Chapter 373 A Beating
Lu Chao followed the steward to the courtyard of Mr. and Mrs. Qiao. The scenery of the Qiao Mansion was extremely beautiful, with jade-lined corridors, folding rockery, flowers and plants leaning against the walls under the stone steps, vines entwined, and exquisite pavilions and towers standing all around.
Having come here so many times, Lu Chao was most in the mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery of the Qiao Mansion today.
However, when he stepped into the yard and saw Mr. Qiao standing on the steps with a gloomy face and holding a stick, the smile on his face froze.
The moment Mr. Qiao saw Lu Chao, his aura suddenly turned cold, and his eyes were filled with rage.
Behind him, Mrs. Qiao was no longer as kind as she had been when she saw Lu Chao some time ago, and Qiao Zheran on the other side had an expression that looked like he wanted to eat Lu Chao alive.
Lu Chao's heart suddenly skipped a beat and he had a bad feeling.
"Dad, Mom, and Third Brother." He bowed to the three of them and called out nervously.
"Shut up, who is your father?" Master Qiao shouted angrily, "Lu Chao, my daughter fell in love with you at first sight and wanted to marry you. Our whole family strongly opposed it, but she insisted on doing it. She went on a hunger strike at home to fight against us. In order to let her stand up straight in the Lu family and not be looked down upon, I used all the power of the Qiao family to prepare a generous dowry for her, just hoping that my daughter would not be wronged."
"But what about you? If you were not happy with this marriage, why didn't you make your attitude clear and let Ru'er give up? My daughter has been so devoted to you, and what did you get in return? Even if you liked that mistress, Ru'er would have willingly let her enter the mansion as a concubine, but what did you do?"
"You went to gamble to earn money just to stay with your mistress, and you fell into someone else's trap. You deserve it. Why did you ask Ru'er to raise money when you didn't ask your mistress to save you? You are worse than an animal. You let a girl go to such a dangerous place alone and let her be bullied. Now you even have the nerve to ask her to go back."
"What do you think of my daughter?"
Mr. Qiao was so angry that he raised his stick and hit Lu Chao hard with a bang.
The stick landed on Lu Chao's back, knocking him to the ground.
Lu Chao was sweating profusely from the pain, but he clenched his teeth and didn't scream. He gritted his teeth and said in pain, "Dad, it was my stupidity and blindness that caused my wife to be imprisoned. I was wrong. Please give me another chance. I will never let my wife down again in the future."
"Dream on." Master Qiao angrily hit him with another stick.
"What I regret most is marrying Ru'er to you."
"You bastard, I'm going to beat you to death today."
As Master Qiao cursed, he hit Lu Chao with his stick like raindrops.
The bones that were previously broken by Lu Xiang seemed to break again with a "crack".
Whenever Mr. Qiao thought about how his daughter was almost insulted and her innocence was ruined, he became so angry that he felt as if a knife was cutting his chest.
Qiao Jingru didn't know that Lu Chao had come to her house again. She was sitting in the warm room embroidering when suddenly a little maid ran in in a panic: "Fifth Miss, Fifth Miss, something bad has happened. The son-in-law is almost beaten to death."
Qiao Jingru was startled, and the needle in her hand suddenly tilted and pierced into her flesh with force, and a drop of blood immediately appeared.
"Explain clearly?" She stood up suddenly and looked at the maid who delivered the message with horror, not caring that her fingertips were bleeding.
"For some reason, the master got so angry that he beat my son-in-law with a stick. I took a sneak peek and saw that the master's expression was not fake. He really wanted to beat my son-in-law to death. Miss, do you want to go and take a look? Don't let him really beat my son-in-law to death..."
Before the little maid could finish her words, Qiao Jingru threw away what she was holding and rushed out.
Liangchen heard the voice and hurried out, only to see his young lady's panicked back.
She grabbed the little maid who had chased after her and asked, "What happened?"
"Sister Liangchen, the master is about to beat me to death."
She didn't know what had happened between the young lady and her son-in-law that made Mr. Qiao so angry, but when she saw her son-in-law being beaten like this, she instinctively felt that she should inform the young lady.
Liangchen was shocked when he heard this and hurriedly chased after him.
The only thing that could make the old guest so angry is that he must have found out what happened between the young lady and her husband.
When Qiao Jingru arrived, Lu Chao had just spit out blood, and she was so scared that her face turned pale. Seeing that Master Qiao raised the stick again, her brain buzzed, and her body had already made a move, and she fell on Lu Chao.
The daughter came so quickly that she pounced on Lu Chao in almost the blink of an eye.
"Master..." Mrs. Qiao felt like her heart was about to stop beating and exclaimed.
Mr. Qiao was so frightened that he quickly stopped the stick in his hand that was about to hit.
However, due to inertia, one end of the stick accidentally hit Qiao Jingru's arm, causing her to groan in pain.
"Sister, where are you hurt? Get up and let me see." Qiao Zeran rushed to Qiao Jingru's side, carefully pulled her up, and looked her up and down.
While Lu Chao was dazed, he felt a warm body protecting him. He knew it was Qiao Jingru, but his eyelids were too heavy to open them. He wanted to speak, but when he opened his mouth he could only hear heavy breathing.
My throat hurts as if it were rubbed by a sharp stone.
Qiao Jingru's wrist was slightly swollen. It hurt when she was hit, but now she is fine after recovering from the blow. However, Qiao Zeran was so distressed that he turned around and scolded his father:
"Dad, do you have eyes? Can you see clearly before you take action?"
Mr. Qiao; "..."
How do I talk to my dad?
Mr. Qiao glared at his son angrily, but did not refute because he was in the wrong.
Mrs. Qiao gave Mr. Qiao a reproachful look, and held Qiao Jingru's hand with tears in her eyes: "You silly child, who would lie down under the stick?"
Qiao Jingru looked at Lu Chao, who was lying unconscious on the ground, and anxiously looked at Master Qiao and asked, "Dad, why did you hit him?"
Master Qiao pointed the stick at Lu Chao and said angrily, "He caused you to fall into the tiger's trap. If I don't beat him, who else should I beat? I wish I could beat him to death."
Qiao Jingru was stunned, and looked around at Madam Qiao and Qiao Zeran: "You, you all know."
"This kind of scum deserves to be beaten to death. You have divorced him anyway, so whether he lives or dies has nothing to do with you. Third sister, you better be obedient and go back to your room and don't bother with him." Qiao Ciran said.
As soon as he finished speaking, the unconscious Lu Chao suddenly murmured, "Qiao, Qiao Qiao, I won't divorce."
Qiao Jingru felt a pang in her heart, her throat felt swollen, and tears fell silently at her feet.
"Dad, Mom, Third Brother, it has nothing to do with him. I wanted to save him on my own. Lu Chao fell into their trap because he was framed by Aunt Yao. It was not him who harmed me. He did not harm me."
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