Chapter 170 Past Events
"I'm thinking we're pretty lucky." Shang Wan threw the hairdryer behind and handed Lu Chengjing another dry handkerchief, "Ale happened to save a little girl, but she didn't expect it to be Erya. Now Erya is recuperating in Qiao Mansion , when he recovers, he can go to the prison to meet Lin Jianshui. "
Thinking of Erya's situation, Shang Wan felt complicated, "The Lin family is also cruel and willing to send their children to the devil's cave. If I were Chen Guifang, I would go crazy and drag their whole family to be buried with them."
After saying that, she couldn't help but yawn.
In this world without nightlife, she is forced to live a regular life.
Lu Chengjing's hair hadn't been dried yet, so he saw this and said, "If you're sleepy, go to bed first. I'll dry my hair and come back soon."
"Waiting for you." Shang Wan put her arms around his slender waist and rested her head lightly on his shoulder. She was so sleepy that even her voice was a little dull.
Lu Chengjing's movements of wiping his hair paused, and then he speeded up. After drying it hastily, he lowered his eyes and looked at the person leaning on his shoulder, only to see a peaceful sleeping face.
He subconsciously made a gentle movement, lifted the person horizontally, placed him on the kang, and blew out the lights and candles.
Shang Wan was just a little confused and woke up as soon as his position changed.
Lu Chengjing pulled Shang Wan into his arms, patted Shang Wan's back, and whispered, "Go to sleep."
"Not sleeping, I suddenly thought of a question." Shang Wan regained consciousness and asked what he had been ignoring, "How do you know these things?"
Lu Chengjing's previous answer was a coincidence, which sounded perfunctory at first glance.
Now that the case has been brought to light, Shang Wan feels the need to ask more clearly.
She stretched out her hand to pinch Lu Chengjing's earlobe and warned, "Don't say it was a coincidence again."
Lu Chengjing told the truth, "Lu Shuhui told me."
"Lu Shuhui?" Shang Wan thought for a while before digging out this character from the memory of the original owner.
Lu Shuhui is Lu Chengjing's second sister. She was originally the daughter of an aunt. However, her mother died of illness when she was still an infant, so she was brought up under the name of Mrs. Lu. Because she was too taciturn, she was no better than the three sons and one daughter of Mrs. Lu. How to get close.
In the second year after she was born, Lu Shuhui was married to Magistrate Zhao of Huzhou Prefecture to fill a house. Lu Shuhui has only returned to her parents' home once since she got married. The rest of the time, she even wrote very few letters.
People in the Lu family basically didn't mention this second aunt, so the original owner knew very little information.
Unexpectedly, Lu Shuhui had contact with Lu Chengjing in private.
"How did she know about this?" Shang Wan raised his eyebrows, "Is it possible that Magistrate Zhao is also involved in this matter?"
Lu Chengjing sneered, "It's more than just involvement."
Shang Wan listened to him quietly. The more he listened, the more he felt that the Lu and Zhao families were a bunch of scum that deserved to go to hell!
The cause of everything was Governor Zhao, and the Lu family could only be regarded as one of the accomplices.
The accomplices were responsible for collecting beautiful-looking young children and secretly sending them to Huzhou Prefecture, with someone picking them up on the way.
When they arrived in Huzhou Prefecture, these young children became the cash cow of Prefect Zhao.
Some were given away when they were young, while others were raised and sent to romantic houses or the backyards of rich squires. When they grow old, they will be sold to neighboring small countries like livestock to squeeze out the last drop of residual value.
Over the years, the hidden thread has become wider and wider, spreading out like a spider web. Once you get stuck, you can't escape. Either he becomes an adulterer or his head is in a different place.
Snowflakes and silver flowed into the wallets of the mastermind and accomplices like water, each sucking the flesh and blood of innocent people and making a lot of money. The collusion between officials and businessmen has led to numerous evil deeds. Even if the people are filled with resentment, they cannot reach heaven because officials are protecting each other. As a result, the people are living in dire straits.
Shang Wan frowned, "Why would Lu Shuhui tell you this?"
"She is also a poor person." Lu Chengjing sighed softly, hugged Shang Wan tighter, and slowly told what happened to Lu Shuhui.
All of this has to start with Lu Shuhui's biological mother, Aunt Qin.
Aunt Qin is the daughter of Mr. Lu's nanny. She is two years younger than Mr. Lu. The two grew up together and are considered childhood sweethearts.
After the nanny died, Aunt Qin had nowhere to go, so she sold herself and became Master Lu's maid. Because of the friendship they had grown up with, Mr. Lu treated her differently from the other maids. As soon as they came and went, there was an affair between the two.
After Mr. Lu took over the personnel affairs, Aunt Qin naturally became his maid.
After Mr. Lu married Mrs. Lu, he raised Aunt Qin from a maid to a serious aunt.
Aunt Qin is a docile and non-deviant person. Because of her childhood friendship, Mr. Lu took good care of her. Unfortunately, her health became weak after giving birth. She was often too sick to get out of bed, and she died soon after.
When she was dying, Aunt Qin was thinking about her only daughter and begged Mr. Lu to record his daughter in Mrs. Lu's name. She would definitely find a good family for his daughter in the future. Even after she died, she would still remember the kindness of Mr. and Mrs. Lu.
Mr. Lu felt pity in his heart and agreed happily.
But this pity dissipated quickly with the death of Aunt Qin.
After all, the happiness of a biological daughter cannot compare with the prosperity and wealth of the Lu family.
However, a young girl in her twenties was married by her biological father to a man who was nearly fifty years old and older than her father to fill her house.
Lu Shuhui refused in her heart, but there was no one to support her, and she was too cowardly to resist, so she just stepped into the fire pit of the Zhao family.
Magistrate Zhao's first wife gave birth to him two sons and a daughter. The daughter was as old as Lu Shuhui, his stepmother.
In the backyard of the Zhao Mansion, there are many orioles and swallows, including seven or eight aunts, more maidservants, and three children of common concubines, all of whom are older than Lu Shuhui.
How could Lu Shuhui, an untouched bride, be the opponent of these people?
My two pregnancies resulted in miscarriage, and then I finally gave birth to a daughter by relying on folk remedies. However, my body was damaged due to childbirth, and I was unable to have children again in the future.
I thought I would have a daughter to accompany me, but I never thought that my daughter would die before she was even one year old.
Lu Shuhui almost went crazy and talked about her daughter in confusion all day long. The disliked Magistrate Zhao sent her back to her parents' home and asked her to recover before returning.
Mr. Lu complained that Lu Shuhui had never given birth to a son for Magistrate Zhao, and that all the future family property would be in the hands of the first wife's children, and he disliked Lu Shuhui very much.
Mrs. Lu didn't care about this daughter who was not her own, and she even had some resentment in her heart, so she wouldn't care about it.
The servants took advantage of the situation and added insult to injury, which made Lu Shuhui's spirit even worse. She had a will to die and wanted to commit suicide by throwing herself into a well.
Lu Chengjing happened to save the person. Maybe Lu Shuhui just wanted someone to talk to, so she told Lu Chengjing regardless of what should be said and what should not be said.
At that time, Lu Chengjing was just glad that no one was around, otherwise both of their lives would have been affected by her words.
Regardless, after venting her anger, Lu Shuhui returned to her senses. She was still frightened and begged Lu Chengjing not to tell anyone, otherwise neither of them would survive.
Lu Chengjing couldn't do anything, so he agreed according to Lu Shuhui's words. Not long after that, Mr. Lu sent Lu Shuhui, who was in better spirits, back to Huzhou Mansion.