Marrying a White Snake Wife is Super Cool-Chapter 104 - 83: Song Meiqin! I’m Telling You to Go Home for the New Year! Are You Deaf?

Chapter 104: Chapter 83: Song Meiqin! I’m Telling You to Go Home for the New Year! Are You Deaf?

’I should save money where I can. Besides, I’ll need to rent a few places nearby to use as warehouses.’

By the time Lu Yuan headed home, it was past six in the evening and completely dark.

Now that all his business was taken care of, he planned to spend the remaining few days exploring the Provincial City with his women.

After all, this place was the birthplace of Lu cuisine, considered the head of the Eight Great Culinary Traditions of China.

The food here was unbelievably delicious, one dish better than the next.

It was one of the rare places where you could truly sample every delicacy from both mountain and sea.

After a few days of fun, the prices for those large storefronts would have been negotiated down. Then he would just pick whichever was cheapest.

Lu Yuan returned to the courtyard through the side gate. It was deathly quiet.

No one was in the East Wing; not a single lamp was lit.

’Huh?’

’Did the three of them go wild playing outside?’

’Did they forget to come home after dark?’

As Lu Yuan was wondering about this, he saw several maids from the Zhao Family returning from the front courtyard.

The moment these maids saw Lu Yuan, they immediately said:

"Young Nephew, the mistress is at the ancestral hall."

’Huh?’

Lu Yuan paused for a moment, then had one of them lead him to the ancestral hall.

’What’s Aunt Zhao doing at someone else’s ancestral hall?’

’What for?’

’Is she praying to their ancestors, hoping to marry into the family?’

’Not a chance! She belongs in the ancestral hall in Shige Village!’

Before he even reached the ancestral hall, he could hear a sharp, chattering voice from the long corridor. It was not a pleasant sound.

When Lu Yuan arrived,

he found Song Meiqin kneeling in the freezing, snow-covered courtyard.

There was nothing placed beneath her knees.

Song Meiqin’s face was streaked with tears.

She was holding a bowl of water, her delicate hands frozen bright red.

There was no telling how long she had been kneeling there.

Zhao Qiao’Er and Su Liyan stood to the side, their faces filled with distress and helplessness, but there was nothing they could do.

The old woman held a rattan cane, muttering and complaining.

Lu Yuan didn’t know what had happened today.

How had things suddenly come to this?

But Lu Yuan didn’t want to know either.

That’s just how the world worked. When a mother-in-law wanted to punish her daughter-in-law, she would always succeed.

There were all sorts of ways to do it.

It was like an official wanting to make trouble for a commoner; he would have ten thousand ways to do it.

He wouldn’t kill you or even beat you. He might not even bother to look at you.

But he could make your life a living hell.

Lu Yuan quietly walked to one side.

When Zhao Qiao’Er and Su Liyan saw Lu Yuan arrive, they trotted over to him.

Song Meiqin saw Lu Yuan, too.

A look of grievance, indignation, and humiliation—a mix of complex emotions—washed over her face, accompanied by a flood of tears.

Lu Yuan watched Song Meiqin quietly for a few seconds.

Then, the old woman suddenly raised her rattan cane. With a sharp WHOOSH, she struck Song Meiqin’s back twice more.

Song Meiqin wasn’t wearing thick clothes. Her heavy cloak had been stripped off and thrown aside, leaving her in the kind of thin, silk garments worn only in summer.

A blow from such a cane was truly painful.

But Song Meiqin made no sound. She just bit her lip and stared at Lu Yuan, her tears flowing faster and faster.

"Don’t think I can’t handle you just because your little brother is a Vice General!!

"Let me tell you, if he can’t get rid of the bandits over there, he’s going to lose his post!"

the old woman shrieked.

Lu Yuan reached into his robes and fumbled for a moment, then turned his head slightly and said softly:

"Uncle Li."

The old steward quietly approached, bowing his back.

Lu Yuan pulled out twenty thousand taels in silver notes from his robes and said:

"No more haggling. I want that wooden building by the Xiliang River.

"Buy it outright tomorrow. And buy those large courtyards too. We’ll put up sheds over them and use them as warehouses.

"As for the rest of the money, use it to renovate the inside of that big storefront according to my specifications. Feel free to spend the entire twenty thousand taels."

Li Fu was slightly taken aback. He accepted the silver notes and immediately bowed before departing.

Then, Lu Yuan glanced at Aunt Zhao and his wives, his gaze finally settling on Song Meiqin, who was still kneeling on the ground, staring at him. He said:

"Go back and pack your things. We’re going home for the New Year. We leave tonight."

Zhao Qiao’Er and Su Liyan sighed, but ultimately nodded.

There was nothing to be done about a situation like this. Truly, not a single thing.

Leaving now was the best option. After all, they couldn’t help in any way, and staying here to watch would only humiliate Song Meiqin further.

Leaving early really was for the best...

At this, Song Meiqin closed her eyes, but her tears only flowed more heavily.

Song Meiqin had resigned herself to it. This was her fate.

But just as Song Meiqin closed her eyes in resignation, she heard Lu Yuan shout from beside her:

"Song Meiqin! I told you we’re going home for the New Year! Are you deaf?!"

After a moment of silence, there was the sudden, crisp sound of a shattering bowl.

To the astonishment of the old woman and everyone else present, Song Meiqin threw herself into Lu Yuan’s arms.

Lu Yuan wrapped his thick robes around Song Meiqin.

He then swept her up into a bridal carry and, while walking away, looked at her and said:

"Let’s go. We’re going home."

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