017, Call for Help
017, Call for Help
"Bang, bang, bang—"
Just when the Lu family's yard was quiet, there was suddenly a sound of hurried footsteps outside, followed by the sound of someone slamming the gate of the Lu family's yard.
"Who is it? Who's outside?" Boss Lu, standing in the yard, heard someone knocking on the door and asked as he walked towards the gate. Through the gap in the gate, he vaguely saw someone standing outside, but he couldn't see the person's face clearly.
"It's me, your fifth uncle." Patriarch Lu outside the door responded in a deep voice.
When Boss Lu inside heard that it was their clan leader who came, he was shocked at first, then he remembered the people they had locked in the house and their plans, and he hesitated whether to open the door.
Seeing that the person inside was taking a long time to open the door, Lu Mingfei anxiously pulled the old man's hand.
Patriarch Lu held down the little hand that was pulling him, and said to the person inside in a deep voice: "Open the door. If you don't open it, I will have someone break it down!"
Hearing this, Boss Lu inside had no choice but to open the door, "Wu, Wu Ye, why are you here?"
"If I don't come to check on you, are you going to close the door and kill people?" As soon as the door opened, Patriarch Lu reached out and pushed away Lu Youfu who was blocking the door, and walked into the Lu family yard.
Behind the head of the Lu clan were other members of the Lu family and the village doctor, and they all entered the Lu family's courtyard one after another.
There was also a small figure among them, it was Lu Mingfei who had gone to get reinforcements.
As soon as he got home, Lu Mingfei ran into the yard, looked left and right, but didn't see his parents outside. Looking up, he saw that the door of their third room was closed and locked.
Realizing that his parents were locked in the house, Lu Mingfei ran over and banged on the door, shouting, "Mom, Dad, are you in there?"
Liu Sanniang, who was in the house, was startled when she heard the child calling them, and then she responded loudly: "Qillang, mother and your father are here! You..." She wanted to let the child go and call for help to rescue them, but she was worried that the people of the Lu family would harm their children. The words that came to her lips were not dared to be said.
If she had relatives from her mother's family here, she wouldn't be so helpless right now! Didn't the Lu family just see that she had no relatives from her mother's family behind her that they dared to lock her and her husband in here so blatantly? It wasn't until this moment that Liu Sanniang realized that she and her husband and their child had been killed by those vicious people in the Lu family, and they had no one to turn to for help.
At this moment, Lu Youtian also woke up from his coma. In his half-conscious state, he heard his wife begging the people outside to open the door. He struggled for a long time before opening his eyes. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw his wife lying beside him crying.
After waking up, Lu Youtian himself knew that he had been abandoned by his family. They didn't even hire a doctor for him, and they locked him and his wife in a room, intending to starve him to death in this room!
Those people outside are his mother and brothers, how can they be so cruel!
Lu Youtian had always known his mother was partial, but it wasn't until today that he realized she was so partial that she'd even sacrificed his life just to save a few taels for medical treatment and medicine. He recalled how he'd worked tirelessly for the family over the years, bringing all the money he earned from selling goods in the city home back home, never keeping any for himself, simply hoping to earn more money for his family and his nephew's education. Yet, despite his treatment of his family and brothers, he received nothing in return, but rather their ready abandonment.
Thinking about how he had been foolishly filial all these years, never considering the future of his wife and children, if he died here today, his wife and children would probably have a very hard time living in this house. At this moment, Lu Youtian felt sorry for his wife who had treated him so well, and his son who had been filial and sensible since childhood.
Lu Mingfei, who was outside, was unaware of his mother's worry and his father's guilt. After confirming that his parents were in the house, he shouted to the people inside, "Mom, please wait a moment. We will open the door and rescue you." After comforting his parents inside, he turned and ran to the clan leader, begging him to rescue his parents.
Only then did Boss Lu know who had called the clan leader to come home. He was a little angry and glared at this nephew who had ruined their family's good fortune.
At this moment, Mrs. Lu, Mr. Lu, the second and fourth sons of the Lu family, and other people in the Lu family who were in the house heard the noise and came out of the house.
Patriarch Lu walked over to the locked door, reached out to pick up the lock, turned his head, looked at Old Man Lu and Old Lady Wang who had just walked out of the room, and asked in a cold voice, "Who has the key to this lock? Open it."
"The third brother..." Old Mrs. Lu wanted to find an excuse to cover up the matter, but before she could finish her words, she was interrupted.
"I said, open the door, didn't you hear me?" Clan leader Lu could see what Old Wang was thinking at a glance. He cursed Old Wang in his heart as a "poisonous woman". Even a tiger will not eat its own cubs, but this vicious woman wanted to kill even her own son.
Since these two people didn't come to open the door, Patriarch Lu didn't wait any longer and shouted directly: "Come here, break the door open for me!"
"Uncle Wu, please move aside." A man who followed behind heard what their clan leader said, stepped forward and asked their clan leader to move aside. He raised his foot and kicked the door hard a few times, and with a few kicks, he kicked it open.
There was a loud bang and the entire door fell inward.
It was the first time Lu Mingfei rushed into the room. He immediately saw his mother sitting by the bed, turning her head to look at them, and his father lying on the bed. He rushed over and shouted, "Mother! Dad!"
"Qilang." Liu Sanniang reached out to catch the child who rushed towards her, holding him tightly in her arms, and asked the child crying, "You, why did you come back?"
"Don't be afraid, Mom. I've called the clan leader. He will take care of it for us." While comforting his mother, Lu Mingfei also reached out and patted the back of his father's hand. Seeing his father's pale face and blood on his body, he was a little worried that the injuries on his father's body would affect his life safety.
But he himself is not a doctor, so he doesn't know what condition his father is in. Although he is not a doctor, he brought a doctor with him!
"Dad, wait a minute, I'll go call Grandpa Pei to come and see you!" After saying this, Lu Mingfei ran out and pulled the doctor outside into the room to see his father.
The old doctor who was dragged into the house kept shouting "slow down, slow down", but his feet were actually following the child who was dragging him into the house.
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Before Old Man Lu, Old Lady Lu, and other members of the Lu family outside could react, they saw the door of the third house being kicked open.
Seeing her grandson dragging the doctor into the house, Old Lady Lu almost gritted her teeth, and even thought angrily in her heart: If she had known that this little bastard would ruin their family's fortunes, she should have strangled this little bastard to death when he was born!
Old Man Lu felt a little guilty. Facing the gaze of his elders, he didn't dare to look back and looked away a little.
Patriarch Lu looked at his elderly nephew and Old Wang beside him. What was there in his heart that he could not move? He immediately gave these two people no face at all, pointing at them and scolding: "You two, you are confused!"
"Do you really think that if you lock the door of your house and do something like this at home, the other people in the village won't know what's going on in your family?"
Having said that, Patriarch Lu glanced around at his nephews and grandchildren. For the first time, he realized that these seemingly honest younger generations could be so cruel! "You have no dignity, but the rest of us in the Lu family still have dignity!"
"Your Dalang still has some dignity!"
Patriarch Lu also realized at this time that if he really let the people in the clan kill their own children at home behind closed doors, the reputation of their Lu family would be ruined by this family of idiots!
Not to mention that his own eldest grandson is already a student and is still studying, preparing to take the imperial examination next year. If everything goes well this time, his eldest grandson will become a scholar in the future, and may even continue to take the examination and have the opportunity to enter the court as an official. If such a murder and robbery happened in the clan and implicated the entire Lu family, including his eldest grandson, he would want to strangle these brainless idiots of the Lu family!
When she heard the name of her eldest grandson, Mrs. Wang's eyes moved.
"How do our family affairs...have anything to do with you?" At this time, Old Man Lu had not yet realized that what their family did was related to the reputation of the entire Lu family.
Seeing these idiots still not realizing the seriousness of the situation, Patriarch Lu was so angry that he wanted to beat them to death. "I will expel your family from the clan. Whatever your family does in the future will have nothing to do with our Lu family."
"Lu Gensheng, I always knew you weren't smart, but I didn't know you were so stupid! That's why you were led around by a vicious woman for so many years!"
It can be said that the last sentence of Patriarch Lu was a curse on two people, and he cursed them without any mercy.
Lu Gensheng is the name of Old Man Lu. He hasn't heard anyone call him by his full name for many years. When he first heard his uncle calling him by his full name, he was stunned for a moment before realizing that he was being scolded.
Old Wang has been domineering at home for so many years, but this is the first time that someone has pointed at her nose and scolded her for being vicious. What's more, the person who scolded her is the patriarch of the Lu family. She can only lower her head and take the scolding, and she can't scold back.
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