Chapter 318 Lu Yin, how dare you say you are my cousin?
Tang Ning stayed in the academy for a long time and went to the library to get a few books. When he left the academy, it was already dark.
When leaving the academy and taking the bus back to Jiyun Lane, Tang Ning asked Hang Li to drive to Xijue Tower and buy some soft and easy-to-digest snacks. The last time he went to visit the Empress Dowager at the villa, he saw that she liked sweets. Although she couldn't eat too much due to her poor health, she should be able to satisfy her taste for sweets.
Tang Ning couldn't leave the city alone, for fear of revealing the Empress Dowager's whereabouts by following her, but he could ask Tianqing to go secretly later.
As Tang Ning got off the carriage with the snacks, he turned to Yue Jian and asked, "Is Ling Yin okay?"
Yue Jian naturally understood that she was not asking about Ling Yin. After a moment's hesitation, she whispered, "Everything is fine. Madam Qin has taken the medicine she prescribed earlier on time. The old lady is feeling much better now."
"Will anyone from the palace visit the Imperial Manor?"
Yue Jian suddenly looked up: "Girl..."
Tang Ning didn't ask before in the academy, and she thought she hadn't guessed it, but when the imperial farm was mentioned, Yue Jian understood that Tang Ning already knew the identity of the governor.
Otherwise, she would not know that the person in the villa on the outskirts of the city was the Empress Dowager who was supposed to be in the imperial villa.
Seeing Tang Ning looking at her quietly, Yue Jian hesitated for a moment before saying, "The Governor has left someone at the Imperial Manor. Even if someone goes to visit, they won't notice. Besides, no one paid attention to the old lady when she was in the palace. Now that she's out of the palace, no one will visit her."
Tang Ning whispered, "That's good."
Tang Ning walked towards the mansion, and Yue Jian hurriedly followed. She just called out "girl" and was about to speak when a black shadow suddenly rushed out from the distance.
The black shadow rushed straight towards the door, but before it could get close to Tang Ning, Yue Jian kicked it away with quick eyes and hands.
Yue Jian leaned forward to protect Tang Ning behind him: "Who dares to offend my county lady?!"
Hang Li, who had just parked the carriage, noticed something was wrong and walked over quickly. He went straight to the man and stretched out his hand to grab him.
"Stop hitting me!" the man shouted anxiously, holding his head.
Tang Ning was stunned: "Wait."
Hang Li then withdrew his hand, and Tang Ning took a few steps towards the man curled up on the ground, frowning and saying, "Xie Yin?"
"cousin……"
The person who fell to the ground curled up in pain. After hearing Tang Ning's voice, he let go of his hand and revealed a face covered in bruises and purple.
Unlike his usual high-spirited self, the young man's hair was disheveled, his washed-out clothes were covered in blood, his shoes were stained with dried mud, and he subconsciously curled up under his clothes.
I don’t know who beat him, but his originally handsome face was swollen beyond recognition and his skin looked dull and gray.
"Is it really you?"
Tang Ning hadn't heard from Xie Yin for a long time. She only knew that he was sent back to the Lu family and she never paid attention to his news again. Suddenly seeing Xie Yin here, no, it should be Lu Yin, she was quite surprised.
"Lu Yin, what are you doing here?"
"I……"
When he heard Tang Ning call him Xie Yin before, he was happy. But now that the surname has just been changed, Lu Yin looks embarrassed and can't help but shrink in his eyes.
"I, I want to see my mother..."
When Tang Ning heard Lu Yin's intention, her face turned cold. "Mother? Mr. Lu, perhaps you remembered it wrongly? Your mother should be at the Lu family. This is the Tang Mansion."
"Tang Ning!!"
Seeing Tang Ning's indifference, Lu Yin quickly stood up and wanted to grab her sleeve, but Yue Jian pushed him out.
He staggered, and before he could even stand, he hurriedly said to her, "I know my mother lives with you. She loved me the most in the past. I beg you to let me see her."
Lu Yin fell to his knees with a thud.
"What happened before was all my fault. I was unfilial and hurt Mother's heart, but I really know I was wrong. I heard that Mother was ill, and I am worried about her health. Please let me see Mother."
Seeing that Tang Ning just looked at him with her eyes downcast and remained unmoved, Lu Yin knelt in front of her.
"cousin……"
“That’s enough!”
Tang Ning took a half step back: "My last name is Rong, your last name is Lu, who is your cousin? Also, your mother is not here."
"Of course not, I know my mother is in your house, I just want to see her..."
"What do you want to see her for?"
Tang Ning originally didn't want to argue with Lu Yin, nor did she want to pay any attention to him, but seeing him pestering her, she couldn't help but get angry.
"Don't forget, you didn't want her as your mother a long time ago. Why are you still pestering me now? Do you want your aunt to remember how cruel and heartless you were in the past, or do you want her to remember how you helped Prince Cheng to plot against her life?"
“I…I’m not…”
Lu Yin's lips turned pale, and he whispered tremblingly: "I didn't, I just missed my mother..."
Tang Ning was simply amused by his words. Seeing that he didn't even dare to look at her while he was talking, she couldn't help but sneer.
"You miss your aunt? What do you miss about her?"
"Are you thinking about how she used to dote on you, and how obedient she was to you, or are you thinking about the splendor and dignity of being the Crown Prince of the City Palace? When you abandoned your aunt, you didn't consider the years of mother-son bond you shared with her. When you helped Prince Cheng plot her life, you didn't remember her illness. Now that you've become a homeless dog, you're thinking about her."
"Lu Yin, don't you think you're ridiculous?"
Tang Ning looked at the disheveled young man, who had suffered a great disaster. The once noble prince of the royal palace had now fallen into a state where he was bullied by everyone. Without the halo, he was just an ordinary person.
He should have understood that after that night, the "mother-son" relationship between him and Rong Yue would never be the same.
What gave him the illusion that made him dare to come to Jiyun Lane and call her "Mother" over and over again?
Tang Ning was too lazy to talk to him. She felt disgusted by saying anything more: "Send him back to the Lu family and let them take good care of their own people."
When Lu Yin heard the word "Lu family", his face suddenly changed.
"I won't go back. I won't go back to the Lu family. I don't want to go back..."
He was shaking all over and felt pain all over his body.
Ever since Prince Cheng was executed, he was sent back to the Lu family and changed his surname to Lu. The people of the Lu family regarded him as a thorn in their side and never considered him a member of the Lu family.
The day he first entered the Lu family, he was thrown into the most remote courtyard. Everyone looked at him with ridicule and contempt, calling him a bastard and saying that he had polluted the Lu family's bloodline.
Prince Cheng was executed, and the Lu family lost face. Rumors spread outside, mocking the Lu family for being cuckolded without knowing it, so the Lu family began to torture him in various ways.
They withheld his food and clothing, mocked and scolded him, and later beat him up, taking all the shame that Prince Cheng and Guan had brought to the Lu family upon him.
Since returning to the Lu family, there has been no good flesh on Lu Yin's body.
They teased him, humiliated him, and beat him to death every time. Last night, he was almost pushed into a well and lost his life.
He can't go back to the Lu family... He can't go back...
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