Chapter 8 A hard slap in the face

Chapter 8 A hard slap in the face

Shen Linchuan looked at the jade bracelet dangling on Shen Suyun's wrist and his brows couldn't help but frown.

The Shen family lives in poverty. The jade bracelet on my sister's hand is of extremely fine quality and worth a lot of money. How could my mother be able to afford it?

What's more, he didn't even remember that his mother had given his sister such a valuable thing.

Shen Linchuan already knew the truth of the matter, but his sister took Song Shiwei's things and kept them for herself. If he exposed it in public, wouldn't it be a loss of face for his sister and him as well?

It was just a bracelet, Shen Linchuan thought it was no big deal, and said, "This was indeed a gift from mother to my sister. Madam, did you recognize the wrong one?"

Song Shiwei smiled and said, "Maybe I really made a mistake, but this is a serious matter, let's report it to the police."

When Shen Linchuan heard that he had to report to the authorities, he became anxious and said, "It's just a lost jade bracelet, why do we need to alert the government?

Besides, the Kyoto government office will not handle such a trivial matter."

Song Shiwei said: "This is not as simple as losing a jade bracelet, but a matter of life and death."

Shen Linchuan asked in confusion: "Why is it a matter of life and death?"

Song Shiwei sighed, "My husband, you don't know that when I was in the countryside, there were often servants with dirty hands and feet who came to steal my things, but they were too cunning and could not be caught in the act.

After suffering a few losses, I learned my lesson and now I would smear poison on all valuable items. Over time, I developed this habit.

I also smeared a deadly poison on the lost jade bracelet. If the poison is not removed within twelve hours, it will be fatal."

She said to Shen Linchuan: "Husband, you should report to the police immediately.

Let the government post the notice, and if the thief wants to kill you, he will show up."

Upon hearing that the jade bracelet was smeared with poison, Shen Suyun's face changed drastically, and even Old Madam Shen beside her was panicked.

Only Shen Linchuan asked half-doubtfully: "What kind of poison did you apply?"

Song Shiwei said: "This is the poison I bought from the quack doctor before.

The first symptom after poisoning is a rash on the body, followed by itching, ulcers, and pus and rot all over the body.

If you don't take the antidote, you will die in twelve hours."

As she spoke, Shen Suyun scratched her wrist unconsciously.

She lifted her sleeve and saw a red rash on her wrist.

She exclaimed, her face pale: "Mom."

Madam Shen was horrified, but she didn't dare to touch the bracelet. She just said hurriedly, "Take it off quickly."

Shen Suyun hurriedly took off the bracelet and threw it on the ground. With a bang, the jade bracelet broke into two pieces.

Old Madam Shen felt sorry for her daughter and asked Song Shiwei anxiously, "Where's the antidote? Bring it out!"

"What antidote?"

Song Shiwei looked bewildered: "Didn't you say that this jade bracelet was not the one I lost?

Since she didn't touch my things, she wouldn't be poisoned. The rash on her wrist might just be a coincidence."

This sentence was a slap in the face to both Old Madam Shen and Shen Linchuan.

No one expected that Song Shiwei was so scheming that she would poison the jade bracelet.

"Mom, I'm so itchy, I don't want to die."

Shen Suyun kept scratching her wrist. It felt like millions of bugs were crawling on her body.

She went to beg Shen Linchuan: "Second brother, please save me."

Shen Linchuan's face darkened, and he slapped Shen Suyun in the face, cursing angrily, "You deserve it."

Shen Suyun screamed and staggered to the ground.

"Chuan'er, why did you hit your sister?"

Old Madam Shen hurried to support Shen Suyun. She had never hit her since she was a child.

Suyun's father died before she was born.

She owed her daughter a lot, so she was a bit too indulgent.

Shen Linchuan ignored Old Lady Shen. He said to Song Shiwei with a guilty look on his face, "Madam, I mistakenly thought that Suyun's bracelet was given by my mother, but I didn't expect that she took yours.

I think she was just joking with you, I hope you can be magnanimous and not take it personally."

Song Shiwei turned around and sat down on the chair and said, "My husband said that my sister was joking with me?

But just now my mother clearly said that I had framed my sister and asked me to apologize to her.

Even my husband insisted that the bracelet was given to me by my mother.

If I had not poisoned the jade bracelet, would I have to bear the charge of framing my sister-in-law and apologize to her today?"

Shen Linchuan's face looked a little ugly. He was already filled with anger today as he had been humbly apologizing and begging for mercy in Marquis Cheng'en's mansion.

But his sister is so disappointing and causes trouble for him everywhere.

He felt tired, and it was obvious that Song Shiwei did not want to settle the matter peacefully.

Shen Linchuan walked over, shook Song Shiwei's hand and said, "Suyun was wrong. How about I ask her to apologize to you?"

Song Shiwei pulled her hand out with some disgust, and said with a cold face: "Husband, do you know that if you and mother indulge blindly, it will only harm Suyun."

She looked at Shen Suyun, who was covering her face with resentment in her eyes, and continued, "Next month, the young lady of Yongning Marquis's Mansion will hold a coming-of-age banquet.

I originally planned to bring Suyun to the banquet so that she could meet some noble ladies in the capital.

But if she is of such character, I think she should not go to the party.

She stole my things today. If you don't discipline her strictly, you will only encourage her to do more evil.

If she saw something belonging to some young lady at a banquet and wanted to take it for herself, it would not be as simple as making the Shen family lose face.

Even if your husband is talented, but you have a sister who is not clean, it means that there is something wrong with the Shen family's family tradition. Who do you think will dare to use you at that time?"

Madam Shen didn't buy her tricks, she said: "What do you mean by stealing your things? You are a member of our Shen family after you marry into our family.

How can it be considered stealing if Suyun wears her own things just to play with them?"

Shen Linchuan felt that what his mother said made some sense, so he didn't say anything.

Shen Suyun held her head high, relying on the support of others, and showed no remorse at all.

Song Shiwei raised her eyebrows, tilted her head to look at Old Madam Shen and said, "Since she is a family member, can I, as your brother's sister-in-law, discipline your sister-in-law on your behalf?"

As she spoke, she stood up and slapped Shen Suyun in the face, and asked in a stern and dignified tone: "Do you know you are wrong?"

Shen Suyun was caught off guard by the slap. She opened her eyes wide and didn't react for a moment.

Old Madam Shen exclaimed, stood in front of Shen Suyun, and asked angrily with a ferocious look on her face: "Song, what do you want to do? Who told you to hit Suyun!"

Song Shiwei rubbed her wrist and said, "It's not what you said, mother, that since I married into the Shen family, we are a family.

Suyun took the relic left to me by my mother without my permission and played with it, and even broke it.

Is there anything wrong with me, as her sister-in-law, disciplining her on behalf of her mother?

If mother says that I am not qualified to discipline Suyun, then she does not consider me as a family member, so what Suyun did today is called stealing!"