As luck would have it, his question just hit the girl's sore spot!
Just as Shen Qiqi guessed, the girl in front of her was indeed the illegitimate daughter raised by the Fifth Elder. Her name was Shen Xinlian and she was fifteen years old.
Although Chen Xinlian was an illegitimate daughter and her identity was not to be revealed, the Fifth Elder still loved this illegitimate daughter who was raised outside very much. He bought a large courtyard with two entrances and two exits for the mother and daughter in Yuzhou City. The mother and daughter were usually served by servants for their food and drink, and he never treated the mother and daughter unfairly in daily expenses.
It can be said that, except for not being able to give Chen Xinlian a visible identity, all the treatment Chen Xinlian enjoys is no doubt the same as that of a young lady from an aristocratic family.
It is precisely because of this that Chen Xinlian developed a spoiled daughter's temper.
However, all these treatments came to an abrupt end after the evil deeds of the five elders were exposed.
At the beginning, Chen Xinlian and her mother relied on their savings over the years to make ends meet.
Unfortunately, as if things were not bad enough, a cunning servant bullied his master and took away all the savings of the mother and daughter. Even the house where the mother and daughter lived was secretly sold by the servant.
It was only when the new landlord came to inspect the house that the mother and daughter realized what had happened. Shen Xinlian's mother immediately became so angry that her face turned pale and she fainted.
However, life still has to go on. Fortunately, Shen Xinlian's mother was relatively stable. After being driven out of the house where she had lived for more than ten years, Shen's mother pawned the few remaining jewelry on her body, and used the silver from the pawning to buy a small house on the outskirts of the city, and then moved in with Shen Xinlian.
They had a place to stay, but the mother and daughter had very little money left. If they wanted to avoid going hungry in the future, they had to work by themselves.
Since she was born, Chen Xinlian has lived a life of having everything provided for her, not to mention getting her feet dirty and working in the fields. From childhood to adulthood, she has never even washed her own clothes once.
Working in the fields was something she would never do, so she came up with an idea: to pay someone to do the work for her, so as to deal with Mother Shen.
The end result of her doing this was that she had squandered the last bit of money left in the family before the crops were harvested.
This is how the scene of a mother and daughter carrying a basket of vegetables to sell in a restaurant on a rainy day came about.
From a rich lady with fine clothes and delicious food, she suddenly became a poor person who had no food to eat unless she worked in the fields. The gap between them can be imagined.
Therefore, Shen Xinlian not only hated Miss Shen, she hated everyone in the Shen family.
In her opinion, the reason why she and her mother ended up in such a miserable situation was all because the Shen family killed her father.
If her father were still alive, how could she and her mother have lived such a hard life?
The more Chen Xinlian thought about it, the sadder she became, and the sadder she became, the more grief-stricken and angry she became. Facing the accusations from everyone, she was so angry that she almost bit her teeth to pieces.
These stupid lowly people, their houses were burned down, but they still want to protect the arsonists, isn't it because the arsonists are from the Shen family? They are all a bunch of opportunistic villains!
Chen Xinlian's eyes were red. She knew that she couldn't argue with everyone, nor could she beat Shen Qiqi. If she continued to stay here, she would only bring shame upon herself.
She looked at Shen Qiqi unwillingly: "You can flatter whoever you want, I don't care... Give me back my things!"
After she finished speaking, she subconsciously raised her right hand, but a sharp pain came over her, and she suddenly remembered: her arm was broken by this little bitch who appeared out of nowhere!
The anger in Chen Xinlian's eyes suddenly intensified, and she really wanted to say to Shen Qiqi: "And this arm of mine, you broke my arm, you have to compensate me for my medical expenses!"
However, looking at Shen Qiqi's contemptuous look, and thinking about the ruthlessness of Shen Qiqi when she broke her arm without blinking an eye, she knew that even if she said those words of compensation, Shen Qiqi would not really compensate her.
Maybe even her other arm was broken.
Chen Xinlian had no choice but to swallow the bitter pill by herself.
However, she wanted to leave, but Shen Qiqi had no intention of letting her go so easily.
How can you be so brave as to slander her sister without leaving a trace of skin behind?
Shen Qiqi narrowed her eyes, looked at the two things in her hand, then looked at Shen Xinlian, and happily returned the things to her.
But she erased the small plum blossom pattern that Miss Shen had carefully carved on the soft sword.
The picture carved by my sister herself is very precious. How can I let this person... Oh, she still doesn't know the name of the Fifth Elder's illegitimate daughter.
Just at this moment, a woman's voice was heard outside the restaurant.
"Xinlian! Xinlian——"
Following these shouts, a woman hurriedly ran in from outside, pushed through the crowd, and ran straight to Shen Xinlian. When she saw her swollen cheek, her eyes immediately became fierce. When her gaze fell on Shen Xinlian's limp arm, the woman's eyes were not only fierce, but also murderous.
But both of these emotions are like smoke, fleeting and so fast that people cannot catch them.
Unfortunately, from the moment the woman stepped into the restaurant, Shen Qiqi's eyes had been curiously fixed on her.
Moreover, she was extremely sensitive to people's emotions. Not only did she clearly capture the change in the woman's emotions, she could also clearly feel the murderous aura that she released and then retracted.
With such a strong murderous aura, he can still control it so freely. It seems that the concubine that the Fifth Elder keeps outside is no simple person.
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