When Liu heard that even her right to manage the household was being taken away, she was about to open her mouth to defend herself, but was interrupted by Marquis Wu'an with a wave of his hand.
Marquis Wu'an said to Chen Lan with a gloomy face, "Chen Lan, you disrespected my sister-in-law and have not changed your ways. You will be confined to your house for three months and ordered to copy the Heart Sutra two hundred times. You will be released when you repent."
When Shen Lan heard that she was going to be grounded for three months, she immediately refused to do it. "Dad, why are you so partial? I'm your biological daughter. How can you side with an outsider?"
"Hmph, if you don't obey, I will put you under house arrest for half a year." Marquis Wu'an was getting impatient now.
Seeing that Marquis Wu'an was determined to side with that wild girl, the old lady was also a little angry, "My Lord, what's wrong with you? Is what Lan'er said wrong? You don't believe your own wife and daughter, but you actually believe an outsider?"
"Mother, this matter has been investigated very clearly, so you don't have to say anything more. Since the Xia family is already listed in our Shen family's genealogy, they are members of the Shen family. How can they be called outsiders?" Marquis Wu'an said to the old lady in a tough attitude.
Shen Nian stood by and watched the old lady and Shen Lan calling each other outsiders, with cold eyes.
Seeing that Chen Nian had been standing by without saying a word, and Xia Shi had not argued, Wu Anhou said to the two of them in a gentler tone, "Boss, take Xia Shi back. You don't have to kneel in the ancestral hall, but you have to copy the Heart Sutra fifty times."
The two thanked Marquis Wu'an together, and Shen Nian took Xia Tian away first.
The old lady was not happy about this and said angrily, "My Lord, you really can't tell the difference between inside and outside!"
Marquis Wu'an didn't respond and directly said to Nanny Qin, "Send the old lady back and take good care of her!"
The old lady refused to leave and was forcibly sent back by Nanny Qin and others.
Marquis Wu'an then pointed at Qiuyue and the other two maids and ordered the guards, "That maid, give her twenty strokes of the cane, and these two, ten strokes."
When Qiuyue and the other two heard that Marquis Wu'an was going to beat them, they turned pale with fear and knelt down to beg for mercy, but Marquis Wu'an ignored them and just left.
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