The smile on Shen Qingwu's face gradually disappeared. He withdrew his hand heavily and looked at Xie Yuening with a complicated expression.
Her story is cheesy, even melodramatic, and even the ending seems to have little originality. However, this is a person's life, and she is trapped here.
Without the support of the Xie family, Xie Yuening's life in the military camp became much more difficult.
After all, this world is harsh on women.
In order for Sun Qiyun, the martial arts champion, to better display his strengths in the military camp, Xie Yuening, who fell in love, chose to sacrifice herself and fulfill her husband.
From then on, like all married women, she returned home to take care of her husband and children.
Everyone thinks this is a matter of course, that women should sacrifice their future and interests for men.
However, Xie Yuening, who only washed her hands and cooked soup and never took up a gun or rode a horse, gradually lost her luster in Sun Qiyun's eyes.
After seven years of marriage, Xie Yuening had only one daughter and no other children.
Even though she showed filial piety to her mother-in-law by her bedside when she was seriously ill and worked every day to earn money to support the family, she was ultimately seen by the world as a useless woman who could not give birth to a son.
Shen Qingwu's right hand fell heavily on Xie Yuening's shoulder again. Seeing the two scenes in the future, he finally understood that the thick black fog in Xie Yuening's forehead was related to her daughter.
If you look closely, the fortune in this face is quite similar to that of Hong An in the kennel, both of which come from their children.
Xie Yuening looked at the hand that fell on her shoulder in confusion, took a step back uncomfortably, and nodded again to express her gratitude, "Thank you, young lady."
She didn't understand why the person in front of her looked at her that way.
That look was just like the one her younger brother gave her every time he secretly gave her money without telling their father, and hated her for not living up to her expectations.
"Miss, do we know each other?" Xie Yuening finally asked the question in her heart hesitantly.
Shen Qingwu shook his head. "I know a little bit about physiognomy and fortune-telling, but I just saw that your face shouldn't look like this, and I was surprised."
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Xie Yuening's maid glared at Shen Qingwu unhappily and protected Xie Yuening behind her. "Miss, let's go pay and go home."
"May I have the honor to treat you to a cup of tea?" Shen Qingwu raised his hand to stop the person and asked politely.
"No time." The little maid said unhappily.
"I'm talking to your sister, shut up!" Shen Qingwu frowned. If it weren't for the fact that this little girl really cared about Xie Yuening, she would have slapped her hard.
Shen Qingwu's call of "sister" made Xie Yuening and Dongtao stunned for a moment.
"Don't be rude, Dongtao." Xie Yuening gently stopped Dongtao who was about to speak. She smiled apologetically at Shen Qingwu, and nodded in agreement without even understanding why. "I have some time today."
"Miss, these fortune tellers are all charlatans." Dong Tao continued to grumble in dissatisfaction as she left the rouge shop and headed towards the teahouse.
Xie Yuening was not satisfied after she finished speaking, she glared at Shen Qingwu and said, "You are such a pretty girl, why don't you do something else at such a young age? Why do you have to learn how to cheat people out of money?"
"Thank you for the compliment." Shen Qingwu smiled innocently at her and said jokingly, "You are not young anymore. It's time for you to get married. If you stay any longer, you will become an old maid."
She knew that it was wrong to tease a girl about getting married early.
But he also saw that Xie Yuening had always hoped that Dongtao could get married soon.
It was Dongtao who was unhappy.
"I'm happy with it, what do you care?" Dong Tao snorted at her fiercely, "You have no shame!"
"What this young lady said makes sense." Xie Yuening nodded in agreement, "The owner of the weapons shop, Ajing, has been waiting for your nod."
"Hmph!" Dong Tao snorted with a red face and stopped talking.
Xie Yuening smiled dotingly.
The year she met Dongtao, she was thirteen years old and followed her elder brother to deal with the refugee riots.
During the riot, she saved Dongtao who was almost bullied by two beasts. That year, Dongtao was six years old.
She did not allow Dongtao to be enslaved, and always hoped that she could live an ordinary life.
But Dongtao insisted on staying by her side to serve her. She knew that Dongtao was young and had no ability to survive, so she kept her by her side for the time being and taught her to read and practice martial arts.
She has always treated Dongtao as her younger sister.
It was originally agreed that when Dongtao reached the age of 15, she would get married and live her own life.
However, Xie Yuening married Sun Qiyun at the age of sixteen, so Dongtao gave up her family's idea.
Back then, the Xie family did not allow her to take away any of the maids and servants they had arranged for her. Dong Tao was a free person, so she followed Xie Yuening into the Sun family with all her might.
"Miss, if they treat you well, Dongtao will naturally leave in two years when she reaches the age."
"When the time comes, I'll find a good man to marry in this alley, and we can still be neighbors."
On the second day of their wedding, Dongtao knelt in front of her and begged her not to drive him away.
"Miss, please leave me here. If you leave the Xie family, it will naturally no longer be my home."
Dong Tao started to act coquettishly towards Xie Yuening again.
"Miss, you know I can do a lot of things without getting you into trouble."
Dong Tao uses both soft and hard tactics.
Xie Yuening had no choice but to leave this little girl who intended to depend on her.
From then on, all the laundry and cooking tasks for the Sun family fell on Dongtao.
The Sun family was poor and had never had any servants or maids, but they were not at all polite when it came to employing Dong Tao.
Dong Tao always rushed to do the work, not letting Xie Yuening touch the rough work and not making things difficult for Xie Yuening.
Xie Yuening was reluctant to let Dongtao go. When her brother Xie Enyu secretly gave her money to subsidize her, she wanted Xie Enyu to take Dongtao away. For the first time, Dongtao cried and made a fuss with her.
She had no choice but to keep the man, take Xie Enyu's money, and buy a maid.
Because he spent money to buy a maid, his mother-in-law scolded him for a long time, and then made things difficult for the maid and drove her away.
The household affairs fell on Dongtao again.
Soon, she became pregnant and gave birth to a child. Both she and the child became inseparable from Dongtao.
She is the one who is dragging Dongtao down.
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Shen Qingwu took Xie Yuening and the other two to the best teahouse in Kyoto City.
"Miss, you haven't been to a place like this for many years." Dong Tao couldn't help looking around.
Xie Yuening didn't feel much regret, and continued to smile gently, "I don't like teahouses to begin with. If it weren't for the purpose of broadening my horizons for a little girl like you, I wouldn't have come here to drink tea every day."
She doesn't like tea, but prefers wine.
Later, she stopped taking Xie Enyu's money and only asked Xie Enyu to bring a pot of wine from Wangyue Tower if he saw her.
"It's not appropriate to drink today. Next time if there is a chance, please go to Wangyue Tower for a drink." Shen Qingwu asked for a private room and didn't ask anyone to serve him.
When she was a White Tiger, there was a tea connoisseur in the clan. She liked the aroma of tea and would go there every now and then to get a couple of pots. She had quite a bit of experience in making tea.
"If that's the case, I won't be polite, but I have to make it clear in advance that my family is poor and I can't return the invitation." Xie Yuening said with a smile.
"Be sincere in making friends; talking about money is vulgar." Shen Qingwu shook his head indifferently, boiling water as he did so, and asked casually, "Has your daughter been feeling unwell lately? Her heart palpitations and cramps in her limbs have become more frequent?"
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