After Shen's mother ran out, she felt that if she went to notify them alone, the speed would definitely be very slow, so she hurried to the kitchen, looked at Ma Song and said:
"I remember you visited our workshop before. This time, please go back and tell the young master and young lady that our aunt has woken up."
"Yes, ma'am, I'll be there right away."
Ma Song, who was assigned the task, set off immediately. He had already gotten familiar with the situation in the vicinity recently, so he was naturally familiar with the route from the Shen family to the workshop.
As for the family, which still needed to be taken care of by Mrs. Jiang, and the remaining little girl Ma Zhuzhu was still young and useless, she hired an ox cart and headed back to her own fields.
When everyone gathered together, they saw the scene of Old Madam Shen and Shen Min hugging each other and crying. It was a pity that Shen Min's voice had not fully recovered yet, and it was difficult for her to say a complete sentence.
Seeing this, no one went out of their way to notify Chen Yan, who was still teaching in the county town.
After everyone stayed with Shen Min for a while, the three people who still had work to do in the workshop left.
However, there was no need to start working in the fields right away, so the brothers Shen Yu and Shen Han did not leave home but stayed by his side.
When Shen Yan came back in the evening, Shen Min's voice was much better than when she had just recovered. She could say five or six words in a sentence. The whole family gathered in Shen Min's room, wanting to hear her talk about how she came to the Northern Territory.
Madam Shen stroked Shen Min's hair and soothed her, "Min'er, you know the traffickers who captured you have been apprehended by the county magistrate. If you can explain how you got here, you might be able to help Lord Wu solve other cases."
Upon hearing this, Shen Min immediately recalled her own tragic experience, and tears began to flow before she could speak. After crying for a while, everyone heard her slowly speak:
"My daughter...is unfilial and has failed to live up to the teachings of the Shen family's ancestors. Now...now I have been divorced...abandoned by my husband's family.
Originally, my daughter wanted... wanted... to just run into a wall and die in the Luo family for the sake of the Shen family's reputation.
But when she thought of her parents still suffering in the North with no news, the daughter felt that... she shouldn't give up like this. She relied on the little money she had on her and walked all the way to the North.
As she walked, she inquired about the news of the Shen family. However, she never expected that the north was bitterly cold and her daughter was frozen to death on the side of the road. Then she met human traffickers who took her as a slave and followed them all the way west.
I originally thought that this was how my life would end, but I didn’t expect to meet my sister-in-law. If it weren’t for her, I… I might have ended my miserable life the moment I was sold.”
Every word was heartbreaking. When people heard it, they couldn't imagine how Shen Min, a penniless woman, could walk all the way from the south to the north.
Shen Min glossed over all the hardships on the road, especially being divorced and sent home, which made the Shen family members unbelievable, especially since this son-in-law was chosen by Shen Yan himself.
Looking at his bruised daughter, Chen Yan couldn't help but ask again, "Why did the Luo family divorce you and send you home? You didn't break any of the seven grounds for divorce. What they did was against the rules! They should be held accountable!"
The more he talked about it, the angrier he became. If his daughter was still in the Luo family, how could she have suffered such a hardship?
When Shen Min heard what the Luo family said, her eyes were full of resentment, but she was afraid that if she told her family, it would make them even more sad, so she stammered and didn't know where to start.
In Shen Yan's eyes, this was a sign of guilt, so he continued to ask, "Could it be you?"
Shen Min wasn't surprised by her father's accusations. Hadn't he taught her this since she was little? Women should learn from women's teachings and observe the Three Obediences and Four Virtues. She did just that, and even then, she couldn't avoid the Luo family's betrayal.
The pain on her face turned into a smile, "It's because my family members were exiled and there was no one to support me. He even lost his dignity and abandoned me to marry his cousin.
The day the news reached Hengzhou Prefecture, the Luo family's attitude towards me was different from before. I even asked my husband to inquire about your news, but he refused my request because you were criminals.
Now it seems that he is just a coward!"
Perhaps because he had already experienced pain and hatred, Shen Min was still able to maintain a relatively good attitude when saying these words.
"Boom!"
"You bastard!"
Hearing Shen Min's words, Shen Yan threw the teacup in front of him to the ground. The sound of broken porcelain was particularly harsh in the whole room.
Although Shen Min did not accuse the Shen family, to Shen Yan, it sounded as if these people were digging into his heart. This son-in-law was the young man he was most optimistic about, but now it seemed that he really did not know him well.
When he was exiled, he thought that the Luo family would take good care of his daughter because of their past friendship. Now it seems that it was just his wishful thinking. The disaster will not affect his married daughter. The Luo family is just a group of treacherous people.
It seems that my vision is not good at all. My daughter was divorced and her dowry should be taken back. It seems that it was definitely withheld by the Luo family.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. Shen Yan was so angry that he started coughing loudly in the room, "Cough cough cough!"
It was all his fault. He chose the wrong person. Otherwise, how could his daughter suffer such humiliation? How would a woman who was divorced and returned to her parents' home live in the future?
How to face other people’s gossip and contemptuous looks?
"father!"
Shen Han, who was beside him, quickly supported Shen Yan and kept pressing on his back to relieve his breath. He never thought that Shen Yan would be so angry that he fainted before he could even say a word.
He collapsed in Shen Han's arms and quickly shouted, "Daddy, Daddy! Go, go get a doctor! Dad has fainted!"
Who would have thought that Shen Yan would faint from anger because of such words. Although the others were also very angry, at least they could still control their temper.
Shen Min never expected that her resentful words would make her old father faint from anger. For a moment, the word "unfilial" kept turning around in her mind.
When Shen Ci heard what his second uncle said, he quickly ran out. The Shen family is really in trouble now. In just a few days, there are already two patients in the family.
It was already dark at this time, and Chen Ci hurried to the pharmacy under the moonlight. When the other party saw him, he put on his medicine box and got on the ox cart without saying a word.
After hearing Shen Min's words, it turned out to be similar to what Shen Jia had expected.
Logically speaking, the Shen family had so many officials at the time, so naturally the people they were willing to marry their daughter to would not be ordinary people. They would either be rich or powerful. Now Shen Min came to the northern border alone, and was even trapped in a cage by human traffickers. Naturally, her situation was not good.
The only possibility is that she has severed ties with her husband's family and traveled alone to the north far away from her hometown.
But I didn't expect that the other party had no respect at all and let an ancient woman walk here. It seems that we still can't have too high expectations of the minds of these vested interests.
When Shen Ci invited the doctor back to the Shen family, after taking the pulse, he said that it was anger that attacked the heart. If it happened again in the future, it might be a sign of a stroke and he needed to recuperate well.
The Shen family was stunned by this. Who could have imagined that Shen Yan, who looked healthy, would be in this state? It was not visible at all on normal days.
Shen Min blamed herself even more and wished she could die on the road. At least if she didn't see her family, she could still think that she was living a good life in the Luo family.
Supported by Shen's mother, she came to Shen Yan's bedside and said self-reproachfully, "It's all because of my unfilial daughter, otherwise my father wouldn't be like this. I've lived to such an old age, and I still have to make my old father worry about me."
Madam Shen consoled her, "This isn't your fault. It's the Luo family's fault. We were so close to them before. They're just a bunch of mean people who only care about their own interests."
Others also came forward to comfort her. Shen Min's experience was really heartbreaking and made anyone cry. How could the fault be put on her?
Mrs. Xu brought in the medicine she had prepared and asked, "Madam, I have already prepared the medicine the doctor ordered."
Mother Shen quickly took it over, “You go down first, you don’t need to be busy here.”
Then he handed the thing to Shen Yu and signaled him to feed the medicine to his father.
Shen Yu imitated the action he had seen before and fed the medicine into Shen Yan's mouth spoon by spoon. Unfortunately, his mouth was closed, and a long time had passed when he finished feeding the bowl of medicine. Seeing that the task was finally completed, Shen Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as he was about to put his father back on the bed, Shen Yan's eyes moved. Shen Yu quickly asked, "Father, are you awake?"
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