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Chapter 314 The Female Cannon Fodder Who Falsely Claims Favors in the Historical Literature 55

Just as the atmosphere among the four was in a stalemate, a burst of happy humming was heard from outside the courtyard gate.

It was Zhao Xue who didn't want to see the three people from the Lu family go out for some fresh air. As soon as she entered the yard, she saw that the yard and the kitchen were empty, with no one in sight, and she couldn't help but shout loudly.

"What? Besides slandering me, you are now also depriving me of food and drink? Now you don't even allow me, your daughter-in-law, to eat!"

Having said this, Zhao Xue walked straight towards Lu's mother's house, ready to cause trouble and provoke her with words.

As soon as she entered the room and met the gaze of the person who came, Zhao Xue's expression froze and her pupils shrank suddenly. The next second, she instantly became happy again and walked towards Lu Jianjun.

"Jianjun, why did you come back so suddenly? Why didn't you tell me in advance?"

Lu Jianjun looked cold as he stared into Zhao Xue's eyes. "Mom is sick, and not only do you not take care of her, but now you're forcing someone to cook for you?"

Zhao Xue's eyes wandered, avoiding Lu Jianjun's cold eyes, and she explained to herself, "Jianjun, what are you talking about? I went out for something in the morning, and I didn't know that mom was sick. If I knew, I would definitely stay to take care of mom."

Before she finished her words, Lu's mother and the other two all showed mocking eyes at the same time, but they did not expose Zhao Xue.

When the betrothal money was stolen before, they had already witnessed Zhao Xue's eloquence and sweet talk. Knowing that they could not beat her in an argument, they did not waste any more words with her.

No matter how well Zhao Xue pretended to be on the surface, she didn't know that Lu Jianjun's contemptuous attitude towards the three people when he came back just now had already explained it all.

Zhao Xue also knew this in her heart. Seeing that Lu Jianjun didn't say a word and just stared at her with his dark and somewhat scary eyes, she said.

"Jianjun, what's with that expression on your face? Don't you believe me?"

"I understand." Zhao Xue suddenly realized, and looked at Lu's mother and the other two people in the room one by one, revealing an expression of disappointment and anger, and questioned Lu Jianjun.

"Did they tell you something? Did you believe them?"

Seeing that Lu Jianjun seemed to have listened, Zhao Xue continued to act.

"Jianjun, I'm your wife, you should know what kind of person I am! But your mother, do you really know her? She only knows how to favor your brothers and sisters all day long, using the money you earned from your hard work on the missions to buy them good things and eat good food. Why? Just because I said I wanted to split up the family, they tried their best to throw dirty water on me, saying that I stole the betrothal money!"

"Lu Jianjun, if you don't believe me, then you should at least believe the police station. They didn't find out that I stole the money. It was clearly my mother who lost the money, but now you want to put the blame on me?"

Zhao Xue spoke until she was hoarse, expressing her grievance and unwillingness vividly.

Lu Jianjun looked at Zhao Xue sarcastically, "If I really knew who you were, maybe I wouldn't have married you that day!"

The tone of these words was so strong that they instantly stirred up a hornet's nest.

Zhao Xue, who was originally just pretending to be angry, was now really angry because of this sentence. She was so angry that she grabbed Lu Jianjun's clothes, widened her eyes and yelled.

"What do you mean by that? I was the one who saved you, and you were the one who said you wanted to marry me? Now you are just trying to hurt me because of a few lies told by others, Lu Jianjun, you are really awesome!"

Lu Jianjun's eyes were gloomy. "Zhao Xue, ask yourself, how has my mother treated you since you got married? Isn't it like she said, that you don't go to work every other day, do nothing at home or outside, and push everything you can push to your second brother and younger sister? Just like that, you told my mother that you favor my second brother and younger sister. Aren't you the one who has the most free time in the whole family?"

"Yes, what you said is true, but what does it mean? Mom gave all the money in the family to my brother and sister-in-law. She just let me do less work on the surface. Can this cover up her favoritism?" Zhao Xue said unwillingly.

These words made Mother Lu, who was leaning against the head of the bed, feel pain and regret in her heart. The tears that had just stopped burst out instantly. She gasped as if she could not breathe, and her breathing was rapid.

Lu Jianjun reacted quickly. The moment he noticed the abnormal breathing sounds in the room, he ran over to help Lu's mother calm down. He asked Lu Laoer to take Zhao Xue out immediately, and told Lu Xiaomei to open the window for ventilation.

After doing all this, he gently guided Mother Lu to relax her body and take deep breaths repeatedly to relieve the tension.

After going on like this for a while, Lu's mother's breathing finally calmed down. Lu Jianjun then breathed a sigh of relief. He just comforted his mother with a few words and told her to have a good rest, then he went out with Lu Xiaomei.

He asked Lu's brother and sister-in-law to go out and cook, while Lu Jianjun went out with a solemn expression.

Zhao Xue was left alone, completely ignored by the Lu family as if she were a transparent person. No one looked at her or paid any attention to her.

Zhao Xue was extremely confused and stood in the yard at a loss.

Until she heard a sound outside the door, Zhao Xue looked up and saw that it was Lu Jianjun bringing Doctor Zhang to see Lu's mother.

The two men hurried into the house. Zhao Xue walked lightly and listened with her ear tilted.

Doctor Zhang frowned and felt Lu's mother's pulse. After a moment, he sighed and let go of his hand.

"Jianjun, luckily you guys acted in time, otherwise...ah..."

He lowered his head and began to write a prescription, and instructed, "Go to my place and get some medicine to boil and drink later. The old man is old, and he can't afford to go through so much trouble. Once or twice is fine, but if it happens too many times, it's hard to say. You kids should pay more attention to him on weekdays, don't worry too much, and avoid excessive emotional fluctuations."

Lu Jianjun nodded in agreement and personally sent Doctor Zhang back.

After seeing the person off, Lu Jianjun took Zhao Xue to their residence without saying a word.

The sound of the door closing with a gentle "creak" was like a huge rock falling on Zhao Xue's heart. She felt inexplicably frightened and did not dare to speak.

Lu's mother's sudden illness and Lu Jianjun's cold expulsion just now caught her off guard. Everything happened too suddenly and too coincidentally. The moment she was driven out, she even doubted whether all these perfect things were deliberately pretended by Lu's mother?

Otherwise why was it such a coincidence that someone notified Lu Jianjun to come back, and her unexpected sarcastic words reached his ears. Just when the two were arguing, Lu's mother suddenly couldn't breathe.

But during the few minutes of waiting, she saw with her own eyes the Lu family's younger siblings running around anxiously, listened to Lu Jianjun guiding and comforting Lu's mother again and again, and experienced Doctor Zhang's diagnosis, and her doubts were shaken.

Did Mother Lu really faint from anger?

The door closed, and Zhao Xue's heart was pounding wildly, as if a storm was about to come.

Lu Jianjun was facing sideways towards her, with half of his face hidden in the shadow, making it impossible to see his expression.

There was a "bang" sound, and a flash of fire appeared, instantly illuminating Lu Jianjun's unclear face.

Zhao Xue didn't have time to take a closer look. The next second, choking smoke slowly rose up, blurring her vision.

Only then did Zhao Xue realize that the person who had never smoked in front of her was now smoking in front of her.

After the cigarette was burned out, Lu Jianjun's unusually hoarse voice slowly sounded.

"Get a divorce."

With a "bang", it was the sound of the huge rock hanging high in Zhao Xue's heart falling.

"What did you say?" she asked incredulously.

"I want a divorce." Lu Jianjun turned his head to look at Zhao Xue, allowing her to see the deep fatigue and lingering resentment in his eyes.

Even though she had already prepared herself for Lu Jianjun, a filial son, to criticize her, make a scene, or treat her coldly because of his mother's illness, Zhao Xue thought she could endure it all, but she never expected that Lu Jianjun actually wanted to divorce her? !

This made her feel the long-lost betrayal and anger. The sweet words they said when they were in love were still ringing in her ears, but the person in front of her had completely changed his appearance.

"Divorce? Why do you want to divorce me? Are you so angry that you get sick because your mother slandered me? Lu Jianjun, is your love and affection so cheap? Whatever your mother says is the truth?"

"That's enough!" Lu Jianjun shouted angrily, "Zhao Xue, you still want to slander me at this time?"

"You said you didn't steal the money. Well, let me ask you, you said your parents and siblings treated you badly, so how did you have so much money to buy clothes and skin care products? How come they went to the most difficult places in the motherland to support construction, while you stayed in Xinghua Village without worries about food and drink?"

"I, I..." Zhao Xue's expression changed drastically, and she stammered, not knowing what to say, but Lu Jianjun was still questioning her.

"You always say that my mother favors my younger brothers and sisters and spends all the money on them. Then why don't you open your eyes and take a good look at where the family's money is spent?"

Lu Jianjun took out a booklet from somewhere and threw it directly in front of Zhao Xue.

Zhao Xue subconsciously took the booklet. The booklet clearly recorded where every penny Lu Jianjun brought back went. Except for the fixed amount that had to be allocated to his parents and his younger siblings' high school tuition, the rest of the money was calculated clearly.

Even this time when Lu Laoer was preparing the betrothal money, the fifty yuan he took out from the bank was written as an IOU, and Lu Laoer would need to pay it back in the future.

Apart from these, almost all other expenses were spent on her and Lu Jianjun, most of which were wedding supplies.

After Zhao Xue came in, her expenses became more frequent, either buying a new piece of cloth, soap, vanishing cream, shampoo, or small items like mosquito nets and silk scarves.

The more Zhao Xue read on, the more she didn't dare to look at it. This detailed account book recorded, like a crime, how much money she could spend. She only asked Lu's mother to bring back money from the market because she didn't care about money.

When she turned to the end, Zhao Xue even saw a record of lost money, and the source was also mentioned at the back, which was her own name.

She turned over and over in disbelief, her eyes red, and she was unable to refute for a moment.

It was at this moment that she suddenly realized that, yes, she was used to such a delicate life and didn't think it was a big deal.

But women of this era were different. Due to the scarcity of material resources and money, they would use soapberry water to wash clothes, take a bath and wash their hair. Because they had to do dirty work, they would wear patched clothes, and they would spend very little time on skin care and dressing up.

But...even if that's the case, so what?

"I did spend money, but I married you, so isn't the money you earn meant for me to spend? Why do you give all our family's money to your mother? Is it just so that she can keep a record of it so I can calculate how much I spent? Besides, you give half of your monthly allowance to your mother, so doesn't your mother use that money to support your brothers and sisters?"

Even though Lu Jianjun recognized Zhao Xue's true identity, he never expected her to say such hurtful words. It was so disappointing that he couldn't help but sneer at her.

"You spend money lavishly. How can I dare to hand over the money to you? I'm afraid the money will be gone within a month. How dare you talk about your own little family?"

"As for the half of the subsidy, I seldom went home in the five years I was away. When my dad was seriously ill, my younger brother and sister took care of him by his bedside. When my mom was sick, they were the two of them who took care of her. They showed filial piety to my parents on my behalf, so what if I gave them all the subsidy? It was my mom who forced me to save half of it, otherwise I would have given it all to them. Not to mention, this military quota was begged for me by my parents, because there was only one conscription quota in Xinghua Village at that time, but Cheng Shuo and I both met the requirements very well, so in the end only one could be chosen. My parents asked the Cheng family for help, and used their previous kindness to make Cheng Shuo give up voluntarily, so this quota came to me. I owe them so much, shouldn’t I pay them back more?"

He had just learned about this, and Lu's mother was afraid that Lu Jianjun would believe what Zhao Xue said and think that the whole family was sucking his blood, so she naturally didn't want to hide it and revealed the matter directly.

He didn't know the inside story of the conscription that year. Although he felt that Cheng Shuo was capable and had a good chance of winning the final spot, he didn't want to give up.

Young men are full of passion, who doesn’t want to stand out and defend his country?

What's more, joining the army is a good way out for children of farmers like them.

However, there was only one quota available in Xinghua Village, and only one of him and Cheng Shuo could join the army, so an additional test was prepared for the two of them.

Mother Lu was very upset about this matter at that time. She accidentally heard someone from the conscription office mention this competition and unexpectedly learned that Cheng Shuo had won the spot.

She returned to the Lu family absent-mindedly, discussed with Lu's father for an entire afternoon, and then secretly visited the Cheng family that night.

The Lu family has done the Cheng family a favor. It all started with the wild boar attack that happened in the back hills of Xinghua Village more than ten years ago.

At that time, the two families had a good relationship. Father Lu and Father Cheng often went hunting in the mountains together, and the two of them also participated in it that time.

At that time, Cheng's mother was still pregnant. She suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and found that her husband was not around. She also heard faint noise coming from the mountain. When she looked over, she saw flickering lights.

She was extremely anxious as she was pregnant, but she did not dare to act rashly. She could only anxiously wake up her son who was waiting at the foot of the mountain.