My wife has a secret

Chapter 22 I'm a Real Villain

"Where's Ji Xia?"

Lu Wanhe wanted to ask this question last night, but she was weak and couldn't find the girl nearby, so she had to go back to her room to rest.

"Master said she went out."

Lu Wanhe realized that something was wrong. She frowned and reached out to grab Xiaohuan's fingers.

"Go find her in the yard for me. If you find her... tell her that I asked her to go back to the mansion and invite the old lady over."

The current situation is urgent, and we can only ask Mrs. Xu to save the situation.

But what made Lu Wanhe despair was that it was too late.

All the members of the Lu family gathered here, surrounding the front yard.

Everyone was holding a cage filled with crickets and the lottery tickets they had just drawn, and they were all laughing happily.

No one thought they would lose.

"Mr. Xu, the sticks have been distributed. Please see..."

"Wait!"

Lu Gongda had just said a few words when he was interrupted by a loud shout from the crowd.

The voice came from a woman with heavy makeup and a loud voice.

"Gao sisters, please stop being so presumptuous in front of Master Xu!"

The younger sister of the Gao sisters was the woman who came forward with her child to greet Xu Qing when he got off the car yesterday.

They led a group of Lu family women out of the crowd and occupied a corner of the venue.

"Mr. Xu, the Lu family has no tradition of passing the throne to males but not females. Why can't we participate?"

Lu Gongda was slightly stunned when he heard this. He did not expect there would be such a statement.

He reacted immediately, glared at her, and rebuked her, "Nonsense! The position of the Patriarch is very important! The successor to the Patriarch must lead more than a hundred Lu clan members to become rich. Besides, your maiden name is Gao, how can you be the Patriarch of my Lu family?"

The battle for the position of family head is crucial, and Lu Gongda does not want to have so many additional opponents.

"Isn't it just a surname? I changed it. And don't act so noble in front of me. When you touched my breasts a few days ago, you praised my plumpness... What? Just because I married into your Lu family, I am no longer a member of your Lu family?"

Xu Qing had previously felt that Gao was no ordinary shrew, and now it seemed that she was indeed quite capable.

He was just secretly fanning the flames yesterday, and this Mrs. Gao already had great ambitions.

Now she is willing to use her own reputation to force the other party to submit. What a ruthless person.

As expected, everyone present looked at Lu Gongda with strange eyes, full of contempt.

This old guy is nearly sixty years old. Gao is his nephew's wife. How could it be disgraced if this news got out?

Xu Qing gave a thumbs up and said with a different look: "Uncle Gongda is really amazing. His health and spirit are still as good as they were back then."

"She is slandering me!"

With so many eyes watching, Lu Gongda didn't want to become the target of public criticism, but Mrs. Gao didn't want to let him go at all. She sneered and said, "If it wasn't for a little more rice, I wouldn't have let you take advantage of me. Now that everyone has the right to be the master, I will naturally give it a try."

After that, she turned to look at Xu Qing, changed her previous aggressive attitude, and asked in a pretentious manner: "Mr. Xu, what do you think?"

Xu Qing nodded and said with great interest: "Well, of course, my main focus here is gender equality."

Gao smiled slightly, then led the women behind her forward and took the number plates from the lottery box.

Finally, the Lu clan members took their positions and started fighting in the order of their signed cards.

"Lu Dingsan, to Gao."

Lu Dingsan, who was standing in the stage, obviously didn't expect that he would be the first to go on stage. He walked forward with the insect cage full of confidence and released the crickets in the cage.

Mrs. Gao didn't take him seriously and wanted to drive the fighting crickets out of her cage so that the two insects could fight each other.

"Wait, I need to get ready."

Lu Dingsan stopped Mrs. Gao and pulled out a stack of talisman papers from her lapel.

Then he shook it a few times in a serious manner, muttering to himself, "When summoning generals from the gods, they must obey my divine talisman and not be ahead of me. This will cause disrespect and bring the gods' wrath."

Seeing Lu Dingsan's actions, everyone in the Lu Mansion was dumbfounded.

But what made them even more devastated was that the cricket at the bottom of the bottle had not even jumped twice before it was bitten to death by the fighting cricket released by Mrs. Gao.

"what?"

Lu Dingsan looked at the scene in front of him with a confused look on his face, feeling worse than if he had eaten shit.

This was the secret technique and the invincible general that he had obtained from the Ghost Young Master at a huge price, how could he be killed by just one bite?

"What kind of rubbish is this? How dare you compare it with mine?"

Mrs. Gao took back the cricket like a treasure and taunted Lu Dingsan in front of her, "It's just vulnerable. It's as useless as you."

As soon as Mrs. Gao finished her complacency, the people of the Lu family were in an uproar, because they all found the ghost young master of the Nameless Inn and took the same cage and spell as Lu Dingsan.

Originally everyone thought they had a sure win, but now it seems that they have all been deceived.

"You...how come you have one too?"

"I was just wondering why you had it! That ghost master said it clearly, the only person who passed on this thing from the Thunderbolt Rakshasa Sect was me!"

After several conversations, everyone in the Lu Mansion finally understood that the ghost young master was an out and out liar.

But he was wearing a mask when they met, so no one knew what he looked like.

Lu Gongda also stared blankly at the venue, because the set of things he prepared privately was exactly the same as Lu Dingsan's.

"What? No one of you wants to come up and compete?"

Xu Qing pretended to be confused and looked at the people below. He felt like he was going to get sick from holding it in.

Zhu Yuande and Zhang Ruihai are really a pair of funny people. I only asked them to squeeze all their money, but I didn't expect that they would make up a spell and create such a funny scene.

Good job, be rewarded!
Several members of the Lu clan refused to give up and took the ordinary crickets sold to them by Zhang Ruihai, but were bitten to death.

Some members of the Lu clan collapsed and cried loudly after seeing the bloody reality.

Because these were the crickets they bought at great expense, but no matter how they looked at them now, they didn't look like fighting crickets.

Mrs. Gao was very happy and thought that the position of head of the Lu family was just around the corner.

After shouting a few times and making sure that no one in the Lu Mansion was willing to compete, she walked towards Xu Qing.

"Don't worry."

Xu Qing sat on the bench with a playful expression on his face.

"There are still people who haven't been compared."

"Who?"

Mrs. Gao looked down again and didn't see anyone daring to come forward.

"My wife."

Everyone looked up blankly at the bewildered sick woman, Lu Wanhe. If it weren't for Xu Qing's reminder, they would have long forgotten the existence of the third wife of the Xu family.

"Husband, you...what do you mean?"

Lu Wanhe's red lips slightly opened, trying hard to suppress the confusion and uneasiness in her heart.

Mrs. Gao smiled awkwardly, "Mr. Xu, stop joking. She only knows how to read and write, and has never fought crickets. How could she understand these things..."

"My young lady doesn't understand, but I do."

A passage was made through the crowd, and Ji Xia came over carrying a strangely shaped cage, which was covered tightly with black cloth.

She placed the cage in front of the bottle and removed the black cloth, revealing a cricket that was completely black and three times larger than its ordinary peers.

When the tall lady saw this, her hands and feet turned cold and her heartbeat became faster and faster, as if an unspeakable fear was gradually engulfing her.

How can I defeat such a big cricket?

She also spent all her savings to buy the rare and precious Ningyang County Fighting Cricket!

"Aren't you still giving up?"

Hearing Xu Qing's words, Lu Gongda on the side seemed to have guessed something and looked at him in disbelief.

The dandy young man who originally had a bad reputation had now turned into a ferocious tiger staring at its prey in his eyes, ready to rip him open at any time.

"Mr. Xu... did you do all this?"

After Lu Gongda's reminder, everyone in the Lu Mansion suddenly realized that wasn't this the cricket fighting competition that Xu Qing wanted to watch?
All of them were desperate to purchase fighting crickets just for the prize he mentioned, hoping to seize the position of family head today.

"Too deceiving!"

"Compensate!"

"Even if you are a member of the Xu family, you can't do this to us!"

"..."

Xu Qing clapped his hands, and the door of the Lu Mansion was instantly knocked to the ground with a loud "bang".

After a while, more than thirty servants of the Xu family rushed in with blunt weapons and surrounded these people.

Servants who engage in physical labor all year round are many times stronger than those who are kept in deep houses.

As soon as they appeared, the voices of the Lu family faded away.

Lu Gongda knew that Xu Qing had been prepared for this, so he had to put down his old face and smiled apologetically: "Mr. Xu, we haven't done anything wrong, why do you have to treat us like this?"

"The gentleman is like justice, the villain is like profit."

Xu Qing finished speaking word by word and asked, "If anyone can explain to me what this means, I will let him go today and return the money he spent on the crickets."

The Lu family looked at each other, and no one could explain the meaning of this sentence.

Even if some people have studied before, they have wasted time in the past two years.

After all, the Xu family supports them, so they don't have to worry about anything.

"Two years ago, you moved into the Lu Mansion, occupied the magpie's nest, and regarded my wife's house as your own property. Then, for your own selfish reasons, you forced my wife to complete the marriage contract so that you could give your Lu family a blood transfusion and let everyone live a life without worries about food and clothing."

Lu Gongda said timidly: "Mr. Xu, we are relatives. It is normal for relatives to help each other, isn't it?"

"Hai Dafu."

"The little one is here."

"Give this old man ten slaps in the face and throw him down. I'm tired of watching him."

"Yes, Master."

Without waiting for Lu Gongda to react, Hai Dafu came forward with two servants, slapped Lu Gongda ten times, and threw him into the crowd.

When the Lu family saw how ferocious Xu Qing was, they all shut their mouths and dared not say a word.

"Today, you have fought for the position of the head of the family and the money I sent you, disregarding human ethics and morality, and have been broken into pieces... Tell me, are you a gentleman or a villain?"

"I don't agree!"

In the crowd, Mrs. Gao's eyes were red with anger. She looked at Xu Qing angrily and said, "It was you who told me last night to throw dirty water on Lu Gongda today so that he could help me inherit the position of the head of the family. Why are you still criticizing us in a hypocritical manner?"

In a hurry, Mrs. Gao didn't even want to call him "Young Master".

Xu Qing smiled and nodded, saying: "Yes, I did everything... But the difference between me and you is that I am a real villain."

"you!"

"My family is powerful and we can use our family background to bully you. The reason I am playing this drama with you is just for fun. Do you really think that being my Xu Qing's playmate, just hanging out in brothels, drinking and listening to music all day is enough? Sorry, you are not qualified to climb this high branch of mine."

Xu Qing's words made everyone in the Lu Mansion silent.

Yes, the Xu family has that person protecting them, so who do they think they are?
Even if he went to the county government to report the case, the official would probably not hold a trial when he heard Xu Qing's name.

People like us are really blind to want to flatter such a dandy boy.

"From now on, all of you get out of the Lu Mansion and go wherever you want... Hai Dafu, I'll leave the matter of driving people away to you. I want to see this Lu Mansion empty today."

After Xu Qing said this, he stood up, patted his butt and left.

The light in the eyes of those Lu clan members disappeared, and they sat on the ground like zombies, filled with fear for their future lives.

Without the support from the Xu family, they had to work on their own.

"Mom, where should we go next?"

Lu Xiang walked up to the side of Mrs. Gao and tugged at her dress with her little hands.

At today's cricket fighting competition, the Lu family released all the children who were locked up in the woodshed. The woman surnamed Gao originally wanted to take her son to seize the position of head of the family, but she didn't expect such a ridiculous thing to happen.

This made her, as a mother, unable to hold her head up in front of her child.

"us……"

"Xiang'er, come here."

On the stage, besides Hai Dafu who came with his men, there was also Lu Wanhe who had a beautiful appearance and delicate figure.

Her eyes are soft, gentle and peaceful, giving people a deep sense of comfort.

"Sister Xiaohe!"

When Lu Xiang saw Lu Wanhe, he ran over and threw himself into her arms.

Lu Wanhe rubbed his head lovingly and asked with a smile: "Xiang'er, don't be afraid. Sister will make the decision for you... Ji Xia."

Ji Xia raised her head and responded, "Miss."

"Take out the monthly salary that the Xu family has given us in the past two years and distribute it to these clansmen to go home... I remember that our Lu family still has some land in Longxi. You can take the travel expenses and go back to work in the fields. You will definitely be able to make a living."

The Lu family looked at Lu Wanhe in disbelief. They thought that since she had occupied her grandfather's mansion over the years and deliberately ignored and ridiculed her, even if this woman would not add insult to injury, she would definitely just stand by and watch.

But they didn't expect that Lu Wanhe would actually repay evil with kindness and give travel expenses to the penniless people.

"Miss, this is our own money..."

Ji Xia's face showed reluctance. In her opinion, these young ladies' relatives deserved the punishment they received, so why should she care about their life or death?
(End of this chapter)