Lu Wei stared silently at the wizened old woman in front of him. Ever since he could remember, he had never seen her smile.
Her face was always as cold as an iceberg. No, it was cold, as if nothing could warm her heart.
When she was young, even if her face was cold all day long, she was still considered beautiful. However, time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, decades had passed. Her beauty was gone, but that cold face had never changed.
Lu Wei really did not understand why it was like this.
His heart was fluctuating as he looked at Old Lady Lu, who was not an ordinary person. After a short period of nervousness, her expression changed to be as calm and composed as before, with a hint of viciousness.
That withered voice sounded very uncomfortable, but she had never felt it.
"Why are you looking at me like that? What did I say wrong?"
To be honest, old lady's mood was very bad at the moment. He had chased away this group of people, yet the two of them were in the living room. What was he trying to do? This was simply intolerable.
Lu Wei's eyes were red as he stared at the old lady. He squeezed out a few words from between his teeth. "Why?"
"What exactly is the reason for this?"
Perhaps the roar could no longer vent the anger in his heart. He directly pushed the table and the tea bowl to the ground, producing a crisp cracking sound.
Bang! Kacha--
The three mothers who were hiding upstairs were shocked by the sudden sound. Their bodies trembled. Wang Xiulian was trembling all over as she hugged her daughter and comforted her. "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid--"
"It's okay--"
Although Lu Juanjuan was scared out of her wits, her eyes were full of gossip. However, she was afraid that the topic might hurt Wang Xiulian, so she didn't ask directly.
Instead, she bit her lower lip and said, "Mom, do you think this Lu Yichen is the bane of our family?"
"Why does our family always fight every time he comes back? Why doesn't he ever stop? He hates this family so much, why does he still come back? It would be great if he could make up for it for the rest of his life."
When Wang Xiulian heard that, she quickly hit her and said, "Don't talk nonsense, be careful of what you say."
Lu Juanjuan pursed her lips and said indifferently, "What are you afraid of? I'm not lying."
"I really don't understand you. Why are you so eager to curry favor with him? What's there to curry favor with? You even asked my brother and I to wait at the door. Tsk--"
"Forget about me, but my brother is not in good health. It's not like you don't know."
Wang Xiulian looked at her fearless daughter with an extremely complicated expression. She then looked at her stunned son and could not help but sigh.
In the end, Lu Juanjuan could not hold back her curiosity. She looked at Wang Xiulian with her big, watery eyes and said, "Mom, what did grandma mean just now? Well, Lu Yichen's mother--"
Before she could finish speaking, Wang Xiulian's expression changed. She reprimanded Lu Juanjuan seriously. "Shut up--"
"You're not allowed to say that in the future, and you're not allowed to ask. If I hear even a single word, I'll skin you alive."
Lu Juanjuan was shocked by the sudden change in Wang Xiulian. She had never seen her mother so fierce. Although she would scold her occasionally, she had never seen her mother so terrifying. She was so frightened that she trembled. She did not know if she was frightened or wronged, but tears rolled down her cheeks.
Wang Xiulian also knew that her tone was a little harsh, but she had to do it. Xia Yu was a taboo in this family. How could she dare to let her daughter mention it?
She was already treading on thin ice in this family. How could she dare to let her daughter get into trouble because of her glib tongue?
However, her daughter was clearly frightened. She took a deep breath and said, "Juanjuan, listen to your mother. Don't ask about these things in the future. Do you hear me? This is not your responsibility -- curiosity can kill people. Juanjuan, the more you know, the faster you die. You have to remember this sentence."
...
Putting aside how she was going to teach her daughter upstairs, the atmosphere downstairs was unusually tense.
The old lady saw that Lu Wei had lost control of his emotions. She blinked her dry, skin-like eyes and asked, "What? Why what?"
"I don't know."
A hint of pain flashed across Lu Wei's eyes. He frowned and said with burning pain in his eyes, "You know."
Then he shouted loudly, "You know what I'm talking about."
"It's been so many years, so many years. Ever since I can remember, you have never laughed. No, you have never cried."
"When dad passed away, you didn't shed a single tear. When second brother passed away, you didn't shed a single tear either. Eldest brother lay in bed, unable to move for the rest of his life. You didn't even take a glance at him..."
"Mom--"
"Are you really our biological mother? Really?"
Lu Wei's eyes flashed with sorrowful tears. He was a man over 50 years old, yet he was stabbed by his own biological mother in front of him. His heart was bleeding.
"I don't understand. Why? Why?"
"People with flesh and blood, blood-related relatives, living together day and night. You take care of your own son, how can you bear it? How can you bear it?"
"Just for that ridiculous belief? Huh?"
Boom, boom, boom--
The old lady's heart was shaken by Lu Wei's words. It was as if a magnitude 10 earthquake had shaken her, making her dizzy.
Her eyes were dry, but there were no tears to shed--
She stared fixedly at her loyal son, unable to close her eyes for a long time. It turned out that he knew, it turned out that he knew--
She had never thought that this simple, straightforward, and stubborn son of hers would actually be so meticulous. He even knew whether she had smiled or cried.
The Lu Wei in her eyes immediately overlapped with a blurry figure, separated, and overlapped...
Similar, too similar...
At this moment, Lu Wei looked exactly the same as his dead father, the same look...
Rough on the outside, but delicate on the inside...
Scenes kept flashing in her mind. That person's laughter, that person's booze on their wedding day, that person's moments of warmth...
However, in the end, it turned into a handful of yellow soil and lay in the ground for a long time.
Old Madam Lu's expression changed back and forth, from the memories to the malevolence, to the resentment, to the madness...
"AH--"
Old Madam Lu used all her strength to shout out loud. Then, she held her head and shook it wildly. "I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about."
"My head hurts. My head hurts. It hurts--"
...
Lu Yichen carried Kang Xiaoqiao and rushed out of the Lu family home frantically. He was so anxious that he wanted to fly to the hospital. How could she faint so easily?
Could it be that the tea was poisonous?
But, but, why was he fine while Kang Xiaoqiao fainted?
Lu Yichen was so anxious that his forehead was covered in sweat. He shoved Kang Xiaoqiao into the passenger seat, then got in the car and drove frantically to the hospital.