The four words "stubborn and willful" have always been a thorn in her heart that cannot be removed, especially since these four words came out again and again from the mouth of her most beloved son, and were used to describe her only daughter.
"Okay, don't worry. Ying'er is just a little spoiled. It's not a big deal. Which girl who grew up in a rich family and was pampered by everyone is not a little spoiled? It's nothing! As long as she can be sensible and polite, it will be fine." Wei Junhang saw that her face was not right, so he hurried forward to persuade her.
"I'm just afraid that she will be too spoiled and won't even know the meaning of 'reasonable and polite'." Shen Xinyan said bitterly.
"Madam, you are worrying too much. How could my daughter, Wei Junhang, and I, not even know how to be reasonable and polite?" Wei Junhang didn't care at all.
It doesn't matter if a girl is a little coquettish, but a man who can't even stand his wife's coquettishness will not have much future. He will never marry his daughter to such a man!
Shen Xinyan sighed. She couldn't express to him the sadness that had been pent up in her heart for two lifetimes.
"Madam, I think Sister Yingzhi is a very good person. She is not mean at all, and certainly not willful!" Ping Fu fluttered his eyelashes, suddenly tugged at the corner of Shen Xinyan's clothes, and said seriously.
Shen Xinyan lowered her head and met his pair of clean and clear black eyes without any impurities. There was so much sincerity in them that she wanted to believe what he said without any doubt.
She smiled slightly, rubbed his head, and asked softly, "Are you hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt at all. Sister Yingzhi didn't use any force. I fell because I didn't stand steadily." Lingfu shook his head vigorously. At the end, he was still worried that she didn't believe him, so he nodded a few times like a chicken pecking at rice, and then slapped his butt with a loud 'pa pa' sound.
"Look, ma'am, it doesn't hurt at all!"
Shen Xinyan was so amused by his behavior that she burst out laughing. She quickly grabbed his hand that was about to pat her butt to prove that it didn't hurt at all, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, I believe you."
After a pause, he winked at Xia He, then pinched Ling Fu's little hand and said deliberately: "I see that your pants are a little dirty, let Xia He change them for you."
"Is it dirty? Where, where?" The boy believed it and twisted his body anxiously to see.
"Come here, I'll take you to change into something clean." Xia He said nothing and pulled and hugged him to get him out.
"He is indeed a good child, but his life is a bit hard. Since Master Huiming has entrusted him, we can't really treat him as a servant. Let him study and practice martial arts with Brother Lin in the future, so that he can strive for a bright future." Wei Junhang said, touching his chin.
"Don't worry, I already have the rules." Shen Xinyan nodded.
Regardless of whether Lin Fu will embark on the "road of revenge" like in the previous life, since she has met him again in this life, she will naturally train him well. With good skills, the future will always be more secure.
"You just said that this kid was caught for stealing buns? Could it be that he is the little thief who stole our buns in the temple last time?" Wei Junhang suddenly remembered this.
Shen Xinyan was stunned for a moment and looked at Chunliu subconsciously.
Chun Liu cleared his throat and said, "Your Highness is right."
As if she was afraid that her masters would have a bad impression of Linfu, she hurriedly added, "It's like this. Although Linfu has been living in the temple for the past six months, Master Huiming has also asked the monks in the temple to take good care of him, but the temple has limited staff and it is impossible to do a thorough job. Linfu is a child who is neither big nor small, and Master Huiming is not often in the temple, so... However, Linfu will only take something to eat when he is very hungry, and he will never touch the rest!"
Shen Xinyan understood.
Lingyun Temple was crowded with pilgrims every day, and the monks were too busy to care about this foreign child. Perhaps at first they would pay some attention to the child under the pressure of Master Huiming, but after Master Huiming went out to travel, they naturally relaxed their attention over time.
Moreover, although Lingyun Temple is a Buddhist place, who can guarantee that all the monks inside are truly pure and compassionate?
Wei Junhang also thought of this, so he said, "Don't mention this matter again in the future, and ask the guards who followed us to the temple today to keep their mouths shut. I don't want any unpleasant words to be spread out of the mansion in the future."
"But I can't hide this from mother. I will tell her clearly later." Shen Xinyan said.
If the Grand Princess takes action, it will surely be more clean and efficient.
"That's natural." Wei Junhang nodded.
After a moment, he looked at his wife, who was obviously worried about by Lin Fu, and suddenly he was shocked and had a bad premonition.
Could it be that this kid Lin Fu is another "enemy" competing with him for his lady's attention?
If this is the case, it would be really bad! With a son, a daughter, and a Pingfu, how much lower would his position in his wife's heart be?
"Take advantage of this free time and try this dress to see if it fits you. If it doesn't, I can alter it." Shen Xinyan had no idea what he was thinking. She came up to him with a brand new robe that had just been made not long ago and urged him.
Wei Junhang was stunned and pointed at his nose in disbelief: "You made it for me? You made it yourself?"
He had noticed that his wife had been busy sewing whenever she had free time recently, and he thought she was making new clothes for her children. He never thought about herself, so he was stunned when he saw the clothes spread out in front of him.
Shen Xinyan frowned: "Who else can I make this men's outer robe for if not you? Go and try it on!"
"Oh, okay, fine." Wei Junhang stepped on the clouds and floated into the inner room.
"The waist is a little loose. It needs to be tightened. Let's change it!" Shen Xinyan walked around him who was wearing new clothes and thought for a while before saying it.
"Okay." Wei Junhang smiled widely and went in and changed down obediently.
"Once it's changed, I'll have new clothes to wear on my mother's birthday." Sitting next to his wife and watching her folding clothes for him, Prince Wei felt very happy and said with a smile.
Only then did Shen Xinyan notice the overly bright smile on his face. She was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that in her two lifetimes, she had made new clothes for her biological mother, her son, her daughter, and even her niece, but she had never made new clothes for her husband.
She suddenly felt guilty, and when she thought about how she had just gotten angry at him because of her daughter, the guilt became even stronger.
"...I'm sorry, I haven't fulfilled my responsibilities as a wife. Also, I was wrong just now and shouldn't have lost my temper with you." She pursed her lips and said with guilt in her eyes.
Her daughter was with her more often, so if anyone had spoiled her, it was most likely herself.
"Nonsense, you're obviously a good person, so why don't you fulfill your responsibilities as a wife?" Wei Junhang refused and glared at her.
Shen Xin looked at him for a long time, then suddenly smiled: "I will go to my mother first and tell her about Lin Fu's situation, then I will come back to alter the clothes."
"Okay, go ahead. Take your time with the clothes. There's no rush."
At this time, little Yingzhi was lying on the Grand Princess's lap, complaining aggrievedly.
The Grand Princess pieced together the general idea of what had happened from her fragmentary words, and suddenly understood.
It was just that I felt jealous when I saw my mother being so kind to other children.
She gently stroked her granddaughter's back and listened to the little girl with great patience as she coquettishly said, "...Mother doesn't love me at all. She only knows how to smile nicely to that person and even be mean to me for that person!"
"Since Ying'er doesn't like Pingfu, why don't we drive Pingfu away?" The eldest princess said with a smile.
"This..." As expected, the little girl hesitated.
The eldest princess continued, "If you drive Pingfu away, he won't make you angry anymore, and your mother will only smile at you. Isn't that good?"
"Well..." The little girl hesitated even more, and after a while she stammered, pointing at her fingers, "Okay, okay, but he was driven away. Where will he live in the future?"
"Who cares where he lives! As long as he doesn't make our Fourth Miss unhappy, it doesn't matter if he has no place to live and nothing to eat, and is bullied by the bad guys on the street." The eldest princess said with a stern face.
Seeing her granddaughter's face wrinkled in embarrassment, she felt amused but did not show it on her face and pretended to call for help.
Xiao Yingzhi panicked when she saw him, and immediately hugged her waist and called out coquettishly: "Grandma - I don't want him, don't chase him away!"
"How can that be? He has already troubled our Fourth Young Lady on his first day here. We cannot keep such a bad child!" The eldest princess still had a stern face.
"No, he didn't make me angry..." The little girl was afraid that her grandmother would really chase him away, so she muttered with a red face.
The eldest princess pretended not to believe it: "Did I really not make you angry? Don't be afraid, Grandmother will support you. If anyone dares to bully our fourth young lady, Grandmother will drive him out of the house!"
"No, no, really not!" Seeing that she didn't believe it, the little girl became anxious and shouted.
The eldest princess stared at her suspiciously for a long time, then she laughed, hugged her lovingly, pinched her nose and shook it: "You!"
Seeing that her grandmother seemed not to be pursuing the matter, little Yingzhi finally breathed a sigh of relief and started to act coquettishly, making the eldest princess laugh non-stop.
When Shen Xinyan arrived, what she saw was a happy scene of the grandparents and grandchildren.
"Mom..." Seeing her mother come in, the little girl felt a little embarrassed and walked forward shyly to call her.
Shen Xinyan pinched her chubby face and said softly, "Mom has something to say to Grandma. Can Ying'er go back with Grandma Sun first?"
"Okay--" Seeing that her mother was not angry with her, the little girl was finally happy and responded with a long and loud voice.
Seeing her daughter had gone out, Shen Xinyan reported the matter of Ling Fu in detail to the Grand Princess.
The Grand Princess waved her hands in disapproval, "Master Huiming has already explained this to me in detail. It was the negligence of the monks in the temple. Master Huiming also guaranteed the character of this child. Moreover, the child is still young. Even if there are any bad things about him, we can just educate him well. Could it be that such a big Duke's Mansion cannot accommodate even a child?"
Shen Xinyan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Mother is absolutely right!"
Since the Grand Princess said so, I think she has done everything possible. Keeping Lingfu is a safe and secure thing.
This is also the respectable aspect of the Grand Princess. She may be a little arbitrary, a little domineering, and even a little partial, but her heart is always soft. Only such a woman, even if her most beloved grandson in her previous life married a wife whom she despised, she still maintained her pride and disdained to go against the younger generation.
Shen Xinyan felt that there was still a lot she could learn from the Grand Princess.
Lingyun Temple.
"Brother, are you going to let the Duke's Mansion take the child away like this?"
Master Huiming, who was called "Senior Brother", slowly opened his eyes and said, "What's wrong?"
"Didn't you say that the child's origins were a little strange? The Grand Princess is of extraordinary status. If it was because of this child..."
"You worry too much. The child is destined to be with the Crown Prince's wife... Besides, leaving him in the temple... Forget it. After all, I have failed my old friend and cannot even take care of a child."
Huixian looked a little embarrassed: "Don't worry, Senior Brother, I have already severely punished those two people."
Master Huiming shook his head and closed his eyes again to hide his disappointment.
If you can't even treat a child well, how can you talk about compassion?