Chapter 196 Good Sister
Xie Yunqing picked up the incense burner and smashed it over. Xue Surong dodged quickly but was still hit in the face. Half of her face swelled up instantly. She covered her face and cried out for injustice.
Beside her, a trembling little maidservant, who had been kneeling on the ground, seemed to suddenly remember something and exclaimed, "When I was carrying the medicine just now, I ran into Shopkeeper Xue. Shopkeeper Xue asked me who was behind me. I turned around and didn't see anyone, and was feeling strange. Then I saw Shopkeeper Xue seemed to have just withdrawn his hand, but I didn't think much of it. This decoction was brewed by me personally, and Shopkeeper Xue was the only one who came near me along the way..."
The maids were from Shen Chengxi's own yard. They had just been replaced and checked last time, and they all had clean family backgrounds.
Hearing the maid's crying, Shen Chengxi was furious: "Xue Surong, this young master has no grudges against you, why are you so vicious?"
"It's unfair, it's unfair to me, it's unfair!"
Xue Surong refused to admit it, Shen Ning winked, and Qiyue stepped forward, grabbed Xue Surong's hand and raised it: "Your hands still smell of mutton fat. I'm afraid you wanted to run away before you had time to wash your hands just now?"
Ye Heng leaned forward and sniffed it carefully, then nodded: "It is indeed the smell of mutton fat."
Xue Surong's face was pale.
She had just added sheep fat to the medicine without anyone noticing, and was about to get away... As long as she left the Chen residence, no one would be able to find out the reason.
Sheep fat is not poison and there is no antidote. Young Master Shen can only wait to become a cripple like her son... But she had already left the Shen family's gate and was caught and brought back.
In her haste to escape, she hadn't even bothered to find a place to wash her hands...
"I, it's not me, I'm not..." Xue Surong stammered, her face pale.
Shen Chengxi gritted his teeth: “Drag this evil woman away and break her legs, then give her two bowls of mutton fat, go!”
Xie Yunqing said: "Didn't you hear what the young master said?"
The guards at the door immediately came in to drag the person out. Xue Surong was immediately anxious. She crawled to Old Madam Shen's legs and hugged them tightly: "Old Madam, Old Madam, save me, Old Madam, save me."
Old Madam Shen wanted to speak, but was met with Xie Yunqing's extremely cold eyes and her grandson lying on the bed with a sallow complexion.
Her words of defending Xue Surong were totally unacceptable...
Old Madam Shen stared at Xue Surong coldly, "Who taught you to be so foolish? You're holding a grudge against Yun Qing for not handing the shop over to you, so you're going to harm my grandson. You deserve this fate. Don't worry, I'll break your leg, and the Shen family will treat you."
Xue Surong's family of three depends on her for their livelihood. Besides, she has always been good to Xue Surong, giving her money and opportunities. She will not be ungrateful.
If she gets into trouble, her two children will have no chance of survival!
Old Madam Shen's face was full of warnings and her eyes were meaningful. However, what she didn't expect was that Xue Surong didn't admit defeat as she expected. She actually stood up and pointed at Old Madam Shen's nose and cursed.
"Old man, do you think I don't know that you and your son are trying to kick me out to cover up the fact that Chen Xiuhe has a mistress so that you can live happily with Xie Yunqing's family... Don't even think about it!"
With just one word, the room instantly became silent.
Chen Xiuhe was the first to react, his face livid and he scolded, "How dare you, a bitch, talk nonsense!"
"Yes, I am a slut. Then what kind of a slut are you, Chen Xiuhe, who has been having an unclear relationship with a slut like me for more than 20 years? Do you think you can live a peaceful life by kicking the three of us away? You are dreaming!"
Chen Xiuhe shouted, "Come here, drag this crazy woman out, drag her out!"
But the next moment, Xie Yunqing said calmly: "Wait."
She looked up at Shen Xiuhe: "Why are you in such a hurry? Wait until she finishes what she is saying."
Chen Xiuhe's lips trembled. Across from him, Old Madam Shen had already noticed something was wrong and forced a smile to comfort him: "Yunqing, Xue has been holding a grudge these days. She has been talking nonsense and has been unconscious for the past few days. Why do you care about her..."
"Oh, are you talking nonsense and out of your mind?"
Xie Yunqing looked at Xue Surong and said, "So she's a crazy woman. She's not alone. How dare she harm my son like this? I might as well beat her half to death and throw her into a mass grave... That way I can vent my anger."
The expressions of the people opposite changed drastically. Shen Nian's lips trembled, but he didn't say a word.
Xue Surong burst into laughter: "Xie Yunqing, look at you... did you already know this?"
With one word, Shen Xiuhe and Shen Nian suddenly looked at Xie Yunqing.
Xie Yunqing said indifferently: "So what if I know? Do you think you can be carried into the Shen family with your worthless body and get in my way?"
She sneered, "As long as I'm alive, you'll be a filthy thing that can't be seen in public. What are you laughing at?"
"You deserve my laughter!"
After days of fear and suppressed resentment, Xue Surong suddenly erupted in despair. She laughed as if she had gone mad. "Your attitude is really funny. Do you think you've won?"
Xue Surong's eyes were filled with pride. "Your good husband deceived you for more than twenty years, pretending to be a lifelong couple. When your daughter was lost and you were heartbroken, he still tricked you into raising my daughter for more than ten years in vain. Haha, Xie Yunqing, what do you think you won?"
Shen Nian’s face suddenly turned pale.
Next to him, Shen Chengxi, who was already extremely exhausted due to the pain, was stunned and looked at Shen Nian stupidly.
Raising a daughter for a concubine?
So, Nian Nian was born from a concubine?
At this moment, a voice suddenly rang out from outside: "Cheng Xi... your cousin has captured the person who harmed you!"
Xie Lianyu had someone hold down the ashen-faced Xu Shuo as he strode in from outside. Without even glancing at the situation inside the house, he shouted, "Your horse has been checked. It's been drugged. Someone saw Xu Shuo secretly go to the stable last night and feed your horse something..."
Xu Shuo's face was pale, and he didn't argue. He just knelt down with a thud.
Shen Chengxi struggled to sit up: "You hurt me? Why did you hurt me? Are you the illegitimate child of Xue Surong?"
Xu Shuo looked up in surprise: "What illegitimate child?"
Shen Chengxi was furious: “How dare you pretend!”
Xie Lianyu finally realized something was wrong at this time, and asked Shen Chengxi in a daze: "Chengxi, what illegitimate child? Xu Shuo is Xue Surong's illegitimate child?"
Shen Chengxi shouted angrily: “That’s right!”
He gnashed his teeth and his eyes turned red: “And Shen Nian… She was also born to this concubine and was raised by my mother by tricking her.”
Xie Lianyu's expression froze.
He knew that the last broken engagement had deeply offended the Shen family and his aunt, and he had always wanted to redeem the relationship, and also to save his marriage with Shen Nian.
That was why Xie Lianyu was very dedicated after Shen Chengxi got into trouble. He quickly caught the man and sent him to the Shen family. Unexpectedly, he was caught off guard and heard that Shen Nian was actually a concubine's daughter?
Xie Yunqing looked at Xu Shuo and spoke slowly, "Master Xu, my son has no grudge against you, why did you harm him?"
Xu Shuo kowtowed directly and said: "Xu Mou resented Mr. Shen's sarcastic remarks and gave rise to evil thoughts. Madam, there is no need to ask. Xu Mou is willing to bear all the blame."
Shen Ning smiled and said, "The only person in the world who can be protected by Master Xu like this is probably your sister, Miss Xu Ying, right?"
Xu Shuo was horrified: "It has nothing to do with my sister!"
But the next moment he froze there, watching Xu Ying being pushed into the house.
Stumbling and falling to the ground, Xu Ying struggled to get up and cried and scolded Shen Nian: "You lied to me, Shen Nian, you dare to lie to me, you are basically a lowly concubine's daughter, and you dare to lie to me that you will help me catch the prince's eye and enter the East Palace, bitch, bitch, you lied to me!"
Xu Ying actually had some hope. What if Chen Nian could really help her enter the Eastern Palace?
But King Ding's words completely shattered all her thoughts.
Xiao Nanchen said calmly, "If she refuses to speak, we can send her to the Jinyiwei prison for questioning. We will definitely make her tell the truth."
That man's eyes were full of tenderness and protection towards Chen Ning, but when he looked at others, there was only an extremely cold look in his eyes. The way he looked at her was not like looking at a person, but looking at an object.
Xu Ying didn't dare to gamble, she really didn't dare to gamble.
Hearing Xu Ying's words, Xu Shuo was stunned for a moment, and then asked his sister tremblingly: "Yingying, didn't you say that it was Miss Xu who forced you to do evil, otherwise she would never let you go?"
Xu Ying ignored her brother and kowtowed to Shen Ning: "Shen Ning, Shen Xiangjun, please forgive me, I know I was wrong, I will never dare to go against you again, it was Shen Nian who deceived me, she lied to me and said she would help me enter the East Palace, so I lost my mind, and my brother was also deceived by me, please forgive us..."
"Help you enter the East Palace?"
Shen Ning was a little amused: "If she had such ability, would she still need to ask you for help?"
Xu Ying kept shaking her head: "I have no way out, I have no way out. Xu Wanqing wants to give me to someone as a plaything. I have no way out..."
Everyone looked at Xu Ying, only Shen Chengxi looked at his "sister" Shen Nian in disbelief, his lips trembling, his bloodless face full of pain.
His voice was even choked: "Nian Nian...are you really going to hurt me?"
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