Chapter 71 It's really a bad thing
"Madam, it seems that the third young master and his wife are outside." The cheerful voice of the little maid sounded in the carriage.
Mrs. Lu gently twisted the Buddhist beads with her right hand. She opened her eyes when she heard the words, and a fierce look flashed across her eyes.
"There are only two young masters in the mansion." She said in a cold voice, glaring at the little maid with a warning, "If you remember it wrong again in the future, you will leave the mansion on your own."
The little maidservant trembled, lowered her head and dared not speak anymore.
"The little girl is not very good at talking, Madam, please don't bother with her." Nanny Sun handed Madam Lu a cup of tea. "Madam, you got a good fortune today, you should be happy."
Master Liaokong interpreted the divination personally and said that the Lu family had a son who would change the family's fortune in the future.
Madam Lu's expression softened. She took a sip of tea and said with a smile, "My Yuan'er is indeed a promising man. It's worth the effort my master and I have put into him."
"The eldest young master is quite filial," Nanny Sun continued. "Yesterday, someone sent blood swallows over to nourish Madam. I heard that the eldest wife didn't keep any for herself, and the eldest young master's wife even had a quarrel with her over it."
Madam Lu snorted coldly, "I am Yuan'er's biological mother. How can Li compare to me? When we return home, you will personally deliver two volumes of Buddhist scriptures to the first room and have Li copy them."
"Yes." Nanny Sun responded respectfully.
The carriage stopped in front of the Lu Mansion. Nanny Sun helped Madam Lu get off the carriage, but saw an unfamiliar servant running out of the mansion in a hurry.
Mrs. Lu frowned, "Stop!"
The servant paused, turned around and saluted Madam Lu.
"Look up." Madam Lu stared at the servant. "You didn't show courtesy to the mistress when you saw her. Who taught you the etiquette?"
She hated servants who didn't know the rules the most.
The servant said, "The eldest young master ordered me to go to the yamen. In my haste, I accidentally bumped into Madam. I beg for your forgiveness."
Madam Lu frowned, "Why did Yuan'er ask you to go to the government office?"
The servant said, "Madam, please forgive me. The eldest master forbade me to tell anyone else."
How is she an outsider?
Madam Lu was about to explode with rage when Nanny Sun reached out to support her and gently counseled her, "Madam, it's okay to punish him, but don't delay the eldest young master's business."
When she thought of her eldest son, Mrs. Lu's anger subsided a little and she waved her hand to let the servant leave.
The servant bowed to Madam Sun with gratitude and ran away.
Madam Lu tilted her head to look at her wet nurse, "You're really good at doing me a favor."
"I dare not." Nanny Sun smiled apologetically and helped Madam Lu up the stairs. "It's all because of Madam's kindness. If he wants to remember, it's for Madam's kindness. What does this have to do with me?"
Madam Lu snorted and laughed, then passed on the matter. She instructed the maid, "Go to Yunlan Courtyard and see what the young master is doing."
"Yes." The little maid took the order and left.
Mrs. Lu returned to the main courtyard, washed and changed into casual clothes, then picked up the account book and took a closer look.
The maid brought in a bowl of stewed blood swallows, and Nanny Sun took it and handed it to Madam Lu.
Mrs. Lu put down the account book, stirred it gently with a spoon, and drank two spoonfuls when the maid came back.
"Madam, the young master is studying in the study."
Madam Lu hummed, then looked up and saw the maid's hesitant expression. She said unhappily, "If you have something to say, just say it all at once. Why are you hesitating?"
"When I returned, I heard something about Mr. Lu."
Mrs. Lu was stunned. After she realized who this Mr. Lu was, her expression suddenly turned cold and a deep disgust flashed in her eyes.
The little maidservant was afraid of being punished, so she quickly told everything she had heard.
"I heard that Shopkeeper Ge of the rice shop caught Mr. Lu in adultery with a woman. The two were brought to court. After the prefect's interrogation, it turned out that Shopkeeper Ge had colluded with the people in the rice shop to deliberately frame him. Shopkeeper Ge and a clerk named Wang Fei were sentenced to death by hanging."
"Very good!" Madam Lu slammed the table and said angrily, "He was kicked out of the house and didn't reflect on his actions. He even turned against his family. He is really an evildoer!"
The maids in the room were so scared that they knelt on the ground. Nanny Sun waved to everyone and asked the maids to go out first.
She stepped forward to calm Madam Lu down, "Madam, please don't be upset. You might get yourself hurt by getting angry."
"Mammy, how could I have given birth to such a cold-blooded monster like him?" Madam Lu was panting with anger, tears welling in her eyes. "I had a difficult pregnancy with him. I almost had miscarriages several times. I finally made it to eight months, but he suddenly gave birth prematurely, and it was almost as if he had two children."
"I took pity on his frail body and took care of him myself. Even though we hired a wet nurse, I fed him myself during the day. Which of his two older brothers drank my milk? He was sick every other day, with a high fever at night. I always stayed up all night, never asking anyone else to do it."
"I finally managed to raise him until he was four years old, and he was finally able to be away from people for a while. But when I was just out for a while, he almost bit Yuan'er's ear off."
"He's only four years old, and he actually wants to devour his brother's flesh and blood. How could I give birth to such a monster?"
Mrs. Lu will never forget that bloody scene.
The four-year-old child's mouth was full of blood, with meat scraps on his teeth. He looked like a devil crawling out of hell, stretching out his bloody little hands and calling out to her innocently, "Mom."
She still has nightmares about the child suddenly pouncing on her and tearing her flesh.
From then on, she didn't dare to take care of the child herself. Even though the child fell ill and almost died several times, she just stood outside the yard and watched from afar.
Yuan'er, on the other hand, not only did not care about the harm his brother had done to him, but also visited him often.
One time, she saw the wound on Yuan'er's arm and interrogated the servants. Only then did she realize that the child had not changed his habit of biting people, especially his brother Yuan'er. He would often pretend to be good and bite Yuan'er as soon as he got close to him.
Yuan'er is filial and well-behaved. He loves his brothers regardless of past grudges and wants to be a good brother, but he gets hurt again and again by his younger brother.
They are clearly both children that came out of her belly, so why are there such big differences?
Mrs. Lu's thoughts drifted away, and she felt a chill in her heart when she thought of the evil things Lu Chengjing had done when he was young.
A child who was less than ten years old actually abused a servant. Not only did he beat the man to death, he also ordered him to chop his body into pieces and feed it to dogs.
How could this be an innocent and cute child? This is clearly a demon!
She didn't dare let the child stay at home any longer, so she sent him away under the pretext of recuperating from illness. Unexpectedly, after only two years of peace, the master learned of the child's intelligence and took him back to raise him in his mansion.
Fortunately, the people have been exterminated now, and that cold-blooded monster can no longer harm her Yuan'er!
On the other side, Shitou drove an ox cart to pick up Shang Wan and the other two, and headed towards the bricklayer's residence they had inquired about.
Passing by a pawn shop on the way, Shang Wan got off the car and pawned the jade pendant.
Although the jade was a rare and good piece, the pawnshop owner deliberately lowered the price of the jade pendant because there were words engraved on it, and it was finally pawned for only fifteen taels of silver.
Originally, the shopkeeper only offered ten taels, but after Shang Wan's friendly negotiation, and considering it was a dead-end pawn, he added five taels.
Although it was far from what he expected, Shang Wan thought that it was free silver anyway, so fifteen taels was fifteen taels.
She placed the bundle of silver on Lu Chengjing's legs, intentionally teasing him to talk.
Lu Chengjing was even more silent than usual, and something was wrong.
(End of this chapter)
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