Chapter 89: Personal Instruction

  Sheng Siyan couldn't help but want to laugh when she heard Sheng Ning Song's words.

  "It's her, she didn't splash me, so I won't bother. At first, she pushed me under the car, but I was rescued by others and wasn't hurt at all, so there's no need to bother either. Is it that I can only wait until one day she beats me to death or disables me before I can bother?" Sheng Siyan said slowly.

  If it doesn't hurt others, then don't bother to count it. Murder attempts and rape attempts are all not counted. This is the standard logic of robbers.

  Sheng Ningbai shifted uncomfortably. He was the youngest of three siblings and had not been much influenced by Tu Shi and the outside world. Moreover, he was more sensible than his elder brother and sister. Although Sheng Ningfang had not splashed water on Sheng Siyan, he also knew that Sheng Ningfang had done something wrong.

  "......Brother, don't say that. Second sister is indeed in the wrong." Sheng Ningbai muttered.

  Sheng Siyan's gaze unexpectedly lingered on Sheng Ningbai for a moment before nonchalantly shifting away, looking at Dou Kou who was still blocking her path, saying: "You go change your clothes. Unfortunately, this robe can't be worn again."

  Doukou nervously turned her head to look at Sheng Siyan and said, "Big sister... I... I can exchange this face for a new one, swap it for a blue cloth outer garment, which can still be worn."

  Sheng Siyan pursed her lips and smiled, nodding: "Will you change? Do you want me to find someone who's good with needle and thread to help you change?"

  "It's okay! It's okay! I can do it! I can do it!" Doukou said with great joy.

  Sheng Siyan looked at her again.

  The young servant girl was only twelve or thirteen years old, just one or two years older than herself, but she was very capable.

  "Alright, go ahead." Sheng Siyan let her withdraw.

  Another maid walked up and stood beside Sheng Siyan. She carefully stared at Sheng Ning Song and Sheng Ning Bai in front of Sheng Siyan.

  Sheng Ning Song was waving his fist at Sheng Ning Bai, scolding him, "You damn rascal! Ning Fang is your own sister! Which way are you turning your elbow?!"

  Sheng Ning Ba shrunk back a bit. Summoning up her courage, she said: "Big sister is also Father's daughter and our own elder sister!"

  "She's not even your biological sister! What does it have to do with you!" Sheng Ning Song didn't expect that his younger brother, who usually followed him around like a little tail, would also dare to talk back to him. He was extremely annoyed.

  Sheng Siyan listened from the side and just wanted to rub her temples.

  This Tuo is really formidable, although he has passed away, his remaining prestige still exists.

  Look at how well these two children have been taught...

  She didn't have any inferiority complex as a child born out of wedlock, instead she looked down on this legitimate eldest daughter and didn't take her seriously at all.

  Luckily Sheng Ningbai is still young and can be disciplined.

  No wonder families who adopt children in the future only want to adopt infants. If an orphan cannot find a family to adopt him before he is five years old, it's likely that he won't be able to find one afterwards either.

  Because five-year-old children start to have their own thoughts and ideas. Some of them already have their own minds made up, making it difficult to teach them anything.

  Sheng Ningfang and Sheng Ningsong were raised by the Tu family until they were eight years old. In other words, the three views of these two children have taken shape, and it's not easy to correct them.

  Sheng Siyan couldn't help but glance at Wang Shi, only to see her usually all-knowing mother lower her head and remain silent, one hand holding a black wooden chopstick with silver inlays, subconsciously picking at the green jade-like rice in the bowl.

  Sheng Siyan looked at Sheng Qiye again, and unexpectedly saw him staring with wide eyes, his mouth slightly open, and a shocked expression on his face as he stared at Sheng Ning Song and Sheng Ning Bai.

  Sheng Siyan raised an eyebrow and understood what Wang Shi meant. She also lowered her eyelashes, took the silver spoon and scooped a spoonful of sweet soup to drink.

  Sheng Ning Song was still incessantly cursing Sheng Ning Bai.

  Tears welled up in Sheng Ningbai's eyes.

  Sheng Qiye finally came back to his senses from the shock and shouted: "Sheng Ningsong! Come here!"

  Sheng Ning Song was startled and didn't dare scold Sheng Ning Bai again. He glanced at Seventh Master Sheng with a slanted eye.

  "Haven't you gone yet? Father is calling you..." Sheng Ningbai couldn't care about being scolded by his older brother earlier, and hastily pushed him.

  "Who taught you such nonsense?!" Zhang Qi was extremely shocked. These children were his own flesh and blood, although there was a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate offspring. But to this big man, there really wasn't much difference. He had thought that even if Tou Shi wasn't reliable, these few children were still good and could be educated properly.

  Who would have thought that after inviting the teacher to tutor at home for almost a year, these two big ones haven't changed at all.

  Sheng Ningfang was arrogant and domineering, not even putting her elder sister in her eyes.

  Sheng Ning Song slightly restrained himself, but from what he just said, it can be heard that he didn't consider Sheng Siyan as his own sister at all.

  "What was that you just said? Why isn't your elder sister considered your real sister? She's my own flesh and blood, and the eldest daughter! She doesn't look down on any of you, but you don't even put her in your eyes!" Sheng Qiye was heartbroken and asked Sheng Sihuan, "Sihuan, are these few usually like this?"

  Sheng Siyan smiled and said, "Third brother is a good person, usually gets along well with me."

  The youngest is Sheng Ningbai, the third brother.

  Sheng Ningbai lowered his head. His elder sister said so to help him out, but he also knew that he and Sheng Ningfang and Sheng Ningsong were born of the same mother, and their relationship was a bit closer.

  But he also didn't think that Sheng Siyan wasn't his own sister, because they had the same father.

  Sheng Siyan said Sheng Ningbai is fine, then there's a problem with Sheng Ningfang and Sheng Ningsong.

  Sheng Qiye couldn't help but feel a pang of regret. He had truly cared for the few children, and had even told himself not to be biased against the three children born to Tu Shi, never having considered the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate offspring.

  Also for this reason, when the Tu family first came to the capital from their hometown, he also had Sheng Siyan, his eldest daughter, go with him to meet them.

  Is it from then on that he himself, as the head of the family, broke the rules?

  If the beam at the top is not straight, the ones below will be crooked. It turns out that the root of all troubles lies with this head of the household.

  No wonder Tu always had an attitude and even wanted to use Wang's past with him to blackmail Wang's mother and daughter...

  Sheng Qiye had his hands behind his back, his eyebrows furrowed tightly. He looked at Sheng Ning Song and finally said: "After the New Year, I'll send you to Songshan Academy to study. In the future, if you have talent, you can naturally pass the imperial examination and become an official. If not, you can still recognize a few characters. Later, being a rustic scholar in the countryside is also good."

  This is going to thoroughly abandon Sheng Ning Song.

  Sheng Ning Song suddenly lifted his head, staring at Sheng Qi Ye with wide eyes. He blurted out: "Why do I have to take the imperial examination? Mother said that Father's Guo Gong title is mine! I am Father's eldest son!"

  "Fart!" Sheng Qiye couldn't bear it anymore and also cursed a foul language. "Which door is your eldest son?! Your birth mother was my ten taels of silver bought as a concubine!"

  This sentence is really hurtful.

  Tu Shi never told the three children that she was a concubine. Later, when Sheng Qiuzi's title was restored, she instilled even more foolish notions in the three children, especially the eldest son.

  From the sole heir of the noble title, it suddenly fell to the eldest illegitimate son born by a concubine, this difference is really too big.

  Sheng Ning Song couldn't take it anymore, he stumbled backward a few steps and stood beside Sheng Ning Bai, his voice trembling as he said: "I don't believe it! I won't believe it! My mother said that Father would make her the official wife! I will be the eldest son! I will inherit the title!" He covered his head and wailed loudly, looking like a madman.

  This is what wealth and power can do to people's hearts.

  Sheng Siyan thought with regret and sorrow.

  Tu's family is on a path of destruction for her several children, but they're really moving fast and going far...

  Luckily she's dead, otherwise this knot would be really hard to untie.

  Sheng Siyan shook her head and looked at Wang Shi.

  "Wang said, 'Seventh Master, today is the 30th. Let's talk about other things after the New Year.' Then, he ordered someone to take Sheng Ning Song back to his own courtyard."

  Sheng Siyan beckoned Sheng Ningbai to sit beside her and asked him what he liked to eat. She ordered the kitchen to make a few dishes on the spot.

  Sheng Ning looked at Sheng Siyan with a worried expression and whispered: "Will something happen to Second Sister and Big Brother?"

  Sheng Siyan said lightly: "It depends on how Father disposes of it. My mother and I will listen to Father."

  Sheng Ningbai took a look at the furious Sheng Qiye, still mustered up the courage to walk over and say: "Father, please spare Second Sister and Big Brother this once. I will properly advise them."

  Sheng Ningbai was only five years old when he arrived at the Sheng Guogong Mansion, and now he is only six years old, but compared to Sheng Ningfang and Sheng Ningbai, he is indeed more sensible.

  Sheng Qiye patted his head and said: "Go with your elder sister to have some snacks. Don't interfere in their affairs, father will handle it."

  Sheng Ningbai didn't dare to persuade him anymore. Returning to Sheng Siyan's side, he saw that Sheng Siyan had given him a plate of soft and glutinous red bean pumpkin rice cakes. He picked one up and took a bite, it was exactly his favorite flavor, so he held the plate and ate slowly.

  Sheng Siyan saw how sensible he was being and felt a pang of sympathy for him, so she reached out and ruffled his hair.

  Sheng Qiye and saw it, but instead laughed and whispered to Wang Shi: "Hurry up and find a husband for Ning Fang."

  "Wang shook his head, 'She's still young, let's discipline her first.'"

  Sheng Qiye patted Wang Shi's hand and looked at her abdomen, saying in a low voice: "You must give birth to our child safely."

  Wang smiled and picked up a dish for Sheng Qiye, saying: "I know, no need to say." And then said: "The idea of going to Songshan Academy is not bad."

  "You also think it's good? Then it's settled!" Sheng Qiye was delighted to see that Wang Shi also agreed, "After the New Year, I'll go to Zheng Guogong Fu and talk to Old Man Zheng, ask him to write a letter of introduction."

  Wang paused for a moment, furrowed his brow and said: "You're doing this, aren't you making Ning Song's position special in the Songshan Academy? Can he still study properly?"

  Sheng Qiye thought for a moment and also felt that it wasn't right. If Sheng Ningsong really took Zheng Lao's letter of introduction to Songshan Academy, the people there would probably worship him as a god.

  Not good, not good, indeed not good.

  "Hmm, then let him pass the exam like a normal student and go."

  "That's got to be Mr. Wang giving him extra homework." Mrs. Wang said with a smile.

  On the evening of the 30th of the twelfth lunar month, people usually stay up past midnight before going to sleep.

  Sheng Ningbai was still young and couldn't even make it to midnight before falling asleep. His wife carried him back to their own courtyard.

  Sheng Qiye went outside to prepare firecrackers.

  Sheng Siyan stood beside Wang Shi, smiling and holding her hand.

  Wang looked at her and smiled like a little fox, nodding her forehead and said: "What's the matter, so happy?"

  "I saw Mother teach Father a good lesson without saying a word." This is indeed a rare case of teaching by example...

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