Quick Wear: I am the shopkeeper at the Merit Pawn Shop

"What are you talking about, my in-laws? Aren't you afraid that your daughter's reputation will be damaged? If you let Hang go back, all the girls in your Hang family will be affected." Li Yumei clenched her fists. She didn't believe that the pedantic old man Hang Qiuxue would sit idly by and watch the girls in the family suffer in reputation and divorce his daughter.

"Don't bother with that. My daughter can't possibly stay in your house without knowing why. Either let her go to the capital and become your wife, or let her take the child and divorce. Then she and your Shen family will go their separate ways."

"You are deliberately bullying me, an old woman. If you force me, fine, I will kill myself right here." Li Yumei acted as if she was determined to die.

"Who dares to bully my sister-in-law Yumei?" A loud voice came from outside, and the person opened the tightly closed main door. Light also came in from outside.

Li Yumei looked and saw that they were the people in charge of the Shen family.

These are the things she fears will happen if the night goes on.

After the man who claimed to be the boss's friend showed up yesterday, she ordered someone to invite the clan leader and elders over.

He wanted to accuse Hang of a crime, seal the doors and windows of her house, and leave her to fend for herself inside.

Who would have thought that the Hang family would also come over.

When she has time, she will write a letter to the capital to ask if this person will do anything bad and where this friend of the boss came from.

"Clan leader, you have to make the decision for me. My relative-in-law is trying to force me to death. It's not enough that his daughter Hang is forcing me, the mother-in-law, to do this. Now she and her family are bringing a group of people to force me, an old woman." Li Yumei sat on the chair and started crying.

"Mr. Hang, this is your fault. Can you still be called a role model?" Shen Xing looked displeased when he saw his sister-in-law crying sadly.

"Your Shen family is so shameless. I have never seen such a shameless family. I'm telling you this. If you don't let my daughter go back today, I will go to the capital tomorrow to sue the current No. 2 scholar for marrying another man. Let's see if the daughter of the Marquis's mansion wants to be your concubine. If I say more, this No. 2 scholar is guilty of deceiving the emperor. Let's see if your Shen family can withstand this great disaster."

Since Li Yumei was going to make trouble, Hang Qiuxue would not be polite.

Just do as Shen Mo said and make things clear. It depends on whether the entire Shen family is willing to accompany Li Yumei and her son in doing whatever they want.

"You're talking nonsense, don't try to scare me..." Li Yumei was so angry that she was embarrassed, but Shen Xing's eyes stopped her from saying anything else.

Hang Qiuxue was not afraid at all. He came to Shen Xing and whispered, "Both brothers graduated from our Changzhou Academy. Everyone in the academy knows exactly what they look like. Let's go to the capital and find out who is the runner-up in this subject. Now I'm giving your Shen family some face and don't want to make a big deal out of this matter, so don't force me to say something I shouldn't say."

Hang Qiuxue's words made Shen Xing silent. Seeing that Shen Xing didn't say anything, the elders of the Shen family were all waiting for his reaction.

Shen Xing frowned and whispered to Hang Qiuxue:

"Mr. Hang, your son-in-law is dead. The second place in the imperial examination is Shen Cheng. It is useless even if you go to the capital to make a fuss. But Shen Cheng was also taught by the academy. Both Changzhou Academy and you as a teacher have made contributions. You have also gained a good reputation. This is a good thing for everyone. As for your daughter, don't worry, she will always be a wife of the Shen family."

"We at Changzhou Academy don't want to be implicated. We don't want such a reputation. I just want my daughter to get a divorce with her child. If you think it's useless for me to sue the capital, then I will really go to the capital and beat the drum to file a complaint."

This time, Hang Qiuxue said these words out loud.

Shen Xing's face was so gloomy that ink seemed to be dripping out.

He gave in: "Hang can leave, but the two children must stay. My Shen family's children can't be left outside."

"Clan leader." The people in the Shen family were obviously unwilling to give in.

"If you want to go, we go together. If you want to stay, we stay together." Hang Qiuxue looked at Shen Xing calmly, but he was intimidating without being angry.

"Mr. Hang, you can't just divorce us today just because we say so. Give us some time to think about it!" Shen Xing just made eye contact with Li Yumei.

Just as Hang Qiuxue was about to agree, the door was pushed open again, and the person who came in this time was Hang Songnian.

"Dad, we must make them write the divorce agreement today. We need to take my sister and the two children back home. If they stay here for one more day, they will be in danger. If I hadn't gone to the backyard to see my sister just now, I don't know how the Shen family would torture her! They want to block the door and windows with bricks, saying that they will let the three of them fend for themselves in the dark house. Dad, Mom, they are going to suffocate my sister to death."

Hang Songnian was extremely angry, thinking that if it was just a few days later, he would have seen his sister's dead body.

"Divorce! The girl of my Hang family can't let anyone bully her like this. From now on, if anyone dares to gossip outside, our family will never let him go. Let others see what kind of character and family the new runner-up is. Let's see if the emperor will use such a person who abandons his wife, has no respect for his elders, and is ungrateful." The elder of the Hang family did not come in, but he knew that the negotiations were not going well as soon as he saw inside the room.

When he heard that Hang was about to be tortured to death, he hurried over to help.

"We in the Hang family don't want to make a big fuss about this matter. My conditions are here. If we can reach an agreement, we can talk it over. If not, we will go to the capital to report it and see if your Shen family can bear it." Hang Qiuxue sat down, clapping the back of the chair rhythmically.

Li Yumei's eyes were about to spit fire at this moment, and she looked at the clan leaders helplessly.

After all, she received a letter in which her son said that Hang could not be kept no matter what, and those two children were the eldest son’s flesh and blood.

But if she really has to choose, she will definitely choose the second oldest. After all, the eldest is dead. What else can she do?

But now that she was being forced by the Hang family, she felt extremely aggrieved and angry.

Shen Xing quietly patted Li Yumei's hand to comfort her and looked towards Hang Qiuxue.

"Mr. Hang, I want the three of us to talk."

"Row."

Hang Qiuxue nodded, and Jiang and everyone in the Hang family left the main room.

Several elders of the Shen family also retreated, and the main room suddenly became extremely quiet, with only three people left.

Shen Xing said: "Hang Shi and the two children can leave the Shen family, but I don't want your Hang family to mention or know about Shen Cheng's affairs to anyone."

"This condition is fine. From now on, the Shen family and the Hang family will not interfere with each other."

"How many people know about this? Who told you about it?" Shen Xing asked again.

"What? Now that you know the truth, do you still want to kill people to silence them? Don't worry, if someone in our Hang family died, or if my son and I died, this matter would definitely spread to the capital, and someone would go and report it to the capital." Hang Qiuxue raised his eyebrows.

Hang is pedantic in his studies, but that doesn't mean he is ignorant. He knows very well what the Shen family's temptation means. No one likes to have the handle in the hands of insignificant people.