"Husband, I'm here to see you..."
Lu Man closed her eyes tremblingly, drew out the sword her husband had given her, and slashed it across her neck.
At this critical moment, Shen Yong, who had just stepped into the yard, threw the broken stones in his hand directly at the sword.
“clang!”
The sharp sword broke directly in the middle.
"Bang!"
Lu Man's knuckles were stung by the shock, and the broken sword in her hand fell directly to the ground.
She stared blankly at the broken sword on the ground, her eyes instantly turning red.
"who!"
"Get out here!"
This was the token of love her husband gave her, and it was destroyed just like that.
Chen Yong, who was running excitedly to the living room, paused and looked up to see his second sister-in-law glaring at him with an angry face.
The third sister-in-law, who was wearing a goose yellow corset dress, had an awe-inspiring air when she glared at him.
"Seventh brother!?"
After Lu Man saw Chen Yong clearly, she quickly looked away.
"Whoever did this, get out!"
Just after she finished shouting this, she remembered that her seventh brother was in a coma.
Lu Man widened her eyes and looked at Chen Yong again in shock.
"Seventh brother, are you awake? Your injury...?"
Oh no, could it be that Seventh Brother is having a last burst of energy?
When a person is dying, he will suddenly become energetic and no longer feel any pain in his body.
Lu Man just frowned and then remembered that she was going to commit suicide too. It would be nice for everyone to die together.
My seventh brother is so badly injured that he probably won’t live for many days. Since he can’t survive anyway, it would be less suffering if he died sooner.
"Third sister-in-law, it's me."
Chen Yong pulled the corner of his lips, stepped into the living room, walked to Lu Man's side, glanced at the broken sword on the ground,
"Is Third Sister-in-law going to commit suicide?"
Lu Man pursed her lips, squatted down and picked up the broken sword on the ground.
"It was such a good sword, I don't know which bastard broke it..."
The person who could have saved her was most likely one of her husband's close friends who saved her by chance.
Chen Yong rubbed his nose awkwardly. "Third sister-in-law, I've always admired you as a heroine. Why are you committing suicide now? This doesn't seem like the Third sister-in-law I know."
Lu Man gently placed the broken sword on the table and gave Chen Yong a blank look.
"Do you think that suicide is something that everyone dares to do? Even if I gave you a sword, you wouldn't have the guts to slit your own throat."
Lu Man glanced at Chen Yong's blood-stained back and sighed heavily.
It turned out that the seventh brother had a last burst of vitality. He had been a coward all his life, and he died in a cowardly way too.
If I had known this would happen, my parents would have sent my seventh brother to be trained by a hermit master. At least he could live a carefree life and still be alive.
Now the whole palace was wiped out by the emperor.
"Why would you want to slit your throat if you can still live? Who knows who will win until the last moment."
Chen Yong chuckled and sat down opposite Lu Man.
"Don't you want to give it a try, Sister-in-law? Are you willing to fulfill the tyrant's wish?"
Lu Man looked at Chen Yong sitting down with a wound on his butt, and she grimaced.
She raised her eyelids and looked at Chen Yong's calm face, feeling even more sad.
Her seventh brother, a dying man, still had the heart to persuade her to live, and she wanted to live.
Once the shackles were put on her on the road to exile, she had no control over her own actions.
"Oh!" Lu Man sneered. "How can you fight? Dying on the road to exile, dying at the hands of the escort, is that what you call fighting?"
"When you are no longer in control of your own life, it will be a luxury to expect to die so quickly and easily."
"Women like us don't live for ourselves. If our families abandon us and our husbands leave us, living on would only bring shame to them. It's better to die cleanly."
Chen Yong frowned, looked at Lu Man's downcast brows, and reached out to grab the hilt of the sword in front of her.
Lu Man looked up in astonishment at the half-broken sword in Chen Yong's hand, "Seventh brother, you---you should go see mother first."
There is no point in my seventh brother committing suicide. He is already in his last moments and doesn't have much time left.
While he can still speak and walk, he might as well go and talk to his mother more.
Shen Yong snorted coldly, narrowed his eyes slightly, and exerted a little force with his hand, and the hilt of the sword was instantly crushed in his hand.
Lu Man widened her eyes and looked at the powder falling from Chen Yong's hand in shock.
"Seventh brother----you---"
Your last burst of energy this time is quite impressive. Lu Man didn’t dare to say the rest of the sentence.
It is said that people who are in the stage of terminal lucidity cannot be reminded, because if they are reminded, they will be gone in one breath.
Mother hasn’t seen Seventh Brother wake up yet, and can’t let him go like this.
"Third sister-in-law, have you seen my ability?"
Chen Yong looked at Lu Man's shocked eyes, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.
"I received guidance from an expert. My dandy behavior was just a disguise. Otherwise, Emperor Tianwu would have destroyed me long ago if he knew."
Lu Man nodded with a twitching mouth, "Yeah, Seventh Brother is really amazing."
If she hadn't seen Chen Yong being blocked in the alley and beaten black and blue, she would have believed Chen Yong's lies.
Besides, even if Seventh Brother was pretending before, what’s the point of not pretending now?
There was a lack of food and water during the exile, and the guards beat him from time to time, so he would not survive.
Not long ago, reports of drought came from the northwest and northeast regions, and it hadn't rained in the south for a month. The combination of famine and exile, such a harsh environment, made it impossible for them to have any hope of survival.
"It's good that Third Sister-in-law knows. Let's go and see Mother and Fourth Sister-in-law, Fifth Sister-in-law, and Sixth Sister-in-law."
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