Chapter 171: Bloodied and Battered

Mr. Shen couldn't help but close his eyes: it's all over, everything is over!

After hearing Mrs. Liu's words, the whispers among the commoners became even more intense.

"I've never seen such a malicious mother, don't they say even a tigress won't eat her own cubs?"

"Marquis Shengping must have been adopted! How could they bear to frame and torment their own child like this!"

"How could such a filial family be accused of being unfilial? Considering what these parents have done, they are the ones who are unfilial! Heaven, I feel their filial piety is so great that it is beyond natural law!"

"Yes, how can such a filial son be called unfilial? Heaven will not let them get away with it!"

"Ten taels of silver a month, and they send over little bits of rice, meat, and oil every few days, yet they claim to eat husks and vegetables! Now I understand that my son struggling every day to provide my family with one solid meal a day and one watery one is essentially eating mud!"