Chapter 15 Kneel down for me

"It seems I was too soft on you just now!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a "click" sound, and the second person with a broken arm from the Xie family appeared.

Zhou's facial features were distorted with pain, and her arms instantly lost strength.

She never imagined that Lu Wanyin would even protect a lowly slave.

At this moment, the pain in her body made her unable to care about fear, and she angrily scolded: "You actually hurt your mother-in-law for a servant. How did the Marquis of Chenyang teach you?"

"Mother-in-law"

Lu Wanyin sneered: "Xie Jingci kept you in the general's mansion like a dog, and you really think you are a dish."

These words hit Zhou's sore spot.

After Xie Jingci's biological mother, Li, passed away, Xie Deyao remarried Zhou.

When she first came into the family, Xie Jingci was still young, and she always treated him like a servant.

Who would have thought that later, after Xie Jingci joined the army for an expedition, he would make many military achievements and be promoted to the rank of general.

In order to gain wealth and glory, Zhou had no choice but to bow down and curry favor with Xie Jingci.

But even so, Xie Jingci never acknowledged her status.

Not to mention calling her mother, he never even called her aunt.

The reason why she was able to act so arrogantly in the general's mansion was, firstly, because Xie Jingci was away all year round, and secondly, because she gave birth to three sons for Xie Deyao.

I had hoped to turn my life around with the help of my three sons, but I didn't expect each one to be less promising than the last.

"If you dare to insult the people around me again, you can forget about getting your legs back!"

Having been used to being superior for many years, Zhou could not tolerate such an insult, especially in front of the Xie family.

Before being dragged away by her two sons, Zhou glared at the dying Xie Jingci with resentment.

"Don't blame me for not warning you. Xie Jingci is in such a bad state that he will die before he can even be exiled. By then, you will most likely become a military prostitute."

Seeing this, Liu sneered in her heart.

I thought Zhou had become smarter, but isn't he still as stupid as before?

After just a few words, he took the bait.

Liu was not willing to miss this opportunity and immediately stood up.

She put on a flattering smile and said, "That's right! Wanyin, share some of the food with us so we can help you redeem yourself later."

"I want to eat."

Lu Wanyin took out half a pancake from her sleeve, shook it and said, "Then kneel down."

Liu couldn't pretend anymore: "Don't go too far!"

Lu Wanyin still had a faint smile on her face, and glanced at Zhou who was about to faint from the pain: "I can be even more deceitful, do you want to try, Auntie?"

Hearing the word "Third Aunt", Liu trembled all over, as if she was being called by the King of Hell.

She shrank her neck.

Liu knew very well that if she really faced Lu Wanyin, she would never get a good look from her and would only beg for mercy.

Moreover, she would definitely not do something like kneeling down for food.

All the young ladies and ladies of the Xie family are self-righteous and unwilling to bow down for a piece of pancake.

Not to mention those men who are so tough that they can stand up to the sky.

Anyway, this level of hunger can still be endured for the time being.

Xie Yunge was tired from running around the prison. He was just lying in Liu's arms to rest, but was woken up at this moment.

She was so hungry that when she saw the pancake in Lu Wanyin's hand, she ran over to grab it.

Lu Wanyin felt sorry for her. After all, she was only six years old and had to be exiled with the whole family.

But she threw the uneaten pancake back into the space without sharing a single bite with Xie Yunge.

Mrs. Liu is not a good person, so the children she raises will naturally not be good either.

Lu Wanyin knew very well that if she was kind to Xie Yunge now, the child might treat her the same way the Xie family treated Xie Jingci in the future.

She is not some saint.

It was pitch black in the prison, and one could only tell the time by a fist-sized hole in the prison wall.

It would have been fine if the Xie family had nothing to do in prison, but the key was that they all had to endure the days of hunger.

The longer the time dragged on, the more people hated Lu Wanyin.

The next day came in the blink of an eye, and the jailer came to deliver food in the morning.

They are the same two who cheated Xie Deyi yesterday.

As soon as he saw them, Xie Deyi jumped up and down and started cursing.

"You two are so wicked, you're so poor you're going crazy. You're even trying to cheat people out of their lives. Aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning?"

The two jailers were happy and brought the food bucket in through the small door.

A jailer retorted: "It's you who are fooled. You have no brains and you blame others for being immoral."

Xie Deyi was so hungry that his eyes were dizzy and his legs were so weak that he could hardly stand.

He wanted to curse a few more times, but the jailer took a thick wooden stick and reached in through the crack of the cell door and poked him.

Xie Deyi cursed weakly and passed out.

Liu quickly left Xie Yunge behind and ran over to support Xie Deyi.

She was so anxious that she started to cry: "Husband, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me."

Aunt Fang and Aunt Zhao were so hungry that they could not walk. They leaned against the wall and looked at Xie Deyi. They simply gave up pretending and were too lazy to go over and care about him.

Liu's eldest son, Xie Zhili, also ran over to help.

The old lady watched from afar. After all, Xie Deyi was her own son. Now that he had fainted from hunger, it would be a lie to say she didn't feel sorry for him.

But when he thought of the accusations his family had made against Xie Jingci, all the heartache turned into resentment.

She shouldn't sympathize with such an ungrateful person.

Xie Deyi was so hungry that he felt dizzy and could no longer see the person in front of him.

He held his stomach and whimpered softly, "I'm hungry, give me something to eat."

Liu hugged him and sobbed, all her tears had dried up in the past two days.

Xie Zhili sighed helplessly and turned to look at Lu Wanyin.

Her face was still rosy, as if she had not suffered any hardship in the past two days.

He clenched his fists: "Dad, please bear with it for a while."

Xie Deyi silently shed two lines of tears.

Zhou was so hungry that she was crying. She lay motionless on the weeds, staring at the small skylight with empty eyes.

Xie Ziqian came over and whispered, "Mom, how about I go and give it to my sister-in-law..."

Zhou's eyes suddenly became fierce, and she forced herself to be polite and scolded, "Absolutely not! You are my eldest son, the legitimate son of the General's Mansion. How can you kneel before a concubine's daughter from a Marquis' Mansion?"

"But mom, is face more important than life?"

Xie Ziqian said this and looked at his wife and children again.

He got married when he was fifteen and now has a son and a daughter.

The two children are still young, but they have to accompany him in this prison to suffer.

Zhou shed tears silently: "Son, you can't kneel. You are the man of the Xie family. You can't kneel to a woman from another family!"

Xie Ziqian understood clearly that his mother did not allow him to kneel.

But the things the prison guards brought were simply inedible.

What's the difference between moldy rice, rotten swill, and eating a dead mouse?

But it doesn’t matter for the adults, but the two children can’t refuse to eat it.

Xie Ziqian looked at his children, then stood up and walked to Lu Wanyin.

He asked: "Sister-in-law, is it okay if I just kneel down?"

Lu Wanyin raised her eyebrows with interest, bypassed Xie Ziqian, and glanced at Zhou provocatively.

"certainly!"

She pointed at Xie Jingci and said, "Kneel down in front of him."

Xie Jingci is the God of Wealth of their Xie family, so it is natural for Xie Ziqian to kneel down to Xie Jingci.

Zhou was so angry that she wanted to stand up, but every time she moved her arm, it hurt like hell.

Moreover, he was extremely hungry, thirsty, and the cell was stuffy and damp, making his head feel dizzy.

Xie Ziqian walked up to Xie Jingci with difficulty and slowly knelt down.

The moment his knees hit the ground, Lu Wanyin clearly saw a line of hot tears flowing from the corners of Xie Ziqian's eyes.

Now I know dignity.

When you relied on others for glory and wealth in the past, why didn't you care about that bit of masculinity?

He knelt on the ground for a while, and Lu Wanyin took out a pancake from his sleeve.

She handed the pancake to Xie Ziqian: "Get up, here you go."

Xie Ziqian looked at the pancake and didn't take it.

He asked in disbelief: "Sister-in-law, is there only one pancake?"