Country Maiden: Fields and Fortune

Chapter 557: Chapter 557, The Truth (7 more updates)

In a household.

The woman was being beaten with a stick, “I’ll beat you to death, you shameless wretch, how did my Lu Family produce something like you? You nodded your head in agreement to marry into the Chu Family by yourself, even lending them a favor, then poisoned your husband, and now you have the audacity to play the victim, accusing others of coercing you!”

Master Lu grew angrier the more he spoke.

How could he have fathered such a creature?

She poisoned her husband, brought forth nothing good, and even took a lover.

Chu Yunping was kindhearted, simply proposing a divorce without speaking a word of her faults to others.

Lu Yuyu was beaten until her skin was broken and her flesh laid bare, and her heart grew even more resentful.

She also felt regret.

She had always harbored resentment, never reflecting on the many things Chu Yunping had given her over the years. Now that everything was being taken back, she looked at her meager dowry and thought about how she could no longer live a carefree life without worries about food and clothing, filled with extreme regret.

She thought the Chu Family coveted her dowry and started making a fuss, but got knocked to the ground by her father’s slap.

He told her to look closely at the dowry list.

Everything that was there at the beginning was clearly listed, and now the Lu Family even demanded the return of the bride price from back then.

Chu Yunping had loved her deeply, and since he was the eldest son of his family, the bride price had been quite substantial. If the Lu Family really returned the bride price, it would nearly empty their coffers.

Generally speaking, even in the case of a divorce or disownment of a wife, there was no precedent for returning the bride price. But Lu Yuyu had poisoned her own husband and had affairs, leaving the Lu Family with no grounds to defend her.

That was why Master Lu was so furious.

Mother Lu wished she had never given birth to this daughter, and her brothers and sisters-in-law, her siblings and their spouses, all looked at her with disgust in their eyes.

“You all blame me, you all blame me!” cried Lu Yuyu.

Recalling how her family had eagerly ingratiated themselves with her when she visited in the past, she now realized that their fawning was not directed at her, but at Chu Yunping, who was always accommodating towards her.

“Kick her out of the house, our Lu Family has no place for such a disobedient daughter!”

“Yes, it’s true. Chu Yunping, the former son-in-law of our family, can no longer be referred to as such, but only as the eldest young master of the Chu Family, treated her so well, yet she harbored resentment and even poisoned him. If one day she poisons the water in our family’s well…” The sister-in-law shivered as she spoke.

She was foolish.

Why didn’t she cherish such a good man, bear him a few children, and spend her life luxuriously in ease?

Foolish.

The family, too, was afraid.

That’s why they had to kick Lu Yuyu out.

As for her dowry, how could they possibly return it to her? That belonged to the Lu Family, it was only natural to convert it into silver to compensate for the bride price previously given to the Chu Family.

And so Lu Yuyu was kicked out of the family home.

With nowhere to go, she had no choice but to look for her former lover, but he had long since married and had children. His wife’s family was also prominent within the local area, and upon her arrival, the lover’s father beat him and warned that if he dared to have any further contact with Lu Yuyu or even meet her, he would be disowned.

The lover had never truly loved Lu Yuyu to the depth of his bones; otherwise, he wouldn’t have let her marry someone else back in the day.

Their later entanglement was born out of a craving for novelty, a thrill, and also for the silver Lu Yuyu gave to him.

Now that both of their reputations were sullied and upon returning home, the way his wife looked at him was as if he were a dead man. He knew that in a few days, his cousins were likely to beat him as well.

When he learned that Lu Yuyu was coming, rather than meeting her, he stayed far away.

But his parents were harsh; they stepped forward and dumped a bucket of manure over Lu Yuyu, yelling, “Shameless whore, seducing my son, poisoning your own husband, still having the audacity to strut around, why don’t you just go and die!”

The neighbors next door came out to watch the commotion.