After breaking off the marriage, the Zhuangyuan Lang who was picked up was dressed weakly every day

Chapter 3

With a "squeak", the study door closed, and Shen Yanhan got straight to the point and asked Shen Guci: "Why did dad force my mother to move to Zhuangzi?"

She didn't ask Shen Guci if he forced Qi Yun, but asked him why after confirming that he did it.

Shen Guci's handsome old face froze when he just walked to the desk. Perhaps she had a guilty conscience and thought that the eldest daughter, who had always been smart, had learned the truth. She turned around and looked at Shen Yanhan, and said angrily: "I act for my own reasons, no? Don’t ask when it’s your turn to ask.”

This answer undoubtedly gave Shen Yanhan a definite answer: he was the one who drove Qi Yun out of Shen's house.

The belief in his parents' love that he had firmly believed in for 16 years was rapidly crumbling. Shen Yanhan's heart dropped sharply, and his already frozen body began to tremble.

When she first left Lin'an Mansion to go to the countryside, she also asked Qi Yun: "Mom, why do we suddenly come to live in this small village? Isn't Lin'an Mansion good?"

Qi Yun only said: "My mother is pregnant now, and there are too many welcomes and greetings in the city. It is too noisy, so I just came here to have some peace and quiet."

At that time, she didn’t understand that newly pregnant women couldn’t travel long distances, so she said naively: “Then we can go to Chengzhou. We go to live with my uncle and cousin. Mom doesn’t have to do anything. My uncles will only give We have good food.”

Qi Yun didn't comment, just stroked her hair and sighed slightly.

The 12-year-old Shen Yanhan didn't understand the meaning of this tone, but now she understands it.

Mother, why do you go to the countryside to seek purity?She was married to a foreign country, pregnant with the flesh and blood of her husband's family, but was kicked out by her husband's family, leaving her homeless and helpless!

But she didn't notice any of this at that time, didn't understand her mother's grievances, and just played with her playmates all day long.

Nowadays, the regret of having a son who wanted to take care of him but not being loved by her is filling his limbs. Shen Yanhan's eyes turned red, he clenched his fists and said excitedly: "Why can't I ask? That's my mother! What kind of heinous crime did my mother commit?" , what makes you, dad, so cruel and treat your first wife like this? She was pregnant with her baby brother and lived in Zhuangzi for eight months, and dad, you never visited her once!"

Not only that, even when Qi Yun passed away and people from Zhuangzi came to Lin'an Mansion to report the funeral, Shen Guci only left to pick him up the next day.

Suddenly being contradicted by his daughter, Shen Guci said angrily: "How dare you! How dare you question your father like this! Do you still have any courtesy at all?"

"Etiquette?" Shen Yanhan wanted to laugh in her heart.

"Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Shangyuan Festival, Duanyang Festival... according to etiquette, which one of these days should not be celebrated by the house's mistress? Dad, can you keep the etiquette? Can you please ask the Shen family's mistress to come back to the house to take care of it? You are living happily and bustling in the city, but do you know how lonely my mother and I are living in the village?"

Shen Yanhan pressed forward step by step, but Shen Guyi couldn't hold it in anymore. He slapped the table hard and said what was in his heart: "Your mother is the only one to blame! If she hadn't disregarded her integrity and others... how would she have ended up like this? I did not divorce my wife out of consideration for her face, and speaking of it, I did not feel sorry for her in any way."

Shen Yanhan felt that he had simply listened to a heavenly book and could not understand a single word.

She opened her eyes wide, looked at her father in shock, and asked him: "What happened to my mother?"

Shen Guci did not answer Shen Yanhan's words, but took a deep breath and admonished her with an expression that said "there is no need to mention this matter": "Now that you already know about this matter and have been divorced because of it, go to From now on, we should be more cautious in our words and deeds, restrain our sharpness, and not let the Shen family become a joke in the eyes of others again."

What Wang Qiong and Shen Guci said was "immoral", "your dear mother did such a shameful thing", "the family tradition is not right", "she has no regard for her integrity..." and "a joke in the eyes of others". Thinking about these sentences together, it was impossible for Shen Yanhan not to guess what they called the "thing" Qi Yun had done.

Shen Yanhan's whole body was cold, his clenched fists were trembling, and the tears that had been stubbornly holding in his eyes suddenly welled up and fell like beads.

The water covered his eyes, and his vision went back and forth between blur and clarity. Shen Yanhan looked at Shen Gu Ci stubbornly, with the last glimmer of hope, suppressing the emotions that were about to explode, and suppressing the trembling voice, and asked word by word He: "In my father's heart, is my mother that kind of person?"

The distant time and space and the current scene suddenly overlapped incredibly, and Shen Guci's eyes suddenly flickered.

"Am I that kind of person in the official's mind?"

——After he learned about what Qi Yun did in Chengzhou that day, when he questioned Qi Yun, Qi Yun was no different from the eldest daughter before him, looking at him with a mixture of stubbornness and disappointment, and said this sentence words.

At this moment, Shen Gu Ci also repeated to Shen Yanhan what he had said before: "There are all human and material evidences."

This is self-evident.

Shen Yanhan is not Qi Yun.She was in her [-]th year, had no suffering, and was not bound by children. A newborn calf would not be afraid of tigers, not to mention that she was born with a clear distinction between love and hate.

She gave Shen Guyi a very different reaction from his late mother who endured humiliation.

The little lady, who is three parts like her father and seven parts like her mother, has hatred in her eyes, her eyes are red, and her anger is like the eruption of a volcano that has been silent for a long time. The hot magma finally spews out, threatening to burn everything.

"What a sentence. All the evidence is complete! Where are the people? What are the things?"

"Outsiders don't know what kind of person my mother is. We have been married for many years. Dad, do you really not understand my mother's personality? My mother has always been open and honest!"

"She left with injustice, and now daddy you tell me that she brought it upon herself!"

"She saved you from the fire and water, regarded you as the closest person in her life, followed you thousands of miles away, left her hometown to go to you, and finally got a husband suspicious, the couple separated, and died in depression. She brought it upon herself!"

The eldest daughter's voice was hoarse, and every word of hatred came over her. Shen Guci's face was as black as ink.In his heart, how could he really forget how well Qi Yun treated him?
He traveled from the north to the south due to the war. When he arrived in Chengzhou, he was so depressed that he had no food to eat. He had to abandon his literary integrity and sell calligraphy on the street to survive.However, he is a foreigner and can't even understand the local dialect. You can imagine how bad the business is.It was Qi Yun who valued his good calligraphy, patronized the roadside stall he set up every day, and spent generously that allowed him to survive.

At that time, he was at the age when he was young and energetic, and he admired Shao Ai when he knew he was lustful. Facing the beautiful Mrs. Qi, she smiled brightly and looked forward to her beautiful eyes. She put her chin on her hand and listened to what he had heard, made up, or told. Whether it was him as the protagonist, or telling stories about other people's heroic deeds, with a bright light in his eyes, praising him for being knowledgeable, praising him for being omnipotent, being so appreciated, how could he not be moved?
But it was precisely because he understood what kind of admiration Qi Yun had for the real protagonists in those stories that he was so angry when he heard that she had rescued a general and stayed at home.

And when he saw Qi Yun and that man appearing at the Washi of Lin'an Mansion at the same time, the fire of anger completely burned.

At this moment, Qi Yun's unspoken accusations were spit out by Shen Yanhan mercilessly: "Without my mother, how would you be where you are today? How could you repay kindness with hatred? Is there such a husband as you? ——”

"Snapped!"

A heavy slap broke through the air and stopped Shen Yanhan's words. It also wiped out the affection between father and daughter that had been diminishing over the past three years and now only a few remained.

Shen Yanhan turned his face, which was gradually red and swollen, for a while, and then suddenly looked back at Shen Gu Ci.

The gurgling sound of rain under the eaves amplified and entered the dead silence of the study. Thunder and lightning flashed, the heaven and earth shook, and the father and daughter looked at each other in silence.

There was a sound of thunder, and Shen Guci heard her gritting her teeth and saying word by word——

"You do not deserve."

*
The Shen family is located in Zhonghefang. To the south of Zhonghefang is Renmeifang, and further south of Renmeifang is the City God's Temple and the military barracks.

If you want to leave the city from Qianhu Gate further south, you must go around the huge barracks. Shen Yanhan left Shen Mansion in a hurry. In addition, it was raining heavily and he couldn't find the rental oxcart. It would only make it more difficult for her to walk, so she finally chose Qingbo Gate, located between Renmeifang and the barracks, to leave the city.

The Shen family's Zhuangzi is actually not far from the city. It is at the foot of a mountain called "Nanping Mountain" five miles west of the city. According to Shen Yanhan's footsteps, it will not take more than an hour to walk out of the city, but from Qingbo Gate. , they need to walk a short section of forest path, and it is this section of the road that has become the place where Shen Yanhan is most worried today.

It's too dark under the tree shade.

Tang Yuan led the way, and Shen Yanhan's personal maid, Mu Jin, held a lantern behind her, chattering her teeth and trembling: "Madam, how long do we have to go?"

Shen Yanhan was wearing the precious oil coat and spike shoes that Qi Yun bought for her before his death. She was holding a green parasol and a lantern. She felt warm and tight all over her body, but she was extremely wary and nervous in her heart.

But Hibiscus was already clearly panicking, and she couldn't make matters worse.

She tightened her grip on the umbrella handle, trying her best to ignore the dark shadows around her, and avoided the snarling branches beside the umbrella. Her eyes only dared to look at her feet, and her voice pretended to be calm: "It will take about a cup of tea, we will be there soon."

Hibiscus stepped further into Shen Yanhan's footsteps, "Oh."

In order to distract Hibiscus, Shen Yanhan said again: "I have plum candy in my bag, do you want to eat one?"

"No, let's go quickly and eat when we get there."

Shen Yanhan hummed and continued: "Speaking of which, I haven't eaten yet tonight. I just packed my bags when I came back from Liang's house. I'm hungry right now. When we get to Zhuangzi later, we'll go first Dr. Cai’s family borrowed some grain for cooking and will return it after buying it later.”

After listening to Shen Yanhan's plan, Mu Jin answered: "Doctor Cai will definitely not want the things you return, Madam."

This was a good statement, and Shen Yanhan nodded.

When they talked about Dr. Cai, they both thought of the young lady of the Cai family. Mu Jin's attention was indeed diverted by Shen Yanhan at the moment, and her perception of the surrounding things was no longer so keen. She was ready to talk to Shen Yanhan again. Something else.

But at this moment, the sound of a dog barking suddenly came from the front.

Shen Yanhan's shoulders trembled and she looked towards the wolf dog, only to see the dog circling around the half-human-high grass beside the trail. Using the light of lightning, she fixed her eyes and saw a large piece of white robe exposed in the grass.

What was whiter than the clothes was an extremely pale face.

At the same time, there was thunder in the sky.

"Boom--"

Shen Yanhan's heart suddenly stopped and she just wanted to scream loudly.

Dense raindrops fell from the sky, penetrating through the dense branches and leaves above the head, and hitting the umbrella with a thumping sound. Under the persistent noise of the dog, the man lying on the ground slowly opened his eyes, and then turned his face slightly, Looking in her direction.

Shen Yanhan was so frightened that seven points of his soul slowly floated back into his body.

After all, this is a living person.

Shen Yanhan mustered up the courage to take a step forward, leaned over to look at him, and saw Lang Jun's squirming and bloodless lips, saying to her in a weak, pitiful, and pleading tone: "Save me."

(End of this chapter)