Chapter 115 Twenty lashes!
The mob tied them up and put them on the carriage, but they didn't kill them immediately; they certainly wouldn't take their lives!
Shen Yuanjing withdrew his gaze and helped his sister to speed up!
When people on the road saw that they were alone, three or five of them gathered together and attacked them.
Shen Lanxi showed no mercy; anyone who dared to come would die!
After killing three people in succession, those who were eager to make a move all hid in fear, and no one dared to stop them anymore!
A person ran towards us
It was Wei Dongzhu; the blood on his sword had not yet dried.
"The town is so big, I was worried you wouldn't be able to find it, so I came to help you!"
Shen Lanxi nodded and thanked her.
"You're welcome, it's what I should do!"
Shen Lanxi didn't say anything more. On the way back, she encountered five or six corpses, all killed by Wei Dongzhu. The road was deserted, and no one stopped her.
The moment the last person stepped onto the boat, it immediately began to move.
Shen Lanxi's dark face and imposing aura almost made Shen Yuanjing and his sister's legs go weak.
"Big brother, we didn't run away on purpose!" Shen Yuantang was terrified; his older sister had never looked at them with such a gloomy face before.
Shen Yuanjing lowered his head, wanting to explain, but finding it difficult to speak!
"Big brother, we were wrong, please punish us!" Shen Yuanjing readily admitted his mistake.
Shen Lanxi looked at the two of them coldly: "Since you know you're wrong, tell me, where did you go wrong?"
Shen Yuantang's face paled, and she subconsciously took half a step behind Shen Yuanjing.
Shen Yuanjing lowered his head, looking remorseful, and said, "We shouldn't have left on our own and let the mob arrest us!"
Shen Lanxi's next words were as cold as ice.
"You two deserve to die! But because of you, the entire Shen family and everyone on both ships were killed for you. Then you deserve to die a thousand deaths!"
Shen Yuantang shuddered violently in fright.
Shen Yuanjing's face paled even more than before. Yes! Because of them, everyone will be implicated. They wouldn't be enough even if they died ten thousand times!
"Big brother, we were wrong. Please punish us however you like!" This time, Shen Yuanjing spoke with utmost seriousness.
Shen Lanxi: "Twenty lashes."
Shen Yuantang was terrified. Would her older sister really hit her? She was a woman; if she were hit and left with scars, how would she ever find a husband?
"Big brother, if you're going to hit someone, hit me instead! It's all my fault, it has nothing to do with Yuan Xin!"
Shen Lanxi looked at him coldly: "Forty lashes, both of you at the same time!"
Shen Yuantang was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground.
Shen Yuanjing was also terrified. He might not even be able to withstand forty lashes. The girl's body was delicate. Would she still be alive after being whipped?
"I was wrong, twenty times, then I'll hit you twenty times!"
Shen Lanxi: "I hope these twenty lashes will make your brains a little smarter!"
Shen Yuanjing felt utterly ashamed and lowered his head even further.
"Liu Yanhui, call everyone on the ship out to watch!"
"Hu Zhu, you will personally oversee the execution!"
The two accepted their orders!
He swayed his coat in the corner and quickly left.
Just after two lashes, Old Madam Shen arrived with the Shen family!
"Grandmother, save me! The whip hurts so much! I don't want to be whipped..." Being whipped in front of so many people, Shen Yuantang was filled with shame and anger. She looked like she had been pulled out of the water, her face was deathly pale, and her eyes were swollen like rotten peaches from crying. Coupled with the waves of pain in her back, she wished she could just faint.
"How dare you! How can you whip your sister like that!" Old Madam Shen was so angry that she kept pounding her chest, and her vision blurred.
If word gets out, how will Yuan Tang ever find a husband?
Shen Lanxi remained silent, but plenty of people criticized her for it!
"Your granddaughter almost killed us all, so what's wrong with giving her a couple of slaps? If something had really happened, we'd skin her alive!" Madam Song was always sharp-tongued.
"Exactly, who told them to disobey and run around? We've already done enough by not abandoning them."
"Watch your mouth, you old hag! If you get us back to the bottom of the hold, I guarantee you won't be much better off than your granddaughter!"
"That's right, that's right, they're all troublemakers. The time before last, they were running around in the streets and caused us to be locked up. The last time they were being chased, we were implicated. It's all because of your Shen family. How can you have the nerve to go out like that? If I were you, I would find a latrine and hide in it and never come out again."
"The Shen family are treacherous! Get back to the hold!"
Madam Shen originally wanted to use the charge of harming her siblings to pressure Shen Lanxi into releasing Yuan Jing and Yuan Xin, but she didn't expect that as soon as she opened her mouth, she would be cursed by so many people!
Recalling the scene of being beaten while trapped at the bottom of the cabin, Old Madam Shen felt a chill.
"What are you doing? Who's causing trouble?" Liu Laohu shouted, and the prisoners quickly made way!
Madam Shen shuddered again.
"Madam, is it you who's causing trouble?"
Before Madam Shen could speak, the prisoners rushed to say, "It's her! She came up here with a bunch of sons and grandsons and started yelling!"
"That old woman is a menace! Throw her into the hold!"
Liu Laohu's face was fierce, and his eyes glared.
"Madam, is what they said true?"
Shen Congwen hurriedly said, "Sir, it's not what they said. My two children were beaten, and my mother came to see what happened!"
Liu Laohu: "I had someone beat me up, so what? You have a problem with that?"
Shen Congwen looked at his eldest daughter and kept gesturing for her to speak.
Unfortunately, Shen Lanxi's gaze was entirely fixed on the sea, and she couldn't see his pleading eyes at all!
"No, no, I heard that it was Young Master Lan who ordered the beating!"
Liu Laohu: "Who said that? Make him stand up for me!"
Shen Congwen subconsciously turned his head to look at the person next to him, who quickly turned his head to the side!
"Tell me? Can't say it? Do you need my help?"
"Who among you heard that Young Master Lan ordered the beating? If you heard it, step forward!"
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"Nobody's here, right?"
"Then who among you heard me order the beating up? Shout it out!"
The people around shouted in unison, "We heard that! You told them to hit him!"
Shen Yuantang stopped sobbing in disbelief. Why wouldn't these people tell the truth?
It was clearly the older sister who told them to hit her, so why won't they admit it?
Why did they help Shen Lanxi lie?
Why did Shen Lanxi hit her? She got off the ship for her family's sake, she did nothing wrong!
"Big sister... Waaah, let go..." she wanted to say.
Why should all these people listen to her?
If these people don't listen to her, will she not have to be beaten?
"Yuantang, you've gone mad!" Shen Yuanjing, his face pale, rushed over and tightly covered his sister's mouth.
Revealing her identity as the eldest sister now will only bring them harm. Why can't this silly little sister understand that?
The Shen family also heard Shen Yuantang shout.
Oh my god~
If they still can't understand the current situation, they've wasted all these years!
This Yuan Tang usually seems quite smart, so why does he always act stupid when something happens?
Didn't you see how angry the old lady was, yet you didn't expose Lanxi's identity?
Is she trying to ruin everyone's livelihood?
"Gag her! Gag her!" Old Madam Shen's attitude changed abruptly, and she pointed at Shen Yuantang in a fit of rage!
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