Chapter 7: She hid from him and promised herself to him...
Shen Yunshu calmed down and asked Shen Youran, "How did you meet Lu Yi? What did he say to you? Tell me in detail, don't miss a single word."
"We met by chance, and he accidentally mistook me for you..." She didn't say much to the young master of the Lu family. She only remembered a few words clearly, so she told them all to her sister.
After hearing this, although Shen Yunshu showed no expression on her face, she was actually panicking in her heart.
Shen Youran noticed that her sister's expression was different: "Sister, what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing," Shen Yunshu didn't want her sister to know Lu Yi's dirty thoughts, so she forced a smile and said, "You still have to practice piano tomorrow, so ask Qinghe to get some ice for you. I'm a little tired today, so I'll go back and rest first..."
"Then go back and have a good rest." Shen Youran watched her sister leave, feeling strange in her heart.
Mother is coming to the capital soon, why does my sister look unhappy?
Moreover, her sister's attitude towards the stepbrother of the Lu family was also strange. Shen Youran couldn't figure it out, so she simply gave up thinking about it and planned to ask her sister directly tomorrow.
But who would have thought that the next morning, Danruo brought Tinglan, who was with her elder sister, to wake her up. Tinglan was holding an unsealed letter in her hand, saying that it was given to her by her elder sister.
Shen Youran rubbed her eyes and took the envelope, wondering why her sister would write to her when they lived in the same house. But when she took out the paper and took a look, her sleepiness immediately disappeared.
"The eldest girl said she's going to the Pei family's farm outside the city to spend the summer with Old Madam Pei. She doesn't know when she'll be back. This letter contains the homework she assigned to the third girl. She said that while she's away, I'll be the one to supervise her daily practice..."
Shen Youran was so angry that she fell backwards: "Big sister went out to escape the summer heat and find some free time, but she assigned me so much homework. I won't accept it, I won't accept it..."
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In fact, Shen Yunshu also thought about taking her third sister to the Pei family's farm to escape the summer heat, which was a matter of little effort. She thought that Mrs. Pei would also be willing to do so. However, when she thought of the playboy Pei Huaian being there, she gave up the idea.
However, Mrs. Pei had not originally invited her to the manor to escape the summer heat. She had only heard about it from Pei Huaian yesterday. If it were not for avoiding Lu Yi, she would not have wanted to shamelessly live in the Pei family's manor as a granddaughter-in-law who had not yet married into the family.
She had been keeping her engagement with Pei Huaijin a secret from her mother and the Lu family. Now that Lu Yi had arrived in Beijing, he would likely find out about it soon. Given Lu Yi's paranoid nature, he would definitely find her and use some means to force her to break off the engagement...
She couldn't afford to offend that madman Lu Yi, so she had to hide. The safest place at the moment was her future husband's family. No matter how Lu Yi used tricks, he could not reach into the Pei family. After two months, Pei Huaijin would be transferred back to Beijing, and she would marry into the Pei family as scheduled, and she would no longer have to worry.
Shen Yunshu lay awake all night. In the first half, she thought about avoiding Lu Yi, and in the second, about teaching her third sister after leaving home. She wrote down all the homework for the next two months on paper, stuffing the thick stack into an envelope. At daybreak, she handed the letter to her capable maid, Tinglan, and then went to see her father, who was about to go to the morning court, and told him that she would be away for two months...
Her father knew that she was very opinionated and didn't say much. He told her to take care of herself and that he would pay more attention to her third sister.
However, her father was busy with official duties and could not care as much as her sister. But Shen Yunshu had no other choice but to take her father's concerns with her and her personal maid Qiongzhi, and ride in a carriage out of the mansion and head towards the city gate.
The Pei family's farm outside the city was not difficult to find. I asked around as I walked, and without much trouble I arrived at the foot of the mountain where the farm was located. The Pei family's farm was halfway up the mountain, with green tiles and white walls embedded in the green mountains, giving it a touch of ink and wash poetry.
Shen Yunshu admired the scenery at the foot of the mountain for a while. It was almost noon before she got off the carriage with her maid. She weighed the five taels of silver in her purse and walked up the mountain.
She had to have a reason to come to the Pei family's farm. The five taels of silver that Pei Huaian handed over yesterday, which was owed by Mohele, was just the right thing to do. Although it was a bit far-fetched, it was better than nothing.
So when Pei Huaian saw her, his eyes widened, and his handsome face was filled with astonishment: "Just to return my five taels of silver, you actually came here?"
"Didn't you say that if you want the money back, you should send it to the farm." She knew clearly that he was just saying it casually yesterday, but in order to achieve her own goal, she had to use her future brother-in-law.
This was the first time Pei Huaian had seen such a serious woman. He wanted to say, "Is it really that serious?", but seeing her pale face and sweat on her forehead, as if she was about to faint from the heat, he stopped talking in anger and instructed the maid beside him, "Go and bring me a cup of sweet water to cool me down..."
It was midday, the heat was at its peak. Shen Yunshu had hiked up from the foot of the mountain, and inevitably suffered from the heat. Drinking a glass of sweet water didn't help. Meanwhile, word of her visit to the manor had reached Old Madam Pei, who came to see her. After learning the whole story, she reprimanded her youngest grandson and sent for a doctor to take her pulse...
She had not slept all night last night and had caught a heat stroke today, so she was naturally very weak. The doctor advised her to rest for a few days. The old lady took the initiative to ask her to rest in the manor. Everything was in her plan, and Shen Yunshu agreed with dignity.
Although she is only staying for a few days now, she will be able to stay for a long time in the future as long as she can please Mrs. Pei.
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The day after Shen Yunshu left home, the Lu family arrived in the capital and sent a letter to the Shen Mansion. The next day, Lu Yi, entrusted by his parents, visited with gifts and planned to take Shen Yunshu back to the Lu family.
Shen Tingyu did not want to meet his ex-wife's stepson, so he used the excuse of being busy with official duties to hand over the task of entertaining Lu Yi to Wei.
When Wei learned that the other party was going to take Shen Yunshu back, she said truthfully, "Unfortunately, the eldest lady accompanied Old Madam Pei to the manor to escape the summer heat a few days ago. I don't know when she will be back."
Lu Yi wasn't surprised that she ran away again, but...
"May I ask who Madam Pei is..."
Wei couldn't help but feel strange: "Don't you know? The eldest girl is engaged to the eldest grandson of the Taifu Mansion, and that Old Madam Pei is her future grandmother."
Lu Yi's expression suddenly changed: "She's engaged? When did it happen?"
Wei fanned herself, observing him calmly. Unlike his sudden change of expression, she spoke calmly, "It's been decided in the spring, and she'll be getting married in two months. How come you didn't know about this?"
Logically speaking, the young lady should have written a letter to inform her biological mother about this important marriage long ago. How come this young man from the Lu family is still kept in the dark?
"Heh..." He pounded his knee with his clenched fist, and a cold look flashed in Lu Yi's eyes.
She actually hid it from him and promised herself to someone else.
Did she think that if she hid in her future husband's house, he would be unable to do anything to her?
Lu Yi raised the corners of his lips, his expression returning to normal. "Since Ah Shu isn't here, I'll wait for her to come back and pick her up." After a pause, he asked, "By the way, is my third sister at home? Mother has something she wants me to tell her in person..."
He called her "Third Sister" in a very friendly way, but Wei Shi didn't know how to make the decision about Shen Youran, so she sent a maid named Lu'e to the backyard to ask.
At that time, Shen Youran was being watched by Ting Lan as she practiced calligraphy in the room. The ink she used also had the scent of flowers, condensing the fragrance of the paper, but the handwriting was indeed much worse than that of the previous few days.
Tinglan looked at her and sighed secretly: As soon as the eldest girl left, the third girl became lazy. No matter how strict she was, she was just a maid. There was a difference between master and servant. When the third girl became lazy, she, as a servant, naturally had no way to deal with her.
In fact, Shen Youran also wanted to concentrate on practicing, but her elder sister left in a hurry and she couldn't get used to it for a while. Also, her mother should have arrived in the capital by now, and she missed her mother very much. Naturally, she couldn't practice calligraphy well because she was trying to do three things at once.
She simply stopped practicing. Shen Yunshu supported her cheek, bit the tip of her pen, and stared out the window in a daze.
Tinglan looked at the third girl's delicate and beautiful face, bathed in the golden sunlight outside the window. It was so beautiful that it was hard to look away. Just as she was about to remind her to continue practicing calligraphy, she saw her eyes, which were slightly illuminated by the sunlight, light up. "Hey, why is Lu'e, who was beside mother, here?"
Lu'e jogged along the eaves of the corridor and saw from a distance the third girl leaning against the window porch, looking at her.
She walked over quickly, bowed low and saluted: "Third Miss, the eldest son of Councillor Lu is here. He said that he has a message for you at Madam Lu's request..."
Shen Youran had been thinking about her mother these past two days. When she heard this, she could no longer sit still. She put down her pen and ran out.
In the flower hall in the front yard, Lu Yi had just finished drinking half a cup of tea when he saw the girl he had met on the street that day trotting over with her lush green skirt lifted up. Her skirt fluttered in the wind, and her slender figure was clearly visible. Wei Shi didn't know that the two had met before. After introducing Lu Yi to Shen Youran, she left at the right time, leaving a few servants here to serve.
"What does mother want to tell me?" The pair of eyebrows and eyes similar to Ah Shu's flashed with anticipation, as clear as morning dew, allowing people to see through her simple thoughts at a glance.
Lu Yi hid his thoughts, curled his lips, and revealed a pure and harmless smile: "Mother said she missed you very much and wanted to see you, but it was not convenient for her to come here, so she asked me to ask you if you would like to go to our Lu Mansion to see her?"
Of course Shen Youran is willing.
Although she had not seen her mother for twelve years, her father had never said anything bad about her. Moreover, when her father insisted on taking a child away, he also wanted to use the child to force her mother to come back.
However, not only did my mother not come back, she also remarried with my sister. My father had to give up the idea and soon married a second wife.
There was no portrait of her mother in the mansion, and Shen Youran could no longer remember what her mother looked like. Now that she could finally see her mother, she naturally agreed.
"I want to see her, and I can go see her now!"
"Don't worry, Third Sister. Since you're willing, I'll go back and tell Mother. I'll come pick you up soon..."
Lu Yi lowered his eyes and looked at the impatient girl in front of him, sneering in his heart: Ah Shu, do you think everything will be fine if you hide away? Don't you still have a sister who misses her mother so much that I can control her?
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