Mutation 2
Inside Songyunzhai, when Mrs. Lu heard the fire in Rong'an Hall and the people, young and old, swore not to be captured, her eyes went dark and she almost fainted.
The rebel leader Gan Yu laughed sinisterly and said, "I want to see the bodies alive or dead. Quickly surround Rong'an Hall and don't let anyone out!"
His eyes were gloomy. If he really wanted to die, and the women and children of the Shen family wanted a reputation for loyalty, it would be a good thing to help them do so.
"How dare you, traitor!" Madam Lu shouted, her eyes wide open. If Ling Wan and the others hadn't escaped Rong'an Hall, they would have been burned to death or choked to death by the fire they had set.
"Third sister, why don't we make a bet and see how many bodies we'll find in Rong'an Hall later." Gan Yu leisurely poured himself a cup of tea, smiling, "My guess is, no more than two."
Lu's eyes were bloodshot. Being betrayed by someone close to her was far greater than the humiliation she was suffering at that moment.
The entire Lu family in Kyoto has been controlled by him. When Chen Duo escorted the little prince to Sucheng to seek reinforcements, he didn't know whether he had time to notify his second brother who was in Lingcheng.
"Gan Yu, your uncle and elder brother treated you well! Now you are ungrateful and betray your master to join King Zhao. You should know that King Zhao regards you as the Lu family regards you. You are not thinking of repaying your loyalty and are treacherous!" Her hands and feet were tied and she could not move. She stared at the calm face and spat.
Gan Yu remained unmoved and even smiled. He was probably in his thirties, handsome and dashing, and when he smiled, his two small canine teeth showed, making him look even younger.
When Lu was still a young woman, she doted on this adopted son, who was six years her junior. The eldest wife's family had few descendants, and after her eldest cousin's death, this adopted son was the only one left to support the family.
"Third sister, you'd better not mention your uncle and eldest cousin at this time." Gan Yu pulled the corner of his mouth and glanced at her, "Otherwise, when I catch Huai Jie later, I won't be able to help but let you watch him die in person."
Lu's pupils trembled. She had never expected that he would have such murderous intentions towards Huaijie. Because Gan Yu was working in Kyoto, Shen Huaijie was most familiar with him. Among all the uncles in the Lu family, he was also the one closest to the eldest wife.
"You—" Only then did Lu realize what was going on. Gan Yu knew that such a betrayal would not be valued or recognized by King Zhao, and would be considered disloyal and unrighteous. But Gan Yu's heart was not in this. He seemed to care nothing more than the death of the Lu family.
"Did you kill my elder brother?" Mrs. Lu's lips trembled slightly, and she tried her best to stop herself from shaking.
Back then, while pursuing the Tatars, Lu Ju was ambushed and killed by an arrow. News from Guzhou at the time claimed that Gan Yu, along with seven or eight other men, risked their lives to retrieve Lu Ju's body. Looking back now, I'm afraid there's more to this story.
"Third sister is really smart. She reacted so quickly." Gan Yu looked at her with appreciation, his eyes gradually showing madness.
"I shot him myself." He raised the corners of his lips. "He died with his eyes open. He never figured out how he was the one who died in the plot to trap me."
Mrs. Lu's face turned pale. "Nonsense! My elder brother has always taken care of you. How could he kill you?"
"Because his Kang'er and Zheng'er are all my children, the first wife's family already has a successor." Gan Yu admired the shock in Lu's eyes, and there was a bit more humanity in his eyes.
Mrs. Lu was so shocked that she couldn't speak. My elder brother and his wife had always been in harmony with each other, so how could his wife...
"Third sister, you still don't know that eldest brother is impotent." Gan Yu's eyes gradually turned bloodthirsty. "Others look at Lu Ju and think that the Duke of Ying is so infatuated and devoted. In fact, he is just powerless and afraid of being discovered that he is impotent."
The eldest brother is the only male offspring in the first house. If there is no male heir, the family line will be cut off.
"That's why my elder brother came to me. He told me that we are both descendants of the first branch of the Lu family, and there is no difference between the one I have with Mei Ruosheng and the one he has with Mei Ruosheng." Mei Ruo is the maiden name of Lu's eldest sister-in-law. When Gan Yu said these two words, his eyebrows seemed to soften a little.
Mrs. Lu was keenly aware of the phrase "both are of the eldest wife's bloodline," and Gan Yu, as if to confirm her thoughts, said calmly, "Third sister guessed correctly. I am actually Lu Jin's illegitimate child. However, I am an illegitimate child and cannot be seen in public. My mother is a military prostitute in the barracks."
Lu suddenly understood. The eldest brother was the only male heir in the first house. The eldest uncle no longer liked the son of a military prostitute, so out of practical considerations for the first house, he adopted him as his adopted son and raised him under Lu's name.
And judging from the support that the uncle gave to this adopted son later, I am afraid that Kang'er and Zheng'er's birth was also with the tacit approval of the uncle.
Talking to smart people saves effort. Gan Yu watched the second wife's eldest sister's expression change again and again, and laughed: "So you know what kind of people your uncle and brother are, right?"
"Lu Jin appears to be gentle and generous, and is friendly and loving to his brothers, but in reality, he is simply limited in his own abilities and needs his brothers and nephews to support his family as a Duke of England."
"This is the only title he has, so he must guard it with all his might and not let it fall into the hands of any other branch of the family except the eldest."
"Lu Ju is the same. He pretends to be a friendly brother, but at the same time he's wary of his fourth, fifth, and sixth brothers. Third sister probably doesn't know that the reason fourth brother died in Sand City was because Lu Ju deliberately delayed the reinforcement."
Lu's pupils trembled. She couldn't believe that her cousin had killed her own fourth brother.
"That father and son are the same kind of people." Gan Yu looked at me with disdain and sneered at the corners of his mouth.
"But now uncle and eldest... Lu Ju are dead, why do you still want to betray the Lu family?" Mrs. Lu was puzzled.
Gan Yu smiled slowly: "Because I am the same person as that father and son."
According to the trend of the second and third wives, even if Kang Er inherited the British Dukedom in the future, it would be charity that the second and third wives did not want. Why should he give his children something that others did not want?
He took a gamble with Prince Zhao. If he won, he would consolidate his position and take over the second and third houses. If he lost, he would only be the adopted son of the first house, and if anyone wanted to kill him, he would be the only one to be killed. As long as the second and third houses of the Lu family were still around, they would have to acknowledge that Kang'er and Zheng'er were the legitimate descendants of the Lu family.
There's no loss either way. Why doesn't he take a gamble?
Mrs. Lu naturally understood what Gan Yu was thinking. She bit her lip hard for a moment, then said coldly, "You're telling me this, aren't you afraid that I'll tell others and that Kang'er and Zheng'er will be implicated?"
Gan Yu stared into her eyes, confident: "Third sister, you won't. You watched Kang'er and Zheng'er grow up, you can't bear it."
"Even if Second Uncle knew, the disaster wouldn't reach the younger generation. The Lu family father and son and I are all dead, and the murder of my son has been avenged. He would naturally take into account that Kang'er and Zheng'er are the only remaining descendants of the eldest wife and protect them."
Of the three branches of the Lu family, the second branch was the most generous, and because of this generosity, it was also easy to manipulate.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
