Contentment with modest wealth

Chapter 386 So Blood Can Be as Red as a Wedding Dress
The plum vase was made of hard, polychrome porcelain, but it still shattered when it was smashed on Madam Yan's head.

With a loud crash, Madam Yan froze in place, blood gushing out from her head like a water sac torn open.

"you……"

She pointed at Lu Ying and uttered a single word before her eyes rolled back and she collapsed to the ground.

After autumn arrived, a Persian carpet was laid out in the room, so the sound of broken porcelain falling to the ground was not obvious, but the blood flowing out quickly covered half of Madam Yan's face.

Shen Qingzhou, perched on the roof beam, stared intently at the scene inside the house. His eyes darkened instantly, and after glancing at the courtyard, he left the roof beam.
Lu Ying threw away the broken bottle neck in her hand, leaned against the table and looked at the ground. Madam Yan was convulsing and bleeding. The person who was baring her teeth and claws just now was now lying on the ground with angry eyes, and soon she was motionless!

Lu Ying twitched, threw away the broken porcelain in her hand, took two steps back, and then her legs went weak and she knelt down again.

With a pale face, she looked out the door and window, swallowed hard, and reached out to check Madam Yan's breathing.

She's already dead.

Her face turned even paler.

He pulled his hand back, his whole body trembling like a leaf.

She wasn't afraid when Jiang was killed because she didn't see it with her own eyes. Besides, Jiang died a more dignified death than this; no matter how you imagine it, it's not frightening!

She had indeed long loathed Madam Yan to the extreme, and secretly wondered if she could kill her if the chance was right!

But when the fact actually happened before her eyes, her mind still went blank for a moment.

The blood on the ground was so red, it looked just like the wedding dress that Madam Yan had forced her to wear when she married into the family.

She looked down at her hands, smoothed the hair clinging to her forehead, and realized that cold sweat had been beading on her forehead without her noticing.

The person died in her house.

The place was a mess, and anyone could tell that they had argued.

It's obvious who the murderer is.

She couldn't escape.

"Come with me!"

Before she could figure out her next move, a masked man in black appeared in front of her.

She jumped up in alarm, like a wild animal in dire straits, and grabbed a shard of broken porcelain with her bare hands. "Who are you?!"

"The eldest son-in-law of the Lu family. Jiajia's husband!"

Lu Ying paused.

"Jiajia's husband," what a unique title!

She paused for a moment, then looked him over. His figure did resemble that of the eldest son of the Shen family.

She slowly straightened up. "How can I leave? What good will it do? Even if I disappear, they'll still come after the Lu family! They'll definitely find out I'm the murderer!"

Shen Qingzhou tossed the rope to her: "Tie it around your waist, and I can take you out. As long as you don't show your face, no one can do anything to you."

Lu Jia's concerns are quite reasonable; if Lu Ying stays here, she may be blackmailed by the Yan family.

Although taking her away like this is not a very reliable approach, the accident has already happened, and there is no other choice but to take this last resort.

"Hide for the rest of my life?" Lu Ying laughed bitterly. "Even if the entire Yan family is dead, as long as I show my face, I will still be the Yan family's daughter-in-law. Besides, I don't think my father has time to deal with me right now."

Lu Jie was at a crucial juncture in his quest for power; otherwise, Lu Jia wouldn't have been in such a hurry to find her.

At a time like this, how could Lu Jie possibly spare the time to clean up her mess?

If I cause him trouble, he'll only hate me more, right? What good will that do?

Shen Qingzhou frowned: "Then what do you want to do?"

Lu Ying raised her head: "I'm not leaving. Didn't my sister ask me to find a way to hold back the Yan family? This is the perfect opportunity. Once this poisonous woman is dead, the Yan family will be thrown into chaos. Not to mention others, with our parents dead, Yan Liang and his brothers will definitely be unable to leave. At that time, the old man will be too busy to take care of our father."

"Isn't this a good thing?!"

"How about Young Master Shen does me a favor and knocks me out?"

He could have easily been called her brother-in-law, but he insisted on calling himself the eldest son-in-law of the Lu family and Jiajia's husband, which shows that he didn't want to acknowledge her as his sister-in-law.

That doesn't matter!
The important thing is that she originally had no chance of escaping, but with the help of the Shen family, things might be different.

"You mean, you want to fake the scene?" Shen Qingzhou paused for a moment before glancing at the ground.

Lu Ying nodded: "I have injuries on my face, which proves that she hit me. If I was also knocked unconscious, I can't be accused of being the murderer, right?"

Shen Qingzhou frowned: "You can fool them for a short time, but you might not be able to hide it for long."

"It's alright!" Lu Ying said. "There are still a few accomplices in the courtyard. I can guess who's behind her actions tonight."

"There's no one in the courtyard right now, so everyone must be in the back room. Since you were able to sneak here, bringing someone over for me shouldn't be difficult for you, Young Master Shen?"

Shen Qingzhou instantly understood her intention.

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When Madam Yan discovered Lu Ying was not in her room, she immediately ordered all the servants from the third branch of the household, including Granny Li and Yingzi, to be arrested and taken to the back room to await their fate. Lu Ying was guilty, and naturally, the servants she had brought with her were not innocent either. After dealing with Lu Ying, she intended to get rid of all of them!

Most of the people she brought with her went to the back room, leaving only two maids guarding the door. However, when they saw Lu Ying return from afar, they followed orders and left to watch the gate.

Although the sounds coming from inside the house were not very clear, Madam Yan's scolding and Lu Ying's screams could still be heard.

They had all witnessed how Yan Liang stood up for Lu Ying this afternoon. They dared not speak of the ambiguous relationship between the eldest young master and the third mistress, but they understood it in their hearts.

Madam Yan sent the two of them to guard this place to prevent Yan Liang from seeing what was happening inside the house.

Therefore, even after they heard Lu Ying scream and then quieted down, they did not dare to leave their posts without permission.

Besides, there were constant noises coming from all around, either coughs or footsteps, and no one answered when they asked, so they were even more afraid to go any further.

Anyway, Madam Yan is the mother-in-law. No matter how domineering the third young mistress is, can she be more domineering than her?

Even if she gets beaten down, the one who gets beaten down will definitely be the Third Young Mistress!
Then let's wait for Madam Yan to call them in before we make a move.

But the sound was too loud, and neither of them was entirely at ease. So one of them pushed open the courtyard gate and walked inside.

"Mrs?"

No one responded.

She paused for a moment, then pushed the door open.

The room was brightly lit, and the stench of blood was overwhelming. She glanced at the floor and immediately screamed, clutching her head.

"Help! Help!—"

Hearing the scream, the person waiting outside rushed in impatiently: "What happened?"

Upon seeing this, she took two steps back, as if someone had grabbed her by the neck, and she could no longer make a sound!

Inside the room, Madam Yan lay in a pool of blood, and Lu Ying, her cheeks swollen and red, also lay on the ground. Between the two of them, a person knelt down, looking utterly lost! It was none other than Yun Dou, the personal maid whom Madam Yan trusted and who had previously informed Madam Yan about the Third Young Mistress and the Eldest Young Master!

Madam Yan was surrounded by colorful broken porcelain, while Yun Dou was holding a piece of colorful bottle neck in her hand, and her face and hands were splattered with blood!
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