Jiapingguan Chronicle

"One-sided dissatisfaction?" Shen Zhonghe was puzzled, "Why? Did the wet nurse say something? If I remember correctly, wasn't he sick at that time? How could he still have the energy to think about others?"

"Children, the sicker they are, the more fragile they are, and the more they like to think about things. Moreover, they are particularly willing to dig out old accounts from the past, which is particularly scary." Xue Ruitian smiled and took a look. Shen Cha slightly raised his eyebrows at her, "Isn't that right?"

Shen Cha snorted and leaned closer to Shen Haolin, ignoring him.

"To be precise, no matter how old people are, they are very fragile when they are sick, their minds are confused, and they have no idea what they are thinking. But the only thing that is certain is that they are all thinking about the people they like and are close to. There are many people around. It is estimated that in Mr. Shen’s heart, Uncle Shen is his favorite and closest person besides Mr. Shen, and he also thinks that he can accompany him. Unfortunately, at that time, Uncle Shen himself Life or death is uncertain, while drifting on the sea, not knowing when I will come back, and falling into a coma, not knowing whether I will wake up. Even if I know my brother's expectations, I am afraid that I am not strong enough!"

"What the Marquis and this gentleman said are correct, but at that time the second brother did not know the true situation of the eldest brother. No one told him that his eldest brother was no longer alive or dead."

"Why? Because he is a child?"

"Yes, he is a child, and he is still sick. If he knew that his eldest brother might die, he might be irritated. Therefore, the adoptive father decided to hide it from him and kept telling him that it was because he was sick, so This time his father stayed to take care of him when he was sick, while the eldest brother shouldered the heavy responsibility of going to sea alone."

"Wait a minute." Shen Cha interrupted what Liang Jieque was about to say, raised his hand and motioned her to look towards him, "Aunt Liang, I have a question here. I wanted to ask it just now, but I forgot it as soon as I got distracted. ”

"General, please speak."

"After Mrs. Shen passed away, Mr. Shen and Uncle Shen were responsible for taking care of Mr. Shen. Even with the help of a wet nurse, it might not be enough, right? After all, Mr. Shen and Uncle Shen also had to go to sea. When they went to sea, Mr. Shen Who will take care of me? A wet nurse?"

"No, no, if the second brother is not sick, if the adoptive father and the eldest brother go to sea, they will entrust the second brother to my grandfather and mother, because usually, my father will go to sea with them. That time it was completely It’s because I have family matters and my father can’t accompany me, so I let my eldest brother take on this important responsibility alone.”

"In other words, if Mr. Shen and Uncle Shen are away from home for a long time, it will actually be the Liang family who will take care of the young Mr. Shen, right?"

"That's what it is. It will be like this until the second brother can live independently."

"Will the nanny come with you?"

"No!" Liang Jieque waved her hand, "Absolutely not. In fact, like my eldest brother, our family doesn't like that nanny very much and never lets her get close to her. Because my grandfather once said that her face is like She is a treacherous villain, so we should have less contact with her. Therefore, every time our adoptive father sends our second brother to our home, we will politely tell the wet nurse that she can rest for a while."

"With her personality, will she agree?"

"I definitely didn't agree with it at first. She found various reasons and came to harass my house every day, but she was blocked by my grandfather and mother. The Shen family may consider that she is an old person next to the adoptive mother, but we Her family didn't give her this face. Once, my adoptive father wanted to take my eldest brother out to sea, so he sent his second brother to our house as usual. She blocked the door of our house and said some nonsense, and was scolded by my mother. The boss said that she was just a slave, and she only wanted to put on the airs of the master's family. Did she dream about becoming the mistress of the Shen family every day? I don't know the details. My mother didn't go into details, but just gave a general introduction, because There were so many people watching that time that the wet nurse became so angry that she walked away and never came to my house again."

"Do you hate your family too?"

"Yes!" Liang Jieque nodded, "That's true. Some of the rumors about my family later had something to do with her. Since she and her son were sent to prison, those rumors disappeared. If it doesn't matter, I don’t believe it at all. I don’t know how my adoptive mother’s family trained their servants and taught them such a thing.”

"That's true." Shen Cha nodded lightly, "So, this time, because Mr. Shen was ill and Mr. Shen stayed to take care of Mr. Shen, the nanny could stay with him without any rest, right?"

"Yes, but my mother said that the second brother's illness came out of nowhere. He suddenly fell ill before his adoptive father left, but he would have recovered after the eldest brother left. It was too coincidental. And the typhoid fever later, why? My eldest brother is about to recover and is going home, so why is he sick?"

"It's really a coincidence. If no one did anything, they probably wouldn't believe it."

"Yes, so she once suspected whether the second brother was pretending to be ill, and she also suspected whether the nanny had done something about it. But these were all guesses, and there was no evidence to prove this. Even the relationship between the nanny and the nanny later Even though my son was in jail, he didn’t even mention this.”

"They probably won't bring it up on their own initiative. If they don't bring it up on their own initiative, it will be just a charge of cheating, and they will be released after two years in prison. But if they bring it up on their own initiative, it will be suspected of attempted murder. It is not easy to say how many years in prison they will be. It's about that." Xue Ruitian nodded, "So, where is the rift between Uncle Shen and Second Master Shen? Is he sick and the eldest brother is not around?"

"This is one of the reasons, and another reason is that the eldest brother has been away for too long, and the two brothers are a little stranger." Liang Jieque counted the time, "From the time when the eldest brother left home and went to sea, to when the eldest brother returned home from injury. , for almost three full months, the second brother did not know everything that happened to the eldest brother. No one told him and kept it from him. Therefore, he could not get any news from the eldest brother. Moreover, every time the eldest brother came back from the sea, They would always bring some fresh Fanbang stuff to the second brother, but not this time because they didn’t make it and came back halfway. Therefore, the second brother felt that the eldest brother might really not like him, and the two brothers had not been together for a long time. After meeting and living together again, we became a little alienated." "It's normal to be alienated. Children are all like this." Xue Ruitian thought for a while, glanced at Shen Jiu who was sleeping on the table, and said, "We The same is true for General Shen. When he was young, if there was some war at our border and we had to camp outside for a long time, leaving him at home, he would feel a bit strange when he saw us again after we came back."

"That's right." Jin Miaomiao nodded, "Not only do they feel strange to us brothers and sisters, but they are also not particularly close to their parents. Children have a defensive instinct, and they have a kind of attitude toward people they haven't seen for a long time. Resistance. But it doesn’t matter. This kind of resistance and resistance will slowly get better over time. But the prerequisite is that there must be more contact and close relationships. Otherwise, it will take time to return to the previous relationship. for a longer period of time.”

"I think that's the case too, but in doing so, it gives the nanny an opportunity to take advantage of." Liang Jieque sighed softly, "It's not because the second brother accidentally caught a cold and couldn't go home to recuperate. You can only come to my house? The wet nurse told the second brother, you see, your eldest brother would rather live next door than come home to live here. He must not like you anymore and dislike you for being sick. The second brother is already a little bit fond of the eldest brother. After hearing what the nanny said, he became even more dissatisfied. He went to ask his adoptive father if his eldest brother didn't like him, so he didn't go home. Did he offend his eldest brother and make him unhappy? He won’t go home. If so, he can apologize to Big Brother.”

"These words sound familiar." Shen Cha complained to Shen Haolin in a low voice, "The words spoken to the aunts in Uncle Xia's family seem to have the same taste, don't they?"

"Yeah, that's what it feels like when those aunts are so angry." Shen Haolin nodded, "I didn't expect that Mr. Shen actually learned..." He raised his eyebrows slightly, "This kind of trick in the backyard."

"Maybe it was the nanny who taught me this. There is such a yin and yang in their family."

"That makes sense." Shen Haolin nodded and handed Shen Cha a cup of tea, "Drink slowly."

Shen Cha picked up the teacup, took a sip, and continued to listen to Liang Jieque's story.

"What Second Master Shen said..." Xue Ruitian exchanged helpless glances with Jin Miaomiao and Jin Jing, "I can only say that fortunately the wet nurse was caught, otherwise, Second Master Shen may not have been able to win the imperial examination! "

"Master Hou, do you think it sounds particularly uncomfortable?" Liang Jieque smiled bitterly, "When I heard what my mother said, I also felt very uncomfortable. Isn't this the jealous tone of people in the back house? My mother is like this too. She said that through things like her second brother, she feels that if she needs to hire servants in the future, she must observe their character, otherwise, she will get herself into a lot of trouble."

"This is very important." Jin Miaomiao nodded, "So, how did Mr. Shen answer him? Is it meaningless to hide it from him now? If he doesn't tell him the truth, there will be no relationship between them. The gap will get bigger and bigger, and when the gap becomes big, it will be difficult to repair it."

"Yes!" Liang Jieque nodded, "The adoptive father must have also considered this, so he told the second brother what happened in the past few months. Only then did the second brother realize that it was not his elder brother who didn't like it. He died, but his eldest brother almost died. He felt very guilty, and then he told the wet nurse his thoughts and wanted to seek her approval. "

"What's the result? You don't agree with his guilt, do you?"

"Yes, the wet nurse didn't expect that the adoptive father would tell the second brother clearly about the eldest brother, nor did she expect that the second brother would have a renewed brotherly love for the eldest brother. This is completely different from what she expected."

"Did she say this herself?"

"Yes!" Liang Jieque nodded, "But that doesn't stop her from changing some of her plans. Now that the second brother knows about the eldest brother, she can change some of her rhetoric. For example, she told the second brother that her adoptive father had been there for a long time. I know that my eldest brother is critically ill and his life is in danger, but I have never visited him because I have to take care of my second brother and I am not worried about him. Looking at it this way, in my adoptive father's heart, my second brother is still the most important. And so on. He also said that the reason why the eldest brother went to sea by himself this time was entirely because the second brother was sick, so the adoptive father stayed to take care of him and let the eldest brother go to sea by himself for the first time. "

"It's useless to say this once." Shen Zhonghe sneered, "Smart people like my second uncle will not be fooled so easily."

"Of course, saying it once is of no use. I can't stand the nanny nagging her every day. As long as she finds an opportunity, she will slowly bring the topic to this topic. She doesn't say much every time, but she hits the mark every time. She hit the second brother's key point. Over time, she made the second brother believe her words and convinced him that he was the most favored child in the family. Everything in the Shen family belonged to him, and he had no chance with his eldest brother. To what extent? ? The second brother said in front of everyone that the nanny told her that the eldest brother was not liked or valued by his adoptive father. If he wanted to survive in this family, he had to please the second brother. And so on. What did you say, there is only one shipwreck left before the second brother inherits the Shen family."

"Killing is heartbreaking!" Jin Miaomiao sighed softly, "There is only one shipwreck left. Doesn't this mean that she hopes that Mr. Shen and Uncle Shen will encounter danger when they go to sea and never come back? Yet?"

"That's what it means." Liang Jieque sneered and said, "Except for the wet nurse herself and the second brother, everyone else heard this statement for the first time and expressed great shock. They never expected that this wet nurse With such evil intentions.”

"No one can imagine it." Xue Ruitian sighed softly and said, "If such a person would appear in a big family in the south of the Yangtze River or a wealthy family in the capital, it would be excusable. , but..." He shook his head, "In border towns, the folk customs are simple and honest, and such evil deeds and evil people are rare."

"That's right, that's why I reported to the government later. If this kind of person is not sent to the government office, should he be kept for the New Year?" Liang Jieque nodded lightly, "The reason why the second brother later provoked the elder brother was also because of the nanny's instigation . The second brother is quite suspicious that the eldest brother is not favored by his father, so the nanny said, let him try it, if the eldest brother is punished for provoking, it will prove that what she said is correct. "

"She probably didn't expect that my father would be so angry that he could throw his second uncle into a water tank. She didn't expect that his second uncle would confess her without hesitation. She didn't expect that she would go to court with the torturer and then send her to prison with her own hands. Go to jail!" Shen Zhonghe snorted fiercely, "After this incident, my father and second brother should have lifted the estrangement, and there should be no grudges between them. Why did they suddenly mention this incident again that night? Has my second uncle never given up?"