Chapter 30: The Mid-Autumn Festival
"Go and kneel in the ancestral hall. You can't come out without my permission." Xu's face was stern and she hugged her daughter tightly.
Lu Yuanxiao hung his head and said "oh" dejectedly.
Then he went to kneel in the ancestral hall silently.
Dengzhi's legs and feet were so weak from fright that he just came back to his senses.
[Mother, please don’t blame my brother. Chao Chao really wants to go out…]
Baji, he gave Xu a kiss on the face.
Mrs. Xu glanced at her daughter who was laughing heartlessly and said, "You are the happiest person today. But you scared your mother to death." She was terrified just thinking about it.
"The young master also likes my sister, Madam..." Dengzhi wanted to plead for Lu Yuanxiao.
Lu Yuanxiao is usually sweet-talker and never puts on airs, so the maids all love him very much.
Xu glared at her in reproach: "Alright, kneel down until after dinner."
Dengzhi immediately gave the order happily, asking for dinner to be served half an hour earlier today.
"Madam, you seem to be in high spirits because of the good news." Dengzhi couldn't help but smile. If Madam wasn't in a good mood today, I'm afraid the young master would have been in big trouble.
Xu pursed her lips and chuckled.
Early this morning, all the things that were lost from her private vault were recovered, and she also received a large sum of compensation.
At least she was compensated financially for all the hard work she had done over the years.
I'm afraid the Marquis' Mansion is just an empty shell.
"Well, the old lady had dark circles under her eyes early in the morning. She said she wanted to go burn incense."
"I'm afraid he looked over there." Dengzhi was unconvinced.
"Madam, how about..."
"Let's get divorced?" Dengzhi thought about it countless times and finally said this.
Lu Chaochao jumped up in his arms in an instant and said, "Divorce, divorce, divorce!" 】
[Change new dad, change new dad!] 】
"Look, the young lady is secretly happy." Dengzhi really didn't want the lady to be tortured again.
Just thinking about how she had lived in a scam for the past seventeen years made her feel sorry for her wife.
Xu looked slightly stunned.
"Dengzhi, I have three sons and one daughter. Since ancient times, when a woman divorced and returned home, she did not take her children with her." Unless the other party voluntarily gives up.
Now, Lu Yuanze’s chips are not enough.
Not enough for him to abandon several children.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Dengzhi ordered someone to prepare dinner.
In the evening, the old lady and Lu Yuanze returned to the Marquis' Mansion. They both looked tired, with a hint of anger in their eyes.
Xu disrupted all their plans.
"Your wife is so vicious. She actually wants to destroy Jing Huai!"
"Jing Huai is the son of my Marquis' Mansion and the hope of the Marquis' Mansion! Did you see how Jing Huai was trying hard to suppress his loneliness today? It made me feel so sad." The old lady held her handkerchief and cried.
Nanny Lin was her confidant, but she was also pushed out to take the blame, and this time she was seriously injured.
"She is also a mother, how can she be so cruel?"
"Just because the bastard she gave birth to is not good enough, does that mean she has to ruin other people's children?" The old lady slammed her cane on the ground with a thud.
Lu Yuanze frowned.
"Mom, be careful with your words! They are not bastards, they are also my children!" Lu Yuanze looked a little hesitant.
The old lady slammed her cane on his head.
He covered his head in pain, and blood oozed from his palm.
“Confused!”
"If it was Yanshu back then, it would be fine. But now, he is a cripple! A cripple who needs someone to take care of him, including eating, drinking, defecating and urinating!"
"Stay alive and you will only bring shame to our mansion!"
"How smart is Jing Huai? He is famous in the capital! Jing Yao is even more so, she got the prophecy from the abbot, which is invaluable! And what about Jiao Jiao? She has been following you without any status and has been wronged for seventeen years!"
"Xu Shiyun, that vicious woman!" The old lady looked resentful.
This time, Jing Huai's reputation was almost ruined and he almost lost everything.
"Her family is powerful. I had originally planned that if her baby died young, I would raise Jingyao under her name. If she had the baby under her name, she would have feelings for him and would not be on guard." There is always a chance to do anything to the Xu family and Xu Shiyun.
In the future, Jingyao will kill her own relatives for the sake of justice and gain a good reputation!
pity……
"If Jingyao was here, we would be able to ease the pain of missing each other. We have a good granddaughter, but we have to raise her outside, hiding her from the public."
Lu Yuanze's eyes moved slightly, but he said nothing.
As it got darker, the servants in the mansion closed the doors and windows and checked whether there were door gods posted on them.
Midnight...
Waves of white mist emerged from the sky, covering everything.
In the white fog, there appeared faintly various terrifying creatures with bared fangs and claws.
There are headless people wandering around aimlessly, looking for their head. There are broken arms and limbs, bloody mouths, and all kinds of strange and terrifying creatures.
All floating in the sky.
There were faint sharp sounds in my ears.
Xu was wearing clothes, and Dengzhi didn't even dare to light the oil lamp. She said in the moonlight: "Madam, don't worry, there are door gods posted everywhere. There is also black dog blood sprinkled on the foot of the wall, it's safe."
Xu glanced at Lu Chaochao who was sleeping Anran, and kicked off the quilt because she was too hot, revealing her snow-white belly.
Xu pulled Chaochao's clothes to cover her belly.
"Today, I'm afraid it's better to just sleep in the morning."
"Has Yuanxiao gone out? Did he have his meal?" Xu looked a little embarrassed.
Juexia chuckled and lowered her voice: "Don't worry, Brother Yuanxiao has already gone back to rest. Before he left, I sent someone to deliver some snacks."
"It should be paraded in the streets now."
The whistling sound of the wind outside the door was faintly mixed with the howling of ghosts and wolves, which made people's scalps tingle.
"Every July 15th, people are in a panic, alas." Dengzhi sighed.
"Tonight seems to be more terrifying than previous years. The fog is so thick that you can't even see your hand in front of you. It's all white and you can't see anything." In previous years, as long as you closed the gate, you could still move around in the yard.
But this year, the white fog actually entered the mansion.
White fog entered the mansion, and it seemed that many inexplicable things appeared in the mansion.
"Have all the servants gone into the house to make way?" asked Mrs. Xu.
It is midsummer, but I feel a bone-chilling cold. I touched my arm and got goose bumps all over.
"I gave them instructions this afternoon to evacuate and return to their houses. There is no one in the yard right now."
"I'm afraid it won't get better until morning."
"My eyelids are twitching so much. I don't know how Yuanxiao is doing?" This was Lu Yuanxiao's first time to participate in a parade.
Bei Zhao stipulated that scholars could participate in parades to exorcise evil spirits after they turned eight years old.
Everything is voluntary.
"Why can't I hear the sound of reading?" In previous years, the deafening sound of reading could be heard everywhere on this street. It can always dispel the terrible darkness and bring a ray of light.
Dengzhi's brow was also a little anxious.
Today is different from previous years.
"It's okay. There's a great monk here, so everything will be safe." She whispered. The two maids, Yingxue and Juexia, also hugged each other and shivered.
Suddenly...
There was a sharp creaking sound next to my ears.
The piercing pains the eardrum.
Several people looked towards the door suddenly.
The door creaked and something seemed to be trying to squeeze in.
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