Lu Man pursed her lips and said, "Seventh brother, the emperor sent people to drug us last night and raided the entire Protectorate Mansion."
"Tsk, this is the first time I've seen a house raided overnight. How impatient are they..."
Lu Man's expression was full of contempt, and she looked down upon Emperor Tianwu's sneaky behavior.
"Don't talk nonsense. Be careful of your words." Old Madam Shen glared at Lu Man. "From now on, be careful with your words and actions. Don't cause trouble."
No matter how dissatisfied they were, the Duke of Protectorate's Mansion would be raided sooner or later.
They were all going to be exiled, and what happened to this house had nothing to do with them.
Cheng Suihua patted Lu Man's shoulder, who looked very dissatisfied.
"Third sister-in-law, be careful, there are ears behind the walls. The most important thing for us now is to be able to live in exile safely!"
When we just woke up in the morning, we had already cursed each other. Now there are other people outside, so we can't say such things casually.
The seventh brother could still find a way to save them on the road to exile, but if they were beheaded for their careless words, the seventh brother would not be able to save them even if he wanted to.
"I understand. I won't say that again."
Lu Man raised her chin towards the courtyard and said, "Well, here comes someone who wants to take advantage of someone's misfortune. There are some things that really shouldn't be said carelessly."
Everyone turned and looked out the window at the yard.
Ran Xiangyu stood at the gate with a look of disgust on her face. When she saw everyone looking at her, she shouted at the top of her voice,
"They say a phoenix without feathers is no better than a chicken. I think this is quite true."
"Tsk tsk tsk, look at how dirty this yard is. There's no place to step."
"The imperial decree hasn't even been issued yet, and you, the Shen family, have already dug your own graves, ready to bury yourselves?"
“…”
Ran Xiangyu looked at the women of the Shen family with a sarcastic expression, her words seemed to be filled with poison.
How could she not be angry?
She went to great lengths to get close to Chen Yong, the most unsuccessful man in the Duke of Huguo's Mansion, just to promote her family's merchant status.
The Ran family spent at least tens of thousands of taels of silver on Shen Yong.
Although she was not satisfied with Chen Yong's useless appearance, at least Chen Yong was good-looking and was the son of the Duke of Huguo's family.
If Chen Yong hadn't been so ignorant and unskillful, he definitely wouldn't have been fooled by her.
Merchants have a very low status in the capital. The nobles and dignitaries don’t want merchants as their concubines, but they may want concubines.
She had used money to trick Shen Yong into getting engaged to her, and her status in the Ran family had risen rapidly, with her father praising her in every way.
Merchants who have business dealings with her family dare not compete with them.
As a result, before she could marry into the Duke of Huguo's mansion and live a good life as a Shangguan family, the Duke of Huguo's mansion was ransacked.
"Who do you think you are, a little bitch covered in the stink of money!"
Lu Man couldn't swallow this anger, so she rushed to the window and started cursing at Ran Xiangyu.
"Don't forget, you are still the unmarried daughter-in-law of our Shen family. If we refuse to cancel the engagement, you will have to go into exile with us!"
Ran Xiangyu paused, and glared at Lu Man with resentment.
"I'm going to cancel this marriage today. You Shen family won't be so shameless as to cling to me, right?"
Ran Xiangyu glanced back at the servants following her, and she felt more confident.
"Where's that loser Chen Yong? If he's not dead, give me the marriage certificate right away."
As Ran Xiangyu spoke, she walked towards Lu Man.
She was really scared if she didn't get the marriage certificate back.
I should have known not to go to the farm to play. Who would have known that such a big thing would happen to the Shen family in just a few days.
It made her feel so upset that she fell from heaven to earth, and she was so angry that she couldn't sleep last night.
He rushed back early in the morning before it was even light.
Fortunately, she was afraid that her sisters would ruin her good fortune, so she always carried the marriage certificate with her.
Otherwise, I would have to run back home to get the marriage certificate, and I would definitely be laughed at by my sisters.
The more Ran Xiangyu thought about it, the angrier she became, and the corners of her mouth almost drooped to her neck.
"The Ran family's upbringing is truly unacceptable. I wonder which one of them was so shameless as to insist on marrying my seventh brother."
Cheng Suihua looked at Ran Xiangyu who walked in with a sullen face, and her anger was rising.
Old Madam Shen looked at Ran Xiangyu with a sullen face, "We in the Shen family don't have a daughter-in-law like you."
It’s a blessing that the seventh brother hasn’t married such a person, otherwise it would be a misfortune for the family.
Old Madam Shen pursed her lips and glanced sideways at Chen Yong.
Since the seventh brother's previous appearance of being ignorant was all fake, why did he get engaged to Ran Xiangyu?
At the beginning, the seventh brother made a big fuss about getting engaged to Ran Xiangyu, and was beaten by his father and confined to bed for more than 20 days.
Could it be-----to conceal the truth?
Madam Shen glanced at Shen Yong, who was lying on the ground pretending to be dead, and frowned slightly.
Ran Xiangyu was frightened by Mrs. Shen's aura and stopped in her tracks.
The gap between officials and businessmen is not so easy to bridge. She has an instinctive fear of officials' families from the bottom of her heart.
Thinking that the Shen family was going to be exiled today, the status of the prisoners was even lower than that of them, the merchants.
Ran Xiangyu took a deep breath and straightened her back instantly.
"Tsk, who would want to be your daughter-in-law?"
Ran Xiangyu glanced at Chen Yong lying on the ground, gnashing her teeth and taking a deep breath.
"Tsk tsk tsk, look at him covered in blood, is he dead?"
"You are the one who is out of breath, your whole family is out of breath!" Meng Yunfei was so angry that she put her hands on her hips.
"Get out of here!" Chen Yong turned his head and glared at Ran Xiangyu with cold eyes.
He scanned Ran Xiangyu's figure up and down.
This woman's mouth is like it's filled with poison, but her figure is really good.
But how come there is still one fish that slipped through the net? Look at her hair full of pearls and jades, it must be worth a lot of money.
He didn't let the Ran family go last night. How come this woman has so many jewelry to wear?
It’s a pity that he can’t get up now and hold the girl down to snatch away all the jewels and jade from her head.
He is now a seriously injured man. If he stands up alive and well and the news gets out, Emperor Tianwu may become suspicious.
Ran Xiangyu just opened her mouth to blast Meng Yunfei when she heard Shen Yong’s words.
Her heart skipped a beat, and she glared at Chen Yong with her back teeth gritted.
"Death is imminent, yet you still have the nerve to do it."
"Oh!"
"What were you doing this morning..."
This was the first time that Shen Yong spoke to her so loudly. In the past, Shen Yong would hold her with a smile on his face in order to coax her to spend the silver in her hand.
Chen Yong rolled his eyes at Ran Xiangyu. This woman's temperament was not even a little bit worse than that of the six sisters-in-law.
The original owner was indeed hungry and could eat anything.
"If you don't get out of here, when the imperial edict comes, you will be exiled with us."
Oh, I almost forgot, the imperial edict is in his space, and the Shen family will not be able to wait for the imperial edict today.
There will be no more imperial edicts in the future, and the imperial seal is in his hands.
He could write an abdication edict to Emperor Tianwu and stamp it with a big seal.
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