40 040 Good Family
◎Secret.◎
"So disgusting." Old Madam Lu uttered two words in a low voice, with an expression that showed she couldn't bear to watch.
Instead, Lu Siyue blushed and held her cheeks with both hands, with the corners of her mouth raised, revealing a shy smile. Sure enough, this scene of brother and sister-in-law showing their affection was quite a shock to her as a teenager.
"Brother Hui, you go first." Jiang Xiu reminded him to continue the game.
As expected, Lu Hui voted for his side. He looked at Jiang Xiu without hesitation and said, "You choose."
"Big adventure." Jiang Xiu rolled his eyes and tried to find another way.
"As for the big dare, let number three give number two a big hug."
The couple hugged each other openly, and Lu Hui even lifted her up. Jiang Xiu's feet were off the ground and she was smiling happily. The mental state of the two was more lively than that of young people.
Ren Lu sighed softly in her heart. She couldn't stand the affection shown by her parents-in-law. She had clearly encountered plum blossoms on the way here, and she didn't know what her situation was now.
When it was Lu Sinian's turn, the dice stopped at the number 1. Everyone was silent at first, and then burst into laughter.
"Hahaha, big brother, you have such bad luck that everyone else can vote on their side and you are the only one who gets treated like a tool. And your grandma gets the advantage." Lu Siyue clapped his hands.
Lu Sinian's expression remained unchanged, and he said calmly, "To be honest."
"It's the same question as Ren Lu asked before. Apart from her, who is the woman in this world that leaves the most unforgettable impression on you? Love her or hate her, but relatives must be excluded." After pondering for a few seconds, Mrs. Lu finally chose this question.
She originally wanted to ask other more incisive questions to prick Ren Lu's heart, preferably to dig out Lu Sinian's old love or something like that, but then she thought and gave up. What would the point of asking? It seemed that this grandson couldn't leave his granddaughter-in-law for a while, and if things got ugly, Lu Sinian would have to coax him.
"No." He answered briefly.
Lu Siyue was the first to disagree: "Impossible, brother, your answer is too fake. How could you not meet a woman who left a deep impression on you when you hang out in the Vanity Fair every day? Even if Dad loves Mom so much, I think he must have had one!"
In order to prove her words, she even dragged her old father into the water.
When Lu Hui heard this, his hair stood on end and he glanced at her coldly.
"Honey, is what our daughter said right? I'm also very curious about who the other woman is who left a deep impression on you?" Jiang Xiu looked at him with a smile and began to interrogate him.
"Of course I only have you, don't listen to Si Yue's nonsense. Also, this is Si Nian's question, you have to answer it well and can't get away with it." Lu Hui made a series of moves and brought the topic back.
"Before Ren Lu showed up, apart from my family, everyone else, male or female, was gray. I only looked at whether they could be used by me. They were all just tools. If they were useful, I would use them twice. If they were not, I would throw them away. Who would have a deep and lasting feeling for an eraser or a pencil?"
Lu Sinian's tone was calm, but his answer was so detailed that it was obvious that he was answering seriously. It was just that the words he chose were too realistic, which made people feel a little uncomfortable.
When he said this, he also turned around and looked at Ren Lu.
The couple looked at each other. Maybe it was because of the light reflected on his face, but Ren Lu actually saw some devotion in his eyes, which scared her so much that she shivered.
Fuck, what is this pervert trying to do?
Is it a new play? She is really scared.
He's about to die, so why not mess around with these things? This sudden change at the critical moment is as bad as pretending to be dead.
Lu Siyue couldn't help but shrink her neck when she heard it, and raised her hands to rub her arms. She seemed to be frightened and felt cold all over.
"Brother, you really are a black-hearted capitalist. What you said is so creepy." She curled her lips.
"If you don't like it, just listen less." Lu Sinian doesn't indulge her.
"Tsk, I want to listen more. It is because of cold-blooded men like you that we can see how precious those pure and passionate people are."
"For example, the yellow-haired guy who has nothing but likes to act pretentiously?" Lu Sinian mocked back.
This sentence instantly shut her up, but Lu Hui, who was standing beside her, was confused and asked, "What yellow-haired guy? Yueyue's new classmate?"
Her father's question made Lu Siyue even more panicked. She had still kept the fact of her elopement a secret from Lu Hui. If he knew about it, her campus life would probably be even more difficult.
"He's a new classmate. He helped Yueyue once by chance, and this girl said that he was a good person and more genuine than other classmates who only cared about studying. She even dragged her own brother into this matter." Jiang Xiu glanced at Lu Siyue soothingly. His words sounded like he was lecturing her, but in fact they were helping her to smooth things over.
"Si Yue has never suffered, so it's easy for her to misjudge people." Lu Hui casually taught her.
This sentence aroused Lu Siyue's rebellious psychology. She immediately retorted: "Dad, how can I not judge people clearly? You also struggled to rise from a poor boy. Don't despise the poor young man. When I heard your deeds of fighting back against those rich second-generation descendants, I was excited and admired you. How come now that you have become a rich man, you look down on children from poor families?"
Ren Lu looked at her hot-headed appearance and couldn't help but shake her head and sigh in her heart.
Young people are still too impatient.
Lu Hui gave her a lecture, but she just kept silent and moved on. However, this girl got very excited and gave him a long lecture in return, which must have touched Lu Hui's nerves.
A male protagonist like Lu Hui couldn't bear to hear his daughter's words. Besides, as a poor boy, he was happy to marry a beautiful, rich girl, but he was not happy that a poor boy was hooking up with his daughter, and he couldn't sympathize with her at all.
"I said one sentence and you said ten sentences back to me. You even kept raising your standards. It seems that you not only admire him, but also like him very much." Lu Hui narrowed his eyes, put down the teacup in his hand, and looked over with a serious look.
Lu Siyue's scalp suddenly went numb, and her blood ran cold. She whispered, "No, I'm just a little stressed. I feel like my classmates are ostracizing me. They're all bad people."
Lu Hui was silent for a moment, as if he was considering the tone of his reply.
If anyone else said this, he would have ignored it, but the girl in front of him was the apple of his eye. He couldn't say anything too harsh, but if he said anything too soft, he was afraid she wouldn't take it seriously enough, so he felt he couldn't do anything.
"Brother Hui, forget it. I'll talk to her later." Jiang Xiu didn't want to make the atmosphere so awkward, so she came out to dissuade him immediately.
"You don't even have time to feel sorry for her. You will just be led by her and won't be able to have a clear conversation." Lu Hui knew very well how his wife and daughter got along with each other, so he rejected it immediately.
Jiang Xiu opened her mouth to refute, but in the end she couldn't say a word. This was the fact and she couldn't stand it.
"Go on, Ren Lu hasn't rolled the dice yet." Lu Hui brought the game back.
Ren Lu withdrew her gaze reluctantly. She also wanted to see if the family of three could start a quarrel.
The dice spun around on the table and finally stopped at the number "2".
After seeing the result, Ren Lu couldn't help but curl her lips.
Although she had known for a long time that as an ordinary person, she would only be played as a toy when playing games with this group of male and female protagonists, but when the result was laid out in front of her, she still found it hard to accept.
Sooner or later, I will fight with this group of lucky men and women.
"Hehe, after playing around, you and Si Nian are the only ones who didn't get their numbers. It must be God's will." Old Madam Lu couldn't help but sneer.
"Yes, grandma, you are right. God says that Si Nian and I are truly a match made in heaven." Ren Lu raised her voice and replied in a clever manner.
This immediately earned a cold eye from the old lady.
"Dad, I choose dare."
Since Lu Hui was the king, Ren Lu chose the dare without hesitation. She didn't want to be forced to say sweet words anymore. Anyway, her father-in-law was embarrassed to ask her to do something outrageous.
"Let's continue with the topic that Si Yue and I didn't finish just now and confront her directly." Lu Hui didn't think for a second and raised his hand to point at the girl opposite him.
"Dad, this is her big adventure. Who are you going to punish?" Lu Siyue pouted and muttered unhappily, but did not dare to really resist.
"Actually, I quite understand Si Yue." Ren Lu smiled and spoke in a gentle tone.
Lu Siyue was startled, then quickly frowned again, looking at her warily: "Sister-in-law, don't try to suppress something first and then add a 'but' at the end. I won't listen."
Obviously, she had been tricked by Ren Lu's combo many times, so she understood her routine and would be on guard in advance.
Lu Siyue has the temper of a spoiled young lady and doesn't have any bad intentions, but she lives too freely and selfishly and doesn't care about other people's thoughts, so she occasionally offends Ren Lu.
Whenever this happened, Ren Lu would not get angry, but would comfort her with a smile, but in the end she would always get revenge and no one could find fault with her.
Over time, even though Lu Siyue was a little slow, she could feel how difficult her sister-in-law was to deal with.
This is a high-level trick, and Lu Siyue can't beat him.
"Si Yue, you're not wrong, what are you afraid of?" Ren Lu said with a smile.
"That's true. I'm a decent person. No matter what you say, it won't shake me." Lu Siyue straightened his chest and raised his chin, looking fearless.
The other members of the Lu family sighed in their hearts, or held their foreheads, or lowered their heads to drink tea.
The little girl was too inexperienced and fell into Ren Lu's trap after just two sentences.
"When I was a child, I bought a pencil case that I liked very much, but everyone around me thought it was ugly and of very poor quality. After I refuted it, they laughed at me even more. I didn't feel embarrassed at the time. I just thought these people were shit. Did they know what aesthetics was? As long as I think my pencil case is good, other people's judgments are irrelevant." Ren Lu's voice is very soft and her tone is very gentle, which makes it easy for people to listen to her.
Lu Siyue's attitude also changed from resistance to seriousness. It was obvious that she had listened to this little story. She nodded in agreement and said, "That's right. I decide what I like. I think he is a good classmate, and he is!"
Ren Lu smiled and looked at her without saying anything else. Instead, Lu Siyue curiously asked, "What happened next?"
"Then, during a final exam, the zipper of my pencil case got stuck and I couldn't open it no matter what I did. I got so anxious that I bit it with my teeth. I finally managed to open it, but I cut my finger and the pencil case was ruined, so I threw it in the trash."
"Ah? You just threw it away like that? You didn't ask anyone to repair it. You obviously liked it so much." Lu Siyue frowned, obviously finding it difficult to empathize.
Naturally, the eldest daughter of the Lu family would not be reluctant to part with a pencil case. She was just imagining things and thought of the pencil case as Jiang Yan.
She liked Jiang Yan so much that even though there were many new classmates in the class and some of them got along well with her, she still liked Jiang Yan.
"Because I'm angry."
"Angry that it hurt you?"
Ren Lu shook her head: "No, I was angry at their lack of fighting spirit. I thought those who laughed at me were blind to the truth, but it turns out that they were right. This pencil case is just of poor quality, and it was my love that added a filter to it."
After listening to her, Lu Siyue frowned and sneered: "Sister-in-law, you've been talking about this and that, but you're still talking about the same thing again. You just want to say that my classmate is not good. So what if he has poor grades and a poor family background? It's wrong to only judge by grades!"
She was so excited that her face even turned red.
Ren Lu immediately waved her hands, sighed softly, and said helplessly: "Si Yue, your Chinese reading comprehension must be very poor, right?"
"What? You're attacking me personally? My Chinese reading comprehension—"
Not only did Ren Lu not appease her, she also started to provoke her, which made Lu Siyue's defense even more broken. However, she got stuck again when it came to reading comprehension, and it was obvious that Ren Lu was right.
"Don't talk nonsense. What does this have to do with reading comprehension? It's just a story about elementary school students. Don't I understand it? You don't mean to dislike my classmate. What do you mean? Are you blaming the victim? Are you blaming him for being excluded because he is not good enough?"
Once Lu Siyue is involved in Jiang Yan's affairs, she turns into a debate master. She has a lot of little words to say, and they are all elevated to values, occupying the moral high ground, and no one is silent when she speaks.
If he admitted this, wouldn't it prove that Ren Lu's values were not correct? What a bad person he must be!
"Stop. Whether your classmates are good or not has nothing to do with me. It's not me who made him study poorly. Is the focus of the story just now on the pencil case? Of course not. The focus is on me. The pencil case can be replaced by any person or thing. When I like it, I can ignore other people's ridicule and treasure it. If I don't like it, I can throw it away at any time. I am the master of it."
"Si Yue is so amazing, with a straightforward personality, sticking to his own opinions and not being swayed by others. I guess he must be the dominant one in his interactions with his classmates, right? He will do whatever you ask him to do, instead of being ungrateful and even blaming you for meddling in his affairs even when you beg him. He will definitely not let himself be wronged and become his pendant, right?"
Ren Lu immediately stopped her from talking, and when she spoke the second half, she had a leisurely smile on her face and an encouraging look, as if she wanted to raise her hand to applaud her.
Lu Siyue originally had a lot of angry words to say, but when she heard her last few questions, she was suddenly stuck, as if she was cast under a spell, and she was stunned and unable to utter a word.
Some bad memories of school life came to her mind. After Jiang Yan transferred to the school and became her classmate, they did not have a beautiful scene of supporting each other and making progress together. Instead, there were all kinds of frictions and disputes. He was always so irritable and sensitive, and she spent most of the time trying to comfort him, but it didn't work, and it still ended in a bad mood.
The Lu family members looked at each other and understood the meaning of her silence.
Lu Hui secretly gritted his teeth and felt even more annoyed in his heart. This yellow-haired guy was so ungrateful that he even wanted his precious daughter to coax him. What kind of person is he!
Lu Siyue also became sensitive at this moment. She always felt that the gazes of her family members were sharp, so she immediately stiffened her neck and started to fight back.
"Sister-in-law, what's the point of you saying nice things? It doesn't apply to you and my brother. Can you just dump him?"
Although people outside say that her brother and sister-in-law are a model couple of wealthy families, she, as their younger sister, can still see clearly that in their relationship, Lu Sinian is definitely the dominant one.
"She can."
Before Ren Lu could say anything, the man next to her had already given the answer in a firm tone.
Lu Siyue glared: "Tsk, who doesn't tell lies? Brother, you said that just to hinder me. If that day really comes -"
The man suddenly knocked on the table hard, and a dull "bang" interrupted her words.
He raised his head and gave Lu Siyue a warning look.
"Put this curse on you and Huangmao, don't drag it onto us."
"You should know what kind of person I am. Do you think it's possible for me to lie to a high school student like you, Lu Siyue? Also, you know how good Huang Mao is, but you keep asking us to agree that he is a good person. Why is that? Are you insecure, or do you actually think he is not good and are just trying to convince yourself?"
Lu Sinian spoke in a cold voice and directly retorted sarcastically.
Lu Siyue immediately exploded, jumped up from her chair, and opened her mouth to refute.
The man ignored her, grabbed Ren Lu's hand and led her away from the dining table.
"The game is over, good night everyone."
"Brother, what do you mean by saying that! Come back!" Lu Siyue shouted from behind, but she didn't dare to chase him. After all, when brother was angry, his aura was too strong, and she wouldn't dare to do anything even if she chased him.
Neither the couple paid any attention to her shouting, and soon the only sound in their ears was the sound of the waves.
Ren Lu teased him: "I never thought that one day I would hear the words 'good family members' from Mr. Lu. It's quite magical."
The man didn't respond to the conversation, but changed the subject: "In the game just now, I didn't even become the champion once. Now there are only two of us left, do you want to join us?"
Ren Lu raised an eyebrow. She didn't expect that he cared so much about this game. He even wanted to play a round with her after it was over.
"It looks like Mr. Lu is waiting for me here."
"You didn't want to ask me anything?"
The two looked at each other, with a serious look in their eyes. Although they had smiles on their faces, the atmosphere had changed and neither of them was willing to give in.
"Yes, there's no need to roll the dice. Each person has three chances. Who goes first?"
"Lady first." He nodded.
Ren Lu didn't bother to be polite with him and asked directly: "You have been acting very abnormal recently. You even brought your whole family to the island for a trip. What is your purpose?"
"Mr. Lu, remember to tell the truth. My subsequent answers will be based on how truthful you are." She also reminded him.
"Because I found that good families seem to have secrets, and I want to dig them out." The man blinked and answered in a light tone.
Ren Lu's breathing paused, but soon returned to normal.
She never expected this to be the answer. What did Lu Sinian discover and what was he doubting?
"Mr. Lu is only focused on making money from projects, but I didn't expect that he would be curious about his family's little secrets." She joked in a nonchalant manner.
Lu Sinian snapped his fingers and corrected her: "Wrong, I also want to catch fish sometimes."
Ren Lu was stunned for a moment, confused by his mention of catching fish. Later she reacted and looked at him helplessly.
"You don't want to ask me what kind of fish I caught?" He brought it up on his own initiative.
"I only have three chances to ask questions, don't try to waste your fighting power."
“This is a free gift.”
Ren Lu sneered: "You are so generous. I know it without asking, it's Mei Renyu."
Lu Si smiled young and was in a good mood.
"Sure enough, no matter how much time has passed, Secretary Ren is still as much in my heart as when she first appeared."
Ren Lu didn't chat with him. She took a deep breath to make her mind clearer.
"Second question, what secret is worth Mr. Lu's concern?"
Lu Sinian shook his head: "Mrs. Lu, you have to be more precise. There are so many people in the family, and everyone has secrets. Who are you asking about?"
Ren Lu pursed her lips. For a moment she didn't know where to start. Her heart beat faster.
Did he realize something or was he just being mysterious?
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