Chapter 879: The beloved cousin escaped from control (5)
Liu returned to the mansion with a failure. She thought that her tactic of going directly to the house as a relative to build relationships seemed to be unworkable. She had to think of other ways. Liu was not willing to let go of someone as easy to use as Du Shichu.
But no matter how hard she thought, she couldn't think of a proper and natural way to get closer to Du Shichu. Thinking of the face she had lost in the Princess's Mansion before, she hated Du Shichu more and more. She just wanted to torture her after she had used her to vent her anger.
Zhou Yizhuo, who was reading a storybook in the outer courtyard under the pretext of studying, heard the servant say that his mother had returned from the Princess's Mansion, and he immediately rushed to the main courtyard to find Zhou.
"Mother, did you go to the Princess's Mansion to see my cousin? What did she say to you?" Zhou Yizhui rushed directly into the main hall to find Liu without waiting for the servants to pass on the message.
When Liu saw him, she glared at him and said, "Where are your rules? Although I am your mother, you are already so old, and you come in without notifying me. How can this be considered decent?"
"Oh, mother, there's no need to mention these little things." Zhou Yizhu said nonchalantly. He knew how much his mother valued him, so he didn't worry that she would really be angry with him. Therefore, he smiled and said, "Mother, isn't it because I'm close to you that I feel so comfortable? If we weren't close, I wouldn't bother to come to you."
"Nonsense!" Liu scolded her son, but she actually felt quite touched by his words, because her youngest son was taken to her mother-in-law's room to be raised as soon as he was born, and did not come out until he was almost five or six years old and was ready to go to school. Therefore, he was not close to her at all, and was polite to her but not close enough. So she valued Zhou Yizu, her eldest son who she raised, more.
It was also for this reason that in her previous life, Liu had spared no effort to bring Zhou Yizhuo together with the original owner, rather than letting her younger son who was closer in age to the original owner, because she knew that whoever married the original owner would be marrying a solid gold mountain, and a lifetime of wealth and glory would be guaranteed. However, she did not expect that Zhou Yizhuo, whom she had her eyes on, would dare to do such a stupid thing as killing the original owner for his lover, thus ruining her plan.
"Mom, please tell me what you did when you went to the Princess's Mansion." Zhou Yizhu asked impatiently.
When Liu heard this, her face suddenly darkened, and she said expressionlessly, "What did you do? I didn't even enter the princess's mansion, but was kicked out by the gatekeeper. He also said that I was someone who wanted to get close to the princess with bad intentions, and that the princess's relatives were all in Lincheng, her hometown, and none of them were in the capital... You don't know how embarrassed I was at the time! I underestimated this little girl Du Shichu..."
"What? How dare my cousin treat mother like this? Don't you have a good relationship with her mother? Does the princess look down on us poor relatives? But when I returned to Beijing with her, she didn't give me a cold face." Zhou Yizu said puzzled.
"You said that when you went back to Beijing with her, she didn't treat you coldly?" Liu immediately grasped the key point in Zhou Yizhu's words, narrowed her eyes, and asked him, "Go on, tell me, what was her attitude when she was with you?"
Zhou Yizhui began to recall: "Attitude? She was quite polite to me. Although she rejected my invitation to live in our house, it was just a rejection, without any sarcasm..." He automatically ignored the ruthlessness with which Du Shichu rejected him.
When Liu heard what he said, her eyes lit up. She didn't know what she was thinking of, so she asked again, "How old is she now? Thirteen or fourteen? She's almost 15 years old, right?"
"No, she still looks like a little child. I heard from a nanny sent from the palace that my cousin is only twelve years old and still has several years to go before she reaches marriage age. She looks so childish." Zhou Yizhuo thought of Du Shichu, who looked like a little girl, and he could not feel any feelings for her.
In fact, in the previous life, it was because the original owner grew up and became a graceful young lady with the charm of a beauty that Zhou Yizhui did not reject marrying the original owner. If the original owner had always looked like a yellow-haired girl, even for the sake of his future, Zhou Yizhui would not be willing to marry her, but would directly push her to his younger brother.
When Liu heard Zhou Yizhu's words, she was a little disappointed. If Du Shichu was still a child, then her plan would not be completed so quickly...
"Mom, what are you thinking about?" Zhou Yizhui woke Liu up when he saw that she was distracted.
"I was wondering, if you were to visit Du Shichu, would she see you?" Liu replied.
Zhou Yizhu said nonchalantly, "Maybe? After all, at least I went to pay my respects to her father, so I have some face."
"Then, son, you should be more diligent these days and try your best to find a way to meet her and build a good relationship with her. It doesn't matter if she doesn't want to recognize me as her aunt. Just recognize you as her cousin!" Liu's eyes flashed as she said to Zhou Yizu solemnly.
Although Zhou Yizhu knew that this was for his own future, he still said reluctantly to please a yellow-haired girl: "Okay, I know, I'll try my best, but if she doesn't even want to see me, then I can't do anything."
So Zhou Yizhui really went to meet Du Shichu in person after Liu. Not surprisingly, he was ruthlessly kicked out by the doorman and could not even step into the gate of the princess's mansion.
Zhou Yizhuo felt extremely embarrassed. He didn't expect Du Shichu to be so heartless that he didn't even want to see him. After all, she had paid tribute to her father. At least they had some sense of companionship on the way to Beijing, right?
The arrogant Zhou Yizhuo was humiliated by Du Shichu. He was angry and ashamed. Finally, he angrily threw his sleeves and left without trying to meet again.
After Du Shichu knew that he had left, he smiled sarcastically. Although Zhou Yizhu was not very talented in studying, he was very noble and could not stand others looking down on him and not giving him face. So after being kicked out of the Princess' Mansion in public, he must have been very resentful in his heart.
In fact, the Princess's Mansion did not just reject the visits of Liu and Zhou Yizhuo. Du Shichu also politely declined visiting cards from others. However, he did not refuse them as disrespectfully as he did from Liu and Zhou Yizhuo. But they did not come in person, and they sent servants to deliver the visiting cards. Du Shichu was much more tactful and polite in his rejection, and he still used the useful excuse of mourning.
Of course, everyone knew her situation, so they didn't feel embarrassed when they were rejected. They were doing it more for the emperor to see, to show that they did not ignore Du Shichu, an orphan. If Du Shichu wanted to see them, that would be great, but if she didn't want to, that was fine too. They didn't want to be as "purposeful" as the Zhou family.
"During the period of mourning, I basically won't see anyone else except those who go to the palace. If there are any more visiting cards, just reject them all. If anyone still pesters me, you can report to the authorities directly. No one can disturb me during my mourning period." Du Shichu had no intention of entertaining outsiders, no matter whether those people had good intentions towards her or not.
(End of this chapter)
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