When Sang Nuanyue and Qing'er returned to the Hou Mansion, it was past midnight.
Outside, heavy snow fell from the sky, and the whole world became covered in silver. Accompanied by the watchman's repeated "It's three o'clock at midnight, it's freezing cold", Sang Nianyue and her brother finally returned to Rose Garden with difficulty.
The two of them didn't get cold in the carriage, because the shopkeeper of Wangyue Tower knew how to do business, and the brazier in the carriage was replaced before they came back. The two siblings were guarding the hot brazier, and their hands and faces were burning.
Unfortunately, the journey from the gate of Hou Mansion to Rose Garden is really difficult. The snow is already as high as the calves, and this is the result of the maids constantly cleaning before midnight. But even this was very difficult for the siblings. They took a lot of effort to get back to the yard, and they were almost freezing.
Sang Nuanyue's face turned pale, and the tip of her nose was red from the cold. She took a bath under Su Jin's care and warmed herself up.
It was already the ugly time, so Sang Nianyue sent Su Jin to rest and wrote Buddhist scriptures in the warm house.
She had not thought of Wang Wenju for a long time.
But tonight I thought of him many times.
They got married because of Zhou Baolu's scheming. If Wang Wenju didn't agree at that time, she would not only lose her reputation, but she might also be kicked out by the Zhou family for some reason.
Although she was about to have hair extensions at that time and was able to protect her younger brother when he was kicked out, she didn't know the depth of the Wang family at that time. She only saw Wang Wenju as gentle, cheerful, and kind-hearted, so after he agreed to the marriage, she only thought about it for a few days and agreed to the marriage. .
Four years after their marriage, Wang Wenju treated her with special affection. Their relationship as husband and wife is also harmonious, and they can barely treat each other as if they were guests.
But Wang Wenju was studying in Nanfang Academy, which was very far away from Yu County. And because he was strict with himself and his family had high hopes for him, Wang Wenju studied hard and rarely went home.
He would only return to Beijing during the New Year and holidays, but he would not stay long. Usually he can stay for ten days and a half, but during this time he has to visit relatives and friends, and occasionally has time to stay at home. He also has to study and serve his parents.
The two of them had very little time to get along, and maybe they didn't like her, maybe they were worried that their son would be taken away, and Mrs. Wang Xu wished she could always possess her son.
Even when Wang Wenju stayed with her at night, Wang Xu always had headaches and fever and needed her son to take care of them. She was still not pregnant after two years of marriage. Mrs. Wang Xu became anxious and looked for her son less often at night. However, she also used the excuse that her son wanted to study, and she always had a weird temper to tell her not to pester the man.
After four years of marriage, Sang Nianyue and Wang Wenju had only spent less than two months together.
But he respected her and loved her.
Therefore, even when Wang Xu made things difficult for her, he was always unable to resist and could not persuade his stubborn mother, so he could only let her compromise... But because he loved her, Sang Nianyue didn't want to embarrass him. Then he endured it silently.
Wang Wenju Fang passed away, and she was in grief. But before she had time to miss him, this short-lived friendship between husband and wife gradually disappeared under Wang Xu's torture day after day.
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Sang Nianyue tore out the copied scriptures page by page and threw them into the brazier. The paper leaves quickly turned into fly ash. Sang Nuanyue felt a sense of relief in her heart, as if the last bit of nostalgia she had for that marriage was lost in this world, just like those pieces of paper.
The goodwill between the two parties disappeared, and from then on, seeing each other in Huangquan was just a passerby.
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This night seemed to be particularly quiet, and the snowflakes fell, suppressing all the glitz and noise in the world underground.
Sang Nuanyue slept soundly. When she woke up the next day, Chunyu had already prepared lunch.
After she had washed and tidied up, she saw Qing'er yawning and walking over with a sad look on her face.
"When did you get up this morning?" Sang Nuanyue asked distressedly when she saw the dark circles under her brother's eyes.
Qing'er said, "It's the same as usual, I got up at the beginning of Mao Shi."
"Then you only slept for two hours one night?" Sang Nianyue frowned, disapproving of his actions. "Studying is important, but when you are growing, it is also important to ensure good sleep time. If you go to bed late the night before, sleep more the next day. You want to work hard, so time cannot be wasted, but You see that you are in a lethargic state right now, I am afraid that even if you have read all morning, you haven’t read much.”
It was true, he really didn't learn much this morning. Moreover, I felt dizzy and yawned all morning, and my overall learning speed was not as fast as usual.
Qing'er learned the lesson, finished the meal in a few mouthfuls, and then went back to the house to catch up on her sleep.
Sang Nuanyue walked around the yard twice, then called Su Xin to her side, thinking about asking her to send a message to the nanny so that she could come to the Hou Mansion.
Su Xin asked, "Girl, do you want the nanny to start looking for a house?"
"You are so smart that you can see everything." Sang Nianyue said with a relaxed smile, "The Wang family has been sentenced. Even if Wang Xu is still alive now, she will not pose a threat to us. After all, the Hou Mansion is not us. In our own place, I thought, since there is no physical threat, we might as well buy a house and move out. It is more comfortable to be the master of our own house than to live under someone else's roof."
"I know what you mean, but girl, please ask me to tell the nanny about this now. According to the nanny's temperament, I'm afraid she will have to get up and go look for the house right away. But the snow stopped only in the middle of the morning this morning. The snow yesterday was too heavy It's so old. When we pushed the door open this morning, it was half blocked. I don't know if anyone has cleared the snow on the street. In addition, the wet nurse's legs and feet are not convenient. If she falls and slips, she is too old. , I’m afraid it won’t be easy to recover.”
Sang Nuanyue was surprised, "Did it stop snowing just this morning?"
"No. Girl, you slept late last night. We were worried about waking you up, so the snow clearing was very light today. But we didn't finish cleaning our yard until almost lunch time. Girl, look at the roots of the trees in the corners. The snow, we took real photos of it, and it’s still so thick.”
There is indeed a lot of snow in the corners and tree roots. If you look closely, there are indeed traces of shovels. But just by looking at the snow, you can tell how heavy the snow was yesterday.
Sang Nuanyue walked out of the room and then out of the courtyard. When she saw it, my dear, there was a foot of snow on the roof in the distance. On the path leading outside from Rose Garden, the snow in the middle was shoveled to both sides. The snow is so thick. Looking further away, the snow is even thicker, and the whole world seems to have entered winter overnight.
In this situation, the nanny must not be allowed to go out and walk around. If that bone in her body really slipped, I'm afraid it wouldn't be as simple as lying down for three or two months.
Since she couldn't call the nanny to come over, Sang Nianyue was going to ask Su Xin to make a trip in person.
Once the Wang family's matter is settled, I need to talk to the wet nurse to reassure her. Secondly, the affairs of the house still have to be entrusted to the nanny, but this matter will not happen overnight. The nanny can just keep it in her heart. When she has free time, she can ask the broker and just kill time. Finally, let the wet nurse be careful about her body. She is not young anymore, so don’t be dissatisfied with old age.
Su Xin responded one by one, changed her clothes and got ready to go out.
Sang Nuanyue looked at the weather outside and felt a little worried again. She said to her, "If it snows again later, you can stay with the nanny for two days and then come back. It's cold here, and I have Sujin and the others to take care of me." That's enough, you can take it easy for two days."
"That's not possible. There are only a few people in our courtyard. If I'm not with the girl, I won't be able to do anything she specifies. I must come back. No matter whether it's snowing or a knife is falling, I have to come back. Guard the girl, she can't live without me."
Sang Nuanyue and Su Jin were both amused by her narcissistic look. They said to her, "Just be stupid," and then chased Su Xin and asked her to go out quickly.
Qing'er went back to her room to rest, and Sang Nianyue didn't want to stay in her room, so she was going to go to the old lady's place.
The old lady had just had her meal. Her habit was to drink tea after lunch and then take a lunch break.
Coincidentally, Sang Nuanyue came over at this time, and the old lady seemed to be very happy. He asked her a series of questions, "Is it cold? Is the road slippery? I got up early this morning and asked Aunt Cui, and I found out that you two siblings were both late when they came back yesterday. It snowed heavily yesterday, and you were delayed on the road. Isn’t it?"
Sang Nuanyue answered one by one, "It's not cold, and the road is not slippery. The maids cleaned the road very clean. I can walk easily with my boots on."
Talking about what happened last night, he added, "The two old uncles drove the car steadily, but the snow was too heavy and we were worried about the wheels slipping, so we walked slower. Fortunately, we returned to the house without any danger. It’s too late, I didn’t get up early this morning, so I waited until this time to come over to say hello to you.”
"You're just a girl." The old lady said with a look of relief, "I already told you that you don't need to come here every day to say hello. You just have to come to the courtyard here twice to talk to me and drink tea. That's it. Couldn't be more thoughtful."
The old lady asked her again, "Did the snow scene yesterday look good?"
"It's beautiful. Wangyue Tower is indeed a good place to enjoy the scenery."
"Dalang also went to Wangyue Tower last night." The old lady suddenly mentioned Shen Tingjun, and Sang Nuanyue's originally relaxed heart suddenly lifted into the air. She was worried that the truth had been revealed, but she saw the old lady saying with regret, "The Dalang had a banquet with His Highness the Crown Prince yesterday, and didn't come back until the middle of the night. He rushed to court again early in the morning, I'm afraid it's the time. It’s very uncomfortable.”
Sang Nuanyue didn't say anything, and the old lady continued, "If I knew that Da Lang also went to Wangyue Tower yesterday, I should have asked Da Lang to arrange a private room for you. He often goes to that place. Unfortunately, I only wanted to give it to you yesterday. The person who arranged the driving forgot about it."
What does "he often go" mean? Does Shen Tingjun often have banquets in that kind of place?
Before Sang Nianyue could solve her doubts, Zhou Baolu came to the old lady's yard at this time.
Seeing Zhou Baolu at this time and place, Sang Nianyue was very surprised, but the old lady smiled and said, "There have been two happy events in the family one after another. I am an old woman, I don't care about things anymore, and I happen to have two more children." Daughter-in-law, can’t we pull them out and use them as labor?”
If the situation didn't allow it, the old lady would have wanted Sang Nianyue to help her.
But these two happy events were that one was that Wang Xiuwen came out of the palace on the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the other was that Shen Yuyao got her hairpin on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Both of these are auspicious events, but Sang Nianyue is a widow after all. Although some people are not too taboo about this matter, under certain conditions, powerful people are a bit taboo about it.
"Since mother knows that she treats us as laborers, she should give us more benefits later, otherwise my second sister-in-law and I will go on strike later."
Zhou Baolu opened the curtain and walked in with a smile, but the smile on his face suddenly became stagnant after seeing Sang Nuanyue.
She said in a weird way, "Hey, my cousin is here too? I heard that my cousin went to Wangyue Tower to enjoy the snow last night? My cousin is so elegant. I wanted to go yesterday too, but unfortunately Rong An is a little troublemaker and kept shouting "Let's go" I will accompany him. What can I do as a mother? I can only stay at home with my son."
Sang Nianyue didn't seem to hear the sarcasm in Zhou Baolu's words. She just didn't have children. She used to feel regretful, but now she felt lucky that she and Wang Wenju didn't have children. Otherwise, that child would be so pitiful.
"My cousin and Rongan have a deep love for each other. I am happy for my cousin. But my cousin is right. Rongan is still too young. He will definitely catch a cold if he goes out at this time. Let's wait a little longer. Wait for Rongan to come again in a few years. If it’s bigger, you can take it out.”
Sang Nuanyue's reply was calm, but Zhou Baolu became increasingly angry.
A few days ago, she refused to invite her out, but yesterday she took Qing'er to enjoy the scenery, and she didn't hide it from her at all. Does she think her cousin has a good temper and can tolerate her bouncing back and forth on her own bottom line?
Zhou Baolu wanted to say something more, but the old lady cut her off.
At this time, the old lady regretted even more that she had allowed this daughter-in-law to come in.
She is not the mother-in-law who chooses her daughter-in-law, but look at what is so good about this daughter-in-law?
Apart from her good looks, is there anything else she can do?
I really don’t know that Saburo was so obsessed with her that he was determined to marry her.
What a disaster.
From the moment he entered the house, he kept talking to his sister-in-law without telling her that he was worried about the house and her old wife's private property. Instead, he just said, "What on earth did Nianyue offend her?" While she was bringing people into the house in a close manner, she was also disgusting with them and arranged for them to be moved to Rose Garden. The past few days have been even worse, and they have been spreading rumors.
——As for the marriage between the Shi family and the Sang family, although outsiders were watching and making noise from the beginning to the end, in fact it was the Shi family who had the intention and the Sang family had no intention. But this time, Zhou Baolu didn't know how malicious she was towards her direct cousin. She actually spread such unfounded rumors, saying that the husband of the Shi family looked like Sang Nianyue's deceased husband. Sang Nianyue looked at the husband of the Shi family differently, purely. It's because I miss my old friends...
This rumor was so disgusting that the old lady was so cruel that she asked someone to investigate it. After all, this is the palace where the old lady has lived for half her life. If she wants to inquire about something, nothing can be hidden from her.
Soon, things became clear.
But the mastermind behind this incident was not at all what the old lady thought, those gatekeepers who liked to chatter their teeth when they had nothing to do but her own third daughter-in-law.
The old lady was angry for several days, saying that her head was not feeling well, and asked Zhou Baolu to kneel in front of the ancestors for her all day.
I'm sorry, kids, I went to repair my computer, but today my computer screen suddenly went black. I'm scared to death. Fortunately, it can still be repaired. I traveled a long way and waited for two hours before it was repaired. I will update 4000 today, and I will update more tomorrow. I'm sorry for keeping the babies waiting for so long.
(End of chapter)
