Chapter 46 What? You want to chop off my hand?
Upon hearing this, a hint of unease flickered across Ban Ling's bronze-colored face.
He coughed lightly twice, his fist pressed to his lips: "Cough... It was just a coincidence. You always bring me meals, so it's only natural that I should help you out when I see you're having trouble."
Lu Zhaoruo's voice was light and cheerful: "I will definitely invite the general to a feast to express my gratitude another day."
Ban Ling felt guilty and uneasy...
Well, I've gotten another favor for free!
He clasped his hands in farewell and took his leave.
Once Banling was out of sight, Madam Tu immediately shouted at the top of her lungs, "Is that all? Didn't you see the humiliation your mother just suffered?"
Lu Zhaoruo turned around abruptly, a cold glint in her eyes: "Then should Mother grab the scales and rush in to give Chen Lingyi another beating?"
Tu was speechless for a moment. Her lips moved a few times, but in the end she could only hum out a sound from her nostrils.
Lu Zhaoruo was furious: "My daughter told you to behave yourself, why didn't you behave yourself? If you hadn't been so reckless today, it would be Shen Lingyi kneeling on the ground!"
Tu Shi pouted.
Lu Bohong said angrily, "Mother, you are really confused. Don't cause any more trouble for my little sister in the future."
"What trouble have I caused her?"
Tu refused to accept this.
Lu Zhaoruo: "With things turned out like this today, how could my in-laws not feel resentful? When I go back, I'm afraid they will punish me."
Naturally, he should be punished, since he still needs to feign humility and act subserviently.
"They dare?"
Tu straightened her back.
Her eyes suddenly lit up, and she grabbed her daughter's sleeve: "A-Ning, when did you ever do General Ban any favors? I think he's a grateful person... You should try to please him more in the future. With him backing you up, what can those two old men and that bitch do to you?"
"By the way! Didn't your father absolutely refuse to let your brother take the military examination? Why don't you ask General Ban to find a job for your brother in the army, even if it's just a minor patrol officer? It's a hundred times better than being a lowly patrol inspector in the county government!"
She became more and more excited as she spoke, spittle flying everywhere: "Mother, did you hear from Master Zhao of West Street that there's plenty of money to be made in the navy!"
Yes, she didn't care at all whether her daughter would be punished.
"Mother!"
Lu Bohong was so angry that the veins on his forehead bulged. "My son would rather be a patrol inspector for the rest of his life than do such a despicable thing!"
Startled by the shout, Madam Tu trembled, then slapped her thigh and wailed, "What sins have I committed! Neither of them are filial..."
Lu Zhaoruo ignored her, said a few words to Lu Bohong, and then turned and went inside.
Tu shouted from behind, "Listen up, I won't contribute a single cent of that ten strings of cash. If it weren't for your usual unfilial and stingy ways..."
"Mother!"
Lu Bohong was furious.
Only then did Madam Tu fall silent.
However, she did not think she was wrong. Since they were family, and the younger sister had climbed up to General Ban's high position, wasn't it only natural for her to help her elder brother make a future?
Was she doing it for herself? Or wasn't it all for the Lu family?
That foolish son has wasted his love on his sister!
After returning home.
Zhang and Shen Qingshu were seething with anger, so they immediately ordered Lu Zhaoruo to kneel in the ancestral hall as punishment until dawn.
It was the dead of winter, and the ancestral hall was as cold and desolate as an ice cellar.
After kneeling for only half an hour, my knees were already numb with pain, and a chill crept up my leg bones.
If it weren't for the need to continue feigning docility, would Lu Zhaoruo have willingly knelt on this cold ground?
Dong Rou's eyes were red and her voice choked with sobs: "They are clearly in the wrong, yet now they're making Madam suffer like this..."
Lu Zhaoruo smiled gently: "It's alright, you go back and take good care of Abao."
Before coming to the ancestral hall, she deliberately locked Abao in the room to prevent it from being implicated.
At this moment, Ah Bao must be pacing anxiously in his room.
In the dead of night, the candlelight inside the ancestral hall was dim.
Lu Zhaoruo slowly got up and rubbed her knees.
At this hour, everyone in the hut is asleep; she wouldn't be foolish enough to continue kneeling.
Suddenly, a rustling sound came from the crack in the ancestral hall door.
Abao's small figure squeezed in, a warm steamed bun still in his mouth: "Mom, this time it's not hard."
Lu Zhaoruo felt a warmth in her heart and picked up Abao.
It was the dead of night.
Zhang was fast asleep, her breathing heavy.
Suddenly, with a "whoosh," a teacup shattered through the window, piercing through three layers of gauze curtains before striking Zhang's forehead, causing blood to flow freely.
"ah--"
Zhang let out a scream.
Ah Bao had just sneaked up to the bedside when he was startled and immediately ran away.
The scream pierced the night sky, startling everyone in the Shen family mansion into an instant commotion.
They searched high and low all night, but still couldn't find out where the teacup came from.
The wound on Zhang's forehead had been properly bandaged, but it still throbbed from time to time, which made her even angrier.
At this moment.
The carved door of the ancestral hall was pushed open a crack, and Shen Lingyi's plump body squeezed in with difficulty.
She didn't shout loudly, after all, it was her own ancestral hall. She just lowered her voice and said fiercely, "You Lu family member, you made me lose face yesterday. I'll teach you a lesson!"
After saying that.
Shen Lingyi roared and pounced.
Lu Zhaoruo stepped aside and then extended her leg.
"Bang!"
The ceremonial staff slammed heavily onto the offering table, scattering the memorial tablets all over the floor.
"Be careful, little aunt."
Lu Zhaoruo's tone was worried, but the corners of her lips curled up almost imperceptibly.
Fortunately, she practiced her skills every day after her rebirth, and her body became very agile.
Shen Lingyi staggered to her feet: "You still dare to hide?"
She suddenly pounced on him again.
Lu Zhaoruo nimbly dodged, feigning alarm as she retreated to the offering table: "Aunt, how could you lay a hand on your sister-in-law? If word gets out..."
Shen Lingyi: "So what if I lay a hand on you? If it weren't for my brother's insistence on that lousy marriage agreement, you, this withered flower, would have been dragged to a nunnery to chant sutras long ago!"
"Once you enter the Shen family, you should wag your tail and beg for mercy like a dog! Withholding my monthly salary? Making me lose face? If I don't skin you alive today, I'll write my name, Shen Lingyi, backwards!"
Lu Zhaoruo's voice trembled: "I...I want to tell my aunt and uncle..."
She ran towards the door...
"Go ahead! They'd love for me to teach you a lesson!"
Her plump body lunged forward. "Have you forgotten how my mother stabbed you with a hairpin last time? Want to relive that memory?"
Lu Zhaoruo sneered. As expected, the warehouse keeper would bring the IOU and his men and barge into the Shen family. Good aunt, don't blame me for being ruthless then!
"Sister-in-law, spare my life!"
She feigned panic and dodged, subtly hooking her embroidered shoe.
"Bang!"
Chen Lingyi slammed heavily against the door, making the carved door panels vibrate loudly.
Lu Zhaoruo's eyes immediately reddened, and she shrank back in a trembling voice, pleading, "Auntie... please stop hitting me..."
Just then, a flurry of footsteps came from the bluestone slabs outside the ancestral hall, growing louder as they approached.
A cold glint flashed in Lu Zhaoruo's eyes, and she suddenly cried out "Ouch!" as if she had tripped over the hem of her skirt.
Seeing this, Shen Lingyi was overjoyed and pounced on him with her fat body: "Let's see where you can hide this time!"
"Bang!"
Lu Zhaoruo fell down, letting Shen Lingyi's two-hundred-pound body press firmly on her.
She immediately cried out, "Help!"
"stop!"
The main gate of the ancestral hall was suddenly pushed open.
Shen Qingshu stood at the threshold with a gloomy face, behind him was Zhang Shi, who was covering her forehead, and Shi Tou and Granny Zhou, who were both astonished.
Stone quickly stepped forward and pulled open the sinking command device.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lu Zhaoruo crawled to Shen Qingshu's feet, her face streaked with tears as she looked up: "Uncle, save me... Auntie is going to beat her daughter-in-law to death..."
Pointing to the mess of memorial tablets on the ground, Zhang asked loudly, "What happened here?"
Lu Zhaoruo's shoulders trembled slightly: "My sister-in-law was about to hit her daughter-in-law... I accidentally bumped into her..."
"You bitch!"
Shen Lingyi suddenly broke free from the stone and slapped it across the face.
With a crisp sound, five bright red finger marks immediately appeared on Lu Zhaoruo's cheek.
Shen Qingshu flew into a rage: "You wretched child! This is a sacred ancestral hall, don't you even know where you are!"
Zhang stopped her raised hand firmly, saying, "What are you doing? Why are you trying to hit your own daughter?"
She glared at Lu Zhaoruo and said, "Go ahead and hit him! It's just right to teach an outsider a lesson in the ancestral hall!"
The aunt who was divorced and returned home actually beat her brother's wife in front of the ancestral tablets, and she was so self-righteous.
What kind of family are they?
Lu Zhaoruo covered her burning face and looked at Shen Lingyi's hand.
Shen Lingyi proudly waved the left hand that had hit her: "What? You want to chop off my hand?"
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