Phi-Fic Chapter 147 Attack
Chapter 147 Attack
Shen Xi had never felt so helpless as she did today. She leaned against the bathtub and couldn't stop crying.
The Second Madam was in the South Courtyard. When she heard the maid report that Shen Xian had sprained her foot and was helped back home, she hurried to Qinglan Garden. She could enter and exit Shen Xian's inner room at will, so she went straight in, walked around the screen, and saw the marks on Shen Xian's body. The Second Madam's heart sank to the bottom of the valley.
Even those who had experienced it couldn't help but wonder what the mark was. The second wife felt like the sky was falling. "Who did that?!"
Knowing that it was the Prince of Changping Marquis, he was still unwilling to take responsibility. The Second Wife wanted to skin the Prince of Changping Marquis alive, and even wanted to kill Shen Tang.
After Xie Guimo left, Shen Tang stayed in the room, sneezing one after another.
Just as she was rubbing her nose, Ginkgo came in and said, "Miss, the old lady wants you to go to her place."
It was obvious why the old lady wanted to ask her to go now. The old lady had suppressed all the quarrels in the mansion, let alone leaving the mansion. The two sisters left the mansion together, and they actually came back separately. The old lady would not agree.
And there was Shen Xian. She failed to plot against her and got herself into trouble. The Second Wife was almost furious at the moment. How could she not find fault with her? Even if it meant punishing her by making her copy the family rules, she would not let her get away with it.
Shen Tang finished the tea in his hand before standing up.
After entering Songhe Hall and walking around the screen into the house, he felt a bone-chilling gaze sweeping over him. The Second Madam's face was pale. Shen Tang asked directly, "Second Aunt looks so bad, are you sick?"
This sentence drew everyone's attention to the second wife, and even the old lady felt that the second wife's expression was too ugly.
The Second Wife tried her best to be patient and regain some composure. "The old lady has repeatedly urged you sisters to get along, but you're so different! You went to Shun Prince's mansion to attend the lotus viewing banquet, and when the eldest girl sprained her ankle, you didn't even come back with her. Do you still have any sisterly love?"
Shen Tang was so disgusted by these words that she almost vomited her breakfast. How could Shen Ying be worthy of talking about sisterhood with her?
Shen Tang glanced at the Second Wife and said, "Second Aunt's accusations are so unreasonable. Everyone in Kyoto knows that I, Shen Tang, value sisterhood the most. In order not to hurt our sisterhood, I refused to marry the Prince of Jingyang. But Second Aunt says that I have no sisterhood. I have never seen you criticize my eldest sister like this before."
Even if Shen Xian really sprained her ankle in Prince Shun's mansion, she didn't accompany him back. Compared with Shen Xian poisoning herself and framing her to marry the Prince of Jingyang for good fortune, it's not worth mentioning.
Don't tell her that it's okay for the sisters to quarrel in the mansion, but not outside.
This was what the Second Wife meant, and she didn't hide it at all, "You sisters can quarrel all you want in the mansion, but when you go out to visit others, you still act like this..."
Shen Tang said, "So that's how Second Aunt taught my eldest sister. I can't do something so hypocritical, all show and no substance."
The second wife's face turned green as she was just about to be pointed at by Shen Tang and scolded for being all show and no substance.
Shen Tang looked at the old lady and said, "Grandmother, I didn't know about my eldest sister's sprained ankle until I returned home. I didn't even know when she left Prince Shun's Mansion. I didn't see her from the beginning to the end of the lotus viewing banquet. I urged the maids in Prince Shun's Mansion several times to help look for her. It was only after the banquet that Princess Ding'an told me that my eldest sister had left Prince Shun's Mansion long ago. That's when I returned home."
"My eldest sister didn't tell me why she left, nor did she take the mansion's carriage. She left it to me. I thought this was against my eldest sister's character, but Second Aunt believed that I deliberately didn't accompany my eldest sister back to the mansion and blamed me. Second Aunt is really too protective of my eldest sister!"
The old lady only knew that Shen Xian and Shen Tang did not return to the mansion together, and she did not know that Shen Xian did not return in the Marquis's carriage.
Shen Xian was raised by the old lady. When she sprained her ankle in Prince Shun's mansion, she refused to let Shen Tang accompany her and even left the carriage to Shen Tang. This would not have happened even if the sun rose from the west.
Moreover, Shen Xian returned home only a quarter of an hour earlier than Shen Tang. Shen Tang said that Shen Xian was nowhere to be seen during the entire lotus viewing banquet. That was a long time, so it was enough for Shen Xian to walk from Prince Shun's Mansion back to Marquis Pingyuan's Mansion.
The old lady looked at the second wife and asked, "Why does it take so long to get back to the Marquis' Mansion from Prince Shun's Mansion?"
The second wife said, "Xier's feet hurt so much that she couldn't stand it. She was delayed on the way to find a doctor and get medicine."
Shen Tang said, "Second Aunt knows everything so clearly, how come she doesn't know whether it's me who doesn't accompany my eldest sister, or whether my eldest sister doesn't want me to accompany her at all?"
The Second Wife was only concerned with attacking Shen Tang, but she didn't expect that she would end up getting herself and Shen Ying involved. What Shen Tang said was well-reasoned and could withstand questioning, but the Second Wife's words could not withstand scrutiny. It was either because she felt too sorry for Shen Ying and reported the matter in a truncated manner, asking the old lady to punish Shen Tang, or because Shen Ying did not tell the truth to the Second Wife.
No matter who it was, the fault for not returning home together today could not be blamed on Shen Tang. Even if they were sisters, they were not tied together hand and foot, and there would always be a time to separate. Shen Tang was not a worm in Shen Xi's stomach, and he could know what she thought and did.
The Second Wife had a cold expression and was speechless. The Old Lady scolded her, "Is this how you protect Xian'er?!"
These days, Shen Tang has been flirting with the old lady more than once, letting her know how biased and protective the second wife is. Everyone in the house has been vaguely wondering whether what Jiang said back then is true. Shen Xi is not the daughter of the eldest house, and Shen Sui's estrangement from the second house is like a thorn stuck in the old lady's throat, making her unable to sleep or eat.
Now the Second Wife is being unreasonable and protecting Shen Ying to the point of being unreasonable, which makes the Old Lady even more uneasy.
The Second Wife was so angry that she lost her mind today. Now she came to her senses and quickly admitted her fault, "It's my fault for not understanding things clearly..."
Scold her, and then want to let it go without clarifying anything?
It's not that easy.
Shen Tang looked at the old lady, choking up with sobs. "Grandma, Second Aunt loves my eldest sister so much that she has wrongfully blamed me more than once. Although Mother has passed away, Father is still alive, and Fourth Aunt is in charge of the household affairs. I don't want Second Aunt to interfere in the affairs of our eldest house anymore. My eldest sister and I are leaving the house together, but no matter what happens, Second Aunt always thinks it's my fault. It's better for my eldest sister and I not to live under the same roof. I will follow Mother's will and move into the Jiang family."
The old lady scolded him lightly, "Nonsense! You are already of marriageable age and can't live in the Marquis' Mansion for much longer. How can you still live in the Jiang family?"
I wasn't allowed to go when I was young, and now if I move to the Jiang family, who knows what kind of rumors will spread.
Shen Tang's eyes were red, and he looked aggrieved and said, "There's nothing I can do about it."
The old lady's eyes swept towards the second wife fiercely, "From now on, if you say another word about the affairs of the eldest house or the two sisters, you will kneel down in the Buddhist temple and reflect on your sins!"
The second wife wanted to speak, but the old lady's eyes became even colder, and she was so suppressed that the words that were about to come out of her mouth could not come out.