Lao'an, who will protect and love him, is a true
People who hate themselves.
Before the protagonist was dealt with, the drama also had "Er Niang" and Shen Jin participating in it. Who knows if they and Lao An were in a nest of snakes and rats. It seems that not only must he expose the fact that he was treated harshly, but he must also find a way to get rid of this.
Stay away from home.
Now Lao An and the "second mother" mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are of one mind, and the conflicts are all on themselves. If the situation had changed in other ways, could the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law still be so united?
Mother Wang served Shen Rui some porridge, and when she saw Liu Ya's double eyelids fighting, she scolded her a few words, but did not criticize her harshly. Since she was too timid to sleep at night for the first time, she put in a good word for her in front of Shen Rui and told her to go down.
Rest.
Shen Rui had already had enough sleep, and was afraid that Mrs. Wang would return to the wing, so she pestered her to talk.
I would say something here and there, and sometimes I would add something I wanted to ask, and I got a lot of useful information one after another.
For example, although the Sun family has few members, she is not from a poor family. When she first married into the Shen family, she was a wealthy woman. In this family, even though Lao An is the highest ranking person, she never looked down on the Sun family.
They are close to each other. Several official wives from Songjiang Prefecture also have frequent contacts with the Sun family and have a good friendship.
In Songjiang, "cloth quilts are everywhere", every household has a loom, and big households have weaving factories, but the two weaving factories under Sun's name are still top-notch. In addition to the weaving factory, Sun's dowry shop also has a grain store and groceries.
Shop and so on. Although the Shen family is a prominent family, there are many ladies who marry into the family from official families, but there are really few dowries as rich as those of the Sun family.
The Sun family is not arrogant, pities the poor, cherishes the weak, and does many good deeds. Not only one of her neighbors has received his favor.
During her lifetime, Mrs. Sun treated Lao An with utmost filial piety. Not only did she offer bird's nests and shark's fins as offerings, but she also paid a lot of money to show her filial piety. Even Lao An's brothers, nephews and nephews from her natal family were helped by Sun, so they did not need to worry about their livelihood. When Sun fell ill,
, and even entrusted the management of the weaving factory to Lao'an's natal family, which made the life of the old uncle's family more and more prosperous.
Shen Rui listened and noticed something was wrong. Mother Wang talked too much today.
Judging from his words and deeds in the past few days, he is not a talkative person.
In the owner's memory, he has no impression of Liu Ya. After all, she is just a rough maid who has been bought for a few months and will never get a chance to be in front of the owner. However, the owner knows Mrs. Wang.
Mother Wang is the daughter of Zhang Lao'an's housekeeper. When she was young, she was married to the Shen family with her parents. It is said that she also served Lao'an when she was young. Later, she gave birth to a child in the Shen family, but she was unlucky and did not get married soon.
She lost her husband and her son, so she returned to work as an errand in the house. When her parents, brother and sister-in-law were also lost, she was left alone, tending the garden in the backyard.
People in the mansion disliked her for her tough character and avoided her like a snake or a scorpion. But she was Lao An's dowry, and Mrs. Sun was kind to her servants, so no one bullied her.
When I was young, I was coaxed by a servant to go to the garden. On the eve of the flower viewing party in the fourth room, I picked all the dozens of pots of hibiscus that were in full bloom.
Mother Wang was so frightened that she was dumbfounded, but in front of Lao An and Mrs. Sun, she only knelt down and confessed, and did not tell the owner. The young man was still quick to tell the story of the owner picking flowers.
For this reason, Mrs. Wang was not punished. And the owner, under the protection of Lao An, was not beaten at all. Only the boy was beaten twenty times because Sun mentioned that "there are no rules."
Board, I have been recovering from my injury for several months, and I lost my job as the owner's personal servant.
When Mrs. Sun was educating her son in private, she once mentioned Mrs. Wang to this author, only saying that she seemed dull, but she was not stupid.
For some reason, Shen Rui also felt this way at this time. It seemed that Mrs. Wang was telling him something intentionally or reminding her something.
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People in the world are busy with their affairs, and Mrs. Sun is the matron of the fourth room of the Shen family. People from nearby clans are offering sacrifices continuously every day. Seeing that tomorrow is a big day like the "First Seventh Day", not only the clan members will gather, but the government offices may also come.
People, according to the situation on the day of "Jie San", even if several officials and family members who were close to the Sun family did not come in person, they would probably send their juniors and close servants to pay homage.
Although the Shen family is indeed a prominent family, and there are also people in the family who have reached the imperial court, the fourth master only promoted people to fame and did not serve in official positions. He must be careful when dealing with the relationships between officials and family members.
The imperial family members came to take care of him.
No matter whether there are people in other houses serving as officials, no one is stupid enough to neglect the officials and their relatives in Songjiang officialdom. Although it is said that "a strong dragon will not suppress the local snake", "the magistrate who destroys the family and the governor who destroys the family", the county magistrate
It is also under current management.
As for the government, the Shen family has lived here for a long time and is the head of the gentry. There are people in the family who are in the imperial court. The relationship between the two yamen should be mutual help, and there is no harm in being friendly.
After discussing this matter, everyone became more and more convinced of Mr. Sun in their hearts.
The number of people in Sifang was withering, and it was already in decline. However, since Sun married into Sifang of the Shen family, Sifang's life has become more and more prosperous. Not only did Sun's own dowry weaving factory have a good business, but the few in Sifang's name did not make much money.
The shop of the Shen family also cooperated with Shanghai merchants, and many things turned around. Not only was the economy smooth and the wealth was abundant, but the social relations of the four members of the Shen family also improved. It is not difficult for a lady to become a guest of the county magistrate's wife, but the Sun family has a lot of contacts.
Okay, not the magistrate's wife, but the magistrate's wife.
If only one prefect's wife had been on good terms with the Sun family, the tribe would not have been so admiring. In fact, more than 20 years after Sun married into the Shen family, Songjiang had gone through four prefects. Except for the official strife in the middle, she took office less than a year ago.
Except for the wife of the prefect who was dismissed from office in 2001, the three wives of the prefect before and after her were all friends with the Sun family.
Sun's actions are not like those of a businessman, blindly offering cadres and others to fawn over, but they do seem to be somewhat congenial.
It is for this reason that even though Mrs. Sun has been childless for more than ten years, she is still the head of the family of the fourth house. Lao An people are often dissatisfied with their daughter-in-law, but with the mediation of the old patriarch, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law did not get into trouble.
On this day, several distinguished masters from several clans came to the door, as well as the young master and his female relatives.
One of them had to confess.
Although the Shen family is a famous family and has a long history of farming and studying, it is not so easy to get an official position through the imperial examination. Hundreds of thousands of scholars can only get one hundred to three hundred Jinshi in three years, and not one in ten thousand.
In the "Shui generation" of the Shen family, Shen Juren, there were a total of five Jinshi, Jinshi, and more than ten scholars. If you put it in other provinces, such a backward and extraordinary family would already be one of the best. But in Jiangsu and Zhejiang,
The academic style is at its peak, and it is not uncommon for father and son to become scholars, and for brothers to become scholars.
What really made the Shen family famous in Shilin was the birth of a young scholar, Shen Li, who was admitted to the imperial examination in the third year of Hongzhi. Shen Li married the daughter of the imperial scholar, and he himself won the imperial examination. The two champions, a son-in-law and a son-in-law, became a legend in the academy.
Now seven years have passed, and Shen Li has been promoted to the sixth rank. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, his widowed mother died of illness, and he returned to his hometown with his wife and children to observe the system. After burying his widowed mother, he declined relatives and friends and built a thatched shed in front of the grave to observe mourning.
Shen Li is a side branch of the Ninth House, and has been married to the fourth house of the Shen family for five times. It is not even considered a "candid marriage", it is a "no-service marriage", and he only needs to wear plain clothes. But since Sun's death,
After going to relatives and friends to report the funeral that day, Shen Li returned to the city to attend the funeral. He was wearing the Qi Shengxiao uniform, as if he were wearing the uniform of mourning for his uncles and aunts.
To the tribesmen, they didn't find it strange.
In addition to the five services, there is also the "voluntary service". Although the Sun family is only a relative, without her help for more than ten years, she would not have been able to provide the number one scholar.
Shen Li was not a social person at first, but for the dignity of Sun's funeral, he had no objection to accompanying Shen Juren to wait for official guests tomorrow. However, starting from the funeral in the fourth room, he came several times to pay condolences, but Shen Rui was not there, which made him
Very concerned.
I asked Shen Juren, but Shen Juren only said that Shen Rui was weak at a young age and could not bear the pain of losing his mother, so he was bedridden. When Shen Rui wanted to visit, various reasons prevented him. Although Shen Rui was favored by the Sun family, he could leave his hometown.
For many years, I was not familiar with the other people in the fourth room of the Shen family, so it was not easy to break into the inner house.
After going back and forth, Shen Li couldn't help but feel suspicious. When he received the message and came to discuss the matter, he brought his wife Xie with him in the name of condolences to Lao An. He secretly asked his wife to bring more foster mothers and maids, so that he could take the opportunity to stay in the inner house.
Ask one or two.
Because Shen Li was thinking about Shen Rui, he dealt with Shen Juren patiently for half a day. After saying goodbye, he got into his wife Xie's carriage.
"How is it? But seeing Brother Rui?" Shen Li asked eagerly as soon as the carriage moved.
Mr. Xie shook his head and said: "Lao'an only said that Uncle Rui was in bed and was afraid of the wind, and refused to let him see the guests."
When Shen Li heard this, he couldn't help but change his expression and said: "It's strange. I asked someone to inquire about it. The fourth room only asked for a doctor on the day of my aunt's death, and it was Shen Jin who saw him. He told the outside world that he fell down after hearing about his mother's death. He was so sad. I kowtowed my head and broke my head, huh, you did a good job as a filial son."
Xie said with a strange expression: "My husband is right, but it is indeed strange. When I went to relieve myself in the afternoon of the twelfth lunar month, I was mistakenly identified and heard something important."
Shen Li said seriously: "What are you talking about?"
Mr. Xie frowned and said, "'Lancao, my second brother is going to die.'"
Shen Li asked doubtfully: "Why is the second brother going to die!" Just after he finished speaking, he realized what he meant and his face immediately changed: "Second brother?! Brother Rui!"