That night, Shen Zhonglei closed the door and severely criticized Shen Yunyao, and even Mrs. Xu also had a meal and hung up.
In the end, Shen Yunyao was punished with a month's imprisonment and had to copy the female commandments twenty times.
Shen Yunyao was almost furious.
A month? By the time she was released from confinement, she was almost past her teenage years.
She almost missed all the New Year's Eve banquets and New Year's events in the city.
"Why! Why did Shen Tianshu make a mistake and her father only punished her by copying the women's commandments ten times? He didn't even say how long the grounding would last. He could let her out at any time. Now when she comes to my place, she will be grounded for a month at once. Why didn’t he say that I should have been grounded at home all those years ago?”
Shen Yunyao went crazy and threw the pillows and cushions on the soft couch all over the floor, crying and venting at Mrs. Xu.
"A few years ago, girls from several houses were having banquets. I even collected several invitations and prepared clothes and jewelry. What should I do now? Do you want me to turn them down? Am I shameless? When the time comes, What do others think of me and say about me?
"I am also his biological daughter. Why am I always inferior to Shen Yunyao in his eyes?"
Shen Yunyao's last words hit a painful spot in Xu's heart.
She hugged her daughter into her arms and said with tears streaming down her face: "It's all because of your mother's incompetence and her inability to capture your father's heart, so you are always wronged by your mother."
But Shen Yunyao gritted her teeth and said: "It's that Shen Tianshu who pretended to be naive and stupid at the beginning, taking advantage of her losses every day. We have been fooled by her for so many years, and now she seems to have found some support, and suddenly pulls her away. Get up, besides dad, who else in this family does she pay attention to now?"
The speaker has no intention, the listener has intention.
Listening to Shen Yunyao's words, Mrs. Xu suddenly remembered what Granny Guo had said before. It is still a mystery how Shen Tianshu got into the relationship with Liu Yuyi when he was away from home.
She pulled out the handkerchief and wiped the tears from Shen Yunyao's face, and coaxed her: "Good boy, just pretend to be nice and stay at home and copy books. Then wait until your father's anger subsides before mother goes." I’ll plead with you and ensure that you can attend the banquet, okay?”
Shen Yunyao was also tired by now, and she had no other choice but to accept it humbly.
Mrs. Xu left Shen Yunyao's yard, but was not in a hurry to return to the main room. As she walked towards the garden, she asked Hanqiao behind her.
"I remember that Grandma Guo's daughter is still working as an errand in the house?"
"Madam, you remember correctly. Yu Juan works as a steward in the kitchen. Last time, I only punished Aunt Guo and did not involve her family."
"You go to the kitchen, say I'm hungry, and ask someone to make a midnight snack."
Han Qiao understood and went down, and not long after, a woman in her thirties with a somewhat stout figure entered the garden with a nervous look on her face. It was Grandma Guo's daughter Yu Juan.
On winter nights, the back garden was so deserted that there wasn't even a mouse.
Yu Juan quickly found Mrs. Xu who was standing next to the rockery, walked forward and knelt down on the ground, whispering: "I have met Madam. My wife misses Madam every day at home, and my eyes are almost blinded by tears. "
"Having been a master and servant for so many years, when your mother goes to the village, it feels like something is missing from me. It's empty."
Xu's words are true, but she misses Aunt Guo, not only because of the master-servant friendship for many years, but more importantly because Aunt Guo can help her with some ideas.
Now if she had anything to do, she could only discuss it with Hanqiao.
Although Hanqiao is quite smart, she is still young and has not experienced as much as older people.
But now Mrs. Xu has figured out that although Aunt Guo is no longer by her side, it means that she can move more freely. If she has anything to do, she can ask her to help inquire and check it out.
"You go back and tell your mother and ask her to wait for me in the elegant room of the restaurant where I go most the day after tomorrow. She will naturally know."
When Yu Juan heard this, her squinted eyes almost shone in the middle of the night. Is Madam going to use her own house again?
"Don't worry, madam, I will take care of things properly, and no other person will know except my mother."
Mr. Xu took the maid away with satisfaction, leaving Yu Juan alone in the cold back garden, her face flushed with excitement.
You know, since Grandma Guo was punished to go to Zhuangzi, her status in the kitchen has been greatly reduced, and others are almost stepping on her head.
Although she didn't know why the madam suddenly thought of her mother again, Yu Juan understood that as long as my mother did not fall out of favor in front of the madam, sooner or later she would be able to repay the snobbish group of people with double the anger she had suffered recently.
Mrs. Xu was planning to ask Aunt Guo to find out about the recent movements of Shen Tianshu's family and see if anything happened that she didn't know about.
Xu Yihao, who had been reluctant to go out to meet people for a long time, went to knock on Shen Yunyao's courtyard door without a servant.
"Cousin?" Shen Yunyao was already lying down. When she heard the maid came to report, she washed her face again and put on a homely and half-worn jacket. "It's so cold outside. What can I do for you, cousin?" It’s just a mother-in-law saying no, why did you come here on your own?”
Xu Yihao looked around, trying to get Shen Yunyao to send away the maid, but even though they were cousins, after all, there were differences between men and women, so in the end she was allowed to keep a personal maid.
Ever since Mrs. Xu took Xu Yihao out last time, she said that Xu Yihao was ill. Shen Yunyao has never seen Xu Yihao again since then.
Now that he saw that he was much thinner than before, his facial contours were sharper, his expression was a little haggard, and his eyes that were always squinty now started to shine with a sinister light, Shen Yunyao felt a little hesitant. Constantly afraid.
Shen Yunyao quietly grabbed the armrest of the chair and asked, "Cousin, what happened? You are so scary."
Xu Yihao was also looking at Shen Yunyao. Seeing that her eyes were red and swollen and her voice was a little hoarse, he sneered and asked, "It seems that crying and fussing is useless, right?"
Shen Yunyao's face instantly darkened and she said, "My cousin came here in the middle of the night. Could it be that he came to see my jokes? Then please come back, cousin!"
"You are so restless and brainless, no wonder you can't beat Shen Tianshu!" Xu Yihao continued to poke Shen Yunyao's lung tube.
"You..." Shen Yunyao was so angry that she stood up to see the guests off and said, "It's getting late, and it's already inappropriate for my cousin to come to my room. If you didn't force me to make a fuss, my father would definitely stand by me. Over here.”
"You don't need uncle to scare me." After Xu Yihao stimulated Shen Yunyao's face to change, he finally revealed his purpose, "I just want to tell you, how to deal with Shen Tianshu, those little thugs from your daughter's house A small quarrel won't hurt her at all. If you really want to get angry, how about my cousin helping you? "
