Daughter Reborn as the Head of the Family

Chapter 30 Leader

After Mrs. Shen had been groomed by Aunt Zhao, her frowning eyebrows never relaxed.

At this moment, Mr. Shen was sitting in the main seat, with one hand on the black square low table beside him, his palm dragging his pointed chin, and his body leaning against the back of the chair.

The mouth kept spitting out thick breath one after another.

Aunt Zhao knew that Madam was not looking well today, so she asked all the maids serving in the room to retreat.

She was the only one accompanying Mrs. Shen in the main room.

The maid outside spread the news that "the eldest lady and the second lady" have arrived.

Mrs. Shen then straightened her body slightly, lowered her head, straightened her clothes, and ordered Aunt Zhao to go to the door in person to welcome the two of them as they approached.

"Mother."

"..."

The two sisters bowed in turn.

Song Jinxi stepped forward, her face full of worry, and her mother's expression was not very good-looking. As her mother's biological daughter, even though her mother's face was heavily smeared with makeup at the moment.

But she could still see some clues from Shen's tired look.

"Look, mother doesn't look well today." Song Jinyue's cold voice contained a hint of worry.

Mrs. Shen held her daughter's hand, raised her eyes to look at her stepdaughter standing in the main room, and said, "Hurry up and take a seat."

After saying this, Mrs. Shen winked at Aunt Zhao on the side. Aunt Zhao understood and bowed to the side. A moment later, Aunt Zhao came to Mr. Shen holding a bottle of white jade Guanyin in her hand.

Mrs. Shen's heart was bleeding, but she still forced a smile on her face, "Yesterday, I gave you what you asked for from my mother. I will give it to you today. Don't let down your mother's wishes in the future."

Song Jinxi was shocked. This white jade Guanyin was a very precious thing to her mother. She had pestered Mrs. Shen to beg for it many times, but her mother never let go.

Why did you agree to Song Jinyue now?

Song Jinxi slightly tugged on her mother's sleeves. Shen's eyebrows were furrowed and she sighed, signaling her not to make any sound.

Song Jinyue had just sat down. Aunt Zhao had already placed the white jade Guanyin bottle on the black table beside her. Song Jinyue glanced at the white jade Guanyin.

The candlelight in the room shines on the white jade Guanyin, making it appear that the entire body of white jade is crystal clear, and a thin layer of white jade green gauze on the top of Guanyin's head is as thin as a cicada's wings.

It is really a good thing, no wonder Mr. Shen is so precious.

Song Jinyue stood up and bowed to Mrs. Shen again, "It's because my mother favors me more. In the future, my daughter will definitely not disappoint her mother."

She will definitely not disappoint Mr. Shen.

Mrs. Shen took one more look at the treasure in his heart, as if someone had cut off a large piece of flesh from his heart.

No matter how reluctant you are to give up, you still have to force yourself to smile.

"I had a stiff neck last night and my whole body hurts now. You can go and play. Mother will go back and rest first."

Aunt Zhao helped Shen into the back room, and Shen said "Hey" again.

I don’t know if I am tired or distressed.

Song Jinxi and Song Jinyue stood up and bowed again toward the back room before retreating.

Song Jinxi wanted to ask her mother what happened last night, so she found an excuse to send Song Jinyue out of her mother's yard, and then turned back.

The sky was getting brighter, and a maid took down the lanterns hanging under the corridor for lighting one after another.

Qiu Yun held the white jade Guanyin in her hand and carefully followed her young lady.

Qiu Yun was relieved just by looking at Shen's distressed look.

But didn’t Miss Shen order her to pawn all of Shen’s things? What about this white jade Guanyin?

Walking to the corridor of the garden of the Duke's Mansion, there was no one around. Qiu Yun asked softly, "Miss, where can I put this white jade Guanyin?"

Song Jinyue stamped her feet, raised her embroidered eyebrows slightly, and raised the corners of her lips. Her smile was half bright and half cunning, "Give it away!"

"Then who should I give it to?" Qiu Yun frowned and tilted her head, looking confused.

Give it to the Empress? The Empress does not like the Shen family. Everyone in the capital knows this, so why would they want something belonging to the Shen family? Besides, there are no rare treasures in the palace.

Sent to Zhang's Mansion? Everyone in Zhang's Mansion is the same as the Empress, and they hate Shen even more than the Empress.

During the five years when she and the young lady were away from the capital, she had heard about it from others. In these five years, no one from the Zhang family had ever set foot in the Duke's palace.

"Send to Jiangnan."

Qiu Yun is even more puzzled, why should she be sent to Jiangnan?

"Go back and clean up. Let's go to the renter's house today." Song Jinyue's slender fingertips tapped Qiu Yun's forehead, this silly girl.

Who is there in Jiangnan? How could Qiu Yun know about it? Since she was born, she has never had any contact with Jiangnan.

As I get older, my family roots in the capital are still taught by my mother every day.

Only then did she find out that the Duke of Guo had a relative in Jiangnan.

When talking about this matter, we have to start from her ancestors.

The ancestor only had two sons, one was her full-blooded grandfather, and the other was her concubine's younger grandfather. It was said that the younger grandfather was frail since childhood, so the two brothers had a very close relationship.

After the death of her ancestor, her grandfather inherited the title. Because her young grandfather was weak, he had no plans to separate the family and allowed him to continue living in the Duke's Mansion with his wife and children.

Later, my grandfather was imprisoned and the Duke's house was ransacked.

The little grandfather also passed away at that time. At that time, the little grandfather's son was already an adult. Since he didn't like studying, he had been out doing business at an early age, which allowed him to make a career in Jiangnan.

My grandfather's first wife was her grandmother whom he had never met before. At that time, while the Duke's mansion was in chaos, he didn't want anything, so he invited an official to witness the marriage, and the family was hurriedly separated.

The little grandmother was worried that her grandfather would not be able to clear up his grievances, and would instead injure their mother and son.

The separation of the family was extremely smooth. At that time, there was only one mistress in the Duke's mansion, the young grandmother, and my father and mother had not yet gotten married.

This little grandmother could be said to have cut the knot with a sharp knife, breaking off the feuding Duke's mansion. However, she did something that caused the two families to have no contact with each other for the rest of their lives.

At that time, the Duke's mansion had just been ransacked, and there was no valuable property. My grandmother had saved a lot of money when she was in charge of the house, and the precious jewelry in the ancestral hall survived by chance when the house was ransacked.

The little grandmother was worthy of being a leader among women. She was so daring that she ordered people to pack up the treasures in the ancestral hall overnight, slander her, and leave the city, and went to the south of the Yangtze River to seek refuge with her son.

My grandfather was later fortunate enough to be cleared of his grievances by the emperor's grace, but he ended up being imprisoned for half a year and injured his body. He also heard that his young grandfather had passed away, so he followed him there two days after he was brought back to the house.

My father hurriedly inherited the title.

Later, there was a letter from Jiangnan, but now it was her father who was in charge of the business. Seeing that his father refused to let go, the little grandmother could not be so shameless as to come back to the capital.

In her previous life, Song Jinyue never met the little grandmother from Jiangnan until her death.

Just by accident, she learned something.

In order to successfully enter the Duke's palace as a stepmother, Mrs. Shen secretly sent many good things to the Jiangnan man. After all, the little grandmother was the elder, no matter how embarrassing it was at the beginning.

The younger members of the clan have to give her some face.

Only then did Mrs. Shen suddenly become the head mistress of the Duke's Mansion.

When Song Jinyue returned home, she had completely broken up with the Shen family. Now they are pretending to be in harmony, but they know each other well.

She is now tired of dealing with Mrs. Shen, but she is also worried that Mr. Shen will use some sinister tricks behind her back. After all, there is nothing that mother and daughter cannot do.

She could neither stare at it all the time nor ignore it.

He simply invited Jiangnan's little grandmother and asked her to compete with Shen in the ring.

Her aunt's illness, the mastermind behind Imperial Doctor Xu, and the affairs of her grandfather's family were all things she needed to deal with right now.

(End of chapter)