I was pampered like a treasure after being married off to the young marshal, but my father and broth

Shang Li stared at Shang Sheyu with a grim face, a sinister smirk playing on his lips.

"Third sister, you wouldn't want the news of your matricide to spread throughout the North, would you?"

Shang Sheyu looked up and heard her elder brother laugh as he said, "Now that you are the new bride of the Quan family, your every word and action will affect the family's reputation. If people find out that the new bride of the Quan family is a heartless matriarch, will the Quan family... still tolerate you?"

The elder brother had no affection for his sister whatsoever; only an intense, unyielding hatred and disgust.

She couldn't understand why.

The hatred that all the merchants harbored towards her was traceable.

But why does her older brother hate her so much too?

In her past life, her elder brother killed her because she blocked his career path, but in this life, she is just an unknown person.

Where does this hatred come from?

She took a step forward, staring intently at her elder brother: "If you're determined to find fault, you can always find a reason. If you really want to throw this dirty water on me, then go ahead and say it."

Shang Lijian frowned deeply, never expecting that his usually weak and easily bullied third sister would dare to speak to him like that.

The sharpness in his eyes was something he had never seen before.

"What kind of show is this?"

Jiang Yueyan walked over with a sandalwood fan she had just chosen. She glanced at the two brothers who were merchants, covered her mouth, and said sarcastically, "In all my years, I've only ever heard of brothers buying flowers for their sisters to wear, never of two brothers forcing their sister to pay."

Shang Zhuo was already furious, and seeing yet another busybody, he immediately retorted, "What's it to you? This is a family matter for the Shang family, what right do you, an outsider, have to interfere?"

"Second brother."

Shang Li recognized Jiang Yueyan and reached out to stop Shang Zhuo.

The woman in front of me is the eldest daughter of the Jiang family. The Jiang family controls half of the fabric business in the northern border region. They are very wealthy and even the military government has to give them some face.

Although the merchants also do business, they lack the confidence to compete with the Jiang family.

He smiled and cupped his hands in a respectful gesture to Jiang Yueyan: "So you are the eldest daughter of the Jiang family. It's a misunderstanding. We were just joking with our third sister. It's just siblings playing around."

Jiang Yueyan sneered and snapped her fan shut: "I don't think this joke is funny at all. The two young masters looked so fierce just now, they were practically ready to eat our third sister-in-law alive."

She turned to look at Shang Zhuo with disdain in her eyes.

"I just heard you say you were buying a wedding gift for Miss Shang Si? What's this? Now that Shang Pengyue is getting married, you two older brothers are rushing around buying this and that, practically wanting to give her mountains of gold and silver. When our Third Sister-in-law got married, why didn't you give her even a single thread?"

On the day Shang Sheyu married into the Quan family, her dowry was so meager that she didn't even have a decent one.

Shang Zhuo, his face flushed and neck red from the retort, retorted defiantly, "What other gifts do I need? Hasn't her family already provided a dowry? Isn't that enough?"

"Ha ha!"

Jiang Yueyan burst out laughing: "It's only natural for the bride's family to give a dowry when their daughter gets married. How come it's become such a huge favor in your mouths? Only you merchants have the audacity to say such things!"

The onlookers pointed and whispered among themselves.

"Yeah, this business is just outrageous."

"Forcing a married woman to buy things for her parents' family is unheard of."

"The Fourth Miss Shang caused such a huge scandal before even entering the house, how dare the two young masters of the Shang family still show their faces in public?"

Upon hearing this, Shang Zhuo trembled with anger and pointed at Jiang Yueyan, about to start cursing.

Shang Li grabbed him and hissed, "Stop fooling around!"

There's no way I'll get away with this today.

We can't afford to offend the Jiang family, and this is happening in public. If we continue to make a scene, Fourth Sister's reputation will be even more ruined.

"What happened?"

Li Baozhu, carrying several exquisite boxes, walked over with Zhao Wan.

Seeing this, her face immediately fell.

"Third Sister-in-law, did they bully you?"

Shang Sheyu lowered her eyes, her fingers rubbing her cuffs, and said in a low voice, "It's nothing, it's just that my eldest and second brothers wanted me to pay for the eighty silver dollars for rouge for my fourth sister, but I didn't agree, and my second brother... got a little angry."

"What?!" Li Baozhu's eyes widened, then she slammed the box in her hand on the table in anger. "Uncle Chen? Uncle Chen?!"

Manager Chen rushed over, "Miss, I'm here! I'm here!"

Li Baozhu pointed at the merchant brothers, "Get these two out of here! From now on, neither of them is allowed to set foot in Tianxiang Restaurant! Also, inform all the other shops in our establishment that we will not serve any merchants!"

As she spoke, she glanced at Shang Sheyu beside her and said with a smile, "Except for Third Sister-in-law."

Manager Chen wiped the sweat from his forehead and bowed obsequiously, "Yes, yes, yes."

He turned to the two brothers and gestured for them to leave: "Gentlemen, please. Don't make us do it; it won't look good for anyone."

Shang Zhuo was so angry that his face turned purple. He jumped up and cursed, "Pah! What kind of trash is this! I don't want to come to your lousy place at all. What kind of lousy rouge is this? I wouldn't even want it if you gave it to me!"

After saying that, he spat out angrily and turned to walk out.

Shang Li stood there, his face grim.

His gaze swept over the crowd and fixed intently on Shang Sheyu, who was being protected in the middle.

His eyes were cold, resentful, and filled with deep hatred.

Unexpectedly, his third sister, who had only been married into the Quan family for a few days, not only got to know the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, but also became close to the daughter of the Li family.

He withdrew his gaze, slowly adjusted the cuffs of his long robe, cupped his hands in a respectful gesture towards the crowd, and said in a chilling tone, "I apologize for any offense I may have caused today. Farewell."

After saying that, he smiled at Shang Sheyu, turned around and strode away.

Watching Shang Li's departing figure, Shang Sheyu frowned slightly.

That look in his eyes just now wasn't just disgust, it was also mixed with deep hatred.

But she asked herself if she had done anything to wrong this older brother.

"Third Sister-in-law, are you alright?"

Jiang Yueyan's voice pulled her back to reality.

Shang Sheyu snapped out of her daze and saw the three girls looking at her with concern. She smiled and shook her head, saying, "It's alright, I'm sorry you girls had to see this."

"What kind of talk is that?" Li Baozhu angrily grabbed her hand: "We don't need that kind of brother."

"that is!"

Zhao Wan also gently comforted her, "Third Sister-in-law is now a member of the Quan family. As long as Third Master Quan protects you, it doesn't matter whether your maternal family is doing well or not. It would be best to cut off all contact with them."

They had all heard before that Shang Sheyu was not favored by the Shang family, but after seeing it with their own eyes today, they realized that Shang Sheyu was practically...

Eh!

It's hard to say.

In the end, although none of them liked being flattered, they still bought presentable gifts.

Shang Sheyu also bought the rouge she had previously set her sights on.

After saying goodbye to everyone, I returned to the Quan Mansion, and it was already dusk.

Since I had already left home today, I should inform my mother-in-law when I returned.

As soon as I turned the corner of the corridor leading to the North Garden, my steps faltered.

Not far ahead, at the fork in the road, Granny Yan was leading three or four Western doctors in white coats and carrying leather medicine boxes, hurrying eastward.

Shang Sheyu hid behind a pillar in the corridor.

That direction leads to Dongyuan.

She squinted, her gaze fixed on the backs of the group of people.

The East Garden is an abandoned courtyard, but if it is an abandoned place, why would Granny Yan personally lead so many Western doctors there?

Thinking back to the few muffled impact sounds he had been vaguely hearing at night these past few days, Shang Sheyu's heart skipped a beat.