"It's Chen Liyue!" He cried, "It was Chen Liyue who set up this trap and harmed Jiao'er!"
Hearing Shen Liyue's name, Fang Zhiran indeed stopped.
Fang Zhiran turned around and said angrily, "You guys did something shameful, why are you trying to blame others for it?"
He's face was covered in tears, and she looked like a shrew. She looked up at Fang Zhiran and said, "It's Chen Liyue! It must be her!"
Fang Zhiran was about to say something when he heard a creak and the door of the box opposite opened.
"Did my second aunt call me?"
The door opened and Shen Liyue walked out. With her was the young lady of Duke Wei's family, Wei Rushu.
It was a coincidence that today Shen Liyue was thinking about how to get away. It was definitely too late to send someone to the palace to call Lu Yun. Before entering the house, she secretly instructed Lian Dong to go to the Xie family to find Xie Wanting, and then deliberately shouted to Lian Dong to buy mung bean cakes for her grandmother, just for the servant who was following her to hear.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Lian Dong went out, he ran into Wei Rushu and her maid. Her maid was called Bitao. She was lively like her master. Bitao recognized Lian Dong as someone close to Shen Liyue, so she greeted her with a smile.
Lian Dong had seen Wei Rushu before and recognized her as the girl who laughed out loud at the banquet on the day of Old Madam Shen's birthday. He immediately felt a liking for her, but he had an important task to do and it was inconvenient for him to talk to them for too long. He hurriedly greeted Wei Rushu and left.
Wei Rushu had found Shen Liyue interesting on the day of the birthday banquet, but he had never had the opportunity to make friends with her. When he saw Lian Dong today, he asked a few more questions.
Lian Dong was quick-witted and her brain worked quickly. She thought that instead of wasting time looking for Xie Wanting, wasn't there a ready-made one in front of her?
So he turned around and bowed to Wei Rushu again.
"Our young lady is upstairs. I wonder if Miss Wei would be willing to do our young lady a favor?"
Wei Rushu found it novel and agreed immediately.
Lian Dong took Wei Rushu upstairs. Shen Liyue happened to be on the stairs. Seeing Shen Liyue, Lian Dong called out, "Miss, Miss Wei is here."
Shen Liyue turned around and saw Lian Dong standing behind Wei Rushu and winked at her. She understood and said to Wei Rushu with a smile, "Miss Wei, please."
Chen Liyue went upstairs with Wei Rushu, but instead of going to the private room reserved by He Zhen as agreed, they found another private room opposite and sat down.
After closing the door of the box, Shen Liyue bowed deeply to Wei Rushu.
"Miss Wei, please accept Li Yue's greetings."
Wei Rushu was stunned. He didn't expect Shen Liyue to do this, and hurriedly went to help her.
"Tell me, what happened?" Wei Rushu was puzzled.
Shen Liyue then told the story from the day of Mrs. Shen’s birthday banquet until today when she met He Zhen on Zhuangyuan Street and He Zhen invited her to Qinfang Tower.
Wei Rushu was not stupid. She was present at Old Madam Shen’s birthday banquet, and she could tell at a glance what those people were planning.
He immediately waved his hand towards Chen Liyue and said, "It's okay. We happened to be hungry after walking around for half a day. Now that you're offering us a meal, we couldn't ask for more."
Shen Liyue chuckled, thinking that Wei Rushu was really interesting.
Shen Liyue had never dated Wei Rushu before, but she knew about this person. That day, at the birthday party of Old Lady Shen, Wei Rushu couldn't help laughing and even winked at her. Shen Liyue could see that she was lively and interesting, but she took advantage of her before she had the chance to get to know Wei Rushu. Shen Liyue felt a little guilty.
So as soon as she entered the door, Shen Liyue told everything. She didn't want to really take advantage of Wei Rushu and then deceive her. Shen Liyue wanted to make friends with Wei Rushu.
Fortunately, Wei Rushu was cheerful and open-minded and didn't bother with her. After they talked it out, he asked the servant to order the dishes.
Just as they finished ordering their food, they heard a quarrel coming from the private room next door.
"We agreed that we would only borrow the money for half a month. Now that half a month has passed, can't the Second Miss raise the money?"
"Not yet." The voice paused, "The Chen Mansion is so big, are you afraid that I will default on you?"
When Shen Liyue heard the words "Shen family", she stopped talking with Wei Rushu, listened carefully, and found that it was Shen Lijiao's voice.
"Humph." The man snorted coldly, "It's okay if you don't pay it back on time, but the interest rate will increase. It will increase by 10% within one month, and 20% after two months. Miss Shen knows this, right?"
"What?" Shen Lijiao said angrily: "Why don't you just go and rob it!"
The man sneered and said, "It doesn't matter if the Second Miss can't pay it back. The receipts are all here. We can go to the Shen Mansion to collect the debt."
"No!" Shen Lijiao was anxious. She couldn't let anyone know that she owed money outside. If the Shen family knew, her mother would kill her.
What's more, how could she let Shen Liyue laugh at her?
And if they really came to collect the debt and caused a commotion, and if the news got to the Yong'an Marquis' Mansion, she really wouldn't be able to marry.
So Chen Lijiao had to appease them at the moment and not let them really make a fuss.
Chen Lijiao calmed herself down and said softly, "I wonder if there's any way to make some compromises. Master Zhou, don't worry, I will definitely pay you back every penny of this money."
The man called Master Zhou raised his head, looked carefully at Shen Lijiao's face, and reached out to touch it.
"The Second Young Lady is truly outstanding in appearance. We brothers have never eaten anything so good. If the Second Young Lady is willing to let us eat meat, then we can extend it for two or three months, not to mention one month."
There was only a "slap" sound, and Shen Lijiao slapped Master Zhou in the face.
This little pain was not a big deal to Mr. Zhou, but he couldn't swallow the humiliation of being beaten by a woman.
So he slapped Shen Lijiao in the face with his backhand, "Who the hell are you? How dare you hit your grandfather?"
Chen Lijiao was delicate and weak, so she was no match for Master Zhou. He slapped her so hard that she passed out.
Seeing that Shen Lijiao was motionless, Master Zhou thought she was dead. He was horrified and reached out to touch her nose, only to find that she was still breathing.
"Bad luck." Master Zhou cursed. He had wanted to play with this young lady, but who knew she would faint.
It would be difficult to take action if he really fainted, and Mr. Zhou’s mission was to recover the money, and he didn’t want to cause any trouble.
"Let's go." Master Zhou instructed his men, and before leaving, he rubbed Shen Lijiao's chest hard.
When there was no more movement in the private room next door, Shen Liyue asked Lian Dong to go over and take a look.
Lian Dong took a look and found that Chen Lijiao was indeed unconscious in the box, with a bright red slap mark on her face.
"In that case, let's have someone throw her into her cousin's box." Shen Liyue said.
"Yes." Lian Dong responded.
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