Chapter 427: Does Jianming have to pay for her life?

The room was filled with noise, and Yuan Wanru and Lu Jiangnian exchanged a knowing look.

Wang Min sat on the chair with a frosty look on his face.

No one else knew what mistake Zhou Jianming had made, only she got the news.

Damn this Zhou Jianming!

"Mom, don't be impatient..."

Lu Bai walked quickly to Madam Lu and wanted to help her up.

Beads of sweat oozed from his forehead. Looking at his mother's red and swollen eyes, his voice softened unconsciously, "Let's talk slowly if there is anything..."

"Speak slowly?"

Madam Lu pushed her son's hand away and said, "My grandson is about to be beaten to death, and you still want me to speak slowly?"

Her trembling fingers almost poked Lu Bai's nose. "You useless thing, I am your mother, Yuxiu is your sister, are we outsiders?"

"You just watch us being bullied by others, are you still my son?"

The old lady then beat her chest and cried, "If you dare to touch Jianming today, I will die in this room! Let everyone in the capital see how the Lu family forced their own old lady to death!"

Yuan Wanru chuckled when she heard this, and her bright red lips looked as if stained with blood.

She stood up slowly, and the golden peony on her skirt glowed coldly with her movements.

When Zhou Jianming saw her move, he immediately shrank back as if he had seen a ghost, and his back hit the table beside him with a bang, shaking the vase on top of it to the point of falling.

"Don't come over here..."

Zhou Jianming was originally afraid of Yuan Wanru, and because of his guilty conscience, he didn't dare to even look at Yuan Wanru.

His voice seemed to be squeezed out of his throat, and the blood and cold sweat on his face made him look particularly hideous under the candlelight.

Yuan Wanru raised her foot to walk over, when a bony hand suddenly appeared in front of her.

"I'll do it."

His voice was very soft, but it made everyone in the room hold their breath, "Don't get your hands dirty."

Yuan Wanru raised her eyebrows. He knew what she was going to do before she even said it?

However, Lu Jiangnian was absolutely sure that he knew what his wife meant.

She hated Zhou Jianming so much that even though her grandmother told her not to move a finger, she insisted on doing so.

Lu Jiangnian understood her intention and walked up to Zhou Jianming in three or two steps. Everyone saw a flash before their eyes, and then they heard a crisp "click" sound, followed by Zhou Jianming's heart-wrenching scream.

"ah--!!"

Lu Jiangnian's boots were crushing on the back of Zhou Jianming's hand, with such force that all five fingers were deformed.

Zhou Jianming rolled on the ground in pain, his crushed palm lying on the ground like a ball of mud, dark red blood oozing from between his fingers.

The table behind him was shaken by his knock, and the vase fell down, with broken porcelain pieces scattered all over the floor.

As Zhou Jianming rolled over, he rolled onto these porcelain pieces, incurring new injuries.

His wailing was incessant.

Lu Jiangnian slowly withdrew his foot and took out a snow-white handkerchief to wipe the sole of his boot.

"Grandma, I can only be unfilial today."

The moment he raised his eyes, the chill in his eyes made the temperature of the entire hall drop three degrees, but his voice was as gentle as if he was discussing today's weather, "I will decide Zhou Jianming's fate."

"Jiang Nian!"

Lu Bai looked at this nephew whom he had always been proud of in disbelief, not understanding why he was being so cruel and ruthless today.

Lu Yuxiu let out a scream that was so shrill that it didn't sound like a human voice, and fell beside Zhou Jianming.

Her trembling fingers hovered above her son's bloody palm, not daring to touch it.

"My son..."

The carefully painted makeup was washed away by tears. She raised her head suddenly, and her red eyes were filled with hatred: "Lu Jiangnian! I want you to pay with your life!"

She rushed towards Lu Jiangnian like crazy, not even noticing the golden hairpin on her head falling to the ground.

A figure flashed by suddenly - Quartz grabbed Lu Yuxiu's wrists like a ghost and held her down with a clever move.

When Madam Lu saw this, she lost her breath and fell backwards.

Fortunately, Madam Cao behind him was quick to catch him and prevented him from falling.

Her skinny fingers tightly grasped the collar of her clothes, and her lips were abnormally purple: "Be...be unbridled! The Lu family...does it have any rules? Do you still have me, your grandmother, in your eyes?"

The round fan in Zhou Fang's hand had already fallen to the ground. Her face was full of shock. She swallowed subconsciously and looked at her expressionless sister-in-law.

She had a premonition that the mistake Zhou Jianming made today was probably quite serious!

Lu Bai looked at the messy hall and his temples began to throb.

He took a deep breath, his eyes moving back and forth between the calm Lu Jiangnian and the tearful Lu Yuxiu: "Jiangnian..."

Lu Bai's voice was filled with unprecedented fatigue. "What happened? I have to give an explanation to the whole family."

"Explain?"

Lu Yuxiu suddenly sneered, her body trembling as it was restrained by the quartz. "Second brother, open your eyes and look! My son's hand is broken! Is this what your Lu family said?"

She turned to the old lady and said, "Mom! This Lu family is no longer my home!"

Madam Lu also questioned in a hateful voice: "No matter what the reason is, it is not an excuse for him to be so cruel."

Yuan Wanru suddenly uttered a crisp sneer: "Old Madam has always been unreasonable. My aunt was raised by you, but she has grown up crooked, hasn't she?"

She glanced at Lu Yuxiu, who was being pressed by the quartz and could not move, and her red lips curled up in a hint of sneer, "And this crooked aunt raised an even more despicable Zhou Jianming——"

"How dare you!" Old Madam Lu's eyes were filled with rage. "How dare you, a vixen like you, criticize my upbringing?"

If Lu Jiangnian hadn't married her, how could things have turned out like this today?

Yuan Wanru stood up slowly and said, "You didn't even ask the whole story, but threatened to kill yourself as soon as you opened your mouth."

She sighed, "Speaking of which, if we don't handle today's matter well, we might all be killed by Zhou Jianming. He just died one step ahead of us."

"Wanru!" Zhou Fang was so scared that the blood drained out of her face. "Don't scare Second Aunt. What happened?"

Lu Jiangnian suddenly sneered, and that laugh was like a blade tempered with ice: "Second Aunt, you asked a good question."

He walked slowly to Zhou Jianming, lifted up his tearful face with the tip of his boot, "During the wedding banquet, this beast, under the influence of alcohol, ran to the courtyard and tried to defile Liang Yuhua. Liang Yuhua couldn't bear the humiliation and hit her head against the wall and committed suicide."

"What?!"

“Oh my God!”

Lu Bai and Zhou Fang looked at Lu Jiangnian in disbelief. Old Madam Lu and Lu Yuxiu were also stunned for a moment.

After a while, Mrs. Lu finally responded: "Liang Yuhua was just a concubine. If she died, she died. Do you want Jianming to pay for her life?"

Lu Jiangnian laughed out loud: "Grandmother, you may have forgotten that Liang Yuhua was a concubine given by the emperor. She died in the Lu family. If the emperor wants to investigate, why don't you go and talk to the emperor about this?"

The hall was so silent that one could hear a pin drop to the ground.