Lu Yin thought of everything about the Lu family, his eyes were full of fear, and he couldn't hide his trembling when his voice was sharp.
"I don't want to go back. If I don't go back to the Lu family, they will kill me when I go back..."
"Tang Ning, Tang Ning, please don't send me back. I beg you, I know I'm wrong...My cousin knows I'm wrong...I beg you, please save me..."
He knelt on the ground and reached out to grab Tang Ning's sleeves, as if grasping a life-saving straw.
"I, I can't go back to the Lu family, I can't go back..."
Tang Ning looked at Lu Yin who was crying bitterly, frowned and said, "You said that the Lu family wants to kill you?"
Lu Yin said anxiously: "Really, they want to kill me." He rolled up his sleeves, revealing mottled scars: "They beat me every day and tortured me in every possible way. Last night they almost pushed me into a well. Here, if I fell, I’d probably die there.”
"Tang Ning, I carried you on my back when I was a child. I, I even took you riding a horse. You once called me cousin. Even because of past friendship, please save me."
He was crying in a panic, holding on to Tang Ning's sleeves and begging softly.
Seeing that Tang Ning was being pulled crookedly, Yue Jian wanted to kick him away, but still refused to let go when Lu Yin fell to the ground.
Yue Jian's face turned cold and she wanted to step on his claws, but Tang Ning stopped her. She lowered her eyes and looked at Lu Yin who threw herself on the ground and pulled her cuffs red. There was a moment of confusion on her face.
Once upon a time, she had begged the boy like this, begging him to call him "cousin", begging him to save her out of love for her childhood. She cried again and again that she had never done it, and wanted to ask him A trace of mercy, but in the end she got nothing but cold words and ridicule. The extremely pitiful young man in front of her even pushed her into the abyss of hell with his own hands.
——Don’t call me cousin, I find it disgusting!
——Song Tangning, look at how ugly you look now, why don’t you die! !
Tang Ning originally wanted to send Lu Yin directly back to the Lu family, but seeing what he looked like now, she suddenly changed her mind. After waving Yue Jian away, she squatted down and faced Lu Yin.
"Cousin, it's not that I don't miss my old friendship."
"cousin…"
Lu Yin suddenly raised his head, his face covered with tears full of surprise.
There was a lantern hanging above the girl's head, and when the light and shadow fell on her face, her eyebrows softened as if remembering the past.
"I'm not a cold-hearted person, so how could I really not remember my past family ties?"
"I still remember you protecting me from fights when I was little. I remember you and my brother taking me fishing and riding horses. Every time you got into trouble, you always begged me pitifully to cover for you and your aunt."
"You used to be the most filial to my aunt. You would remember her every time you picked a wild fruit. You also said that even if I wait until I get married, you will always protect me."
"I have always thought that you are the best cousin in the world, and my aunt also regards you as her pride. But why did you do that to your aunt before, and why did you do that to me?"
"You almost killed my aunt and I."
If Tang Ning had asked sternly, Lu Yin might not have felt uncomfortable, but when she spoke so softly and looked at him with sadness in her eyes, Lu Yin wanted to bury his head in the ground.
"I was wrong. I really know I was wrong. I didn't want to harm my mother-in-law, and I didn't want to harm you either..."
That night, he didn't know that his father wanted the mother's life. He thought that the mother had really killed the old concubine. When he knew the truth, he was scared to death.
Those crossbow arrows kill people, my father is so cruel, he just wants to save his life...
"It's my father... he lied to me, he lied to me..."
"Tang Ning, I know I was wrong. Can you please forgive me for once? I won't dare to do it again..."
Tang Ning frowned: "Cousin, you scratched me and hurt me."
Lu Yin quickly let go of his hand and cried: "I, I didn't mean to..."
"I know my cousin didn't mean it. He was just afraid, right?"
The girl took the handkerchief and wiped the stains on his face.
"Don't be afraid, cousin, you didn't hurt me."
Facing the soft voice of the girl in front of him that he hadn't seen for a long time, he watched her gently wipe her face and said with trust that he would not hurt her.
Guilt surged up in his heart like a tide. He suddenly remembered that when he was a child, Tang Ning was ill for a while and she didn't want anyone. Only when he and Song Jinxiu left did the little girl smile softly.
She would always grab his clothes and call him cousin, she would hold sweet cakes to share with him, and she would happily play around with him. But as she got older, she became well-behaved and sensible, and no longer liked being with him. Playful.
He was tired of her only talking about Lu Zhinian, and he was tired of her talking about rules everywhere and becoming dull and unpleasant.
He began to get impatient with the "cousin" in her mouth, and felt that she was unpleasant in every way, but he forgot that every time he got into trouble, his cousin would still help him and beg for mercy from his mother and concubine immediately...
Lu Yin suddenly burst into tears and covered his face with his hands in panic, not daring to look at Tang Ning.
Tang Ning listened to his wails and whispered sadly, "I know my cousin is in a difficult situation. You must have had a hard time in the Lu family when you came to me, but you know my relationship with the Lu family. If I left you in Jiuyun Lane, how could the Lu family let it go after finding out?"
"They just attacked me and almost killed me. My aunt and I are both weak women. Not only will we not be able to help my cousin, we may even lose our lives."
"Cousin, I also want to help you, but..."
The girl's voice was choked, and Lu Yin hurriedly looked up and saw her biting her lips, with red eyes full of guilt.
Although Lu Yin had a bad life after returning to the Lu family, he was not completely ignorant of the outside news. He knew that the Lu family had attacked Tang Ning and almost killed His Majesty. The Lu family was blamed for this, and Lu Chongyuan was also Demoted from official position.
In the past few days, when the young nephews and nephews of the Lu family attacked him, they cursed and cursed with anger, many of which were directed at Tang Ning.
Tangning didn't lie to him.
"It's all my fault. If I were more powerful, I could protect my cousin." Tang Ning's eyes were red.
Lu Yin looked at her sad look and suddenly felt that he had committed a great crime.
"No, it's me. I didn't take care of you." He whispered: "I...I'm sorry..."
"It's not my fault, cousin. It's because the Lu family bullied others too much."
Tang Ning frowned lightly: "The matter between King Cheng and the Lu family has nothing to do with my cousin. If King Cheng hadn't been so cruel, my cousin would have been a descendant of the aristocratic family at this time, just like Lu Zhinian back then, whose status was no lower than that of the prince. How much, but now my cousin is obviously of Lu family blood, but he is being bullied like this."
"Even if Prince Cheng had an affair with the Guan family, my cousin is so innocent. Even when His Majesty questioned the palace, he never implicated your cousin. He only sent you back to the Lu family. Even if Lu Chongyuan and the others don't like you, why would they embarrass you like this?"
"Cousin, didn't your father and mother help you?"
