RWNEFE -Chapter 69 The Lowly Will Get Their Comeuppance!

Others didn’t know the background behind this saying, but Liu Yanhui did.

When Zhou Ruyuan won his great victory in the southwest, the emperor personally praised him as the greatest military general of the age. From then on, he earned the title “War God of Great Zhou.”

Now, Shen Lanxi calling him “the greatest of Great Zhou” was clearly sarcasm!

Liu Yanhui thought there might be some personal grudge hidden in that sarcasm and felt a bit awkward.

“The Southern Prince is the Third Prince… even if it’s because of—” Liu Yanhui hesitated to continue.

Shen Lanxi didn’t hold back and finished his sentence for him: “Divorce… and call for water three times a night!”

Liu Yanhui felt even more embarrassed. The version he had heard said thirty times a night. He had even planned to sell the “Revitalize Hero Pill” he had auctioned to Zhou Ruyuan.

Now, it seemed that Shen Lanxi’s version was the real one. Just thinking that the expensive medicine might backfire made his heart ache.

“Even so, His Majesty would never demote his own son four ranks at once!”

Shen Lanxi smirked slightly: “The lowly will always get their comeuppance!”

She wouldn’t tell anyone that she had a hand in it!

Liu Yanhui looked up and felt that this person was dangerously clever—someone like her would never let him suffer unfairly.

He didn’t dare to speculate further.

Elsewhere, Shen Yuanjing and the others pawned all their valuables to buy a single bottle of burn ointment from the pharmacy. After leaving the city, they immediately went to the Wei soldiers to show their sincerity.

“Master Hu, we bought this burn ointment for you!”

“We don’t have much money left, so we could only buy one bottle.”

“Next time we have a chance to earn, we’ll buy more!”

Hu Zhu, Wei Dongzhu, and the Wei soldiers looked at the ugly little bottle in Shen Yuanjing’s hands with mixed feelings.

After fully understanding the Shen family men that night, their hatred had already lessened by half.

Now, seeing the Shen children deliver burn ointment to them, their feelings were complicated.

Before, they had wanted to tear the entire Shen family apart. Now, amidst their complicated feelings, there was even a hint of… being touched.

“You didn’t buy any food?” Wei Dongzhu asked.

Shen Yuanjing blushed, lowering his head in embarrassment.

Even this single bottle of ointment had cost all the money they had. And it still wasn’t enough—they had to beg the pharmacist for a discount.

Wei Dongzhu looked at these starkly different young boys. Memories of Wei family soldiers’ injuries flashed through his mind, and his heart hardened immediately.

“Go back. Don’t send us anything again!”

Shen Yuanjing and the others were disappointed. As they left, Shen Yuanqing snatched the ointment from her brother, ran to Wei Dongzhu, placed it down, and then dragged her brothers away at full speed.

Zhang Niu picked it up, sniffed, and laughed sourly: “Fools. You got scammed—it’s just ordinary vegetable oil!”

Wei Dongzhu and the Wei soldiers had even more mixed expressions.

Meanwhile, the Shen family went into the city to buy supplies, seeing the buns and cakes for sale, but none of them stepped forward.

No one spoke first because everyone assumed whoever spoke would have to pay.

“Big brother, really… you can’t even get money from a few kids. Pathetic!” Shen Conglian now openly expressed his disdain for his eldest brother.

The old matriarch didn’t want to hear it. Though she resented her eldest son at times, she had to admit that all the luxury they enjoyed before was because of him. If not for him, she might still be digging for food in the fields.

“Second son, close your mouth. If your brother hears you and angers the first branch, I won’t help you!”

Mainly fearing Lanxi, she thought this but wouldn’t voice it.

No matter how bold Lanxi was, she couldn’t disobey her parents. As long as she bore the Shen name, she had to be filial—disobedience was out of the question.

“Auntie, if you’re not buying buns, don’t block others from buying!” the bun shop owner said. If he hadn’t seen that they had some stature, he would have driven them off.

The matriarch glanced at her three sons; all kept their heads down. She became annoyed with them. Despite believing they lived worse than the first branch and often helped fill the gap with the first branch’s offerings, when trouble arose, they schemed against her.

Her eldest son was much better!

Thinking of how the eldest always presented the best things to her first, she felt a pang of longing for him.

Oh well, children were debts to bear.

“Twenty vegetable buns, ten plain buns!” She also ordered some cornbread for the servants accompanying them in exile.

The matriarch assumed that vegetable buns were cheaper. After wrapping them, the owner finally told her the price: “Seventy coins each for the vegetable buns, sixty each for the plain buns. With the cornbread, total is nine taels and eighty coins!”

The matriarch was shocked—so expensive!

The bun shop owner was a sly merchant; if she had refused, he would have teased and pressured her.

After decades of maintaining dignity, she couldn’t lower herself to argue with these scoundrels.

“Fine!” she said, painfully handing over the money.

“Let’s go!” Her heart felt stabbed and kept bleeding.

“Auntie…” the bun shop owner called out suddenly.

The matriarch leapt like a cat that had been stepped on, remembering her granddaughter’s warning about the assassin.

“I am surnamed Tian, not Shen!”

The owner felt wronged, quickly withdrew his hand. After the Shen family left, he spat and muttered, “Trying to remind them about change… serves them right for being suckers!”

The matriarch, still fearful, scolded her descendants again: “Remember, our surname is Tian, not Shen. If anyone reveals it and we are attacked, our whole family will be buried without a grave!”

Shen Conglian waved it off: “Mother, is it that serious? We haven’t seen anything on this road. Maybe Lanxi just wants to scare us?”

Shen Congyi noticed something unusual and for once defended his eldest brother:

“Second brother, listen to mother. Mother has more experience than us—if she thinks it’s dangerous, it must be dangerous!”

Hearing her fourth son back her up, the matriarch felt somewhat reassured.

“Let’s finish buying quickly and head back. I feel unsafe in the city.”

The Shen family said no more and obediently followed the officers. Prices in the city were high; the officers didn’t want to waste money. They looked around, asked a few prices, and, seeing the Shen family didn’t pay, left the city.

The refugees at Moon Lake, once fully hydrated, would surely head to Yicheng to gather information.

Once everyone had left the city, Shen Lanxi immediately ordered departure.

The prisoners actually wanted to stay a few more days—camping outside the city was safer than in the wilderness.

But as her orders were law, they grumbled internally but had no choice but to leave.