Mrs. Zhu finally felt the horror and pain of death. Only then did she realize how unwise her momentary verbal impulse had been.
She looked at the head of the family for help, moving her mouth to ask for help, but she found that she was being stepped on by the head of the Zhu family so hard that she couldn't make a sound.
The Zhu family's patriarch seemed to have received Mrs. Zhu's plea for help and ordered in a deep voice, "Boss, stop!"
The eldest of the Zhu family turned around and looked at the head of the Zhu family with hatred on his face and said, "Father, do you still want to protect this vicious woman?"
"This matter involves the death of your brother and your sister-in-law, as well as the talent of Ning girl. We can't just kill her so hastily. We'd better put her in jail and wait for the elders of the clan to come and judge her! Let's just do it this way!" The head of the Zhu family seemed to have aged several years in an instant, and said tiredly.
The eldest son of the Zhu family withdrew his foot, but Mrs. Zhu's eyes were filled with fear. She quickly knelt before the head of the Zhu family and begged, "Head, I don't want to be tried. I can't accept trial. Please, please save me!" After thinking for a moment, she said, "Lock me up? Imprison me in the same cell where Zhu Ning was previously held! I can't accept trial. If I do, it will implicate my parents and my entire family!"
Because she married the eldest son of the Zhu family, her family's status rose and gradually became a second-class family. If she accepted the Zhu family's judgment, the Zhu family would inevitably break with her family. When the time came, everyone would push the family down, and she would bring trouble to the entire family!
The patriarch of the Zhu family stood up, walked step by step towards the eldest lady, and said in a cold voice: "The biggest mistake I have made in my life is to make such a promise to your father! And then I shouldn't have insisted on marrying you as my daughter-in-law despite my wife's persuasion! It was me who harmed Lao Wu's family and the entire Zhu family! Not only you will be on trial, but I will too!" After that, he no longer paid attention to the eldest lady of the Zhu family, and walked straight out of the hall, leaving the eldest lady of the Zhu family to yell and curse!
Lan Ziye looked at Zhu Ning and asked, "Do you want to go back to the Chu family with me, or stay at the Zhu family?"
Zhu Ning glanced at the eldest lady and the eldest son of the Zhu family, hesitated for a moment and said, "I'd better stay!"
Lan Ziye nodded and said, "Yes, I want to stay!" Stay and witness with your own eyes the fate of the enemy who killed his mother and father!
Lan Ziye looked at Chu Xixuan and said, "Let's go!"
Chu Xixuan nodded, and the two left the Zhu family.
Time flies, and more than a month has passed in a hurry.
For over a month, Lan Ziye had been attending Lanxuan College almost every day, but Zhu Ning hadn't been there once. As the year-end exams were approaching, Lan Rongrong turned to Lan Ziye and asked, "Should we go to the Zhu family's house to see Zhu Ning? The exams are tomorrow, and if Zhu Ning doesn't take part, he'll be held back!"
Lan Ziye thought for a moment, turned to look at Chu Xining who was sleeping on the side and asked, "Chu Xining, has the Zhu family's matter been resolved?" She heard from Chu Xixuan that Chu Xining had been going to the Zhu family frequently in the past two days.
Chu Xining raised his head, looked at Lan Ziye with sleepy eyes and said, "Zhu Ning probably won't take the end-of-year exam this semester. She can go straight to the second year of high school!"
"Ah? The Zhu family also has this privilege?" Lan Rongrong said in surprise.
She had been in Lanxuan Academy for so many years and had never heard that, apart from the Chu family, there were other family disciples who could go straight to higher education without taking the year-end exam.
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