Chapter 89 Coveting the Eldest Sister-in-law 2
Lu Jing remained silent. He was never afraid of gossip. He silenced the Jinyiwei just because he didn't want rumors to spread and damage his sister-in-law's reputation.
A gust of wind passed through the hall, the candlelight swayed, the skirt fluttered, the ancestral tablets lay all over the ground, and the ancestral hall was filled with cold winds, it was like the ancestors' ghosts were roaring in anger, making people feel cold.
"You..." Lu Shaoqing's eyes turned red. You are the most promising descendants of the Lu family.
Why!
Lu Jing's eyes were full of disappointment. "My eldest sister-in-law was assassinated and fell off the cliff with me. We are uncle and sister-in-law, and we are family. We struggled to survive and luckily got our lives back. I know that being alone and unattached will attract gossip. So I ordered to keep it quiet. I am not afraid of gossip, but are you? My sister-in-law is a woman, doesn't she care? If it gets out that uncle and sister-in-law have been together for four days and four nights, what good reputation will it bring to you and her?"
"He hopes that we will all die at the bottom of the cliff." Su Qingwan said lightly, piercing Lu Jing's last fantasy. What's the use of brotherly love? Lu Feng is selfish and only considers his own future. He has never cared about the reputation of others. "If we die, the matter of the farm will become top secret and no one will testify. He and Li Xueying will sleep soundly from then on and rise to prominence. He never cares about the lives of two people, brothers or first wives."
Lu Jing felt a dull pain in his heart and his whole body was stiff.
The bloody truth being exposed is even more hurtful.
Lu Feng was furious. "Don't try to sow discord between us, Xie Zhaolan. If it weren't for you, we brothers wouldn't have ended up like this!"
Su Qingwan moved lightly and stood beside Lu Jing, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally, with a mocking smile on her lips, "Brothers, who else do you need to sow discord between you? Your ancestors are lying on the ground watching you."
Lu Feng felt as if he was pierced by thousands of arrows. He caused trouble in the ancestral hall, lost his composure, was disrespectful, and disturbed his ancestors. He was an unfilial descendant. But when he looked at Lu Jing and Su Qingwan, he couldn't help feeling dazed.
It seemed like... his first wife and Lu Jing were a perfect match made in heaven.
He is ruthless and calm, while she is scheming and her emotions are hard to tell. They stand side by side, their shadows overlapping in the dim ancestral hall. How ridiculous!
She was obviously his wife, but she caused him to lose everything.
Lu Feng laughed like a madman, "Zi Yu, sir, do you dare to tell the truth? You destroyed the Lu family for her, do you dare not take responsibility for it?"
"Why should I admit to a false charge?"
Lu Jing said in a deep voice, "I only respect my eldest sister-in-law, and I have no desire for her. I sent Li Xueying to the Ministry of Punishment because she deserved it. I hope you can divorce and you and my eldest sister-in-law can live in peace and harmony. If I really coveted my eldest sister-in-law, why would I send Li Xueying to the Ministry of Punishment and let her stay in the mansion to fight with my eldest sister-in-law? I mediated and designed a divorce between you and my eldest sister-in-law. Why did you go to so much trouble to send her to the Ministry of Punishment? Brother, you made a mistake and dragged everyone to be buried with you. You wanted to destroy the Lu family."
"Sweet words and a charming manner! Xie Zhaolan, he doesn't dare to admit it, so do you not dare to admit it either?"
Su Qingwan sneered, "You are such a lunatic!"
Lu Feng questioned, "Zi Yu, if you didn't covet your eldest sister-in-law, why did you protect her? After the New Year, you will be twenty, why haven't you got engaged yet? Who is the painting of the lady with a blank face in your study room?"
Lu Jing's expression changed slightly. At that moment, it was as if someone had stepped on his taboo. His dark eyes were instantly filled with murderous intent, like a demon crawling out of hell.
In the eyes of many people, the deputy commander of the Jinyiwei is a terrifying evil spirit.
"What picture of a lady?" Lin was shocked and angry. She knew her son well and knew he would never speak nonsense. She had watched Lu Jing grow up and didn't believe that he would covet his eldest sister-in-law.
But her son spoke so confidently that she actually believed it a little.
"Brother, you are hysterical. There are no pictures of ladies in my study!" Lu Jing said in a deep voice, his eyes like knives. It was the first time he looked at Lu Feng with such cold and sharp eyes. "Brother, don't be crazy anymore."
Lu Feng approached Lu Jing step by step, tears and pain in his eyes, "Zi Yu, you are panicking, look into your brother's eyes, is there really no such picture of the lady?"
He stared into Lu Jing's eyes, "I saw it. I saw your filthy, dirty peeping, saw your evil, regardless of your love. Are you... worthy of me?"
Su Qingwan was shocked and confused when she heard this. What on earth did Lu Feng see in the study that made him so crazy and he even dared to make trouble in the ancestral hall.
"You're crazy!" Lu Jing spoke each word with a voice as sharp as a knife.
"Then do you dare to swear in front of our ancestors?" Lu Feng pointed at the tablets on the ground, "Do you dare to swear on your future, your life, and the honor and disgrace of the entire clan?"
Lu Jing looked at him coldly and raised his hand to swear, "Ancestors, if I, Lu Jing, an unworthy descendant, covet my eldest sister-in-law, I will be struck by lightning, my future will be ruined, I will lose my love for the rest of my life, and I will not die a good death."
He looked at Lu Feng coldly, "Brother, is that enough?"
Lu Feng was stunned. He didn't expect Lu Jing to make such a vicious oath.
"That's enough. How long are you going to keep messing around?" Lu Shaoqing was so angry that his voice was shaking. "Isn't this embarrassing enough?"
It was late at night, in the Lu family ancestral hall.
Lu Jing and Su Qingwan were kneeling on the futon. Lu Feng vomited blood in the Yangxin Palace and became confused after returning home. He fainted due to emotional agitation during the confrontation with Lu Jing.
Lu Jing beat his brother in the ancestral hall, disturbing the ancestors, and was also punished by Lu Shaoqing to kneel.
Su Qingwan was kneeling in the ancestral hall.
They knelt in silence for more than an hour without exchanging a single word. The people who had been watching them outside the ancestral hall were tired and had already dozed off.
A fragrance came, it was the spicy meaty smell. Lu Jing frowned, and saw Lu Zhu sneaking over with a food box, half kneeling beside Su Qingwan, "Girl, you must be starving, I brought you some food."
Su Qingwan was already injured and weak, and after kneeling for half a night, she was already starving. Lu Zhu held a bowl of chicken soup and fed her. This was the chicken soup she made with medicinal herbs, which was particularly nourishing.
Su Qingwan finished a bowl of chicken soup in a short while. Lu Jing's brows were slightly frowned, and he seemed to want to say something but stopped himself. He knelt very straight. The wound on his lower back had long been torn. He knelt in the ancestral hall to reflect but was not perfunctory at all. He knelt straight and upright, and his knees had long been numb.
Su Qingwan devoured the meal beside him and commented, "It's not thick enough."
"Add more herbs tomorrow."
Su Qingwan nodded, and she stopped kneeling and simply sat on the mat.
Lu Jing, "..."
When Lu Jing's father was alive, Lu Jing had a carefree childhood. He also had an elder brother, Lu Feng, who was good at reading, smart and studious. He was carefree, lively and naughty. He often got into trouble and was punished to kneel in the ancestral hall, but he did not dare to be lazy and play tricks in the ancestral hall. He always knelt straight and straight. Eating in the ancestral hall was a blasphemy to the ancestral tablets.
His eldest sister-in-law drank chicken soup and ate meat patties, and she refused to kneel.
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