Chapter 140 Truth 7-I want to split the family
"What should we do? Lu Jingchen just told us to move out now!" He Shanshan asked hurriedly after Wang Mingfang finished speaking.
She didn't want to move out. The conditions of the He family were much worse than those of the Lu family. Her cousins were not as well-mannered as Xia Qingxi and Yao Hongmei. They were very foul-mouthed and their insults were as nasty as they could be.
"We live in your brother's house, not Lu Jingchen's house. If he asks us to move, should we move?" Although Wang Mingfang said this, she still felt a little uneasy in her heart, especially after she saw Lu Jingchen hit someone. She paused for a moment, found a step for herself, and continued:
"Anyway, he is leaving. At most, we can move out for a week and move back after he leaves. He has joined the army, so how can he stretch his hands?"
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Lu Baichuan came back very late as usual in the evening. There were too many things to do in the institute recently, and he was old, so he often felt overwhelmed.
As soon as he came home, Wang Mingfang immediately asked her son Lu Lidong to go to his room.
With his face red and bruised, Lu Lidong told Lu Baichuan in tears about his brotherly love with Lu Jingchen. He also said that Lu Jingchen did not trust him and believed the rumors, insisting that he had planned what happened between him and Xia Qingchen four years ago. He also said that no matter how Lu Jingchen attacked him, this matter was over and they were still a family.
Lu Baichuan frowned and listened, saying nothing and not expressing his opinion at all.
At this time, Lu Jingchen knocked on the door and walked in. When he saw Lu Lidong in Lu Baichuan's room, he was not surprised at all.
"Jingchen, your brother said you hit him?" Lu Baichuan looked at Lu Jingchen and asked.
"Yes! I did." Lu Jingchen's eyes did not evade at all, and he admitted it quite readily.
"Tell me what happened between you and Qingxiang four years ago?" Lu Baichuan asked in a calm voice.
Lu Jingchen did not want to hide it, nor did he feel embarrassed. This matter should have been fair to Xia Qingxiang, so he calmly told the whole story.
Including how Lu Lidong was ungrateful and wanted to break off the engagement, how Wang Mingfang designed to frame them, and how Xia Qingxiang was wronged, he told everything in detail.
"It's not like that, Dad. You have to believe Mom and me. This was all the idea of that stinky girl Xia Qinggui." Lu Lidong quickly said cunningly,
"That stinky girl has liked the second brother since she was a child. She didn't want to marry me, so she took the initiative to climb into the second brother's bed. Everyone in the yard knows about this! So many years have passed, and now she wants to slander Mom and me."
At this point, Lu Lidong suddenly remembered what his mother Wang Mingfang said, looked at Lu Jingzhe, and said confidently:
"Second brother, you must provide evidence for everything you say and do. If you can provide evidence to prove that we did it, I will let you deal with it."
Lu Jingchen glanced at him, as if he had expected him to say so. He did not rush to argue. He just took out a piece of paper from his pocket and put it on the table expressionlessly.
Lu Lidong looked at the paper suspiciously, not understanding what it was. After a while, Lu Jingchen said coldly with a gloomy face:
"This is a report letter."
Hearing the three words "report letter", Lu Lidong stood there in a daze, his brain did not react for a while.
"I will send it to the police station tomorrow. We will know whether you did it or not after checking." Lu Jingchen said slowly with a cold face.
"Check, what?" Lu Lidong asked guiltily.
"Check when you and my sister-in-law met, when you were together, check if there was any record of Wang Mingfang's visit to the hospital on the night you were called away, and check if there was any record of you buying sleeping pills."
Lu Lidong's face turned pale. He thought they had done it perfectly at the time, but after Lu's shocking words, he realized there were so many flaws. In a hurry, he waved his hands repeatedly and said:
"No, don't send him to the police station, don't check, don't check."
Lu Baichuan looked at the panicked Lu Lidong with a frown. Ever since Lu Lidong came to him with a bruised face and told Lu Jingchen what happened four years ago, he had already made up his mind. How could he not know what kind of temperament his two sons have?
"Why don't you check? What are you afraid of?" Lu Baichuan stared at Lu Lidong, raised his voice and questioned.
Lu Lidong was not as cunning and cunning as Wang Mingfang. He was completely panicked now, fearing that Lu Jingchen would really hand over the report. You have to know that in that era, soldiers were given special protection. Once the report was handed in, it would not be a simple family dispute, and he would most likely be sentenced.
He no longer had the courage to ask Lu Jingchen to produce evidence. He suddenly knelt down with a thud, and began to beg for
mercy by pulling Lu Baichuan's sleeve with tears in his eyes: "Dad, I don't want to go to jail. Please say something good for me and persuade the second son not to report the crime."
Looking at his good-for-nothing eldest son, who was crying bitterly with a swollen face and no image, Lu Baichuan felt extremely angry and had no intention of shielding him. He scolded him:
"A man's knees are made of gold. How can you cry and kneel like that? Lu Lidong, you are a man. If you do something wrong, you must take responsibility. No one can help you." After that, he looked at Lu Jingchen and made his attitude very clear:
"Jingchen, you make your own decision on this matter. You don't have to consider my face and the face of the Lu family."
Lu Baichuan's character is like this. He is both polite and honest, and fair and strict. It was because of this character that he was able to tolerate Lu Lidong's filial piety to
Wang Mingfang. Even though he has experienced many injustices in his life, he has not changed his original intention. Hearing Lu Baichuan say this, knowing that it is useless to beg him, Lu Lidong turned around and grabbed Lu Jingchen again, begging with tears:
"Second brother, please let me go this time, brother, please, aren't you and Xia Qingxiang living well now? Let's just pretend that this matter never happened, okay?"
"Pretend it didn't happen?" Lu Jingchen looked at Lu Lidong with a heavy gaze and questioned in a cold voice:
"All the grievances she suffered these years were in vain!?"
Lu Lidong was unable to answer for a moment. When he saw Lu Jingchen's determined eyes, he knew that he always did what he said. His heart turned cold. After a moment, he suddenly rushed over, took the letter of report on the table, and tore it into pieces, saying,
"I told you to report! I told you to report!" He felt like he was covering his ears to a bell. After tearing up the letter, Lu Jingchen could no longer report himself.
Lu Jingchen looked coldly at the crazy and stupid Lu Lidong, and did not step forward to stop him. He had written the letter, and it was useless to tear it up. He could write it again. He had already made up his mind that he would clear Xia Qingqing's name and would never let her bear this stigma and be misunderstood and despised by the world.
"You!" Lu Baichuan looked at Lu Lidong who still did not repent, his heart filled with grief and anger, and he asked in a fierce voice:
"Lu Lidong, think about it, when you had pneumonia and a high fever as a child, who carried you on his back and rushed more than ten kilometers along the mountain road to the hospital for treatment overnight? When you fell from the loquat tree, who caught you with bare hands, causing both hands to be broken but not making a sound? In the end, when you fell into the water, who picked you up but lost your life! You schemed against Jingjing and Qingli, are you worthy of your mother Su Hui who raised you since childhood, and your uncle Gensheng who died saving your life?"
"All the suffering and pain I endured as a child were all because of you! If you hadn't done something wrong and been demoted, would my mother have divorced you? Would I have lived in such a barren place when I was a child?"
Lu Lidong yelled at Lu Baichuan, without any gratitude or remorse. He vented all the resentment that had been suppressed in his heart for these years, and continued viciously:
"And that Xia Gensheng, you have been using him to morally blackmail me, forcing me to marry his stupid, dumb and ignorant daughter. He wanted to save me back then, and I didn't beg him. What does his death have to do with me? Why should I always remember him and be grateful to him!"
After hearing his nonsense, Lu Baichuan was so angry that his breathing became rapid, his chest rose and fell violently, and his body shook unconsciously.
Lu Jingchen also frowned after hearing his words, with undisguised disgust in his eyes. Now seeing Lu Baichuan standing unsteadily, he immediately stepped forward to support him.
Lu Baichuan had never thought that the son he had raised himself would be a beast worse than an animal. After he stood firm, he suddenly grabbed a book on the table and threw it at Lu Lidong, shouting:
"I don't have a son like you! Get out! Get out!"
Lu Lidong dodged the book. He had never seen Lu Baichuan so angry and so out of control.
Although the words he just said were what he had been thinking, he just said them out loud. Now he couldn't help but feel guilty and scared. In this situation, he had no idea how to deal with it. He just wanted to quickly find his mother Wang Mingfang for a decision. After hearing Lu Baichuan telling him to get out, he turned around and was about to walk out.
"Wait." Lu Jingxie called him with a sullen face and said in a cold voice:
"One more thing." After that, he looked at Lu Baichuan and said solemnly and firmly:
"Dad, I want to divide the family."