The leader was pushed back a few steps by Boss Shen's palm, and asked blankly, "Is this Xinghua Village? This doesn't look like a funeral!"
Old Shen roared, "What funeral? My brother passed the imperial examination and is celebrating!"
Shen Lao Er said, "What's going on with you? No one here hired a band. Who sent you?"
The entire hall was silent. The leader stammered, "Well, well... that person said an elder from Xinghua Village has passed away and is being buried today. They asked us to come and play a piece..."
The commotion outside startled several women who were busy inside. When they came out to see what was happening, they were so shocked that they almost dropped their jaws.
Yang's expression changed immediately, and she went to ask Shen Laosan, "What's going on?"
Old Shen shook his head: "I'm afraid some people have finally lost their temper."
Yang was completely confused, but Lili asked first, "Who said that?"
"It's me!"
Then a woman dressed in white, with a white rope on her head and carrying a basket of white flower petals, stepped out from the procession.
She is Liu Dashi and Xiao Lishi's mother!
Liu's mother walked to the front of the line, stared at Lili, and then glared fiercely at everyone in the Shen family, her face filled with sorrow.
Lili felt ashamed. Just a while ago, she was wondering why Liu's mother hadn't made a move at all, and now she's here.
They really know how to pick a day.
The other members of the Shen family might not recognize who this was, but Old Lady Shen recognized her immediately—wasn't this Little Li's mother?
Village Chief Ma approached with a frown: "Aunt Liu, are you deliberately trying to embarrass Xinghua Village?"
Everyone knows about Liu Dashi's past. He was a gambling addict who also ruined someone else's child. He was hanged a few days ago. Now that Liu's mother is here dressed in white, isn't she just deliberately trying to cause trouble for the Shen family?
Liu's mother scoffed, "Oh dear, I didn't! I'm just holding a funeral for my son!"
Her son, a perfectly healthy person, died in that prison!
And her daughter, she'll spend her whole life in prison, in utter darkness.
She's completely lost face!
She's already so old, first she lost her son, then her daughter, and now her husband is saying she failed to raise her son properly and wants to divorce her and remarry a younger woman who will have a son!
Heavens above, what difference is there between this and sending her to her death!
It's all this family's fault, it's all the fault of this family surnamed Shen!
It's all that damn good-for-nothing's fault. If it weren't for her, her son would have been married long ago.
Liu's mother glared at Lili, but seeing that Lili was not frightened at all and instead stood there calmly staring back at her, Liu's mother couldn't help but feel angry.
Suddenly, Liu's mother flung the basket in her hand, scattering white petals everywhere. She rushed towards Lili, yelling, "It's all your fault! Give me back my son! Give me back my son!"
Shen Jiahao quickly stepped in front of Lili, tossed her into Shen Jialu's arms with his left hand, and kicked Liu's mother hard in the shin with his right foot.
"ah!"
A sharp pain shot through Liu's calf, and she collapsed to the ground uncontrollably.
The younger children all protected Lili, and even Houfu ran out and barked at Liu's mother on the ground.
Liu's mother collapsed to the ground in pain, and despite the many people present, not a single person went to help her up.
Shen Jialuo and Tiedan even led the village children running around, shouting, "Shameless! Shameless! You lost money and harmed people, and then you blame others for it!"
That's shameless! Who would turn the tables like that?
And you're talking about paying back your life? First, find your brain and see if someone has borrowed it too!
In the end, it was the band leader who hesitated before helping the person up.
The troupe leader clearly understood what was going on; the man had passed the imperial examination and become a scholar, so weren't they just bringing bad luck upon him?
He was being used as a pawn by Liu's mother, but he had indeed taken the money. After hesitating for a while, he said to Liu's mother with a bitter face, "Aunt Liu, isn't your son from Xinghua Village? Let's go, they're celebrating!"
"Why are you leaving? Zhao Di is my daughter-in-law, and Liu Dashi is her younger brother. How can they not be considered members of the Li family?"
A man rushed to Liu's mother's side, put his hands on his hips, pointed at the band leader's nose, and cursed: "Respect the dead! He's already dead, what's wrong with us wanting to send Liu Dashi off on his final journey?"
Li Dacheng followed behind, panting, looking frustrated; he had clearly failed to stop her.
"Mother! Please stop talking, let's go home!"
The village chief's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot. If they didn't leave soon, the Li family might be kicked out because of his mother!
Aunt Li seemed deaf to this; she had long been fed up with this. Although she resented what Little Li had done, which made her lose face in the village, the Shen family was also partly to blame.
That damned old woman, Granny Shen, has been suppressing her in everything for decades. That wretched little good-for-nothing not only caused her to lose her daughter-in-law, but Granny Shen's son also passed the imperial examination and became a scholar!
Why is it that all the good things go to the Shen family?!
It all started when the Shen family adopted that little money-loser. Ever since Shen Lili arrived in Xinghua Village, she hasn't had a single day of peace.
She wasn't about to let this rare opportunity to annoy the Shen family slip by.
She's been feeling really frustrated lately. Now that Liu's mother has come with such a big entourage to cause trouble, she's determined to get involved.
Aunt Li pointed at Lili: "If you ask me, it's all because of this worthless woman of unknown origin. Before she came, everything in our village was fine, but after she arrived, she's caused people to die! My poor daughter-in-law, her life is ruined like this, she'll have to stay in jail for the rest of her life!"
After saying that, he took Liu's mother's hand and said, "My poor mother-in-law, she has lost both her children!"
Lili: "......"
What a clever trick of shifting the goalposts.
It was clearly Liu Dashi who owed gambling debts and couldn't pay them back, and then he had evil thoughts and kidnapped children in order to get revenge on her. How did it become that she killed someone?
Lili felt as if snow was falling in June.
Old Mrs. Shen was so angry that her ears were ringing and her head was buzzing. She flung away Liu's hand that was supporting her and stormed up to Aunt Li: "Have you no shame? I've told you all about your little affair to death. It was Liu Dashi and Liu Zhaodi who did it. Our Shen family has never involved anyone else, has it? Is it because our Shen family gives you the wrong impression that we are easy to bully?"
The villagers had never seen anyone so shameless, and they all spoke up for the Shen family.
"You see everything when you live long enough. These two are truly like family; they're both shameless."
"Oh, you're absolutely right, that's why we said we could become in-laws."
"Did you hear? Didn't Aunt Li mock Sanlang before, saying he wouldn't pass the exam? But when the news came back that Sanlang had passed, her face turned green!"
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