Chapter 5 Care
After meeting his mother and elder brother, Shen Wan was eager to see his father Shen Ji.
Unfortunately, it was useless. Shen Jitian was busy with military affairs and returned home after dark. Shen Wan went to the front yard twice but didn't see anyone, so he had to give up.
I went to bed early at night. Now that I was back, my life naturally returned to what it was like when I was a girl at home.
The next day after breakfast, Chen Wan took Shanhu to Shou'an Hall to pay their respects to the old lady.
Before entering the house, I heard laughter coming from inside.
The old lady sat upright on the Arhat couch, her slightly gray hair combed neatly, and a kind smile on her face. Anyone who saw her would think she was a kind-hearted grandmother.
How could an old lady who gave rise to the second and fourth wives, who are so ambitious and wicked, be a good person?
In the previous life, my eldest brother met with an accident on the battlefield. My father was heartbroken. Within a few days, his head was chopped off by the enemy. The military prestige that my father had accumulated for more than ten years was gone, and the Duke Dingguo's Mansion was on the verge of collapse. At this time, my second uncle Chen Gu was ordered to take over my father's position. Within a month, he avenged my father and captured alive the enemy general who chopped off my father's head.
Shen Gou became famous by stepping on his father's corpse, and his prestige was even greater than when his father was alive. At that time, she was kept in the dark and was very grateful to Shen Gou.
Only after his death did he know the conspiracy behind this. It was Shen Gu who presented his father's head to the Southern Liang Dynasty, and capturing the enemy general alive to help him gain power was the Southern Liang Dynasty's return gift!
His father and Prince Jingbei died in the battlefield one after another, and Chen Gou almost monopolized the military power. He was self-willed, nepotistic, and his soldiers were lazy. Otherwise, when Xie Jingyu rebelled, he would not have had so many people supporting him, and he would not have been able to invade the capital in just three years, causing them to fall from the clouds to the quagmire and be doomed.
Shen Wan respectfully calls the old lady "grandmother", but in fact she is not Shen Wan's biological grandmother, but the old lady's sister from the same mother.
The old lady died of hemorrhage during childbirth when she gave birth to Ye Caiwei's mother. She was afraid that my grandfather would remarry and the second wife would treat her two children poorly. Before her death, she asked her family to marry a concubine's sister to her. In the end, it was the old lady who married in, but she broke off the engagement and married my grandfather's daughter instead.
The old lady gave birth to two sons and a daughter for my grandfather. When my grandfather was alive, he respected the old lady very much. After my father inherited the title, the old lady had the final say in the mansion.
There are four rooms in the Duke Dingguo's Mansion. Yun, the second wife, the third wife and the fourth wife are all there.
"grandmother."
Shen Wan stepped forward and bowed obediently.
The old lady's smile faded a little when it fell on Shen Wan's face, but she was still kind.
She first asked how Shen Wan slept last night, and then said, "Bao Cui was rescued by King Cheng in public. You have some concerns and dare not serve as an ordinary maid anymore. It's okay to send her to the manor to be raised in honor. Now that you have lost a big maid, I will let Bipo take care of you in the future."
Bipo is the second-class maidservant serving the old lady.
After Coral drowned in her previous life, the old lady also gave her Bi Amber as a reward.
Even if Bao Cui was around, they would still give Bi Bo to her, let alone Bao Cui was sent away by her. Only when she was surrounded by their people could they keep her every word and action under their control.
Chen Wu even pretended to be jealous, "Grandmother really loves my second sister the most. Whenever there is a missing maid, she will immediately fill the gap, fearing that she will not be able to take good care of her."
This is what Shen Wan was waiting for. She walked over and sat down next to the old lady, and said coquettishly, "I know that grandma loves me the most, but can you love me a little more? I don't want Bipo, she has a similar temperament to Shanhu. I like Hongxiu. Can you bear the pain and give her to me?"
Hongxiu is the head maidservant beside the old lady.
She couldn't refuse a gift from an elder, and she couldn't refuse the maid the old lady stuffed around her, but she could choose the one she wanted. Of course, she didn't choose anyone randomly.
In her previous life, Hongxiu, the maidservant beside the old lady, was secretly executed not long after. Shen Wan had heard a rumor, not knowing whether it was true or not. Only by getting the person close to her could she dig out the secret.
Yun scolded lightly, "Hongxiu is what the old lady is used to. How can I give it to you? Mother will give you Dongmei."
The old lady heard this and said, "It's rare that she likes Hongxiu so much. How can I, as her grandmother, be reluctant to give her a maid?"
"Thank you, Grandma."
Chen Wan looked at Chen Wu and Ye Caiwei with an intimate expression, "Thanks to that Taoist priest for saving me from the blood disaster yesterday, I didn't thank him properly. I plan to go to the Huguo Temple again today. You two can come with me."
The Huguo Temple is outside the city, and the road is long and difficult to walk to. Chen Wu and Ye Caiwei went there yesterday and don’t want to go again.
Chen Wu said, "I have to practice the piano, so I won't go with you."
Ye Caiwei said, "I have to practice dancing too."
The two of them were not going, so Shen Wan looked at Shen Yin from the third room and Shen Yao from the fourth room, but no one was going with them.
These people usually hang around Shen Wu and only stick to her when they have to spend money.
Yun said, "Just express your gratitude and let the steward go. You don't need to go in person."
Although nothing happened to Chen Wan yesterday, Yun was still scared when she thought about it and didn't dare to let Chen Wan go to Huguo Temple alone.
But Shen Wan insisted that she must go in person, “If you are worried, mother, please go with me.”
"Okay, Mom will go with you."
However, the last person to go out was Shen Wan, and when she was leaving the house, the wife of Duke Zheng arrived.
He came so quickly that Chen Wan wasn't sure whether he came to return the engagement letter and call off the marriage.
Yun had to greet the wife of Duke Zheng and was too busy to do so. Chen Wan didn't want to go to the Huguo Temple another day, so she had to go out alone.
As soon as the carriage left Duke Dingguo's mansion, Chen Wan instructed the driver:
"Go to the Yun family."
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