Chapter 277: Mr. Xiao Shen is here

——One year later

"Manman, let's go home. Your grandmother is coming back today, so let's go home early."

Shen Yuan raised his head from a pile of files and said, "Minister Shen, please wait a moment. I have not finished writing a document yet." He lowered his head again, but immediately raised his head and looked at Shen Yun at the door. "Minister Shen, I have said several times that I must fulfill my duties in the Dali Temple."

Shen Yun didn't know whether to laugh or cry. After a moment, he nodded and said, "Master Shen is right. In that case, I will leave first. Master Shen, who is very clear about the distinction between public and private affairs, please walk home by yourself today."

Upon hearing this, Shen Yuan quickly put down his pen, casually packed up the things on the table, and hurried out the door.

"Dad, I was just joking." Shen Yuan quickly caught up with her father and grabbed Shen Yun's sleeve.

Shen Yun pulled his arm out very decisively, "Little Lord Shen, please respect yourself. It's not right for you to argue with your superiors in the government office. Let go now."

"It's time to go to the hospital. You are not my boss anymore. You are my father!"

Shen Yuan passed the examination for female officials of the Dali Temple a year ago and was successfully admitted to the Dali Temple to become a female official of the Dali Temple. Her official position was deputy of the Dali Temple, which means the deputy of the chief of the Dali Temple. She usually assisted the chief of the Dali Temple in trying cases. Now, Miss Shen has been in the job for a whole year.

"Grandma, you finally came back. I thought you would never come back after you had Little Cotton."

After Shen Yuan and her father got home, they went back to their rooms to change into official uniforms. When Shen Yuan arrived, Old Madam Shen was holding her great-grandson and talking to her.

"How can I not come back? Our family is here all the time, so how can my great-grandmother not come back, right, Suisui?"

"right!"

Shen Yuan stepped forward and pinched his nephew's chubby little hand, "Do you understand? Just say yes. Did you call me aunt today?"

"aunt!"

Shen Yuan started teasing him again, "Shen Zhouxing, where is your mother, my sister-in-law?"

When the little fat boy heard the word "mother", he stretched his head and looked around, then said to Shen Yuan: "Mother, she's not here."

"Yingniang went out not long ago. She left after receiving a letter. I don't know what happened. But Tsun Tsun is really well-behaved. She hasn't seen me for such a long time. I thought she would cry because she didn't know me, but she let me hold her."

Shen Yuan smiled and said, "I heard from my father that Su Sui takes after his brother in this respect. He lets anyone hold him. You have to watch him carefully when you go out, otherwise he will be happy if he is taken away by a trafficker!"

"Grandfather!" When Sui Sui saw Shen Yun coming in, he twisted his body and stretched out his hands to ask Shen Yun to hold him. Old Madam Shen simply put him down and let him walk over by himself.

When Shen Yun saw his grandson running towards him, he quickly squatted down and held out his hand, waiting.

Old Madam Shen smiled and said to her son, "You know what, you really do love him for a reason. Just now you said that anyone can hold the child, but once you saw you were back, you didn't care about anyone else."

Shen Yun sat down holding Sui Sui. Seeing his mother's rosy face, he felt relieved and asked, "Mom, are Xixi and the child okay?"

"She's fine. I really don't need to worry about her. Besides, Xixi's mother is still here. And there's Minsi. She hugged the child as soon as she came back from the government office. She couldn't wait to take the child to the county government office. It's almost the same as when you took care of Manman. Don't mention me. Even Xixi's mother can't do anything about it."

"Oh! It turns out that grandma came back because she had nothing to do in Yanzhou. I thought she came back because she missed me." Shen Yuan said sourly on purpose.

Old Madam Shen also followed her words and deliberately said, "Yes! Why would I miss you? If Grandma wants to miss you, it's for Suisui. You are such a grown-up now, Grandma doesn't need to miss you anymore."

"Alas! I knew it. When you have the younger one, you forget the older one."

"Tsk tsk, how come it's still like this after a year? Can the trial be reliable like this?"

"Grandma, please stop looking down on me. No one is more reliable than me. I estimate that in a few years, my father's position as the Supreme Court Justice will be handed over to me."

Of course, Madam Shen was just joking. When she was in Yanzhou, she was naturally thinking about her granddaughter. Now that she has come back, she is also thinking about her granddaughter's wedding in October. For such a big matter, even if she is not asked to intervene, she has to come and watch it in person to feel at ease.

Last March, not long after Old Lady Shen arrived in Yanzhou, Shen Xi found out she was pregnant. The young couple had no adults around them. This was the first time this had happened, so Old Lady Shen was worried and decided to keep the baby. She stayed until the child was born, a plump great-granddaughter. It happened to be born in winter, and the child's uncle came all the way from Qianzhou to send some cotton that he had grown and spun himself to make a blanket for his little niece. Shen Xi decided to give her the nickname Little Cotton.

Xiao Mianhua was born in November. When Shen Xi was about to give birth, her mother came to Yanzhou to accompany her daughter. After the Chinese New Year, Old Madam Shen insisted on going back to Nanjing. After staying there for a while, she returned to Yanzhou to see her great-granddaughter, and then set off for the capital.

Old Madam Shen never expected that at her old age, she would become the busiest person in the family.

"Mother, now you can stay in the capital peacefully, right? I'm really worried that you'll be tired from running around like this."

Old Madam Shen waved her hands, not caring at all. "Why don't you move around while you can still move? Will you regret it when you can't move anymore and lie in bed waiting to die? Besides, our family is so good now. We have a great-grandson, a great-grandson's daughter, and Manman is also successful. I will tell your father about all these things when I return to Nanjing."

"Grandmother, Grandfather has gone to heaven. Didn't he learn any skills? Why don't you let him come to the capital to listen? Why don't you go back to Nanjing to tell him?"

After Shen Yuan finished speaking, he quickly stood up and slipped away before his grandmother got angry.

Shen Yuan ran out of the yard and saw He Ying coming home at the gate. "Hey, sister-in-law, you're back? Grandma said you went out after receiving a letter. Are you okay?"

"Nothing. It's a letter from Yunru. She's back in Beijing and wants me to meet her."

"Sister Yunru? Is she okay?"

Shen Yuan still remembered clearly what happened at the Du family. Sister Yunru had never returned to the capital since her divorce, and no news had been received from her. No one knew where she had gone.

"It looks much better now than before, but..." He Ying sighed, "She doesn't know that their house has been sold. She said she wanted to go home and take a look when she came back today."

"Sister Yunru must be very sad. She returned home after such a long time only to find that someone else was already living in her house."

"I asked her where she had been for the past two years, but she didn't tell me. She just said that she was living a good life now and she would not return to Beijing in the future, so I didn't need to worry about her anymore."

In fact, He Ying and Du Yunru did not have a very good relationship. They just lived next door to each other and were of similar age, so they had some contact. But now that Du Yunru has returned to Beijing, she finds that the only person she can and wants to see is He Ying.

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