Rebirth Of A Noble Daughter: Chapter 12

Chapter 12: This is our Home

“Is it good?” Shen Ding Shan rubbed his daughter’s face. “You watched it so intently. Could it be that you can understand it?”

Shen Qing Ci just smiled. Her small face, adorable eyes, and small hands and feet are all that Shen Ding Shan loves, and he couldn’t wait to give all his wealth and life to his daughter.

Although he already had children, he felt the most painful and guilty for this child. It was his own uselessness that caused her to suffer so much. Every time he thought of the first-time he saw his daughter, it gave him so much heartache. The patched clothes, the firewood she carried on her back, and the hard buns that had been bitten, all of it made him feel as if his heart was stabbed with a knife.

That was his little A Ning; the little A Ning he vowed to take good care of, but he, as a father was so useless that even her little hands had small wounds.

He held his daughter back again. They walked all the way, slowly. He was afraid that the young child would not be able to bear it if he walked faster. Of course, he bought her a lot of toys, but Shen Qing Ci’s favorite was the rattle drum.

She took it out and shook it whenever she wanted to. What she liked the most was sitting on a small stool by herself and shaking the rattle drum. And no one knew what she was thinking about. Although she still didn’t want to talk, she smiled at her daddy.

Outside, the spring day was just in time, and the willow trees have already started to sprout buds. Even the branches braving new leaves turned green, brimming with vitality. The more they went towards the capital, the warmer the climate was.

The wet-nurse helped Shen Qing Ci put on a set of light clothes and saw that her young miss seemed to have grown a little bit recently, and she was cuter, but she was so thin that her small arms and legs seemed as if they would break with the slightest touch.

“Young Miss, go to sleep, we will be home in a little while.”

The wet-nurse coaxed Shen Qing Ci, and then gently patted her until she slept, then tucked the quilt. The wet-nurse really felt that Shen Qing Ci was very easy to take care of. She was very sensible and doesn’t like to cry. She wasn’t picky while eating. She would sleep and wake up right on time. It’s almost the same as a seven or eight-year-old child. Later, she remembered Shen Qing Ci’s previous predicament, she could only sigh secretly.

A child without a mother, if she doesn’t grow up, how could she live for a long time?

It was almost the beginning of summer when they reached the capital. After Shen Ding Shan returned in victory, the people of the Shen family changed their attitude directly. They were so happy to welcome him back then. But when asked about the matter of sending away Shen Ding Shan’s family, they kept on talking about their own difficulties one by one, saying that they had no choice but to keep the roots of the Shen family no matter what.

Shen Ding Shan didn’t show it in his face, but he sneered in his heart. What ‘roots of the Shen family’, they consider themselves as roots? His father and mother died young, and the current Old Shen Furen was only from his second uncle’s family, yet she really considers herself to be his ‘mother’. The glory that the Shen Family had now was all earned by him in exchange for his flesh and blood. But they drove away his wife and children out of his house, and even retained his wife’s dowry which was meant to be his daughter’s dowry in the future. Da Zhou puts filial piety first. If it weren’t because they had blood ties with him, how could he endure their behavior? He would have kicked them out of the Shen family a long time ago.

He was just afraid that his children’s reputation would be affected because of that.

“A Ning, look, this is our home.”

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