During these days in the Beijing Courtyard, although life was not as good as at home, Shen Yuxiang's mind became clearer day by day. She also realized that the things she had done in the past were too stupid. Now the old lady is willing to take her back. Of course she was very grateful.
In Yunsong Courtyard, Shen Yuxiang came in from outside.
She was dressed plainly, only wearing an aqua skirt. She had no makeup on her face, but her complexion was very pale, looking a little haggard, and she looked very reserved and a little uneasy.
When the old lady saw that she was coming, she smiled and said, "Come in."
"I haven't paid my respects to my grandmother for several months. Yuxiang is really uneasy..." Shen Yuxiang said, almost on the verge of tears.
The old lady hurriedly pulled her over and looked at Shen Yuxiang carefully. After not seeing each other for several months, Shen Yuxiang had lost a lot of weight and had grown taller. The most important thing was that she was no longer as delicate as before. Every move she made was very... Clever.
"Oh, it's hard for you too..." the old lady said with pity.
Not mentioning Shen Yuxiang's frame-up of Shen Fengxu, Shen Yanning could bear to send his daughter to another courtyard that day just to prevent her from rushing into Shen Yulou. If the old lady hadn't mentioned it, Shen Yanning would have thought I can't remember that I still have such a daughter.
Shen Yuxiang lowered her head and pursed her lips slightly: "It was Yuxiang's fault in the past that she was ignorant. Please don't blame grandma."
The old lady smiled: "I won't mention the past things. This time, it was Feng Xu who brought you back from the other courtyard."
Hearing this, Shen Yuxiang turned her head and glanced at Shen Fengxu. Shen Fengxu also looked at her with a smile. She suddenly felt complicated and unspeakable.
If it weren't for Shen Fengxu, how could she be in her current situation? Even if Shen Fengxu mentioned that he wanted to take her back, he probably didn't have good intentions.
Shen Yuxiang thought this in her heart, but she walked forward, took Shen Fengxu's hand very cordially, her eyes were full of sincere apology, and said: "Sixth sister, I'm sorry, those things in the past were all the fourth sister's fault, I hope you can forgive me. I, we will still be good sisters from now on."
Chen Fengxu looked at her with a half-smile, but for a moment he just felt funny, so he smiled slightly and said: "How could I blame the fourth sister? We are naturally good sisters. Now that the fourth sister is back, it's not too late for me to be happy. "
Seeing this, the old lady was naturally pleased, so she said: "You are both girls from the uncle's house and sisters, so naturally you should live in harmony."
"After enrolling in school, Feng Xu will need the fourth sister to take more care of her."
Shen Yuxiang also smiled softly and said: "Not only Fengxu, but also Yujia."
Seeing that the two of them were so harmonious, Shen Yujia felt her scalp numb inexplicably, but she still nodded: "That's what the fourth sister said."
She never believed that Shen Fengxu and Shen Yuxiang could live in harmony. She was afraid that the calmer things seemed now, the more turbulent waves they would create in the future.
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Shen Yujia's birthday is very similar to Shen Fengxu's, with only a difference of seven days. However, because it is not an important day, the two of them are not very old, and they do not make any arrangements.
Especially Shen Yanning, Uncle Dong Ning, has never been indifferent to the girls in his house, let alone these days.
But Shen Yanping was different. On the day of Shen Yujia's birthday, Shen Yanping specially invited a busker to his house. He was a snake charmer. He held a green snake about four feet long and performed the snake charm on the stage.
The stage was specially set up by the eldest lady for Aunt Zhao, but recently Aunt Zhao was having a baby and no longer attended the opera, so the stage was put aside, but it happened to make room for the busker.
It was the first day everyone in the house knew that the fifth girl, Shen Yujia, liked these things. She enjoyed watching the buskers playing snakes under the stage, but she was so scared that the other girls in the house did not dare to go out.
When everyone gathered together in the evening, Shen Yuning couldn't help complaining to them: "Yu Jiafei took me to watch the snake charmer, but I was afraid of such a big snake coming out and biting me, so I dared to look at it."
"I'm also most afraid of those things." Shen Yuxiang got goosebumps just listening to it.
But Shen Yujia was not only not afraid, she even dared to hold the snake in her hand and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, third sister, they are very cute. Do you want to try them?"
With that said, Shen Yujia was about to walk up to Shen Yuning. Shen Yuning was so frightened that she kept hiding behind Shen Baitang: "No, no, no, don't come here!"
Shen Baitang also stepped back, hurriedly waving his hands and saying: "Yujia, take it and stay away."
Although Shen Yulou was frightened, his face remained calm and composed: "Fifth sister, if you've had enough fun, put it back. Don't scare the other sisters."
Seeing that everyone was so scared, Shen Yujia felt helpless for a moment, but turned around and saw Shen Fengxu again. Her eyes lit up and she asked, "Sixth Sister, aren't you afraid of this?"
Just now, Shen Fengxu was the only one who didn't retreat.
Seeing Shen Yujia looking at him, Shen Fengxu hurriedly took a step back: "Fifth sister, wait a minute, that's all if you want to hold a cat or dog, but this... I'm really insensitive to thank you!"
"Okay." Shen Yujia could only put the snake back to the snake keeper.
Despite this, because it was Shen Yujia's birthday, everyone followed Shen Yujia.
Six sisters walked on the bluestone path.
In fact, they used to often get together and travel together, but I don't know when they started to have a gap that was irreparable. They haven't been as harmonious as they are now for a long time.
And Shen Yumin would not go with them because of her young age.
Shen Baitang walked beside Shen Fengxu and breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, Yujia was finally willing to put those things back. I just held them in my hand. I was really afraid of hurting them."
"Fifth sister has her own tricks, so she can't be hurt." Shen Fengxu just smiled.
The six sisters were walking, talking and laughing, when they suddenly saw Aunt Yun on the side of the road.
We have arrived at the south courtyard of the uncle's residence. There are no other people coming and going except for a few maids and servants. It is very desolate and remote. However, the sisters were just chatting while walking, and they ended up here unknowingly.
I saw Aunt Yun standing on the edge of the rockery. There were four or five strange-looking bugs crawling on the ground. She bent down and stretched out her hands to fiddle with them. She didn't seem to be afraid. And she probably had some special way of guiding the bugs. On the traveling route, the crawling of those bugs was not random, but very regular, crawling in circles.
Aunt Yun was in a trance and didn't notice their arrival.
"Isn't this Aunt Yun? Why are you here so late?" Shen Yuning asked curiously. When she saw the bug in Aunt Yun's hand, she almost threw the fan out of her hand in fright.
Looking at those little bugs, Chen Fengxu raised his eyebrows slightly, thinking of the pot of brocade-leaf hibiscus.