Quick Wear: The Wronged One Becomes Rebellious

Chapter 233: The Merchant's Daughter Wants to Marry the General 30

Gu Li sighed.

Even after all this, Lin still refused to accept the reality. Was it because she had absolute confidence in her husband's love for her daughter, or was it because she was unwilling to believe her husband's complete betrayal?

Shen Guli sat quietly at the table, waiting for Lin to calm down.

"Mother, if we want to know whether this is true or not, won't we find out once we go back home?"

Lin paused, "Yes, yes, we will go back right away."

I thought Lin would be unwilling to go back and face Shen Hongshan, but the fact was quite the opposite. Lin couldn't wait to go back home.

She did not forget to hold Shen Guli's hand and explained again: "Ali, no matter what, your father will not easily promise your marriage. He promised me personally, this is A Niang's bottom line."

Shen Guli pulled her lips into a smile. The fact was that someone claimed to be her fiancé and came to her shop, shouting and calling for killing.

Seeing that her daughter was unmoved, Lin pinched the handkerchief in her hand and lowered her voice, "Your father has loved you the most since you were a child. Even your brother doesn't love you as much as he does. He----"

Those favors were indeed real, but that was in the past. Now my cheap dad wants to take his whole family to the guillotine.

She just wanted to save as many of her family members as possible!

"If, if your father really did something, then he must have his reasons." Lin stammered, her voice barely audible.

Shen Guli's beautiful brows were furrowed in a knot.

As a human being, who doesn't have their own hardships? However, no matter how great the hardships were, they could not cover up the fact that he favored his concubine and neglected his wife, and even allowed his own daughter to be betrothed to someone else at will.

Faced with the stubborn Lin who refused to listen, Shen Guli could only speak bluntly.

"Mother, have you ever thought about divorcing father?"

"Ali!"

"Mother, father is no longer the father who only wanted to expand the family business, respect mother, and love children." Gu Li supported Lin's arm and lowered her voice, "Mother, father is not only favoring concubines and killing his wife, he is also involved in party struggles!"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Lin was so excited that she raised her hand to cover Shen Guli's mouth, looked at the closed door, and then looked at the window worriedly.

Shen Guli's doubts in her heart became even more serious. Lin seemed to know something.

Shen Guli gently pulled Lin's hand away and continued in a soft voice, "Father is working for a certain prince."

Staring at Lin's gloomy eyes, she continued, "But that prince will not succeed. Does mother know what will happen to the Shen family then?"

Lin covered her chest and slowly sat down. She took a sip of the cold tea on the table and covered her chest with a handkerchief. "Ah Li knows everything!"

"Mother!" It turned out that Lin had known about it for a long time.

Lin held the empty cup and smiled bitterly, "Your father has his reasons."

"Mother, you should have told me earlier. Do you think we kept it a secret? Well, we did a good job hiding it from our family, but mother, these things can be easily seen through by the bigwigs in the capital. Otherwise, why did I know it after just one trip to the capital?"

Lin clenched her fists, hesitating whether to tell her daughter the truth.

But Shen Guli did not give her a chance to consider, "Mother, the most favored heir of the current emperor has always been the crown prince. If the other princes want to fight for that position, there will be bloodshed. Those have nothing to do with us. We just need to live our lives honestly. Why does the Shen family want to wade into such muddy water? How many rebellions against the emperor since ancient times have been successful? Once they fail, the rebellious princes may not die, but will be imprisoned in the imperial mausoleum. But for people like us, beheading is a minor matter, and in serious cases, the entire nine clans will be exterminated!"

Lin's throat tightened and she reached out tremblingly to pour another cup of tea, but she could hardly even lift the teapot.

This is also what she and Mr. Shen are most worried about, something she has never dared to think about deeply.

Shen Guli held her hand, took her mother's cup, poured her some tea, and considerately put it into her hand.

Lin took a sip of hot water and finally calmed down a little. After a long while, she managed to say, "Your father didn't intend to rebel. He was forced to do so."

Many years ago, at a banquet hosted by the government, Shen Hongshan was rewarded with a singing girl, who later became Aunt Xuan, because he claimed the most silver donated for flood relief.

Of course Shen Hongshan would bring the person given by the official back home and provide him with good food and drink.

When Concubine Xuan first came into the mansion, she was just like the other concubines, very honest. Shen Hongshan hardly ever went to her yard after bringing her back to the mansion because she was not from a good family.

But one time, three cargo ships of the Shen family were intercepted by the canal transport personnel in the Qingshui River. There was a batch of very important goods on one of the cargo ships. If they failed to deliver on time, the Shen family would have to pay the buyer ten times the compensation.

For the Shen family, this would not only mean the loss of a large sum of money, but also the loss of their business reputation.

Shen Hongshan tried to find people everywhere to smooth things over, but the Qingshui Canal was not located in Yonghe Prefecture, and he couldn't find anyone who could speak to the canal there.

It was at this time that Aunt Xuan stepped forward and said that she knew the newly appointed grain transport commissioner of Qingshui County and asked Shen Hongshan to agree to let her give it a try.

Shen Hongshan agreed to Aunt Xuan's proposal because he believed that having more options meant more possibilities.

Aunt Xuan took her people to Qingshui overnight. No one expected that Aunt Xuan had only stayed in Qingshui for two days before she brought back good news to the Shen Mansion.

The canal transport allowed the Shen family's three cargo ships to pass, but Aunt Xuan collapsed in Qingshui County due to exhaustion from running around all night.

Shen Hongshan was in a hurry to meet the cargo ship at the dock and deliver the goods to the customer, so he did not go to pick her up immediately. After he was done with his work, Shen Hongshan went to pick up Aunt Xuan.

Mrs. Lin said that Aunt Xuan had a serious illness in Qingshui, and she rested for half a month after returning before coming out of the yard to pay her respects.

Shen Hongshan thought of the contributions that Aunt Xuan had made to the Shen family, so he started to visit Aunt Xuan's yard more often. Later, Aunt Xuan became pregnant.

Aunt Xuan's first pregnancy was not going well. The doctor said it might be because she got pregnant before she recovered from her illness, which led to an unstable fetus.

In order to keep Xuan Niang pregnant, Shen Hongshan spent a lot of money to buy Xuan Niang a better and bigger courtyard and four more servants. Xuan Niang also went to Lingyun Temple every month to listen to the master's Buddhist teachings to add blessings to the baby in her belly.

But even so, Aunt Xuan gave birth prematurely.

Shen Hongshan and Lin both felt extremely guilty towards Aunt Xuan and treated her much better than the other concubines.

Hearing this, Shen Guli couldn't help but twitch her lips. She interrupted and said, "Is there a possibility that Aunt Xuan's baby is not the father's?"