After leaving, Lu couldn't help but explain to Mama Hua who was serving beside him:

"Don't be polite to that, greet everything, you must let the other party speak the truth as soon as possible, don't let the big house see the joke."

"Whoa."

When Mama Hua heard this order, she immediately slowly left Lu's sight, walked to the rockery connected to the water prison, and informed the person in charge of the water prison of this order.

Soon, in the dark and damp water prison, Zheng Lanru ushered in a new round of whipping.

Because of Lu's request, a group of people directly removed her hands, feet and chin to eliminate the possibility of suicide.

Zheng Lanru could only vent her physical pain through the "ho-ho" sound in her throat.

Even when Mama Hua walked away, she could feel that she could hear the heartfelt pain from inside from the door of the water prison.

She couldn't help but imagine the picture in the water prison in her mind, and her body was excited, and she quickly quickened the pace of her feet and replied to Lu.

But what neither of them expected was that Zheng Lanru was really a hard bone in this matter, and no matter what torture tools were used, she was unwilling to tell the truth.

Listening to the reply of his subordinates, Lu Shi was annoyed, and was very dissatisfied with Zheng Lanru's uninteresting behavior.

Thinking of the words she heard in the big room before, she felt that if she didn't get Zheng Lanru's testimony as soon as possible, it was estimated that there were endless rumors waiting for her.

In particular, she did not want to fall down in front of the big house, so she stood up abruptly and shouted:

"Then let Mrs. Ben see how hard that gets bones!"

With that, he immediately led the people to the place where the water prison was.

The person in charge of the water prison knew that the lady of the third room was going to be interrogated in person, so he immediately pulled Zheng Lanru, who was soaked in the water, into a private prison, and by the way, he also used water to wash away a lot of blood stains on her body, so as not to affect the mood of the lady of the third room.

But he didn't expect that even so, the Lu family, who had set foot in the water prison for the first time, couldn't help frowning when he saw the situation in the water prison.

Lu Shi imagined that the environment in the water prison was terrible, and he was mentally prepared, but when he saw the real situation, he was still inevitably disgusted.

Thinking that it was because of Zheng Lanru that he had set foot in such a dirty place, smelling the pervasive musty smell, and the disgusting smell of blood hidden in it, as well as the unknown insects crawling in front of him from time to time, his heart was even more angry.

Unconsciously quicken the pace of your feet, wanting to quickly pass through this disgusting passage.

But when she came to Zheng Lanru, she smelled the increasingly thick bloody smell, immediately covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and looked towards Zheng Lanru in prison.

I saw that in the dim private prison, Zheng Lanru's body was full of blood marks from being whipped, her clothes were ragged, and she couldn't see a piece of good meat.

While feeling satisfied, looking at the motionless figure in the prison, Lu Shi asked with some suspicion:

"This man can't be dead, is he?"

"No, third lady, please see."

With that, the steward immediately gave the man carrying the barrel next to the prison a look.

The subordinate looked at his eyes, and instantly splashed the salt water in his hand at the bloody man in the prison.

"Smack!"

The salt entered the wound with the water, and Zheng Lanru was immediately awakened by this sharp pain, and made a move in the pain like the bite of a hundred insects.

Seeing that the people inside were still moving, Lu Shi immediately breathed a sigh of relief, it was good that the people were not dead yet, and immediately spoke:

"Lan Ru, speaking of which, you are still the maid that Mrs. Ben brought from her mother's house, what are you not doing well, but you want to betray Mrs. Ben, isn't Mrs. Ben not good enough to treat you maids? Even your own daughter can recognize you as Fu's mother. ”

As she spoke, she observed Zheng Lanru's expression and found that there was no trace of fluctuation.

In her mind, she thought about the words that could make the person in front of her speak, and in just a moment, she instantly remembered Lan Ru's purpose for replacing the child, which should be Lan Ru's weakness.

"Although you don't open your mouth, how can a lowly bloodline become the bloodline of the Zheng clan in Xingyang, if you don't open your mouth again, don't blame Mrs. Ben for driving that wild seed out of the Zheng Mansion!"

Hearing that her daughter was going to have an accident, a trace of panic flashed in Zheng Lanru's eyes.

"Someone! Go and invite the three girls over and let her come and see ......."

"Boom!"

Hearing that the Lu family didn't seem to be a hypocrisy, Zheng Lanru immediately panicked, and immediately got up and kowtowed in the direction of the Lu family, begging her to let Zheng Lingyue go for the sake of raising her for more than ten years.

"Huh! It would be nice to speak earlier. ”

The corners of Lu's mouth hooked up with a dangerous and smug smile, and he motioned for his subordinates to restore Zheng Lanru's chin.

Chapter 97: The Reason for Doing It

"Click!"

Zheng Lanru's chin was instantly closed by the subordinate, and a steady stream of blood mixed with saliva leaked out of the corners of her mouth.

Seeing this scene, Lu Shi subconsciously frowned and blocked his vision with a handkerchief.

After waiting for a while, I didn't hear Zheng Lanru reply, I mistakenly thought that the other party was blurred by the pain, and hurriedly said out:

"If it's really for the sake of our Xingyang Zheng clan and for the sake of the three girls, you should tell everything."

Hearing this, Zheng Lanru's eyelids trembled slightly, as if she was about to wake up from her mental state of being numbed by pain.

Lu Shi saw that it had worked and continued to play the emotional card.

"You know, a girl's fate is closely related to her family and upbringing, and you don't want this matter to be exposed to the ears of other nobles at that time, do you?"

As soon as the words fell, Zheng Lanru's lowered head slowly raised, and a pair of calm and waveless eyes stared at Lu.

Lu suddenly had an illusion of chilling all over his body, and immediately became angry and shouted:

"Mrs. Ben sees that you don't cry when you don't see the coffin, come here, I will bring another bucket of salt water to this, sober and sober."

"Whoa!"

Zheng Lanru's wounds all over her body experienced a baptism of pain again, and she trembled uncontrollably again.

Just when Lu thought that he would have to come a few more times before Zheng Lanru's hard mouth would be pried open, the person opposite suddenly spoke up.

"Ahem, ahem!"

Zheng Lanru first spit out the blood in her mouth, and then looked at Lu Qinglu who was still using that hypocritical face on the other side.

"Madame, do you remember seventeen years ago?"

Hearing this, Lu Shi rummaged through his memories in his mind, but found nothing, and looked at each other with some suspicion.

Seeing this, Zheng Lanru's face actually showed a smile, mixed with the wounds and blood stains on her face, and she actually felt a terrible feeling when she looked at it from a distance.

"Madam, you see, you are a noble man who forgets things? What can people like us do if we seem to you to be just ants? It's just an ant that comes and goes in your hands, and you don't have your own ideas at all. ”

For some reason, with the environment of the scene, it actually made the other maids who followed the Lu family feel a sense of sadness.

Lu Shi didn't feel it at all, but continued to threaten:

"You, you still want to use rhetoric to deceive people? Isn't Mrs. Ben good enough for you? As the personal maid of the fifth noble girl, her life is better than that of some daughters of Luoyang Sanpin masters, but she is still not satisfied? ”

"Hahaha! This is really what you can say, madam, better than the life of an official girl? Do you remember that you said that you wanted to make the slave maid the third master's concubine? Obviously, you raised it and gave the slave and maid hope, but you tore apart the slave's expectation with your own hands. At the beginning, it was you who spoke first, but you said that the slave was not satisfied? ”

"Therefore, you are resentful because Madame Ben is going to marry you to the steward in the future."

"The slave is just a chess piece in your hand, originally to fight with Wen Xiaoniang. said that the slave and maid were raised as concubines, but in just one decade, they were restored to the same state as before, and the slaves and maids were allowed to be married. In addition to identity, what is there about a slave that is inferior to you, and you refuse to even give the identity of a concubine? ”

When everyone heard Zheng Lanru reveal the secret of more than ten years ago, they very much hoped that they didn't have long ears, and they didn't know if they could save their lives when they got out of the water prison.

Lu Shi didn't expect that just because of his reckless proposal at the beginning, it would cause such serious consequences today.

But she will never admit that it was her mistake, and will only put all the blame on Zheng Lanru.

"That's just a joke from Mrs. Ben, could it be that you are a lowly and can really become the concubine of the third master? What's more, after Mrs. Ben stopped mentioning it, you yourself said that you hit it off with a man outside the house at first sight, and asked Mrs. Ben to let you marry, didn't you also agree? ”

"Hahahaha! Five surnames? It's just a bunch of jackals in glamorous skins, what's so unworthy! Even if the lady doesn't allow it, isn't the slave still successful? ”

The moment she finished saying this, the corners of Zheng Lanru's mouth suddenly flowed like blood, and with a smile in her eyes, she looked at the stunned look of the Lu family opposite.

In the next second, he collapsed directly to the ground, and there was no trace of his chest rising and falling.

Lu Shi looked at the scene in front of him in shock, still afraid of Zheng Lanru's eyes just now.

When she reacted, she immediately shook the handkerchief in her hand and shouted anxiously:

"Quick! Let's go and see if that is still alive? Don't let people really die. ”

When the subordinate heard this, he helplessly approached the silent Zheng Lanru, and raised two fingers to poke under Zheng Lanru's nose.

After trying for a while, he still didn't feel anything, so he had to withdraw his hand.

chose to break Zheng Lanru's mouth with both hands, and in the next second, the tongue that was out of control immediately slipped out of her mouth, leaving a long blood mark on the ground.

Then, he immediately replied to the Lu family, who didn't dare to look directly at this side from a distance: "Tell the third lady that the sin slave has died of anger, and he has committed suicide by biting his tongue." ”

"What!"

Lu couldn't believe the scene in front of her, she had just packed the ticket in front of the big house, and she would definitely make Zheng Lanru spit out the truth and be able to bring Zheng Wan back.

But now......

She tried hard to recall what Zheng Lanru said just now, and found that the other party's mouth was really tight, and she didn't say a word that could prove that she was doing it.

Instead, he inserted a nail in her heart, and the actually said that even if she didn't agree, she succeeded.

This proves that Zheng Lingyue must be the child of the Zheng family in Xingyang, and she doesn't dare to guess who it is now.

As for the son who has been raised under Zheng Lanru's knees, there must be a source.

Thinking of this, Lu Shi roared angrily: "Directly throw the bones of this cheap maid to the wild dogs to eat, and you will definitely make her bones gone." ”

"Whoa."

Leaving the water prison, Lu Shi bathed himself in annoyance and changed his clothes, changed into a new clothes, and said to Mama Hua:

"Since Zheng Lanru refuses to speak, she will go to find clues about her son, even if it is in Xingyang's hometown, she must find out."

"Oh, the old slave is urging people to do it, the eldest lady doesn't have to worry so much, who can do anything to our Xingyang Zheng family? The five girls will be back soon. ”

"I hope so."

The mood of this day was up and down, and Lu Shi was also a little tired.

She did not deny Mama Hua's words, at least to a certain extent, she also had similar confidence.

But most of the time things are not going as expected, like the two of them are still looking forward to it when they sleep.