If the aunt was a likable and sensible one, Liu Wanyun actually wouldn't mind asking her husband's family for help.
But she doesn't consider herself at all when she speaks and acts, and is even sarcastic and mean to her mother, which makes people very unhappy.
Logically speaking, Liu's father was a juren, and the family was composed of scholars. This aunt should be a well-educated and sensible woman. I don't know why she is so aggressive.
It can only be blamed on the fact that marriage changes people beyond recognition!
Although she is no longer the original Liu Wanyun, the bond of family affection still exists.
Liu Wanyun pulled Madam Ma and said, "Aunt, you are here to buy fabric, right? I'll take you over there to have a look..."
She originally thought that it would take some persuasion before her aunt would leave. After all, she remembered that when she returned home before, Mrs. Ma had been dreaming of marrying into the Shen family.
Unexpectedly, she immediately agreed with a smile, "Okay, okay, my niece is so good to me, Madam Shen, Madam Du, I'll excuse myself then."
As he spoke, he said goodbye politely.
However, she emphasized the word "niece" again, which made her suspicious about what her aunt was planning.
After accompanying her to choose two pieces of cloth and sending her away, Liu Wanyun suddenly realized a problem, how did this aunt know Madam Shen and Madam Du?
Her family owns a dessert shop in the west of the city, so she knows Madam Shen, or has seen her before, so it’s understandable.
What about Mrs. Du? Her home seems to be in the south of the city. Moreover, the two seem to know each other.
This question was soon answered.
On the way back home, Mrs. Shen asked Liu Wanyun to ride in the same carriage with her.
Not long after walking, the two began chatting.
"Your aunt's husband's family runs a sweet shop in the west of our city, and they have a son, the Ma family, who is a scholar?"
Liu Wanyun was a little surprised that her aunt was interested in this person.
On second thought, merchant families in this era should all have a good impression of scholar families, not to mention that there is a scholar in the family.
"Yes, their family does have a sweet shop. My cousin Ma is a scholar and seems to be working as a clerk in the county government. My aunt is very good at educating children. I didn't know that my aunt also recognized her..."
Her original intention was to improve her aunt's image so that she would not be looked down upon by Mrs. Shen.
Unexpectedly, Madam Shen laughed, with a meaningful expression on her face, "I was wondering why she looked familiar. During the Flower Festival, she greeted me and said she was a relative of Master Du's family, but it seems that Madam Du doesn't like her very much!"
"Du Zhubu's family? Relatives?"
Liu Wanyun was full of confusion. When did her family become related to the county yamen chief clerk's family? Why had she never heard her parents mention it?
Mrs. Shen's smile was somewhat sarcastic, "Your aunt is a person who knows how to make connections everywhere..."
It turned out that Mrs. Du only gave birth to one daughter. In order to continue the family line, she had no choice but to take a young concubine for Mr. Du a few years ago. The concubine was the daughter of Mrs. Ma's eldest sister-in-law.
Not long after she entered the sect, she became pregnant and gave birth to a son.
The Ma family has been a single-line family for generations. Ma Fen's father had only one son, and Ma Fen's generation was naturally the only male. Later, he passed the imperial examination and became a scholar. Mrs. Ma was very confident and forced everyone in the Ma family to find a way to find a good job for her son.
The eldest sister-in-law's daughter married into the Du Zhubu family and gave birth to a boy. The girl was much younger than Mrs. Du and was good at acting coquettishly and coaxing people, which pleased Mr. Du very much. Naturally, her mother gave this task to her.
So, the cousin took advantage of the merit of giving birth to a son and used all her tricks to persuade Du Zhubu to agree to arrange for her cousin Ma Fen to work as a clerk in the county government.
Mrs. Shen also learned about this matter later when she was chatting with Mrs. Xie and others. She probably told it to Liu Wanyun at this time, but she knew some gossip that others didn't know, so she wanted to share it.
Moreover, the protagonist of this gossip is the daughter-in-law's aunt, which is quite shameful.
No wonder my aunt, who was so arrogant before, suddenly looked down on my family. It turned out that she was trying to marry someone above her station.
Who would have thought that she would marry into the Shen family, and she wanted to turn around and ask for benefits.
Although Liu Wanyun felt that her aunt was indeed too snobbish, her surname was Liu after all, and she was a daughter of the Liu family. From the perspective of outsiders, her behavior more or less represented the family education and style of her mother's family.
Now that she was being looked at with such disdain by her aunt, she felt somewhat uncomfortable and could not help but say a few good words for Madam Ma.
"I actually think my aunt is an amazing woman. Although her actions are somewhat shameful, they are also the result of life. She was born in an ordinary family and married an ordinary man. She was dealt a bad hand, but she played it well. She gave birth to a son, raised him to be a scholar, and he also went to work in the county government."
"There's nothing impossible, only things you can't imagine! Such a positive attitude surpasses countless women who only stay at home and complain about everything."
These remarks made Mrs. Shen laugh in silence.
She discovered that although her daughter-in-law was good at talking, when she wanted to protect someone, she could always make her argument convincingly, regardless of whether the person was right or wrong.
Today, at the entrance of Qiluoxuan, she spoke up for herself in the same way.
However, those words touched her deeply and gave her great courage to no longer mind other people's comments on her dress.
She also had a better impression of the daughter-in-law because of this. She smiled and teased, "Yes, the women of your Liu family are all very capable!"
Liu Wanyun naturally accepted this kind of harmless joke and complimented him, "But even the Zhou family girl is not that good!"
Madam Shen glared at her. This person really didn't deserve any praise. He was always taking advantage of others and even dared to call her by her last name.
"Show some respect! I'm your aunt!"
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