Sheng Weiqiao cried all the way back to her backyard and had no idea what happened after she left.
But even she knew something, it still wouldn’t make a difference. Sheng Weiqiao quickly ran to her room, threw herself on the bed, and wept so hard.
After catching up with her, Lvqi and Lvjin couldn’t comfort her at all. They thought about Miss Sheng, who was served by them, and since she was born, she had always been the apple of her parents’ eyes. Usually, if she scowled because petals fall from the tree in the courtyard, everyone would be so nervous and worried about something hurt her heart and asked her if she was OK. Well, since when had she been so aggrieved?
When two maids heard her cry, it made them feel sad too. Finally, they couldn't help crying along.
After a while, Sheng Lanci finally ran to Zhuying Mini Villa. But he heard the sound of howling as soon as he entered the front door. He thought her daughter would do something stupid after she left with anger. He was scared out of his wits and ran straight to her daughter’s room. But all he could see was she lay on a plain color pillow with some dark cloud and lines on it. Well, although she was tearing, she was totally fine.
Sheng Lanci finally could be relieved. But when he saw the two maids still crying loudly on their knees, he was so pissed!
He lifted his foot and kicked them, “What’s the matter with you girls in the freaking morning!”
“If you really hate me, you can yell at me. Why do you blame them?!” Surprisingly, the kick shut the mouths of the two maids, but his daughter jumped like a cat whose tail was stepped. She said angrily with a high pitch, “You don’t have to accuse me obliquely. You just need to tell us that there is no place for me and my mother in this family and let us get out of here!!”
Sheng Lanci also almost cried, “My sweetheart, as your father, I always treat you and your mother as pearls. How could there be no place for you in this family? I can’t even let you go! I can get myself out of this family, but I’ll never, never let you and your mother go!”
“We didn’t ask you to leave, but you still brought a mistress’ son to home, didn’t you?!” Sheng Weiqiao was not buying his father’s sweet talks. Also, these sweet talks she heard a lot since she was little. Before, she had always thought she had a good father to be proud of. But now, she finally understood and honestly believed the meaning of what her aunt had said was right, “If you believe what men say, you lose.”
“Shuihe had a severe injury before, and no one could take care of him. Dad was worried about him, so…” Under the daughter’s angry gaze, Sheng Lanci’s voice grew weaker and weaker, and finally, he whispered, “Anyway, when it comes time to divide the property, I will let you pick first, then he gets the rest to pick!”
He thought that if he said that, perhaps his daughter would be calmer.
But, unexpectedly, Sheng Weiqiao threw the pillow directly to his head and went off the deep end, “So, you’re saying that my mom and I only care about money?!”
Her biological mother, Feng Yinlu, was the daughter of the Wife of the prestigious Feng Family. Speaking of Feng Family, it was a very ancient noble family in Nanfeng County, and Sheng Family was just a rising star at best.
When Sheng Lanci came to Feng Family to propose that year, the status of Sheng Family could not compare with Feng Family at all. If the Feng Family hadn't seen his sincerity, they wouldn't have given him their daughter!
Now, her father Sheng Lanci thought that his wife and daughter disapproved of his son's presence because he would divide their property?!
Sheng Weiqiao already had been so speechless because of the anger, and she spoke with the shaking voice, “Even the Sheng Family doesn’t give us one penny, we could live with my mother’s dowry for a million years!!! Do we have to care about your small property?!”
Sheng Lanci finally came to himself and realized that he said something wrong. When he tried to explain, Sheng Weiqiao had already lost her patience. She turned her head and asked the two maids to help her pack. “My mom was right! What’s the point of staying here and fighting?! We should move back to grandparents as soon as possible and have them clean out a new house, so mom and I can live in peace instead of being like poor doormats here!”
“My sweetheart, just listen to me! Listen to me, please!” Sheng Lanci almost wanted to spit the blood. He held on his daughter and comforted her. But Sheng Weiqiao didn’t even want to talk to him. She was only occupied in commanding the maids to pack luggage.
Father and daughter commanded different orders. Poor Lvqi and Lvjin did not know who to listen to, only to do this at a moment, and to do that at another moment. The scene was a total mess!
Because of the crazy situation in the boudoir, the girl who came to deliver the message had to raise her voice again and again. “Eldest Master and Second Miss, Mrs. Xuanyu sent someone to bring the message that there was a new batch of clothes materials came, and she wants Second Miss to come to pick some!”
In Nanfeng County, there were now three top families, compared with two previously ‒ Xuanyu Family and Feng Family.
The person who invited Sheng Weiqiao was the so-called Mrs. Xuanyu. Actually, she was also her aunt who was seven years older than Feng Yinlu, and her husband was the ex-master of Xuanyu Family, Xuanyu Le. In a word, two of them suited each other by their family status.
However, no matter how talented Xuanyu Le was, he was totally a playboy. Although Mrs. Xuanyu had the backup of her Feng Family and her clever mind, still, she suffered a lot in this marriage.
That was why when Feng Yinlu got married, the Feng Family preferred to choose a son-in-law who could treat their daughter with a full heart rather than one from a family of high status.
But, fortunately, just two years ago, Mr. Xuanyu passed away, so Mrs. Xuanyu put her son in charge of Xuanyu Family, and now she became an old madam, and her life was finally much better!
Meanwhile, she sent people to pick her niece by using new clothes as an excuse – Well, even a plonker knew that she must come here for a reason, and that must be related to Sheng Shuihe. However, Mrs. Sheng had returned to her mother, and as her elder sister, this was not a good time for her to come in person. So, she made an excuse to take her niece and then inquired about the situation.
“My sweetheart, no matter what kind of clothes you want, you can just tell me. There is no need to bother your aunt, right?” Sheng Lanci knew well that the so-called aunt had a great deal of experience in the family life. Compared with his wife and daughter, well she was deep in scheming. Even if his wife and daughter worked together, they would be no match for her. Now, wife backed to her mother’s place, and daughter was still angry, if they two meet, gosh, who knew what she would teach her innocent daughter.
He quickly stopped her daughter and said, “How about I take you to the shop now?”
Although Sheng Weiqiao was talking about leaving, in her depth of heart, she was still struggling to leave the family, or in the resistance not to give the biggest bedroom to Sheng Shuihe. Now, when she heard that her aunt was going to invite her to be her guest, well, what a good timing! All of this suggested that she should take the opportunity to ask her aunt for a good idea. Then she quickly replied, “Auntie is going to give me something, not you. So, you’re not qualified to help me say no!”
After that, she no longer cared about any of befriending from Sheng Lanci and let Lvqi to manage the closed carriage. As for herself, she went back to her folding screen to change her clothes. Then, she took Lvjin with her and ran to the carriage. But, when she got there, she saw Lvqi stood near the carriage stiffly. “Miss!” Lvqi felt like she saw the lifesaver.
Sheng Weiqiao was in a terrible mood. When she got on the carriage, she asked, “What?” However, when she opened the curtain, what she saw shocked her.
Then came the full fury.
Inside, Sheng Shuihe wore a green round-neck robe with radix curcumae embroidery on it, a belt, and a white jade short hairpin was on his healthy black and well-groomed hair. The whole costume showed off his beautiful face and elegant character into perfection.
He confidently sat on the Sheng Weiqiao’s spot and showed a friendly smile when he saw she came in, “Hello, my little sister! I heard that you are going to your auntie’s place, I mean, I haven’t visited auntie before, so why don’t you take me with you?”
He said softly, “I heard that the Xuanyu Family is the richest in Nanfeng County. Auntie was also born in the Feng Family, which also is the top family in this country. I am sure she will be too lavish in greeting gifts to disappoint me!”
Never before had Sheng Weiqiao seen such a brazen person!As soon as the bastard entered the house, he mocked her as a fierce woman in public. He used her dad as a shield and drove her away by his words. In Sheng Weiqiao's view, the hatred between them could even fill an ocean, if not the sky.And now, how dare the daydreaming guy wanted to go with her and get some benefits from the Xuanyu Family, where the son of her aunt took charge?!!Sheng Weiqiao suspected that the woman seducing her father was probably not a vixen spirit, because only the demon of the rhinoceros and the elephant could give birth to such a thick-skinned person!"Miss Sheng, if he wants to follow you to the Xuanyu Family, why not just let him go?" said Lvjin. As her anger was about to break out, Lvjin added in her ear, "How crafty the old Madam of Xuanyu Family is. After Sheng Shuihe arrives, there must be various ways to play a trick on him!"Eyes
Before Madam Feng finished her words and the grievance came to Sheng Weiqiao's mind, Mrs. Zhan got impatient first and rolled her sleeves to clutch her big daughter, snapping, "What are you saying!""Stop messing up, mother!" Madam Feng dodged with irritation and hit the table, "I'll tell the truth. My sister has no son. No matter how nice Weiqiao is, she'll marry someone else—now Sheng Lanci didn't grumble or have other concubines but only bring back a son of a mistress. He didn't even bring the mistress! Anyone who's asked to make judgments on this case would persuade us to forgive!""But Sheng Lanci, when he proposed to Yinlu, made such big vow that he wouldn't drift from her in any case!" Mrs. Zhan wasn't convinced, "If he didn't say that, even if he brought back a son of a mistress or that he had a concubine, I would say nothing though I feel sorry for my daughter and granddaughter! But he made the vow and he broke it, so why can't we question that?"
On this day's trip to Xuanyu Mansion, Sheng Weiqiao came back from a good mood into a bad one.On the way back, the more she thought about the reprimand she heard from her aunt today, the angrier she became. She even refused to go back to Sheng’s Mansion. She was wondering if she should go straight to the Feng family to meet her mother. The carriage stopped suddenly. Without waiting for Sheng Weiqiao to get angry, a sweet and crisp voice sounded outside the carriage, "Big Weiqiao?""Little Jiuniang?" Sheng Weiqiao turned her anger into joy when she heard the voice. She had got up quickly, pulled up the curtain and got off the carriage before maid reacted. She took the girl in purple with bright eyes beside the shaft and asked happily, "Why are you here? Didn't you say you would not come until next month?"The girl reached out her finger and pinched her cheek, pretending to be angry, "No rules! Call my cousin instead of Little Jiuniang!"
Xuanyu Che said with a smile as expected, “I heard that your new elder brother made you so mad today. I care about you.”Sheng Weiqiao and Shen Jiuniang’s face became sullen at the same time. Although the social atmosphere was open at that time, saying the words “care about you” on the street like Xuanyu Che did was still offensive. In fact, nothing had ever happened between Sheng Weiqiao and him!“My cousin, have you made a fortune recently and repaid the debts of Tianxiang Lou totally?” Sheng Weiqiao sneered and asked back, “otherwise, why do you have spare time to care about other people’s business?”The reason Xuanyu Che wanted to seduce Sheng Weiqiao was that he was a frequenter of Tianxiang Lou due to his concupiscent nature. As the top one brothel among all the brothels, it was sure that the customers had to pay a lot for it.Xuanyu Che, as the current house host’s related cousin, could only afford the daily extravagant life
Sheng Weiqiao had stepped on Sheng Shuihe’s foot on purpose, and Shen Jiuniang comforted her all their way back home. However, she still felt wronged.After returning to the Sheng Family, she shouted at the chief steward of the Sheng Family regardless of her need for changing clothes in her room. “Were those guards picked by you? They were like dead men! When Xuanyu Che insulted me and even my mother to my face, they just stood there and watched, like some of the onlookers! Did they see me as an insignificant one after Sheng Shuihe entered the family?!” She shouted.Sheng Lanci heard the news. When Sheng Weiqiao was scolding the chief steward, he happened to arrive to give her some comforts. He was furious after hearing that, “Junk! You did your job in that way?!”The chief steward pleaded his guilty words after words with a very careful mind. Because Sheng Weiqiao wanted to visit her aunt’s family, after Sheng Lanci took over the task of teach
Chapter 9 The Worried Old Madam MingThe old friend that Senior Master Sheng visited was Xu Baoting, whose son was the Ningwei Marquis, named Xu Zijing.Those two elderly people met in the army when they were teenagers. During the years of war in Beijiang, they warded off arrows and swords with their own body for each other, saving each other on many occasions. Therefore, they had a very deep friendship.After their leaving from the army because of the old age, they no longer stayed with each other day and night. Later on, the Xu Family was conferred as the Marquis. Such changes didn’t estrange them. On the contrary, they became more closely associated.Nevertheless, there was a huge gap between their social classes. Old Madam Ming got very nervous.Although her daughter, as well as her daughter’s family, had just arrived, she was in no mood to entertain them. She sent a maid to call over Sheng Lanci to have a discussi
In fact, Sheng Shuihe didn’t want to run this errand. He sat on the couch and spoke to the steward through the curtain, “The reason why my father took me home was that I got wounded seriously, and he was worried about my wounds might result in sequela because no one could take care of me out there! So, how am I supposed to work with an injury?”Then, he coughed.The steward smiled sadly and thought that actually, Sheng Lanci did say the same thing after he brought his son home.But during these days, everyone started to talk about the news that Sheng Family’s son hit a person for his sister. Now, everybody knew that the first day Sheng Shuihe came back home, he beat the ass of the Xuanyu Che.But strangely, Xuanyu Che said something rude and insulting to Sheng Weiqiao and her mother that day in public. However, until now, his parents still didn’t bring his son to the Sheng Family to offer a humble apology. Well, the reason actually
Sheng Weiqiao went back to Zhuying Mini Villa with a flushed face. She felt grateful that no one appeared in her way to see her nuances, and hastened to warn Lvqu and Lvjin never to let out the thing.The two maids logically nodded, “We’ve seen nothing and heard nothing today!”“He’s fortunate!” Sheng Weiqiao relieved herself. When recalling the scene that she ran into today, though she felt bashful and annoyed, she had no courage to go trouble Sheng Shuihe again, so she simply cursed in her mind, “Next time when I catch you, you’ll see!”At that thought, she lowered her head, caught the kylin jade pendant and couldn’t help crumpling her brows. She considered in heart, “The jade is not a common one. I have to take it to my aunt!”After a while, At Xuanyu’s mansion, Madam Feng frowned, studying the kylin jade pendant, and said, “It belongs to the son of a mistress? Are you sure?”“I saw him put it by his hand myself. Ho