She said, "It was clearly your husband who accidentally broke his leg, and you, thinking her to be useless, had an affair with a wealthy man named Zhao from your village, which is why you were kicked out of the Jia family."
"You shamelessly became his mistress."
"Unexpectedly, Madam Zhao is a formidable woman, and you are completely incompatible with her. You couldn't stay there any longer, so you had no choice but to flee to the capital."
Jiang Wan was terrified when she heard this.
"My lord, you mustn't believe her one-sided story; nothing she said is true..."
Before she could finish speaking, Shen Cang flung her hand away and roared angrily, "Then what's true? Tell me! What's true?"
Perhaps due to excessive emotional excitement, he swayed and then fell straight down.
In an instant, chaos erupted.
When Shen Qiyin was called to take his pulse, she found that his condition was just as she had guessed before, caused by a sudden surge of anger.
Actually, he could wake up after just two injections.
But Shen Qiyin said, "I'll wake up when I've had enough sleep." She wasn't going to bother with that.
She would rather go back and see Xianglan than waste that time.
Xianglan caught a chill and developed a fever. She was even crying in her sleep, talking nonsense: "Waaah... I'm so scared, I want to go home..."
"Nine stars aligned, seven stars aligned... round and smooth like a pearl... smooth, smooth, Runtu stabs the badger!"
"Why? Why are others princesses or young ladies, while I'm just a lowly maid? Anyone can come and pinch me! This isn't fair!"
...
Xianglan kept going on and on, never stopping.
Ren Dong and Shen Qiyin stood by the bedside, both looking bewildered.
What are you saying?
Ren Dong asked with a worried look, "Sister, has Sister Xiang Lan gone mad?"
Chen Xiyin frowned: "Perhaps."
Otherwise, how could he say such crazy things?
He even said he was "homesick"...
Her father sold her for a few taels of silver to build a house for her brother and get him a wife. She refused, so her father beat and scolded her and sent her to the Shen family. What was there to think about in such a family?
He must be delirious from illness.
Shen Xiyin woke her up and told her to get up and drink her medicine.
To everyone's surprise, Xianglan suddenly threw herself into her arms as soon as she opened her eyes, asking pitifully, "Miss, will you always protect me like this and not let anyone bully me?"
"meeting."
"Will you always treat me well and let me live a life of luxury?"
"meeting."
"Will you always treat me as your most beloved little darling and not easily be seduced by other seductive and shameless women?"
Shen Qiyin said in a serious tone, "Those who take an inch and want a mile do not deserve to be my little darling."
Xianglan stopped crying and started laughing.
After taking the medicine, he finally stopped talking in his sleep when he went back to sleep.
Shen Qiyin and Ren Dong took turns keeping watch over her bed all night until dawn when they were sure that her fever had not recurred, and then they rested for a while with peace of mind.
Xianglan's health improved, and Shencang, who had been unconscious all night, finally woke up.
Jiang Wan thought he would definitely argue with her. She was even prepared to be divorced. After all, she decided to follow Shen Cang for money, but now that he was broke, she had to quickly find another way out.
Who knew—
Shen Cang, however, didn't bother to pay any attention to her.
As soon as he woke up, he disregarded his weakness and busied himself selling the land on the estate.
Madam Shen thought he had gone mad.
If he keeps the land, he can make money from money. But once he loses the land and has no proper business to make a living, he will really be left with nothing when he runs out of money.
Little did she know that if they didn't sell the land, given the Shen family's current situation, they would probably be starving by now!
Upon learning of this, Shen Qiyin said to Shen Cang, "If we can't increase revenue, then let's cut costs."
Life has become like this, why do we need servants?
Shen Cang felt this made sense.
He immediately decided to dismiss all the servants in the mansion, leaving only Dafu, the gatekeeper, and all the maids and servants in the other rooms and courtyards.
Even the cook was sent away.
As a result, the task of cooking naturally fell to Li Zhenzhu, the daughter-in-law.
Upon learning of this, her first reaction was to smash the pot, then rush to Zhuijintang and yell at the mother and son, "You think you can just open your mouths and wait to eat? Dream on!"
Shen Cang was still recovering, and her noise made his head buzz.
His face was still pale, and he said somewhat weakly, "The old lady is getting on in years... If you don't do it, are you going to make her do it...?"
"Oh, so you're showing filial piety now? Why aren't you doing anything?"
"How can I, a grown man, be tied to the stove!"
"If you don't go around the stove, where do you want to go around? Around the millstone? With your physique, which takes three breaths to finish a sentence, can you handle that?"
"you……"
Shen Cang's brow was furrowed with worry; he felt he couldn't reason with the other person.
Li Zhenzhu was determined not to do it, so in the end, the task fell to Jiang Wan.
The latter complained incessantly.
She went to great lengths to get into the Shen family, hoping to live a life of luxury, but in the end, she not only ended up eating meager rations but also had to be their slave!
She finally understood why Shen Cang, despite being so angry that day, hadn't kicked her out of the manor; he was waiting for her here!
That bastard!
Meanwhile, Old Madam Shen was also complaining about everything under the sun.
She was used to enjoying a life of luxury, and suddenly having no one to serve her made her feel uneasy. In addition, the food Jiang Wan cooked didn't suit her taste, so she kept a long face all day.
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