Chapter 38

“If you don’t apologize, everyone who loses something will say it was my family who took it, and they’ll come to our house to search. I’ll be in a real bind.”

Wang Dani snorted. Ever since her husband died, she had finally gotten the upper hand over his parents.

The onlookers echoed Wang Dani’s words, “They should apologize. Otherwise, this old woman will keep bothering Dani.”

“Aunt Lu is kind. She wouldn’t do such a thing. It must be the old family who is tormenting them.”

“Dani and her family are so pitiful. After her husband died, her in-laws keep bullying them. This is clearly a false accusation.”

“…”

They didn’t shy away from the Lu family, voicing their opinions loudly, making Lu’s father’s face turn red with anger.

“Do you think you deserve an apology from me?!”

Lu’s mother believed that as an elder, Wang Dani and her family couldn’t accept an apology from her.

“We’re not related, and you’re not my elder. I can accept it.”

Wang Dani was even more impressed with Tang Wan. The educated woman was really something, leaving the old family speechless.

“Hurry up.”

Yan Fusheng urged, “Apologize quickly, so we can help you get your money and coupons back.”

“Jian she, apologize!”

Lu’s father couldn’t bring himself to do it, so he had to ask his son. It wasn’t embarrassing for him to apologize to his sister-in-law.

Although Lu Jian she was unhappy, he was obsessed with the “huge sum of money” and quickly bent down.

“I’m sorry, sister-in-law. I’m sorry to everyone. I shouldn’t have falsely accused you!”

He then quickly turned to Yan Fusheng, “Comrade, can I leave now?”

“You can leave, but they haven’t apologized yet.”

Wang Dani stood with her arms crossed, looking down at Lu’s father and Lu’s grandfather. She had a rare opportunity to humiliate them, and she wasn’t going to miss it.

Tang Wan and Lu Huaijing exchanged glances. They, as the younger generation, wouldn’t stop Wang Dani.

Lu’s grandfather looked at Yan Fusheng with difficulty, “Comrade, we are her husband’s parents after all. If my son were alive, he would be heartbroken to see his mother bullied like this.”

“When my husband died, you didn’t even shed a tear. What are you talking about now?”

Wang Dani rolled her eyes sarcastically. “Apologize quickly, or don’t blame me for going crazy!”

“Father, what are you hesitating for? The money is important!”

Lu Jian she yelled. It was two thousand yuan! He had never seen so much money in his life!

“I’m sorry.”

Lu’s grandfather lowered his head in humiliation and glared fiercely at Lu’s mother. Lu’s mother finally mumbled,

“Alright, I was wrong. I’m sorry.”

“Hearing you apologize in this lifetime is enough for my father to rest in peace.”

Lu Huaijing’s unexpected words made Lu’s father and mother realize that Lu Huaijing had moved Lu Jian Guo’s memorial tablet from the main room at some point.

He stood not far from Wang Dani, and the apology was like he was speaking to Lu Jian Guo!

They were furious and about to say something, but Yan Fusheng suddenly spoke, “Do you still want to find your money? If you miss the prime time, you’ll have less chance of finding it.”

“Find, find, find. Father, let’s go.”

Lu Jian she couldn’t wait to pull Lu’s grandfather away. Lu’s mother quickly followed.

The onlookers hurried to the fields to work. They had enjoyed the gossip, but they couldn’t miss out on earning work points.

As they left, everyone glared disdainfully at Lu Jian she and his family. Their reputation in the village had plummeted.

As soon as they left, Lu Huai’ren couldn’t control his anger, “Li Cuihua, where’s our money?!”

“We were saving that money for our son’s wedding. How come there’s not a single dime left?!”

“We don’t need to spend money at home.”

Li Cuihua stiffened her neck defensively, but Wang Dani grabbed her ear, “When did our family ever ask you for money?”

Seeing that they were about to clash again, Lu Huaijing quickly pulled Tang Wan away.

“Wife, Zhou Zhou, pack up. We’ll leave after breakfast.”

“Okay, brother-in-law.”

Tang Zhou quickly returned to his temporary room, while Wang Dani and Lu Huai’ren were disciplining Li Cuihua outside.

Tang Wan and Lu Huaijing returned to their room. Thinking about the big secret they had heard last night, Tang Wan tentatively asked Lu Huaijing,

“Even tigers don’t eat their cubs. They treat your parents so badly. Have you ever thought maybe your father isn’t their biological son?”

“How could I not think about it?”

A flicker of sadness crossed Lu Huaijing’s eyes. He gave a cynical smile, “They were already bad to my father when he was alive. My father suspected his own origins. He asked the midwife in the village, and she confirmed that she had delivered a baby that year. And… according to the villagers, my father looked very much like my aunt.”

“Like your aunt?”

Tang Wan recalled what the two old people had said, a glimmer of understanding flashed in her eyes. “Where is your aunt’s family?”

“My aunt was a military doctor before the founding of the country. She married someone in the army. We haven’t heard from her since the founding of the country.”

Lu Huaijing shook his head. “Many people died during the war. We haven’t had any news for so many years. It’s likely that she’s no longer alive.”

“Is it possible…”

Tang Wan tentatively spoke, “That your father is your aunt’s son, and she entrusted him to those two old people during the war?”

She had read many stories before she crossed over. Such things were common in those days.

Seniors, for the sake of the nation, had to leave their children in the care of relatives.

Whether it was true or not, she had to plant a seed of doubt in Lu Huaijing’s mind so that if someone came looking for him, he wouldn’t be taken advantage of by those two old people.

Hearing this, Lu Huaijing’s eyes lit up, and he stared intently at Tang Wan.

“So it’s not impossible.”

“I always believe that no one would treat their own children and descendants like that.”

Tang Wan thought, Jin Bao isn’t their descendant.

According to normal thinking, Wang Dani’s children were the only bloodline of the Lu family.

They should have changed their attitude.

But they were still hostile towards them. This was worth thinking about.

“Thank you, wife.”

Lu Huaijing’s eyes shone as he looked at Tang Wan. He thanked her for standing by his family when everyone else doubted them.

“Don’t mention it. We’re family now.”

Tang Wan started packing their luggage. They didn’t have much stuff, but they still had several packages, big and small.

Lu Huaijing packed his own things. They worked together.

Just as they finished packing, Wang Dani knocked on their door, “Third brother, third brother’s wife, come out for breakfast.”

“Okay, coming!”

When Tang Wan and Lu Huaijing went out, Li Cuihua had several slap marks on her face and sat in the corner, looking pitiful.

It seemed that Wang Dani and Lu Huai’ren had disciplined her.

There was a large pot of dumplings on the table, white flour dumplings. Li Cuihua, even with the pain on her face, couldn’t help but crave them.

“Eat, eat.”

Wang Dani’s voice was a little sad. She filled Tang Wan and Tang Zhou’s bowls with twenty dumplings each.

Lu Huaijing, as a grown man with a larger appetite, got forty dumplings.