Chapter 1069: Lets hurt each other
Though Lu Huo was afraid that he was bringing trouble for himself, he also had to look for a way out.
Yu Dong looked at the keys, there were a total of twenty keys. She had to admit that this mer was rather smart, after finding out that he was being sent to a village he came prepared. It was just that he was a bit too greedy and ended up causing trouble for himself.
She then asked, " Are you sure that you want to do this? Are you not worried that your parents would hate you? In case these keys were to fall in the hands of someone who would bring them to justice?"
" And what about the documents would they not be moved?"
" They cannot be moved," Lu Huo shook his head and then took out a large key from his own pocket and handed it to Yu Dong. " This is the main key of the manor where those storages are located and thus they cannot be taken out for the time being."
Lu Huo was smart and his father was even more smart, back then for the sake of protecting his son, his father did everything to stop the marriage but his mother did not even give his father a good face and ended up poisoning his father to death.
She knew that as long as Lu Huo's father was alive, he would not allow Lu Huo to marry into a village and she did not want to keep a mer who was disfigured and couldn't be sent to the house of an official.
Thus before dying Lu Huo's father decided to grasp the vein of the Lu family firmly. Even if Lu Huo's mother wanted to hate him, there was nothing she could do as she was the one who killed him.
" As for hatred," Lu Huo snorted scornfully. " If they had treated me like family, then I would not be sent to this village like a livestock that needed to be sent away. In their eyes, I am just a mer born by a mer concubine and should be used to my maximum potential, if I cannot be used then I am supposed to be thrown away.
Since they don't care about my life and death, then there is nothing I can do about them either."
What was more it was his mother's official mer son who ruined his face just because he did not want him to become the concubine of the woman he was about to marry. If not for that legitimate son, his condition would not be like this, yet his mother ignored everything and only caused him to suffer.
Since that was the case then let's hurt each other, and see who ends up getting hurt the most!
Yu Dong could see the chill flashing in the eyes of Lu Huo and knew that he was not lying, she looked at the mer and asked, " Don't tell me that your mother sent you here because she wanted to find out who is behind the oil mill?"
Lu Huo stiffened but then he nodded carefully. He saw that Yu Dong was not angry and thus replied in a low voice, " But don't worry, Madam Yu. I am good at copying the writing of others, this is the skill that my father taught me and no one knows about it. I exchanged the letter handed to my mother written by my wife."
He knew that his mother was only handing empty promises to his wife who agreed to marry him in exchange for money. His mother said that as long as they were willing to hand her the truth, then she would hand his wife ten per cent shares of the earnings after the oil mill was under her control but Lu Huo knew that these words were as empty as every other promise that his mother made to him.
Thus, he changed the content of the letter and every other letter that Lin Yiyi sent to the capital but he did not know how long he could hide it. Lu Huo had told his wife that the capital was closed at the moment and thus mother did not have the time to deal with him or anyone else but if his wife found out that he was lying then he would really suffer.
" How do you and Lin Yiyi meet?" Yu Dong asked though she was surprised that there was a traitor in the village, she was still calm.
" She is the relative of the horse stable cleaner in our house," Lu Huo bitterly replied. When his mother was looking for a wife for him, she really did not have any qualifications, she just wanted a woman and then sent him away. And with the legitimate husband whispering in her ear, she even spread the matter to the workers.
The master of the family said that his face was ruined and no one would be willing to marry him and thus it was better to choose a woman whose family was poor such that they would not have to worry about anything. The pretext was that he would not be bullied if they gave the other person money but the truth was that they were cutting every chance of retreat for him.
Yu Dong: "…" What a match.
She sighed and then took the keys from Lu Huo and said, " You should keep an eye on your wife, as soon as she writes another letter bring it to me. And I will deal with her."
The oil mill was not only hers but magistrate Li's as well, at the moment the oil mill was like a child to Li Wan. If someone tried to make trouble regarding the oil mill, she was sure that Li Wan would not sit tight.
" But do remember that you might have to live like a widower after that," Yu Dong warned Lu Huo lest he blamed her later on.
Lu Huo sneered as he thought about the torment that he had to go through every day and nodded, " I cannot ask for anything more."
Yu Dong: "…." What a ruthless mer.
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