The Road to Becoming a Son-in-Law

Chapter 338 Reap the consequences

Chapter 338 Reaping What You Sow

When Xu Xuan and Lin Shao returned to Xinyue Tower, Lin Junyuan and the others had already been back for a long time. Murong Chen was also with them. Upon seeing the two of them, Lin Junyuan asked, "Where did you two go? Why are you only coming back now?"

"They went to watch a play," Murong Chen said slowly, glancing at the two of them.

When Murong Chen went to look for Xu Xuan, he found that Xu Xuan was not there, so he asked Xiao Wu and learned that Xu Xuan and Lin Shao had gone to see a play.

"How did you know?" Xu Xuan looked at Murong Chen in surprise.

Murong Chen: "Xiao Wu told me."

Xu Xuan almost forgot about Xiao Wu, and complained somewhat, "I should have told Xiao Wu not to tell you."

Murong Chen glanced at Xu Xuan and said, "You went out without taking me with you."

Xu Xuan felt a pang of guilt for a moment, then said matter-of-factly, "I didn't tell you because you weren't here."

Murong Chen chuckled and said, "I've been staying in the courtyard the whole time." Didn't he know Xu Xuan well? He probably forgot to tell him because he was watching the excitement.

Murong Chen guessed correctly. Xu Xuan had indeed forgotten to tell Murong Chen because he didn't want to miss the excitement. Now, hearing Murong Chen's words, he smiled guiltily at Murong Chen and said, "This was an accident. I'll definitely tell you next time."

"No, thank you." Murong Chen said leisurely, "I'm not like you, I don't enjoy watching the excitement."

Xu Xuan: "...Are you sure?" Thinking of Murong Chen, who was always ahead of him when watching the excitement, Xu Xuan decided not to speak.

Under Xu Xuan's suspicious gaze, Murong Chen said without any guilt, "You know I'm a quiet person and have never liked these things."

"Come on," Xu Xuan said, scoffing. "You can fool outsiders with that, but don't pretend with me. I know you too well."

Liu Yubai and the others were puzzled by Xu Xuan and Murong Chen's cryptic conversation and urged, "So Xu Xuan, what exactly did you and Lin Shao go to do?"

Xu Xuan said with a grin, "Do you want to know?"

"Yes." Liu Yubai nodded honestly. The other three also looked at Xu Xuan curiously, except for Murong Chen, who already knew that Xu Xuan had gone to watch the excitement.

Xu Xuan: "I'm not telling you."

Liu Yubai: "..."

Liu Yubai said quietly, "Are you still holding a grudge about the fight we had that day?"

"Of course not," Xu Xuan said. "Do I look like such a petty person?"

After these few days of getting to know each other, Liu Yubai had a general understanding of Xu Xuan's personality. Hearing this, she said, "You are him."

Lin Shao chuckled and said, "Alright, Xu Xuan, stop teasing Yu Bai."

Xu Xuan had originally planned to tease Liu Yubai a bit before speaking, but upon hearing Lin Shao's words, he stopped playing riddles with Liu Yubai.

He said, "Do you still remember those two human traffickers who kidnapped the five of you before?"

Liu Yubai: "Of course I remember." This was one of the most embarrassing and humiliating things that had ever happened to him, how could he possibly forget it?

Xu Xuan: "We're just watching the show at their house today."

"What's the show?" Shangguan Ying said. "You've been keeping it a secret for so long, just tell us already."

The fact that Xu Xuan and Lin Shao are so happy suggests that the woman and her accomplices must be in dire straits.

Xu Xuan said, "Don't rush, let me explain slowly."

"Today, the madam of Chunxiang Pavilion went to settle accounts with those two human traffickers... and ended up selling herself. That's how it is."

After Xu Xuan finished speaking, Lin Junyuan couldn't help but burst out laughing, slapping his thigh repeatedly, "Don't you think they're reaping what they sowed?"

"They trafficked so many people and dragged so many people into hell. Now it's their turn. I wonder what they're thinking."

None of them felt any sympathy for the woman and her accomplice's fate. They didn't know how many families had been destroyed because of these human traffickers. When they started their trafficking business, they hadn't shown the slightest bit of compassion.

In their opinion, the fate of these two human traffickers was far too lenient compared to the evil deeds they had committed. Given the heinous crimes and sins they had committed, even being torn to pieces wouldn't be an exaggeration. However, no matter what was done, the families that had been destroyed because of them could never be brought back.

Lin Shao sighed. They did want to find the children and people who had been sold by those two human traffickers, but apart from those from Chunxianglou, the others had long since been sold to who-knows-where.

Xu Yun'er pouted and said, "That's too easy on them."

Xu Yun'er said, "Actually, I really wanted to whip those people hard with my own whip and then sell them." But Xu Yun'er also felt that touching them would dirty her hands. Now, she was barely satisfied with their fate.

“Yun’er, you’re becoming more and more violent,” Shangguan Ying said.

Xu Yun'er glanced at Shangguan Ying and protested, "Ying'er, you've misunderstood. You know I've always been the most gentle and mild-mannered."

After Xu Yun'er said those words, Liu Yubai shivered and quietly moved away from Xu Yun'er, thinking to himself: If Xu Yun'er can be considered gentle, then there is no one in this world who is not gentle.

Xu Yun'er glared at Liu Yubai and said, "What do you mean by that? Am I not gentle?"

Liu Yubai smiled ingratiatingly at Xu Yun'er and said, "No, no, no, I'm just agreeing with you. Of course you're gentle."

Xu Yun'er then withdrew her gaze with satisfaction.

Lin Junyuan gave his younger brother a reproachful look and said, "With such a good show, you didn't even think to invite your older brother to watch it together."

Although hearing about their fate now makes me feel good, it's definitely not as good as seeing it with my own eyes.

Shangguan Ying also said, "That's right, it's one thing for you to abandon your brother, but you didn't even take us with you."

"Next time there's a good show, I won't ask you to come along."

Liu Yubai hit the nail on the head: "Are you deliberately trying to leave us behind so you can watch the show and make us anxious?"

Believe it or not, Lin Shao did have such thoughts at the time, but of course he couldn't say them out loud, otherwise he might have been dealt with by these people, including his own brother.

"How could that be?" Lin Shao said, "You all went out at the time, and I didn't know where you went or when you would be back. If I waited for you to come back before going, we might miss the show. That's why I went with Xu Xuan."

"I have to say, the scene was truly spectacular. It's a real shame you didn't see it."

Lin Shao's explanation at the beginning sounded fine, but his last sentence sounded like boasting to Lin Junyuan and the others.