This big hat made Mrs. Shen choke!
Uncle San's grandmother seconded the suggestion, not wanting to be bothered. "That's right, sister-in-law. You are now considered our direct ancestor. If you act in a biased way, wouldn't the clan members and the side branches be disheartened? How can they trust the main courtyard in the future?"
"Besides, if this clan member turns against each other, how can the family survive in the long run? If that really happens, sister-in-law, you will be the eternal sinner of our Shen family!"
The Shen family is the eternal sinner?
This huge pot almost made Old Madam Shen's eyes go black. If looks could kill, Third Uncle's grandmother would have been tortured to death by her.
This old bitch!!
However, before she could open her mouth, a burst of angry shouts like a pig being slaughtered rang out from outside: "Let me go, you bitches, let me go quickly..."
The cry came from far away.
After a while.
Shen Sulan, who was dressed neatly but in a very strange way, was carried in by two sturdy women. Her posture was really not good-looking.
Old Madam Shen clenched the armrest and her face suddenly changed.
Shen Sulan was still screaming and struggling in anger; "Let go, if you dare to do this to me, I will let my mother teach you a lesson..."
The daughters-in-law let go of the person only after they had carried him to the hall. Then they bowed to the old ladies present and stood behind their respective mothers-in-law.
Chen then spoke: "Okay, now that everyone is here, let's talk about business first."
Shen Sulan had no idea that these people gathered here to attack her. After Chen spoke, she angrily pointed at the daughters-in-law and said:
"What are you talking about? Didn't you see how they treated me? When did a daughter-in-law in our Shen family ever treat the aunt so rudely?"
"Mom, you have to make the decision for me. These bitches are simply too much. Not only did they break into my yard, they even stripped my clothes and forced them on me..."
"presumptuous!"
Chen's face darkened as she angrily rebuked, "Sister Lan, you are a daughter of the Shen family, yet you are such a bitch, opening your mouth and shutting your mouth in front of your sisters-in-law. You have absolutely no respect for your elders, it's simply outrageous!"
Shen Sulan was so angry that she laughed: "I don't know the etiquette of respect and inferiority? Then why don't you ask them what they did to me..."
"How dare you talk back!"
Chen's face turned cold as she looked at Old Madam Shen: "Li, this is the daughter you raised? She even dares to talk back to her elders. If this gets passed around, who in our Shen family will dare to marry her in the future?"
Shen Sulan still wanted to refute.
"Lan'er!"
Madam Shen spoke up, her eyes gloomy, and she said in a cold voice: "As a junior, you must not talk back to your elders!"
"Mom!" Shen Sulan's eyes widened in anger.
How could Old Madam Shen not be angry? But what could she do? These old guys had clearly come prepared, specifically to cause trouble for them and their daughter.
Madam Shen took a deep breath and then looked at Chen Lan: "Sister-in-law Lan, since you have already made things so serious, you might as well just tell me what you want!"
Chen is the wife of the head of the Shen family, so her status is naturally different.
If the matron who managed the main courtyard had not come to her house this morning with great fanfare to collect the debt and wanted to get back all the money and items that she had "borrowed" over the past six years, she would not have shown up.
After all, she didn't want to fall out with the main courtyard.
Chen looked at Shen Sulan, and then said to Old Madam Shen; "How about this, don't accuse us elders of bullying the younger ones. Since it is your main courtyard that wants to settle the accounts of these years, then let's settle them together."
"That's right. The money and items that Sister Lan 'borrows' from our Shen family every year must be calculated first. We should sort out the external accounts first before we can manage the internal accounts." Uncle San's grandmother echoed.
"Madame Lu and the others are here, and the account books are ready. Let's settle the accounts right in front of Sister Lan. When she returns the money and items she owes, even if we have to sell everything we have, we will settle the accounts for all these years."
"What debt? When did I owe you a debt?" Shen Sulan was immediately unhappy when she heard this.
What do you mean she owes a debt?
What a joke, why would she need to borrow money from them? Her mother's main courtyard is a golden nest.
Seeing Shen Sulan's reaction, Third Uncle's grandmother knew that she still didn't know what was going on, and immediately said, "Of course it's the silver, money, objects, and maids and servants you took from our Shen family over the years!"
What?
Shen Sulan looked confused.
Third Uncle's grandmother had already called out to Aunt Lu: "Aunt Lu, what are you still standing there for? Hurry up and bring up the account books so that Aunt Lan can take a closer look."
Nanny Lu stepped forward and handed over the account book that she had prepared earlier.
Shen Sulan took it subconsciously, and when she saw the clearly listed accounts on it, her expression suddenly changed, because the records were too clear, so clear that it even recorded a celadon bottle she took away when she returned to her parents' home for the first time after Yang Zhao took over the family.
"What do you mean?"
"Could it be that if I go back to my parents' home and use some of their things, I will be confiscated? I am the daughter of the Shen family. Isn't it natural for me to use my parents' things..."
"Sister-in-law, listen to what Sister Lan said. What do you mean by taking it for granted? Whose daughter-in-law would take away more than 10,000 taels of silver from her parents' home every year? Is this her family's daughter? She's simply a blood-sucking leech!" The third uncle's grandmother opened her voice, and her contemptuous eyes seemed to pierce Shen Sulan.
"That's right, I've never seen a married woman who sucks her mother's blood like this!"
"A daughter once married off is like spilled water. You are now a wife of the Chen family. How can you take it for granted that you can drain our Shen family's money to subsidize your Chen family?"
"That's just not the way it is!"
"Pay back the money."
“You, you guys…”
Shen Sulan was so angry that her face turned blue. She opened her mouth to refute, but she didn't know how to refute. She could only look at Mrs. Shen in the main seat: "Mother!"
Old Madam Shen's face was gloomy, but she didn't say anything at this time.
Because even if she doted on Shen Sulan, it couldn't change the fact that she was a daughter married out of the family. She was unwilling to use her own money to subsidize other families, but...
"mother……"
"What's going on?"
At this time, Shen Li's mother Yin came in from outside the gate.
She was wearing a long purple velvet silk dress and had a beautiful face that was well-maintained, making her look young and beautiful. It was hard to tell that she was in her early forties.
After she entered the hall, before she saluted everyone, she saw Shen Sulan's weird dress and her pale face that looked like a ghost, and she immediately exclaimed:
"Auntie, why are you so pale? Are you sick? You can't delay treatment if you're sick. You have to see a doctor as soon as possible."
When Old Madam Shen saw Yin, she frowned and asked, "Why are you here?"
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