Chapter 127 If there's no mirror in the house, surely there's urine?
These words instantly reopened a deep wound in Shen Yuejiao's heart, and her face turned pale.
Su Xiaoyu immediately stepped forward, shielding Shen Yuejiao behind her, her eyes turning icy: "Miss Du, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. Public and private matters should be kept separate. Other people's private affairs are none of your business, so please watch your words!"
Du Tingting scoffed, raising her chin slightly: "What? Am I not telling the truth?"
"Last time at Wangjiang Tower, didn't you run away crying? But don't worry, I'm not interested in a servant's private affairs."
After speaking, she turned to look at the Shen family mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and put on a polite smile.
"Aunt Shen, Madam Shen, and Madam Shen, are you well? My mother is already waiting upstairs. Please come upstairs with me."
Seeing how polite she was, Sister-in-law Shen couldn't help but ask, "Miss Du, do you know these two people?"
Du Tingting glanced disdainfully at Su Xiaoyu and Shen Yuejiao, "We did meet a few times, but their 'deeds' have been circulating among the noble ladies of Beijing for a while."
Sister-in-law Shen immediately became interested and leaned forward to ask, "Oh? What does that mean?"
Du Tingting paused, admiring Shen Yuejiao's face, which was gradually turning pale with tension, and smiled:
"It's nothing, I just heard that this Miss Shen already has someone she loves, and that person happens to be the fiancé of this Miss Su over there."
"Sigh, in short, the relationships involved are a tangled mess."
Upon hearing this, the expressions on the faces of the three members of the Shen family—mother-in-law and daughter-in-law—were quite interesting.
"What?! Is this really true?"
They originally thought Shen Yuejiao was just a wealthy merchant's daughter, but they never expected her private life to be so immoral, and that she had even stolen a man from someone else.
If we were to take them in, wouldn't that tarnish the reputation of the Shen family?
When Shen's mother looked at Shen Yuejiao again, her expression instantly changed from greed and scheming to undisguised disgust and contempt.
“I thought she was a girl from a respectable family, but I never expected her to be so shameless inside. She is absolutely unworthy of my son. Our Shen family has a tradition of poetry and scholarship, and we cannot afford a woman who is entangled with others and whose reputation is unclear. Otherwise, she will tarnish our family name.”
These words were like steel thorns, piercing Shen Yuejiao's whole body, and tears of humiliation quickly welled up in her eyes.
Su Xiaoyu originally wanted to endure it for a while to keep things calm, but she really couldn't stand the shamelessness and lack of any bottom line of these people.
"Miss Du!" she raised her voice, shielding Shen Yuejiao behind her, and went all out.
"Don't think I won't scold you just because you're ugly! Even the butcher at the market can't chop dumpling filling as much as you talk."
"There are so many weapons in the martial world, yet you insist on learning the sword (cheap). You don't learn the superior sword, but the inferior one (cheap). You don't learn the golden sword, but the lewd sword (cheap). You're offered the title of Sword Immortal, but you won't accept it. You're offered the title of Sword God, but you won't accept it. You insist on shamelessly crying and shouting that you want to be a swordsman (cheap person)! You've truly become one with the person, reaching the highest realm of the cheap way!"
After a barrage of insults, Du Tingting was stunned for three breaths before she realized that Su Xiaoyu was calling her a slut.
Her face instantly turned a deep purplish-red, and her hand trembled as she pointed at Su Xiaoyu.
"You...you wretched servant girl, how dare you! You dare to insult my appearance!"
"So what if I scold you?" Su Xiaoyu raised an eyebrow, her anger undiminished.
"How dare you!" Seeing that Du Tingting was being taken advantage of, Sister-in-law Shen immediately put on a stern face and spoke up in her defense.
"How dare you, a mere maid, slander Miss Du like this? Is there no law left?"
Su Xiaoyu's gaze shifted to the three women in the Shen family, a sarcastic smile playing on her lips:
"Talk to me about the law? If you don't have a mirror at home, you should at least have urine, right?"
Her gaze swept over the teacup beside her: "If all else fails, take a piss and look at yourselves in the mirror. Look at your snobbish, materialistic, and vain faces. You can smell that sour stench from two miles away. With your family's reputation, how dare you say others are disgracing your family? I think your own family's reputation is leaky, only attracting rotten fish and shrimp!"
"You...you wretched servant, what nonsense are you spouting!" Madam Shen was so angry that she trembled all over and almost fell backward.
Looking at the several women whose faces were ashen and who seemed to want to tear her apart, Su Xiaoyu felt a little better.
She pulled Shen Yuejiao up, her gaze sweeping lightly over them, before delivering her final, devastating blow:
"Alright, I'm not going to waste my breath on you guys. I don't even know what to say anymore. How about... I just offer you some incense? After all, some people are alive, but their lives are already dead; their brains have been buried prematurely. Farewell!"
After saying that, she stopped looking at the women who were stunned and whose blood pressure was soaring, grabbed the dazed Shen Yuejiao, and turned to leave.
In the teahouse, the tea drinkers were stunned by this huge revelation.
Only after Su Xiaoyu left did people remember to inquire about her identity.
"Whose maid is this girl? She has a sharp tongue, like a knife."
"That's right, she can even curse without using any swear words. If I had a maid like that, I wouldn't even need to ask her to do it myself."
"Ha, come on, she's a maid from the Yongning Marquis's mansion, very precious. You..."
Du Tingting and the Shen family mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had expected everyone to hurl insults at Su Xiaoyu, saying she was disrespectful and lacked manners.
He was furious when he heard such comments from others.
In the end, Du Tingting could only stomp her feet and go upstairs.
The Shen family mother-in-law and daughter-in-law also muttered a few curses and followed her upstairs.
...
On the carriage, seeing that Shen Yuejiao's expression had softened, Su Xiaoyu took her hand and comforted her, "Yuejiao, people can say whatever they want. Don't care what those gossipy women say. Just treat it as a bit of nonsense and let it go. Don't take it to heart."
Shen Yuejiao forced a smile that looked more like a grimace and patted Su Xiaoyu's hand.
"It's alright. Didn't I just retort at the teahouse? I don't take what those people said to heart."
But her hands, hanging by her sides, clenched tightly in secret.
Su Xiaoyu could tell she was putting on a brave face. She sighed inwardly, hesitated for a moment, and then asked softly:
"Yuejiao... did your cousin... come looking for you again afterward?"
Hearing Su Xiaoyu mention Lu Xinghe again, Shen Yuejiao's heart ached for a moment. She nodded, then shook her head as if thinking of something.
“After my parents came to the capital, they were very wary. I heard from the servants that he came by, but my parents ordered people to stop him at the door. Uncle Lu and Aunt Lu also came by, but my parents avoided seeing them.”
As she said this, her voice grew softer and softer: "It's been so long, he... he probably forgot about it long ago."
After all, his uncle had warned him not to contact him again.
Seeing her dejected look, Su Xiaoyu felt a lump in her throat.
"And what about yourself? Whether it's your parents or your uncle, it doesn't matter. What matters is what you think in your own heart?"
Shen Yuejiao looked up, somewhat bewildered and lost.
After a long pause, she finally stammered, "I...I don't know either."
She forced back the tears welling up in her eyes. "Xiaoyu, I thought I could forget him. I tried, I really tried, but... I still can't forget him..."
At this moment, Shen Yuejiao's long-suppressed emotions seemed to find an outlet, and tears fell like beads from a broken string.
She hurriedly lowered her head to hide her disheveled appearance, not wanting Su Xiaoyu to see her in such a sorry state, but her shoulders couldn't help but tremble slightly.
"Xiaoyu... I... I want to go back to Qinghe County. Maybe if I'm far away, I can forget him."
Seeing her like this, Su Xiaoyu felt extremely sorry for her and cursed Lu Xinghe in her heart again.
She gently patted Shen Yuejiao's shoulder, as if comforting a child: "Alright, alright, don't cry. Since this place is a sad place, we can go back if we want. Qinghe County is so much better. It's a vast and open place, without so many messy rules. Maybe you'll feel better if you go back."
Shen Yuejiao nodded gently in her arms, and her crying gradually stopped.
After a while, her emotions calmed down a bit, and Shen Yuejiao wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, saying:
"Let me take you home first, it's getting late."
Su Xiaoyu looked at the setting sun outside the window. It was indeed getting late. If she went home late, her mother would nag her again.
"good."
Not long after, the carriage stopped in front of the Yongning Marquis's residence. Su Xiaoyu got out of the carriage and shook Shen Yuejiao's hand again.
"Yuejiao, take care of yourself and don't overthink things. If you've made a decision, just do it. Whatever you do, I'll support you."
With red eyes, Shen Yuejiao forced a smile, "Okay, I understand, go back now."
Just as the two were about to part ways, a clattering sound suddenly broke in.
"Alright, Su Xiaoyu, let me see which wild man you're messing around with in broad daylight right at the gate..."
……of! "
Before he finished speaking, Xiao Jingxuan swiftly lifted the carriage curtain with one hand.
Unexpectedly, his gaze met a pair of reddened, round eyes.
Those were extremely beautiful eyes, round in shape, with slightly upturned corners. They had just been crying, and tiny, still-damp teardrops clung to their eyelashes, like butterfly wings covered in morning dew.
His pupils were bright, as if they had just been washed by mountain spring water, so clear that they reflected his dazed expression.
Xiao Jingxuan's carefree smile froze instantly, and his hand holding the folding fan also stiffened in mid-air.
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