Shengjing Noble

Chapter 230 Speaking freely

"He's working hard?"

Lu Wanjun seemed to have heard something incredible. She was stunned for a moment and was shocked by the old woman's twisted logic.

The old lady continued to speak shamelessly, feeling good about herself: "Hmph, to put it bluntly, you can't leave my son at all. You tried every possible means to reconcile with my son, but you didn't dare to kneel down and beg, so you could only use this despicable method to threaten my son."

"Alas..." She sighed and continued as if to compromise, "Forget it, considering that you have been law-abiding for so many years, I agree that you can return to the Su family as a maid and continue to serve me and Yongcheng."

"But you have to let my son be promoted to a fifth-rank official first. Otherwise, not to mention the maid, you won't even be able to enter the Su family's gate again! Do you understand?"

Looking at her face that looked ferocious because of her sarcasm and harshness, Lu Wanjun felt so disgusted that she felt like ants were crawling all over her body.

Marrying Su Yongcheng in the past was more humiliating to her than committing a crime!

She was so angry that she laughed, and couldn't help but curse: "You old man, do you want to listen to what you are saying?"

"You dare to scold me? Believe it or not, I will have someone kick you out immediately!" The old lady slammed the table angrily, thinking that her threat was very effective.

But who would have thought that Lu Wanjun would kick over the table in front of her.

"You are not qualified to chase me away! Since you are so shameless, I will make you wake up today!"

After that, she, Lu Wanjun, said in a loud and resounding voice in front of everyone: "I, Lu Wanjun, swear here that if I still have any thoughts about Su Yongcheng, I will be struck by lightning and die a miserable death! From now on, I will never step into the Su family's doorstep again. Do you understand?"

The old lady's face turned pale and blue, and she was suddenly speechless.

How is it possible... This bitch clearly loves her son so much, how could she swear such a vicious oath...

She was so angry that she was shaking. She raised her finger and pointed at Lu Wanjun: "You...you bitch...you don't love my son so quickly, could it be that you have someone else outside? Yes! You must have been cheating on me, so you have already decided to divorce my son, you fickle bitch!"

Su Lanyin on the side snorted coldly.

This damn old woman, out of anger and humiliation, actually started spreading rumors and causing trouble?

She stepped forward to stop the furious Lu Wanjun, and then asked Chief Steward Liu, "Master Chief Steward, if someone spreads rumors about a fifth-rank imperial lady, what is the crime?"

Upon hearing this, Chief Steward Liu smiled and bowed, very respectfully: "My Lady, if this person is malicious and deliberately spreads rumors to cause trouble, I will immediately return to the palace to report to the emperor and severely punish the rumormonger!"

After hearing these words, the old woman was so frightened that she fell off her chair.

“Ouch…” She grimaced in pain. She wanted to be angry but didn’t dare to. She could only hold it in. Her face became uglier and uglier. “I… I didn’t spread rumors…”

Su Lanyin stepped forward and asked coldly: "Since the old lady didn't spread rumors, then there is evidence to prove that my mother did these things. Please show it to me!"

"She would do it very secretly, how could she be caught with evidence..."

"No evidence!"

Su Lanyin interrupted her with a loud shout, then turned to look at Manager Liu with a serious face.

"Did you hear that, sir? Without any evidence, what else could it be but a rumor? Please investigate carefully!"

Chief Steward Liu glanced at the dumbfounded old woman with a hint of sarcasm, and then said, "Sir Su, your mother is so bold that she dared to spread rumors about the Imperial Madam in public. This is no small crime!"

Su Yongcheng was so frightened when he heard this that he immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "That's not the case, Master General, please calm down. My mother just said some angry words in a fit of anger. She definitely didn't mean to spread rumors. Please forgive her for her advanced age."

Manager Liu frowned, looking helpless: "Our family's words don't count. Sir Su, why don't you ask the county lady what she thinks?"

According to the laws of the Sheng Dynasty, a county princess was equivalent to the second rank, so none of the officials present today was higher than Su Lanyin, even Li Shian was only the third rank.

Su Yongcheng looked at the concubine's daughter who was once despised by him and was not presentable, and now she has transformed into a royal branch and jade leaf. Suddenly, he felt a pain in his heart like a needle piercing his heart. The feeling is really hard to describe.

At this moment, his dignity was trampled on the ground by an invisible big foot, and then crushed to pieces bit by bit.

The old lady was so frightened that she didn't know how to deal with it. If Su Yongcheng refused to give in, the Lu family would never let it go given their hatred for them.

If they were allowed to put this old lady in jail, she would surely die.

He could have ignored it, but he had already been branded ungrateful, so how could he bear the label of being unfilial?

Filial piety is the most important virtue, and the emperor attaches the most importance to filial piety.

Thinking of this, he could only lower his head and said in a reluctant voice: "Lu Wanjun, you also know mother's temper. She just speaks without restraint for a moment, and she has no ill intentions..."

"No ill intentions?" Lu Wanjun rolled her eyes as if she had heard a big joke. She was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, so she said, "Manager Liu told you to ask the county lady what she meant. I am not the county lady."

Su Yongcheng looked deflated and turned to look at Su Lanyin. A fierce cold light flashed in his eyes, but it was quickly hidden.

He took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and said with a sullen face: "Please, County Master, give me some leniency."

Every word he said was so heart-wrenching that my fists seemed to burst.

Su Lanyin looked nonchalant, as if she didn't take him seriously at all.

She just said lightly, "Since that's the case, I can't make it difficult for Manager Liu. Let's put it this way. Madam Su spread rumors and slandered my mother. She should kneel down and kowtow to my mother to admit her guilt. Let's forget about it."

"What? You're going too far..."

Su Yongcheng almost couldn't hold back and slapped Su Lanyin, but just as he moved his feet, he remembered that Manager Liu was still there, so he held the slap back.

Su Lanyin looked at his cowardly appearance now, a dog that had lost its home and dared not speak out. It was hard for her to remember how this man had looked down upon her, her mother and her brothers with such arrogance in the past.

Things have changed, and now it is finally his turn to experience the humiliation that the Lu family suffered in their previous life.

But, this is not enough!

The death of my grandfather’s family, the death of my mother, the death of my brothers… and her death!

The deep blood feud that has not been avenged is now just a drop in the bucket.

"She is my mother! She is your grandmother! Su Lanyin, you are such a heartless person, aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning and having your life shortened?" Su Yongcheng asked angrily.

But Su Lanyin disagreed: "Yes, in a sense she is indeed my grandmother, but Lord Su seems to have forgotten that without you, she has no relationship with my mother, so why can't she kneel down to my mother?"