Chapter 23 Molan is taught

"Mother! Mother! Why did Daddy lock you up? Let me go, I want to go in and see my mother!"

Outside Lin Qinshuang's house, Molan was crying at the door. She wanted to talk to her mother, but someone was blocking her and wouldn't let her in. She was fine when she came to see her last night, so why wasn't she allowed to see her this morning?

"Mo'er, Mo'er, don't force your way in, be careful not to hurt yourself, go find your father and ask him to save me." Lin Qinshuang heard Molan crying outside, and her heart felt like it was being tightly grasped by someone, so she quickly asked Molan to find Sheng Hong.

She didn't know what had happened. Yesterday, Sheng Hong got angry and told her to stay in the room and not go out. She obeyed and didn't go out. But when Molan came in, he just symbolically stopped her and let her in. But this morning, when Molan wanted to go in again, the person outside refused to let her in. Lin Qinshuang noticed something was wrong, but she couldn't go out, and news from outside couldn't get in for the time being. She was like a headless fly, confused, but vaguely uneasy in her heart.

"Fourth Miss, please don't make things difficult for us. We are guarding here on the order of the eldest lady, and the master has also agreed. It's no use for you to go to the master again!" A burly maid hugged Molan and prevented her from getting close to the door. She heard Lin Qinshuang shouting inside for the fourth lady to go to the master, and she couldn't help but spoke sarcastically. She was the eldest lady's person, and she would be annoyed by whoever the eldest lady disliked. This opportunity was not easy to come by, and Lin Qinshuang was about to fall. The old woman felt that the depression in her chest was relieved.

Molan was still struggling, crying and kicking, "Why did the Madam lock up my mother? What did my mother do wrong? You just want to make my mother unhappy. Let me go, I'm going to tell my father and let him beat you with a stick!"

The maid snorted and laughed, "It was not our Madam who ordered this little lady Lin to be locked up, it was the master himself who ordered it. As for what she did wrong, it was naturally because she plotted..."

The maid was about to say the murder, but was stopped by another old woman in green clothes beside her. She saw the old woman shaking her head desperately at her and motioning her to look at the other guards. The maid also knew that she almost said something wrong, so she quickly shut her mouth.

Molan didn't hear the next words, and she was even more dissatisfied. She thought that the maid who hugged her and made her unable to move was guilty, so she didn't finish her words. Molan knew she was going to get nowhere here, so she stopped struggling. When the maid saw that she was no longer kicking, hitting, or screaming, she let her go.

As soon as Molan was free, she ran out of the yard quickly. She wanted to find her father to rescue her mother.

Molan ran all the way to Sheng Hong's study. Sheng Hong was reading a book intently. Suddenly, Molan's voice came from outside the door, "Daddy, daddy, help!"

Molan shook off the hand of the servant outside the door and rushed directly into the study. In the study, Sheng Hong put down the book in his hand and asked Molan, "Mo'er, why are you so panicked? A woman should be dignified and quiet. You shouldn't be so noisy and break into my study without asking! What did your mother teach you every day?"

Molan saw Sheng Hong's serious face and felt a little scared. She stood there timidly and shed tears unconsciously.

Sheng Hong realized that he was a little too harsh, so he slowed down his voice and said softly, "Daddy didn't mean to scold you. You are seven years old now, and you should know that you should behave gracefully." Molan nodded in acceptance. Feeling that Sheng Hong's attitude had softened a lot, she said hesitantly, "Daddy, mother has been locked in the room. They won't let her out, and they won't let me in. Daddy, please go and save mother."

Sheng Hong took a deep breath in exhaustion. After coming out from the old lady yesterday, he deliberately went back to his room to rest. He didn't go to see Lin Qinshuang and avoided Molan. First, he didn't know how to face Lin Qinshuang, and second, he didn't know how to explain to Molan the mistakes Lin Qinshuang had made.

Molan came over today, but Sheng Hong still couldn't tell her what Lin Qinshuang had done. He could only say vaguely, "Mo'er, your mother made a mistake, and Dad locked her up in the room to punish her and let her reflect on herself. Mo'er, you have to know that people walk between heaven and earth, and if they make a mistake, they must be punished and pay a corresponding price. This is the law of nature."

Molan still couldn't quite understand what Sheng Hong meant. Usually, when her mother made some minor mistakes, she just had to cry and make a fuss with Dad, and Dad never blamed her. Why not this time?

"Dad, what did mother do wrong? You must lock her up, and even I can't see her. I miss my mother~" Molan chose the same trick as Lin Qinshuang, and cried as soon as she said she was going to cry.

Sheng Hong stood up, touched Molan's head, and still patiently said to her: "Mo'er, your mother did something bad and committed a big mistake, so she was locked up. You are not allowed to see her in order to let your mother reflect quietly. You have to be good, and your mother will be relieved. Moreover, if your mother repents after reflection, and she has accepted the punishment, then you can continue to be with your mother."

Molan didn't want to listen to what Sheng Hong said at all. She only knew that her father would not listen to her and would not let her mother out. She remembered Lin Qinshuang's trick again, and suddenly knelt down and hugged Sheng Hong's calf, "Please, Daddy, please let my mother out, okay? My mother must be heartbroken being locked up alone. Daddy, you are so good to my mother, You must not want her to suffer alone in there."

Molan's crying and words made Sheng Hong feel distressed. He pulled Molan up from the ground and held her tightly in his arms. He wiped her tears with his sleeves and patiently comforted her, "Mo'er, of course Daddy loves your mother, but your mother is an adult now. She can't do whatever she wants. If she makes a mistake and hurts others, she will be punished. You have to atone for your sins. This is the principle of life that your mother must understand. You must also understand it, so that you will not make mistakes and suffer losses in the future. "

Molan seemed to understand a little. The book said "Punish the guilty and forgive the guilty to punish them, and kill the offenders to inspire them", which means that people who make mistakes must be punished to warn others; people who break the law must be severely punished to serve as a warning to others. There seemed to be two little people fighting in Molan's little head. One little person said that the principles taught in the book and the principles taught by my father both warned me that I should be punished accordingly if I did something wrong; the other little person said that my mother was different. My father would forgive my mother no matter what she did. If my father did not forgive, there must be someone behind it.

The two fighting villains suddenly disappeared. Molan remembered Rulan's arrogant words about the difference between legitimate and illegitimate children, and also remembered the way her father talked and laughed with Minglan. Molan burst into a scream, and then shouted at Sheng Hong, "Daddy, you are lying. You used to love mother and me the most, but now Minglan's mother has given birth to a son for you, and you don't want mother and me anymore. You even cruelly locked up mother and let the eldest lady's people bully her. Mother is right, they are all a disaster!"

After Molan finished yelling, Sheng Hong was stunned. What was his always most obedient daughter saying? Molan was gasping for breath, and was dumbfounded after she calmed down. What was she saying? How could she say what was in her heart? How could she yell at her father? Molan shrank and began to tremble. She wanted to explain to her father that she was not telling the truth, that she was just too worried about her mother, but she was so scared that she couldn't open her mouth.

Sheng Hong was so angry that he almost couldn't breathe. So this is what Molan thought in her heart. What did Lin Qinshuang teach Molan every day? Sheng Hong remembered that on the day when Wei Shuyi was born, it was Molan who called Minglan out and then had an argument to bring Shuyi out. "Mo'er, on the day when the first snow fell this winter, did you go to find Minglan by yourself?" Molan

suddenly heard this question, stared at Sheng Hong with wide eyes, and trembled even more violently, shaking her head crazily. This guilty look made Sheng Hong sure that Molan knew something, "Mo'er, I ask you again, did you go by yourself or did your mother ask you to go?"

Sheng Hong became serious, and his tone was also cautious. Molan heard Sheng Hong's question with a stronger tone, and she was even more reluctant to speak. Sheng Hong continued, "Mo'er, answer me!"

As if a lightning bolt exploded above her head, Molan was so scared that she knelt on the ground, murmuring unconsciously, "It's not me, it's not me, it's not me..."

Sheng Hong squatted down, "Mo'er, did your mother ask you to go?" Molan kept rubbing the corners of her clothes nervously, forcing herself to calm down, and then said harshly, "I went to find the sixth sister myself."

"Why did you go to find Minglan?" Sheng Hong continued to ask.

"I had some quarrels with the sixth sister before, and it was unpleasant, so I went to find the sixth sister to apologize."

"Then why did you end up fighting? Why did you wait until that day to apologize after all the unpleasantness before?"

Sheng Hong questioned repeatedly, and his voice suddenly became stern again at the end, "Sheng Molan, you are lying, it was your mother who asked you to go! So you had to go to your sixth sister in the heavy snow to argue with your sixth sister and lure out Wei Xiaoniang!"

Sheng Hong's questioning startled Molan and she shuddered again and again. She remembered that afternoon. A'niang asked her to go find Minglan and told her that she must call Minglan out. They talked outside the courtyard gate and told her to keep Minglan until Wei Xiaoniang went out. It was snowing and she was impatient to go out, but A'niang said that after she went to Tokyo, she would ask a master of zither to teach her how to practice the zither. Molan was really tempted and agreed. She also asked A'niang why she called Minglan out, but A'niang did not answer her and just told her to do it. She did not ask again.

The scene changed, and she remembered the noise she heard in the yard when they shackled Minglan outside the yard. When Minglan broke free from her restraints and rushed in, she wanted to go and see, but was pulled away by Yunzai and the others. She looked back and saw only two people lying on the ground, Minglan kneeling next to her mother... At this time, Molan actually realized that what her mother asked her to do was not a good thing, but she was unwilling to admit it and tried hard to suppress this feeling in her heart.

But her father's questioning reminded her of what happened that day, and she had nightmares for two consecutive nights. She did not ask her mother, nor did she tell her mother that she had nightmares. She instinctively wanted to forget that day, but her father knew!

Molan wanted to say something, but she couldn't say it. She sat on the ground again. Sheng Hong didn't need to ask anymore because he already knew the answer. Sheng Hong regretted it very much. He shouldn't have let Lin Qinshuang raise the two children personally because he felt sorry for her. Changfeng could go to school with Changbai when he was older, but Molan was taught by Lin Qinshuang. Lin Qinshuang taught Molan to read and write, play chess, calligraphy and painting, but she couldn't teach Molan the character of a person.

Sheng Hong didn't want to blame Molan anymore, but Molan's future education gave him a headache. It seemed that after arriving in Tokyo, he had to put Zhuang Xuejiu on the agenda. But what should he do these days? Molan definitely cannot go to the eldest lady's place. The eldest lady has always disliked Lin Qinshuang, so naturally she doesn't like Molan either. Sheng Hong originally wanted Molan to go to the old lady's place, but now the old lady has to take care of Zhenzhen, so it is not appropriate. Sheng Hong has no choice but to decide to teach Molan himself in the remaining days in Yangzhou. Then he thought that teaching one is the same as teaching three, so he might as well bring Ruolan and Minglan along to let him see the personalities of his other two daughters. It just so happens that he is about to be promoted and is not busy with other things.

After Sheng Hong sorted out his thoughts, he said to Molan, "Mo'er, get up. Your mother's matter has been settled. Don't say anything more. As for you, starting from tomorrow, I will give lessons to you sisters every day at dawn. You must study hard. I will not pursue other matters! Go back!"

After that, Sheng Hong stopped talking, turned his back, and ignored Molan.

Molan understood that she had made a mistake today and made her father angry, but her father was still willing to teach her and was willing to give her a chance. Molan calmed down and walked away, looking back every few steps. After Molan left, Sheng Hong asked the servant to inform the eldest lady and Wei Shuyi that he would start teaching several children tomorrow.