Chapter 74 Cutting Off Enigmatic Fate +4

  Sheng Siyan heard such absurd words, feeling displeased in her heart, but she had always been unwilling to quarrel with others, especially in public gatherings, and would avoid confrontation whenever possible.

  But today, she probably can't hide anymore.

  Sheng Siyan's mood was a bit complicated. On the one hand, she thought it would be better if she didn't come out today, out of sight, out of mind, hiding in her small building, not having to see these annoying things. But on the other hand, she also knew that hiding at home and pretending everything is fine like an ostrich was actually deceiving herself.

  If she doesn't come out today, won't the reputation of the Sheng family suffer greatly?!

  Sheng Siyan pursed her lips and began to secretly observe the movements in the Wu family's shed next door.

  The noise outside grew louder and louder, and Niu Datong couldn't help but feel a bit fed up. He walked over to Sheng Siyan's side and said in a low voice, "Miss Sheng, this can't go on like this, we have to do something."

  "A mouth belongs to others, and it's impossible to shut it up."

  "But if it's not blocked, many people will not understand the truth and make things worse." Niu Datong said with a worried tone.

  "It's okay, let's just watch for now. We have to wait until the other side makes a move, then we can take aim. Maybe later we'll even need to ask Brother Niu for help."

  "Of course! Just give me orders if you need anything!" Niu Datong said with a bow, treating Sheng Siyan like an adult.

  Niu Xiaoye said indignantly: "Siyuan, do you want me to go out and scold those shameless people for you? It's too hateful! I was just sympathizing with that Jin family girl earlier!"

  "What's the relationship between them? They're all pitiful people." Sheng Siyan didn't want to vent her anger on others. It was clear that someone was brushing up their reputation again, and the Jin family was just a pawn for others.

  Niu Xiaoye wanted to speak, but Niu Dapeng gave her a stern look, so she pouted and sat down beside him, propping up her cheek with one hand, staring absent-mindedly at the auction platform with a huff.

  When the noise outside grew loud enough to make the official teeth on the opposite side of the street slightly frown, Zheng Suheng slowly got up and stood in front of the railing.

  The four sides of the stage are surrounded by a circle of two-story high temporary buildings, with thatched roofs on top. Just like a temporarily built shed.

  The Wu family's and Niu family's sheds are adjacent to each other, the Wu family's is right in the middle, while the Niu family's is slightly off-center, but compared to other sheds, their location is already quite good.

  Sheng Siyan leaned over from her balcony and looked over, only to see Zheng Suhui's lotus-like face, her slender hand covering the sky, standing upright on the second floor, letting out a soft sigh.

  Sheng Siyan suddenly discovered that Zheng Suhuan's appearance was not the most beautiful, but she really had a good voice.

  Zheng Suxin's voice was soft, but the scene immediately fell silent, as if many people were waiting for her sigh.

  "You must be the young ladies of the Jin family? Pitiful, it's terribly cold today. Still wearing single-layer clothes, how can you bear it? Come, I'll give them a few padded jackets. I also have some cloaks here, let me send them over." Zheng Suheng's elegant voice was like a clear spring in this bustling market, and those who heard her couldn't help but feel a sense of reverence.

  Several old women were holding bundles and walking out of Zheng Suxin's shed towards the slave market.

  Three moon-white cotton-padded jackets were put on the three girls, and their numb faces finally had a hint of human warmth.

  "Granny Zheng's kindness in giving us a second life, my sisters and I will never forget!" The three Jin sisters were led over by these women and knelt down in front of the Wu family's shed, kowtowing to Zheng Suhuan on the second-floor balcony.

  Zheng Suxin hastily raised her arm and said, "Get up. Stop kowtowing. I only have a nodding acquaintance with your parents' generation, but I just can't bear to see this kind of thing..."

  "Zheng's grandmother is a kind-hearted person, good people will have good fortune. But that Shen family is hateful! My father, my grandfather, and even my great-grandfather all sold their lives to them for generations. They can just turn against us like this, without fearing the cold hearts of others! They took money with ill intentions, and they won't be able to spend it all in this lifetime, they'll have to take it to their graves!" The eldest daughter of the Jin family seems to be a fierce and sharp-tongued person.

  Sheng Si's eyebrows furrowed. She hadn't expected the Jin family to be so indiscriminate about right and wrong. It was clearly their parents' generation that had occupied the Sheng family's property, but from their mouths, it sounded as if the Sheng family had taken their property by force!

  As people around also started to speak out, following the trend, the situation was very unfavorable for the Sheng family. The reputation of the Sheng family's Shen Nong Fu, accumulated over a thousand years, would be ruined in an instant!

  Sheng Siyan was anxious and came up with a plan. "Brother Niu, come over and help me out, okay?" She asked Niudapeng in a soft and pitiful tone.

  "The grand lady is polite." Niu Dapeng leaned over and listened as Sheng Siyan whispered a few words in his ear.

  After listening, Niu Datong was stunned for a moment before laughing and cupping his hands: "Sheng Dajie's plan is great!" He then turned up his sleeves, first sending someone to the Sheng Guo Gong Fu to inform Wang Shi, telling her to hurry over. Afterwards, he went out to find a glib-tongued long-following servant of his own family and whispered a few sentences in his ear.

  That Chang Sui was a clever one, and he immediately understood. After hearing Niu Da Peng finish speaking, he whispered: "Don't worry, old man, I'll go teach them a lesson!" He then slipped out of the back door of the shed, squeezed through the crowd, and returned to stand in front of Wu's shed.

  "What? Isn't this the young lady from the Jin family? Haha, you guys have your day too! Your father robbed others of their things, and of course, you're thinking of your father's goodness. But have you ever thought about how wronged that family is whose things were robbed by your father? You still have the face to scold others here!" The loud voice of the long-following servant immediately overwhelmed the soft-voiced Jin Dagu and Zheng Dainai.

  Zheng Suxin furrowed her brow and looked at the crowd downstairs: "Who is that person? How did he get in?"

  The Wu family's people went on busily pushing and shoving against the long pole.

  The eldest son of the Niu family was incredibly strong and the several servants of the Wu family could not withstand him.

  "That long followed by a loud voice continued: "Jin Dagu, you can't take advantage of others now, it's not right to curse people to bring them into the coffin, is it?!" Then he said to Zheng Suhui upstairs: "Zheng Dainai, what's the point of spending money on such ungrateful and treacherous people? Are you going to let them cheat the Sheng family again and then cheat the Wu family?!"

  Zheng Suxin's face sank, and she said loudly: "What does this young man mean by saying that? I just pitied the Jin family's daughter."

  The people around just saw a beautiful girl in distress and felt sympathetic, and they all spoke to her.

  Now listening to what Zhang said, I feel there is some truth in it.

  Some people woke up to the fact that the Jin family was originally the steward of the Sheng family, and since the Sheng family was exterminated, it's not the Jin family's turn to be the master. What does this Jin girl mean by saying the Sheng family is turning against them?

  Niu's followers said in the crowd, "The Sheng family is the master. They are partners. They occupied the master's property and cursed the master to die a bad death. This kind of heartless woman, no matter how beautiful she is, I dare not want her."

  Jin Daguang's face turned red with anger. She stood up from the ground and said: "My father was the shopkeeper, my grandfather was the shopkeeper, and even my great-grandfather was the shopkeeper of the Sheng family! We have always been diligent and never slackened off. My father always said that this is the property of the Sheng family, we must take good care of it for the sake of the Sheng family people, until the real master of the Sheng family returns to take it back! But what about those people, do they deserve it?!"

  Sheng Siyan listened and felt it was wrong. This was questioning their family's identity!

  Good boy, this plan is really good. Draining the water from the cauldron...

  As long as public opinion is created to question the identity of their family, it is planting a seed of doubt in people's hearts, and there will always be opportunities for it to take root and sprout.

  No, this seed must be nipped in the bud.

  Sheng Siyan immediately asked Niu Dapeng to take her down. Walking into the crowd, they also came to the front of the Wu family's shed.

  Zheng Suxin also came down from the second floor and stood beside the three Jin sisters, saying with a sympathetic tone: "It's really pitiful, you have good intentions, but they are not easy to deal with. They just arrived in the capital from a small mountain village, and it's hard for a whole family to make ends meet. If they don't ask you for help, who else can they turn to?"

  Sheng Siyan listened and just wanted to laugh out loud. Where did this come from!

  There's no other way, Zheng Da Nainai is doing the first move, don't blame me for Shi Siyan making the fifteenth move!

  Sheng Siyan coughed and followed Niu Datong. They walked to the front of the Wu family's shed and stopped in front of Zheng Dainai and three girls from the Jin family.

  Sheng Siyan took off the Guanyin pot from her head, bowed to Zheng Suhui and the three Jin sisters, then smiled shyly and said: "Auntie Zheng. My mother asked me to trouble you to help redeem the family members of the three bosses of the Jin, Zhao, and Mao families. I came to see how the redemption is going."

  "Your mother?" Zheng Suhui furrowed her brow, "Did your mother ever say that? You're just a child, speaking nonsense with your red lips and white teeth."

  Sheng Siyan's phoenix eyes were instantly filled with tears, and she trembled as she said: "Madam Zheng, how can you speak like this? It was clearly my mother who thought that although the three shopkeepers had done wrong, their wives and daughters should not suffer such a terrible fate. Therefore, she wanted to personally come and redeem them. But it was Madam Zheng who strongly dissuaded her, saying that my mother had just entered the Guo Gong Fu and was busy with matters, and that you would help us take care of this matter properly. You also said that you were my grandfather's sworn brother, and that your greatest wish in this life was to find my grandfather's descendants and return the Shen Nong Fu and the Tian Xia Yao Fang to the Sheng family intact. When my father returned, you were overjoyed and even personally hosted a welcome banquet for him at the Wu Guo Gong Fu... Half of the people in the capital know about this..."

  Sheng Siyan's words first showed that the Sheng family was a good person, and then indicated that their family identity was recognized by Zheng Suhui himself. If someone else questioned their family identity again, they would be slapped in the face immediately!

  The onlookers immediately understood that this was someone from the Sheng Guo Gong's household. From her tone and address, she should be the eldest legitimate daughter of Sheng Guo Gong.

  Zheng Suxin's face turned red with rage. She knew that Sheng Siyan was not a person to be underestimated, although he was young, his words were sharp and had made her daughter Wu Yanyan cry several times. What she didn't expect was that Sheng Siyan would dare to lie to her face!

  "Grandma's girl, you dare to speak such nonsense in front of me? Aren't you afraid I'll tell your mother?" Zheng Suhui said calmly, trying her best to remain composed.

  Sheng Siyan said in her heart, I just asked Niu to send a message to my mother and have already coordinated with my mother on the story. When my mother arrives, you'll be in for it! But now she still had to put up a strong front, saying: "Zheng Dàniáng, I've already sent someone to invite my mother, she'll arrive soon. You can ask her yourself."

  Zheng Suxin stared at Sheng Siyan for a while, coldly smiling and saying: "I'd like to see how your mother helps you make up this lie!" She clearly had no dealings with Wang Shi, and Wang Shi hadn't asked her to redeem anyone! Sheng Siyan's ability to tell outrageous lies was getting better and better...

  Sheng Siyan wiped away her tears with a handkerchief and said, "My mother never lies to you, so don't wait in vain." She then turned to the three Jin family girls who were staring at her blankly and said, "You are indeed innocent victims. But your father's occupation of our Sheng family's Tianxia Pharmacy is not right. My mother taught me from a young age that if something doesn't belong to you, don't take it. But if it does belong to you, don't give up an inch!"

  "You say it is, then it is? I also say you are taking advantage of us!" The eldest daughter of the Jin family looked at Sheng Siyan with great disapproval and decided to stand on Zheng Suhan's side.

  Sheng Siyan looked at her and said, "This is not what I said, it was judged by the Minister of Justice. If you think the judgment is unfair, you can appeal to the Supreme Court. If you don't have money, I can lend it to you."

  Jin's eldest daughter felt a surge of anger and scolded, "Are you kidding me? You borrowed money from me to sue your own family?! Are you out of your mind?"

  Sheng Siyan smiled, "I know you can't win. What am I afraid of? Besides, borrowing money to sue my family will give you a good reputation, just like Zheng Dainai coming over to redeem and buy you out, earning herself a good reputation!"

  Hehe, isn't Xiaosiyan awesome? En, en, en! The fourth extra chapter of Xianyuan Yuanxi is here as a reward for the alliance leader Enigmayanxi. Extra chapters are seeking pink tickets and recommendation votes!

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