Chapter 292: Throwing Dirty Water

Lu Qiniang hurriedly tried to smooth things over, "Why should we be envious? We should all live our own lives. As long as the two of us are living in harmony, that's better than anything else."

"Aunt is right." Du Juan lowered her head to help Lu Qiniang divide the lines.

"No, why are you here?" Arya asked again, "Is Lord Xin gone? Why hasn't my father come back yet? I'm still waiting for him to write a sign for me! He's so unreliable."

Asking someone to write a sign costs several strings of money, plus making the sign itself would cost more than one or two taels of silver. Why not just rob someone?

Save when you should save, spend when you should spend. Erya asked Xiao Yan to help her write the words, isn’t that saving money?

But when she brought it up, Lu Qiniang actually said, "We should ask the Fifth Young Master for this matter. It would be so proud if the Third Place Scholar came up with this title. Your father is not capable of this. Business is not war. We don't need your father to lead the charge."

Erya watched Xiao Yan nod happily before his face became long and gloomy.

Oh, her father is so miserable, really.

It still depends on her.

"As for a sign, it's fine as long as it looks good. The Fifth Young Master's calligraphy is so good, wouldn't the sign be stolen overnight? Even if the Fifth Young Master's calligraphy is free, making a sign is still very expensive. So it's most appropriate for my dad to write it."

Xiao Yan: I was comforted, but not much.

He can't do it, so he writes it.

The fifth young master was eliminated because he was too outstanding.

His mood is quite complicated.

Dujuan said, "My father was very happy today and drank too much. I didn't want to listen to his drunken nonsense, so I ran out. Aunt, my uncle drank quite a bit today too. Please come home with me and help my uncle back home."

"My dad can drink a lot." Erya said.

"I wouldn't dare say that. In our Tonghuafang, a drunk froze to death on the second day of the Lunar New Year. He was visiting relatives, got drunk, and fell asleep in the snow. He froze out all night. People here thought he was going home, and people there thought he was staying overnight, but he just died."

"Whose relative is so miserable? How can he get around from now on?" Erya was shocked.

Lu Qiniang also felt sad after hearing this and said, "Okay."

When it was noon, Du Juan stood up and said, "Aunt, let's go. We have to go back and persuade them to drink, otherwise my father will force me to drink again. My mother will be unhappy when she comes back."

"Okay, let's go." Lu Qiniang stood up, took Dujuan's arm, and told Erya to keep an eye on the shop. Then, as they walked out, she asked, "Why did your mother suddenly come back to her parents' home today?"

"My eldest uncle came to pick me up in the morning and said that my grandmother missed Hu Rui, so my mother took Hu Rui back with her."

The voices of the two people talking gradually faded away along with their figures.

San Ya put away her spinning top and muttered, "Second sister, why doesn't Sister Du Juan ever call me brother? She always calls me Hu Rui, Hu Rui. She doesn't like Hu Rui."

"Don't talk nonsense." Arya said, "They don't have the same father, after all, there's a difference. But you can't tell anyone else about this, understand?"

"You are not someone else. We have the same father and mother, unlike them."

Arya: "...Yes, we are different. We won't imitate her arrogant behavior."

This little friend has become a stranger since he got engaged.

But mom is right. We should all stay away from each other from now on. If you feel uncomfortable, just have less contact.

The friendship of the previous generation belongs to the previous generation.

Let’s talk about Lu Qiniang. She followed Dujuan back home.

"Why is there no movement?" She said after entering the yard, "Did he drink all the wine under the table? Your father is really annoying. He can't drink and prefers to show off his strength-"

Suddenly, there was a sound of wind behind her ears. Lu Qiniang subconsciously reached back and grabbed a very thick stick.

The stick was so powerful that it made her palm numb.

"Dujuan, what are you doing!" Lu Qiniang saw clearly that it was Dujuan who attacked her with a stick, and she couldn't help but shout.

Out of fear of the unknown, she subconsciously tried to step back, only to find that the door was closed.

"You can't even do such a small thing, you're such a waste." Xin Ji'an came out of the house and was about to attack Lu Qiniang while speaking.

Lu Qi Niang:???

Have these two people gone crazy?

Not to mention that she had been learning Kung Fu from Xiao Yan for such a long time, even if she hadn't learned Kung Fu, wouldn't she be able to handle these two bastards with all her strength?

So Lu Qiniang didn't hesitate, she slapped Xin Ji'an to the ground and kicked him hard.

This kick made Xin Jian fly up and land on the door of the east wing, knocking it open and falling to the ground.

Dujuan shouted "Ji'an" and screamed over to see Xin Ji'an.

Lu Qiniang hesitated briefly.

She didn't know what these two people were plotting, but she always seemed to have something bad in mind.

She was worried about Xiao Yan, but also afraid there might be a trap inside, so she immediately opened the door and shouted outside, "Is there anyone here? Come and help! Lao Hu's son-in-law fell and got hurt, come and help."

The neighbors heard her loud voice and came over.

With so many people around, Lu Qiniang was no longer afraid and entered the main room.

As it turned out, there was no sign of Xiao Yan in the room. There was only Doctor Hu, who was lying naked on the big kang with his back to the door, snoring loudly.

Lu Qiniang: “…”

She suddenly understood something, turned around and went out, grabbed Dujuan by the collar, and said in disappointment and anger: "You actually want to plot against me and your father? Dujuan, Dujuan, I watched you grow up too. What are you thinking, kid, to ruin your father and me? Even if I don't know where I offended you, don't you care about your father or your mother?"

The crowd was shocked.

"You're slandering me." Seeing Dujuan lowering her head and not daring to respond, Xin Ji'an spoke up. "It was you who was trying to have an affair with my father-in-law, and when we discovered it, you attacked us and tried to kill us to silence us. Dujuan, tell me, is that right?"

This time, everyone was even more dumbfounded.

Lu Qin's mother was so angry that her liver ached. She only regretted why she didn't give the beast a few more punches and beat him till his teeth were all over the ground.

Until now, Lu Qiniang felt that although Du Juan was hateful, she must have listened to Xin Ji'an's instigation.

"Dujuan, don't let him fool you. If your father comes to his senses, he won't agree to this marriage." Lu Qiniang said sternly, "What kind of a person is he? He would encourage you to throw dirty water on your own father. Xin Ji'an, don't be so arrogant. This matter is not over yet."

Everyone was stunned by the melons.

Although they all knew Lu Qiniang's character very well, since they had no grudges against each other, why would the son-in-law of the Hu family plot against Lu Qiniang and Doctor Hu?

Regardless of whether this scandal is true or not, if it gets out, Doctor Hu will be the one to be embarrassed. Wouldn't he be embarrassed as well?

Could this be some new way of breaking off an engagement?

But that’s not right. Why is Dujuan meddling in this?

I don't understand, I totally don't understand.