The daily life of a concubine's daughter

Chapter 128 2 Girls Grab Bamboo Shoots

Shi Yunfan vaguely understood what had happened. She burst into tears and stomped her feet in grief.

"Chicken feathers! I want a chicken feather shuttlecock! Mom, I want a chicken feather shuttlecock, little aunt is so mean! Why did you give it to big aunt again?

Wow, all the fun things daddy bought were given to my eldest aunt, why did my youngest aunt also buy fun things for her?

Woohoo, I am the child! She is an adult! Why give her the toy and not me..."

The wet nurse was frightened and quickly covered the young master's mouth and looked at Gong Xuan in panic.

"Grandma, it's not us who taught you. We have advised you... but... but... many of the novelties Grandpa bought are the only ones in Beijing, and they were all given to the eldest daughter. Brother Fan didn't get any. Brother Fan was very disappointed, so he would grumble and complain. I didn't expect that he would shout it out today..."

Gong Xuan's face turned terribly dark. She glared at Shi Yao, who was having fun and had no intention of trying to please Shi Yunfan, then turned around and walked out.

The wet nurse picked up the struggling and crying Shi Yunfan and hurried after him.

When they got outside the courtyard, Gong Xuan turned around and slapped Shi Yunfan on his fat buttocks, scolding him in a low voice: "As a man, how can you cry like this!

"That's your dear aunt. These are just some worthless things. What's wrong with giving them to her? You are really brave to fight with your aunt for things! Stop it now. I will ask someone to buy you a basket of chicken feather shuttlecocks. You can choose whatever you want. Okay?"

Gong Xuan often uses such words to both punish and coax.

Shi Yunfan has long been accustomed to it.

Every time his father bought new toys for his aunt, he would see them and ask why they were not given to him. His father would say that his aunt was a girl and should be spoiled, and he would teach him to spoil his aunt from a young age.

He watched his father send him off again and again, and gradually he felt aggrieved. He cried secretly and complained quietly behind his father's back.

His mother taught him that a man’s knees are made of gold and that he should shed blood and sweat but not tears, and she did not allow him to cry. She also taught him that his aunt was a girl and he should give in to her.

Maybe it was because he had been frustrated for too long and the frustration had accumulated to a breaking point, or maybe it was because he finally had an aunt who spoke to him in a friendly manner, and the aunt also gave his favorite toy to the older aunt, so no amount of intimidation or coaxing could appease the little guy.

Although he was ignorant of worldly affairs, he vaguely understood that what his mother said was wrong.

The shuttlecock his mother bought for him as compensation was different from these shuttlecocks.

It's not just about shuttlecock.

It was all the toys he had missed in the past, it was all the grievances he would face in the future, it was that no one in the family doted on him, and it was that everyone doted on his aunt.

Even his parents, whom he relies on the most, only dote on his aunt!

The child couldn't stop crying. Gong Xuan was pregnant and her emotions were unstable. She hated Shi Yao again and again and shouted irritably:

"How could you be so ignorant? If you cry again, I will throw you away. It doesn't matter whether it was a wild wolf that took you away or a beggar who took you and sold you to someone else!"

Shi Yunfan was so frightened that he had to hold back his tears. His weak shoulders trembled and he hiccuped continuously.

The maids and servants hurried forward to persuade them.

Gong Xuan felt regretful and blamed herself for not being able to control her mouth and scaring the child. She reached out to wipe the child's tears.

The child shrank into his nurse's arms in fear.

Her heart suddenly shrank, and she felt a slight pain. She wiped the tears from her son's face with a handkerchief and chuckled:

"When did mother ever hit you? Mother is wiping your tears. Look, you are crying like a little cat."

The tense atmosphere came to an abrupt end as she smiled.

Shi Yunfan's expression gradually relaxed.

Gong Xuan called a maid and told her, "Go buy some chicken feather shuttlecocks for Brother Fan. Pick the best looking ones with the brightest colors. He'll like them. Also look for other toys that are interesting and fun, and buy them all, no matter how much they cost."

The old woman agreed and hurried out the second door to prepare it.

After hearing this, Shi Yunfan's two chubby little legs like lotus roots shook, his eyelashes trembled, and two tears fell. He raised his little hand to wipe them away, and a faint smile appeared on his little face.

"Thank you mother!"

Gong Xuan smiled and hooked his little nose, slowly letting out the nameless anger in her heart: "Come on, let's go back to sleep. When you wake up, you can see the shuttlecock!"

"Yeah!" Shi Yunfan nodded vigorously with a big smile on his face.

Gong Xuan signaled the wet nurse to carry him away first. She took two steps behind and glanced at the box in the maid's arms with disgust.

She wanted to throw it away or smash it, but since it was related to Shi Mingzhu, she had to endure it.

She said calmly, "Zhirou, send it to the eldest girl, and I won't disturb her sleep. Be smart with your words."

Zhirou responded and went to Lanpeiyuan with the box in her arms.

Shi Yunfan in front was leaning forward to look at his mother. His mouth pursed as he saw the box enter Lanpei Courtyard.

However, he didn't cry this time.

Because he never gets what he wants, he subconsciously knows that crying is useless.

A child as young as him has no other means to get what he wants except to say sweet words to make adults happy and to cry and make adults feel distressed.

In order not to annoy the adults, and for the sake of that pitiful love that cannot be shared equally, he has to learn to stop while he is ahead.

Although he couldn't express such thoughts and reasons, he had already done so subconsciously.

When Gong Xuan looked over, Shi Yunfan immediately gave her a bright smile.

Gong Xuan slightly curved her lips, took two steps forward, and touched the child's head. She thought silently in her heart, Shi Yao is really vicious. If she hates her, she should come after her. Why would she hurt her son? How dare she!

We have to find a way to cure her!

Zhirou returned to Lanpeiyuan again.

Shi Mi lifted the curtain and came out, pointing to the side room, indicating that Shi Mingzhu was sleeping, and asked in a low voice: "Did something fall?"

Zhirou handed the box to Shimi, and said unhappily and with a hint of resentment: "The second girl next door asked our grandmother to bring it over for the eldest girl."

Shi Mi said, "What good things do you have to ask Fourth Grandma to give me?" When she opened the box, she saw that it was a box of four chicken feather shuttlecocks. She curled her lips and said:

"That's it? I really have something good. We girls have had so many of these since we were little that we can't even throw them all away.

There was a big box of things made by the young masters themselves, and the girl would not let them be thrown away, saying that they were gifts from the brothers. Now it is in a corner of the warehouse, gathering dust, and has not been opened for many years.

The feathers are so beautiful, there are some from flying on the sea, growing in the snow-capped mountains, swimming in the rivers, sparrows from the South China Sea, warblers from the West... there is everything, colorful, there is nothing that a gentleman cannot get, only what you have not seen.

These shuttlecocks made of rooster feathers are not even worthy of being brought before our girls' eyes. I'm afraid they will dirty our girls' eyes. It's also funny that you have to make a trip in person!

You saw that they shared it with the little girls and gave it to us, but it was just thrown away for nothing. Nobility and inferiority are nothing."