Mother Shen sighed, "This is the bargaining chip I negotiated with Zhang Caiyun. We, the third branch of the family, work for her, and she gives us meat soup. Now Xinghe and Mingjiao need it even more."

That makes perfect sense.

Just as Shen Xinghe raised his bowl to drink, Mu Wanting suddenly spoke up.

"etc."

Shen Xinghe was taken aback, and then he saw Mu Wanting take the bowl and smell a very faint medicinal smell.

She took a small sip, and her brows furrowed instantly.

"Shen Xudong, stop."

Just as Shen Xudong was about to leave, he subconsciously turned around and looked at Mu Wanting.

As soon as he turned around, a hard slap came at him. He couldn't dodge in time, and his cheek swelled up from the slap.

He roared, "What are you doing!"

Mu Wanting smiled, but Shen Xudong felt a chill run down his spine and subconsciously took a step back.

He was slapped again by Mu Wanting, and this time he fell to the ground.

The sight of a petite woman slapping a muscular man to the ground is incredibly striking.

Mu Wanting looked at him with a sinister grin.

"Why do you think I hit you?"

Not only Shen Xudong, but everyone else was also full of question marks.

Shen Xudong said, "I just served them meat soup."

Mu Wanting squatted down, pinched his nose, and poured the meat soup from his hand into his mouth.

Shen Xudong refused to drink, but Mu Wanting's skill in getting him to drink was superb, and Shen Xudong was forced to swallow it.

Then she immediately tried to vomit, and Mu Wanting raised an eyebrow, looking quite surprised.

"This is meat broth, Shen Xudong. Isn't it your favorite drink? Why did you vomit it up so quickly? Could there be poison in the broth?"

Shen Xudong couldn't speak, he just kept gagging.

"Fine, you damned Mu Wanting, I kindly helped your third branch of the family, and you do this to my son."

Zhang Caiyun rushed towards Mu Wanting. After seeing Shen Xudong being forced to drink a bowl of meat soup, her eyes widened in fury, and she was about to raise her hand to hit Mu Wanting.

Mu Wanting grasped her wrist: "I'm refraining from hitting you because you're my elder. But since you made a mistake, it's perfectly reasonable for me to hit your son."

As he spoke, he stepped on Shen Xudong, who was trying to get up.

Zhang Caiyun angrily retorted, "What are you saying?"

Mu Wanting sneered: "You bring two bowls of meat soup to our family every night now, and that's probably what you brag about to outsiders—how kind you are."

“But that was earned by our third branch through our hard work. And yet you poisoned the medicine that should have belonged to our third branch.”

"No wonder Shen Mingjiao, Qin'er, and Shen Xinghe fell ill. If we had arrived any later, they might have been killed by you."

"Second Aunt, you keep saying that you can't write two 'Chen' characters with one stroke, but you, who always talk about the family, actually poisoned someone in the family. It's really shameful."

Upon hearing this, the third branch of the family widened their eyes, their eyes filled with shock and resentment.

That's right. Shen Mingjiao and Shen Xinghe both possess martial arts skills, so how could they be among the first to fall?

And then there's Qin'er, who clearly didn't eat much, but she kept having diarrhea, and there was blood in her stool.

The displaced people also voiced their accusations.

"Zhang Caiyun is really vicious."

"I don't think she's a good person."

Seeing that Shen Xudong was about to get up, Mu Wanting kicked him again, and Zhang Caiyun's eyes turned red with heartache.

"Mu Wanting, you slut, stop spouting nonsense! When did I drug you? I'll fight you to the death!"

As she spoke, Zhang Caiyun lunged at Mu Wanting.

Some of the exiled prisoners also had some doubts.

"Perhaps Mu Wanting really wronged Zhang Caiyun."

"Exactly, who could be so vicious?"

Mu Wanting pulled her into her arms and spoke with a smile.

"Then consider it as me wronging my second aunt. This meat soup is so delicious that it would be a waste if we, the third branch, couldn't finish it. So we'll offer it to my second aunt."

As she spoke, she pinched Zhang Caiyun's mouth and poured meat soup down her throat. Zhang Caiyun's eyes widened, and she struggled fiercely, almost causing Mu Wanting to lose her grip.

After finishing the broth, Zhang Caiyun tried to induce vomiting by sticking her fingers down her throat, her anxious face turning red.

Mu Wanting asked in confusion, "Second Aunt, this meat soup is a good thing, why are you all acting like you've drunk poison?"

Zhang Caiyun didn't have time to answer Mu Wanting; she just went to gag her throat.

Then, before she could successfully induce vomiting, her mother, with red eyes, grabbed her hair and dragged her to the ground.

The usually gentle and weak Mother Shen unleashed tremendous power at this moment.

She slapped Zhang Caiyun's face repeatedly, her eyes red and her face contorted with rage as she cursed.

"You, Zhang Caiyun, I was wondering why you changed your ways. I never imagined you were harboring such malicious intentions."

“We’ve tolerated your beatings and insults, but you absolutely shouldn’t have laid a hand on my children and grandchildren. I can’t even bring myself to curse them, yet you dared to take their lives!”

At this moment, Mother Shen was like a war god possessed, slapping Zhang Caiyun repeatedly with both hands. Zhang Caiyun cursed occasionally as she was slapped.

Her sturdy body tried to get up several times, but Shen's mother, who was petite to begin with, was almost overturned.

Shen Yujiao had long hated Zhang Caiyun and wanted to hit her too, but after being glared at by her mother, she instead held Zhang Caiyun down and let her mother hit her.

Mu Wanting was starting to admire Shen Yujiao. This little firecracker was really reckless. It's shameful for a junior to hit an elder.

Even if we're going to fight, let's not do it openly.

Ma Dazhuang glanced over there, and thinking of Zhang Caiyun's money-making methods, he couldn't let her get beaten to death.

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