Chapter 319 Lu Yin bursts into tears
When Lu Yin thought of everything about the Lu family, his eyes were filled with fear, and he couldn't hide the trembling in his voice when it became sharp.
"I don't want to go back. I won't go back to the Lu family. They will kill me if I go back..."
"Tang Ning, Tang Ning, please don't send me back. I beg you, I know I was wrong... Cousin, I know I was wrong... I beg you to save me..."
He knelt on the ground and reached out to grab Tang Ning's sleeve as if he was grabbing a life-saving straw.
"I, I can't go back to the Lu family, I can't go back..."
Tang Ning looked at Lu Yin, who was crying bitterly, and frowned and said, "You said that the Lu family wanted to kill you?"
Lu Yin said anxiously, "Really? They wanted to kill me." He rolled up his sleeves, revealing the mottled scars. "They beat me every day and tortured me in every way they could. Last night they almost pushed me into a well. If I had fallen in, I would have died there."
"Tang Ning, I carried you on my back when we were little. I also took you on horseback rides. You called me cousin. Even for the sake of our past friendship, please save me."
He cried miserably, grabbed Tang Ning's sleeve tightly and begged in a low voice.
Seeing Tang Ning being pulled sideways, Yue Jian wanted to kick him away, but Lu Yin still refused to let go when he fell to the ground.
Yue Jian's face turned cold and she wanted to step on his claws to break them, but was stopped by Tang Ning. She lowered her eyes and looked at Lu Yin who was lying on the ground and pulling her sleeves red, and her face was complicated for a moment.
Once upon a time, she had begged the boy like this, begging him to call her "cousin" and asking him to save her because of their childhood friendship. She cried again and again, saying that she had not done it, hoping to ask for a little mercy from him, but in the end, she was only met with cold words and ridicule. This extremely pitiful boy in front of her even pushed her into the abyss of hell with his own hands.
——Don’t call me cousin, it disgusts me!
——Song Tangning, look at how ugly you are now, why don’t you just die! !
Tang Ning originally wanted to send Lu Yin directly back to the Lu family, but seeing his current appearance, she suddenly changed her mind. She waved her hand to let Yue Jian step back, then squatted down to face Lu Yin.
"Cousin, it's not that I don't remember the past."
"cousin…"
Lu Yin suddenly looked up, his tearful face full of surprise.
There was a lantern hanging above the girl's head, and when the light and shadow fell on her face, her brows softened as if she was remembering the past.
"I'm not a cold-hearted person, so how could I really forget the past family ties?"
"I still remember when you protected me from fights when we were little. I remember you and my brother taking me fishing and horseback riding. Every time we got into trouble, you would beg me pitifully to cover up for you and your aunt."
"You used to be the most filial to my aunt. Whenever you picked wild fruits, you would remember to give her a portion. You also said that even after I got married, you would always protect me."
"I always thought you were the best cousin in the world, and my aunt was proud of you. But why did you treat my aunt like that before? Why did you treat me like that?"
"You nearly killed my aunt and me."
If Tang Ning had asked him harshly, Lu Yin might not have felt bad, but when she spoke so softly and looked at him with sadness in her eyes, Lu Yin wanted to bury his head in the ground.
"I was wrong. I really know I was wrong. I didn't mean to harm Mother, and I didn't mean to harm you..."
That night, he didn't know that his father wanted to kill his mother. He thought his mother had really killed the old concubine. When he learned the truth, he was terrified.
Those crossbow arrows were life-threatening. His father was so cruel, and he was just trying to save his own life...
"It was Father... He lied to me, he lied to me..."
"Tang Ning, I know I was wrong. Can you please forgive me for once? I won't dare to do it again..."
Tang Ning frowned slightly: "Cousin, you hurt me."
Lu Yin quickly let go of his hand and cried, "I, I didn't mean it..."
"I know my cousin didn't mean it. He's just scared, right?"
The girl took a handkerchief and wiped the stains off his face.
"Don't be afraid, cousin. You didn't hurt me."
Facing the girl in front of him who hadn't spoken in a long time, he watched her gently rubbing and wiping his face, and said with full trust that he would not hurt her.
Guilt surged in his heart like a tide, and he suddenly remembered that when Tang Ning was a child, she was sick for a while and didn't want anyone else. Only when he and Song Jinxiu went there, would the little girl smile softly.
She would always grab the corner of his clothes and call him cousin, share sweet cakes with him, and happily play with him everywhere. But when she grew up, she became well-behaved and sensible, and no longer liked to play with him.
He was tired of the fact that she only talked about Lu Zhinian, and hated the fact that she talked about rules everywhere, which made her dull and unpleasant.
He began to get impatient with her calling him "cousin" over and over again, and felt that she was unpleasant in every way. However, he forgot that every time he got into trouble, his cousin would still be the first to help him beg for mercy from his mother...
Lu Yin suddenly burst into tears, covering his face with his hands in panic, not daring to look at Tang Ning.
Tang Ning listened to his wailing and whispered sadly, "I know my cousin is in a difficult situation. You must be having a hard time at the Lu family if you come to me. But you know my relationship with the Lu family. If I leave you in Jiyun Lane, how will the Lu family let it go after they find out?"
"They just attacked me and nearly killed me. My aunt and I are both weak women. If that happens, not only will we be unable to help my cousin, we might even lose our lives."
"Cousin, I want to help you, but..."
The girl's voice choked with sobs. Lu Yin looked up hurriedly and saw her biting her lips lightly, her eyes red with guilt.
Although Lu Yin had a hard time after returning to the Lu family, he was not completely ignorant of the news outside. He knew that the Lu family had attacked Tang Ning and almost killed the emperor. The Lu family was blamed for this and Lu Chongyuan was demoted.
In the past few days, when the young nephews and nieces of the Lu family attacked him, they cursed and were full of anger, and many of the dirty words were directed at Tang Ning.
Tang Ning did not lie to him.
"It's all my fault. If I were stronger, I could protect my cousin." Tang Ning's eyes were red.
Looking at her sad expression, Lu Yin suddenly felt that he had committed a heinous crime.
"No, it's me. I didn't care about you." He whispered, "I... I'm sorry..."
"Don't blame my cousin, it's the Lu family who's bullying us too much."
Tang Ning frowned slightly. "The matter between Prince Cheng and the Lu family has nothing to do with my cousin. If it weren't for Prince Cheng's cruelty, my cousin would have been a member of an aristocratic family by now, just like Lu Zhinian back then, with a status not much lower than that of a prince. But now, my cousin is clearly of the Lu family's bloodline, yet he is being bullied like this."
"Even if Prince Cheng and Guan were having an affair, my cousin is innocent. Even when His Majesty was investigating the palace, he didn't implicate my cousin and only sent you back to the Lu family. Even if Lu Chongyuan and the others didn't like you, why would they make things so difficult for you?"
"Cousin, didn't your father and mother help you?"
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