Chapter 80 What's the difference between running at night and being blind?
Chen Lianxiu's heart was shocked, and he felt something was wrong.
She did have several sisters, but she subconsciously thought of Shen Wuyu first, always feeling that she was the only one who would come to her.
Chen Lianxiu hurriedly put on her clothes and went to see. Because the outside was too chaotic recently, the doorman had already invited everyone inside. Chen Lianxiu saw a woman holding a child tightly from a distance.
Without even getting close, she had already confirmed her suspicions that it was Shen Wuyu.
Shen Wuyu turned around when she heard the noise. Before the person even came close, she called out to her in a trembling voice, "Sister."
Chen Lianxiu stopped and took a deep breath. He didn't know what to say for a moment, so he just asked dryly, "What are you doing here?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Shen Wuyu started crying, and the children beside her also started crying.
"My parents and I left the city yesterday, planning to return to our hometown in Shouzhou," Shen Wuyu cried, "but we encountered bandits on the way, and my parents..."
Shen Lianxiu asked, "Dead?"
Shen Wuyu nodded.
"And what about the others?"
"They've all run away," Chen Wuyu said. "My brothers were sent back earlier, and I don't know what's happening to them now. I had nowhere to go, and since I thought you were here, I had no choice but to come back and join you."
She looked at Shen Lianxiu eagerly, her eyes and face full of tears, she cried pitifully, and her body was dirty, making people unable to bear to reject her.
However, Shen Lianxiu had no intention of rejecting her.
Chen Lianxiu had witnessed with her own eyes today how chaotic the situation was outside. They could break into other people's homes and rob them in broad daylight, not to mention what would happen if Chen Wuyu, a single woman with a child, was pushed outside at night.
After all, she couldn't be so cruel to her sister.
Chen Lianxiu had someone quickly get an empty room to accommodate Chen Wuyu and her child. Chen Wuyu was still in shock and held Chen Lianxiu's hand tightly, refusing to let go. As for the child with her, Shen Lianxiu had seen him last time but didn't look closely. This time, he saw him clearly. He was timid and almost never spoke. He stayed close to Chen Wuyu, occasionally looking up at them.
Shen Lianxiu asked Shen Wuyu to rest several times, but Shen Wuyu kept crying and talking about Shen Ji and Chen, and said that she would go find them. When she first saw her, she was still calm and composed, but now she was probably in a stable environment, so she relaxed all of a sudden and didn't have to worry about anything else, so the horrific scenes that had happened kept emerging.
She chattered incessantly to Shen Lianxiu.
To be fair, even if Shen Lianxiu saw Shen Wuyu like this, she had no feelings about the death of Shen Ji and Chen. If she did, it was just a sigh at most. After all, Shen Ji had treated her and her mother like that, and had never cared about her, and Chen wanted her life, so she could no longer have any sympathy.
I couldn't even utter a word of comfort.
The calming soup brought by the maids had no effect on Shen Wuyu.
But Shen Ji and Chen were one thing, and Shen Wuyu was another, so Shen Lianxiu really couldn’t bear to interrupt her.
It's very late at night.
Just when Shen Lianxiu was about to give up, Bi Cha's voice came from outside the door: "Madam, your husband asked you to go back to sleep."
This interruption cut off Shen Wuyu's words, and she finally came back to her senses.
“It’s so late…” Shen Wuyu wiped a tear, “Big sister, please go back soon… I… I will go to Shouzhou when things get better outside.”
Chen Lianxiu sighed and said, "You can't leave the city right now, so you should stay here for now."
After going out, Shen Lianxiu discovered that not only Bi Cha was outside, but Zhou Linjin was also there.
Naturally, he couldn't hide the fact that Shen Wuyu came to the Duke Cheng's Mansion from him. At first, it was not convenient for him to show up, so he let Shen Lianxiu go by herself, but he still kept an eye on the situation. Seeing that Shen Lianxiu had been dragged by Shen Wuyu and had not returned to her room, Zhou Linjin couldn't help it and used this as an excuse to come over to see her.
When he saw Shen Lianxiu coming out, he came forward and seemed to have something to say, but he didn't speak for a while.
"She has nowhere to go, I can't kick her out," Shen Lianxiu bit her lip, and suddenly hesitated, "Do you... want to keep her?"
Zhou Linjin's heart tightened.
He immediately began to speculate what she meant by asking this question. Was she still thinking about his past with Shen Wuyu?
If he said he would stay, he was afraid that she would think too much. If he said he would not stay, she had already kept him. Shen Wuyu was her biological sister. Could he just kick her out?
No matter how I answer, it seems wrong.
In a short while, Zhou Linjin's palms were covered with layers of fine cold sweat. Finally, he came up with a quick idea and squeezed out a dry sentence: "If you want to stay, then stay."
Chen Lianxiu glanced at him, then frowned: "This is not my home... and her relationship with King Hui, what if she lied to me..."
Zhou Linjin suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that he was thinking too much. Chen Lianxiu was more open-minded than him and didn't think about it at all.
He immediately regained consciousness and said in a deep voice, "Tomorrow I will send people out of the city to look for your father and the others. After all, there are still many people in the Shen family. She can't make up such a lie."
"That's fine, but judging from her expression just now, she shouldn't be lying." Chen Lianxiu nodded, then asked curiously, "Why did you suddenly breathe a sigh of relief just now?"
Zhou Linjin naturally didn't dare to admit his little thoughts, so he could only say: "Nothing, just a little bored."
It's a clear and crisp autumn day today, but at night the wind is still very cold.
Zhou Linjin's palms began to sweat again. He quickly said to Shen Lianxiu, "It's already late. Go get some rest."
After saying that, he turned around and left.
Chen Lianxiu was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect that he would leave so quickly and neatly today. However, she didn't think about it any further. She covered her mouth, yawned, and went back to her room to sleep.
Early the next morning, Shen Wuyu came to see Shen Lianxiu again.
After a night's rest, Shen Wuyu's complexion was much better than last night, but she still looked listless and seemed very scared. It was obvious that the death of her parents had dealt a heavy blow to her.
Her son was still brought along by her, and as soon as Shen Wuyu sat down, she held him in her arms. An An was playing with a beautiful little flower ball in the yard. After all, Zhu'er was getting older and couldn't play with her all the time. Seeing a child about her age, An An invited him to play with her, but the child seemed afraid to agree. He first looked at Shen Wuyu, and only dared to go out after Shen Wuyu nodded. When he walked, he didn't walk as boldly or skippingly as other children, but was very cautious.
Chen Lianxiu saw this and felt that there was something wrong with the child. Although she hated King Hui, the child was always right. Besides, it was not certain whether the child had ever seen his father. So Chen Lianxiu could not say that she hated the child. Instead, she felt a little worried seeing him like this.
"What's his name?" Shen Lianxiu asked Shen Wuyu.
Chen Lianxiu initially intended to tell Chen Wuyu about Zhou Linjin sending people to look for Chen Ji and his wife, but she didn't say it in the end. It wasn't because she assumed that Chen Wuyu came to Duke Cheng's Mansion for other purposes, and she was afraid that she would be on guard after telling him. Instead, Chen Lianxiu felt that she and Zhou Linjin didn't really want to collect their remains or something, but were just doing it for a certain purpose. There was no need to tell him, and if she told him, it would seem like they were pretending to care about Chen Wuyu and asking her to be grateful.
Chen Lianxiu was afraid that she would cry non-stop like she did last night, so it was better to change the subject first.
Speaking of the child, Shen Wuyu's face, which was a little swollen from crying, showed a hint of smile, and she said to Shen Lianxiu: "Call him Xiaoshu. He doesn't have a real name, so just call him Xiaoshu."
Shen Lianxiu thought about it, but couldn't help asking, "Xiaoshu should be bigger than An'an, why is he so much thinner?"
"Xiaoshu..." Shen Wuyu paused before continuing, "Mother didn't want outsiders to know of his existence, so since Xiaoshu was born, he has been locked up in a remote courtyard at home. Usually, only I and a maid are with him. We rarely let him out for fear of encountering guests. Only at night can we take him out to play. So Xiaoshu is very introverted. Because he doesn't exercise regularly and rarely walks around, he is also weak."
Shen Lianxiu couldn't help but look at the little tree playing over there. She saw that he was timid even when he was playing. If An An didn't give him the ball, he wouldn't dare to take it. He would look towards them from time to time, as if to confirm Shen Wuyu's every move.
"I'm afraid he'll get hurt, and I feel bad for him not being able to see others, so I usually dote on him more. Anyway... I don't ask for anything else, as long as he can survive," Shen Wuyu said, tears began to burst like a dam, "Sister, I really regret it. Why did I listen to his deception? Can't I tell the difference between good and bad people at this age? He could have asked me to break off the engagement and marry me, but he insisted on tricking me away from home. I should have known he was not a good person..."
Shen Lianxiu was speechless for a moment, and after Shen Wuyu calmed down a little, he could only say: "It has already happened, there is no point in regretting it."
Shen Wuyu nodded and cried for a long time, then raised her head with red eyes and looked at her: “Sister, I didn’t mean that, I didn’t say that I regretted not marrying... I’m not very good at speaking, don’t blame me.”
Shen Lianxiu smiled and said, "No."
Somehow, she thought of Zhou Linjin's hesitation last night. Only then did she realize that her unintentional question might have embarrassed him and he didn't know how to answer so that she wouldn't misunderstand and get angry.
In fact, she really didn't mean to embarrass him. Although Zhou Linjin wanted to marry Shen Wuyu at first and thought he had married Shen Wuyu, and Shen Wuyu also lied after returning, Shen Lianxiu never put these things together.
As time passed, she could understand that Shen Wuyu listened to Chen's words and told that lie in order to keep the child, and she also believed that Zhou Linjin had long since disliked Shen Wuyu, so she would not ask Zhou Linjin such boring and jealous questions.
From the beginning to the end, what she cared about most was Zhou Linjin's distrust of her and his decisive and uncompromising way of handling the situation.
None of this had much to do with Shen Wuyu. Shen Wuyu did lie, but it was Zhou Linjin who made the final decision.
She would never put all the blame on another woman, especially her own sister, and then go back to being sweet and happy with the man again. What's the difference between that and being blind?
The unresolved issues between her and Zhou Linjin will always be their own problems.
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