Lu Mingxuan pursed his lips tightly, and a murderous light flashed in his eyes.

Zhao Yaru was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat. After a long time, she covered her chest and gasped for breath.

Looking at Lu Mingxuan's appearance, she knew that this man was here for revenge. Fortunately, nothing happened!

After recovering from her shock, Zhao Yaru asked Mother Gu to support her as she returned to the Xu family's main gate. She looked at Lu Mingxuan and said sarcastically, "Does it seem like you're here to seek revenge on me?"

Sun looked at Zhao Yaru's smug face, her heart bleeding, but she couldn't let her only son take the risk.

She still understands that the people should not fight against the officials.

Thinking of this, she forced a smile, "Madam, what are you talking about? Our Mingxuan and Wanqing are in love and have already secretly decided to spend their lives together. He would never hurt his mother-in-law, don't you think?"

Zhao Yaru's face suddenly turned dark as she watched more and more people gather around to watch.

Her Wanqing will come back from the Eastern Palace sooner or later. After she shouted at her, what will happen to Wanqing's future reputation?

Thinking of this, she deliberately frowned and scolded, "Mrs. Lu, you must have remembered it wrongly. My Wanqing has never had any engagement with your family. If I remember correctly, your Lu Mingxuan was married to my personal maid Xixuecheng."

Seeing Sun's face becoming increasingly grim, Zhao Yaru said proudly, "Although Xixue has been raised by my side, I still feel reluctant to let her go. I hope you and your son can treat her well in the future and let her have children for your Lu family soon. That way, I will feel at ease."

"You, you are slandering me. We clearly agreed to let Xu Wan..."

"Nonsense! Do you think you, the lowly people, can address my eldest daughter by name? I tell you, it's absolutely impossible to climb up to our Xu family through Xixue. Everyone knows that our family is honest and upright and never appoints people based on personal connections."

After saying that, she walked into the house without even looking back.

Sun was so shocked by Zhao Yaru's scolding that she didn't react for a while. When she finally reacted, she saw the onlookers pointing fingers at them.

"How shameless! Marrying a maid and trying to climb up the social ladder? Don't you even realize who you are?"

"That's right, a maid is a servant. If he marries a maid, she's still a servant!"

"That's right, what master would arrange for his servant to become an official? How wishful thinking!"

"Go, go, go, you can tell at a glance that you're not in the right mind."

"Really? Look, he still has a knife in his hand. Let's go, let's go."

After being reminded by others, the onlookers dispersed at once, as they were really afraid that the knife in Lu Mingxuan's hand would hurt them.

Sun looked at these people and felt like crying, "You misunderstood, you misunderstood. It was the Xu family who deceived me into marriage. They were so heartless and ungrateful first!"

Unfortunately, no matter how she cried, no one was willing to listen to her.

Slowly, Sun grabbed Lu Mingxuan's arm and shook it vigorously, saying, "Son, how could we, mother and son, be bullied to this extent? It would have been much better if you hadn't met that bitch!"

Tears welled up in Lu Mingxuan's eyes. Yes, it would have been great if he hadn't met Xu Wanqing at the beginning.

He should have a bright future now and be on the rise.

Unfortunately, life is just a play, and he failed in the end.

The Xu family's door opened again.

Six servants came out, two of them carrying a large box and running towards the mother and son.

"This is what our wife gave you. It contains a lot of good farmland and some gold, silver and jewelry, enough for you to live a good life."

Lu Mingxuan watched all this in amazement, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Not long after, Xixue also came out carrying a small bag and timidly approached the two of them.

"Husband, my wife said that I am already yours and should go back with you."

Xixue still had some minor injuries on her face, and now she looked much better than when she was at the Lu family.

"Who do you think you are? You are just a servant of the Xu family. Do you really think you are worthy of my Mingxuan? I tell you, you are not even worthy of serving Mingxuan footbath water, and you still want to be with me..."

"Take her back."

"Ah?" Sun didn't react for a moment.

Lu Mingxuan looked at Sun and said word by word, "Mother, take her back. After all, you are old now, and it's time to find someone to take care of you."

Hearing this, Sun was immediately happy, "My son still loves his mother. Okay, I'll listen to you and let her go back to serve us."

Lu Mingxuan hid the knife deep in his sleeve and turned away.

Seeing this, Sun shouted to the six servants, "Hurry, carry it."

The servants were helpless. They looked at each other, picked up the box and followed Lu Mingxuan.

Sun looked at Xixue, whose face was pale, and asked, "Why aren't you leaving yet? Do you want a sedan chair carried by eight people before you leave?"

"No, no, no, it's not."

Xixue's eyes were red as she hurriedly shook her head to explain, looking shaky.

Seeing her like this, Sun was immediately furious and said, "Hurry up and stop dawdling."

Xixue knew that she had no good days left, so the lady sent her to the Lu family to appease the Lu family.

However, the Lu family is so fierce that she is afraid that she will not be able to complete the task assigned by the lady.

Thinking of this, Xixue looked at the gate of the Xu family in despair before following Sun.

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Xu Wanyan sighed. Such days seemed a bit boring.

"Has father returned home?"

Qiao Yun shook her head and said, "I asked around and found out that the master hasn't come back in the past two days."

Xu Wanyan kicked the small stones on the ground in annoyance.

"However, the Zhao brothers are quite frequent visitors. They have come several times already, and every time they are filled with joy."

"Of course not! When one person succeeds, everyone in the family will benefit. They are all waiting to take advantage of Xu Wanqing's success."

"Yes, Aunt Zhao is also beaming. I heard that she rewarded many servants and is waiting for the master to come back and tell him the good news."

Xu Wanyan looked at Qiao Yun, "So, where did father go?"

"I didn't know, but on the night of Xixue and the others' return banquet, the old master asked me to come over and talk to him for a long time. The next morning, I left in my carriage."

So, it's not official business.

Xu Wanyan couldn't figure out what Old Master Xu would ask Xu Maocai to do.

"Miss, this is good. Aunt Zhao didn't turn over so quickly."

Xu Wanyan smiled, "That's right. Otherwise, with my father's vain nature, he would have already fallen for Zhao Yaru and Xu Wanqing."

"So, that's a good thing."

"I see."

Grandfather and cousin should have heard those absurd rumors about Xiao Jingming, but I don’t know whether they believe them or not. If they do, they can just avoid this matter, which will be good for her and the Lin family.

To prevent the Lin family from looking for her again and again.