The mistress of the Hou family worked herself to death, and she did not serve after her rebirth

Hearing this, without waiting for Shen Yuyan to continue, Pei Jiuniang sneered, "My dowry was given by my mother? When did this happen? Mother, is this how you told others?

Also, what did my mother bring when she married into the Pei family? There was a dowry list. Doesn’t my cousin know this?

No wonder my cousin has been bossing me around for so many years and never treated me as an outsider. Do you think our Pei family is a bunch of parasites and that everything we eat and use comes from your Shen family?!"

After these words were spoken, Shen's face turned unnatural.

Pei's father's face instantly turned dark.

No matter how slow Shen Yuyan was, she realized that Pei Jiuniang had something else in mind, but she would not admit it. She only thought that Pei Jiuniang was too fussy. "Pei Jiuniang, don't confuse me. I clearly said that you deliberately targeted your aunt. Also, your aunt is your mother and your elder. You embarrassed her in public. You are really unfilial."

Hearing this, Shen finally found her voice and agreed, "Yuyan is sensible, unlike some people who have been raised in vain."

Pei Jiuniang was so angry that she almost laughed. She never thought her mother was so "reasonable" before.

Father Pei couldn't help but speak, and angrily scolded Shen, "Enough, Jiu Niang is your daughter, or is she Shen Yuyan your daughter, don't let your daughter feel disappointed."

After these words were spoken, before Shen Shi could react, Shen Yuyan started to feel aggrieved first.

What does Uncle Gu mean?

Is she reminding her that she is an outsider?

It was a pity that she had spent more time in the Pei family than in the Shen family since she was a child.

When leaving the palace, I always think of visiting them first.

The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt, and Shen Yuyan's eyes turned red.

Finally, she said with a tearful tone, "Yes, uncle is right. I am an outsider, and staying here will only be an eyesore to you. I will leave now. Can't I leave now?"

As she said this, Shen Yuyan howled in grievance, covered her face and ran out.

When she left, Shen was really going crazy, and she yelled at Pei's father, "Who is an outsider? Who do you say is an outsider? Yuyan grew up by my side and stayed by my side. In my heart, she is my legitimate daughter. No, she is closer than my daughter. I thought you liked Yuyan as much as I do, but I didn't expect you to think this way. Yes, this is Pei's house, you all have the surname Pei, and my Shen family is an outsider. I'm leaving too, can't I leave too?"

Shen said she wanted to leave, but in fact she had no intention of leaving at all. She just wanted to use this method to force Pei's father to give in and coax her. After all, Pei's father had been doing this for the past few decades.

But Pei's father was already dissatisfied with her for favoring her mother's family. Before, it was just his brother-in-law, but now it's a whole family. He was worried that if this continued, his brother-in-law's descendants would all rely on the Pei family to suck his blood.

Besides, it's really embarrassing that my daughter and son-in-law have finally come, and they have made such a fuss.

In the past, he thought that Shen was confused, but she was still gentle and considerate. Now it seems that she is really confused.

So, not only did he not say soft words to coax her as Shen had expected, but he scolded her coldly, "Who said she was an outsider? Who chased her away? She thought too much. Who can she blame? Who are you showing your disdain to?

Come to think of it, you are right. This family has always been surnamed Pei, so she is indeed an outsider?

Also, when you first married into the Pei family, your biased parents didn't give you anything. You thought they were biased at the time and cried to me that it was embarrassing that you didn't have a dowry. For your sake, I took the Pei family's gifts to give you face. But when your Shen family spoke of us, we all became people who depended on your Shen family for a living.

Your Shen family is really so proud?!"

"I, she's just a kid, what do you know? Why? It's been so many years, and you're telling me about it now? What do you mean? Do you regret marrying me?

So you divorce me? I will return everything you gave me, is that all right?"

Shen covered her face and cried in grievance, not caring about her image at all.

In the past, if she had been like this, Pei's father would have been reluctant to let her go.

Pei Jiuniang would also try to dissuade them.

But today, Pei's father was really angry.

Pei Jiuniang had no intention of intervening at all.

Shen cried for a long time, and finally it became a one-man show.

Finally, she wiped her tears, looked at Pei Jiuniang and Pei's father with resentment, and left in a rage.

As soon as she left, Father Pei sighed deeply and said to Pei Jiuniang and Gu Tingzhi, "Jiu Niang, your mother is confused, but she is still thinking about you..."

As he spoke, he looked at Pei Jiuniang and found that her face was still cold and there was no sign of warming up. After all, he was still a little dissatisfied. This daughter really changed. In the past, she would definitely pretend to be generous and say that she didn't care. Mother and daughter are mother and daughter after all, but today, alas, even if Shen was too much, she was still her mother after all. She gave her life, but she watched Shen cry like that and was indifferent.

But even if he was dissatisfied, he would not say it in public. He suppressed his displeasure and forced a smile to bow to Gu Tingzhi, saying, "Good son-in-law, don't mind it."

Gu Tingzhi did not respond.

Instead, Pei Jiuniang suddenly thought of something and asked, "Father, there is something I have never understood. With the Shen family background and Shen Yuyan's talent, how did she catch the eye of the palace and become the princess's companion?"

In fact, she had vaguely heard that Shen Yuyan seemed to have done something in the past, which was overheard by the young master of the palace. He thought she was a very talented person, so he recommended her to be the princess's companion. After all, Princess Pingnan had always advocated that women could also become officials, and the training of the princess was not limited to the Eight Elegant Arts.

But in her impression, Shen Yuyan was not someone who could write a shocking article.

Not only Shen Yuyan, but the entire Shen family cannot find such a person.

However, her grandfather devoted himself to writing books in his later years.

But she still found it hard to understand. Shen Yuyan had been in the palace for five years, so how could she not have been exposed?

Or has her cousin secretly worked hard and made a big splash somewhere where she can't see?

Hearing this, Father Pei was stunned for a moment, and then he said, "Your mother was wrong in this matter. She shouldn't have given all those strategies in your study to Shen Yuyan, but she didn't think of Shen Yuyan at the time..."

Father Pei didn’t say anything else.

Although he wanted to favor Shen and didn't want Shen to be alienated from Pei Jiuniang, he also knew that Pei Jiuniang was smart enough to guess it.

In fact, when he found out that Shen Yuyan had caught the eye of the palace with the essays written by Pei Jiuniang, he had a big fight with Shen.

The Pingnan Palace was in power during those years, and being a companion to the princess was an opportunity that many people would dream of. He was reluctant to let the Shen family monopolize this opportunity. He originally wanted to let his youngest daughter, Shisan Niang, go, but Shisan Niang was still young and unstable at that time, and it was hard to believe that she had done it. Pei Jiu Niang had just married into the Marquis's Mansion, and he knew that a married woman could not be a companion to the princess.

Besides, Pei Jiuniang was already married after all, so she was no longer considered a member of the Pei family.

In addition, Shen Yuyan has been raised in the Pei family. Although she is Shen's niece, she is considered to be well-behaved.

If he had known earlier that Shen Yuyan was an ungrateful person, he would not have agreed.

Thinking about it, Pei's father really felt a little regretful.

Pei Jiuniang nodded slightly; she was not surprised.

Her grandfather's strategies and opinions were too sophisticated, while those she had developed when she was studying with her grandfather were naive and insightful.

But she didn't expect that Shen Yuyan clearly stepped on her to climb to a high position, but she didn't show any gratitude.

Her mother and father had kept it a secret from her.

If she hadn't suddenly wanted to ask today, they would probably never have remembered to explain it to her.

She has always known that she is not a child loved by her parents, but sometimes she is greedy for their occasional kindness, even though those kindnesses all have purposes and reasons.

Ever since her grandparents passed away, she felt that there was no one in the world who was kind to her, so she imagined Pei's father and Shen as her grandparents. It was as if she had added a blurry halo to them, making her dizzy and unable to see their true appearance.

Where is the father-daughter or mother-daughter affection they have for her?

Thinking of Pei Jiuniang, my eyes actually became moist.

Seeing her heartbroken look, Gu Tingzhi felt both distressed and guilty.

All along, he only knew that she was the eldest daughter of the Pei family, well-educated and well-mannered, and a true disciple of the old tutor.

In his impression, the eldest daughter in the family was always doted on.

So he thought she was too.

But I didn't expect that she would live such a life in the Pei family.

When she married into the Gu family, he left her on their wedding night and was gone for five years. During those five years, she did everything a wife and a mistress should do, but the fact was that her mother, Liu, bullied her, and her elder sister, Gu Lanzhi, also treated her badly.

She knew very well that she could not have children and that she would not live long, but she still took care of the household chores despite her sick body.

He didn't dare to think about how lonely and painful her heart was.

Even though she had suffered so much, she still insisted on writing him a letter every month. The letter was only a few words long, and they were all about good things at home.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a little distressed and guilty.

I want to make amends even more.

Also, support her.

...

On the other side, Shen Yuyan left the Pei family and went directly to find her father Shen Yulang.

Shen Yulang also moved here after the Pei family moved in.

He lived in the villa purchased by the Pei family, and his daily expenses were also provided by the Pei family.

Shen Yulang lived a comfortable life and took in several concubines, but these concubines still had no children, so he loved his precious Shen Yuyan even more.

A few days ago, he received news that his daughter was coming back, and he calculated that it was time for her to come.

Thinking that his daughter had probably gone to Pei's house, he planned to take his newly married concubine with him to the Pei's house.

Before she even left the house, Shen Yuyan came back crying.

As soon as she came back, she fell into Shen Yulang's arms and cried, telling him all the grievances she had suffered in the Pei family.

According to Shen Yuyan, the Pei family not only bullied her, but also accused her and the Shen family of being parasites.

Shen Yulang got angry as soon as he heard it.

"Well, what a great Pei family! My sister had so many people begging to marry her. She had the chance to marry a wealthy businessman from Jiangnan as a concubine. The betrothal gift from that businessman was 200 Taiwan. If it wasn't for the Pei man who knelt in front of my parents and promised to treat my sister and me well, I would never have agreed to my sister marrying him.

Now that my sister is old and ugly, he despises her and doesn't take the promise he made to her seriously anymore."

Shen Yulang became angrier and angrier as he spoke. Then he remembered something and asked again, "What didn't your aunt say?"

"Once my aunt sees her promising daughter and son-in-law coming back, she won't care about me anymore."

Shen Yuyan thought of the grievances she had suffered in the Pei family, and how Yin Yang treated her as an outsider, and she felt so angry that her heart ached.

If her aunt had not been on her side, she would not have suffered such a great injustice.

And she had to let her father make a fuss, the bigger the better.

"She is Shen Chunniang. She promised in front of my parents' spirits that she would always treat me well and that she would treat you as her own daughter. Those were all lies. Let's go, Yuyan, let's go and ask them for an explanation."

Shen Yulang is not someone who will suffer any loss, especially in front of his elder sister Shen Chunniang. After all, his parents have told him since he was a child that an elder sister is like a mother and what belongs to the elder sister is his.

He has always believed this over the years, and it has been engraved in his bones.

Shen Chunniang did not leave the Pei family either. She knew her brother's temper. If she went back and let him know, he would probably come to the Pei family to make trouble. She knew that Pei's father had been very dissatisfied with the Shen family over the years.

But she was not in a hurry.

She and Pei's father have been married since they were young. Although they may not have much affection for each other, she is familiar with Pei's father's temper. For Pei's father's sake, I will keep quiet.

What's more, there is Pei Jiuniang, the eldest daughter, who is used to putting on airs. She will definitely come to beg her to calm down soon. She will not forgive her easily this time. She will definitely give her a good beating. Don't think that marrying into a marquis's mansion and becoming the mistress of the mansion is a big deal. She is her mother and gave birth to her, so she has to listen to her.

She knew that Yuyan's marriage had not been going well, and she was getting older and couldn't delay it any longer. Pei Jiuniang was the mistress of the Marquis's Mansion, so she couldn't just do nothing for her family, so she gave her a chance and let her help with Yuyan's marriage.

Whoever told her to bully Yuyan, now it's her time to apologize.

After a series of farces, Pei Jiuniang was in no mood to stay any longer, but firstly, it was getting late, and secondly, she knew that the matter was not over yet, so she didn't leave in the end. She stayed in the wing room for the time being.

She also knew that Shen must be thinking about something, but she was exhausted both physically and mentally and had no thoughts at all. She also didn't want to be the person who was not valued but had to try to please others with a shameless face.

In the past, she was too greedy for the warmth given by her family. Now, she has Brother Yu, and she devotes all her attention to him. Brother Yu is the only one in the world who truly loves her and cares about her.

Parents and men are all redundant.

Father Pei became worried.

My daughter and son-in-law are back, and they are from a wealthy family, so we cannot neglect them.

A family dinner is essential, but unfortunately, the eldest son and his family went back to visit the eldest daughter-in-law, and Shen was angry again, so who would host the family dinner?

Can't you let your daughter handle it herself?

He sent people to call Shen twice, saying that Shen had been crying and he had a headache.

It's already this time, at such an old age, and he's still crying. It's really annoying.

In the end, he had no choice but to give the money to the butler and go directly to the best restaurant to book a table.

After finishing it, Pei's father felt relieved and walked over to his son-in-law to talk to him.