Chapter 31 Kneeling in the Ancestral Hall
Feng Manman could recognize that voice even on her deathbed.
It's Duan Xi'er!
Damn it, all of Feng Manman's blood vessels burst instantly!
It's 1 a.m., and those two scoundrels are still together!
She gritted her teeth, "Take a shower? No need for that. Just pass on a message to him: a friendly reminder from a longtime friend, remember to use a condom, or you might get a disease."
"..." Duan Xi'er, no longer pretending to be virtuous, said in a deep and stern voice, "Feng Manman, what's wrong with you in the middle of the night? What? Are you lonely and bored, so you're bothering others?"
If it weren't for the phone separating them, Feng Manman would have rushed over and torn Duan Xier's foul mouth apart.
"Whether I'm lonely or not, at least I don't go to great lengths to steal someone else's man. Duan Xi'er, what does it feel like to sleep with a man who loves another woman? Is it great?"
Duan Xi'er's eyes darkened, but her expression was not angry; instead, she smiled. "Another woman? You mean Lu Zhenyu? You may not know that."
Feng Manman frowned immediately. "What do you know?"
Duan Xi'er's lips curled up, revealing a smug look. "I didn't know your good sister had already been taken back to the Zheng family by her dear husband, and I heard she was even forced to kneel in the ancestral hall for three days and three nights as punishment."
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Looking at the phone that had been hung up, Duan Xi'er made no attempt to hide her satisfaction.
Turning to look at Shen Jingsi, who was sleeping soundly on the bed, she put the phone, which had just been deleting the call history, back in its place. She sat down on the edge of the bed and quietly admired his handsome face.
She gently touched the man's furrowed brow as he slept. "Ah Si, one day you'll forget she fell in love with me, won't you? I'll wait for that day to come."
Feng Manman hung up the phone and immediately called Lu Zhenyu.
During this time, she knew that her best friend had been living with Shen Jingsi in Jinyun Bay. Although she disliked Shen Jingsi, she also knew that the two of them were deeply in love with each other, so she never disturbed their rare time together.
Unexpectedly, Zheng Yaozong suddenly returned.
Didn't they say it could be closed for another week?
Also, how did he find Jinyun Bay?
He easily took the person away right in front of Shen Jingsi?
Without time to think about it, Feng Manman immediately called Lu Zhenyu, but as expected, the phone was switched off.
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After Lu Zhenyu was captured by Zheng Yaozong and taken back to the Zheng family, she was indeed punished by Zheng's mother to kneel in the ancestral hall for three days and three nights.
"You not only got my son detained, but you also dared to secretly file for divorce in court behind the backs of the Zheng family. A wicked woman like you deserves to be drowned in a well or a pig cage in ancient times."
Zheng's mother stood at the entrance of the soon-to-be-closed ancestral hall, cursing and swearing, while her second daughter came over to comfort her.
"Mom, why are you getting angry with her? Her heart has never belonged to our Zheng family. She was sold out by her own family and was stupid enough to run back to seek protection. If you ask me, let Fourth Brother give her a good beating and teach her a lesson so she won't dare to do it again."
In the dimly lit and cold ancestral hall, Lu Zhenyu, dressed only in a sweatshirt and jeans, knelt before the ancestral tablet. Two elderly women, one on each side, stood guard, each holding a ruler.
In the dim light, only a few sticks of incense could be seen burning on the offering table. Lu Zhenyu knelt there, gazing at the three crimson flames.
The darkness swallowed her expression, making it impossible to see the face marked with ten finger imprints.
For the next three days, the person fell ill without eating a single grain of rice, woke up from the cold, and was repeatedly plagued by nightmares.
Later, she didn't even have the strength to run a fever. While she was lying there in a daze, she didn't know who carried her out.
In a daze, all I heard was, "Are you and your daughter crazy? That's your daughter-in-law and brother's wife; even if she's not the worst, she's still a human being!"
Zheng Mengyue was stunned when her usually gentle and reserved husband suddenly flew into a rage. After she came to her senses, she rushed up to argue with him!
“Ren Zhenzhen has never been a bad girl. Why don’t you look at what your good son has done to her all these years abroad?”
Right after their wedding, Lu Zhenyu was kidnapped by Zheng Yaozong and taken abroad to live for an extended period. Although they never returned together, the Zheng family knew everything that had happened.
This naturally includes Zheng Yaozong's several outbursts where he nearly beat Lu Zhenyu to death.
Zheng's mother was speechless, and her second daughter, Zheng Yaowan, stood in front of her.
"Dad, you haven't been home for a year. Mom has missed you and longed for you for so long. Why do you side with your mistress and blame her as soon as you come back?"
Time has left no trace on Gao Zhengjie. Now over fifty, he has an outstanding figure, and his face, which was already exceptionally handsome in his youth, has become even more charming and profound with the passage of time.
Faced with his wife and daughters, who stood tall and proud, seemingly oblivious to any wrongdoing, he could only close his eyes helplessly.
He had long since given up all hope for this family, this wife, and those children.
Gao Zhengjie was about to leave when his peripheral vision caught sight of the thin figure on the bed, and he stopped in his tracks.
“I don’t care how far you go, there’s only one rule: you’re not allowed to torment this child anymore.”
Zheng's mother frowned, her eyes flashing with murderous intent. "If I don't make trouble for her, she'll make trouble for my son."
Gao Zhengjie looked directly at his wife, and a fierce look that brooked no resistance finally surfaced on his refined face.
"Then you can torture her until the old man passes away, and see how the Shen family will come after your Zheng family!"
Amidst the astonishment of the mother and daughter, he gave his servants a strict order: "For the next month, no one except the doctor is allowed to set foot in this villa, not even Zheng Yaozong, until your young mistress has fully recovered, do you understand!"
The servant nodded repeatedly, "Yes, sir."
Although Gao Zhengjie married into the family, he is a capable man who has served as an official in Shenzhen for many years and now holds political power.
Now that Old Master Zheng is getting closer to death, he's the only one left in the huge Zheng family who has any real power or status.
So whether it was the servants or the collateral branches, they were ostensibly managed by Zheng's mother, but in reality, they had long since sided with him.
Watching her husband leave, Zheng's mother glared at the unconscious Lu Zhenyu several times, filled with resentment.
"You still want to settle accounts with me? How ridiculous. The Shen family would love to tie her down here for the rest of her life."
The woman grumbled a few words, then took her daughter and went after her husband.
As the shouts faded into the distance, Lu Zhenyu slowly opened her eyes on the bed.
I stared quietly at the ceiling, breathing softly, without making a sound.
It closed its eyes again after a short while.
Sleep well, Lu Zhenyu. When you wake up, it will be tomorrow.
If you can't wake up, that's your next life.
But Lu Zhenyu was still lucky; one could say she was destined to survive.
She had only been tormented by the Zheng family for two days when her father-in-law, who hadn't been home in a century, came to visit. He drew a circle around her room, allowing her to rest and recuperate in peace for more than a month.
That day, she borrowed a servant's phone and secretly made a call to Feng Manman.
Upon hearing her voice, Feng Manman, who had just stepped out of the Buddhist hall, knelt down again, looking up to the sky and wailing about her worries of the past few days.
"I knew it! The Zheng family said you went back to Los Angeles and wouldn't let me see you. I bet something happened to you! Damn it, I'm going to find Siwei right now and blow up the Zheng family with a missile!"
Lu Zhenyu, who was sitting in front of the French windows basking in the sun, smiled helplessly, "Wouldn't that blow me up too?"
After patiently calming the person down, she gave Feng Manman a task.
The girl acted as if she had received a royal decree, hanging up the phone and running towards Jinyun Bay.
The villa must have been uncleaned in a long time; the camellia on the floor of the living room had turned into a dried flower.
Feng Manman went to the study on the second floor, entered the password on the safe, took out the manuscript that Lu Zhenyu had written before, and carefully put it into her bag.
Following Lu Zhenyu's instructions, they searched the entire courtyard, but were somewhat puzzled.
"There's no cat carcass here that Zhenzhen mentioned. Did the property management take it away?"
Never mind, she went to the door and took out a large bag of traditional Chinese medicine from the mailbox.
On the drive to Shen's, he grew angrier the more he thought about it.
"Even when Zhenzhen herself was in dire straits, she was still thinking of you every moment. And you, on the other hand, the moment Zhenzhen left, you didn't stop for a second and you were already messing around with that slut. Shen Jingsi, you're not even a man!"
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