Chapter 279 Chao Chao's Little Abacus
As soon as Lu Yanshu returned home, he heard the news.
He quickly changed into appropriate clothes and took Lu Yuanxiao to find Xu.
"You've only been working for half a month, but you've lost a lot of weight. Can you eat now?" Mrs. Xu asked with concern when she saw her eldest son's thin figure.
"He just came back after using it. How can he be thin? Before, my son couldn't move, and he needed maids to serve him when he ate, drank, defecated and urinated. That was just false obesity. Now he walks more, and his flesh is firm." Lu Yanshu smiled and comforted his mother.
"Yes, yes, firm meat tastes better." Lu Chaochao lay in his mother's arms and raised his head in a daze to reply.
Everyone was stunned, then burst out laughing.
"You are such a foodie. All you think about is food."
Lu Chaochao muttered, "Being able to eat is a blessing. Chaochao is blessed."
"Yes, yes, yes, our family is blessed every day." Lu Yanshu glanced at his mother. Today, the envoys from the Southern Kingdom brought ferocious beasts to the capital, and he was afraid that they had bad intentions.
My mother has connections with the Southern Kingdom’s royal family, I just hope that this won’t affect her.
Lu Yuanze had been waiting at the door.
"Chao Chao, come here, let daddy hold you..." Lu Yuanze's voice was hoarse, and he stretched out his hand with an unshaven beard.
Frightened, Lu Chaochao hugged her mother's neck fiercely: "Mom, where did this homeless person come from? He's so scary!"
Lu Yuanze froze and looked down.
It looked disheveled and even had the old lady's strange smell.
Lu Yuanze retreated awkwardly.
Lu Yanshu got off the carriage himself and helped his mother and third brother get off. Lu Yuanze followed behind with eager eyes. After raising Yunniang for two years, her skin became white and her brows were free of wrinkles. She looked at least ten years younger than when she divorced.
On the other hand, Lu Yuanze looked at least 20 years older after the divorce.
"You look like an old man..." Lu Chaochao laughed mercilessly.
Lu Yuanze felt sad. Before, he had a wife whom he sneered at, but now, she was the happiness he could never even imagine.
"Madam! I greet you! Sir, please come in, I will make you your favorite tea..."
Without Pei, the maids could not hide their joy at all.
They came forward to pay their respects.
Everyone greeted Xu and others and went to Deshan Hall.
Before entering Deshan Hall, Lu Chaochao pinched her nose in disgust: "It stinks, what's so stinky?"
"Did Grandma poop on you?"
Lu Yuanze hurriedly explained: "Chao Chao, grandma has bedsores. Grandmother is also feeling uncomfortable." After saying that, he looked at Xu sadly.
"If you had served mother, she would not have been like this. You have always served mother wholeheartedly."
Xu glanced at her calmly and said, "Maybe she is not worthy. Pei was the daughter-in-law she chose herself."
Lu Yuanze pursed his lips and said nothing.
"Go and see your mother."
"Yanshu Yuanxiao, Chaochao, go and see your grandma." Lu Yuanze's eyes were red.
Lu Chaochao pinched her nose and walked forward, looking at the old lady eagerly.
"Yun... Yunniang, Yunniang..." She cursed Pei every day, which made her speech unclear and she could speak a few words after practicing it.
"You...are me, the best..."
"Son, daughter-in-law." The old lady held Yunniang's hand tightly, her turbid eyes filled with tears.
She looked at Lu Yanshu and Lu Yuanxiao reluctantly. These were her real blood relatives and grandsons!
"Yan Yan Shu..."
"Yuan, Yuanxiao..." The old lady looked at them while drooling.
The grandson whom she once looked down upon has now become her last hope.
The last bloodline of the Lu family.
Yuanze can’t be extinct.
She couldn't be at peace even if she died, she couldn't face the old marquis, and she couldn't face the ancestors of the Lu family.
Most importantly, she couldn't lose to a lowly maid like Qiao Niang!
"Okay, okay. Three, three first prizes..."
"Little, little scholar..." She looked at her two grandsons.
There is also a second grandson who has made great achievements on the battlefield. How could the children born to Xu be so outstanding?
"Yunniang, let's go back home. Mom, I apologize..." She spoke with a crooked mouth and a thick tongue.
"Mom, please, it's up to you." She held Xu's hand tightly.
"Recognize my ancestors, return to the Lu family, descendants! Return..." She spoke each word clearly, gasping for breath, and forced herself to hold on to her breath without swallowing.
Lu Yuanze couldn't bring himself to do that.
But when she was dying, she was able to deceive Xu.
The Xu family is most susceptible to this.
"The Lu family cannot be extinct, Yunniang..." The old lady prayed in tears.
Lu Chaochao lay in front of the old lady, looking at her eagerly.
"Chao, Chao, do you miss your grandmother?"
"Blood ties can never be severed." The old lady was delighted to see Lu Chaochao looking at her straight in the eyes.
"Chao Chao, do you have anything to say to grandma?" Lu Yuanze encouraged her to speak out.
Perhaps, Yunniang could change her mind?
Lu Chaochao hesitated for a moment before saying, "Grandma, when you die, can I take leave to attend the funeral? I don't want to go to the academy."
"My classmate's grandmother died. You can take three days off to attend the funeral."
The old lady’s eyes were wide open, her eyeballs were bloodshot and almost bulged out, and she made grunting sounds with difficulty.
"Ah! Ah!" The old lady stared with her eyes wide open and gripped Yunniang's wrist tightly, causing Yunniang pain.
“Back, back!”
"Die, die, no, die with your eyes closed!"
"Come back!" The old lady burst into tears, looking as if she would not be able to rest in peace if Xu didn't bring the child back home.
Lu Yuanze knelt down in front of Yunniang with a plop.
"Yunniang, I have let you down in this life. I will never be able to repay you in this lifetime. Yunniang, can you give me a chance to make it up to you and your daughter?"
"Marriage is best with the original spouse. Outsiders are no match for our family."
"Can we go back to the past and be as happy as before?"
"I have already buried Pei, I dare not keep a mistress anymore. The mansion cannot do without you... I was blinded by greed and abandoned you. It's all my fault..." Lu Yuanze knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
"It was my fault to drive you out of the family and remove you from the family tree. But the old marquis has never offended you. Please leave a note for the family and a bloodline."
"The Lu family cannot be extinct, and cannot have no descendants!! From now on, you say one thing in the mansion and I dare not say another. Everything is up to Yunniang! Yunniang, go home!" Lu Yuanze didn't dare to think that the Lu family's foundation would be destroyed in his hands.
Just thinking about it made his blood boil.
He shuddered violently at the thought of having no descendants and no family line.
Xu's expression changed slightly, which made Dengzhi's scalp tingle.
Madam, you won’t be soft-hearted, right?
Xu said gently.
"How can the old marquis be considered extinct? Doesn't he still have Lu Yuanxi, his illegitimate son? After all, he is his bloodline, the old marquis will not despise him."
"Lu Jinghuai was raised by you personally, so a nephew is also half your son, so we are even closer relatives. How could the family be extinct..."
"Lu Yuanze, the old marquis has not been extinct."
"It is you who will be cut off from your descendants and bloodline!"
"Your bloodline is cut off, what does it have to do with me? I came here today..."
"This is an invitation for you. Remember to come and have a drink and share in the wedding atmosphere." Xu took out the gold-embossed wedding invitation from her bosom.
Xu looked at the old lady who was gasping for breath on the bed.
"Old lady, please go with peace of mind. I will go to your grave and pour a glass of wedding wine. I will also drink a sip of my daughter-in-law's wedding wine to witness Yunniang's happiness."
"Just cut off the lineage, it's not a good bloodline anyway."
"Yanshu and the others, just change their father."
After saying this, Xu waved her hand and left with her children.
Lu Chaochao was sweating with anxiety: "Remember to come to the academy to report the death so that I can ask for leave. You must come!"
"It would be better if you died the day after tomorrow. Then I wouldn't have to take the exam."
“You must come!”
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