The Slender Waist-Chapter 334 - 235: Furious Face-Slapping

Wen Xingsu glared at her, and the servant woman timidly moved to one side, bowing her head in silence.

Wen Xingsu asked Lady Chen, "Mother, what are you doing?"

Being stared at fiercely by her son, Lady Chen couldn’t hold her face, and her expression turned ugly with a heavy snort.

"That’s what I should be asking you. Wen Hui, seeing your birth mother, you neither perform a curtsy nor offer greetings, yet you raise your voice in question, what are you intending to do?"

Wen Xingsu’s surname is Wen, and his name is Hui; Xingsu is his style name.

It was given to him by his biological father before he passed away. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

When she remarried into the Feng Residence, Lady Chen had asked him several times if he wanted to change his surname and name, but Wen Xingsu refused. Since then, Lady Chen seldom called him by his name.

She did not like to mention it, and gradually so did everyone else.

Standing tall and straight, Wen Xingsu handed the stick of herbs to an apprentice, lifted his robe slightly, and bowed respectfully towards Lady Chen.

"Your son pays his respects to you, mother."

Before Lady Chen could speak, he lifted his gaze to the prayer beads hanging at her wrist.

"Since mother is a believer in Buddhism, you should speak kind words, perform good deeds, and respect the law of cause and effect."

"What did you say?" Lady Chen didn’t expect to be confronted by her son upon her arrival in Mingquan Town, and she was infuriated.

"You say that I’m doing evil and sowing bad seeds by taking two strings of food from the doorstep of my own home? Who has taught you such lack of manners?"

Wen Xingsu straightened himself and said calmly:

"Mother, this is Ayun’s shop. To take without asking is stealing."

Lady Chen was so angry that she was on fire.

"Ayun’s shop? Where does Ayun get a shop from? Her surname is Feng, and she belongs entirely to the Feng Family."

Wen Xingsu’s brows furrowed deeply.

"Ayun is married now."

Lady Chen clenched her teeth tightly, her complexion turning bluish.

"She secretly engaged herself without her parents’ consent, does she still have any shame?"

"Mother!" Wen Xingsu was quite aware of how Feng Yun was sent into the Northern Yong camp by them, and his face turned somewhat unpleasant as he stared intensely at Lady Chen.

"Man acts, heaven watches."

Lady Chen sneered, looking her son up and down.

"Such a good son I have, turning your elbow outwards. I should have known. You wouldn’t return to your own home for no good reason, seems like a little vixen has bewitched you..."

Wen Xingsu’s face changed, "Mother!"

"Mother!" Feng Ying also tugged at Lady Chen, signaling her not to get upset on the main street.

"Just consider Yutangchun a dowry you’ve contributed to your elder sister. Since it was your dowry to her, then it belongs to your elder sister..."

"Her things? I think your brain has also gone bad!"

Lady Chen had heard that Feng Yun had opened a shop in Mingquan Town and that the business was growing bigger, which was why she had come to see for herself that day.

She came from a noble family and was well-traveled; she didn’t originally care much for these external possessions.

But after marrying into the Feng Family, owing to her poor management skills, the share of the family wealth that fell to her to manage had dwindled under her care, often leaving her strapped for cash.

Especially this time returning to Tai City, because of Feng Jingteng’s affairs needing attention, she was pinched for resources everywhere and couldn’t hold her head up in front of her sisters-in-law of the main branch, which got her somewhat anxious.

Of the possessions acquired in Andu County after the reconciliation, she was certainly determined to take them back.

How could they be left for Feng Yun’s benefit?

What she didn’t expect was that, before she could enjoy those fresh gains, both her son and daughter would stand against her.

So, her mood toward Feng Ying was not any better.

"What good are you doing? You think of sisterly affection, does she think of you? Just a few days ago, didn’t she still meddle with your man..."

"Mother!"

Feng Ying’s face flushed with embarrassment.

She didn’t want others to think she was unwanted by Xiao San. But her mother, as if not able to accept her being pitiful enough, insisted on speaking out what shamed her.

Feng Ying was red-faced and red-eared.

In a turn of her eye, she saw a familiar silhouette standing across the street, smiling ambiguously, his eyes darkly watching them.

"Elder sister?"

Hearing her voice, the crowd turned their heads back.

Feng Yun stood there with a detached gaze, accompanied by the Lord of Pingyuan County, who was smiling radiantly, his face bright and beaming.

Wen Xingsu, fearing that Feng Yun and his mother would clash face-to-face, stepped forward to pull her aside.

"Sister, let’s talk inside..."

Puyang Yi wasn’t interested in the affairs of the Feng Family, but upon seeing such a handsome man, she couldn’t help but be a little astonished. Tall and elegant, he emanated restraint and gentleness, not with dazzling brilliance, but with a serene warmth that struck just the right chord in her heart.

She softly asked Feng Yun.

"Is this your esteemed elder brother?"

Feng Yun smiled and said, "Indeed."

Then she said to Wen Xingsu, "This is the Lord of Pingyuan County."

Wen Xingsu courteously bowed to Puyang Yi, "Wen was unaware of the County Lord’s presence, my apologies for any rudeness."

Puyang Yi, having heard much about Wen Xingsu, was quite surprised to meet him in person, "I didn’t know General Wen is so young and elegant?"