Chapter 43 The Shen Family Wants Money!
The reappearance of a disciple of Guiguzi signifies an imminent change of power! Such a potentially fatal statement is something we can only contemplate implicitly; who dares to speak it aloud?
Shen Lanxi felt a warmth in her heart when she learned who had leaked the information!
Although she only goes to Guigu Valley for two months each year, her master and fellow disciples always save the best things for her. When she arrives, they give her everything at once!
Everything around her was recorded, and she couldn't just take things back to the manor. So her master and fellow disciples prepared the largest room in Ghost Valley for her to store the things they had given her.
That was her second home!
If the wedding date hadn't been set so suddenly, and she hadn't been busy learning the grand wedding ceremony in the palace and hadn't had time to leave the palace to inform Guigu, she wouldn't have been quietly murdered in the inner quarters!
When Shen Lanxi thought of the person who had harmed her, her aura immediately turned cold.
They left another mark, and soon the people from Guigu appeared.
After exchanging the code, she said, "Call Yinzi to see me. Tell him I am Xiao Jiu and that he should come to Hongfu Inn to find me!"
"yes!"
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"Lord Liu, has Young Master Lan said when he's coming?" Shen Yuanjing, clutching his cramping stomach, approached Liu Laohu.
The latter replied curtly, "I don't know!"
As Shen Yuanjing tensed up, the stomach that had been punched started to throb with pain again.
"Lord Liu, I'd like to buy some medicine for my injuries!" He endured the pain and took out the last bit of money he had and handed it over.
Liu Laohu took the silver and weighed it in his hand: "Two taels of silver, that's not even enough to buy two steamed buns these days!"
Shen Yuanjing blushed and dared not refute.
"Give him some medicine!" Liu Laohu winked at the constables.
Shen Yuanjing took it and saw that it was only enough for one person. Just as he was about to ask for some more, a cry of surprise came from the prisoner's side.
It was his sister's voice.
Shen Yuanjing clutched his stomach and gritted his teeth as he ran back!
"Give it back! That's mine!"
"Pah! What do you mean 'your stuff'? You're a heinous criminal, do you even deserve anything?" The vagrant cursed and immediately ran away!
Shen Yuantang quickly chased after them, but after running only a few meters, she was pulled and tugged by some dishonest vagrants, which terrified her and made her scream incessantly.
"Get away, take your filthy hands off..."
The members of the Shen family's eldest branch immediately rushed to their rescue, and the refugee reluctantly let go.
"Pah! You think we're dirty? We're just commoners, and you're a sinner who can be beaten and scolded by everyone."
"Who doesn't know that your Shen family deserves to die? You still think you're some high and mighty young ladies?"
A barrage of foul language drifted over, and Shen Yuantang covered her face in grievance and burst into tears.
Old Madam Shen's money was also stolen. After discussing it with her sons, she went to her eldest son!
"Have Lanxi send over more money and food. She's a divorced woman, so she should take better care of the family now. Our Shen family won't mistreat her in the future!"
Shen Congwen, unwilling to hear his mother speak of her daughter like that, immediately retorted, "Mother, don't say that about Lanxi! She's only divorced, not abandoned. His Majesty hasn't issued an edict for her exile; she could live a good life in the capital!" Instead of traveling thousands of miles with them to a harsh, desolate place!
Old Madam Shen said coldly, "What's the difference between a divorce and being divorced? Our Shen family has an impeccable reputation and has never had a woman divorced. If she is of good character, even if our Shen family has committed a serious crime, it won't affect a married woman. It must be that she is of low character and cannot be tolerated by the royal family! She herself has no face to stay in the capital and has no one to take care of her, so she came with us and begged our Shen family to protect her!"
Shen Congwen said incredulously, "Mother, you saw Lan Xi's skills too. With such amazing skills, does she need the Shen family to protect her? She was the one protecting us the whole way!"
Madam Shen's face turned ashen: "I knew you were protecting that little slut. No matter how powerful she is, she's still a woman. A woman can't survive without the protection of her maternal family! Now, all we're asking is for some money, and you're making excuses. What are you up to?"
Shen Congli walked over and said, "Mother, what else could you possibly be thinking? My eldest brother is probably thinking that since Lanxi is the eldest son's daughter, her money should only be spent by the eldest son's family, and it has nothing to do with us!"
Shen Congyi: "Brother, this is where you're wrong. Lanxi is labeled a divorced woman, and with that kind of relationship with Zhou Ruyuan, who would dare to marry her in the future? If she takes out some money now, Father and Mother will definitely ask the younger generation in the family to give her a place to stay, or even take care of her when she gets old! Brother, does your eldest branch of the family have to hold onto the money in Lanxi's hands?"
Madam Shen: "Lanxi is a member of the Shen family, and the money she has is the Shen family's money. Everything she has now was given to her by the Shen family. Eldest son, if you truly care about Lanxi, then go and ask her for it."
Shen Conglian: "That's right, brother. If she gives us less money, we'll protect her less. If she gives us more money, we'll protect her more. We're all human, and we'll remember Lanxi's kindness to us!"
Shen Congwen fell silent. His daughter had divorced Zhou Ruyuan, and it seemed unlikely anyone would want to marry her again. He was old; how long could he protect her? If what his brothers said was true, and he would protect Lanxi more in the future…
"Please allow me to think about it some more!"
The Shen brothers exchanged glances. They knew their eldest brother's temperament well; if he said he would consider it, it was almost certainly a done deal.
"Brother, think it over carefully. Mother, you and Father should go back and calm down. I certainly won't let you two down!"
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Shen Lanxi took some time to collect some medicinal herbs from the warehouse. When she returned to the inn, she saw a chubby young man.
Shen Lanxi blinked at him three times, and three quarters of an hour later, the young man appeared silently in her room.
"Junior Sister, it's been a long time!" The chubby young man placed the gift he was carrying on the table and opened it.
Inside is a palm-sized golden peach tree, its branches and trunk entirely made of gold, so lifelike that it looks just like a real peach tree. The small peaches on it are carved from imperial jade, each the size of a soybean, adorning the branches, which are laden with fruit and look like they are about to bend over.
"Third Senior Brother, is this for me?" Shen Lanxi asked, her eyes welling up with tears as she held the peach tree ornament.
"Of course it's for our cutest junior sister, Xiao Jiu! Take a look, do you like it?"
Shen Lanxi quickly blinked away the tears welling up in her eyes. These senior brothers and sisters of hers were more than family to her!
She's happy, she should be smiling!
"Third Senior Brother, I like it very much, thank you!"
Yinzi: "No need to thank me, I'm just glad you like it. I happened to be nearby on business for the Medicine King's birthday, otherwise you wouldn't have seen me so quickly!"
Third Senior Brother always spoke directly. Shen Lanxi carefully placed the peach tree on the table and led him to the corner of the wall.
There were six large boxes piled up in the corner. She opened one of them to show her third senior brother.
"Third Brother, these boxes are full of gold, silver, jade, antiques, and calligraphy and paintings. Take them and sell them for money. We're going to make a big deal!"
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