Rebirth: Contract Husband Falls in Love with Me-Chapter 492 - 252: Filling the Shortfall

Mrs. Wang’s eyes suddenly moistened, her trembling fingers pointing at Shi Fengju as she said, "You, you, because of your wife, you’re actually blaming me now! Fengju, are you still my son or not? For the sake of your wife, you’re disregarding everyone else, aren’t you?"

"Mother!" Shi Fengju found it difficult when he saw her like this, "What nonsense are you talking about! How would making a fuss about this matter benefit our Shi family?"

"How could I not know!" Mrs. Wang said angrily: "I just can’t swallow this indignation, I must vent it out! Otherwise, wouldn’t we make it too easy for that person with malicious intent? Although this matter has nothing to do with Miss Wan, if she had talked about her uncle’s character earlier, when he came asking for help, Fang’er would not have taken him in! Fang’er was kind-hearted, and now look what happened, she has to worry about others getting suspicious! And you? You just blindly defend your wife, does she really have no fault in this matter?"

Gu Fangzi, seeing Mrs. Wang choking up and mentioning her, knew she could not avoid it any longer, so she slipped out from the warm pavilion, holding Mrs. Wang’s arm and tugging softly: "Auntie, Auntie! Please stop talking! Calm down! This matter—"

"Don’t interfere!" Mrs. Wang interrupted Gu Fangzi before she could finish, and she coldly said: "You stand over there and keep quiet, lest others take their anger out on you later!"

Gu Fangzi hesitantly opened her mouth and glanced at Shi Fengju and Sang Wan, then stood silently beside Mrs. Wang without saying a word.

Shi Fengju, sparing neither questioning nor condemning glances, said to Sang Wan: "You go back to Ningyuan first! Cousin, you go back too!"

Sang Wan, seeing her mother-in-law silent, bent her knees in a respectful bow, then turned around and silently left.

Gu Fangzi, however, did not want to leave and just stood beside Mrs. Wang as if she hadn’t heard.

Shi Fengju, unwilling to let her feign deafness and muteness, stared at her and said: "Cousin, you should go back as well."

With no choice, Gu Fangzi nodded and softly said to Mrs. Wang: "Auntie, if you have anything to say, please talk to my cousin calmly, don’t get angry!"

"Go away!" Shi Fengju could not stand to see her like this and his voice became somewhat cold despite trying to suppress his repulsion.

Gu Fangzi’s already cold heart instantly filled with bitterness, and with a faint smile, she left, disheartened.

Seeing this, Mrs. Wang had nothing more to say to her son and just stood with a cold expression, silent.

After Gu Fangzi left, she saw Mrs. Jiang standing outside and immediately understood that she certainly hadn’t followed Mrs. Wang’s instructions. Gu Fangzi felt annoyed, stood still and stared at Mrs. Jiang, suddenly curled her lips into a smile, "Mrs. Jiang, you are truly loyal to Auntie, to the point of defying her orders covertly! I wonder if Auntie will still consider you her confidante in the future!"

Mrs. Jiang remained unfazed, glanced at Gu Fangzi and said indifferently: "The lady easily gets agitated, and decisions made while she’s agitated may not always be right. I am utterly loyal to the lady, how could I just watch and let her do something she might regret later? If madame punishes me for this, I have no complaints."

Gu Fangzi scoffed silently, and walked away with lifted feet.

"Mother," Shi Fengju sat down beside Mrs. Wang and said, "I have already persuaded Mrs. Jiang, and she has told me the whole story. If the man is sent to the governor’s office, it would not be easy to get him out. Wouldn’t doing this trouble our own family in the end?"

"Our own family in trouble?" Mrs. Wang snorted coldly: "That Sang Pingliang bears the Sang surname, what does it have to do with our family!" 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"But after all, he is a relative of our family," Shi Fengju said.

Mrs. Wang was suddenly at a loss for words. If Sang Pingliang really was caught and taken to the government office, and they had to bail him out with money, wouldn’t the money have to come from the Shi family in the end? If they didn’t pay, it would seem too harsh and unfeeling; if they did pay, wouldn’t they be contradicting themselves?

"This man is too ungrateful and really should be taught a lesson! Hmph, otherwise, who knows what more outrageous things he might do in the future!" Mrs. Wang was still irritated.

However, Shi Fengju said, "In my opinion, we should never have let him join our family’s business in the first place. If I were home, I would have never allowed such a thing to happen!"

Mrs. Wang, upon hearing this, glared at him and questioned: "Don’t play games with your words here; are you blaming Fangzi? Let me tell you, Fangzi did not make this decision on her own, I agreed to it! If the Sang family is useless, how can you blame it on Fangzi? With all the good intentions Fangzi had, now she ends up wronged without any place to appeal!"

Hearing this, Shi Fengju was not surprised at all, and he chuckled coldly in his heart, it seems she has utterly forgotten his warning! He had said not to exploit his mother for her schemes, not to use his mother for her actions, and evidently, she hadn’t taken his words to heart at all!