"Hong Bai?" Mrs. Lu stared blankly at the tall man at the door. Before she could see his expression clearly, her hand was burned with a sharp pain from the hot bird's nest.
"Ouch——"
Mr. Lu let out a scream.
Grandma Sun hurriedly went up to wipe her hands, and said in a friendly voice, "I'm so old now, why are you still so reckless? Don't be careful to scare the old lady."
She is considered an elder in the family, and the most trusted person of the Lu family. She has watched Jun Hongbai grow up since she was a child, and she feels that her relationship with him is unusual, so her words are inevitably a bit casual.
It wasn't a big deal, but when Jun Hongbai heard this, he said to her harshly and sternly: "You are not allowed to interrupt the master's work, talk about the master at will, and slap him!"
There was silence in the house.
"Hongbai, have you gone crazy after drinking and drinking? This is Grandma Sun, not the little maids around you who just kill and sell!"
The image of Maple Leaf violently hitting a pillar and dying came to mind. Thinking of the possible methods behind it, Jun Hongbai felt angry and painful in his heart, and his tone became even more angry:
"Nanny Sun can't kill and sell at will, so other servants are not human beings, so she can kill them at will?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Mrs. Lu ignored the pain in her hands and winked at Grandma Sun.
He didn't want this glance to anger Jun Hongbai even more.
"What does grandma want to ask Grandma Sun to do? To instigate the little maid to harm others? To harm Shen Qingluan? Or to harm Wen Niang, or someday, if grandma doesn't like me anymore, she will also poison me to death!"
It would be no exaggeration to say that these words shocked the Lu family to the core!
"Crack-"
The porcelain bowl in her hand fell to the ground, but Mrs. Lu didn't care, she just hissed and said in fear:
"What nonsense are you talking about! What kind of harm, little maid, where did you come to question your biological grandmother on hearsay? Is it Shen Qingluan? Is she sowing discord in front of you!
Come on, come on! Call Shen Qingluan over, I want to see how the matriarch of the family came up with such a dirty trick to frame the elders! "
In the extreme panic, Mrs. Lu had long forgotten about calmness, strategy, or kindness, and just shouted towards the door in panic.
Everyone in the Zhenyuan Hou Mansion knew how important Du Wenniang was to Jun Hongbai.
But it can be seen from the fact that the last time the Lu family was exposed for using Du Wenniang's dowry, she had to chant and beat her up to get the matter out of the way.
Now, this is not just a dead thing like a dowry, but a human life!
Does Mrs. Lu dare to take responsibility for Du Wenniang's death? Throw this burden away, throw it away, throw it away!
No matter if it's Shen Qingluan or someone else, it can't be herself!
"What does it have to do with Shen Qingluan!"
Jun Hongbai looked at Lu's back silently, clenching his fists with veins showing inch by inch.
If Mrs. Lu was willing to look back at her grandson, she would definitely find that Jun Hongbai was more disappointed than angry at this moment.
"Shen Qingluan had not yet married in when Wen Niang passed away. What's more, now that she has been driven back to her parents' home by her grandmother, what else can she do?"
All Lu's shouts and shouts were stuck in his throat so comically that he couldn't make any sound.
She didn't dare to look back, so she missed the complicated emotions in Jun Hongbai's eyes.
"Grandma, my grandson just wants to hear the truth today." Jun Hongbai walked slowly behind Mrs. Lu.
"Did grandma do anything to Wen Niang?"
The deep and painful sound struck Lu's heart like a sharp stone.
Do you have?
All kinds of thoughts were intertwined in Lu's mind. She stood tremblingly, feeling a pain in her brain.
"No." After she said these two words subconsciously, she immediately regretted it.
In fact, killing Du Wenniang was not a big deal, but now that she has been bitten to death and refused to admit it, she has been disadvantaged.
If he admits it and talks about his difficulties, Jun Hongbai's ears are weak, and even if he is angry, it will only be temporary.
But Jun Hongbai didn't give her a chance to regret, and his voice was so deep that it almost froze: "No? Grandma dare to swear to God?"
Lu's eyelids twitched, she lowered her head to avoid Jun Hongbai's gaze, and said vaguely: "What's wrong with this? I swear -"
"Grandma swears on my life."
"Wha...what?" Mr. Lu was stunned and didn't react for a moment.
Jun Hongbai took two steps forward and approached her, looking directly at her with his dark eyes:
"Grandma swears on her grandson's life that if grandma secretly harms Wen Niang and Qing Luan, she will cause her grandson to be struck by thunder and no one will be left alive."
He read the last sentence word by word and with great emphasis...
Lu suddenly became frightened.
He had never seen Jun Hongbai look like this before.
Like a leopard out of control, or a wolf at the end of its rope.
"Grandma, do you dare to swear?" Jun Hongbai's tone was faint, as if he was not talking, but eating human flesh and drinking human blood.
All the courage and determination in Mr. Lu's body leaked out under this look.
She opened her mouth, but she really didn't know what to say.
Jun Hongbai has now confirmed what she did. If she quibbles, she will not care about the safety of her only grandson.
Even if she was not found guilty in the end, she would still be regarded as a cruel and ruthless villain in her heart.
But if she admits...
Lu felt a chill in her heart
Admit that she harmed Du Wenniang?
No, no, she must not admit it!
How deeply does Jun Hongbai care for Du Wenniang?
Back then, Du Wenniang just shouted tired, and Jun Hongbai left the seriously ill Lu Baba and ran to Du Wenniang to take care of her.
She would always remember Du Wenniang's unstoppable pride in Jun Hongbai's eyes. Just one look made Mr. Lu determined to get rid of her.
Damn it, why didn't she die a clean death? He robbed her of her good grandson while she was alive, and then tried to sow discord between her and her grandson after her death!
Bitch, bitch, bitch!
Although he thought about it a lot, it only took a moment for Lu to make a decision.
She pushed Jun Hongbai away, her wrinkled face full of bluff anger:
"I swear, why should I swear! Why should I swear for something I have never done! Hongbai, don't you know who is your dearest person in Zhenyuan House and who is really planning for you? !
Du Wenniang is your wife, but she clings to the dowry and refuses to help pave the way for you, causing you to waste five years! Shen Qingluan is your wife, but she protects the Shen family and refuses to help you. She even has no respect for me. "
She hadn't been able to look in the mirror, so she didn't know that every wrinkle on her face showed guilt and cruelty.
"Which of your two wives has planned for you as wholeheartedly as me? For you, I even sacrificed my face and refused to borrow money from my parents' family. Over the years, I have refused to do anything you want, and in exchange for this, you have been so disobedient to me!
Do you know that now that Jun Chengsong is back, he dislikes us and our grandson the most? Why are you making this fuss? Is it to put the handle in his hands and let him kill us and our grandson? Hold on tight! "
After finishing speaking, Jun Hongbai remained silent, and the room was silent.
The only sounds left were Lu's rough exchanges and choked sobs.
She was waiting, waiting for Jun Hongbai to compromise.
After all, in the past, these words worked very well.
Jun Hongbai's temperament inherited nine points from the Lu family, and he was most of all a pursuit of fame and fortune.
For the sake of profit, he was willing to let go of the Lu family's private misappropriation of Du Wenniang's dowry, and he was also willing to go against Shen Qingluan's will.
This would temporarily shelve Du Wenniang's deadly feud for the sake of profit, so it's not impossible to think about it.
She made a good calculation, but she ignored the look of sadness and hatred in Jun Hongbai's eyes.
It was not because of Du Wenniang's death, but because he clearly knew that his heart was indeed shaken by Lu's words.
At one moment just now, he really wanted to lower his head and expose this matter.
It was this slight wavering that made him realize what a despicable person he was.
He considers himself to be a self-restrained and polite man, a man of integrity, kindness and responsibility.
The fact gave him a slap in the face.
He is indeed pursuing fame and fortune, and he is indeed selfish and shallow. Even his own grandmother sees him so clearly.
Inexplicably, Shen Qingluan's sarcastic and mocking eyes suddenly appeared in his mind.
It turns out that her contempt, her contempt, and her superiority do not come from her arrogance, not from her arrogant and trapped surname of the Shen family, but from her heart.
With her integrity, nobility, pride and perseverance, she is indeed qualified to look down on him.
At this moment, Jun Hongbai seemed to have been kicked up by some beast's hoof, and his whole body was filled with low self-esteem.
What made him feel even more inferior was that even though he could see it clearly in his heart, he still couldn't break up with Mr. Lu and seek justice for Du Wenniang as he imagined.
The anger and anger that came with it will seem like a joke and disappear.
Mrs. Lu didn't know the overwhelming pain in his heart. Seeing his face gradually calming down, she thought that he had been persuaded by her just like the time when he found out that she had misappropriated the dowry.
My heart was filled with relief, and my eyes were filled with tears. I don't know if these tears were more about repentance, or more about fear and relief.
"My dear grandson," Mrs. Lu stepped forward to grab Jun Hongbai's hand, "now that you have grown up, you should know that the world is not black and white, but has many gray areas.
Grandma is not a noble girl like Shen Qingluan, nor does she have a wealthy family background like Du Wenniang. Grandma is a peasant girl. She is able to make such a future for you and your father today because of the tricks I came up with on my own. . "
Speaking of this, Mrs. Lu couldn't help but feel sincere, and used even more force on her hands.
"Grandma may have done something wrong, but just one thing. I did ten things, and they were all for you, and for the two younger generations, Yuan'er and Qian'er.
Hongbai, we are a family! "
family!
These three words were like a curse, causing Jun Hongbai's temples to ache.
During the years when he was growing up, Mrs. Lu always had a loving, kind and kind face.
So every time Du Wenniang said that Mr. Lu was cruel and had trouble with him, Jun Hongbai never took it to heart.
Then, Shen Qingluan came to the door. He had no affection for Shen Qingluan and became even more neglectful towards her.
Whenever Mr. Lu gets into trouble, he has to stand by Mr. Lu and force Shen Qingluan to admit his mistakes and bow his head.
But during these days, Mrs. Lu slowly peeled off the hypocritical mask on her face, revealing the vicious inside.
