Lu Anran reached into the charcoal basin and fished it out. He pinched off the burned corners with his fingers. When he saw that the cover of the book was slightly damaged and the content was intact, he took a heavy breath and later realized that several of his fingers had been burned. After getting over the pain, he started to feel numb and sore.
"It's really the other way around!" Mrs. Lu slapped the table and said with raised eyebrows: "Someone, please hold her down."
Lu Anran raised her face, and her curtain fell off due to the movement just now. Now half of the twisted and ferocious face was exposed in Mrs. Lu's eyes. They suddenly met her, and Mrs. Lu's eyelids twitched fiercely. .
"This is not a medical book, it contains medicinal ingredients written on it." Lu Anran's clear eyes did not dodge, looking straight at Mrs. Lu. She was quiet and dark, as if she could see the bottom, but she seemed not to be able to see through it at all.
Madam Lu didn't like these eyes, they were too revealing!
Lu Anran turned to the first page. Mother Ma had already gotten up. She leaned over and took a few glances. She had followed the old lady, a talented woman, since she was a child, so she was literate.
After reading it, he nodded to Mrs. Lu, the eldest lady did not lie.
Lu Jianyu's eyes flashed, "It's just a book of ingredients, why would my eldest sister sacrifice her life to save her?"
A flash of suspicion flashed across Madam Lu's eyes, and she winked at Mother Ma.
Mother Ma understood. She flipped through the book and replied, "It's indeed medicinal food."
Lu Jianyu frowned slightly. She still didn't believe it. She wanted to say something else, so she asked her second wife Yu to secretly hold her finger and press it.
"Grandma, since I have nothing else to do, I will go back to my room to collect my punishment." Lu Anran pressed her fingers slightly to hold the burned corners of the book, lowering her eyes and saying expressionlessly.
Mrs. Lu was really bored when she saw Lu Anran's face, and her expression did not hide her displeasure and contempt. However, the more she saw Lu Anran's calmness, the more she felt the anger rising in her heart.
"You don't respect your grandmother or your ancestors, which shows that your father is not strict with you in daily life. There is no need to go back to your room. Just go to the ancestral hall and kneel. When you have reflected on it, come out."
Lu Anran did not refute or defend herself, "I know."
Stepping out of the living room, after a moment of silence, laughter came from the old lady's yard again, but it had nothing to do with Lu Anran.
She turned around and almost bumped into someone.
"Miss, eldest lady." The other person spoke first, seeming to be shocked.
Lu Anran raised her eyes: "Third Aunt."
The visitor was Qian from the third room. Her frightened eyes were like a frightened deer, unable to look directly at Lu Anran's face. She smiled dryly and said, "Miss, where are you going? I'll give you a way."
"I did something wrong, and my grandmother asked me to go to the ancestral hall to kneel and reflect." Lu Anran said without emotion.
Qian opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but she didn't know what to say.
"Third Aunt, go and do your work." Lu Anran nodded to her and walked forward past Qian.
Qian looked at Lu Anran's back, hesitated for a moment, lowered his eyelids and left quickly.
Lu Anran walked for a while, stopped and turned around. Qian's back was half obscured by the waving trees in the garden, and she could only vaguely see the rose-red skirt.
Lu Anran raised a corner of his mouth mockingly.
Probably no one in Mengdu would have thought that the eldest daughter of the Lu family, whom everyone said was the pampered eldest daughter of the Lu family, was actually disliked by her grandmother at home, regarded as a thorn in the side of her second wife, and avoided by her third wife like a snake or scorpion.
She lowered her head to open the pharmacopoeia in her hand, flicked her fingers twice at the footer of the first page, and tore open a piece of paper filled with medicinal ingredients. Underneath was a map of human acupuncture points.
It's better to hide than to reveal. Let all of you see it openly, and you won't have any doubts in the future.
Lu Anran was afraid of trouble, so before returning home, he made a special trip to the study and glued the pages with the medicinal diet to the pharmacopoeia by grinding them again.
Naturally, not every page will be posted, but Lu Anran calculated that when someone turns the page, the heavy parts of the book will automatically open, and no matter who looks at it, they will only see those pages.
