She thought of Jun Hongbai's indifference and indifference to her in her previous life.
However, firstly, she was considerate of his love for his late wife and did not want him to be criticized, and secondly, in order to protect her own face, she often pretended to be harmonious between husband and wife outside.
But in this life, she no longer had any intention of pretending. Instead, Jun Hongbai changed his normal attitude. Not only did he show false affection to her at home, but he also started to pretend outside.
However, she has decided to make peace.
Looking at Jun Hongbai's hand, her chest felt nauseated.
If you push her away like this, with so many neighbors at the door of Shen's house, they will definitely say that Shen's daughter is arrogant and domineering in her husband's family.
It's a shame that people in the world always put so many shackles on women.
It would be great if one day women could laugh and curse as they pleased.
Shen Qingluan raised his eyes again to see the confident smile on the corner of Jun Hongbai's mouth.
After a moment, she reached over the hand and jumped off the carriage.
The flowing hem of clothes passed between his fingers, like a palm as big as a cattail fan covering his face.
Jun Hongbai's pupils narrowed slightly and his eyes followed her.
I saw Shen Qingluan running to the door with a face full of surprise: "Father, you are so good. Now you can actually go to the ground?"
Shen Shu was supported by the servant and nodded with a smile, "I heard you were coming back today, so I came out specially to pick you up."
Jun Hongbai gave him a cold face, but he couldn't say anything.
After all, filial piety is a very important word, and no one will hold on to this when he loses his composure because of his father.
Shen Shu was so smart, he had long noticed the turmoil between the couple.
But he had been dissatisfied with Jun Hongbai for a long time, so he deliberately pretended not to see it, and smiled kindly:
"Why don't you come in when you arrive at the door of your house? Do you think my Shen family is too low-level?"
Jun Hongbai's face instantly stiffened, and he quickly stepped forward to Shen Qingluan and stood side by side with her.
"Father-in-law misunderstood. I treat the Shen family as close as my own family and I dare not show any slights."
Shen Shu looked at him with eyes full of scrutiny, "I see, I think I was too close to you, so I ignored the etiquette.
After three years of marriage to Qingluan, she has never even set foot in the Shen family's house. Today, it is an unprecedented honor for a noble person to come to a humble place. Shen went out of his way to personally welcome it. "
It was early in the morning, the sun had not yet risen, and there was a gentle breeze. However, Jun Hongbai was sweating profusely from these words, and sweat was forming on his forehead.
Shen Shu had a kind expression on his face, and his posture was 100% humble, but the words in his mouth did not leave him any dignity at all.
Everyone in the capital knows that the Shen family has a low profile.
The largest clan in Fan Yang, the leader among the literati of the Great Zhou Dynasty, even a three-year-old child would yearn for the Shen family.
Jun Hongbai, a member of a family of rude military generals, was so negligent when he married a daughter of the Shen family. This shows that he does not know what is good or bad, let alone etiquette!
The neighbors guarding the door all looked contemptuous and contemptuous.
Jun Hongbai originally thought that he would accompany Shen Qingluan back to the Shen family today, and the Shen family's parents would eagerly welcome him, but he didn't expect that he would be squeezed like this before he even entered the door.
His cheeks turned red and he hesitated: "I was really busy with official duties in the past..."
Shen Shu nodded understandingly and took the words thoughtfully:
"This is also appropriate. My uncle is now a sixth-grade Xiu Wenlang official. He has a high position and is very busy with affairs. He has no time to show up even after returning from three dynasties.
Shen is willing to accompany Qingluan to see me today. He probably knew that I was seriously ill and was about to die, so he took the time to see me for the last time. Shen is really grateful. "
If what he said just now was just a slap in the face, this sentence hit Jun Hongbai squarely in the painful foot.
His low official position has always been a pain in his heart.
When he first got married to Shen Qingluan, it wasn't like he hadn't thought about using Shen's power to climb higher.
It's just that Shen Shu has been seriously ill, and Shen Qingluan doesn't want to trouble his parents' family too much. He is indeed a little dissatisfied.
But no matter how dissatisfied he was, it couldn't be justified that he hadn't come to the Shen family even after returning home three times after three years of marriage, but today he suddenly came.
Everyone looked at Shen Shu's body, which was as thin as a grass, with ridicule in their eyes.
It's not that he wanted to be devastated for Shen Shu, but he must have known that Shen Shu was in good health and that the Shen family was about to become prosperous again, so he impatiently came to the door to try to build relationships.
Although this move is flattering and contemptuous, it is also human nature. After all, everyone in the world likes to add firewood to the hot stove. Who would go to the cold stove specifically to light it.
Even so, it is still despicable.
The neighbors looked at Shen Qingluan with a hint of pity.
You can tell at a glance, just by looking at Jun Hongbai's behavior today, you can tell how neglectful and harsh he was towards Shen Qingluan in the past.
Jun Hongbai was filled with shame when everyone saw him, and the embarrassment on his face was so thick that it could almost drip with water.
What made him even more embarrassed was that Shen Qingluan stood quietly on one side from beginning to end, with no intention of helping him out.
Seeing him like this, Shen Shu was a little satisfied and looked at him with a half-smile:
"Thank you for your kindness. The Shen family is not as wealthy as the Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion. Today I just prepared a small amount of wine to entertain you. I wonder if I would like to come in and have a drink."
Jun Hongbai has been reading poetry for many years and is not a clumsy speaker.
Today, he couldn't speak because he was filled with shame, and Shen Shu didn't listen to his answer. He helped his servants enter the door first before he could speak.
Shen's mother and Shen Xinyue also followed behind him, and Shen Qingluan also looked sad. He glanced at Jun Hongbai with disappointment, and the family entered Shen's mansion alone.
Jun Hongbai stayed there alone, clenching his fists, tightening his sharp lips, staring at the backs of the Shen family, wanting to throw up his sleeves and leave immediately.
What makes him even more angry and crazy is that if he dares to do this, the next moment his reputation of hating the poor and loving the rich and treating the Yue family harshly will spread throughout the capital.
He will never have a place in the civil service team headed by Shen.
So even though he was obviously overwhelmed by the shame and anger of his death, he could only use all his strength to lift his legs, gritted his teeth and walked towards Shen's mansion.
In the yard, Shen's mother held Shen Qingluan's arm and whispered in her ear about the man who sent a large cart of herbs last time.
Shen Qingluan himself was also surprised.
Who is that man? Look, he is just an ordinary general, but he is so generous.
She has been educated by Shen Shu for many years and knows the structure of the court and the ministers in the court very well.
I knew that such precious herbs would definitely not be available to the new rich in the court.
Even if he is the second eldest son of the Marquis of Zhenyuan, he has repeatedly performed extraordinary feats in the army and has been rewarded many times. He still has to put all his efforts into producing such things.
And she simply didn't dare to think deeply about how rich the family was that could give it away to someone they met by chance.
Shen Qingluan didn't know that Xue Yin had plundered all the good things in Jun Chengsong's warehouse to find such a rich scene, and thought it was just the tip of the iceberg.
But at this time, he was thinking secretly in his heart, and made guesses about the people in the court who might meet the requirements, but he could not think of any general with such a rich family background.
Forget it, don’t think about it if you can’t think of it. Shen Qingluan patted Mother Shen’s hand:
"My mother first took good care of my father. That man is not showing off his courtesy for nothing, but because he has something to ask for. Since I have benefited from him, I will not let him suffer."
Thinking like this, after Shen Qingluan paid his respects to Shen Shu, he impatiently went to the study room and spread out a thick packet of letter paper.
Upon entering his eyes, Shen Qingluan's eyebrows jumped again.
To be fair, the man's handwriting has improved a lot, and the traces on the copybook can still be faintly seen in the tip of the pen and the hook at the end.
It's just that the man seemed to be deliberately pursuing neat handwriting, so he deliberately squeezed the thick and fat words onto a piece of paper.
And because of poor control of the writing power, the strokes of those numerous handwritings were intertwined.
This stack of letter paper had been kept by Shen's mother for some time, and the ink was all mixed together. Shen Qingluan only looked at it for a moment and felt that the world was spinning, and there seemed to be dozens of ants crawling in front of his eyes.
Shen Qingluan pressed her eyebrows and threw the letter to Cuicui:
"You have been with me for many years and it is easy to read and write. Today I will test you. Read this letter to me."
Cuicui was dumbfounded, spread out the letter and stammered.
"...I lost my mother when I was born, and my father helped me straighten my concubines. My stepmother always ignored me when I was young, but acted like a loving mother in front of my father. After my father died, she even refused to act.
In winter, she was short of food and clothing, and in summer, when she was seriously ill, I went to Zhuangzi to hunt deer to replenish her health. The male deer was strong and the female deer was agile, but I was young and weak. I couldn't touch the deer's tail for a month, so I spent my time in the dense forest. For a whole month..."
While Shen Qingluan was sipping from the teacup, she tapped the table with her fingers, secretly calculating the age of the man at that time.
Judging by his appearance, the man was about twenty-six years old. The letter said that he had been fighting in the army for more than ten years. More than ten years ago, he should have been only a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old.
Born without his mother.
If you lose your mother when you are born, why don’t you lose your father’s concern along with it!
The image of an ignorant and innocent young man being made difficult and scolded by his stepmother, ignored and indifferently treated by his biological father, and growing up alone in the jungle slowly unfolded in Shen Qingluan's mind.
No wonder he dared to knock on the door of Luo Mansion because of a slight offense when they first met, because no one taught him how to behave, behave, establish himself, and correct his reputation.
He could only imitate the appearance of a beast, arm himself with his head held high, and cover up the hesitation and fragility in his heart with stubbornness and ferocity.
Shen Qingluan couldn't help but feel pity in his heart.
Then I heard Cuicui read: "Sir, you are benevolent and righteous. You taught Hua Fang's classics and the students benefited a lot. I dare to ask again today. Seeing that I am now successful and in a high position, my stepmother asked me to return to my hometown to live."
To be honest, sir, I hate her, and I'm even more afraid of her. I wonder if you have any cure? "
There was no mention of medicinal herbs from beginning to end in the letter, and there was no way of repaying Shen Qingluan's kindness in a condescending manner.
Although a man has no one to teach him, it is precisely because of this that he knows that his every move is not contaminated by the world and so-called rules, but comes entirely from his heart. He is a rare person who is sincere and grateful.
Shen Qingluan felt happy when she thought of Shen Shu's spirited way of scolding Jun Hongbai mercilessly as his father-in-law.
After listening to the man's lovely and pitiful plea, he immediately stopped hiding his secrets and picked up his pen to speak:
[Lang Junan:
In just a few words, I feel ashamed to be called a gentleman.
At that time, filial piety and righteousness were the first priority, and those who were officials could not put filial piety into disrepute. It was not unreasonable for the husband to care about his stepmother.
But is the word filial piety really unbreakable? No. 】
