In the imperial study room in the capital, the new emperor dropped a hot tea cup!
The palace maids and eunuchs below knelt on the ground, trembling with fear.
His Majesty is furious and they are afraid of death.
Fortunately, His Majesty did not express his anger and quickly called the Privy Councilor: "Go..."
The Privy Councilor took the order and left, and the imperial study became quiet again.
Shenjia Village.
On the first day after Zhao Yuzhu returned to the village, she disappeared after eating. The laughter of two or three women came from Uncle Li Zheng's house.
The next day after Zhao Yuzhu came back, he disappeared from sight again after dinner, and chirping laughter came from Uncle Shen’s house.
On the third day after Zhao Yuzhu came back, just after dinner, many women came!
Shen Qingyu was shocked when she saw many women from the village standing at the door!
"What are you..."
When the mothers-in-law saw Shen Qingyu, they smiled a little cautiously: "Qingyu, I'm looking for your mother. We have made an appointment to make clothes together today."
As they spoke, they each raised the bamboo baskets in their hands, which contained some cloth and needlework.
"Oops! Are the sisters-in-law here? Come in, come in..." Zhao Yuzhu's enthusiastic voice sounded.
Shen Qingyu turned to look at Zhao Yuzhu and saw that she was smiling like a blooming chrysanthemum, with smile lines all over her face.
"Oh! He knew we were coming, but he didn't open the door! He even asked Qingyu to open the door for us."
The speaker was Uncle Shen Wu’s mother-in-law, and her voice was louder than the one she had just spoken to Shen Qingyu!
"It's my fault, it's my fault! Come in..."
Ms. Zhao Yuzhu happily let people in, then went to the main room to bring out some benches, and asked everyone to sit on the porch in the yard.
So a group of women were chattering and laughing while doing needlework, and the yard became lively in an instant.
Shen Qingyu was stunned!
What is my mother doing?
Have a tea party with a bunch of women?
What’s the point?
She doesn't understand.
After listening for a long time, I found that the conversation was all about family feuds and things in the fields and at home.
They also talked about building a house and building a sweet potato flour workshop, and their words were full of envy for Ms. Zhao Yuzhu.
"Your Qingyu is so amazing! How long has it taken to build such a good triple courtyard?"
"Yes! She is also a lucky one, helping us find mountain spring water!"
"I heard that our village is the only one in Hengshui Town that still has water to irrigate the fields. The wells in many places are almost out of water. To drink water, you have to go out for more than ten miles to fetch water..."
"Isn't that right? After the last rain, it hasn't rained for several days. I heard that the number of refugees has increased again..."
Suddenly Xiao Taohua brought melon seeds and tea to them, and the women's words fell on Xiao Taohua again, teasing her: "You are a blessing in disguise. Your house is gone, but you live in a big brick house! Your children can still study.
!"
Xiao Taohua's face flushed when she was told that, and she looked nervously in the direction of Shen Qingyu's room upstairs.
"It's because of Qingyu's kindness that I can have a place to live and feed my children..."
Most of the time, the aunts say that Ms. Zhao Yuzhu is responsible for professional support.
"Oh?"
"Oops..."
"That's right..."
"Oh, that's really..."
Shen Qingyu was sitting in her room, feeling strange: the mother in her memory was always in a hurry, as if she would be blown away by the wind if she ran slowly.
She has never seen Ms. Zhao Yuzhu chatting with others like this.
When it was dinner time, all the aunts and ladies left, and then Ms. Zhao Yuzhu went upstairs to find Shen Qingyu.
Shen Qingyu looked at her mother who came in with a faint smile: "Have you finished chatting?"
Zhao Yuzhu chuckled and lay down next to Shen Qingyu: "The chat is over."
"Happy?"
"Happy."
Shen Qingyu sighed deliberately: "Alas..."
Zhao Yuzhu glanced at her: "Why are you sighing?"
"When did my mother get so bored? She chatted with a group of village women about such useless nonsense?"
“We just chatted for a long time!”
"This doesn't even look like you!"
Zhao Yuzhu: "..."
After not hearing a response from my mother for a long time, Shen Qingyu turned around in surprise and met Zhao Yuzhu's eyes.
My face was calm and serious: "I feel sorry for you."
"Why do you say that?" Shen Qingyu was very surprised.
"I have been running around the village a lot in the past few days, and I have learned more about your situation with them. I feel very sorry for you."
"That person was not you before, I don't care. But after you came here these few months, you didn't have anyone close to you... You have no friends."
Shen Qingyu was stunned: "...Is there a problem?"
Zhao Yuzhu shook his head: "Originally, there was nothing wrong with this. But when I heard them talking about you, except for going out to make money, you basically didn't go out to socialize with others in the past few months, I felt very sad."
"..."
Shen Qingyu doesn’t understand: What’s so distressing about this?
"People need friends, someone to talk to, someone to talk to, someone to share your happiness and pain..."
Shen Qingyu felt irritated and interrupted her: "I don't need it."
Zhao Yuzhu sighed, and there was moisture in the corner of his eyes: "I know you don't need it. We have been doing business since we were young, and either you would follow us in the store or the stall, or you would be locked up at home by us..." "You are used to being alone and having no friends..."
Shen Qingyu sat up and looked at Zhao Yuzhu: "Mom, why did you come here after all the trouble? Are you here to teach me how to make friends?"
Zhao Yuzhu looked at her frowning daughter and realized that she had stepped on her wrongdoing, so she hurriedly stepped back and said, "It's my fault, I won't say it anymore. Mom was wrong..."
Zhao Yuzhu actually took the initiative to apologize, and Shen Qingyu was shocked.
After a while, Shen Qingyu lay back down again, trying to calm down: "I'm used to this, and it's good. Just leave me alone."
"Okay! Then I will be my daughter's friend from now on, okay?"
"Yeah." Shen Qingyu's heart gradually calmed down again.
As soon as her hand was warm, I took her hand. It was warm and strong, but she didn't seem to dare to use force, so she just held it like that.
The room became quiet, and after a while, Shen Qingyu took the initiative to speak: "Mom? Do you really feel happy chatting with them?"
Zhao Yuzhu hesitated for a moment: "Yeah. It's quite novel to suddenly slow down so much and listen to them talking about these things."
But then Zhao Yuzhu seemed to remember something: "If you don't like to be so noisy, I won't ask them to come here in the future."
Shen Qingyu squeezed my mother's hand: "That's not necessary, as long as the voice is lowered so as not to disturb the children's reading."
"No, our voices are very small." Zhao Yuzhu immediately expressed his position.
The chairman of a listed company, a well-known strong woman, even dropped everything to accompany her in order to make up for her debt.
Came here to chat with the village woman... How could she be willing to waste time like this in the past?
"What nonsense are you talking about? It will waste more time making money!" - Chairman Zhao Yuzhu's mantra.
She is doing her best for herself.
Feeling the warmth in her hands, Shen Qingyu raised a smile on her lips, very shallow.