Chapter 195: Welcoming Guests
"The young lady is back. Go and report to the master and his wife!"
After Shu Wan entered the mansion, the servant shouted loudly and ran in immediately.
After a while, Shu Zheng came out.
"Dad!" Shu Wan was the first to call out.
Shu Zheng wanted to reach out and touch Shu Wan, but seemed to feel that this was inappropriate. His lips trembled for a long time, and he didn't know what to say.
"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back!" Finally, he patted Shu Wan's shoulder gently and repeated "It's good that you're back" twice.
"Where is my mother?" Shu Wan asked, feeling a little uncomfortable.
"She is resting in the inner room. Go see her quickly. She heard that you are back and insisted on coming out to pick you up, but I didn't let her!" Just now, when Li heard that Shu Wan, who was supposed to be home in two days, was back, she was so excited that her eyes were filled with tears. She was about to get up, but Shu Zheng said that she had just given birth and couldn't come out to get exposed to the wind, so she didn't let her.
"Okay!" Shu Wan nodded and followed Shu Zheng in.
"Go and check quickly, why hasn't Wanwan come yet?" As soon as Shu Wan entered the room, she heard Li's voice hurriedly instructing the maid.
"Yes, ma'am!" After receiving the order, the maid turned around and saw Shu Wan.
"Meet the young lady!" She saluted quickly, then turned around, "Madam, the young lady is here!"
"Wanwan!" Li, who had been waiting anxiously, could no longer hold back her tears when she saw Shu Wan. "You are finally back, Wanwan! Come on, come and show me."
"Mom, I'm back. Don't cry. You can't cry now!" Shu Wan hurried to comfort her. If a woman in confinement cries too much, it will hurt her eyes.
"Look at you, you've lost weight!" Li ignored Shu Wan and looked at her with distressed eyes, "I don't know how much you've suffered during this period!"
"How could I have suffered?" Shu Wan said with a smile, "I didn't suffer at all. And mom, how could I have lost weight? I'm obviously fatter than before!"
"I don't care. If I say you've lost weight, then you've lost weight!" Li said without any doubt.
Now in her eyes, when she looks at Shu Wan, she has a layer of filter. No matter Shu Wan is thin or not, in her eyes, she is so thin that only a bag of bones is left.
"Okay, okay, I'll lose weight. Whatever mom says is what I'll do." Shu Wan had no choice but to go along with her.
"You damn girl!" Li cursed in pretended anger.
"By the way, where's my brother?" Shu Wan looked around the room and didn't see her adopted brother, so she asked, "Let me see him!"
"The wet nurse has taken the baby down to feed him!" Li replied. "Go, bring the baby up for the young lady to see!" She then instructed the servants.
The servant took the order and turned to go out.
The family of three talked for a while, and then the nanny brought the child in. After greeting everyone, she handed the little meat ball in her arms to Shu Wan.
"It's wrinkled and ugly!" Shu Wan took a look and sighed sincerely.
A newborn baby has wrinkled facial features and hasn’t fully grown yet, so it really looks a bit ugly.
She dislikes her younger brother so much and wonders if he will be able to grow back into his original self when he grows up.
"You were like this when you were just born, small, wrinkled, with a red face, and your father also said you were ugly!" Li didn't expect that this would be the first thing Shu Wan said when she saw the child. She couldn't help but smile bitterly.
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Shu Wan never expected that she had been despised like this when she was a child.
"Dad?" Shu Wan looked at Shu Zheng and called out in confusion.
"Where is Wanwan ugly? Look at the entire Blackwater City. How many people can compare with my Wanwan?" Shu Zheng's face turned red, his body tensed, and he spoke righteously, "My Wanwan is the most beautiful in the world, and I will not accept any rebuttal!"
Shu Wan laughed and lowered her head to tease the little girl in her arms.
Li and Shu Zheng looked at each other. They were a little afraid that Shu Wan would be unhappy, but now it seems that their worries were unnecessary.
This way they can feel at ease.
"Hello, little glutinous rice dumpling, I'm your sister!" Shu Wanming knew that the little dumpling in her hand couldn't understand what she was saying, but she still teased him, "You must grow up like your sister in the future. If you grow crooked, don't say you are my brother. I don't have a brother as ugly as you!"
The little girl in my arms twitched her lips.
Shu Wan knew that children nowadays didn't know how to laugh at all. The so-called laughter was just unconscious muscle tremors, but she was still a little excited.
"Mom, look, he's smiling!" Shu Wan excitedly shared with Li, "Dad, little Dumpling smiled at me!" This feeling is so magical.
"He understands what you said!" Li felt mixed emotions, "I'm telling you, he will definitely listen to you in the future!" What she feared most was that Shu Wan would not accept the child and be sad because of it. Now, the stone in her heart finally fell, and her eyes were sore.
"The little girl hasn't been named yet, right?" Shu Wan raised his eyes and asked.
"No!" Shu Zheng replied, "Your mother and I have agreed to let you choose your brother's name. We don't know what to name him."
Shu Wan nodded. Indeed, she felt that the Shu family’s two elders were not good at naming.
Thinking about her name, she never figured out why she was called Shu Wan.
She was not a daughter born in their old age, so they named her "Wan", and she did not get married at night, so it is not surprising that there is a "Wan" in her name.
Besides, there is nothing wrong with naming her Wan, but the prerequisite is that her last name is Shu.
Shu Wan, you're done! Shu Wan felt that her name was as awkward as someone named Dian Feng but with the last name Yang.
She still remembers some of the previous events very clearly in her mind.
The original owner used to be a playboy, so he had dabbled in places like gambling houses.
She really has bad luck. If the Shu family wasn't so wealthy, she would have squandered everything long ago.
So as soon as they saw her, they would tease and laugh at her, saying that no matter how much silver Shu Wan brought, she was destined to be Shu Wan.
At that time, the original owner was still devotedly in love with Li Zihao, so she often gave Li Zihao money to gamble.
Every time Li Zihao lost, in addition to thinking that he had bad luck, he also put most of the blame on the original owner.
He felt that the original owner had passed on his bad luck to him, and his dissatisfaction with the original owner grew stronger.
Ha! Shu Wan came back to his senses and sneered.
"Then why not, just call him Xiaoan!" Shu Wan pondered for a moment, then said, "This name doesn't have any meaning. I just hope that when he grows up, he can be filial to you two. And then, I hope he will have a safe and smooth life! Safe and smooth, and turn misfortune into blessing!" Shu Wan's idea was very simple, as long as her younger brother was safe and filial, it would be enough.
"Xiaoan!" Li chewed on the name given by Shu Wan, "This name is good, Xiaoan, it's great that you gave your brother this name, this is also the wish of our parents. We just hope that your sister-brother relationship will be peaceful and happy for the rest of your lives, we have no other requests!" As she spoke, her tears fell.
"My queen, please don't cry." Shu Wan quickly said to comfort him, "You have cried so many times since I came back."
"That's right." Shu Zheng followed up with a strange voice, "It's a happy thing that Wanwan comes back, you should smile more!"
"Okay, okay!" Li looked at her husband and daughter, then she held back her tears and burst into laughter.
"Xiaoan, your name was given by your sister. When you grow up, you must respect your sister, otherwise I will not forgive you!" Shu Zheng looked at Xiaoan in Shu Wan's arms again, as if Xiaoan could really hear him when he was teaching him a lesson.
"How about we just call her Tuanzi?" Shu Wan suddenly said, "Look at her, she's so wrinkled. It would be a shame not to call her Tuanzi!" Shu Wan was indeed sad at the beginning. Even now, she is still a little nervous.
She is not the daughter of the Shu family, Xiaoan will take away... no, take away things that originally belonged to him! But Shu Wan really likes this little glutinous rice dumpling.
Or maybe, this is the unbreakable blood relationship between this body and the original owner!
She didn't mind loving this cheap brother well! "Okay, let's call him Tuanzi!" Li naturally agreed. What a cute name.
"I have no objection either!" Shu Zheng followed suit.
"Tianzi, Tuanzi, little Tuanzi!" Shu Wan started to tease Tuanzi again, but Tuanzi had already fallen asleep. Newborn babies are like this, they will fall asleep again within two minutes after opening their eyes.
Shu Wan handed Tuanzi to the nanny and took her away.
After talking with Li, Li began to show signs of tiredness, so Shu Wan left.
As soon as she came out, she received an invitation from Zhao, inviting her to a banquet at the City Lord's Mansion today.
They said it was a welcome party for them! Shu Wan didn't want to go, so he was ready to refuse.
"Sister Wan!" Shengnan ran out from somewhere and threw herself into Shu Wan's arms.
"Shengnan!" Shu Wan touched her head and said with a smile, "You've grown taller!" In more than half a year, Shengnan has grown a lot taller, her face is rounder than before, and her body is no longer just a bag of bones.
"Sister Wan, are you leaving?" Shengnan asked with her big eyes.
"No!" Shu Wan shook her head, "Who said Sister Wan is leaving? She's not leaving!"
"I just woke up from my nap, and I heard them say you were going to the City Lord's Mansion for a banquet!" Shengnan said with reason, "I hurried over here. Luckily I made it in time, otherwise I wouldn't be able to see Sister Wan again. Sister Wan, will you never leave in the future?"
"Silly girl!" Shu Wan said softly, "I won't leave anymore, I'll just stay at home!"
"Sister, can you take me to the City Lord's Mansion tonight?" Shengnan said carefully, "I heard that the City Lord's Mansion is fun, but I never had the chance to go. Sister, can you take me with you tonight? I promise not to make trouble!"
Shu Wan subconsciously wanted to refuse. She didn't want to go to the City Lord's Mansion, nor did she want to see Rong Chen. But looking at Shengnan's eager eyes, she couldn't refuse anymore.
"Okay, sister Wan will come to play with you!" Shu Wan thought about it and agreed.
"Then let's go!" Shengnan happily grabbed Shu Wan's hand and skipped out.
"Shengnan!" Shu Wan said pitifully, "Can we go later? I'm so sleepy. Can you let Sister Wan sleep for a while before going?" She was really sleepy, and it was also true that she didn't want to go too early.
The party will be in the evening, and the sun is just beginning to move slowly to the west.
Why go out so early without getting enough sleep?
Besides, she was just taking Shengnan along for the ride and would come back when Shengnan had enough fun. As for the banquet or something, it really didn't matter whether she attended or not.
"Okay then, sister, go to bed quickly that night!" Although Shengnan really wanted to go to the City Lord's Mansion right now, after thinking about it, she felt that it was more important to wait until her sister went to bed.
"Okay, sister went to bed that night!" Shu Wan reached out and touched her head, "You also go back to the yard and pick out the most beautiful dress to wear. Then, when everyone sees you, it will be like seeing a princess, okay?"
"Okay!" Shengnan jumped up with joy.
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Shu Wan fell asleep as soon as he got home.
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When Zhao received the report that Shu Wan would come to the banquet, she was quite surprised.
She looked at Rong Chen who was sitting next to her, and all the doubts in her heart were written on her face.
"Chen'er, didn't you say that Shu Wan wouldn't come?" She couldn't help but ask, "And you asked mother not to send her an invitation. Child, luckily mother thought that no matter whether she would come or not, we should send the invitation, otherwise we would be impolite. Fortunately, mother didn't listen to you, otherwise, we would have offended her!" Zhao's mouth was full of dissatisfaction with Rong Chen.
"It was my son's negligence!" Rong Chen was as confused as Zhao.
Based on his understanding of Shu Wan, he would definitely try to hide as far away as possible at this time.
He had already made preparations to climb through Shu Wan's window tonight!
After confessing his guilt, Rong Chen slipped away.
Because he was afraid that if he stayed any longer, Zhao would give him another basin of tears.
After he returned home, the situation was not any better than that of the Shu family, in fact, it was even worse. Unable to cope with it, he kowtowed, said that his son was unfilial, and then hid directly in the study!
Zhao knew that Rong Chen couldn't bear to see her crying, so she held back her tears.
Now Rong Chen ran away again, Zhao was both angry and amused.
This time, Rong Chen did not hide in the study, but went to prepare seriously for the banquet!
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Shengnan obediently changed into her skirt and waited for a long time before a servant came to call her over and said that they could set off.
Shengnan ran towards Shu Wan's yard!
He pulled Shu Wan and jumped around like a little rabbit.
In the past six months, Shengnan has basically stayed in the Shu Mansion and has no chance to go out.
So when she went out, she had already opened the curtain and looked around.
Like a curious baby.
Shu Wan was a little absent-minded. She had a dream in the afternoon, and she had almost forgotten the content of the dream.
But she was still a little bothered by this dream, and she didn't know what she was struggling with! After arriving at the City Lord's Mansion, Shu Wan wanted to be alone for a while, so she asked Chunhua Qiuyue to take Shengnan out to play, and told them to keep an eye on him.
Shu Wan didn't want to go to the banquet, so he stood here alone, lost in thought.
Not long after, Chunhua came running over crying and told Shu Wan that Shengnan was in trouble.
When Shu Wan heard this, he didn't have time to think about anything and followed Chunhua to the scene of the accident.
(End of this chapter)
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