Heaven-Sent Farm Girl Builds Her Fortune And Captures His Heart-Chapter 494 - 493: Neither Kin nor Stranger

"Miss, what kind of joke are you making?" Zhuang Yuanyan’s face darkened, "Ruyue is my daughter, this is her home."

"Daughter?" Shen Qinglan scoffed, mocking, "You live in luxurious houses, while she resides in a moss-covered, rain-leaking courtyard. You feast on delicacies, while she can only eat coarse bread. So, this is how Zhuang Yuanyan raises his own daughter?"

"I..."

Zhuang Yuanyan felt his dignity was challenged, but he still said in a low voice, "So what? Even if I let her sleep in the stables, she is my daughter. It’s none of your business, miss."

"Master, what’s going on?"

With the voice entering, a young woman appeared, along with two young girls in their teens.

"Father!"

Zhuang Yuanyan nodded, "Madam, Ruyu, Ruxue, why are you here?"

Hearing the voice, Shen Qinglan noticeably sensed that Zhuang Ruyue behind her lightened her breathing considerably.

"I heard we have a guest, so I came over to have a look."

The woman first glanced at Zhuang Ruyue and her servant before turning to Shen Qinglan, elegantly inquiring, "And who might this young lady be?"

The constable drinking tea on the side stood up and said, "This lady is an esteemed guest of Lord County Magistrate."

"A guest of the magistrate?" The woman raised her eyebrows, "Since she is the magistrate’s guest, why is she here?"

Shen Qinglan glanced at the woman, noticing the two girls behind her staring disdainfully at Zhuang Ruyue.

Shen Qinglan moved aside to block their gaze, "I am here today to take the Second Miss Zhuang away."

"Although you may be the magistrate’s guest, should you not also speak reasonably?" Madam Zhuang sat down next to Zhuang Yuanyan, looking at Shen Qinglan, "Ruyue is a daughter of the Zhuang Family. You are neither kin nor friend. What gives you the right to take her away?"

Madam Zhuang had always despised Zhuang Ruyue’s mother and naturally didn’t want to see Zhuang Ruyue living freely outside.

"I don’t need a reason to take her," Shen Qinglan said calmly to her, "Moreover, I am only bringing them here to bid farewell to Zhuang Yuanyan, not to argue."

As she said this, ignoring the unpleasant expressions of Zhuang Yuanyan and Madam Zhuang, she stepped aside and said to Zhuang Ruyue, "Second Miss, whatever Zhuang Yuanyan is still your biological father, bid him farewell."

Zhuang Ruyue felt reassured seeing her standing not far away.

She took two steps forward, knelt in front of Zhuang Yuanyan and Madam Zhuang, and knocked her head three times, "Ruyue thanks father for his nurturing grace and mother for her teaching grace. From now on, paths diverge, and Ruyue will have nothing more to do with the Zhuang Family!"

After saying this, she knocked her head three more times with the servant Xiaoman towards the two.

"You..."

Zhuang Yuanyan was so furious his face turned red, he raised his arm, ready to strike, but Shen Qinglan quickly stepped forward and helped Zhuang Ruyue up.

She glanced at Zhuang Yuanyan, then told Zhuang Ruyue, "Farewell is done, let’s go."

"You’re not allowed to leave!" Behind Madam Zhuang, the older girl stepped out, "Zhuang Ruyue, after our Zhuang Family raised you for so many years, you team up with a stranger to provoke father and mother. Do you have no conscience?"

"Conscience?" Xiaoman sneered, "When the eldest and third young ladies bullied our young lady, used her as a horse to ride, and forced her to eat rotten food, where was your conscience then?!"

"Silence!" Zhuang Ruyu’s brows furrowed, she said coldly, "When the lady speaks, what right does a lowly maid have to interject?"