Naturally, those two women didn't dare to beat or scold Shen Weixun.
But in Shen Weixun's opinion, what they did was even worse than a direct beating.
First, they would occasionally withhold his meals. When he got angry, they'd apologize profusely.
Then they'd serve him leftovers.
Since he didn't know how to cook for himself, he had no choice but to grudgingly eat the food he disliked.
At that time, he didn't know how to express his feelings well. Finally, when he couldn't bear it any longer, he called his grandfather.
He cried and told his grandfather that he wanted to go back to the old mansion because someone was bullying him here.
What did his grandfather say?
"Don't be so willful, Weixun," he said.
"You're a man, the future heir of the Shen family. It's inappropriate to cry over every little thing."
Then his grandfather hung up the phone.
He knew it was a sign that his grandfather would never come to his rescue.
After that, the two nannies would either accidentally spill hot water on him, scalding his skin.
Or they'd accidentally lock him in a room, the bathroom, or cut off the power to the villa, leaving him in the dark.
Once, they locked him in the storage room.
A few fat rats with glowing red eyes were just inches away from him. He spent the whole night in that room with them.
He was so scared that he didn't dare to sleep, and he had a high fever the next day.
After he recovered, he almost killed the two nannies.
Finally, his grandfather stepped in. He asked if he wanted to go back to the old mansion or stay in the villa. The two nannies had been dealt with, and no one would bully him anymore.
Even though he was young and naive, after going through all this, he understood that he was actually all alone in this family.
Even though his grandfather seemed to love him very much.
He spared no effort to cultivate him.
But perhaps it wasn't pure love.
It was the ambition to hold on to power.
His grandfather had suffered a great deal and fought his way to become the head of the family.
This position was hard-won for him, and he wouldn't give it up easily.
But unfortunately, his son was a disappointment.
It didn't matter, though. He could find his son a capable wife to help him inherit the family headship.
But his son didn't like his daughter-in-law, and she died young.
It still didn't matter.
At least the daughter-in-law he handpicked left him a genius grandson.
At just six years old, his IQ and knowledge had already surpassed most high-quality young men in their twenties.
With a little more growth and experience, he'd be able to handle things on his own.
Maybe he could become the youngest head of the Shen family.
He could write a legendary story in the Shen family genealogy.
It was a long time later that Shen Weixun finally understood.
His grandfather knew about that woman.
As soon as she got involved with his father, his grandfather knew.
But he didn't stop them because as long as this woman made his father happy, he wouldn't quarrel with his wife. At least there was someone to distract him.
His grandfather could have driven that woman away.
He had the power to do so, but he didn't.
Because his grandfather thought this woman was the best whetstone for him.
How could a person grow up without experiencing hardships?
Shen Weixun had had it too easy. He needed to go through setbacks and difficulties.
His grandfather also knew very well about the nannies' tricks.
Almost everything he did was under his grandfather's control.
But his grandfather still didn't stop them.
He just wanted to force him to grow up quickly.
To use his smart brain to get out of trouble when he was all alone.
But his grandfather never expected that his eagerness to make him grow would push him to the other extreme.
He almost killed someone in a fit of rage.
The head of the Shen family could never be a crazy person.
His grandfather finally realized the seriousness of the situation, so he gave him a choice.
He chose to go nowhere.
He wanted to leave the Shen family for a while.
The competitive and growth - forcing environment was just too suffocating.
Because he was smart, almost everyone forgot that he was just a child of a few years old.
No one cared about his inner growth.
His closest blood relatives.
One had gone to heaven.
One wished he would die tomorrow.
The other only saw him as a tool for power struggle.
Maybe there was love, but not much.
He contacted his maternal grandfather.
Fortunately, his sudden outburst made his grandfather realize that he couldn't restrict him like this anymore.
So it was very smooth for him to leave the Shen family at that time.
His maternal grandparents were in poor health, and they didn't have much energy to take care of him.
His grandfather was an old friend of his master. They were old acquaintances.
When his grandfather took him to the Taoist temple to chat with his friend, he fell in love with that shabby little Taoist temple.
He told his grandfather that he wanted to stay in the Taoist temple.
His master didn't refuse and took him as his disciple.
He was ranked third.
Normally, the ranking in the Taoist temple was based on the order of entry.
But for some reason, his master insisted on ranking him third, pushing the original third senior brother, Liu Chuchen, to the fourth position.
Every time Liu Chuchen called him third senior brother after that, his tone was full of resentment.
Life in the Taoist temple was hard and boring.
There was no young master here, and there was no distinction between the rich and the poor.
Everyone was a disciple of the master, and there was no favoritism.
He, who had never done any housework before, started to learn how to chop wood on the mountain and catch fish in the river.
He learned to carry water and do odd jobs, to be self - reliant.
This kind of life was so wonderful.
It was a kind of beauty he had never experienced before.
In the second year after he entered the Taoist temple, his master asked the eldest senior brother to go out and pick up a baby from a designated place.
That baby was Niannian.
A white, tender, soft, and tiny little ball.
Wrapped in a dirty, ragged cloth.
Those big grape - like eyes were so bright.
It was a kind of purity he had never seen before.
In the Shen family, all he saw was intrigue. Even though they were united on the surface, everyone had their own agenda.
He sneaked into his master's room in the middle of the night and just couldn't get enough of looking at the little ball.
Later, seeing how much he liked Niannian, his master simply let him take care of her.
Then he started to learn how to change diapers, feed the baby, and lull her to sleep.
He learned things quickly and soon mastered the tricks. He raised the little ball to be white and tender, and he felt really satisfied.
But as the little ball grew up unsteadily.
He was a little afraid that Niannian would be bullied when she went down the mountain in the future.
He started to instill some fallacies in the little ball, guiding her to be a person who seemed hard to mess with.
He taught her the principles of dealing with people that he had mastered.
And because of the little ball, he studied even harder.
He wanted to be Niannian's eternal backing. Even if she caused the biggest trouble, he could solve it.
Well, he did it.
After he returned home, he passed all the tests set by the Shen family to select the family head.
His little ball would never be bullied wherever she went in the future.