Chapter 131: Sacrifice
When Lan Ruomei's mother saw Lan Ruomei's performance and knew that what Lan Father said was true, she suddenly felt that the sky was falling, she threw away her coat, ran to her daughter's side, beat her chest and said, "Silly boy, do you know that the Jiang family is the great enemy of the Zhong family." How did you get mixed up with him, he's using you. β
When Lan Ruomei heard this, she was stunned for a moment, and then she cried again, she slapped her chest with her heart, regretting it, how did she know that the Zhong family and the Jiang family still had such a thing, and she completely fell victim to the grievances of the two families.
Lan Ruomei grabbed her chest in pain, and suddenly touched the priceless emerald.
All because of this emerald. Lan Ruomei suddenly felt a vicious anger in her heart, and pulled it fiercely, and broke the emerald chain alive, and a blood-red strangulation mark appeared on Lan Ruomei's neck.
Lan Ruomei dragged the emerald off her neck and slammed it to the opposite wall, only to hear a "pop", and the emerald fell into several halves in an instant.
Lan Ruomei was angry for a while, but after a few seconds, she suddenly regretted it, after all, it was an emerald worth tens of millions. Lan Ruomei hurriedly got up, ran to the wall, sat on the ground, picked up the emerald that was broken by her anger for a while, and was sad.
It's a pity that such a perfect emerald became this appearance because of its own willfulness and lost its original value. Thinking that she was like this emerald, which had been damaged, Lan Ruomei was heartbroken.
And Father Lan saw that Lan Ruomei, who was not angry, was angry with the priceless emerald and smashed a good precious gem to pieces, and his anger was even worse, he ran over and slapped Lan Ruomei, "Bastard thing, you still have the ability to be angry with objects, I bought you such an expensive emerald at that time, I hope you take care of it, but now you don't cherish yourself, and you don't cherish things, I think you are dead." β
As soon as Father Lan spoke, he was about to hit Lan Ruomei again, but he didn't want Mother Lan to stop him, "What are you talking about." Okay, what do you say, you let your daughter die, you don't want me to live, don't you? β
Lan Mu was excited, she thought of her departed eldest son again, and her heart was uncontrollable with grief, when her son left, she regarded this only daughter as the pearl of her palm, and no one could say half a word about Lan Ruomei, so she developed such an arrogant personality as Lan Ruomei.
"Hmph, it's all what you're used to. Father Lan's face turned pale.
Lan Mu helped Lan Ruomei and cried, "They all say that we women are easy to be bullied, if your brother is here, they won't dare to bully us like this." β
When Father Lan heard his wife mention his departed son, he also felt a cone pain in his heart, knowing that this was a scar in his wife's heart that would never heal, so he sighed and shook his head again and again, slightly suppressing the anger in his heart.
However, Lan Mu still didn't give up, she said fiercely to her husband: "Besides, if Mei is deceived, you should teach that Jiang Lifeng a lesson and what daughter to beat."
Father Lan couldn't help but say angrily: "How old is she, don't you know how to distinguish between right and wrong." So easy to be deceived. β
Lan Mu argued: "It's just this once, when no one stumbles, can you guarantee that you won't." β
When Father Lan heard this, he knew that Mother Lan was referring to a past incident many years ago, and his heart was weak, and his tone softened, "Once, once is not necessary." β
"Hmph. Lan Mu said angrily: "If you want it once, what you say is better than what you sing." Let me tell you, you must not tell the Zhong family about this matter. β
Father Lan snorted, "Don't tell the Zhong family, it's Zhong Zimu who told me to pick up Lan Ruomei." What are you still talking about keeping secrets here, can you keep it? β
Lan Mu was stunned for a moment, and then said hatefully: "Hmph." I think this is Zhong Zimu's trick. He knows, why don't he care about it himself, and ask you to come forward, he is too bad, he just wants to shirk responsibility. Anyway, Ruomei's first time was also given to Zhong Zimu, and there is nothing to say about this. If Zhong Zimu dares to deny it, I will make them uneasy. β
"Alas, don't make a fuss about the affection of the two families for so many years. Father Lan suddenly felt that what his wife said was also reasonable, how could something happen to his fiancΓ©e, he didn't care, but pulled his future father-in-law. Isn't that obvious, wanting to use this matter as a handle to make the Lan family retreat.
Seeing that her husband was broken by her own words, Lan Mu snorted coldly and said: "Whether the two families have affection or not, it's not what you say, it's not what I say, it depends on what the Zhong family does." This matter looks like Jiang Lifeng is using Ruomei, and if we Ruomei are victims, let's say that Jiang Lifeng threatened us Ruomei to be unfavorable to Zimu, and Ruomei will be confused for a while. β
"Besides, this matter is completely because the Zhong family and the Jiang family had a festival before, Ruomei became a victim in a daze, and if Mei was victimized, their Zhong family should be responsible. In short, he Zhong Zimu just wanted to shirk his responsibility with this, but he didn't have any door. "The Blue Mother is like an angry lion, strong and stubborn.
Lan Ruomei heard her mother say this, and there seemed to be a glimmer of hope, she raised her hazy teary eyes, and cried to her mother: "Mom, you must be the master for me, or I won't live, I can't live." β
When Lan Ruomei heard Lan Ruomei's words, she was so frightened that she hurriedly hugged her, "Child, don't say such things, your brother is not filial, go first, you can't have this thought anymore, if you have something, your mother won't be able to live." β
As soon as Father Lan heard the conversation between the mother and daughter, he didn't say anything more, after all, what his wife said made sense, this matter was still caused by the Zhong family, if it weren't for the enmity between the Zhong family and the Jiang family, Ruomei would not have become Jiang Lifeng's target and became a victim of the grievances between the two families.
Mother Lan hugged Lan Ruomei, and the mother and daughter hugged each other and cried again. Father Lan was sad and angry, speechless, and had to go back to the house.
This night, the Zhong family's father and son chatted until dawn, and the Lan family's mother and daughter cried all night. Both families had the idea of meeting and appealing, but neither of them moved first, as if whoever proposed to meet first was the first to lose their breath.
Finally, on the afternoon of the second day, seeing that the next day was the wedding day of Zhong Lan's two families, Zhong Qiao still decided to have a good talk with the Lan family's parents and his old friends for many years.
Although he was not very reluctant, in order to talk about things more thoroughly, he took the recording of Jiang Lifeng and Lan Ruomei in the coffee bar handed over to him by his son.
Zhong Qiao came to the Lan family with some gifts, only the housekeeper of the Lan family opened the door, but the Lan father and Lan mother did not greet them as warmly as usual. Thinking of this time to withdraw from the marriage, even if it is because of Lan Ruomei's mistakes, the Lan family is bound to be dissatisfied with the Zhong family, the two families have had a good relationship for more than 20 years, but because of such a happy event as their children's in-laws, Zhong Qiao did not feel embarrassed.
Zhong Qiao handed over the gift to the housekeeper, and then entered the living room of the Lan family's villa, sat on the sofa and waited. Zhong Qiao looked at the floor clock opposite while waiting, this clock has an ancient pendulum, which records his love with Father Lan for many years, but it is during this period of time, the pendulum of this clock is probably tired, the swing is too heavy, and it seems that there is no spiritual light before.
Zhong Qiao was looking at the pendulum, and suddenly heard a knock on the door in the distance, and Father Lan walked out of the house.
"Brother Zhong, you're here. Father Lan had a deep voice, weak, but not to be outdone.
Zhong Qiao thought that Father Lan would cry when he saw him, and he looked like he blamed himself, but he didn't want to admit defeat.
Zhong Qiao was puzzled, so he had to greet him first: "Oh, by the way, come over and see, why is my sister-in-law not there." β
"Oh......" Father Lan stroked his forehead, "Aren't you busy with Zimu and Ruomei's wedding?" I'm still busy in the house. β
Zhong Qiao saw that Father Lan didn't mention yesterday's incident at all, so he had to ask, "Brother Lan, Ruomei is okay now." β
Father Lan replied with a snort, "Well, I'm getting married, and this girl's family is always a little nervous." β
"Oh......" Zhong Qiao raised his eyes and looked at Father Lan, who had black circles under his eyes, knowing that he was deliberately concealing and delaying the affairs of Lan Ruomei and Jiang Lifeng, Zhong Qiao still did not know how much the Lan family knew about Lan Ruomei and Jiang Lifeng. Therefore, Zhong Qiao also thought about it, maybe the Lan family didn't know that he had mastered so many things about Lan Ruomei and Jiang Lifeng.
"I don't think it's too troublesome, tomorrow's wedding can be simple, let's be simple, don't let others say that our family is too wasteful. Seeing that Zhong Qiao didn't say anything, Father Lan still held on, fantasizing that the Zhong family didn't know about Lan Ruomei and Jiang Lifeng, so he wanted to hide it.
Zhong Qiao smiled bitterly, "Brother Lan, I won't tell you, I just want to discuss this marriage with you, and you will see if this marriage should be discussed in the long run." β
"Think about it in the long run. Why. Why think long-term. Father Lan still wanted to pretend to be confused.
Zhong Qiao had no choice but to ask, "Did you receive Ruomei yesterday?" β
When Zhong Qiao asked like this, Father Lan knew that he couldn't hide it, Zhong Zimu didn't want to marry Lan Ruomei in the first place, he must have told Zhong Qiao about it as soon as he got home, it seems that his wife was right, Zhong Zimu just wanted to shirk his responsibility.
"Ah......" Father Lan lied as if he suddenly realized: "You mean that Zimu finished calling me yesterday." Oh, after Zimu called me, I called Ruomei, Ruomei said that she was on her way home, and she arrived home soon after the call, and I didn't pick her up. β
"yes, who was Ruomei with yesterday? Zhong Qiao saw that Father Lan had repeatedly covered it up, so he had no choice but to anger Father Lan and ask like this.
"And whom. Father Lan snorted, "It's not just a few good friends. Zimu told me on the phone what Ruomei was with Jiang ...... What kind of sharp people together, isn't this a joke. Except for Zimu, we don't have any male friends at all. β
"Yes. Zhong Qiao asked meaningfully: "Could it be that there is something that Brother Lan doesn't know." β
Father Lan heard Zhong Qiao ask him like this, his face sank, "Brother Zhong, what do you mean by this." β