To Hold One’s Joy

  Chapter 12 Truth

  Sheng Jiayu was taken aback by the question, and couldn't help but look at Sheng Jialan, doubts emerging in her heart.

   That's right, the second sister clearly said that she had a headache and wanted to go back to her room for a good night's sleep. For this reason, she pushed an invitation to visit the makeup shop. Why did she appear by the lake?

  Luo Sheng said calmly: "Cousin, do you think someone in the mansion can drag Sheng Jialan to the lake?"

  Sheng Jiayu hesitated.

  The morning light outside the window is great, it is the busiest time in the house, how could it be possible to drag people all the way to the lake without being noticed?

   Besides, that is not an ordinary little maid, but the second girl of the family.

  Sheng Jiayu's doubts deepened, and she looked at Sheng Jialan and called out "Second Sister".

  Sheng Jialan, who had just been beaten by red beans, had disheveled hair and a pale complexion, like scattered flowers blown by a strong wind, pitiful and embarrassed.

But despite the embarrassment, she still knelt straight and said softly: "After I separated from my elder sister, I wanted to take a rest, but suddenly found that a pearl earring was missing, so I hurried back along the road to look for it, and then I saw my cousin was still sitting in the lake. side-"

  Sheng Jialan lowered her voice as she spoke.

  People in the room couldn't help but look at her ears, and saw a gourd-like pearl pendant hanging on the left earlobe, while the right earlobe was empty.

  Feeling everyone's gaze, Sheng Jialan bit her lips lightly: "This pair of earrings was left to me by my aunt, I, I don't want to lose them..."

  Old lady Sheng glanced at her eldest daughter-in-law.

  The eldest lady held the teacup, her expression unchanged.

  She and her husband are the kind of husband and wife who respect each other as guests. After giving birth to their eldest son, they turned a servant girl's face away. That's how Sheng Jialan came into being.

  Although she has never treated the concubine's biological mother harshly, it is impossible for her to be happy when she sees her, but it is just a dispensable display.

   Unexpectedly, she was a poor man, who died of illness when the concubine was nine years old.

  The concubine is sensible since childhood, and growing up with Jiayu can be regarded as a companion.

   For Sheng Jialan, the eldest wife is somewhat doting, but it is difficult to express her opinion when it involves the troublesome cousin girl.

  Sheng Jiayu suddenly realized: "No wonder the second sister is in a hurry to come back and look for it. Did you find it?"

  Sheng Jiayu has always treated Sheng Jialan as her biological younger sister, and when she heard her say that, she forgot those doubts for a moment, and became worried instead.

  Sheng Jialan showed a sad look, and shook her head slightly: "I haven't found it yet."

  At this time, Caixia, the eldest maidservant of Mrs. Sheng, came in and reported: "Old lady, just now Zhu'er gave the maidservant an earring, saying that she picked it up by the stone steps at the door."

  Caixia held a delicate pearl earring in her palm, everyone took a closer look and found that it was the same as the one Sheng Jialan was still wearing.

  Sheng Jialan's eyes lit up, and she said happily, "This is it!"

"It's great to find it." Sheng Jiayu breathed a sigh of relief for her younger sister, and suddenly thought of something, turned her head and sneered at Luo Sheng, "Luo Sheng, you saw that my second sister came back to find the earrings, I didn't expect I was harmed by you!"

"Damn!" Hongdou jumped three feet high, and her onion-like fingers almost pointed at the tip of Sheng Jiayu's nose, "It's obvious that the second girl ran to the lake to kill our girl, I saw it with my own eyes. You were kicked in the head by a donkey Do you want to excuse a villain?"

  There has never been such an arrogant and rude maid in the house. Sheng Jiayu immediately turned livid with anger: "Like a servant, there must be a master. Grandma, do you believe what such a rude and rude little maid said?"

   "Who is rude, who is rude?" Hong Dou asked with her hands on her hips, almost making Luo Sheng laugh.

  Luo Sheng bowed his knees to the old lady Sheng: "Grandma, you don't have to think about whether you should believe a little maid, but whether you should believe me."

  Old lady Sheng was taken aback for a moment, looking at the girl's calm eyebrows, a strange feeling appeared in her heart.

   That's right, Hongdou said that Jialan pushed Luo Sheng into the lake, and Luo Sheng never expressed any objection from the beginning to the end, so the choice she has to make is to believe in the second granddaughter or the granddaughter, and it has nothing to do with a little maid.

  Old lady Sheng looked at Luo Sheng, then at Sheng Jialan, and sighed in her heart: Which one to believe, this is really a headache.

  In fact, she believed more in her well-behaved second granddaughter, but if she treated her granddaughter like this, she might not be able to do it, and she might make trouble with her son-in-law.

  Don't mention the identity of the son-in-law first, but just see the family sending their daughter to the Sheng family, which is a bit inappropriate.

   That's all, let's wrong Jialan a bit, first appease the granddaughter, and make up for it in private later.

  Old lady Sheng had just made a decision when she heard a boy's panting voice from the door: "Grandma, I saw it."

  Then came Sheng Saburo's voice: "Cousin, you didn't rest in the house, why did you come here?"

  Luo Chen held the door with one hand, his chest heaved slightly as he walked in a hurry, and his cheeks had an unusual blush.

  After hearing Sheng Sanlang's words, he tightened his hand holding the door, and said to Mrs. Sheng, "I have something to say to my grandmother."

  Luo Chen was already weak, and he almost exhausted his whole body by diving to save others just now, and now he looked weaker and weaker.

  Sheng Saburo was a little anxious: "What can't be said after raising him?"

  Luo Chen shook his head: "It must be said now."

   "What would Chen'er say to grandma?" The appearance of Luo Chen undoubtedly surprised Old Madam Sheng.

   When she heard that her grandson went into the water to save her granddaughter, she was startled. When the doctor replied that she might have contracted a cold, she was still struggling.

  Luo Chen glanced at Luo Sheng, and said word by word: "I saw Sheng Jialan push my sister into the lake with my own eyes."

   There was a silence in the room as soon as these words came out, and then Sheng Jiayu exclaimed: "Impossible!"

  Luo Chen glanced at Sheng Jiayu and asked, "Cousin doesn't believe my sister's words, doesn't she believe me?"

  Sheng Jiayu was stopped by the question.

  Cousin has always been very sensible, it is impossible to tell a lie, but it is impossible for the second sister to do such a thing—

  Sheng Jiayu looked at Sheng Jialan, bit her lips and asked, "Second sister, what's going on?"

  Sheng Jialan's complexion was like snow, and her whole body was trembling.

  Old lady Sheng opened her mouth: "Chen'er, please tell grandma carefully."

   "Yes." Luo Chen coughed lightly, and said slowly, "I was walking in the garden at that time, and when I walked to the lake, I found my sister sitting there, hesitating whether to leave, but I didn't expect Sheng Jialan to walk over..."

  Everyone has heard that Luo Chen's attitude towards Sheng Jialan has changed a lot.

  In the past, Luo Chen called Sheng Jialan's second cousin, but now he calls her by every name.

  Everyone remembered what Luo Sheng called out just now, and subconsciously looked at her.

  Luo Sheng still looked calm, but his heart felt a little warm because of Luo Chen's words.

  She believed that Luo Chen, who had witnessed the truth, would testify for her, but she never expected that Luo Chen would go into the water to save people, let alone that Luo Chen would rush to clarify immediately regardless of his health.

  Although what Luo Chen cares about is the real elder sister, but if she becomes Miss Luo, then she must accept this love.

  But—looking at the thin and pale young man, Luo Sheng rarely bent his lips.

  This kid is also very clever. He obviously went to the lake after meeting Hongdou, but he avoided mentioning it at the moment.

  Talk about the update time. Under normal circumstances, it is updated in the morning, once a day before it goes on the shelves, and twice a day after it goes on the shelves.

  (end of this chapter)