Chapter 373 Causal Loop
General Lou was completely confused.
When he and Lu Chaochao arrived at the Sang family ancestral hall, they saw Lu Chaochao holding Zhuifeng and dozing off against a pillar in the hall.
Old Mrs. Sang looked determined. Seeing the children and grandchildren in the house, she said, "Check the accounts and get a divorce."
The old lady combed her hair meticulously, which was rigorous yet elegant. She sat in the center of the ancestral hall, with an ill-fitting wedding dress in front of her.
Over the past few decades, her clothes have gradually faded, but her knot in her heart has never faded.
"Why is this happening?" The old man couldn't understand why, at such an old age, they would end up getting divorced.
"We have sons and daughters, and a house full of grandchildren. They are filial and successful, and we live in harmony and comfort. I take charge of major family matters, and you take charge of minor matters. What else are you dissatisfied with?"
"Every time you throw a tantrum, I always come to comfort you personally. For decades, you have never had a complaint." The old man didn't understand. They had lived in harmony and smoothly all their lives, so why did they want to get divorced?
"Yes, they are all trivial matters in your eyes." The old lady raised her hand and stroked the wedding dress in front of her.
Her hands have become rough, her figure has become out of shape, her hair has turned gray, and she can no longer wear wedding clothes.
"Back then, I was thin and she was plump. I wore an empty and ill-fitting wedding dress and cried out of grievance, but you said it was a small matter."
"She came back with a bulging belly to beg for mercy, and you bought her a yard. You said it was nothing."
"Her son couldn't find a good job, so you secretly arranged for him to live in a farm in the countryside. You said it wasn't worth it for just a few cents."
"What you see as a trivial matter is, in my eyes, a knot in my heart that I cannot get over."
“How many great things can a person achieve in his life? They are all the accumulation of small things.”
"You asked me why I wanted to divorce? Because, probably, it's because I'm about to be buried, but I haven't worn my own wedding dress. I haven't lived my own life yet..."
"You support their whole family, so why would you care about my feelings? Never mind, Chao Chao is right, I have to live for myself."
"Write a divorce letter."
The children who were kneeling below and begging the old lady to think twice were all stunned.
"It's a barely-there marriage, it's a barely-there wedding dress, I've been trying hard for my parents' family and my children all my life..." The children's words of consolation suddenly stopped.
"Be generous all your life and you will have peace in your home." The old lady smiled bitterly.
General Lou pursed his lips tightly, and Old Man Sang gently pushed him: "Go and persuade her..."
General Lou looked at his aunt intently. It turned out that his aunt was not happy.
He took a deep breath and said, "Aunt, the Lou family is already strong, and there is no need for you to put yourself in a difficult position. If you insist on getting a divorce, the Lou family will always welcome you home."
Mr. Sang was so angry that he pushed him.
The old lady has accumulated a lot of private property over the years, so how could she really go back to the Lou family?
But General Lou's words undoubtedly comforted her.
"Aunt's boudoir has been preserved and someone cleans it every day. Why don't you go home and stay for a few days? The little rascals in the mansion all miss you." General Lou spoke immediately.
The old lady wrote the divorce papers without waiting for the old man to sign them.
He immediately asked the nanny to count the items. The house was in a mess, and even the children of the Sang family did not try to stop him.
Lu Chaochao urged Xie Yuzhou: "Hurry up, hurry up, the chance to make a fortune has come."
"What kind of fortune can I make?" Xie Yuzhou looked confused.
"Didn't you ask me where all these good things came from? Today I will help you get rich!"
Lu Chaochao followed behind with a sophisticated look: "Old lady, do you still want this double-sided embroidered screen with a painting of a thousand miles of rivers and mountains?"
The old lady waved her hand: "He gave it to me, I don't want it anymore."
Lu Chaozhao waved her hand and said, "Drag him away."
"Old lady, was this pot of silver willow a gift from him? Do you still want it?" Lu Chaochao followed behind eagerly.
"It makes me upset, so I don't want it anymore."
"Take it away, take it away." Lu Chaochao waved her hands quickly, and Xie Yuzhou was dumbfounded watching from behind.
"Grandma, what else in this room was given by grandpa? Chaochao will never let you feel upset when you see it!" the little guy asked obediently.
The old lady pointed out several kinds in succession, and Lu Chaochao even didn't miss any of the table decorations.
The old lady asked someone to pack their luggage and go back to Lou’s house.
When the two quarreled, they couldn't stand each other and took advantage of Lu Chaochao regardless of the value.
Xie Yuzhou followed behind and exclaimed: "What a genius! A genius!!"
The old man sat on the steps, looking sad and crying. He murmured, "Why is it like this? Why is it like this?"
"Did I really do something wrong?"
Lu Chaochao also sat next to him: "Go and get the guy outside to come in."
The old man wanted to cry but had no tears: "She looked down on me at the beginning and would rather elope with an actor than leave. That was the humiliation of my life. I never thought of marrying her!!"
"Then you are willing to support their family even if it means alienating your wife. Are you sick?" Xie Yuzhou spat.
The old man lowered his head and remained silent.
"You haven't let go of your worries, and you've also let the people who love you get caught up in them. You've been wasting your life on internal harassment. Am I just a substitute..."
"The concubine of the Lou family owes you something, but your legal wife never owes you anything." Lu Chaochao put her hands in her pockets and spoke in a cold tone.
"No, she is not a substitute! After decades of marriage, I have never regretted it and I have never treated her as a substitute." The old man denied it immediately.
He just couldn't accept the humiliation he suffered in his youth.
The old man stood up and said, "I'll let them go now. Get out of here!"
Lu Chaochao yawned and held her face with both hands: "Getting out is not enough."
"You owe her, what she wants, have you ever thought about it?"
The old man felt heavy in his heart when he thought of the faded wedding dress.
"I know what to do."
After the old man left, Sang Heli came out from the corner. He frowned and looked at Lu Chaochao in confusion.
Sang Heli is the head of the Sang family and the eldest grandson of the old man and the old lady.
The young man was wearing a moon-white priest robe, looking like a cold and aloof priest.
"Princess Zhaoyang, have you figured out anything?" His voice was cold, his eyes full of curiosity.
"The old lady only has thirty-six days left to live. You can see that, right?" Lu Chaochao asked him, holding his little face.
The young priest nodded.
"My grandmother and grandfather had been fighting for their entire lives. I didn't want my grandmother to die with regrets, so I tried countless ways to make them reconcile. But nothing worked."
He bowed to Lu Chaozhao.
"Thank you Princess Zhaoyang for your help in this matter."
What a pity it would be if an old man passed away with a knot in his heart.
"This is the karma I should repay the old lady." Lu Chaochao smiled without explaining. The young priest glanced at her.
Lu Chaochao looked towards the corner of the ancestral hall.
There, there is a memorial tablet without any words on it.
Sang Heli followed her gaze and said softly, "The old lady is kind-hearted. She accidentally picked up a broken bone. It was about the size of a thumb and seemed to have been struck by lightning. It was a bit black."
"The old lady heard that people whose bodies were shattered into pieces could not be reincarnated. So she placed the broken bones in the clan, hoping that they would be worshipped every day and could be reincarnated one day."
Lu Chaochao hummed softly: "I know."
No one knows it better than me.
The young priest looked at her in surprise. This matter had not been spread out, so how could she know about it?
Lu Chaochao...
Because those are the broken bones from my sacrifice.
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