Chapter 383: Severing Ties
Chapter 383: Severing Ties Lu Dasong: "... " Isn't this change of attitude too fast? Shu Yu glanced at Da Niu, noticing a faint handprint on his face, presumably from Li Shi slapping him. She thought to herself, "She agreed so easily after one slap?" Only after the group boarded the mule cart did Shu Yu quietly ask, still sitting at the front of the cart with Da Niu, "Why did your mother suddenly become more agreeable?" Da Niu forced a bitter smile and made a money-pinching gesture. Shu Yu suddenly understood. So that's how it is, money can make ghosts turn the grindstone. "How much?" she asked. "Four," Da Niu replied. The two spoke in words that the people inside the carriage couldn't understand, and they both sighed in unison, understanding each other without words. Soon, Da Niu regained his spirit and relayed the news he had heard from Li Shi. Lu Dasong was unaware of this development, and his expression immediately turned unpleasant. Yuan Shanchuan couldn't believe it. "What are they planning?" Shu Yu pondered for a moment and replied, "They probably just want both of us to suffer. If I'm not doing well, they don't want you to do well either." Yuan Shanchuan's face turned red with anger. He turned to Lu SiXing and said, "Sixing, don't worry. Cough, cough... When we return to Daxu Village and everyone sees that we're fine, they won't believe those rumors anymore." "You shouldn't worry," Lu Sixing remained calmer than anyone expected. She comfortingly patted his back, saying, "After this incident, I don't really care about what they say about me anymore. For me, the most important thing is for our family to live peacefully and safely." After experiencing her husband's disappearance, her own arrest and detention, and her two children being left helpless, with her eldest daughter injured and her youngest son falling seriously ill, Lu Sixing had become much more open-minded. But seeing her like this, Yuan Shanchuan felt even more heartbroken. When he became anxious, a faint pain started to creep up in his chest. After a while, the mule cart arrived at Daxu Village. The villagers felt a sense of familiarity when they saw the cart but couldn't quite remember where they had seen it before. But because the cart was moving quickly, they didn't have time to clearly see who was driving it. It was only when the cart stopped at the Yuan family's front gate that everyone suddenly realized. Oh, right, isn't this the same cart that the Lu family used when they came last time? They went around to the front and indeed saw Da Niu and Shu Yu sitting on the cart's front. With all the recent events happening in the Yuan family, the villagers gathered around, curious to know what was going on. It was only when they saw Yuan Shanchuan get off the cart that they stared in astonishment. Some people who were on good terms with his family hurriedly approached him and asked, "Shanchuan, are you okay?" "What could be wrong with me?" One person slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "Ah, you don't know! Your parents and three elder brothers returned last night. As soon as they came back, they said you were arrested by the county yamen. They proved their innocence and were released. Weren't you supposed to be thrown into prison?" Yuan Shanchuan frowned. "Is that what my parents said?" "Of course!" another person chimed in. "Your parents went to Village Head Chen early this morning. They are currently discussing severing ties with you. They said since your guilt hasn't been confirmed yet, they want to disassociate themselves from you, ask the village head to kick you out of the village, so that they won't implicate the Yuan family or Daxu Village." Yuan Shanchuan looked at him sharply, "What did you say? Severing ties?"
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