"My elders, you, you are just trying to force me to death?" A weak and hoarse questioning voice seemed to have exhausted all Yang Zhao's strength.
Her body was shaking and her breathing was gasping.
Everyone was confused.
Even the old ladies kneeling in front of the table didn't quite understand what Yang Zhao meant. They had been forced to apologize to their ancestors, so what else did she want?
"Yang Zhao, we are already preparing to apologize to our ancestors today, why do you have to..." he said aggressively.
"Third uncle grandma!"
Yang Zhao interrupted, his entire body resurfacing as if with a last burst of energy. A flush flushed on his face, and his hoarse voice trembled with anger: "I've already made it clear before that I wasn't attacked by bandits! You didn't believe me and insisted on using your virtuous woman's tricks to strangle me. Now, the Empress Dowager has just bestowed the plaque of chastity and martyrdom, and you're here to publicly confess your crimes to our ancestors. Don't you want me to die with the reputation of being unfilial?"
Let the elders apologize to the ancestors because of themselves.
It seems... it's really unfilial!!
The onlookers seemed to have thought of this as well, and began to discuss: "This seems to be true!"
"If this matter is brought up later, Mrs. Shen will be labeled as unfilial, right?"
"These days, being unfilial is a serious crime."
"Tsk! Just now I thought the Shen family was doing things with integrity, but now that I think about it, they probably had to rush out and do superficial work because the Queen Mother bestowed the plaque."
"This is because they are afraid that the Queen Mother will blame them!"
"The Shen family is truly a family of scholars. They are so quick-witted!"
When the Shen family's steward saw this, he was immediately anxious. Didn't the lady say she was dying? Why did she come out to mess things up at this time?
The manager didn't care about anything else and could only quickly wink in several directions towards the crowd.
Suddenly, a loud voice rang out from the crowd: "Madam Shen, aren't you just making excuses? The old ladies are apologizing to their ancestors, which means they have realized their mistakes. This is a good virtue. How can you distort their meaning?"
"That's right. You're really unfilial for coming out and questioning your elders like this."
"That's right. Young people are afraid of being labeled as unfilial, so they shout at their elders in anger right then and there. That's the real unfilial behavior..."
"puff--"
Amidst those sounds, Yang Zhao spat out a mouthful of blood, and the blood instantly splattered all over the ground.
"lady!"
The maids exclaimed.
The scene suddenly became quiet.
But at this time...
"Being unfilial to your elders will bring retribution!" A bald-headed boy in the crowd suddenly shouted at the top of his voice.
Everyone immediately turned to look at the source of the sound.
The short, bald-headed boy looked embarrassed, seemingly oblivious to what was happening ahead. He was hiding behind someone and shouting, "The Shen family is such a good family, and those old ladies are all so kind and gentle. You... Mom, what are you doing?"
A middle-aged woman rushed in from outside and grabbed his ear.
"You damned boy, you really made it so hard for me to find you! I was wondering why I couldn't find you, so you came here to join in the fun. If I don't beat you to death today, I won't be called Liu Sanniang."
Liu Sanniang?
Isn't this the famous shrew in the neighborhood?
"I finally found you a good job as a waiter in a tavern, but you don't work hard. You just do your best to sneak around and roam the streets..."
After being beaten several times, Baldy-head cried out in pain: "Mom, Mom, please stop, I'm making money now. The manager said that if I finish it, I can get ten taels of silver! Really, please stop, it hurts..."
"How dare you lie? We've all come here to watch the fun, and you still dare to say you're making money."
Liu Sanniang slapped the bald-headed man a few more times, making him cry out, "Mom, stop hitting me! I'm really making money. The Shen family's steward said that if I follow the loudest person in the crowd and shout a few more times, and say something good about the Shen family, I can get ten taels of silver..."
"Ten taels of silver?" Liu Sanniang stopped.
Turning her head and looking around, she quickly spotted the frozen-faced Shen family steward. Liu Sanniang excitedly called out, "Shen family steward? Is what my son said true? Is it true that just by shouting a few times and saying something nice about the Shen family, I can get ten taels of silver? I have a loud voice and am especially good at saying nice things. If I shout with my son, can we both get the money?"
The crowd was silent.
Everyone looked at the Shen family's manager.
The Shen family's steward was sweating on his forehead. Where on earth did he find this idiot? But before the steward could speak, a commotion was heard from behind.
"Make way, we are from the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion!"
The servants led the way.
Seeing this, everyone quickly made way for them.
Then, a beautiful woman in a mink cloak, surrounded by servants and maids, came hurriedly with small steps supported by a nanny, and a series of maids and old women followed behind her.
"That's the wife of the Zhenbei Marquis!"
"The Marquis of Zhenbei has finally arrived."
“Mrs. Shen now has someone to rely on!!”
"Madam, it's Madam."
Dong Shuang also opened her voice in surprise.
Yang Zhao, who had just vomited blood and was about to faint, slowly raised his head when he heard the voice. When he saw the beautiful woman approaching, he saw her eyes redden, and her blood-stained lips cried out in a sobbing voice: "Mother..."
The beautiful woman who was walking towards Yang Zhao suddenly froze.
Mother?
Did she hear it right?
That little bitch actually called her mother? ?
However, before she could react, Yang Zhao closed his eyes and fainted.
"Madam, madam!"
"Madam, please come and save the lady. She has been having a high fever for the past few days. When she heard the servants say that the elders of the Shen family were going to complain to the ancestors, she was determined to get up and stop them. Now I'm afraid the lady is about to die..."
…
Before the ceremony began in the ancestral hall, Old Madam Shen wore her second-rank imperial robes and went out towards the imperial palace.
The second thing Shen Li said.
She was required to kneel down at the palace gate in person and ask Yang Zhao to send an imperial physician to treat her.
Regardless of whether she could invite the imperial physician or not, the old lady was already prepared to kneel for an hour this time, so that she could pretend to faint and be carried back.
But she had just arrived at the palace gate.
She saw a familiar figure kneeling at the palace gate. Old Madam Shen took a closer look and her eyes widened: "Why is Xia Ying here?"
Just as the old lady was about to get off the carriage, a servant came running up from behind, panting. "Old lady, no, it's bad! Someone's coming from the Zhenbei Marquis's Mansion. Madam was so angry that she vomited blood and fainted at the gate of the ancestral hall..."
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