Chapter 650: Chapter 649: Asking in a Humble Voice

A display of tantrums and coercion has everyone thrillingly entertained, but Lu Da’s face was extremely unsightly.

“Mother, enough already, I’ve never said I wouldn’t help, but how should we intervene right now?” Lu Da pulled Old Lady Lu to her feet.

“What else is there to do? Naturally, we must confront that vile woman, she’s truly ruthless—sending her own uncle and aunt to jail, she really has grown bold!” Old Lady Lu shouted angrily, “I’ll go to her, let everyone judge who is cruel. I want to see if she can be drowned by their spit. Such a wretched thing, born of a mother but never taught by a father!”

Madam Lu and Zhou Xuennian felt their hearts skip at these words.

“Mother, you mustn’t do that!” Madam Lu cried out in alarm, “Mother, at best you can ask her to show mercy, but you mustn’t provoke her, or else, both of us will truly die here!”

“What are you afraid of!” Old Lady Lu said coldly, “Just because they have some dirty money, they think they’re something special? Just because they know some government officials, they think they’re powerful? I want to see if she dares to send this old woman to jail for no reason. I refuse to believe that they make the laws!”

Eldest Sister-in-law Lu listened, her brows furrowing.

Madam Lu said, “Mother, now isn’t the time for settling accounts—the most important thing is to get us out first!”

“You mean to say, you want your old mother to go begging to that mother and daughter nicely?”

Madam Lu started to cry, “Mother, what other choice do I have? Look at us, we’ve been locked up for so many days, eating nothing but black bread and having only a bowl of cold water to drink. We’re suffering from the cold; if this continues, we’ll fall ill. These past days, my body has ached terribly.”

She had managed to endure until now only because she was in good physical health; Zhou Xuennian had already started coughing.

“I suppose my mother-in-law has decided to abandon us,” continued Madam Lu between sobs. “Otherwise, why hasn’t anyone from home come after so many days? If you hadn’t heard the news and come, we would still have no idea when we might see our relatives!”

Old Lady Lu’s tears came again, “During the New Year festivities, you’ve surely offended some petty people, and I will have to teach you a lesson later. Your mother-in-law, she’s heartless. If it wasn’t for Yongyong, we would still be in the dark. Ooh, my poor child, you’ve suffered!”

“So, Mother, you can’t confront her. Even if it’s for our sake, you have to beg her. I will apologize to you on her behalf later,” Madam Lu took the opportunity to say.

“Alright, alright, I’ll go beg her. I’ll throw away any pride I had left if it means she’ll release you, that plague of a cruel wretch—may she not die a good death!”

Only then did Madam Lu breathe a sigh of relief.

The Yamen Runner came over and said in a cold voice, “Visiting time is over, everyone out.”

“Mother, I’ll be waiting for you,” Madam Lu said hastily.

“Alright, alright, don’t worry,” Old Lady Lu also hurriedly had Eldest Sister-in-law Lu stuff the food they brought into the cell.

Madam Lu watched her family walk away with longing eyes, then wiped her tears and turned around, only to see Zhou Xuennian voraciously eating the food brought by her family, her anger rising from her heart.

She smacked Zhou Xuennian on the back of his head and scolded, “Eat, eat, eat—why can’t you eat yourself to death? You still have the face to eat!”

Zhou Xuennian choked, coughed, and after a long moment, turned red-faced and cursed, “Are you crazy!”

“I am crazy! I’ve been driven mad by your mother’s cruelty. I said it, she simply wishes us dead. She doesn’t care at all! If it weren’t for my clever son, my family wouldn’t even know. That merciless wicked woman!” Madam Lu kept cursing.

Zhou Xuennian didn’t respond, knowing he was in the wrong, he let her curse at him while harboring resentment in his heart.