Even before getting married, Mrs. Lu had never suffered such a serious injury.
Injury is the second thing. The key is that it is too embarrassing to be beaten by the master in front of so many people. After today, even if she is still the mistress of the house, she will not be able to get back the lost face. The people below should
I will never take her seriously again.
Mrs. Lu was extremely sad. Even if her face was hurt when she spoke, she still endured the pain and said: "Master, you said you would take care of me all my life and not let me be wronged. What are you doing now?"
"First look at what you have done!" Mr. Lu said with an angry look on his face: "I have already said that I can pretend not to know about other things, but then you must not attack my heirs! What I did before
I didn’t check how my children died, so I just regarded it as an accident. But Ting’an is different, he is my eldest son!”
The implication is that the deaths of a pair of concubines are also related to Mrs. Lu.
Lu Tingning took a peek at her mother's expression and saw that she was filled with fear and sadness. She immediately wondered what else she didn't understand.
The death of those two younger brothers and sisters might really have something to do with his mother. His heart sank to the bottom of his heart. No matter how reluctant he was to let his mother suffer, he did not dare to ask for mercy again.
Mr. Lu narrowed his eyes: "Go back and recuperate. You are not allowed to come out again without my instructions." He then told the steward: "Send a message and say that the lady is suffering from a serious illness and is not suitable to see guests."
Mrs. Lu's expression changed drastically, and she wanted to ask for mercy again. Master Lu had lost his patience and walked away.
As for what the people in the yard said, even if Chu Yunli and the two were not present at the scene, they heard it exactly half an hour after the incident happened.
Lu Ting'an narrowed his eyes: "I have never found out what happened back then. Anyone who knew the inside story is gone. She is probably the only one who knows."
Chu Yunli was thoughtful: "Just go back and ask."
Lu Ting'an laughed: "She doesn't know how to tell the truth."
"Then let's ask." Chu Yunli waved his hand: "That father of yours..."
It is true that he protects his son. But if it weren't for his connivance, Lu Ting'an wouldn't be so miserable.
The two of them didn't stay in the shop for long. They thought the Zhang family would come to find trouble, but they didn't show up from the beginning to the end, so they finished work and went home early.
Mr. Lu has been very busy recently. Lu Tingning was afraid of being rejected by his father because of his mother, so he worked hard. The two went back to have dinner, but neither father nor son came back yet.
After eating, the two of them walked hand in hand in the garden, and unknowingly headed to the main courtyard. There were two women at the entrance of the main courtyard. It was meal time, and they took turns eating. At this moment, there was only one of them.
Seeing the couple, the mother-in-law hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Sir."
Lu Ting'an glanced at the main room with candlelight: "Is my father here?"
The mother-in-law replied respectfully: "Master hasn't come back yet."
"I'm going to visit my wife!" After Lu Ting'an said this, he dragged Chu Yunli inside regardless of what his mother-in-law looked like.
The mother-in-law subconsciously stepped forward to stop the two of them, showing hesitation: "But the old man said that no one is allowed to see my wife."
"I have something to ask. I'll come out after I've asked." Lu Ting'an avoided her and walked straight in.
The mother-in-law didn't dare to stop her too much, let alone reach out to pull her. She wanted to report the news, but the master didn't come back. She could only watch the two of them entering the door.
When it was time for dinner, Mrs. Lu had no appetite at all. When Lu Ting'an came in and saw the five dishes and one soup on the table, she turned her head and told the maid at the door: "Madam is sick, and she doesn't want to eat and drink."
Take all these away and just give her a bowl of porridge and two bowls of side dishes. By the way, from now on, if you don’t ask me to tell you, just keep sending vegetarian dishes to Madam."
It is one thing for Mrs. Lu not to eat, but it is another thing not to give him food. She was not happy when she saw her stepson coming. After hearing this, she immediately darkened her face: "I am an elder, what do you think?"
Why are you doing this to me?"
"Just because you want to harm my wife and children." Lu Ting'an looked at her condescendingly: "You are my enemy, and I will never treat you too harshly. Besides..." His tone was full of smiles: "In the future, I will be
Head of the Lu family, to put it bluntly, everything in the Lu family, from the shop, the house, money, to the bricks, tiles, tables and chairs, all belong to me. I am also willing to give you a bite of food for someone who wants to harm my wife and children.
Eat, that is my magnanimity and kindness."
Mrs. Lu was about to explode with anger: "As you said, do I still need to thank you?"
"If you want to thank me, of course I will go ahead." Lu Ting'an smiled half-heartedly: "But you don't mean it sincerely, so you don't have to be so polite."
Mrs. Lu glared at him fiercely: "Don't go too far."
"I've gone too far, how do you treat me?" Lu Ting'an looked her up and down: "Not long after my mother left, you walked in pregnant. Everyone can see that long before my mother left, you
I have already had a secret marriage with my father. By the way, is my mother’s death really an illness?”
Mrs. Lu snorted softly: "That's because she is not lucky."
Lu Ting'an's eyes sharpened: "Shut up!"
"I'm telling the truth. When I was with the master, I originally planned to be a concubine." Madam Lu said plausibly: "Your mother just died, so I picked a wife to be a concubine."
Her eyes fell on Chu Yunli: "Originally, I thought that you would never be able to have children in your life, and that the position of head of the family would still fall to my son in the future. I didn't expect... you actually had some luck, and met a
Good girl."
To be honest, when she first engaged her stepson to marry a woman who had never been married before and could not have children, she first thought that her stepson was not worthy of a good girl, and secondly, she wanted to use this opportunity to humiliate Lu Ting'an and make him laugh at everyone.
Unfortunately, she underestimated Zhao Shuangyu.
If I had known that this woman was so capable, she would have refused to agree to the marriage, giving her stepson the power to make a comeback.
Chu Yunli smiled and said: "Thank you madam for the compliment."
Mrs. Lu: "..."
She just said it casually, but in her heart she cursed all the eighteen generations of Zhao Shuangyu's ancestors, and this woman was simply her nemesis. She immediately sneered and said: "Zhao Shuangyu, you don't even know that this scoundrel in your belly is
Where did it come from?"
Chu Yunli stepped forward and slapped her hard on the face.
One side of Mrs. Lu's face was injured. After this blow, there were five fingerprints on the other side of her intact face. She glared at the woman in front of her: "How dare you?"
Chu Yunli blew her fingers: "It is said that a mother is strong. The child in my belly was not born yet. First he was harmed by you, and now he is scolded by you. As a mother, of course I have to beg for him.
It's fair. As for how I dare... of course it's because my husband dotes on me. Your husband hates you to the core now. He hates you even just looking at you. He will never help you. So, I will hit you, and you will be treated as such.
how?"
When these words fell into Mrs. Lu's ears, it made her even more uncomfortable than beating her.
Her face turned green and white at first: "A flower never lasts forever, especially since you are a very capable woman. Even if Ting'an dotes on you now, I don't believe you can be proud of yourself for the rest of your life."
"You can't see whether I can be proud all my life, but we can really see that you are unlucky." Chu Yunli looked sideways at her: "How did my mother-in-law die in the first place?"
Mrs. Lu snorted coldly: "It's not me who caused the harm. What did I do?"
Lu Ting'an looked at her features carefully. It had been so many years since the incident, and there was no trace of guilt or fear on her face. It was impossible to tell whether she was involved or not.
The two didn't get what they wanted, and they didn't stay much longer, so they quickly left hand in hand.
Just after taking two steps, Chu Yunli suddenly noticed a strong wind behind her. She stepped aside, and Mrs. Lu behind her fell to the ground and screamed repeatedly.
It is not difficult to see that Mrs. Lu's original intention just now was to pounce on her and throw her to the ground.
In other words, this woman once again wanted to harm her, or to be precise, she wanted to harm the child in her belly.
Lu Ting'an was so angry that he kicked him hard and rolled him several times: "I think you don't want to live anymore."
Mrs. Lu was kicked until she vomited blood and screamed: "My son beats his mother. Is there anyone who will teach such a rebellious and unfilial beast a lesson?"
Chu Yunli grabbed a vase and hit Mrs. Lu hard on the face. She was so frightened that she immediately became silent and her whole face was as pale as paper. But Chu Yunli felt that it was not enough and said coldly: "Say more.
In one word, this vase will hit you in the face. Anyway, you have done so many wrong things. Even if you die right now, people outside will say that you committed suicide out of fear of crime!"
"Master will not let you do this to me." Mrs. Lu's voice was trembling when she said this.
Chu Yunli sneered: "They say family scandals should not be publicized. How can my father still say that his son killed his stepmother?"
Won't!
Mrs. Lu has been in the family for many years and has some understanding of men. He will definitely admit that she committed suicide out of fear of crime to save her son... Because in the eyes of that man, women are not important at all, he only cares about his children!
Thinking of this, Mrs. Lu was trembling all over.
Regarding the matter of the two people running to the main courtyard and beating someone up, Mr. Lu heard about it as soon as he entered the house. It was not that someone complained, but that Lu Tingning wanted to protect his mother, but he did not dare to say it himself, so he bribed him
I asked a steward to report it.
Master Lu did not allow this to happen, and immediately sent someone to invite the eldest son.
It was already late at night and Chu Yunli didn't go. Lu Ting'an went alone and came back a quarter of an hour later.
"If we don't agree with each other, we can't talk about it together." Lu Ting'an waved his hand: "Don't worry about him."
In the dead of night, Mrs. Lu was woken up by the cold. She found that her quilt had fallen to the ground at some point. The cold wind was blowing outside. She shouted twice before she remembered that she was now abandoned by the master and no longer had a bodyguard.
The maid serves.
There was no one to take care of her, and her days had to go on. She got up in a hurry and closed the window.
After closing the window, she turned around to pick up the quilt on the floor, and was about to take a nap when she caught a glimpse of a white shadow flashing past her. She woke up with a fright, white hairs and sweat broke out all over her body, and she froze in place without moving.
Dare to move.
She blinked, and with the faint light of the sky, she was sure that there was indeed a white shadow floating around in the room. She was slender and looked like a woman. Mrs. Lu was so frightened that she wanted to shout but didn't dare.
The woman fluttered and fluttered, and said grimly: "You killed me...I want to take you away..."
Mrs. Lu was so frightened that she collapsed on the ground. Seeing the white shadow floating in front of her, she rolled her eyes and fainted.
When she woke up again, it was already bright outside. Mrs. Lu was frozen and stiff, her head was dizzy, her nose had runny nose, and she started coughing when she opened her mouth.
She was suffering from frostbite.
It doesn't matter if you are sick, what matters is who was that white shadow last night?