[R18] The stars are brilliant, so lucky even (The stars are brilliant, the moon rises over the sea) – Chapter 32 of “The Stars Are Brilliant, How Lucky They Are (The Stars Are Brilliant·The Moon Rising Over the Sea)” [English]

Chapter 32

Shaoshang changed into a soft and docile half-worn robe. He first asked someone to tell Mrs. Xiao that she would be there soon, and then walked over calmly.Halfway down the road, she thought for a while and asked Lianfang to find some brothers for help. She told her to make the situation more serious – in case of a fire, she had to prepare the fire brigade.

When I walked to Jiuzhuo Hall, I saw Cheng Shi and his wife sitting high up, while Cheng Zhi and Sang sat beside them, with different expressions on their faces.

Mrs. Xiao solemnly held her breath and made it clear that she wanted to “have a good argument” with you. Mrs. Sang smiled jokingly at her and gave her a “I’ll save you” look. Shao Shang was greatly moved.

Cheng Zhi held back his breath, he was about to take a nap, but his wife had to come over to watch the mother and daughter fight, so he had to follow.

Only Cheng Shi saw Shao Shang. Although he knew what was going on, he still shouted: “Niao Niao, didn’t you say it was just a slapstick? That man named Yin actually beat you like this! My son, does it hurt you…”

Cheng Taigong’s beauty shocked everyone, but as the eldest son, he didn’t inherit even half of it. God knows how regretful he was when he was young. It was so easy for him to have a beautiful child. Is it easy for him?The person surnamed Yin actually came to cause damage. Could it be jealousy?!

Mrs. Xiao originally held a serious and upright breath, but after hearing these words, she suddenly lost her strength. She turned around helplessly and looked at Cheng Shi: “The Yin family’s wife was also injured. Don’t just worry about your own child!”

Cheng Shi was confused: “The little girl from the Yin family was beaten like this?” He pointed at Shao Shang’s face, which was as swollen as a pig’s head.

Mrs. Xiao choked and said after a long while: “She, she was hurt somewhere else.”

“When a little girl fights, she can’t get seriously injured by showing off her skills and tricks. Can she break her ribs or her hands and feet? Is there anything more important than her face?!” Cheng Shi slapped the table with his big palms, feeling sad, “Niao Niao is not here yet! If this face doesn’t get better, I’m not done with Yin!” So the hall could only hear Cheng Shi’s loud roar, which sounded very reasonable.

Mrs. Xiao was speechless: she had forgotten what she was going to say.

In fact, how could she not prevent this with her ability?Not to mention that the maid she was traveling with was proficient in treating wounds and had already concluded that there was nothing serious. Before sending Shao Shang home, he stopped by a reliable medical shop. The doctor also said that there would be no scars on his face after recovery.

As for what’s under the clothes, Ah Zhu has already come to report it.

Mr. Sang lowered his head to suppress a smile, and Cheng Zhi rolled his eyes at his wife – He had already said that with his eldest brother here, how could his niece suffer!

Mrs. Xiao ignored her husband’s crooked building. After gathering her emotions, she directly asked her daughter: “Young Shang, let me ask you, did you realize that you were wrong today?”

“…After being beaten like this, you still want to ask her what’s wrong?”

“My daughter knows she was wrong.”

Cheng Shi and Shaoshang spoke out at the same time, and then the father and daughter glared at each other.

Mrs. Xiao had a severe headache. She pushed her husband further away, signaling him to shut up, and then said, “Okay, Shao Shang, tell me, where did you go wrong?”

Shaoshang raised his head and puffed out his chest and said, “No matter how someone humiliates a mean daughter, she should never hit someone. Don’t worry, father and mother, my daughter will never fight with anyone again unless she fights back.”

Mrs. Xiao didn’t expect her to admit her mistake so quickly. She hesitated for a while and then said, “Then how do you plan to change things?”

“How to change it?” Shaoshang curled his lips, “There’s no need to change it. Anyway, my daughter won’t be able to deal with them in the future. We won’t see each other a few times, so we can just be acquaintances.”

Everyone in the hall was stunned. Mrs. Xiao frowned and said, “What do you mean by that?”

Shaoshang had long wanted to have a showdown with his parents about the future, and now the time was right, so she said calmly: “Given the family background of the Yin family, Sister Chang’e will definitely marry into a similar family in the capital. And my daughter will either return to the countryside or marry into a scholar’s family in the mountains. How many times can we see each other in the future?”

To put it simply, her future husband’s family is either a wealthy family like the Ge family in the countryside, rich, powerful and famous in the countryside, but far away from the court; or it is a wealthy family with a family legacy of farming and studying. If they are successful in studying, they may be able to reach the level of the Sang family, write books, teach mountains and teach disciples; if they are average in study… then they will have an ordinary life.

As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Xiao was stunned at first, and her first reaction was to see her husband. Unexpectedly, Cheng Shi also had a dull look on his face. When he saw his wife’s burning gaze, he waved his hands hurriedly and said, “…I didn’t say anything!”!

“Brother, did you let it slip?” Cheng Zhi laughed and broke down the wall for Cheng Shi.

Cheng Shi glared angrily: “Shut up, Shuzi! I don’t know whether you should say it or not!”

Shao Shang said with a slightly mocking smile: “It turns out that my father and mother also planned this. We can think of it together.” She knew this was the case.

Mrs. Xiao turned her head and said nothing. Cheng Zhi was embarrassed. Cheng Zhi knew that he had spilled the beans and did not dare to look at his eldest brother.

Only Sang said warmly: “Niao Niao, how did you guess it?” At this time, the people were open-minded and did not prohibit girls from discussing their marriage wishes with relatives and friends.

“What’s so hard to guess?”

Shao Shang smiled slightly and said, “I will be a hairpin within this year. My mother has always planned for success, so she must have made plans. My mother did not teach me how to appease my family and win over my family. That is because my husband’s family will not have a family in the future. My mother did not teach me the genealogy of the aristocratic family and the rules for the interactions of wealthy and noble family members.”Well, that’s because I won’t deal with these people in the future. But these days, my mother has shown me several volumes of the manor’s account books, and has also invited several village bosses to talk to me about farm affairs, and has been urging me to read and write… Mr. Lingling, isn’t that all?”

After the girl finished speaking this long speech, the two couples in the hall looked at each other. After a while, seeing that the elder brother and sister-in-law were silent, Cheng Zhi asked cautiously: “Niao Niao, what do you think of this idea…?”

Shaoshang said briskly, “I think this plan is a good one.” In fact, she had already thought about this issue, of course, as part of her future business plan.

Cheng Shi murmured, wanting to say, “This is not my idea,” but finally held back.

Unexpectedly, Shao Shang had a serious face and said to Cheng Shi seriously: “Father, you know that I am not willing to suffer and have big ideas. When you choose a son-in-law for me in the future, you must look at the temperament of the whole family and choose someone who is good-tempered and easy-going. Don’t come to meddle with me, otherwise I will definitely break up with others! I have my own ideas on how to live my life in the future.”

With stable industry and social relationships, she can experiment with her ideas in the manor; whether it is farming tools, crops, or high-end luxury goods, given her five years, she is confident that she can greatly improve her family’s economic situation.

Anyway, she is tired of seeing those bitchy bitches, they just know how to talk nonsense, they are either hair-dressers or clothes, snacks, hair accessories, make-up, makeup and beauties, and they are not constructive at all.How can we achieve prosperity and strength with her!

At this point, it seems like there is nothing more to say.Mrs. Xiao felt very depressed when she saw her daughter’s determined expression.

She felt that among her four sons, there was not a single daughter that could make her angry.The problem is that she is angry when Shao Shang is wrong, but she is still angry when Shao Shang is right.And she didn’t even know what she was angry about.

“…What if I ask you to apologize to Madam Yin?” Mrs. Xiao put her hands on her knees and said suddenly.

“I won’t go.” Shao Shangli said, “Yin Chang’e hurts others with her words and deserves to be beaten. I shouldn’t have done it. At worst, I will just avoid her in the future. But if she comes to ask for a beating, you can’t blame me!”

Seeing her daughter’s rebellious look, Mrs. Xiao suddenly stood up and said coldly: “How brave! I want to see if you know you are wrong. Someone is here…”

Before he finished speaking, the three sons of the Cheng family who had just arrived at Jiuzhuo Hall heard these words and rushed in. Cheng Song and Cheng Yong hugged Mrs. Xiao’s legs one by one. They both said in succession, “Mom, calm down,” and “Niao Niao has just been beaten, so you can’t beat her again.” and so on.

Cheng Shaogong said nothing, grabbed Shao Shang and ran out. Before Mrs. Xiao could say a word, the two of them disappeared in a flash.

Mrs. Xiao was shaking with anger and kicked her son away one by one: “Get out of here! Who said I was going to beat her?!”

Cheng Yong and Cheng Song stayed for a while. They just heard the message from Lianfang and thought they were already on fire.

Cheng Shi, who was sitting cross-legged aside, patted his two brothers and said leisurely, “Don’t worry, your mother really didn’t want to punish Niao Niao today, but she asked A Qing to prepare some wooden slips, probably to punish Niao Niao for writing.”

As Cheng Shi spoke, he glanced at his wife, and Mrs. Xiao stared back angrily.

“Why don’t you get out of here! Are you waiting to receive your punishment!” Cheng Shi shouted, and the two sons hurriedly left the hall.

Cheng Shi looked at his brother and sister-in-law, who were suppressing laughter and shrugging their shoulders. Suddenly, he had an idea in his mind, but he didn’t say anything at this time. He only said: “How long do you two want to watch the show? Come back quickly!”

Mrs. Sang couldn’t help laughing, she was originally worried that Shao Shang would be punished by Mrs. Xiao, so she wanted to help ease the situation, but unexpectedly, she saw a good show. Seeing that the show was over, she quickly pulled her husband and bowed to leave.

Before stepping out, Mr. Sang suddenly turned around and said, “Young Master is still too naive.”

Mrs. Xiao and Cheng Shi didn’t understand the meaning for a while, but Mr. Sang went out with her husband without any explanation.

Only the husband and wife were left in Jiuzhuo Hall.

Mrs. Xiao’s chest was still rising and falling violently. Cheng Shi put his hands on his wife and sat down slowly. He smiled apologetically and said, “I told you not to ask for trouble, but you didn’t listen. You haven’t seen it in all these days, but Niao Niao Na had already thought of a defense before she started! You can’t hit her. What else can you do besides being angry for nothing?” Although he was trying to persuade his wife, he could not hide his pride in his words.

Mrs. Xiao complained: “It’s not that you father and son are partial to her, blocking her from left to right, for fear that I will eat her! If you ask me to use the punishment of the rod like Yong’er did when she was a child, not to mention real beatings, but to scare her, see if she is afraid!”

“How can a daughter be beaten like a son? Her little body is as stiff as a stick.” Cheng Shi disagreed. “At the beginning, you also said that children are different. If a son is going to cause big trouble, just marry the daughter. In this case, the punishments cannot be the same.”

Mrs. Xiao angrily waved away her husband’s hand and glared: “Okay, you’re here waiting to block me! I owe my daughter, and you’ve been planning to use this to excuse her your whole life, right?”

“…Okay, stop talking, stop talking, it’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have gone to see Brother Wan in advance. If the two families hadn’t left together, we would have gone to Yin’s house later. The banquet was about to start, the tricksters were on the stage, and there were elders around. How could a group of little girls cause such nonsense!” Seeing that his wife was really angry, Cheng Shi hurriedly stepped forward to persuade her.

After all the nice things to say, Cheng Shi smiled again and said, “Actually, I thought you were going to blame Niao Niao for scolding the Yin family’s wife in person today. Who knew you didn’t mention a word about it, but you thought Niao Niao was good at scolding her…”

Although her husband was right in her mind, Mrs. Xiao was still unconvinced: “You and your son are here to stir up trouble, otherwise I would have to blame her for being so aggressive. Aren’t you afraid of causing trouble for the Cheng family?! Can’t you just hold back for a moment?”

“Stop pretending, we have been married for decades and I still don’t know you?! If you had been willing to swallow your anger, you wouldn’t have asked me to block the Huanshui in the middle of the night and flood half of the private tent named Dou.” Cheng Shi said with a smile.

Mrs. Xiao said angrily: “You heartless person, you are willing to bear with that man named Dou humiliating you during the banquet! His uncle values you, but he is very angry. You are an incompetent thing, and his uncle even brought him into trouble!”

“But the young lady of the Yin family is not humiliating Niao Niao, it’s Sisi.” Cheng Shi slapped his legs and laughed, then leaned closer to his wife’s face, “You always thought that Niao Niao had a bad temper, but at the critical moment, she was willing to protect her cousin and never let others bully her! It would be heartless if she kept silent!”

Mrs. Xiao remained silent for a long time, and then she said harshly: “People in our family have never cared about the love of brothers and sisters. That evil deed has not changed.” After a pause, sheThen he sighed, “Later, I took Qiu Qi and asked her about it in detail. Alas, Sisi was still a little weak. Even if she couldn’t retaliate on the spot, she should have said a few words later to avoid being underestimated. However, Niao Niao’s words were too sharp, and she was not afraid of offending her enemies…”

“What are you afraid of? Am I afraid of Yin Zhi? Or are we going to fawn over the Yin family?”

Cheng Shi said proudly: “There are so many children in the Yin family, and there must be some who don’t like studying and prefer to wear military uniforms. Our two families want each other, and we are in good terms, so we are inferior to others! If I hadn’t pushed back in person today, and those little girls would go home and talk to their elders, would I, Cheng Shi, be able to hold my head high in the future?”

Mrs. Xiao sighed and said worriedly: “That’s enough this time. We can still afford to offend the Yin family, and they are also generous. What if there is someone we can’t afford to offend in the future. What will happen if Niao Niao goes on such a rampage?”

Cheng Shi was very optimistic and deliberately teased his wife: “If it’s someone we can’t afford to offend, I won’t go there. If I ask Sisi to go to the banquet, she will swallow it anyway. What do you think, madam?”

Unexpectedly, this time Mrs. Xiao ignored her husband’s joke. She was silent for a moment and suddenly said: “In the previous dynasty, there was a son of a noble family and a powerful family member. Later, he married a princess. Unexpectedly, the husband and wife were not harmonious in temperament and quarreled every day. In the end, the consort could not bear the humiliation of the princess and killed her with a knife. The emperor was furious, and the consort and his parents were sentenced to death.”

Cheng Shi was confused: “What are you going to say?”

Mrs. Xiao looked at the door and whispered: “I once said that I can marry Sisi into any family without any worries, and you still accuse me of being partial. In fact, I know in my heart that this is a heartbreaking remark to my second brother. To put it bluntly, after Sisi gets married, the worst he can do is to be bullied and dare not fight back. When he can no longer bear it, he will go home unmarried. But Niao Niao, sheBut if you have to fight to the death, this is how troubles are caused!”

Cheng Shi could not refute, and finally said helplessly: “How about we really find a good-tempered and easy-going in-law as Niao Niao said? However, Niao Niao has promised us that we will not fight again in the future.”

There was a hint of weakness in Mrs. Xiao’s tone: “I can’t believe that I, Xiao Yuanyi, will worry about my daughter fighting in my lifetime… By the way, where did they take Niao Niao? It seems to be snowing outside. Tell her to go back to her room, I won’t eat her. And Shun Hua, alas, I know what she means…”

The daughter is indeed smart and sharp, and she is not greedy for vanity. The Yin family is full of flowers, she has no envy at all, and she knows how to love her siblings; but she is also very naive, and has never seen how overwhelming and inevitable real power is.In the face of absolute power, life, death, honor and disgrace are all a matter of words.

Contrary to her husband, Mrs. Xiao felt hesitant about her decision for the first time in her life.