Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 344: A Narrow Escape Leads to an Unplanned Mother-Son Reunion (6)_1

Chapter 344: Chapter 344: A Narrow Escape Leads to an Unplanned Mother-Son Reunion (6)_1

Just at that critical moment, Da HongZao reacted swiftly, shifting his body to one side and narrowly avoiding the incoming collision.

Even though he had avoided it, the opposing carriage was moving too fast, and under the force of inertia, the two carriages still crashed into each other violently and came to a sudden stop.

Mo Yan’s carriage was relatively fine since it wasn’t traveling fast, and she didn’t fall off; the two kids inside merely got jostled from their seats.

The occupants of the other carriage weren’t so lucky. Due to the high speed, the coachman was thrown to the ground, and a series of shrill screams could be heard from inside the carriage. Clearly, someone had fallen over, and by the sounds of it, it seemed to be a group of ladies on an outing.

"Damn you, Old Man Wang, how do you drive? Are you trying to kill me?"

The door of the carriage was flung open, and a young girl with somewhat disheveled clothing climbed out, and without a second thought, she delivered a heavy slap across the face of the coachman who was just getting up to apologize, creating a sharp sound.

"I’m sorry, Miss, it’s this servant’s fault. Please spare me this time, I won’t dare to do it again!"

The coachman quickly prostrated himself on the ground, begging for forgiveness while disregarding the swelling on his face.

"Hmph, you admit you’re useless, what would I need you for then? When we get back home, I’ll have my father sell you!" The girl seemed tough to talk to, threatening to sell the coachman, regardless of the fact that he had driven for her family for more than a decade.

Upon hearing this, the coachman’s face turned pale, and he started banging his head on the ground, shivering, "Please show mercy, Miss, please show mercy!"

After kneeling and begging for a long time, seeing that his mistress remained unmoved, the coachman’s complexion turned even paler. At his age, he only knew how to drive, and if he were to be sold off, who knows what depths he would fall to; resentment towards the carriage that collided with his began to fester in his heart.

Seeing the other carriage hadn’t left, the coachman, as if clutching at straws, hastily pointed to the Mo Family’s carriage and began to shirk responsibility, "Miss, it’s not this servant’s fault, it was that carriage, that carriage suddenly burst out, I couldn’t avoid it in time, causing the Miss to be frightened, please discern the truth, Miss!"

Upon hearing this, the young lady realized that it was a collision with another carriage that caused the situation and quickly jumped down from her carriage. Indeed, she saw her own carriage interlocked with another, and couldn’t help but curse aloud: "Who is it? Who dares to collide with my carriage, not seeing where they’re going?"

As she said this, she walked towards the back of the carriage, her two maids hurriedly got off the carriage and followed, and through a gap in the door, a well-dressed lady was vaguely visible inside.

When Mo Yan heard the coachman shirking responsibility, she knew things were going to turn bad, and upon hearing the young lady’s curses, she couldn’t help but hold her forehead. She had wanted to leave right after the accident, as it wasn’t her responsibility anyway, but the axles of her carriage had gotten tangled with those of the other carriage, and she couldn’t move a bit.

Now, Mo Yan wanted to leave but couldn’t. She comforted the two somewhat unsettled kids inside the carriage, telling them not to get out, and was just about to get down herself when a figure already appeared in front of her.

She looked up, and upon seeing the face in front of her, she was stunned.

Chen Shanshan was also startled for a moment, but then her brows furrowed in anger and she cursed, "So it was you, you country bumpkin! Last time you ran into me, and now you’ve crashed into my carriage, you are a disaster star, fated to clash with me!"

To be cursed for no reason, Mo Yan, even with her good temperament, lost her patience for such behavior: "Whether or not I’m a disaster star is not for you to decide. Rather, it’s your carriage that has damaged mine. Shouldn’t you be compensating me with some silver first?"

"What?" Chen Shanshan screamed, pointing at Mo Yan’s nose and berated, "You must have the gall of a bear and a leopard to say such things. It was clearly your horse and your family’s carelessness that collided with my carriage, yet you have the audacity to demand that I pay compensation?"

Mo Yan raised his hand to brush hers aside and said indifferently, "The street is bustling with people, yet your carriage was moving so fast. If it weren’t for my horse’s quick reflexes to dodge, who knows what might have happened. If you don’t believe me, you can ask these onlookers who is right and who is wrong."

"What does it matter if my carriage hit yours first?" Chen Shanshan, haughtily staring at Mo Yan, spoke unreasonably. In her view, even if it was her carriage that had collided with another’s, it wasn’t her fault. Therefore, she disdained asking those pedestrians who couldn’t even afford a ride in a carriage and again fired at Mo Yan:

"If your broken carriage hadn’t been here, how could mine have collided with it? Now that I have been startled, it is your fault, you country bumpkin. Kneel and apologize to me at once or don’t even think about leaving!"

Mo Yan couldn’t stare straight at the nonsense-spouting Chen Shanshan. How thick must one’s skin be to shamelessly utter such words? Did this self-entitled woman really think the sun revolved around her?

"Kneel and apologize? Other than bowing to Heaven, Earth, and my parents, I only kneel to the deceased! If this young lady really wants me to kneel and apologize, then you might as well drop dead first!"

After Mo Yan finished speaking bluntly, he didn’t care about the twisted look on Chen Shanshan’s face and politely requested from the onlookers, "Respected uncles and counts, my carriage’s axle is stuck. I’d be grateful if you could help separate them. Thank you all very much."

With that, he bowed to them to express his gratitude.

"Young lady, this is easy, Uncle will help you!" A burly middle-aged man took the lead, calling others to help, "Everyone, come and lend a hand. If we don’t move this carriage, it will block everyone’s way."

"Count me in!" As soon as one person took the initiative, others followed. Before long, more than a dozen strong young men stepped up to help move the two carriages.

Most pedestrians were warm-hearted and knew that Mo Yan was not at fault in this dispute. Although they were afraid to speak out against the influential, they inwardly despised the ill-mannered Chen Shanshan.

Ignoring Chen Shanshan’s murderous gaze, Mo Yan repeatedly thanked them, and the unpleasantness of being scolded for no reason was much alleviated.

Chen Shanshan glared fiercely at Mo Yan, practically fuming with rage, finding no excuse to continue causing trouble. Seeing that the people were about to move her carriage, she suddenly cursed vehemently, "Who allowed you peasants to touch my carriage? Get away from it!"

"Dammit, did she eat shit this morning, cursing at everyone she sees?"

Having been insulted as ’peasants’ after offering to help, those bystanders became infuriated and stopped what they were doing to loudly denounce Chen Shanshan.

The burly man, who had a bad temper and a sharp tongue, retorted, "Looking at your dress, you seem to come from a well-off family, but with the words ’peasants’ and ’country bumpkin’ always at the tip of your tongue, not to compare you with a true lady of a great house, a normal girl wouldn’t be as ill-mannered as you! You must have been picked up by your parents, for if you were their biological child, they would not let you out to disgrace yourself!"

"You’re the bastard that your parents picked up!" Chen Shanshan’s eyes reddened with rage. She flung her hand for a vicious slap at the burly man, but it was intercepted by a hand stretched out from the side.

"Shanshan, don’t make a scene."