Seeing that Xiao Yunyu had already prepared two dishes, in order to prevent everyone from being hungry at noon, Li Nian insisted that he stop there and let Yu Niang prepare the remaining dishes.
Unlike Xiao Yunyu, a novice, Yu Niang’s cooking is not only fast but also delicious.
All the dishes were placed on the table.
The fish soup, which was supposed to be milky white, was turned off-white by Xiao Yunyu. This was not a big deal, but the whole fish was cooked into a mushy mess.
Because Li Nian was watching, the cabbage was stir-fried and the heat seemed just right, but he forgot to add salt!
When Xiao Yunyu's dishes were placed on the same table and compared with Yu Niang's dishes, they looked particularly rubbish.
But even so, Li Sisi was jealous!
Why is it that Xiao Yunyu's dishes look so good even though it's his first time cooking?!
Li Sisi was eating the rice in her bowl, feeling unconvinced.
After finishing their meal, Li Nian and Li Sisi followed Xiao Yunyu to the yamen to see Shen Baiying.
Shen Baiying was arranged to stay in the official residence of the government office. When they arrived, the door of the official residence was closed and Shen Qianye was waiting outside with a worried look on his face.
Li Sisi walked over quickly and asked worriedly, "Brother Qianye, how is Baiying?"
Shen Qianye shook his head: “Brother Pei and my mother are accompanying him in the room.”
The door was not closed tightly, and Pei Yu'an's voice faintly came from the room: "I have prepared the medicine for you. As for the final choice, it is up to you."
Aunt Shen's voice was louder, so her words could be roughly heard: "What else is there to choose? Pei Er, thank you for your kindness, but we women are different from you men. Take this medicine."
"Wuwuwu..." Shen Baiying's intermittent sobbing sounded.
Li Sisi frowned and raised her hand to knock on the door.
After a moment of silence in the house, footsteps slowly approached and the door was opened from the inside.
Li Sisi was shocked when she saw Pei Yu'an, who had lost a lot of weight.
Pei Yu'an was also stunned, but after a moment he returned to his normal gentle and polite demeanor, and said softly, "You are here to see Bai Ying, right?"
He stepped aside and said, "Come in. You girls are always easier to talk to."
"good."
Li Sisi responded and walked into the house, and Li Nian followed Li Sisi into the house.
Inside the house, Aunt Shen saw Li Sisi and Li Nian come in, and whispered to Shen Baiying: “Don’t say what you can’t say, and save some face for our family.”
Shen Baiying nodded when she heard this, and the tears in her eyes, which were already red and swollen from crying, burst out in an instant.
Li Sisi had just walked to the bed and sat down when Shen Baiying suddenly moved back, as if resisting her approach.
Li Sisi's heart tightened upon seeing this. She lowered her voice with concern on her face, "Bai Ying, don't be afraid. Nian Nian and I just came to see you. We want to know how you're doing. I heard you were injured. Is it serious?"
Shen Baiying's face was pale and bloodless, and she clenched her teeth tightly, looking at Li Sisi and Li Nian beside her with eyes full of pain.
Then, as if she suddenly remembered something, she stared at Li Nian and asked, "Niannian, why did you give birth to Jinhe alone?"
Li Nian was shocked. Could it be that...
When Li Sisi heard Shen Baiying suddenly ask this question, she also thought of something.
She hurriedly lowered her voice and asked, "Bai Ying, the baby in your belly is not Wang Yi's, right?"
Shen Baiying said hurriedly: "No, don't talk nonsense! I'm not pregnant!" She seemed angry, with anger on her face and an angry voice: "What are you thinking?! Why do you want to slander my innocence!"
"But you..." Li Sisi wanted to say something but was stopped by Li Nian.
Li Nian stopped Li Sisi from speaking, and looked at Shen Baiying's solemn explanation: "I gave birth to Jinhe because I wanted a child of my own, but everyone's situation is different. Whether to keep or not, make the most appropriate choice based on your own vital interests, and don't care about worldly views."
"Don't care about worldly opinions?" Shen Baiying suddenly laughed sarcastically. "Don't care about worldly opinions. You say it so lightly!"
She suddenly opened her collar, revealing traces of abuse marks before the two men's eyes.
Some are deep, some are shallow, some are new, and some are old. It is obvious that they were not caused by a single method.
She looked at Li Nian with despair, then at Li Sisi: "Can you understand my pain?! You know nothing! If these scars remained on you, if this happened to you, would you still say such nonchalant words?"
"I'm so dirty..."
When Li Sisi saw the scars on Shen Baiying's body, her eyes were instantly sore and uncomfortable. She had always hoped that Baiying could return safely and that she would not encounter any accidents.
But now we have this result.
"Bai Ying, you're not dirty! It's the perpetrators who are dirty!"
The marks on Bai Ying's body brought back some bad memories for Li Nian. Her fingers clenched tightly and trembled slightly as they hung at her side. The anger in her heart was like boiling magma, rushing around but being suppressed by her reason.
Her suppressed voice trembled slightly: "Bai Ying, do you want revenge? Return all the pain those people have inflicted on you."
When Shen Baiyingrang heard this, his expression froze.
Revenge? This was something she wouldn't even dare to dream of. That person was a powerful official. How could she, an ordinary citizen, take revenge?
Even when my mother heard the man's identity, she didn't dare to mention revenge.
Even the prefect only arranged for that man to live in a side room, while she, the victim, had to live in the official's house.
With such a huge disparity in status, how could she dare to think about revenge?
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