Chapter 92: Public Humiliation
When Shen Ning returned to the table, she met Li Qingqing's eyes, which looked like she had seen a ghost. She deliberately asked, "What are Aunt Li looking at me for?"
Li Qingqing averted her gaze: "No, I didn't look at you."
"Speaking of which, we are old acquaintances. Why has Aunt Li been acting as if she doesn't know me for the whole time? I don't know whether I should even talk to you."
Li Qingqing shook her head: "I didn't."
She was completely confused and didn't know what had happened.
Beside them, Madam Duan asked, "Madam Shen and Concubine Li are old acquaintances?"
Li Qingqing suddenly remembered something, and her face suddenly changed. Then she heard Shen Ning chuckle and say, "Yes, Aunt Li came to my store and said she wanted to place an order for canned food for the Xu family. At that time, she was the third young master's fiancée... Oh, look, I can't speak. That's all in the past."
Someone nearby was whispering, and someone who didn't know the truth asked the person who knew: "She was my fiancée before, how did she become a concubine?"
"Hush, his brother was a homosexual who cheated on his wife and even tried to poison her. He was sued, and all the family property that was originally her dowry was taken away, and they became a poor family again.
"Oh my God, this is too shameless and vicious."
"Who says it's not true? It's one thing to cheat someone into marrying you for money, but you also want to kill them."
"How dare you marry a girl from such a family... If she were in our house, she wouldn't even be able to enter the door, and you'd ask her to be a concubine, tsk."
"Who says it's not? The Xu family isn't picky."
Those people looked down on country women like Chen Ning, and how could they look down on a concubine of Li Qingqing's background? Their discussions were almost undisguised, and they were almost pointing at Li Qingqing's nose and laughing at her.
Li Qingqing's face turned ashen, her teeth were almost broken, and she looked at Shen Ning with eyes full of resentment.
At this moment, a drunken voice suddenly rang out from the side: "Mom, your son is here to wish you a happy birthday..."
Everyone looked up and saw that it was Xu Shaohong, the second master of the Xu family, who had just celebrated the birthday.
Compared with the introverted but sickly old man of the Xu family, Xu Shaohong is a notorious playboy and a playboy. Just look at him coming over to toast his mother with a woman in his arms and you will know what kind of person he is.
Shen Ning recognized that the person being hugged by Xu Shaohong was actually Mu Yao.
Mu Yao was dressed as a singer, with a slender and beautiful face. However, because Xu Shaohong was hugging her tightly, she looked a little embarrassed and awkward, and the flower pinned in her ear was crooked.
"Hey, the old lady went back?"
Xu Shaohong asked his wife.
The Second Madam was nearly pissed off by this scene, but she could only suppress her shame and anger and whispered, "There are guests here. How can you bring a lowly slave with you? Let her go."
But the drunk Xu Shaohong didn't mind at all and was very pleased with himself: "So what if I hold a slave? This slave belongs to me. I can hold her whenever I want... I can touch her whenever I want, and play with her whenever I want, hehe..."
As he spoke, Xu Shaohong, who was drunk, actually reached into Mu Yao's clothes in public.
Some young ladies at the banquet had already screamed in surprise and hurriedly turned their heads away to avoid looking at the obscene behavior.
Although Mu Yao was a lowly slave, he was also a human being. This was not a brothel. Being molested in public at a formal birthday banquet made her face filled with shame and anger, and she kept pushing away Xu Shaohong's claws.
"Second Master, please don't do this."
“Please…”
"ah!"
Somehow, during the pushing and resisting, Xu Shaohong was scratched by Mu Yao's nails, and a blood mark appeared on his cheek.
He immediately flew into a rage and slapped Mu Yao to the ground: "Slave!"
Mu Yao knocked over the table with a bang. The crackling sound of broken dishes and the screams of the female guests around him made Xu Shaohong's drunkenness subside a little. But when he looked at the secretly contemptuous eyes around him, he felt even more embarrassed and angry.
"Bitch slave!"
He vented his embarrassment and anger on Mu Yao, kicking her far away and knocking over a table: "Bitch, why are you pretending to be so noble? How dare you hurt the master."
"Someone come!"
Xu Shaohong's eyes were bloodshot from drunkenness, and his expression was ferocious: "Pretending to be noble... strip this lowly slave and throw him out."
There were bursts of exclamations from the audience, and Mrs. Xu was extremely ashamed and angry. She stood up and tried to stop them, but Xu Shaohong pointed at her nose and shouted, "Go back and sit down."
The legitimate wife was actually scolded in public. The second wife knew that she could not stop it, so she simply covered her face and cried as she fled the scene.
Whatever happens, it won't be her fault.
At this time, two servants with unfriendly expressions were walking towards Mu Yao, and they actually wanted to strip her clothes in public.
"How shameful! How shameful!"
Some noble ladies were furious and helpless, but no one dared to stop them, let alone leave, because Master Xu said directly: "Everyone, just look at what will happen if you dare to act wildly in the Xu family!"
He looked like he would never give up on anyone who dared to leave.
The atmosphere in the men's seats next to them was even more eerie.
County Magistrate Cao Manlou acted as if he hadn't heard the farce next door, and was talking to Xu Shuo there.
Xu Shuo's expression was tense and he was obviously extremely embarrassed, but he couldn't show up... That was his elder, but not his father.
He knew what kind of person his second uncle was.
His father was frail, and his second uncle had always been dissatisfied with his father being the head of the family, and had many complaints about their family.
If he showed up, it would be useless except for getting scolded for nothing.
Shen Qingbai looked unhappy with a frown on his face, while Pei Yuanzhou had a calm expression and was being pulled aside by Duan Xuguang to talk.
Duan Xuguang grumbled quietly, "The Xu family is such a bunch of idiots. They look down on us merchants, but they look down on us. Look at their family tradition, tsk tsk."
Pei Yuanzhou didn't respond, just smiled.
At this moment, there was another sound of shattering cups and plates coming from next door, followed by Xu Shaohong's scolding: "Who are you? Who told you to do this?"
Shen Ning directly lifted the things on the wooden table against the wall behind her and pulled out the decorative tablecloth on it.
Mu Yao was beaten and rolled to her feet. His outer clothes had been stripped off, revealing a large area of his shoulders and collarbone.
But even so, Mu Yao did not ask Chen Ning for help, but kept begging for mercy, begging Xu Shaohong not to humiliate and trample on her in public.
Slaves are human beings too!
Because she had applied medicine for her once, she took the risk to go to the store to tip off the store. Now she was humiliated in public, but she did not ask for help from Shen Ning, whom she knew.
Perhaps she didn't want to implicate Shen Ning, or perhaps she knew very well that Shen Ning couldn't save her.
Just when Mu Yao was about to be stripped naked in public, the people around him either screamed in surprise or dodged backwards, hiding behind the crowd to watch the scene. Madam Duan pulled Chen Ning to get her to avoid as well, but Chen Ning did not avoid.
She simply lifted the table and pulled out the tablecloth, then squatted down and wrapped Mu Yao tightly, whose underwear was about to be stripped off.
Facing Xu Shaohong's scolding, Shen Ning smiled: "The Xu family claims to be a wealthy family, and this family style is really eye-opening."
"presumptuous!"
Xu Ying scolded him directly: "How can a country girl like you have the right to interfere in the affairs of my Xu family?"
Shen Ning smacked her lips: "I shouldn't have said too much. I feel like my mouth is dirty just mentioning it. This courtyard is full of flies and dogs, despicable and shameless."
Looking up, the old lady secretly allowed others to drug her nephew in order to find a profitable and serviceable second wife. Looking down, the second master of the Xu family actually molested a female slave in broad daylight...
The more Shen Ning thought about it, the more disgusted she felt: "Eating at your house is disgusting."
"How dare you! You slut..."
Xu Shaohong was furious. He took a few steps forward and raised his hand to slap Shen Ning, but just as he raised his hand, someone appeared behind Shen Ning.
July's face was cold and fierce, and she kicked the fat and bloated second master of the Xu family out.
There was a loud bang, and there was another cry of surprise in the audience.
Mu Yao wrapped herself in the tablecloth and trembled as she sobbed softly, "Madam Shen, you really don't have to..."
"I'm not doing this for you, I'm doing this for myself."
Shen Ning sneered: "It's so disgusting."
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