Lu Zhaoling found them really funny.
Actually, she still didn't know why they bothered bringing her back after leaving her in the countryside for ten years to suffer.
Bringing her back, and treating her with such an attitude, they really weren't afraid of making an enemy.
How could Lu Zhaoling know that Lu Ming and the others thought that no matter their attitude, Lu Zhaoling was just a little girl who knew nothing and understood nothing, and she would never escape their grasp.
She was just a small ant, so why should they bother putting on an act to coax her?
Lu Ming originally thought that this wretched girl, once in the capital, would be at his mercy, the type who wouldn't dare to go west if told to go east. If she dared to resist, he'd just tie her up and lock her in the woodshed for a couple of meals, and that would be the end of it.
How could he have known that things would change so drastically?
It all started when Prince Jin sent her back, and then Physician Fu personally came to see her and even interfered with where she lived.
Prince Jin even gave her two maids.
"I think you should go and investigate more clearly. I did indeed hit Zhu Minghao, hit him until he fainted on the street."
Lu Zhaoling showed no signs of guilt or fear, admitting it so directly.
"If you knew his injuries, you wouldn't be so foolish as to speculate that I would go apologize to him."
"You're so bold!" Lu Ming originally thought Zhu Minghao was hit by Prince Jin, but now he knew it was Lu Zhaoling who personally did it. "That's the son of Marquis Qingfu! Someone the Empress Dowager dotes on. How dare you injure him?"
Lu Ming felt a little flustered.
Would Zhu Minghao come to settle accounts? How could he, a minor official, withstand that?
Lu Zhaoling looked at him, "The deed is done, the injury is inflicted, and you still ask me how I dared?"
"You just returned to the capital and caused such trouble. If Zhu Shizi comes to demand accountability, I can't help you!"
"Is this your Lord Lu's integrity?" Lu Zhaoling couldn't help but laugh, "Your daughter was almost abducted to be a concubine and beaten to death, and you don't go seeking justice, but instead fear others coming to hold you accountable?"
Is that how a father should act?
Madam Lu glared at her after hearing her words, "It must be that you used some seductive trick to provoke Zhu Shizi, otherwise, why would he abduct you and not someone else? Even if you were abducted, couldn't you have just begged him nicely to let you go, instead of fighting him?"
Qing Yin and Qing Bao were both dumbfounded.
The words of Lu Ming and his wife truly opened their eyes.
To think there were parents like this!
Their daughter was bullied so badly, and instead of seeking revenge on Zhu Minghao, they were scolding her!
Qing Yin and Qing Bao looked at Lu Zhaoling, feeling extremely distressed.
Young Lady is so pitiful.
However, Lu Ming and his wife definitely don't know how capable Young Lady is!
"Spare me these useless words, I'm tired."
Lu Zhaoling thought they had something new to say, but hearing this, she found it boring and turned to leave.
"Stop!"
Lu Ming roared, and Hu Dali immediately scrambled out, suddenly extending his arm to block them.
His attack was sudden. If Qing Bao hadn't retreated quickly, his hand would have touched her chest.
Qing Bao's face changed, and a surge of anger shot to her head.
Lu Zhaoling's eyes darkened, and her fingers moved slightly.
"Ah!"
Hu Dali suddenly felt a numbness in his arm, followed by a searing pain that densely covered his entire arm, and he cried out.
Qing Bao was stunned for a moment.
She had just been thinking that if she made a move in the Lu Residence, she didn't know if it would cause trouble for Young Lady, but then Hu Dali suddenly pulled back his hand and screamed.
Neither of them had moved.
Lu Ming and the others were also startled.
"Dali, what are you doing?"
"Master, my hand hurts so much, ah, it hurts me to death!" Hu Dali cried incessantly, cold sweat breaking out.
Now it felt like a thousand needles were stuck into his arm, and each needle was drilling into his bones.
His arm hung limply, and he didn't dare to touch it with his other hand.
The steward was also stunned by his son's appearance. After he reacted, he immediately rushed over, grabbed Hu Dali's arm, and tried to pull up his sleeve to see what was wrong.
However, as soon as he grabbed Hu Dali's hand, Hu Dali screamed even more violently.
"Dad, dad, dad! Don't touch it, it hurts me to death..."
The steward quickly pulled his hand back, wanting to touch it but not daring to, jumping in agitation.
"What's going on? How does it hurt?"
"It hurts so much, my hand is going to be crippled!" Hu Dali collapsed to the ground in pain, tears and snot streaming down his face.
"Master, Madam, what, what, what should we do? Please, Master and Madam, save Dali!" The steward was about to cry.
"Zhaoling, was it you? What did you do?" Madam Lu's heart trembled, and she looked at Lu Zhaoling.
Just now, Hu Dali had reached out to stop her.
Lu Zhaoling said indifferently, "Are you blind? Did you see me touch him? If you're sick, go get treated."
With that, she left with Qing Yin and Qing Bao, not even sparing Hu Dali another glance.
The steward instinctively wanted to stop her, but hearing his son's cries, he suddenly shivered and dared not stop her.
Although he also felt it couldn't have been Lu Zhaoling, he still had a slight subconscious fear.
Old Woman Jin was dumbfounded throughout, unable to recover even after Lu Zhaoling left.
Is this, is this really the little village girl she brought back?
When they reached the courtyard, Lu Zhaoling told Qing Yin, "Go get some food."
She was hungry.
"Yes." Qing Yin immediately turned and went towards the kitchen.
Qing Bao held the wooden box in one hand and supported Lu Zhaoling with the other as they walked towards Ting Nuan Tower.
"Young Lady, the kitchen probably won't dare to give us steamed buns anymore, right?"
"They wouldn't dare." Lu Zhaoling said with certainty.
Qing Bao thought about how Hu Dali had just looked, wanting to ask something, but not daring to.
"What do you want to say?" Lu Zhaoling glanced at her.
"Young Lady, that Hu Dali..."
Lu Zhaoling's eyes were tinged with frost. "You must remember, if you are bullied, you should resist. Enduring humiliation is not a good quality."
She seemed to answer, yet seemed not to.
But Qing Bao's mind turned, and her eyes lit up.
"This servant understands!"
After Lu Zhaoling left, Old Woman Jin hobbled on her injured leg to Madam Lu's side, her voice trembling.
"Madam, Second Young Lady seems like a completely different person!"
This was definitely not the Lu Zhaoling she had brought back to the capital!
Madam Lu's face changed, "You think it's not her?"
"No, it's..." Old Woman Jin felt her mind was a mess, "Looking at her figure, face, and eyebrows, it's certainly her, but her personality is completely different."
The Lu Zhaoling she had brought back would never dare to stand so straight or speak to people like that.
Lu Ming's ears were buzzing from the noise of the steward and Physician Hu, and he paid no attention to what the two women were saying.
"Take him to the medical hall to see a doctor!"
He was just howling for him to save him, but he wasn't a doctor, so what could he do?!
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