Chapter 58 Telling You Something You Don’t Know
She tutted her tongue twice. "If I remember correctly, you've only taken care of Wei Xun for a few years, but your adopted son has lived with you for so many years. Is your heart really so cold and hard?"
Li Xianglan's voice was hoarse. "I really don't know this Wu Shuhua you're talking about."
"Really?" Lu Wanning chuckled, "You don't know her, but she knows you."
She sighed, feeling a little pity for this poor woman who had been kept in the dark. She waved her hand and winked at Changqing, asking him to take the child out.
It's too noisy.
The child was carried out and Li Xianglan collapsed on the ground.
Lu Wanning said bluntly, "Whenever you speak honestly, the child will be able to come back. I have no grudges against your family in the past or in the present, so I will not make things difficult for you."
"But if you're not honest, then there's nothing I can do."
"Mother, mother, Wang'er is still young. His health has always been poor. He can't stand this kind of shock. Tell me what you know, quickly, mother. Your daughter-in-law begs you."
Li Xianglan seemed to be torn in two.
On one side is her adopted son and his family who have been with her for so many years, and on the other side is Wei Xun, whom she treated as her own son.
How could she choose?
However, what Lu Wanning said next was really like frying her in a frying pan.
"Right after you gave birth, your husband sold you to Wu Shuhua. She asked you to be her son's wet nurse, and you stayed to take care of her child. But do you know where your husband and child went after you left?"
Not needing their response, Lu Wanning continued, "Your husband was a gambler himself. The money he earned from selling you wasn't enough to pay off his debts, so he soon sold your child as well. He used the money to squander, and later had his legs chopped off by his creditor, and he bled to death."
"You should have gone back and inquired about all this, right?"
"Well now, I will tell you something you don't know." Lu Wanning looked at the poor woman who was kept in the dark and told the story.
"After selling you, your husband actually felt very regretful, so he went to the Wu Mansion to try to get you back."
"But that was Wu Shuhua and Chen Xumeng's wedding day. To prevent your husband from causing trouble and the Chen family from discovering this scandal, Wu Shuhua had your husband's legs chopped off and sent them back to make it look like a creditor had done it."
"As for your child, he was just a swaddled baby at the time, but Wu Shuhua felt that since you were her child's wet nurse, you should naturally treat her child as your own. Your child, who she considered worthless, was thrown into the mountains to feed the wolves."
Li Xianglan screamed, "You're talking nonsense!"
Her eyes were bloodshot and she didn't believe a word Lu Wanning said.
"Of course you can treat me as nonsense, but if you had no doubts or suspicions over the years, why would you avoid talking about your own child? Given your personality, you would definitely try your best to find the child that your husband sold, right?"
Many times, not only others will deceive themselves, but they will also deceive themselves.
Because the truth is too cruel, we subconsciously treat lies as reality to numb ourselves.
But even if I numb myself, I can't be as numb as her, treating my enemy as my own sweetheart and cherishing him.
I wonder if her poor child would die with regrets if he knew about this.
Li Xianglan fell to the ground and cried bitterly. Her daughter-in-law, who had just given birth to a child, could empathize with her pain and also burst into tears.
"Mom, tell them everything you know. People like that are not worthy of your protection."
Li Xianglan just cried, and when she had cried enough, she accused Lu Wanning of lying.
The crying made Qi Muchao, who was standing beside her, extremely upset.
This kind of gloomy environment is likely to arouse the bad nature in people's hearts. What's more, the three people imprisoned over there have not yet started their punishment today. Seeing this, he feels itchy and always wants to whip them.
But since Lu Wanning is here, we need to be more cautious.
He sat aside and watched Lu Wanning threaten and bribe this wet nurse of Wei Xun.
The method she used was indeed correct, but she was too gentle. If she had used a different method, Li Xianglan would have spoken soon.
For example, the child that Changqing took away.
Thinking of this, Qi Muchao paused and retracted his scattered thoughts.
Well, although she would never admit it, she was indeed a soft-hearted person.
"Whatever you want. I actually hope I'm just making this up." Lu Wanning lost her patience this time. "Since you don't want to speak, then just stay here."
After saying that, she walked to Qi Muchao's side and said, "Let's go, let's go back."
Qi Muzhao nodded and led her out.
The adopted son and daughter-in-law panicked, "Child, my child!"
"Girl, please give my Wang'er back to me. He is still young and not in good health. He is always sick and cannot stand being frightened."
Lu Wanning pointed at Li Xianglan cruelly and said, "Better beg her than beg me."
Leaving behind the couple who kept kowtowing to Li Xianglan, Lu Wanning and Qi Muchao left the dungeon together.
But she didn't go far, because she knew that Li Xianglan would speak soon.
So he and Qi Muchao waited beside the rockery.
Qi Muzhao folded his arms and looked at her calmly, "What are you going to do after this person opens his mouth?"
"Send her to the Third Madam. Only in her hands can this person play the greatest role."
Lu Wanning didn't expect that the third lady would be so slow. She had been looking for the wet nurse for such a long time but couldn't find her.
If not, there would be no need for her to take action.
Once the Third Lady obtains evidence that Wei Xun is the son of Madam Chen, she will attribute the identity of Chen Wenjian to Wei Xun's father who died early.
Anyway, there is no evidence to prove the truth, so whatever Mrs. Chen says is just quibbling.
Lu Wanning was feeling happy, but suddenly stopped, glanced at Qi Muchao quietly, and slowly moved towards him.
After the two of them were close together, she covered her eyes with her hands and asked in a low voice, "What crime did the three people inside commit?"
"No crime." Qi Muchao smiled, "I just don't like them."
Lu Wanning rolled her eyes at him and said, "You're lying! Changqing said those people should go to hell."
Qi Muchao chuckled and said nothing more, obviously not intending to tell her the identities of those three people.
She was also tactful enough to stop asking questions.
The two of them leaned against the rockery. Not far away, Changqing was trying to coax the crying child in a somewhat stiff manner. Lu Wanning looked up at the moon and felt that the moonlight tonight was just average.
As if noticing her boredom, Qi Muchao took out a bag of fish food from somewhere and handed it to her.
Lu Wanning didn't say a word.
He raised his chin towards the pond and said, "Hey."
Lu Wanning: "...Do you think I could see the fish if I threw fish food in this pitch-black thing?"
Qi Muchao laughed, "I'm not throwing it in for you to eat. It's enough for the fish to see it."
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