Shen Yuhan didn’t know why, but he had always felt that getting along with his mother-in-law wasn’t a problem, the structure of the Shan family was no different from most of the families in the Qi Kingdom, it was probably because he cared about Shan Qihuan, so he cared about this meeting. Of course, apart from that, he was also a bit uneasy, he always felt that this mother-in-law was not easy to get along with, and this was his sixth sense.
After sitting for a while, the distance to Gu Biqing’s arrival was getting closer and closer.
Shan Qiyuan suddenly stopped talking and answered a phone call, the driver sent to pick up the person said they had already arrived.
Everyone stood up and walked to the door, Shen Yuhan was nervous, but he still paid attention to Shan Qihuan’s current mood, he quietly held his hand while waiting for the person at the door, Shan Qihuan and Shen Yuhan looked at each other, then Shen Yuhan gently squeezed his palm.
Shen Yuhan whispered: “Husband, don’t be afraid.”
Shan Qihuan was amused by him: “I’m not afraid.”
As the two of them were talking, the car that carried the person who made everyone uneasy finally arrived.
The driver got out of the car and opened the back seat door.
Shan Qiyuan, as the eldest brother, took the lead to step forward.
Completely different from what everyone imagined, a woman with a stern face and wore her hair in a bun got out of the car, there was no smile on her face, she first called Shan Qiyuan Young Master.
Shan Qihuan called her: “Aunt Cheng.”
She is not Shan Qihuan’s mother, but the person who has always been by Gu Biqing’s side.
Aunt Cheng turned around and stretched out her hand towards the car: “Madam, we’re here.”
At this time, the woman called Madam stretched out her hand, her hands were still white and well-maintained, and she slowly appeared.
Her feet landed on the ground first, then slowly raised her hand and placed it on the wrist of the stern-faced woman.
Glancing left and right1左盼右盼 (zuǒ pàn yòu pàn): T/N: May or may not be a typo for the idiom 左顧右盼 (zuǒ gù yòu pàn), glancing to left and right (idiom); to look all around; to look around anxiously or smugly., finally, the person they waited for came.
Gu Biqing finally appeared in front of her children, she was not wearing a nun’s robe, but a modern dress, a figure-fitting cheongsam, which was not out of fashion in any era.
Her face was not powdered, and she wore her hair in a bun, she was well-maintained for being over sixty years old, and her skin was still firm, if it weren’t for the fine lines at the corners of her eyes, her actual age would be hard to tell.
She is a typical Jiangnan woman with a gentle appearance, and not very tall, she scanned all the people present, and her eyes finally fell on Shan Qiyuan.
Shan Qiyuan called out first: “Mom, you are back.”
Only then did Gu Biqing lower her hand from the stern-faced woman’s wrist, it can be seen that she has not lived a hard life in these years, there are still people around her to serve her, and she is still a loyal servant of a certain age.
Gu Biqing nodded and smiled faintly at Shan Qiyuan: “Um.”
Shan Qibing also called her mom at this time, Gu Biqing nodded her head in the same way, then glanced at Shan Qihuan and Shan Qixin, neither of them said a word, so she didn’t say anything anymore, and directly lifted her foot to enter the house, as for the other people, she directly ignored them.
Yes, she directly ignored them and didn’t even give them a look.
Before she left home, Shan Qiyuan and Shan Qibing were not married, when she came back, things had changed but her attitude was not very pleasant.
Shen Yuhan was a little nervous before meeting her, but after meeting her, he no longer felt so nervous.
A person who has been a nun for many years suddenly returns, and is a practitioner with hair, when she comes back, she is not dressed as a monk, which is very thought-provoking, he has always been sensitive, and he knew at first glance that this mother-in-law, who was so low-key that she seemed not to exist, was actually not simple, especially after she directly ignored several people who were her children’s partners, her unique arrogance could not be hidden.
Shen Yuhan did not want to curry favor with anyone, so he stopped speculating about Gu Biqing’s intentions.
Shan Qiyuan had her and Aunt Cheng’s luggage delivered to the room first and asked her whether to eat or freshen up first.
Gu Biqing finally opened her mouth: “Let’s eat first, everyone has been waiting for a long time, there are so many people at home, and I haven’t even seen them properly, including my grandchildren.”
There is no fatigue between her eyebrows and eyes, and she is very energetic.
Everyone then sat down one by one, with Gu Biqing sitting at the main seat, she glanced around again.
Shan Qiyuan introduced everyone to her one by one, he first introduced everyone in his family, when facing her mother-in-law, eldest sister-in-law was indifferent to her mother-in-law, but she still greeted her seriously, she didn’t like this kind of situation with strangers, Gu Biqing looked at her and was not unhappy, instead, she asked about her family’s situation.
At this time, Gu Biqing looked kindly and asked her: “Are your parents still alive?”
Eldest sister-in-law said: “They are all still very healthy.”
Gu Biqing said smoothly: “Then we should pay a visit to them some other day, after all, we are parents-in-law.”
No matter how cold eldest sister-in-law is usually, she doesn’t make any big mistakes when she responds to her elders: “After you get some rest, you can arrange a time to visit them, my parents are quite easy-going.”
Gu Biqing nodded: “Okay, then it’s settled.”
Shen Yuhan on the side then remembered that his husband had said, the eldest sister-in-law and the eldest brother are in an alliance by marriage relationship, although she has some minor flaws in her character, her family background is very good, it is also because of this that Shan Tianfeng would hand over the heavy responsibility of the Shan family to Shan Qiyuan.
Shan Qiyuan introduced his two sons to her, and when the children obediently called her grandmother, Gu Biqing directly motioned to Aunt Cheng to hand over a red envelope as a greeting gift.
Then came the second sister, Shan Qibing’s family, Gu Biqing glanced at the son-in-law a few times, but they already had children, so she didn’t say anything and also handed over the red envelope to the children.
She looked at Shan Qihuan and Shan Qixin and only said: “Lao San, Lao Si, you have grown up too.”
Shan Qihuan nodded: “Sort of.” He originally wanted to mention Shen Yuhan, but Gu Biqing didn’t give him a chance to speak, “Lao Da, why don’t we start the meal.”
Shan Qixin really couldn’t speak the word mother to her, seeing that her focus was not on himself, he didn’t say much either, for him, she was just a stranger.
During the whole process, Gu Biqing didn’t even look at Shen Yuhan, as if he didn’t exist.
After dinner, Gu Biqing had no intention of enjoying the happiness of human relations, she asked everyone to leave first on the grounds that she was tired.
Everyone went home separately, Shan Qixin was asked by her to stay at Shan Qiyuan’s home.
From the moment Gu Biqing entered the house to the end of dinner, she didn’t ask any questions about Shen Yuhan.
Shan Qihuan and Shen Yuhan also got into the car and went home.
As soon as he got into the car, Shan Qihuan couldn’t help but grimace: “What do you think she means? Why is she ignoring you? Because you’re the son of my father’s best friend?” If there were no children around, he would have lost his temper on the spot!
Seeing how indignant at injustice2義憤填膺 (yì fèn tián yīng): righteous indignation fills one’s breast (idiom); to feel indignant at injustice; be filled/swollen with righteous indignation. he was, Shen Yuhan smiled: “Husband, what’s there to be upset about, if we don’t like each other, then we don’t like each other, the relationship between people is all based on fate, I’m not money, so I can’t make everyone like me.”
Shan Qihuan snorted: “That’s right, she doesn’t even look at me squarely, others love the house and its crow3愛屋及烏 (ài wū jí wū): lit. love the house and its crow (idiom); love for a person extends even to the crows on his roof—love one thing on account of another; love me, love my dog; love for a person extends even to the crows on his roof; involvement with somebody and everyone connected; he that loves the tree loves the branch; From Shangshu Dazhuan (《尚書大傳》): 愛人者，兼其屋上之烏。, One who loves someone also loves the crow on his roof., she hates the house and its crow.”
Shen Yuhan comforted him and said: “Then I will try my best not to hang around in front of her in the future.”
On the contrary, Shen Yuhan was not annoyed at all, instead, he asked his own doubts: “Isn’t she a nun? I’ve been in contact with nuns before, but I don’t she’s quite like one, on the contrary, she will never become a nun again?”
Shan Qihuan fell into deep thought because of this question, over the years, the only person who had contact with Gu Biqing was his brother, and he barely knew any news about his mother.
Is it possible that his brother is hiding something else from him?
Shen Yuhan observed Gu Bizheng’s behavior tonight, and he didn’t think it was a show of force, she was really just ignoring him on purpose, she simply didn’t like him, or she thought she was lowly and unworthy of interacting with her.
A figure flashed through his mind, there was an eldest princess in the Qi Kingdom, she had a son, she originally wanted her son to marry a good wife, a good mother, and an upright and honest woman, who knew that her son did not do what she wanted, but instead asked his uncle to marry a ger.
The eldest princess has two gers in her inner courtyard, therefore, she hated gers very much, after that, she has been very disdainful of her ger daughter-in-law, he was required to wait on her during the snowy day, scolded him when there was nothing wrong, and deliberately ignored him when taking him to a banquet, hoping to see him make a fool of himself.
On one occasion, Shen Yuhan couldn’t stand the sight, so he secretly gave a hand to the ger who was not good at writing poems, so that he wouldn’t be disgraced in the banquet, he felt that it was not easy to be a daughter-in-law, especially the daughter-in-law of a royal family, later, that ger often wrote to him, and would also send him some interesting treasures, he was a relatively outgoing ger, and he was quite nice, but he doesn’t know if the young marquis treats him well.
As for Shen Yuhan, when he thought of the eldest princess back then, he didn’t think there was anything wrong, it’s normal for his mother-in-law not to like him, it can be seen that even if she becomes a nun, she knows everything about what happened in the Shan family.
If his mother-in-law lived in the Qi Kingdom, she would definitely become close friends with the eldest princess.
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