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 Favoring Concubines and Destroying Wives? I Refuse to be the Mistress of this Marquis' Mansion

 Chapter 111: 

Grief-Stricken 

"Second Young Master, your legitimate mother is gone, why are you still hiding in this room?" Zhuqing was not polite at all, speaking to a child who wasn't even nine years old in such a manner.

However, Lu Chang Zong was already mature beyond his years. He kept his head down, not daring to meet her gaze.

Zhuqing looked at him and reminded, "Second Young Master, aren't you going to see your mother for the last time? If you wait until Big Madam is prepared for the funeral, you won't be able to see anything. It would be a great act of filial piety to go now!"

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Lu Chang Zong stood up, wanting to go but hesitated.

"Mistress, I... I..." He knew he should go, but he was afraid. Afraid of seeing his mother in such a state, afraid of others saying that his birth mother caused the death of his mother.

"Chang Zong, let's go." 

Lu Chang Gong came out, wearing mourning clothes, and held a white linen rope in his hand. As soon as the family started mourning, he would tie it around his arm. Seeing his eldest brother seriously injured yet insisting on paying respects, Lu Chang Zong couldn't avoid it and followed him. 

The corpse was still outside the council hall.

Lu Chang Zong didn't dare to look, and Lu Chang Gong walked over, kowtowing and crying on the ground. 

Lu Chang Zong had no choice but to follow and kneel down to kowtow. He didn't dare to look at people; he knew... the maids and servants were all looking at him with resentment, suspecting that his birth mother killed his mother. 

Lu Zhengliu walked over, his voice hoarse, saying, "Lu Chang Gong, why did you come? Didn't I ask you to rest well?"

He looked at the child's blistered hands, all terrifying. 

Such a big fire... 

Lu Zhengliu glanced again at the charred corpse. The steward had already gone to buy a coffin, and it hadn't been brought over yet. She lay on the white cloth like that... How painful it must have been for her before she died! 

He closed his eyes, feeling his internal organs twisting together.

"Father, I have recovered. When will the funeral be held? Where is the memorial set up? Your son wants to keep vigil for mother."

Lu Zhengliu said with a heavy heart, "The stewards in the front and back yards, as well as the mothers, are already arranging everything. Once the coffin arrives, it will be placed in the main hall of the front yard, which will serve as your mother's memorial hall. Then, we'll hang white lanterns and proceed with the funeral."

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Lu Chang Gong choked up and asked, "The culprit who killed mother... how will the culprit be dealt with?"

He couldn't help but clench his fists, and the gauze on his wounds oozed faint red blood.

Lu Zhengliu's gaze became cold and chilling.

"The culprit..."

Ge Bao'er was still unharmed!

Lu Zhengliu glanced at Lu Chang Zong and said coldly, "Qing'er, come with me."

Lu Chang Zong nodded and obediently followed his father.

The family is not the same as before. Now, he doesn't dare to be unruly at all.

Lu Zhengliu took Lu Chang Zong to Yue Xing Ting, and he told the caretaker maids, "All of you, leave."

The maids lowered their heads and dispersed.

He pushed open the door, and Ge Bao'er was actually asleep!

She could still sleep!

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"Get up! Get up for me!" 

Lu Zhengliu pulled her up from the bed.

Ge Bao'er woke up, furrowed her brows, her mind not fully awake. Surprisingly, she asked, "Have you found the jade pendant?"

"The jade pendant?" 

Lu Zhengliu sneered; she was only concerned about the jade pendant!

"Yunwan is dead! You killed her!"

Ge Bao'er was momentarily stunned. While she knew that Lin Yunwan would die, hearing the news of Lin Yunwan's death still made it somewhat unbelievable.

"Where is the jade pendant?" 

Ge Bao'er started to panic; Lin Yunwan was really dead, and the jade pendant was her lifeline!

But Lu Zhengliu knew better—it wasn't the case.

He looked at her coldly and said, "There is no jade pendant. Even if we find the jade pendant, do you think the Xingguo Duke's Mansion would still acknowledge you after what you've done?"

"This is murder, murder! Even a princess committing murder is a capital offense!"

Ge Bao'er shouted, "I didn't really kill her! I... I brought the oil, but I didn't pour it in. Lin Yunwan burned herself to death!"

"If she didn't hide my jade pendant... if your Lu family didn't harm me... I, as a mother, did it all for me and my child. I... I'm just repaying in kind! What's wrong with me?"

Lu Chang Zong walked in crying, choking as he asked, "Mother, did you really kill my mother?"

He cried louder and louder.

Ge Bao'er panicked.

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"Qing'er, why did you come?"

"Mother, is it true?"

Lu Chang Zong tugged at Ge Bao'er's sleeve, pressing for an answer.

Ge Bao'er felt somewhat overwhelmed.

Lu Chang Gong arrived, his voice weak as he said, "Father, Teacher Zhang wants to resign." He handed over a letter of resignation.

Lu Chang Zong learned slowly, and Zhang Feng'an had been staying in the front yard to teach him. Originally, he had agreed to stay until March of this year, but now he chose to resign earlier.

The reasons need not be explicitly stated.

"Resignation?"

Lu Zhengliu took the letter of resignation, his face showing signs of embarrassment.

Lu Chang Gong pursed his lips and calmly said, "Teacher Zhang requests that the Lu family keep its promise and refrain from discussing—externally."

He glanced at Lu Chang Zong and said slowly, "Don't mention that Chang Zong was his student. He won't charge any tuition fees for this year."

Lu Zhengliu anticipated it.

This wouldn't be the first, nor would it be the last, of the unfortunate events.

"Understood. I'll go on your behalf to see off Teacher Zhang. I'll instruct the steward to settle Chang Zong's tuition. We won't owe anything to Teacher Zhang."

"Yes."

Lu Chang Gong turned to leave, and Lu Zhengliu told Lu Chang Zong, "Go and bid farewell to your teacher."

Lu Chang Zong pouted, cried, and looked at Ge Bao'er with resentment. "Mistress, you're really too ruthless!"

They left together.

This hit Ge Bao'er like a thousand arrows to the heart.

"Ruthless?"

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Her son accused her of being ruthless? And he still called her Mistress!

Was she just a ruthless Mistress?

Everything she did was for whom? Just to be on the same page as her own son, for the future of her son. And now, her son regarded her as nothing more than a ruthless mistress!

Enduring all kinds of hardships, it was nothing compared to being called a mistress and ruthless by her son. Ge Bao'er burst into tears.

Lu Zhengliu instructed the maidservants as he left, "Lock her up in the woodshed, don't disturb Mistress Zhuqing's pregnancy."

"Yes."

Ge Bao'er chased after him, pointing at Lu Zhengliu's retreating figure and cursing loudly, "The most ruthless person is you! It's you!"

"It's you who killed her! It's you who killed her!"

Lu Zhengliu paused for a moment and took large strides out of the Yue Xing Ting.

Zhuqing also cried profusely, harboring deep resentment towards Lu Zhengliu in her heart.

"What she said is not wrong; it's Master who killed Madam."

The front courtyard was arranged as a mourning hall, and all the necessary items such as hemp cloth, paper crafts, and lanterns were purchased.

Old Madam Lu instructed, "Begin the funeral."

Lu Chang Gong tied the white hemp rope, gazing blankly at the sky. It was snowing heavily.

"Mother..."

At this moment, you have flown out of the inner residence like a bird.

"Old Madam Lu, Madam Wei, Master, something's wrong! The Lins' family members are at the door!"

"So what if they're at the door? Why are you panicking?"

Although Old Madam Lu said so, she was more anxious than anyone else. The Lin family arrived even before the funeral rites began, which surely meant trouble.

"I'll go meet them."

Lu Zhengliu, dressed in white mourning attire, went to the front courtyard to meet the Lin family members.

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