Chapter 350: Si Rong Treated You Well

So they had come to negotiate terms, only these terms were laughable.

This time, what answered her was a basin of boiling water.

Even after cooling slightly in the air, it was still hot enough to make the mother and daughter of the Shen family jump far away when it landed on them.

"Ah, it hurts, it hurts so much," Si Mu said, handing the basin to Wang Ma and watching the disheveled pair leave. "My daughter no longer has any relationship with your Shen family. If I hear any more slander from your dog mouths next time, I will reward you with another basin of boiling water! We in the Si Family have plenty of boiling water!"

"Mom," Shen Yun said, pulling at her clothes. "I feel like the skin on my body has been scalded into blisters. What should I do?"

"How can Si Rong's mother be so vicious? Doesn't she know how much damage this does to a girl?"

Shen Mu was in just as much pain, but she could only endure it.

It seemed now that the Si Family was so heartless, they likely wouldn't let their daughter get entangled with her son again.

Shen Mu walked toward the Public Security Bureau, dejected.

In her heart, she began to hate Li Xuan; it was all her fault for making up that excuse about not being able to come!

Now look at this, she was old and had been doused with boiling water, it was mortifying.

Perhaps human nature was to bully the weak and fear the strong; in any case, it was all Li Xuan's fault!

The mother and daughter rushed to the Public Security Bureau in a sorry state, only to find out upon asking that Shen Lan had been arrested for poisoning.

"Poi... soning?" Shen Mu was stunned, feeling that her son was simply being wronged to death.

"That's right, poisoning in the street," the officer said, having little patience for them. "It counts as endangering society. Who are you to him?"

"I am... his mother," Shen Mu replied, feeling inexplicably embarrassed.

Shen Yun simply shrank her head behind her mother.

She suddenly felt it was quite shameful to be Shen Lan's younger sister.

"You should go back and reflect on yourself as well," the officer said, waving his hand irritably. "To have raised such a son, it's really... sigh."

Although he didn't say anything harsh, that disappointed shake of his head still made Shen Mu's old face flush red.

It was as if she had truly raised a failure of a son.

"Um, my son is a director working in a government department. If you lock him up, who will do his job?"

Shen Mu brought out her trump card, thinking that once the officers heard her son worked in a government department, they would release him immediately.

Unexpectedly, the few officers let out a sneer. "From now on, I reckon you won't need to worry about his work anymore."

Even until they walked out of the Public Security Bureau, Shen Mu still didn't understand the meaning of his words.

"What did he mean?"

Shen Yun speculated, "Probably that they'll release my brother tomorrow."

"I hope so. Mom is just worried, won't your brother lose his job because of this?"

"The police said he poisoned someone. Could it be that Si Rong didn't agree to remarry him, so he went to poison Si Rong?"

Shen Yun also felt her mother's conjecture made sense. "Then, could Si Rong have been poisoned to death by him? We didn't see Si Rong when we went to the Si Family today, and her mother was so angry..."

Heavens!

The more they thought, the more terrified they became, and the mother and daughter practically jogged back to Li Xuan's residence.

Hearing their speculation, Li Xuan was almost amused to the point of anger.

"Stop scaring yourselves for no reason," she said, her mind still relatively clear. "If Si Rong were really dead, the police wouldn't just be detaining him; they certainly wouldn't be so ambiguous. If the Si Family lost a daughter, it wouldn't be as simple as a basin of boiling water."

Most importantly, based on her understanding of Shen Lan, it was impossible for him to poison Si Rong.

Li Xuan still remembered the infatuated and stunned expression on Shen Lan's face the first time she brought him to see Si Rong.

It was likely that drug of his, only he was so unlucky that he got caught and taken to the Public Security Bureau while using it.

"Why are you acting like a Monday-morning quarterback here?" Shen Yun shoved Li Xuan.

She was already in a bad mood and didn't want to hear Li Xuan lecturing her upon returning.

"This is my house!" Li Xuan sat up from the floor, a flash of impatience in her eyes. "Instead of acting tough here, you'd better hurry and think of a way to save Shen Lan. Otherwise, if his job goes down the drain, how will you live in the future?"

She asked a key question, so both Shen Yun and her mother fell silent.

"Go raise some money first!" Li Xuan sighed and said, "I'll go think of a way too."

"Money? Where would we have any money?" Shen Mu's expression became unnatural.

Li Xuan frowned. "Shen Lan has been working for nearly a year, and he doesn't have any major expenses. Where did his salary go?"

"I said there isn't any, so there isn't. Is it your place to interrogate me?"

Shen Mu stuck her rear out and turned her body away, refusing to look at her.

Shen Lan's salary had indeed been saved by her at the beginning, but after the poor relatives in the village heard that her son had made something of himself in Huaiyang, they all started asking to borrow money from her.

To save face, she had lent some out bit by bit.

She had even told her brothers from her maiden family that they didn't need to pay her back; if she asked for it now, she didn't know if she would have a maiden family left in the future.

But in the end, her own son was more important, so Shen Mu still made a trip back to her maiden home and brought back fifty yuan.

Li Xuan went to borrow money, and the person she sought was Ming Zi.

Although she knew Ming Zi didn't like her, in the end, the person she had wronged was Si Rong, which had nothing to do with Ming Zi.

After all, they had known each other for several years, and Li Xuan felt that if she asked, Ming Zi would give her some face.

But to her complete surprise, Ming Zi looked at her and sneered for quite a while.

The laughter made Li Xuan feel baffled and extremely annoyed.

"If you're going to lend it, lend it; if not, don't," Li Xuan said, making a move to leave. "Don't toy with people!"

"Toy with people?" Ming Zi stopped smiling. "Isn't the person who is best at toying with people you, Li Xuan?"

"You've already had a child with Shen Lan's mother, yet you're here scheming to have him marry Si Rong. Li Xuan, what exactly are you trying to do?"

"Si Rong, she treated you well!"

Ming Zi could not understand why she would return kindness with enmity.

She grabbed Li Xuan by the collar and questioned her repeatedly.

"Let go of me!" Li Xuan shoved Ming Zi away violently, "Not thin? Then is she very good to me?"

Ming Zi was stunned for a moment, "Those delicious things, and some clothes, even those matters in your family, have you forgotten them all?"

"I haven't forgotten!" Li Xuan scratched her hair in some agitation; she felt that Ming Zi should be on her side, "But, don't you think that Si Rong only gives us some unimportant things? She is high and mighty as if she is bestowing charity upon us. Our two families are poor, but we are not people of a lower class than her."

"Is that what you think?" Ming Zi felt her fists clench.