Hearing the voices of the Shen family, the surrounding people’s gazes instantly fell on Lu Yao.

Being watched by so many eyes, Lu Yao didn’t feel uncomfortable at all.

Facing the accusations from those people and Shen Yujiao’s “Oh, oh” act, she looked very innocent: “I just wanted to help her because she was about to fall. Since I misunderstood, then I’ll let go now.”

Lu Yao was very decisive. When she said she’d let go, she didn’t hesitate for even a second.

Not only that, but she also quickly took a few steps back, staying far away from this person, determined not to give the other party a chance to commit fraud.

Shen Yujiao pretended to be restrained when everyone looked over. Hearing what Lu Yao said, she didn’t have time to react before she felt the force pulling her suddenly disappear. Fortunately, she hadn’t used much force and could still stand firm. But in the next instant, she felt a shiver all over her body, and a numb sensation traveled from her arm to her thigh, making her horrified to discover that one of her legs had suddenly lost consciousness. Subsequently, the imbalance in perception caused her body to tilt to one side, and with a “thump,” she fell directly to the ground.

Everything happened so fast that she didn’t even have time to adjust her facial expression.

Without Wang Yalan and Shen Yaoming nearby to help, she fell hard. Not only did her buttocks hurt, but her previously twisted waist also felt more uncomfortable.

Perhaps she really fell hard, and Shen Yujiao shed tears of genuine emotion this time.

However,

In Lu Yao’s view, there was an element of acting involved. After all, acting weak was this woman’s forte.

Lu Yao patted her chest with immense relief, thankful that she had run fast and stayed far away; otherwise, she would have been blamed again.

“Jiaojiao, are you okay?”

“You vicious woman, Jiaojiao has been so good to your family all these years!”

“What exactly do you want to do? We ask ourselves, we haven’t mistreated you all these years, so why do you always oppose us?”

Faced with the questions from Old Lady Wang and Wang Yalan, Lu Yao was both bewildered and amused.

She pointed to the distance between herself and Shen Yujiao: “I’m so far away; how can you blame me?”

The word “blame” was used very appropriately.

“Also, don’t rush to pin labels on us,” she pointed upwards, “Right and wrong, people are doing it, Heaven is watching. Feel free to fabricate if you’re not afraid of retribution.”

“If it wasn’t you, who else could it be?” Shen Yujiao’s waist was already a bit uncomfortable, and this fall only made it worse. Supported by a maid, she slowly stood up, pounded her still-numb leg, and looked at Lu Yao with even more malice: “What exactly did you do to me?”

This bitch must have played some trick behind her back; otherwise, how could her leg suddenly lose consciousness?

“If you’re going to pick a fight, at least find a better reason!” Shen Yanrong, standing beside Lu Yao, looked coldly at Shen Yujiao, “Do you really think everyone is as blind as the Shen family?”

Hearing him say this, the eyes of the onlookers instantly turned sour, and their gazes towards the Shen family changed.

Originally, the emotions of everyone present were very suppressed and low. Perhaps due to the sorrow of not being able to see relatives and friends again for the rest of their lives, the despair and fear of the future… they were immersed in their respective pain, and had no mood to watch any excitement. But this commotion at least diluted some of the grief.

“It clearly was you!” Shen Yujiao was sure that Lu Yao had done something. She didn’t have any evidence, but she absolutely couldn’t swallow this loss.

“You really think I can’t do anything to you, do you?” She glared at Lu Yao and Shen Yanrong with hatred in her eyes, “We’ll see!”

She would definitely make these two pay the price!

Lu Yao looked scared: “You are the daughter-in-law of the Minister of Works, with power and influence. We are just convicts in exile.”

Naturally, you can do whatever you want!

Hearing her say this, Shen Yujiao thought she was really scared, but she didn’t want to lose face in front of her, so she spoke in a sarcastic tone, a smug smile appearing on the corner of her mouth. Just as she was about to say a few more threatening words, she heard Lu Yao change her tone: “Do you really think you can interfere and do whatever you want everywhere?”

“So what!” Shen Yujiao had never failed to achieve anything from birth until now.

She had been worried these days, afraid that losing the Shen family would affect her position in her husband’s family. This was also the reason why she didn’t dare to do anything after the incident.

But in fact, apart from a few sisters-in-law being sarcastic, no one else was acting differently. Her husband had been with her these days, comforting her, and even took her to the manor for a few days to keep her from being sad. Early this morning, her father-in-law had specifically instructed her to come and deliver a letter to her parents, and also said that the journey would be hard, so she should prepare more things and money.

Her husband’s family was really too good to her, and she felt really lucky.

When she returned, she would definitely have her husband find someone to teach these bitches a lesson, to help her, her parents, grandmother, and younger brother vent their anger.

“What a big tone, this madam has!” As a dignified and stern voice rang out, a man in a scarlet military uniform rode over on horseback, stopped in front of her, and said sternly: “There are some places you can’t reach out to, even if you want to.”

Shen Yujiao had seen many officials of different ranks since she was a child. They were either dignified, stern, gentle, or indifferent… For example, her father and father-in-law, as long as they had a stern face, the aura on their bodies was very scary. But she felt that none of them brought her as much impact as the person in front of her. In front of this person, she felt like prey being stared at by a ferocious beast, with nowhere to escape.

She felt fear in her heart and tried to maintain her elegant appearance: “This official has misunderstood. I was just saying angry words and didn’t mean anything else.”

The person looked down from a high position, “Whether you really want to do something or just say it casually, you must be responsible for your words.”

Wang Yalan wanted to step forward when she saw her daughter being embarrassed, but Shen Yaoming stopped her. He shook his head slightly at her. Their identities were different from before. Helping her now would only backfire.

“But…”

No one knows a daughter like her mother. Wang Yalan knew her daughter’s temperament best and was really afraid that she would do something impulsive.

Shen Yaoming was also worried about his elder sister, but he was also rational.

He knew that if the Shen family stood up for her at this time, the result waiting for them would definitely not be good.

They were about to set off, and he didn’t want his family to be resented by these soldiers because of this.

When Shen Yujiao heard what the other party said, she reflexively wanted to mock him, but when she turned her head and saw her younger brother stopping her mother and others, winking at her, she felt a thud in her heart and immediately changed to a wronged face, smiling awkwardly: “Official, please don’t blame me, I’ll leave now.”

After saying that, without waiting for the other party to say anything, she hurriedly left with the help of the maid.

Lu Yao glanced at Shen Yujiao and couldn’t help but curl her lips.

Tsk tsk,

This walking posture, I’m afraid she’ll have to lie down for many days.

Old Lady Wang and Wang Yalan watched their beloved granddaughter/baby daughter being bullied like this, and felt so much hatred in their hearts.

They didn’t dare to have any opinions on these soldiers, so they could only count all the new and old grudges on Lu Yao and her husband.

Their expressions were ferocious, wanting to take advantage of the fact that the attention of the assembled soldiers was elsewhere to teach these two bitches a lesson, but they forgot about the person riding on the horse beside them.

The other party swept his spear, the tip of the spear aimed at their chests, causing the two to instantly withdraw their thoughts.

Bah!

Those cheap bastards got off easy!