Chapter 665: A Country Bumpkin?

Chapter 665: A Country Bumpkin?

As Shen Yuanfeng pondered, he noticed that there were many people he hadn’t seen before in the courtyard.

And each one was looking at the Shen family with disgust.

Are they all this woman’s friends?

How vast is this woman’s network?

If they had known earlier, the Shen family could have built a good relationship with her, which would have brought immense benefits to the entire family, and they would never have ended up in this situation.

It was already too late for regret, and Shen Yuanfeng was deeply remorseful; he didn’t want to say a word.

Master Shen and Madam Fang finished speaking, then turned to Su Youyue with expectation. But soon they noticed that the middle-aged man and woman standing beside Su Youyue were glaring at them fiercely, as if they were their mortal enemies.

Who are these people, and why are they looking at us like that?

While they were still wondering, the woman suddenly took a deep breath and then yelled at them at the top of her voice: "Who the hell do you think you are, calling yourselves her parents! Her real parents are standing right here in front of her! How dare you emotionally blackmail her? If you dare to call yourselves her parents one more time, I’ll cut you down!"

"..."

Master Shen and his wife were stunned by Lu Xixue’s shouting.

Mainly because, even if they had heard harsh words before, they had never been so directly insulted, and they were utterly humiliated.

But that wasn’t the end of it. Lu Xixue’s anger was far from being satisfied with just these words.

"You shameless old scoundrels, you didn’t treat your own daughter well, and now you come to bully my daughter. As parents, you are meaner than beasts; as people, you are unrighteous and profit-driven; even as villains, you are incompetent. True villains admit their evil openly, but not you. You do evil and still pretend to be good, trying to emotionally blackmail others. Who do you think you are? Are you the heavens? Are you the earth? Do you think your actions can be dismissed like farts?"

"Cough..."

Master Shen’s face turned beet red, and he almost fainted. As for Madam Fang, having her facade so blatantly torn off, her face turned red, white, and black in quick succession, like a kaleidoscope.

Seeing her parents being humiliated like this, Shen Zhuyu couldn’t bear it and stepped forward: "How can you speak so harshly?"

It would have been better if she hadn’t stepped forward. As soon as she did, Lu Xixue’s gaze swept over her from head to toe, and then she smirked.

Shen Zhuyu vaguely sensed something was wrong, but before she could react, the terrifying scolding voice came again.

"I speak harshly? If you don’t like my harsh words, then don’t do ugly deeds! How could you even think of arranging a substitute marriage? Do you have any shame? Do you have any face? Your marriage is a marriage, but another girl’s marriage isn’t? How can a young girl like you be so selfish and malicious? Are you human, and others aren’t? Were you born to parents, and other girls weren’t? You’ve already caused a death, and yet you feel no remorse. Strip off your glamorous exterior, and I see a heart as black as coal inside!"

"..."

Shen Zhuyu took a step back.

Madam Fang quickly supported her.

Su Zhenyun had learned a bit of Dongrong language on the way, but he wasn’t very fluent yet. He had originally been worried that he wouldn’t be able to contribute much to the confrontation, but now he realized there was no need for him to step in at all.

Lu Xixue suddenly turned her gaze to Shen Yuanfeng in the wheelchair.

Shen Yuanfeng’s body instinctively tensed up.

Fortunately, her gaze soon shifted away and returned to the Shen couple: "Let me tell you, even if my daughter forgives you, I won’t. You’re just waiting to die!"

"You..." Master Shen was shocked by a woman’s imposing presence for the first time. How could there be such a shrew in this world!

But he gradually came back to his senses. He had never seen these two people before, so they couldn’t be important figures in the court. Plus, this woman looked like a countryside shrew. Could she really be from the countryside?

Although Master Shen felt that the two of them had a somewhat different demeanor, he instinctively thought that no woman of noble birth would ever be so vulgar.

Recalling the rumor that Helian Lin had also been left in the countryside for many years, living in obscurity, and that this fake Shen Nan seemed to be his former wife, it was possible that she was indeed a countrywoman. Master Shen grew more and more suspicious that he had been tricked by a bunch of country bumpkins! And as for Madam Bai's cloth shop, it was likely just Princess Pingyang's way of helping her daughter-in-law.

The more he thought about how these people might originally have been of humble status, the angrier Master Shen became, and he no longer felt as timid as before.

Feeling he could finally let out his anger, he said to this country woman, "This is the Holy Capital, not a place for you country folk to throw tantrums. Even a starved camel is bigger than a horse, and our Shen family might as well go down fighting with you!"

"Father!" Shen Yuanfeng immediately stopped him.

His thoughts were not the same as Master Shen's. Though the woman in front of him was fierce and spoke crudely, the more she acted this way, the more he felt she was no ordinary person. Besides, the fake Shen Nan's father looked like a scholar.

He even had a vague suspicion.

This fake Shen Nan's family might not even be from Dongrong!

The series of setbacks had already made Shen Yuanfeng very cautious.

Moreover, his younger brother seemed to be in their hands. If they angered the other party, what good would it bring to the Shen family?

Thinking of the blows they had suffered both in the court and in the business world these days, Shen Yuanfeng felt like his head was going to explode. He felt he could no longer hold up the crumbling Shen family.

The other side only needed to push a little more, and he would collapse instantly, and the entire Shen family would be shattered.

Master Shen also belatedly remembered what he had discussed with his son before coming, but now he couldn't save face.

The idea that he had been brought to this point by a bunch of country folk filled him with rage.

When Lu Xixue heard Master Shen call her a countrywoman, she didn't feel insulted at all: "What's wrong with country folk? Don't your family eat the rice grown by country folk? Without country folk, you'd starve to death, don't you know? You've been eating grain for decades, and you don't even know who feeds you. If your brain's not working, I'll set it straight for you!"

Master Shen was so angry that he felt like dying and coming back to life. Only then did he vaguely realize who this fake daughter's venomous mouth was inherited from. He thought, how could he possibly have a daughter with such a poisonous tongue!

He completely lost his cool, trembling all over, and didn't want to deal with anything anymore. She was just a countrywoman, why should he endure her scolding! Just as he was about to burst into a rage, Madam Shi, who had just arrived and saw what was happening, looked at Lu Xixue in shock.

"Divine Physician Ji?"