“Wait.”
Brother Biao stopped the blond-haired man as soon as he heard Lu Guangzong’s words.
The blond-haired man abruptly halted, the knife in his hand stopping mere millimeters from Lu Guangzong’s finger.
Lu Guangzong collapsed to the ground in a daze. Beads of sweat rolled down his forehead as if his soul had left his body.
“Damn, he actually pissed himself!”
The blond-haired man spat on the ground in disgust. Playing with the dagger in his hand, he stepped back to Brother Biao’s side.
Brother Biao stroked the goatee on his chin. His already tiny, beady eyes narrowed into thin slits.
“Who was the woman you mentioned just now?”
Still terrified out of his wits, Lu Guangzong was lost in his own thoughts and didn’t hear Brother Biao at all.
Seeing this, the blond-haired man kicked him hard in the chest.
“Are you deaf? Brother Biao asked you a question!”
“Hiss—”
Lu Guangzong sucked in a sharp breath and instantly snapped back to his senses.
“Speak! Who’s the woman you’re planning to bring to Brother Biao? If you dare lie to him, you’ll regret it!”
Lu Guangzong swallowed hard and crawled toward Brother Biao, grabbing the hem of his clothes.
“S-Song Jinyue! Brother Biao, the woman I’m talking about is Song Jinyue. Even if I had a hundred lives, I wouldn’t dare lie to you!”
Brother Biao immediately lost his composure. He bent down and grabbed Lu Guangzong by the collar.
“Song Jinyue? The one from the Song family?”
Lu Guangzong nodded vigorously.
“Y-Yes! That’s her!”
Brother Biao slapped Lu Guangzong across the face.
“Damn it! Do you really think I’m that easy to fool? You want to hand Song Jinyue over to me? Would that old bastard Lu Weiguo ever agree to it?”
Ignoring the burning pain on his face, Lu Guangzong hurriedly replied, “He’ll agree, Brother Biao! My dad will definitely agree. Song Jinyue signed an agreement severing ties with my dad yesterday. Whether she lives or dies has nothing to do with our family anymore.”
“Besides, she’ll be sent to the countryside in a few days. If Brother Biao marries her instead, it’ll be her good fortune! She’ll definitely be grateful to you for the rest of her life!”
That damned woman Song Jinyue had dared to hit him.
Then she couldn’t blame him for being ruthless!
Once she fell into Brother Biao’s hands, he wanted to see how much longer Song Jinyue could remain arrogant.
“I never got the chance to have a taste of the eldest young lady of the Song family in this lifetime, but her daughter will do just fine. The Song family’s young lady sure has a beautiful daughter. I’ve lived for more than fifty years, and I’ve never seen women more beautiful than that mother-daughter pair.”
Brother Biao licked his yellow teeth, a lecherous grin spreading across his face.
“Back then, the Song family’s eldest young lady was famous as the most beautiful woman in Shanghai. Brother Biao went to propose marriage three times, but that old man Song Zhen chased him out every single time. Say, if that old geezer Song Zhen knew Brother Biao was going to marry his granddaughter, do you think he’d be so angry he’d crawl right out of his coffin?”
The blond-haired man laughed loudly with a smug expression.
“I’ll trust you one more time. Hand Song Jinyue over to me obediently, and I’ll wipe your previous debt clean. But if you dare lie to me, I don’t need to explain what’ll happen to you, do I?”
“No, no! Of course not! Even if I had a hundred and twenty lives, I still wouldn’t dare deceive you, Brother Biao.”
Lu Guangzong wore a flattering smile. Seeing that Brother Biao was in a good mood, he continued, “But you’ll have to give me a little time. Our family needs to return to our hometown for the next few days. We won’t be back until three days from now. Don’t worry, Brother Biao. As soon as we return, I’ll hand Song Jinyue over to you.”
By the time Song Jinyue returned home, Shen Yurou had already packed everything for their family of four.
They claimed they were returning to the Lu family’s ancestral home to pay respects to their ancestors. Song Jinyue’s surname was Song, and she had already severed ties with Lu Weiguo, so naturally, there was no reason for her to go with them.
Paying respects to their ancestors?
That was merely an excuse.
In reality, they were going there to transfer the assets.
In the novel, Lu Weiguo had gradually moved the Song family’s assets to the Lu family’s ancestral home. From there, he transported them to Qingcheng. Once all the assets had been transferred, the entire family traveled from Qingcheng by ship and secretly fled to Hong Kong.
Her scumbag father was extremely cautious. Until he was certain those people could be trusted, there was no way he would hand over all the assets hidden at the Lu family’s ancestral home.
Since he was going there now, he had most likely already reached an agreement with his contact and planned to transport the remaining assets from the Lu family’s ancestral home to Qingcheng.
Qingcheng was perfect.
She would be passing through there on her way to the capital anyway. When the time came, she could simply sweep everything into her storage space.
That would save her the trouble of making a separate trip to the Lu family’s ancestral home.
Lu Guangzong first went to a friend’s house and changed his clothes. He only dared to return home after the slap marks on his face had faded enough to be less noticeable.
When Shen Yurou asked him about it, he stammered that he had accidentally dirtied his clothes.
The sight of his useless son immediately irritated Lu Weiguo. However, he was in a hurry to return to the Lu family’s ancestral home and transfer the assets, so he had no time to discipline Lu Guangzong.
If he found out that Lu Guangzong hadn’t quit gambling at all and had been using studying as an excuse to gamble outside every day, he would probably be so furious that he’d blow the roof off the house!
“Mom, when is Song Jinyue being sent to the countryside?”
Shen Yurou looked puzzled.
“The list of people being sent down will be released in another four days, so it should be soon. Why are you suddenly asking about that?”
“It’s nothing. We’ve lived under the same roof for ten years, after all. When she leaves for the countryside, I’ll go to the train station and see her off.”
After learning that Song Jinyue wouldn’t leave for the countryside before he returned from the Lu family’s ancestral home, Lu Guangzong secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
“All right. Since everything’s packed, let’s head to the train station. If we leave any later, we’ll miss the train.”
At Lu Weiguo’s command, the four of them picked up their bags and left the house.
They had barely left when Song Jinyue arrived at the door to Lu Weiguo and Shen Yurou’s bedroom.
Sure enough, the door was locked.
And it wasn’t just their bedroom.
Lu Manman’s and Lu Guangzong’s rooms had also been locked.
They were clearly guarding against her.
Whatever.
She had come prepared.
Song Jinyue took out the hammer she’d bought at the black market earlier from her storage space. She blew on her palms twice, tightened her grip, and swung the hammer straight at the lock.
“Eighty!”
“Eighty!”
“Eighty!”