Night, it's already dark.
The four words "Boya Yiqing" on the door plaque at Shou'an Hall are particularly eye-catching under the light in front of the corridor.
is silent all around, and only the "click" sound from the main house sounds rhythmically. Looking at the light along the ochre yellow candlelight, Grandma Sheng sat by the bed without a smile on her face. Granddaughter Sheng Minglan held a massage stick in her forehand and tilted her head to gently beat her legs to her grandmother.
"How are you doing in family affairs these days?" Grandma stared at Minglan and asked slowly.
Minglan quickly replied, "The eldest lady manages well, has clear accounts, and has moderate income and expenditure. She is just Xiao Gui and Cao Sui. She follows the eldest lady to do some routine things, but she has also learned a lot of things."
After hearing this, my grandmother hummed and said bluntly that Minglan had been in charge of the house for a few days, and then she had to hold back in her yard and fell to someone else's house to sing a big show.
Minglan heard this, and his movements in his hand instantly slowed down. He looked up at his grandmother and immediately moved his eyes away. His smile froze on his face. He lowered his voice and said, "Grandmother criticized her correctly, and she was indeed too ostentatious."
In fact, what the grandparents and grandchildren secretly mentioned about "singing big dramas" and "showing things" were exactly what Ming Lan was in the Yu family, exposing Manniang's tricks in front of everyone and driving the woman who was treacherous from Yu's house.
During the day, Mrs. Yu had just arrived to thank him. Unexpectedly, as soon as the night came, Grandma Sheng had a "long-term talk" with Minglan. Obviously, judging from the tone of the conversation, Grandma Sheng was very dissatisfied with Minglan's approach and was even full of blame.
Moreover, Minglan has already admitted her mistake obediently, but her grandmother questioned that she did not really regret it and asked her to say what she said. It can be seen that grandmother was confused about Minglan's sudden conflict and conflict.
In fact, it’s more than just my grandmother. I was also very curious at the beginning: Why did Sheng Minglan, who has always been cautious and low-key, take such a big risk this time to help others stand out?
You should know that Minglan has believed since she was a child that she was the one who showed off to the limelight that brought a catastrophe to her mother. This experience left an indelible shadow in her young heart, especially when the little girl forced Minglan to agree before she died, and she would never show off in the future but to endure it.
So, for more than ten years, Minglan has grown up silently in the Sheng family like a little transparent. Molan and Rulan bullied her, but she never fights back; she obviously knows everything, but pretends to be stupid and does not defend herself when she is ridiculed; her father ignores her, but she pretends not to care; even if her grandmother loves her, she endures everywhere and does not want to cause any trouble to her grandmother.
So, Minglan, who has always been well-behaved and self-protective, suddenly rushed to someone else's house to help a girl with no blood relationship stand up for the tough problem she deals with is still a marriage matter that is not married, and the most important thing that needs to be avoided. Do you think this will not make people suspicious?
After my grandmother's repeated questioning, Minglan finally said three reasons why she did this:
One, She concluded that Manniang, who came to make trouble, regarded her as the daughter of the Yu family. She didn't know that she was a woman from the Sheng family, and she would not meet Manniang in the future, so Manniang didn't have the chance to recognize her.
Secondly, Manniang was kicked out of the Yu family's trouble. This matter itself is not glorious. The Yu family will not make a big splash, but will only hide it desperately, so it will not expose itself.
Third, Old Master Yu will return to Xuzhou soon, and Sister Yanran is going to go with her. Xuzhou is so far from the capital, and this matter will soon be destroyed, so no one will know that she did this.
Hearing Minglan finish his statement in one breath, grandmother sighed slightly, and her hanging heart seemed to fall. And I also thought that this was the real reason for Minglan's adventure this time.
However, I soon discovered that thinking this is a big mistake!
Although grandmother forgave Minglan, she still couldn't help but nag, saying that in the final analysis, it was still the Yu family's own business. Minglan stood up for others. If it spread, it would be like a clay Bodhisattva to protect the gold, which made Minglan herself!
In fact, if Minglan stands out for Yanran today, she is synonymous with righteousness and a benchmark for her peerless best friend. However, in the era when she lived, once things were exposed, Minglan's life would be ruined, and even the Sheng family's official fortune and future would be impaired.
However, Minglan's next words made her grandmother truly realize what Minglan is doing to help Yanran stand out at the risk of "destroying herself". After understanding this, we can truly understand how much Minglan is awake.
1. This is not a good person, he should end up.
Yu Yanran's kindness, even the top star in the brothel, Wei Xing Capital praised the girl, saying that she has a noble status, but the Yu family girls treated her equally and never refused.
It is precisely because of this that Gu Tingye rushed to Yu's house to propose marriage. He said that such a good girl would definitely be able to treat Manniang and her son well. With his sincere begging, Old Master Yu almost agreed.
But I didn't expect that the greedy Manniang would take the position of Gu Tingye's official wife to successfully sit in Gu Tingye's house, shamelessly ran to the Yu family to make a big fuss, which made the Yu family's old couple angry.
Although women should be cautious in their words and actions and should not leave any truth, seeing Manniang bullying like this, she can't eat or sleep well. She can't watch Yanran's sister being too virtuous and gentle, being forced to death by Manniang in the fire pit.
Because, she felt that this was not a good person and she should have the consequences. So, even if she knows that this is not good for her, she still has to do it.
2. Minglan stood up for Yanran, actually for herself.
Yu Yanran and Minglan in the play are good sisters. The two of them are sympathetic, neither of them has a biological mother. The father is partial to other brothers and sisters and ignores them. They have been raised by their grandmother since childhood.
When Minglan was a child, she watched her mother's death with grievances, but her father refused to be fair for her, but turned big things into small things. When she was bullied by her sisters, her father would only favor Molan instead of supporting her.
Yanran is the same. The father only listens to his stepmother's words and only loves his stepmother's daughter and son. When he hears that Gu Tingye wants to marry Yanran, he wants to climb up and force Yanran to marry him, and he doesn't care about Yanran's begging at all.
So, when Minglan saw Yanran's tragic experience in her marriage, she thought of herself. Because her marriage, according to the rules at that time, her parents were the decision. How could Sheng Hong and his wife really consider Minglan?
Think about it later, when Gu Tingye pretended to encounter Rulan and Wenyan and got angry, Sheng Hong and his wife actually ran to the old lady and told Minglan to take the blame!
Therefore, when Minglan saw Yanran so helpless, she thought that she might encounter the same situation. If she just tolerated herself, she would have to be slaughtered. So, when she judged that she would not let herself be exposed, she took action without hesitation.
As grandmother said, Minglan is not only standing up for sister Yanran, but also standing up for herself.
Night is deeper, and the light and shadow are thicker.
After hearing what his grandmother said, Minglan couldn't help but add, "Sister Yanran is the legitimate daughter of a famous family. Even if you are still in danger, I..."
Her words came to an abrupt end, but her grandmother understood everything. The old man looked at his granddaughter with a loving look on his face, slowly reached out and held her little hand, and replied to her sonorously:
"As long as I'm in one day, there will be no such day!"
Listening to my grandmother's choked words, my tears couldn't stop flowing down.Indeed, Minglan's childhood was very miserable. She lost her mother at a young age, her father did not care about her, and her brothers and sisters bullied her. But after meeting Grandmother Sheng and having her grandmother’s love that she strives to do her best, she is the luckiest Sheng Minglan.
