Zhao Qu followed Shen Zhonglei's gaze and said in surprise: "Is this an authentic work by Master Wan Quan? I didn't expect you to have such a good collection. I have to appreciate and study it."
Shen Zhonglei's eyes were a little erratic, as if he saw something else through the scroll.
Fortunately, he quickly came to his senses, and after accompanying Zhao Qu to see the house, they had lunch together, and then he and Mrs. Xu said goodbye and returned to the main courtyard.
Mrs. Xu had lunch with Mrs. Zhao in the inner room at noon. She also met the two daughters of the Zhao family. After that, she also visited Mrs. Zhao. She thought that everything was well received.
Back in the main room, he was still talking to Shen Zhonglei: "Now it's almost the twelfth lunar month, and it's already the end of the year. It's hard to let the Zhao family celebrate the New Year on the road, why not just stay here and celebrate the New Year?" In a few days, I am going to make new clothes for the whole family for the New Year. I will also prepare the clothes from the Zhao family. I happen to have a few pieces of material that my brother brought back from the capital this fall. It is very fashionable in Beijing. The girls cut their clothes just right..."
She muttered to herself for a long time, but never heard Shen Zhonglei's response. She couldn't help but look up at him strangely, but she was faced with Shen Zhonglei's angry expression.
"Master..." Ms. Xu thought he was still angry about what happened in the morning, so she hurriedly explained, "The maid Yihao brought this time was very careless. She broke Duobao Pavilion and Bisha Cabinet before and never said anything. , now I know that my family will use the Dongkuaoyuan to entertain guests, so I was so frightened that I hurriedly sent someone to replace the Duobao Pavilion and Bisha Cabinet in the room, which wasted time..."
Shen Zhonglei was not angry about this at all. He slapped the table and asked, "Where did that painting come from?"
Mrs. Xu's heart skipped a beat when she heard this. Could it be that Shen Zhonglei knew exactly what was in Mrs. Liu's dowry?
Seeing Xu's hesitation and speechlessness, Shen Zhonglei became even more angry and said: "When we renewed our relationship, my mother said you were good. The reason why I agreed was that you came from a small family and should know the truth and be a good person. You've been good to Shu'er, and you've done well over the years, but now that Shu'er is about to reach the age of hairpin, you actually started to take advantage of the dowry her mother left for her?"
Mrs. Xu was dumbfounded by the lecture. Shen Zhonglei choked on the last sentence of the explanation, and her eye circles instantly turned red.
"Master, I have been in the Shen family for more than ten years. If it is anything else, I dare not say that there are no mistakes in what I do. There will always be some things that I cannot reach. But if you say that I plot Tianshu's things, then You have really wronged me!"
"Are you still quibbling?" Shen Zhonglei became furious when he heard this. He stood up suddenly, kicked over the chair in front of him and said, "Then tell me, where did you get that painting by Master Wan Quan? Did it go to the street? Is it a fake that I bought? Xu Yurou, Xu Yurou, if you want to lie to me, you have to be younger! Let me tell you, I not only tasted that painting with Yaxuan back then, but also copied it together, not to mention that it was only more than ten years ago , I will recognize it even if it turns into ashes!"
Mrs. Xu had an old blood clot in her chest. It was really uncomfortable to hold it in, and she couldn't help but say: "Yaxuan Yaxuan, you only have Yaxuan in your heart! Open your eyes and see, I have been with you for more than ten years. The person who gave you children, am I no better than a painting?
"That painting was just a temporary painting I borrowed from Tianshu to entertain Mr. Zhao and his family. If you don't believe me, you can ask her! You accuse me without even listening to my explanation. Although I come from a small family, Yes, but he wouldn’t do such a thing.”
After Shen Zhonglei heard Xu's explanation, although he hadn't gone to confront Shen Tianshu yet, he actually believed most of it.
Although Mrs. Xu has always been a bit partial and cared too much about her family, she has never had anything go wrong in matters of right and wrong.
He was also in a moment of impatience just now, and now he realized that he might have blamed the wrong person. He felt a little embarrassed for a moment, but he couldn't let go | apologize, so he simply waved his sleeves and left.
Mrs. Xu boldly vented her anger, but did not get any response. She watched Shen Zhonglei fluttering his sleeves and left, facing the empty room, and finally fell on the couch and sobbed.
Shen Zhonglei left the courtyard angrily. He didn't know where to go for a moment, so he simply went straight to Shuangtang Courtyard.
Shen Tianshu had already prepared to take a nap. He was a little surprised when he heard that Shen Zhonglei was coming. He didn't expect that he would come so quickly.
As she stood up and put on her clothes again, she asked Mingyu in a low voice: "How does father look on his face?"
"The master's face doesn't look very good. Could it be that the madam is blowing some pillow wind again? It's better for the girl to be careful about what she says later."
Shen Tianshu didn't find many scenes of father and daughter getting along from the original owner's memory.
Compared with other people in the family, Shen Zhonglei was pretty good to his eldest daughter, but he focused all his attention on official matters and rarely cared about the affairs of the back house, so the relationship between father and daughter was not that good.
"Father." Shen Tianshu came to the main room and saw that Shen Zhonglei's expression was not very good.
However, the moment he saw his daughter, Shen Zhonglei's expression relaxed a bit.
"Shu'er is getting more and more like your mother now!" Shen Zhonglei had just missed his late wife because of Master Wan Quan's paintings. Now that he saw his daughter, the feeling was even worse, and his nose felt sore for a while.
Shen Tianshu lowered his head slightly and said softly: "It's a pity that I was too young when my mother passed away, and I have no impression of my mother."
When Shen Zhonglei heard this, he immediately fell into memories.
"Yes, you were only a few months old at that time. At that time, I held you and stood in front of your mother's spirit. I wished I could follow your mother. It would be better to be a pair of ghost mandarin ducks under the ground than to be separated by yin and yang. , not allowed to meet each other.
"But just when I was thinking this, you suddenly burst into tears in my arms. I looked down at you, and tears flowed out all of a sudden. You are the flesh and blood of me and Yaxuan. You were still so young at the time. I have lost my mother, how can I bear to abandon you and make you an orphan..."
Seeing Shen Zhonglei's eyes moistened and his face full of sorrow, Shen Tianshu couldn't help but reposition this cheap dad to a higher position in his heart.
When she was sorting out the warehouse, she discovered that many books, calligraphy and paintings in the dowry left by the Liu family had their handwriting.
It is not difficult to see between the lines the beauty of the two newlyweds singing in harmony with each other.
For example, on the mounting paper on the back of the painting she lent to Xu, there were the emotions Shen Zhonglei left when he and Liu tasted the painting together.
The reason why Shen Tianshu lent this painting to Xu was because he wanted to test Shen Zhonglei, but he didn't expect the effect to be so immediate.
