Doted By The Regent King
Chapter 421 Self-Awareness

Chapter 421: Chapter 421 Self-Awareness

Seeing Old Lady Zhou remain silent, Madam Lu felt a sudden pang in her heart and tentatively asked, "Mother, you couldn’t possibly believe my husband’s words, could you?"

Old Lady Zhou snapped back to her senses, glanced at her, and said indifferently, "Do you not have any idea how Mother and Daughter Wufu have been faring these past months?"

Madam Lu was caught off guard and fell silent, her mind racing.

How could she not know? The days that Wufu and her daughter had been living seemed to grow increasingly comfortable; they never worried about food or clothing and even had jewelry to wear and servants to attend to them. They claimed that it was all earned by Wufu herself, but was that really the case?

Was there not a hint of external help?

If what her husband said was true, that she knew the Lord County Magistrate, my god, that’s a government official! How could they not live comfortably?

Suddenly, Madam Lu’s dim eyes brightened, and she urgently grasped Old Lady Zhou’s arm, saying, "Mother, if that’s the case, is it true? Do Mother and Daughter Wufu really know that, what’s his name, Lord County Magistrate?"

Before Old Lady Zhou could respond, she clasped her hands together with an excited face, "This is great, there is hope for my husband." It’s not just about saving him; we might be able to preserve his rank and perhaps even ask that dignitary to secure him an official position.

Lady Liang glanced at her sister-in-law, bowed her head to hide the mockery in her eyes, and thought to herself how simple and naïve Madam Lu was being.

Even if Wufu knew the magistrate, by what right would she help the Zhou family? Had she so completely forgotten the previous rifts?

And besides, since Wufu and her daughter moved away, who knows where they now reside? Where would one even begin to look for them?

Lady Liang remained silent. She knew that if she voiced such thoughts, it could be said that she harbored ill intentions and didn’t want to rescue Zhou Xuennian!

She held her tongue, but Old Lady Zhou could not help but throw a dampener on things.

"There’s hope? Even if they do know that person, what of it?" Old Lady Zhou looked coldly at Madam Lu.

Madam Lu was stunned.

"Have you forgotten the sins Dajun committed?" Old Lady Zhou said gravely. "Have you also forgotten how Wufu retaliated for what he did?"

"Mother..." Madam Lu stammered with her plump lips.

Old Lady Zhou’s face was filled with pain. She closed her eyes briefly, and said, "If she had any conscience at all, if she remembered any familial affection, she wouldn’t have been so harsh on Dajun. Given that, how can you still expect her to plead on our behalf and rescue the eldest?"

It was indisputable that Old Lady Zhou was aware of her own limitations; she knew that asking for help was impossible and that Wufu was unlikely to oblige.

Madam Lu panicked, saying, "Mother, Dajun has already been taught a lesson, isn’t that enough? She has had her revenge, isn’t that enough? My husband is her biological uncle. She has to listen to us if we plead, right? I’ll kneel if I have to!"

Old Lady Zhou looked up at the Buddhist jar on the ancestral tablet and murmured, "That heartless person will never agree, not even if you kneel to death." Otherwise, she wouldn’t have sought such revenge against the Zhou family, not even caring about her reputation.

"Mother, if Wufu won’t do, what about Yingmei?" Madam Lu asked urgently. "If we ask Yingmei, she must surely agree. Yingmei has always been soft-hearted; she wouldn’t just watch her uncle die. Our Zhou family has never wronged their mother and daughter over the years. Just a word about sentimentality, how could it be so hard? Zhou Yingmei can’t be that cruel. I don’t believe it."

Old Lady Zhou trembled.

"Eldest sister-in-law, no one knows where Wufu and her daughter have moved to. Where do we even start looking?" Lady Liang couldn’t help but speak up.

Indeed, where have they moved to? Who knows?

Madam Lu’s strength left her, and she collapsed onto the floor, sobbing loudly and beating her thighs.