The moment the door opened, Su Ping only had time to see the panicked expression in Tie Niu's eyes before a sharp pain in her head caused her to faint.
When Su Ping woke up again, she found herself locked in that courtyard.
The black cat circled around him, but Tie Niu had disappeared.
Su Ping's memory stopped at the moment she opened the door.
So who exactly attacked her?
The furnishings in the courtyard were very simple. The room inside contained nothing but a bed and a dining table.
Thinking of Tie Niu's identity, Su Ping searched everywhere but couldn't find him.
It seems they discovered it and then urgently moved the iron ox to another location.
The black cat must have been hungry, as it kept meowing at her feet.
Su Ping rubbed her empty stomach; well, she was hungry too.
They took her phone, and now she has no way to contact anyone outside.
The high wall was covered with iron mesh, which even Tie Niu couldn't climb, let alone her.
Just as she was searching for an exit, she heard a noise outside the wooden door.
A person and a cat looked over there.
After the lock was opened, the servant who had previously prevented her from approaching came in from outside, placed the food he was carrying behind the door, and expressionlessly closed the door again.
Before the black cat pounced, Su Ping quickly picked up the bowl from the ground.
The black cat missed its target and meowed vehemently.
[Host, how can you eat so calmly? Shouldn't you be screaming for help?]
Su Ping took a bite of rice and said, "Come on, apart from the Lu family, all the servants here are deaf and mute. I can scream my lungs out and no one will come to save me."
It's better to wait and see what Lu's mother and the others are up to.
The black cat was still cursing when it suddenly heard her talking to herself in the air, and its tail immediately stood up.
That woman is terrifying; I should have known better than to yell at her.
Outside, the servants secretly recorded Su Ping's reaction and returned to the second floor.
Inside the room, Lu's mother was somewhat surprised after reading the servant's sign language.
That girl was indeed no ordinary girl; she could still eat without changing her expression in this situation.
She waved her hand, signaling the servants to leave.
Then I went behind the screen.
A man dressed in black was kneeling in front of the Buddha statue.
The man's back was covered in whip marks, yet he remained kneeling upright.
"Zhiyan, do you know her?"
Lu's mother looked grave; her expression wasn't a question, but a statement of certainty.
This was the first time she had called him by his own name. Lu Zhiyan trembled slightly, then pursed his lips.
"I don't know him."
"Why would she save you if she didn't know you?"
Lu's mother stared at her son, whom she had barely seen since birth, and approached him.
"Was it her you encountered when you ran away last time?"
But she quickly rejected the idea.
Back then, that girl spent all her time surrounded by men, so how could she have ended up in that place?
"No, she doesn't know anything, Mother, please let her go."
No matter how much I hit him before, he always remained expressionless. This is the first time I've seen any other expression on his face.
Is all of this because of that woman?
That won't do. A tool used to shield Zhiyan from disaster shouldn't develop feelings.
"I'll do whatever you say as long as you release her."
He actually went to this extent for her?
As Lu's mother smiled and was about to say something, the door was suddenly pushed open.
Lu Zhiyan burst in from outside: "Mom, has Pingping left? I can't find her in the room."
After he finished speaking, his gaze fell on the man kneeling on the prayer mat beside Lu's mother, his face filled with disbelief.
That man looks exactly like him.
Lu's mother's expression changed drastically. She quickly stepped in front of Lu Zhiyan and shouted, "Who let you in? Get out!"
Lu Zhiyan thought of a possibility, stared at his mother with a pale face, and asked.
"Your brother is clearly not dead, why did you do that?"
Lu Zhiyan had secretly seen him once when she ran away last time, and when she heard him call her younger brother, her eyes immediately reddened.
He thought he knew of his existence, so he had been enjoying everything the Lu family had to offer all these years without feeling guilty, while he had to bear all the dark side of the family alone.
That's why he ran away that night.
Unexpectedly, he was just as unaware as I was, and suddenly I felt much less of the hatred in my heart.
So he didn't know either.
Seeing that she could no longer hide the truth, Lu's mother decided to lay it all out.
"I almost died during childbirth, but a Taoist priest saved my life. He said..."
As Lu's mother finished speaking, she looked down at Lu Zhiyan, who was kneeling on the ground, with a complicated expression.
"They said your brother's birth would bring misfortune to the Lu family, at best bankruptcy, at worst the destruction of the family and death."
"Back then, the Taoist priest suggested that I smother your younger brother to avoid disaster, but I couldn't bring myself to do it..."
"And then you told everyone he was dead, and secretly imprisoned him in your home for over twenty years?"
Lu Zhiyan couldn't accept that her usually well-mannered mother had suddenly become like this, and questioned her.
Lu's mother shook her head: "The Taoist priest said that twins are unlucky, and only one of you and him can survive."
"If you want to live, you must be nourished by his blood until you are twenty-five years old, and then you will meet the celestial maiden..."
Lu Zhiyan thought of the medicine she drank every day and suddenly felt nauseous, so she gagged.
Seeing this, Lu's mother immediately stepped forward to pat his back with heartache.
"What are you doing? If it weren't for him, you wouldn't need to take medicine, and I wouldn't have almost died in childbirth!"
Lu Zhiyan knew he was disliked by his mother, but he never expected it to be for this reason.
When he learned the truth, his face turned pale. No wonder he had to cut his finger and bleed every seven days.
It turns out it was for Lu Zhiyan to drink.
It turns out that her existence was for that ridiculous prophecy, to protect Lu Zhiyan and the Lu family from disaster at any time.
Lu Zhiyan pushed his mother away, remembering what Su Ping had said to him that night, and suddenly a string in his mind tightened.
"Where did you take Pingping?"
When he was a child, he found the servants in his family strange, wondering why they were all deaf and mute.
He actually thought that Lu's mother had kindly adopted them, but it turned out to be all her scheming.
Only deaf-mute people won't reveal their secrets.
Lu's mother was surprised that both of her sons were so interested in that woman. She sneered and said.
"Don't worry, she just ate two bowls of rice this morning, she's perfectly fine."
"She's discovered such a big secret about our family. What do you think we should do?"
The two men turned pale, realizing the implication behind her words.
Mother Lu snorted coldly and walked ahead: "Since you are so worried about her, then let's go and see her together."
"I'm also very curious. If she had two choices, what would she choose?"
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