Chapter 417 The Man Who Wants to Die
The scene of the mother and daughter meeting in Rongshou Hall was truly earth-shattering.
"Yuxiu--!"
As soon as Mrs. Lu saw her daughter step over the threshold, she burst into tears and clutched Lu Yuxiu's sleeves tightly with her dry hands, as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw.
Her wrinkled face was covered with tears, and even her carefully combed hair was disheveled, making her look like a mad woman in the market.
"My dearest! You are finally back!" Old Madam Lu beat her chest and stamped her feet, her voice hoarse as if it had been rubbed by sandpaper, "If you don't come back, I will be driven to death by these unfilial descendants!"
Lu Yuxiu was so frightened by her mother's appearance that she took a step back and then became furious.
She helped the old lady sit down, took out her embroidered handkerchief to wipe her tears, but saw that the handkerchief was soaked with tears in an instant.
"Your eldest brother is a soft-hearted person. He only listens to Wang Min."
The old lady slammed the table so hard that the teacups jingled and clanged. "I told you not to marry a woman from such a small family. She can even instigate a good man. She doesn't even care about me as her mother."
"I wrote a letter to your eldest brother a while ago, saying that Wang was disobedient and unfilial, but he didn't believe it at all."
She gnashed her teeth, digging her skinny fingers into her daughter's flesh, "I've been sick for so long, and your sister-in-law never came to my bedside to take care of me!"
Lu Yuxiu took a breath and said, "How dare you do this, big brother?"
"And Wang Min, she's going too far."
"And Lu Bai!"
The old lady suddenly pulled open her collar and said, "He has changed too. Your second brother used to be the most filial, but now he doesn't listen to me at all. My daughter, you don't know how much pain your mother feels."
She didn't mention a word about her own mischief, but she described the complaint vividly.
The most exciting part is the accusation against Lu Jiangnian and his wife.
"After that little bastard married Yuan, he became even more lawless!"
The old lady still convulsed when she thought of the rat that jumped on her face that day. "You don't know how treacherous they were. They actually caught a nest of rats and put them in Rongshou Hall to scare me. I was sick for several days."
"Yuxiu, if you don't come back, I don't know if I will ever live to see you again."
Lu Yuxiu was so angry that she was shaking all over: "This is outrageous!"
She had thought that her mother was living a carefree life as a noblewoman in the capital, but she had never expected that things in the family were now in such a mess.
"That Yuanshi is a monster!"
The old lady lowered her voice mysteriously, "Be careful, don't provoke her, otherwise..."
Lu Yuxiu stood up suddenly, her pearl hairpins trembling: "Mother, you are afraid of her, but I am not."
Coincidentally, when Wang Min and Zhou Fang hurriedly arrived, they were greeted with a barrage of angry curses.
"What kind sisters-in-law are you!" Lu Yuxiu circled around them in a sarcastic tone, her nails almost poking Wang Min's nose. "How can you sleep well at night after you treated my mother like this?"
Just as Zhou Fang was about to explain herself, she was interrupted by her: "Second sister-in-law has changed now. My mother treats you well, how can you be so heartless?"
Wang Min frowned. She knew without thinking that Madam Lu had complained to her sister-in-law.
"Sister Yuxiu, there are some things that we cannot just listen to the old lady's one-sided words."
Lu Yuxiu sneered: "If I don't listen to my mother, will I listen to you?"
"Sister-in-law, ever since you entered the Lu family, you have been alienating my mother and my eldest brother. You have to be so awkward about such a small matter as taking a concubine. It's really not presentable."
Wang Min took a deep breath. She was not a softie.
"Yuxiu, I respect you as a guest and I'm trying to persuade you with kind words, but you have to understand that this is the residence of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, and I'm the mistress of the residence. If you piss me off, I'll have to send you away."
Zhou Fang looked at her sister-in-law in surprise. She didn't expect her sister-in-law to be so tough.
Wang Min sneered. Madam Lu was a narrow-minded person. No matter how good she was to her, she would never be able to keep her warm. Why bother making herself unhappy?
These are also what she learned from her daughter-in-law in the past year.
Sure enough, it’s very comfortable.
Lu Yuxiu didn't expect that Wang Min would dare to say that.
She was so angry that she raised her hand to hit Wang Min, but how could Wang Min let her hit her? She grabbed her hand and shook it off.
"Old Madam, I advise you to persuade Yuxiu, otherwise it will be embarrassing if you are kicked out."
"you……"
Madam Lu was so exhausted that her face turned pale.
"Wang Min, Yuxiu is going back to her parents' home, do you dare to chase her away?"
Wang Min snorted coldly: "This is my home. Why should I stay with someone who makes me unhappy?"
Zhou Jianming saw that the situation was not right, so he immediately jumped out and said humbly, "Aunt, Second Aunt, we have come from afar, and when we first saw grandma, we burst into tears. My mother was also worried."
"We are all relatives, one family, why make such a fuss?"
Wang Min didn't have to chase the person away. Since someone gave her a way out, she just went along with it.
"Sister Yuxiu, if you have something to say, sit down and talk slowly."
Lu Yuxiu hasn't reacted yet. Although Wang Min didn't always obey her in the past, she never dared to refute her like this.
No wonder my mother said that I couldn’t stay in this house anymore. It turns out that Wang Min is so arrogant now.
Just thinking,
"The Crown Prince's wife has arrived—"
Following the maid's message, the pearl curtain swayed slightly, and Yuan Wanru walked in gracefully in a Tianshui blue silk dress.
She wore only a white magnolia hairpin in her hair, but it made all the jewels and jade in the room pale in comparison.
The teacup in Zhou Jianming's hand slammed onto the table with a clang.
He stared straight at Yuan Wanru, from her slender waist to the snow-white skin faintly visible at the neckline, and his Adam's apple rolled unconsciously.
He had harmed dozens of girls in his hometown, if not hundreds, but had never seen one as stunningly beautiful as her - especially her eyes, which were as cold as frost, but with the corners of her eyes slightly upturned, which made people feel itchy.
"This is my cousin's wife, right?"
Zhou Jianming quickly unfolded his folding fan, stood up and saluted in a casual manner, "I have heard that my cousin's wife is a fairy-like beauty, and today I see that she is indeed..."
"What?" Yuan Wanru raised her red lips slightly, but her eyes were frozen, "Cousin, you don't want these eyes anymore?"
Yuan Wanru came dressed up on purpose, and it turned out that a dog will never stop eating shit.
Lu Yuxiu slammed the table and said, "Yuanshi! What's your attitude?"
"Aunt, please calm down."
Yuan Wanru stroked her sleeves slowly and said, "I'm just curious, does my cousin stare at unmarried girls like this in his hometown?"
She suddenly covered her lips and chuckled, "It's really rare for him to be alive today."
"However, I would like to advise my cousin that the capital is not like your countryside. If your eyes see someone you shouldn't see, you will die."
The latter sentence sounded a bit cold.
"You!" Zhou Jianming's face turned pale, and the folding fan in his hand broke with a "crack".
Yuan Wanru turned to the old lady. She deliberately looked Madam Lu up and down, and said arrogantly: "It seems that your aunt is different now. You look like you have taken an elixir."
Madam Lu said unhappily, “Are you disappointed that I wasn’t scared to death by your rats?”
Yuan Wanru covered her mouth exaggeratedly: "How can this be explained? Didn't those mice go to Rongshou Hall because they liked the old lady?"
"I heard that your gold ring was stolen by a rat. I think those rats may have taken a fancy to your body. You'd better hide it well and don't let the rats come to steal your things again."
Lu Yuxiu was so angry that her face turned pale: "What an arrogant wife of the prince, you still don't have elders in your eyes?"
"Sister-in-law, is this how you taught her?"
Wang Min said calmly: "My daughter-in-law is the best in the world. She is good in every way and does not need any instruction at all."
Yuan Wanru laughed so hard that her body shook. "Yes, aunt, you don't know that I have always been loved by everyone. If others don't like me, it must be her problem."
"That's enough!" The old lady was so angry that she was shaking all over. "Yuanshi, get out of here."
"Don't worry, old lady."
Yuan Wanru poured a cup of tea and handed it to him, "You are old, what if you get angry and make yourself sick?"
The teacup was shaken in front of the old lady. "I just want to say something ugly. I have always been vindictive. If you want to live a peaceful life in the mansion, you'd better not mess with me."
After saying that, she turned around leisurely.
"Let's not disturb the old lady and aunt's reunion. Mother, Second Aunt, let's all go."
Wang Min and Zhou Fang didn't want to stay and bore themselves, and all of a sudden, only Mrs. Lu and Lu Yuxiu and her son were left in the room.
Zhou Jianming squeezed the folding fan in his hand. This mansion was completely different from what he had imagined.
Also, that arrogant cousin's wife is really unbearable.
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