Chapter 526 The Tunnel Under the Bed

"Ah?" A string of question marks slowly appeared above Hu Xiner's head.

No matter how slow she was, she could vaguely feel that something was wrong.

If you like someone, do you want to break all the hard bones in his body? This Miss Du must be a yandere!

Miss Du realized that she had been exposed, so she quickly turned around and said, "I was just kidding, sister-in-law."

Sure enough, Hu Xiner felt dizzy when she heard the word sister-in-law: "No, don't call me sister-in-law!"

In the yard, Lu Yunjue was helping his mother take a walk, showing the deep love between mother and son.

Mother Lu looked at her son's bandaged face without the slightest disdain. Instead, her eyes were filled with love. "Son, according to the Taoist priest's calculations, the bandages on your face can be removed tonight at the latest. Have you been taking your medicine well these past few days?"

Lu Yunjue nodded naturally: "Don't worry, mother."

Mother Lu held his hand and said, "Now that our lives are getting better and better, it's time for you to ask your brother and sister-in-law to find a good marriage for you...Yun Jue?"

She found that Lu Yunjue was distracted and couldn't help but feel a little surprised. She knew how filial this child was.

Following Lu Yunjue's gaze, he saw a gentle and beautiful woman walking towards him, supporting Hu Xin'er. She had an oval face and was a head taller than Hu Xin'er. Judging from her height alone, she was on par with Lu Yunjue.

Mother Lu looked at the woman in front of her curiously: "Jue'er, this is..."

There was a smile in her eyes, and she didn't know what she was thinking about - as a mother, she had never seen her son lose his composure like this for a name.

Lu Yunjue subconsciously protected his mother and asked coldly, "What are you doing here?"

When Miss Du saw his alert look, she felt extremely comfortable. Humph, when she was still thinking about winning Lu Yunjue's favor in the past, she felt uncomfortable when she saw him frowning at her.

But now, she only thought about taking revenge on him. The more unhappy he was, the happier she was!

Who told him to wrongly accuse her that night and interrogate her like that? There were a few moments when she almost thought she was really going to die in the Lu family.

She complained about Lu Yunjue in her heart, but raised her eyebrows and said, "Don't worry, I won't ask you to return the betrothal gifts. There are many tonics in the box, all for my aunt. There are also several packets of high-quality pregnancy-preserving medicine..."

"I don't dare use your things." Lu Yunjue felt annoyed when he saw her. "I won't accept those things, and I don't want to see you again. Take them away as soon as possible."

Miss Du smiled slightly. Want to drive her away? No way!

She pretended to be nonchalant and said, "Well, I can only listen to you. But isn't your house haunted? I was going to tell you that there's actually a ghost here."

"What?" everyone asked in unison.

"You've lived here for so long, haven't you noticed anything strange? For example, things suddenly moved... I ran to your house that day just to tell you about this." Miss Du said, and did not forget to defend herself.

Everyone was skeptical.

Lu Yunjue frowned and said, "You clearly wanted to..."

He felt very unhappy when he thought of the nonsense she had said when she was interrogated that night.

Miss Du refused to let him go: "What do I want to do? Tell me! I am a girl in the boudoir, do you think I would come to your house in the middle of the night to steal your beauty?"

Mother Lu carefully observed the expressions of the others and asked, "Jue'er, have you really wronged the girl?"

Lu Yunjue was afraid that his mother would misunderstand him, so he said in a deep voice, "Mom, go in first. She is the Miss Du who took off my mask earlier."

Because Mother Lu had been unconscious for too long, her mind had not yet come to its senses. It was only after she was pushed a few steps that she suddenly reacted.

"Ms. Du? That means..." Her eyes were full of disbelief.

If this was really the Miss Du she was thinking of, then the woman in front of her had already seen Yun Jue at his ugliest appearance, and now Yun Jue's face was wrapped in so many bandages, yet she dared to offer a betrothal gift to Yun Jue.

If she wasn't really forced into a desperate situation, she would be a perfect daughter-in-law who doesn't care about appearance and can directly see Juer's beautiful inner self!

Thinking of this, her feet suddenly seemed to take root and she could no longer move.

Lu Yunjue secretly thought that this was going to be bad, and immediately said to Miss Du in a very bad tone: "Don't meddle in our family affairs! Get out now!"

"Yun Jue!" Mother Lu looked at her disapprovingly. "Have you forgotten what your mother taught you? How can you be so harsh to a girl?"

Miss Du laughed secretly in her heart. What was said in the comics was indeed true. As long as she could deal with her mother-in-law, the marriage would be half done.

She was about to stir up trouble again, but Hu Xin'er couldn't stand it anymore and changed the subject, saying, "Didn't Miss Du say there's a tunnel in our house? Do you know where it is?"

Miss Du nodded: "Of course I know, but I want Lu Yunjue to apologize to me before I will take you there."

"I can still find the tunnel without you." How could Lu Yunjue listen to her and apologize?

Although he did catch the wrong person that day, if Miss Du had stayed at home obediently and not come to climb over the wall of the Lu family, could he still have run to Miss Du's house and arrested her?

It was clearly Miss Du who was at fault first!

Both of them were tense and refused to give in, as if they were in a standoff, with invisible sparks flashing in their eyes.

Mother Lu's tone was slightly stern: "Yun Jue, what did your mother teach you? If you have truly wronged someone, apologize immediately!"

Lu Yunjue pursed his thin lips into a straight line, and said reluctantly, "I'm sorry, Miss Du, I did wrongly accuse you that day."

Miss Du snorted softly, thinking, "Apologizing now? Too late!"

She pulled Hu Xin'er and continued walking inside: "If I remember correctly, the tunnel should be in the east wing."

They looked at each other and found that Lu's mother lived in the east wing!

Whether Miss Du is just crying wolf, or there is really some mystery in the east wing, one can tell at a glance.

Miss Du was not the type to drag her feet. She walked into the wing room and peeked under the bed: "Look, the tunnel is right under here."

"This place is so hidden, how did you know about it?" Lu Yunjue was still doubtful.

Miss Du chuckled. "People used to say this place was haunted, so I came over to take a look. There was a lot of dust under the bed, and it was obvious someone was crawling around. It was obvious that the tunnel was underneath!"

She looked at Hu Xin'er and the others: "You should have hired someone to clean it directly, so you didn't find it, right?"