Having had enough of the amusement, Shen Ning waved his hand and said, "Throw him out."
Seeing him off? He doesn't even deserve to be a guest.
"Chen Ning!"
Wei Congwen's pride was trampled on, and he finally lost his temper: "Why do you keep bringing up the past? I'm here to talk to you about business, so don't try to make trouble for me."
Shen Ning rolled her eyes at her: "Did I beg you to come see me? Who's being unreasonable here?"
Wei Congwen gritted his teeth: "So you don't want to save Shen Ming?"
Shen Ning was speechless: "He's from the second branch of the family, good for nothing, good for nothing, a useless piece of trash. Why would I save him? You should make a deal with the second branch; they'd be happy to help you persuade Shen Shu."
The second wife? It was because the second wife's people went to Shen Shu that things got even worse.
Wei Congwen was furious, but Shen Ning sat upright in the hall, looking down at him with a deep gaze.
“Wei Congwen, you don’t need to repay what you owe me, nor do you need to apologize. I’ll just sit here and watch your retribution.”
Wei Congwen left and bumped into Du Yunzhi, who was arriving at the door. Du Yunzhi was then scolded several times.
"unlucky!"
Du Yunzhi strode in: "Why did he come to see you? Did he give you any trouble?"
Shen Ning smiled and looked over: "Who does he think he is?"
"Too."
Du Yunzhi forgot about Wei Congwen and plopped down next to Shen Ning: "A Ning, can you help me persuade my father?"
Shen Ning raised an eyebrow. Which deity had she offended today? Why did she have to persuade people?
What happened to your father?
Du Yunzhi, with a long face, poured out her grievances: "It's all because of that Du Rufeng. He colluded with Shen Ming and now they're both locked up. My father is so anxious and is trying every possible way to get them out."
“He wanted Ye Feiyan’s father to help him, but my mother stopped him with a stool, saying that if he dared to go out, she would divorce him. That’s why my father didn’t go. But these past two days he’s been contacting his connections and even wanted to give Lord Lu a gift.”
"He bribed the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, how many heads does he have to lose?"
“I thought my father just wanted to take care of the younger generation of the same clan, and since he had done him a favor, he paid more attention to him. But guess what I heard this morning? My father was actually discussing with someone about adopting Du Rufeng.”
Du Yunzhi spoke with an incredulous expression: "My father said he only hoped that after he died, a male heir would break the basin, so that Du Rufeng could transfer his household registration to the capital and participate in the imperial examination next year. A portion of the family property would go to Du Rufeng, but the majority would still go to me."
Du Yunzhi felt absurd and pained: "Why is he only making a fuss now? My mother never said she wouldn't give him a son, and I didn't object to having a younger brother. I really love my father; he's no different from my own father. He's just worried about my mother's health and afraid she'll die if she has another child. We've been loving and happy for so many years, and now he's suddenly making such a fuss... He..."
Shen Ning hugged her, and Du Yunzhi cried her heart out in her arms.
Shen Ning could truly empathize with this feeling.
However, it's just because she's a girl, not a son.
If Du Yunzhi were a man, Du Sande would never have considered adoption. A stepson is still a son, but a stepsister is still a daughter.
He's getting old, and his health hasn't been so good these past two years, so naturally he's started thinking about what will happen after he passes away.
By adopting the son of a relative who had been a benefactor, he helped the benefactor, repaid the debt of gratitude, and also helped himself. Moreover, he left most of his property to his daughter, thus doing justice to his wife and daughter.
From his perspective, he's right, but it's hard for his wife and daughter, who have been together for many years and love each other, to accept an outsider, especially one who isn't a good person.
For a moment, Shen Ning didn't know how to persuade Du Yunzhi. It seemed that what she needed was not persuasion. She hugged her and comforted her, thinking carefully about Du Rufeng. He didn't seem to have appeared in her memories of her past life. But two years after Du Yunzhi married into the Ye family, both members of the Du family passed away one after another. At that time, she happened to be away from home. When she returned, everything had settled down. Du Yunzhi only said that her father had died of a serious illness and her mother had followed him in grief.
Shen Ning was too busy to investigate, but now that she thinks about it, there must be another reason.
Shen Ning finally managed to coax Du Yunzhi, and the two were about to have dinner when Ye Feiyan arrived.
Du Yunzhi didn't want him to see her red eyes, so she ran inside to tidy herself up.
After Ye Feiyan greeted them and sat down, Shen Ning asked the people around him to step back a bit. Only then did Ye Feiyan ask directly, "How do you plan to handle this?"
Ye Feiyan didn't know what Shen Ning did on Qixi Festival. Shen Ning only told him to spend time with Du Yunzhi.
But the truth came out the next day, and Ye Feiyan, cunning as a fox, could easily see through it.
He was certain that Shen Ming and Du Rufeng had tried to do something to Shen Ning, but she had caught them red-handed.
Those two definitely deserved to die, but now the second branch of the Shen family and Du Sande are doing everything they can to get them out, especially since this has clearly harmed Du Yunzhi.
For the sake of his marriage and his future wife, he had to intervene.
Shen Ning showed no panic at being seen through, remaining calm: "He can't handle this situation; he has impressed me greatly."
Shen Ning knew that Shen Ming was no good and that he had committed many evils, but she never expected him to be this bad.
Her original intention was simply to manipulate the people around Shen Ming into turning against him and suing him, so that he would suffer in jail. Little did she expect that those people would act like loan sharks, and after a few rounds, Shen Ming would end up in jail several times over.
This is no longer a question of whether she wants to end this or not; even if the Heavenly King himself came, he couldn't stop it.
It's infuriating that someone like that could have lived longer than her in her previous life; Heaven is truly blind.
Ye Feiyan was speechless. The feeling of causing trouble and then just walking away was really tempting: "...Are you just going to ignore everything?"
Shen Ning gave him a look that let him understand: "Thank you for your kind words, Young Master Ye."
He actually thought she could handle this?
Ye Feiyan was also convinced: "My father can say a few words to Lord Lu of the Dali Temple. If you have any ideas, you should speak up as soon as possible."
Shen Ning understood, and he still intended to help Du Sande.
"Du Rufeng's crime doesn't warrant death; there's really no need to bail him out."
Du Rufeng hadn't been with Shen Ming for long, and his first major misdeed was trying to take action against Shen Ning. As long as Shen Ning didn't report him, his previous minor offenses would at most result in him being imprisoned for a period of time and then sent back to his hometown. Of course, people with criminal records cannot take the imperial examinations, and he could forget about entering officialdom again.
Ye Feiyan frowned: "But Du Rufeng is in a bad situation right now. He has been implicated and tortured, and he is tied to Shen Ming. He probably won't be able to leave until Shen Ming's case is over. If he continues like this, he will probably die inside."
Things were fine when he was in Shuntian Prefecture, but once he went to Dali Temple, things changed. Even his father couldn't easily interfere.
Shen Ning helplessly spread his hands: "What's the use of telling me? If you're so capable, then go ahead and bail them out. You can't expect me to bail people out, can you?"
If Du Rufeng wanted to ruin her life by raping her, it wouldn't be too much for her to kill Du Rufeng. Why would she still try to save her?
She's not out of her mind.
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