"Madam, it seems that the second young lady is still blaming you in her heart." The maidservant said.
"What right does she have to blame me? She's been well fed and clothed since she was little. With the Xie family in such a state, what's wrong with Master wanting to protect the family's reputation?" Yao was so angry that she kept rubbing her chest. "She's been treated like this, and her elder sister will also be ridiculed by her in-laws. And it's extremely difficult for Yan'er to find a husband. I told her not to keep going back to her parents' home, but she keeps coming back."
"Madam, that's right. The second young lady is really ignorant."
Yao thought for a moment and said, "Didn't they say Xie Jian was back? Why can't I see him?"
"I don't know either."
"Master has really misjudged us this time. I didn't expect Xie Jian to be able to take the imperial examination. I heard that the person who guarantored him was the eunuch in the palace. It seems that the Xie family is going to be lucky." Yao thought that her eldest son-in-law would also take the imperial examination after the spring of next year. If both sons-in-law passed, the Shen family would be in the spotlight in Nanming County.
"Ma'am, what should we do next?"
There were people coming and going all around, so Yao naturally couldn't afford to lose face: "Go back first." She was so angry that she got into the sedan directly.
Xia had been watching Yao through the crack in the door, and when she saw she had left, she said to her sister-in-law, who was packing up the bamboo beams and entering the firewood room, "Ah Heng, do you really want to sever your ties with your mother?"
"Sister-in-law, the letter of severance has been written."
"But they are your biological mother after all."
If it were the original owner, she wouldn't have ended up like this, but she wasn't like that. She had no feelings for the Shen family's grandmother, and with grandmothers like that, even if she offered a friendly hand, they would just weigh the pros and cons. It was too tiring to get along with them like that.
Seeing that her sister-in-law didn't say anything, Xia said with a guilty look on her face: "Actually, it's all my sister-in-law's fault. Ah Heng, if my sister-in-law hadn't forced me..."
"Sister-in-law, the past is over." Shen Heng smiled and said, "Let's not talk about it. Let's live a good life from now on and work hard to make our lives better and better."
Yes, the Xia family was dishonest, and that forced marriage method was indeed shameful. But at that time, the Shen family was the only way out for the Xie family, and they could only think about themselves.
It's like she's in the original owner's body. As a bystander, she can tell the right and wrong. She can empathize with the original owner, but she won't seek justice for the original owner or do anything else, because that will only waste her energy.
It happened two years ago, there's no point dwelling on it now.
What she can do is to have a long-term vision and choose a path that she thinks is easier to follow based on the current situation.
Everyone lives very realistically.
Xia felt really bad and secretly made up her mind: my sister-in-law is so nice and doesn't care at all, I must be doubly nice to her in the future.
When Xie Jianye returned home, it was already dark.
I went to check on my nephew first and found he was asleep, then I went into the kitchen. As soon as I entered, I saw my nephew's wife and Shen Heng were busy. The front one was busy cooking, and the back one was busy burning firewood to bake New Year's cakes. They blew on the baked New Year's cakes and ate them with satisfaction.
"Ajian, you're back?" Xia saw Jian and thanked him. She placed the bowl of food on the table and asked nervously, "Did you find out anything today?"
Although Chen Heng knew that it would not happen so soon, she still looked at him expectantly. After all, this man was a future leader in the world of treacherous ministers.
"Lord Lu only let me look at other cases." Xie Jian said with a cold face, not letting him have any contact with his brother's case.
"Oh." Xia Shi was not disappointed and was not in a hurry: "You must be hungry. Let's eat first."
Two dishes and one soup, the soup contains sauerkraut that has been pickled for more than a month.
Chen Heng doesn't like to eat pickled vegetables that have been rotten for more than a year, but she loves this kind of pickled vegetables with a light yellow color and a sour and fragrant taste. She can drink a full bowl of this soup.
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