Chapter 124 Abandoned
"Father, you lied to me, didn't you? Tang Ning would never do this to me..."
"She wouldn't do this to you. Then what's going on outside? Do you think your grandfather and his family would joke about the Lu family's reputation and those treasures?!"
As Lu Zhao spoke, he saw Lu Zhinian's eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like he had been hit hard. He couldn't help but frown and said, "Don't tell me you still have thoughts about that Song girl?"
Lu Zhinian rasped, "Father, there was a misunderstanding between Tang Ning and me. She just misunderstood me. I hurt her heart in the mountains, so she treated us like this. As long as I apologize to her sincerely, as long as I admit my mistakes to her, she will forgive me..."
Bang!!
Lu Zhao couldn't help but slap him again: "Lu Zhinian, are you crazy?!"
The Song family girl had gone to such lengths, and he actually thought he could make peace with her?!
"When you were engaged to her, you didn't try to maintain your relationship with her and coax her more. Now that things have gotten this bad, you're still thinking about reconciling with her?"
If he had this intention earlier, why would the incident with the mountain have happened, and why would the Lu family fall into such a predicament? !
Lu Zhao just thought Lu Zhinian’s words were ridiculous. The matter of the mountain was fine, and he could be said to have been careless for a moment, but what about the half box of things that were moved back to the Lu family from Jiyun Lane?
After several years of engagement and a few odds and ends, they toured the streets of Beijing beating drums and gongs.
Who doesn’t know that the Lu family treats Song Tangning harshly?
That half box of things almost brought shame to the entire Lu family.
In the past, he didn't know how to maintain the relationship and coax the Song girl, but now he knows how to compromise and ask for her to come back. Lu Zhao just felt that his son made him angry because he didn't fight for it. "I tell you, the Lu family will never let the Song girl enter the mansion again!"
"Father……"
Lu Zhinian opened his mouth to defend himself, but Lu Zhao interrupted him flatly:
"You'd better give up on that Song girl. She hates the Lu family with all her heart and has no feelings for you. Do you know what else she wants besides half of the collection? She wants you to kneel in front of the Tang Mansion in Jiyun Lane for three days and tell the world that it's you who betrayed her and has no face to renew the engagement. It's my Lu family who owes her!"
Lu Zhinian looked up in disbelief: "No..."
How could Tang Ning treat him like this?
Seeing that he refused to believe it, Lu Rong sat aside and whispered, "Master, what you said is true, Sanlangjun. That Miss Song is already the Princess of Yiyang County. She has no feelings for you at all. She said these words herself. She is not only humiliating you, but also humiliating the entire Lu family."
"When I left the house with my master today, she and Xiao Yan brought most of the court officials into our house and asked Cao Dejiang and others to choose a book for her. The news of your breaking off the engagement with her is known throughout the capital, and the promises made by the Lu family are probably also known to everyone. If she still cared about you at all, she wouldn't have forced you to this point..."
Lu Zhinian’s vision went dark, and he was clinging to the wall of the car, staggering.
He had long anticipated that Song Tangning would break off the engagement. He could also imagine that the mansion would be unwilling to accept her into the family after she had such a quarrel with the Lu family. He even thought about how to convince his grandfather and others, and how to persuade Tangning to keep quiet.
As long as Tang Ning is willing to give in, he will definitely treat her well and keep her in his heart. He will treat her with the same sincerity as she used to treat him. As long as she can forgive him, he will never treat her like in the "dream", and they will definitely be able to grow old together and spend their lives together...
But Song Tangning actually wanted him to kneel in front of the Tang Mansion and personally admit that he had betrayed her.
How can this be? !
"Father, Grandfather didn't agree to her, right?" Lu Zhinian trembled, "You didn't agree to her, did you?!"
He is the legitimate son of the Lu family, the future head of the Lu family, and the grandson his grandfather values most.
How could he kneel down to a woman?
How could I kneel down in front of Jiyun Lane in front of the whole world and admit my heartlessness?!
Seeing his pale face and eagerness to verify, Lu Zhao steadied his jaw and avoided his gaze. "Sanlang, your grandfather and I are helpless. Song Tangning is under Xiao Yan's protection and is working together with that eunuch to push us forward. If we don't agree to their request, the Lu family will become a target of public criticism."
Lu Zhinian was trembling all over, staring intently at Lu Zhao who was looking away with his eyes downcast: "So you are giving up on me?"
"I'm not sacrificing you, it's just a temporary solution. The family's interests are paramount..."
“That’s enough!”
Lu Zhinian suddenly shouted, his eyes red and his expression ferocious.
Family interests come first, so they agreed to let him kneel before Song Tangning?
For the sake of the Lu family's future, they abandoned him, a descendant of the Lu family with a damaged reputation, leaving him to be ridiculed by the world, watching his reputation ruined and his future bleak. Just to save the Lu family and their own face, they abandoned him without hesitation?!
Lu Zhinian's eyes became more and more bloodshot, and his mottled palms were bleeding.
He suddenly remembered Song Jinxiu's previous sneer, and the sarcastic look in his eyes when he was silent, and he couldn't help but feel cold all over.
It turned out that it was not that Song Jinxiu was down and out and arrogant, but that he could not see clearly that as early as the day he was imprisoned, he was no longer the third son of the Lu family, but he still thought that there was any difference between him and Song Jinxiu.
Lu Zhao felt that Lu Zhinian's gaze on him made his hair stand on end. He whispered, "Sanlang, don't be like this. These are just temporary expedients."
"Don't worry, it's just a kneeling. Once the matter with the Song family is settled, you can temporarily leave the capital. Your grandfather will arrange for you to serve as an official elsewhere. When you return after accumulating political achievements for a few years, the capital will have changed a lot and no one will remember your reckless behavior in your youth."
"What about the Lu family?" Lu Zhinian asked coldly.
Lu Zhao's face froze.
Lu Zhinian said with a mocking expression, "Once I leave the capital, I will have no chance of becoming the head of the family. Grandfather, do you favor my eldest brother, or my fourth and fifth brothers?"
"Sanlang..." Lu Zhao looked a little flustered when asked.
Lu Zhinian looked at him steadily. "My eldest brother is my great-uncle's grandson. Because that lineage had difficulty in raising children and my great-uncle passed away early, he has been raised in our branch. Although my grandfather values him, he will never let the power of the head of the family fall into the hands of others. Second brother is a bastard, and that is even more impossible."
"My fourth brother is my second uncle's son. He's young, impulsive, and unreasonable. My father probably didn't want him to inherit the Lu family and give up the interests of the eldest branch. So it's my fifth brother. Did my father and grandfather choose my fifth brother over me?"
He was his biological brother from the same mother, the eldest son of the family. Although he was young, he had always been loved by his father.
If it were him, his father would probably agree.
Lu Zhao's thoughts were exposed, his face trembled, and he became angry and embarrassed: "Lu Zhinian, I am your father."
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