Chapter 2: Refusing Face
Shen Yanrong stood there expressionlessly, quietly listening to the other party's shouting. Without even looking, one could imagine Shen Tao's smug look.
If possible, he wanted to have a big fight with these people, and wanted to stop enduring and live the life he wanted with his wife and children, but the time was not right yet...
"Master Yan, I know you're in there and you heard it. Hurry up and don't keep me waiting," Shen Tao said with impatience, but he changed his previous anxiety. He shook his legs and said in a good mood, "You've been delayed for so long. Please have some pity on us servants and don't make things difficult for us on purpose."
As he said this, he smiled proudly at Li Shan and signaled with his eyes that the boy should learn from him.
Li Shan nodded repeatedly and couldn't help but give the other party a thumbs up.
Compared to Brother Zhuang, I am still too young.
Shen Yanrong's chest heaved violently, clearly infuriated by the other party's shamelessness. If only, if only...
He didn't care how these people treated him, but he didn't want his wife and children to be bullied or wronged... Looking back at the closed door, guilt flashed in his eyes. Now, he could do nothing.
After a moment of silence, Shen Yanrong started to move, intending to go quickly and come back early. However, he had just taken two steps when he heard the sound of a door opening behind him. He turned around and saw a large and two small children standing at the door, staring at him straight in the face. He was a little anxious and walked quickly to them, lowering his voice: "Why did you come out?"
"Dad, we all heard it," Xiao Yunhao's brows were almost wrinkled like a little old man, "How about not going?"
"Daddy, beat the bad guys!" Little Xinyue clenched her hands into fists and waved them in the air, her face puffed up with anger.
"I..." Shen Yanrong spoke with difficulty, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say them.
Lu Yao held his hand: "Let's go together."
"No," Chen Yanrong refused without hesitation, "We still don't know what kind of trouble those people will cause."
He didn't want his wife and children to go back with him and suffer.
Lu Yao still insisted: "If something really happened, do you think those people would let us go?"
Without the master's connivance and instruction, would a servant dare to be so arrogant and presumptuous?
She never dared to underestimate the people over there. She even felt that it was not excessive to assume the greatest malice towards them.
"We may not be safe even if we stay at home."
"Dad, we agreed that our family will share the hard times." Xiao Yunhao felt that he had grown up and should face it together with his parents.
Little Yueyue also reached out and tugged at his shirt: "Daddy, let's go together."
Lu Yao and Shen Yanrong did not hide the family affairs from their children. Those people always made troubles and made people feel uneasy, and it was not something they could hide just because they wanted to.
Shen Yanrong looked at his wife, then at his children, and hugged them in his arms. The guilt in his eyes became more and more intense. It was all because he was a useless husband and father.
"Let's go together, we can take care of each other." Lu Yao continued to persuade.
"...Well," Shen Yanrong was silent for a long time before finally agreeing. He then said, "Find an opportunity to sever ties with that side and leave here."
Lu Yao was surprised: "Really?" After saying that, she became a little worried: "Have you decided?"
"We should have decided this long ago," Shen Yanrong said with a hint of dejection in his voice, "Let's go find my uncle."
"Okay." Lu Yao said with a smile.
Since they had made the decision, they didn't delay any longer. Chen Yanrong picked up little Xinyue with one hand and held Lu Yao's hand with the other, while the latter held little Yunhao with the other hand, and they walked to the gate of the courtyard together.
Chen Yanrong's gaze lingered on his wife and child for a moment, then he reached out and held Lu Yao's hand, straightened his back, unbolted the door, and then the two of them opened the courtyard door from the left and right.
Because they opened the door so suddenly, Li Shan, who was urged to knock on the door again, almost sprained his arm.
"Master Yan... Master Yan."
Li Shan was startled and took a step back reflexively.
Shen Yanrong ignored him and glanced at Shen Tao beside him. The latter obviously expected him to compromise. Seeing this, he sneered: "Master Yan is really hard to invite."
Shen Yanrong ignored him and walked past him and put Yueyue directly into the carriage.
Shen Tao was immediately furious after being humiliated, but he also remembered that he couldn't ruin the big thing. He just frowned when he saw Shen Yanrong's actions: "Master Yan, what are you doing?"
Shen Yanrong glanced at him and said, "Didn't you ask us to go?"
"The master only lets you go alone," Shen Tao glanced at the few people and said sarcastically, "The Shen family is not a place where just anybody can enter."
Shen Yanrong didn't say anything.
Shen Tao was feeling proud and waited for the other party to beg him.
Humph, if he doesn't vent his anger today, how will he survive in the Shen family in the future?!
But he was destined to be disappointed.
Shen Yanrong retracted his gaze and nodded in agreement: "Indeed, the Shen family is full of extraordinary people. Ordinary people like us are really not suitable."
"You..." Chen Tao had a smug look on his face, but just as he opened his mouth, he realized what the other person meant and his expression changed immediately: "Say it again, damn it!"
Shen Yanrong didn't care about the other party's harsh words at all, and raised his eyebrows: "I dare say, are you sure you want to hear it?"
"Puff," Lu Yao laughed out loud. Facing Shen Tao's angry eyes, she apologized very perfunctorily: "Sorry, I couldn't help it."
Chen Tao looked at the two people in front of him who were wearing tattered clothes but had playful expressions on their faces. The strings of his rationality began to crack, which was a sign that they were beginning to break.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Master will only let you go alone. Master Yan, don't worry, I will stay and take care of them. I will make sure that they don't lose a single hair."
He emphasized the word "little one", and those who didn't know would think he was the master.
Chen Yanrong looked at the smug Chen Tao, who seemed to have expected that he would be as incapable of compromise as before. He pursed his lips and said nothing.
Before, he didn't want his wife and children to go with him because he was worried that they would be wronged if they went to the Shen family. Now he is afraid that it will be dangerous if they stay. After weighing the pros and cons, he decided to choose the lesser of two evils. It is safest to keep them under his own supervision.
As for Shen Tao’s threat?
Oh, no matter how unpopular he is, he is still the eldest son of the Shen family. It is not the turn of a servant to show off.
Seeing that Shen Yanrong not only didn't listen to him, but also picked up another child and put him on the carriage, Shen Tao immediately shouted: "Master Yan, do you really want to go against the master?!"
After he finished speaking, he paused for a moment, took a deep breath, and tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart to make himself look like a good person: "You will make it difficult for us to do this, so just take them down. Don't worry, I will definitely take good care of them."
Take care? He will take good care of it.
How could Shen Yanrong not know what the other party was planning? Since the safety of his wife and children was at stake, he stopped playing games and said coldly, "What if I don't?"
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