Xuanyuan Huaiyu wrote:
Third Sister-in-law, although you and I were once husband and wife, now that we have returned to our original positions after the divorce, I should still call you Third Sister-in-law.
I used to think my youth was all about fine clothes and horses, and the joy of settling scores. But now I think it was just you and me relying on our fathers and brothers, behaving erratically, selfishly, and domineeringly, and people shunned us.
People are often trapped in not knowing themselves. When I think about the past late at night, I often regret hurting others and now I also feel sad.
After reading the letter, the emperor's sister-in-law is still the same as before, and I feel like looking in the mirror, feeling ashamed. I wish I could do it all over again, but in the end I can only walk alone in sadness.
I regret that I cannot do what the Empress's sister-in-law has suggested. I hope she will cherish herself and treat others kindly for the sake of my brother's son. Now that we are no longer under the protection of the imperial family and are far from Kyoto, I do not wish to repeat the same mistakes as the Empress's sister-in-law. I urge you to think twice before you act.
At the beginning, the emperor's sister-in-law once asked me, "Do you regret it?" "Do you not want to divorce Wang Xipei?" "Are you already in love with her?"
I was always speechless at that time. I married you with great fanfare, thinking that our youthful love would last a lifetime. However, I could not forget my ex-wife day and night. For you, I hurt her countless times until she only wanted death.
How can I tell you?
Some people say that the only way to get out of the difficulties in life is to take a few more steps forward.
Perhaps the hard part of telling you the truth is that you have to face your own heart calmly.
I do regret it.
I don't want to divorce Wang Xipei.
I'm already attracted to her.
If she could turn back, if she was willing to turn back, I would repay her with my whole body.
As for you and me, we have long since reached the point of sitting and watching the clouds rise. Later, write to your children. I have said all, and I am putting down my pen.
After reading the letter, Ren Jiayu was so angry that she tore it into pieces. Wang Xipei became the first person she had to deal with, but she also knew that the situation had changed. The Fifth Prince was no longer of her use, and the emperor also ordered her to leave Kyoto.
Before she could figure out how to use her father and brother to deal with the people on her list, such as Wang Xipei, Ling Ruofei, and Sun Yannan, she died of poisoning.
Just as Xuanyuan Huaiyu hinted in the letter, if she lost her protection and left Kyoto, and continued to act in the same way, she would soon suffer the consequences.
After taking care of the funeral of Marquis Yongding, Shen Zhaoshu decided to go to Rongguo Mansion to collect debts.
After preparing the documents, IOUs, credit notes and a list of items, Shen Zhaoshu went out and got on the carriage. When she arrived at the gate of Rongguo Mansion, she saw her concubine Shen Yu sitting on a bench at the door like a doorman, looking dusty and listless.
When Shen Yu saw Shen Zhaoshu, he jumped up from the bench, walked a few steps to Shen Zhaoshu, stretched out his arm to stop her, and said, "Are you really here to collect the debt?"
Shen Zhaoshu said: "Why not? This is the money of the Yongding Marquis Mansion. There is no way it can be spent on the Rongguo Mansion."
After saying that, he looked Shen Yu up and down again, and saw that she didn't have a single piece of jewelry on her head, ears, neck, or hands. She was as plain as a woman in mourning. He couldn't help but ask, "Are you going to cry poor and pitiful to me?
I'm not asking you for it, I'm asking the people in Rongguo Mansion for it. I'll slowly settle the accounts between you and me later."
Shen Zhaoshu raised her legs and tried to bypass Shen Yu, but when she moved left, Shen Yu moved left, and when she moved right, Shen Yu moved right, and they blocked Zhaoshu from entering.
Shen Zhaoshu asked, "Were you sent by Rongguo Mansion specifically to stop me?"
Chen Yu said, "Now that you know, just go back quickly. Why bother making things difficult for me? Could it be that you really are short of this little money?"
Chen Zhaoshu said: "I used to see you get along well with everyone in Rongguo Mansion, and I thought you were quite popular here. As the saying goes, fish seek fish and shrimp seek shrimp, you and the people in Rongguo Mansion will probably be able to get along well.
But now it seems that this is not the case. I checked the accounts of these days in the Yongding Marquis' Mansion. You spent your mother's family's money like water, but rarely spent it on yourself.
It's really strange. You have always had the best of everything at home since you were a child because your father loves and pampers you. If there are any good things for the women in the family, your aunt and you will pick them first, and the rest will be my mother and my turn.
How come when I arrived at the Rongguo Mansion, Chen Yu, who was always bullying me for no reason, was so weak and rude that he allowed himself to be bullied?
Is this what it means to be punished for one’s evil deeds?
For many years, you have been trying to trip me up for no reason, causing trouble for me openly or secretly, and often finding other people to set traps for me.
I just want to ask you, what do you think about someone spending your mother's family's money like water and then gathering others to bully people from your mother's family?
Why do you hate me? How did I offend you?
Now that you have no money, the people around you push you out to guard the gate? They strip you of everything you own?
Chen Yu, you are really a scoundrel who only knows how to bully me and my mother. "
Chen Yu said: "How did I bully you? Aren't those leftovers good ones? Your mother doesn't want them herself.
Only now do I know that the real daughter of the Grand Marshal of the Army is your mother. No wonder when I was a kid, I always got beaten whenever I wanted to hit you. Either a branch suddenly broke, a walnut flew towards me, or a small stone hit my knee.
Your mother is skilled in martial arts, and I was only able to bully you after she went to Yunlan Temple, which was only a few years ago. And then, you married far away."
He added, "It was all my fault before. You should go back quickly. If you come to collect the debt and make them lose face and have to pay you back, then all their anger will be vented on me."
Chen Zhaoshu said, "You are the eldest daughter-in-law of the eldest son's family, and you have children and grandchildren. Now you don't take care of the family? Anyone can treat you as a doorman? Take their anger out on you?"
Chen Yu said, "The old lady in the mansion asked Jiang He from the second house to be the housekeeper. But she doesn't really take care of it, so the other houses still have no money to spend..."
When mentioning Jiang He, Shen Zhaoshu was stunned for a moment. That was the person her brother had been engaged to... It was as if she saw Zhaoming standing outside her father's yard all night.
After sighing in her heart, Shen Zhaoshu said, "Whether she cares or not, whether each room has money to spend or not, what does it have to do with you?
Housekeeper Jiang He didn't even take the blame, so why are you taking the blame so seriously?
After chatting for a few sentences, Shen Yu relaxed for a moment and neglected to guard against it. Shen Zhaoshu suddenly dodged her and pushed open the door of Rongguo Mansion and stepped in.
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