Chapter 80: Xiao Haitang: I have money and I am willful!
Lu Zhinian looked at the long scroll on the ground, his face turning pale and pale with embarrassment.
Song Tangning said, "The Lu family is prominent and has no shortage of money. Mr. Lu is a gentleman of noble character and modest character. I'm sure you won't take advantage of a little girl like me who has no parents."
"The scattered 1,800 taels of silver and some small items I spent on the Lu family in the past are fine. Consider it all as paying for the medicine I paid for my blindness over the years. But Mr. Lu shouldn't deny his debt to these other things."
"Some of these things were left by my maternal grandfather and mother, and some I bought with money. No matter which one, I have accounts to check."
Lu Zhinian clenched his fists tightly, gritted his teeth at the woman who was humiliating him with these things, and said, "Song Tangning, you actually want to count these personal belongings with me?"
He was in disbelief and extremely humiliated, and he didn't understand why Song Tangning had become like this.
She had been so well-behaved and obedient before, and complied with him in everything, but now she was actually calculating these money-making things with him. Was she really crazy?
"Since it's just something outside of your body, why would Mr. Lu care about it?" Song Tangning raised an eyebrow: "Or is it that the Lu family can't afford to pay it back?"
"Song Tangning!"
Lu Zhinian scolded her angrily, thinking she was being unreasonable: "What do you think these are? What do you think of my Lu family? If you weren't engaged to me, if I didn't treat you as one of my own, why would my Lu family care about these foreign things entering the house..."
"Then you must return all these things without missing anything. If you miss one, it will be considered shameless of you, the Lu family!"
"you!"
Lu Zhinian was so angry that he almost fell over, his face extremely dark.
Song Tangning simply said to him, "My parents are dead, and the Song family has nothing to do with me. You nearly killed me for another woman in the mountains. You are heartless, ungrateful, and untrustworthy. The Lu family despises an orphan like me, and I don't want to cling to Mr. Lu. I just want you to return the things, and we'll be even."
"I have no parents, no relatives, no clan, and I fear no one. If you, Mr. Lu, cannot return all these things within three days, I will file a lawsuit against the Lu family in Jingzhao Prefecture, accusing them of defrauding the orphans of court officials and usurping the family property left by my grandfather and parents. I will then confront you, and I hope you don't mind the embarrassment."
Seeing Lu Zhinian's eyes were bloodshot and full of anger.
Still feeling it wasn't enough, she raised her lips and said coldly, "Oh, right, Secretary Lu is extremely powerful in the court, and Jingzhao Prefecture may not accept the case. But my brother is in charge of the Privy Council and is the eyes and ears of His Majesty. He loves this kind of injustice. And Madam Fu also said that if I'm bullied, I can go find her. I think Lord Cao and the officials of the Censorate will be happy to stand up for an orphan like me."
She took advantage of the power of others and her wealth to the extreme.
"I don't have anything else, but I have plenty of silver. I could also help a few poor students from Jingji Academy and give them a lot of silver. I think they would be happy to spread the good name of the Lu family."
"Song Tangning!!!"
Lu Zhinian clenched his fists tightly, and there was no trace of gentlemanly cultivation at all. He gasped as he glared at Song Tangning. His head was buzzing, and he felt that all the familiar people and things in the past were turned upside down.
She asked him for those things and wanted to ruin his and the Lu family's reputation. The person who was once so affectionate, suddenly became cold and heartless.
She really trampled the past feelings into dust.
Looking at his angry face that had completely lost its image, Song Tangning suddenly understood why Xiao Yan always liked to be so sharp-tongued and always made people choke when talking to others.
It turns out that there is no need to be hypocritical towards people who have enemies with her. As long as they are unhappy, she feels comfortable and happy.
"Guard Hang, escort Mr. Lu out and take the Lu family's belongings with him."
"yes."
After Hang Li called out, someone came in immediately, carrying something and escorting Lu Zhinian out. Seeing that he was about to struggle to speak, Hang Li quickly tore off a piece of Lu Zhinian's sleeve, rolled it up and stuffed it into his mouth.
Lu Zhinian choked back the words that were on the tip of his tongue. He wanted to struggle but couldn't, and was forcibly dragged out.
When he tried hard to look back into the hall, he saw the little girl with red marks on her face getting farther and farther away, so far away that he could not see the expression on her face, but the frost in her eyes seemed to still linger in his mind.
Until he was pushed down the steps in front of Tang Mansion and staggered to the ground.
Two rolls of things hit him directly in the face and rolled to the ground with his messy clothes.
"Mr. Lu, since your family looks down on my daughter and uses those shameless words to deceive her, my daughter doesn't need to cling to you. All the gifts your family has given to my daughter over the years have been returned to you. Please also return all the benefits your family has received from my daughter."
"If Mr. Lu doesn't return the items on the list within three days, even if there's only one item missing, I'll see you at Jingzhao Prefecture."
Hua Wu followed Hang Ling out and asked someone to carry a small box and place it in front of Lu Zhinian. After she finished saying what Tang Ning had told her to do, she looked at the crowd that had gathered outside and couldn't help but say something.
"Mr. Lu, my girl once devoted herself to you."
She has been with Song Tangning for many years and has witnessed with her own eyes how her girl changed from being under the dazzling sun and suppressing her temper to what she is now. The girl wanted to pour out her true heart and always put Lu Zhinian's affairs first.
But Lu Zhinian let her down.
Hua Wu said with disgust: "You don't deserve my girl's kindness to you."
Lu Zhinian sat on the ground with his clothes disheveled. In front of him were the things thrown out from the Tang Mansion. In the small box were some scattered small items, each of which was well preserved and as clean as if it had been wiped from time to time.
However, after so many years of engagement, all the things sent by the Lu family were just scattered in the box, not even half full, which looked extremely shabby.
Lu Zhinian only felt that the eyes of the people around him looked at him strangely, and the clothes that had been torn off earlier could no longer cover his back. He tore off the cloth that was stuffing his mouth, and his jade-white face turned red with shame and anger.
Song Mo, who was beside him, crawled over to support him and put his coat on Lu Zhinian: "My dear..."
Lu Zhinian gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go!"
"My dear!"
Seeing Lu Zhinian walking away quickly, Song Mo hurriedly followed him and left in a panic, leaving the box alone in front of the Tang Mansion.
The people around looked at each other in confusion, feeling that the scene before them was particularly familiar.
The old lady of the Song family was thrown out like this that day, and not long after, people from the Duke of Song's Mansion were imprisoned one after another.
Now even the young master of the Lu family was thrown out in disheveled clothes, along with a box that was said to contain the gifts that the Lu family had given to Miss Song over the years.
But the things in that box are a bit too shabby. Are they really a gift from the Lu family?
The Lu family is all show and no substance, and even though they are so "frugal", they are still really stingy. Even slightly wealthier families can't afford those things, let alone their relatives from aristocratic families?
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