My Multiple Identities Revealed After Marrying the Bigshot
Chapter 331: The Heart of a Villain

Chapter 331: Chapter 331: The Heart of a Villain

Grandma Xu prodded her chest forcefully, "I have done right by heaven and earth! If I have lied to you, kept a penny for myself, may I not live through this Spring Festival!"

"Grandma Xu!" Lu Youxi pleaded urgently, "You know you are innocent, but you don’t need to say such things about yourself for their sake."

Grandma Xu gave Lu Youxi a tender smile and said, "Since I am innocent, I am not afraid to say these words."

Zhang Jialiang looked somewhat uncomfortable and finally said after a long while, "Mom, why do you need to say that?"

"If I don’t say it, would you believe me?" Grandma Xu’s heart was thoroughly hurt tonight, so she just said, "There are no rooms left in our house, you should find a hotel in town to stay for a few days."

"How could there be no rooms?" Zhang Jiayu was stunned for a moment.

They had originally thought it would be fine to stay here even during the Spring Festival holiday.

After all, they didn’t need to spend extra money since food and lodging were provided at home.

"You suddenly came back without a word, so there’s no place for you in the house," said Grandma Xu.

"How could that be?" Zhang Jialiang disbelieved. "Mom, before every Spring Festival, you always clean the house thoroughly and tidy up the rooms, waiting for our return. You must have tidied up this time too."

They had only called home on New Year’s Eve to say they weren’t coming back, and by then Grandma Xu would have surely prepared everything.

Grandma Xu smiled and said, "So, you do know that I clean the whole house inside and out, tidy up the rooms, and prepare a big table of food for when you walk through the door."

"But still, on the eve of New Year’s Eve, just when I had almost finished preparing the meals, you remembered to call me," Grandma Xu laughed. "You were so busy. Couldn’t even spare a moment to call me ahead of time? If it weren’t for the demolition matter, you wouldn’t have come back, would you?"

"Yes, the rooms in the house were ready and could be lived in at any time," said Grandma Xu. "But because you didn’t tell me beforehand, I didn’t keep any room for you."

"Lu Family’s elders and others knew you weren’t coming back for New Year’s, leaving me alone at home, so they specifically came back to spend it with me," said Grandma Xu. "I kept the rooms for them. If you want to stay, go find a hotel in town."

"How can we go into town at this time? The buses have stopped," Zhang Jialiang unhappily said. "And the hotels are so expensive during the festival!"

"Mom, are you keeping rooms vacant for outsiders instead of letting us stay?" Zhang Jiayu could no longer maintain even basic courtesy.

She even wondered if Lu Youxi was eyeing the old lady’s house.

After all, why would Lu Youxi, disconnected and aloof from their grandparents, specifically come to spend the New Year with Grandma Xu?

Even if Lu Family’s elders favored sons over daughters and treated Lu Youxi poorly, Lu Zhenguo was filial, and although they weren’t as loving towards Lu Zhenguo as they were to Lu Zhenjia, they were still decent to him.

Why then, would such a filial person like Lu Zhenguo not spend New Year with his parents and instead choose to accompany an unrelated outsider?

She couldn’t believe they didn’t have ulterior motives.

Zhang Jialiang and Zhang Jiayu only returned home once a year for the festival.

Many things had happened in the Lu Family this year, and the siblings were unaware of them.

"Don’t think that by pleasing you, they could make you give them the house," Zhang Jiayu sneered sarcastically.

Grandma Xu was gasping for air in anger, but she couldn’t reveal Lu Youxi’s business in the Imperial Capital.

Nor did she intend to mention that she planned to go to the Imperial Capital to help.

Otherwise, these two ingrates would never stop.

Lu Youxi and Zhou Shuyan were good kids, kindly and filial to her, an unrelated outsider.

Zhou Shuyan always remembered the life-saving favor she owed her, acting as if he would take care of her in her old age.

Thus, she should never let her children burden Zhou Shuyan and Lu Youxi any further.

Zhou Shuyan and Lu Youxi were good children, and she couldn’t let the story of the farmer and the snake play out.

"So it turns out you are aware of your unfilial behavior and wrongdoings, that’s why you are worried I’d give the house to someone else," said Grandma Xu, covering her chest angrily. "If you did well, were truly innocent, why would you have such worries?"

"But you needn’t suspect ulterior motives!" Grandma Xu grew even more disappointed with her children. "Youxi and the others didn’t know about this when they returned. They found out even later than you, only just now."

"People even don’t want to fight for the Lu Family’s house, but you think they’d fight you for this house?" Grandma Xu said more harshly as she spoke, unable to hold back, "Only the incompetent focus on picking at what little their parents have!"

"The little money I save over a year, and you still eye it relentlessly, not daring to forget even a penny," said Grandma Xu sarcastically.

"You don’t need to worry, this house, no one longs for it but you," Grandma Xu coldly stated. "People simply pity me, they pity that I have children yet it’s as if I have none. They are filial, so they come to accompany me."

Grandma Xu did not mention saving Zhou Shuyan.

Otherwise, given her children’s eye on money, they would definitely cling to that lifesaving favor.

They might even approach the Zhou Family for money!

Grandma Xu had never expected any reward for saving Zhou Shuyan; she couldn’t afford to lose that dignity.

Zhang Jialiang pursed his lips and said, "Mom, you don’t need to treat us with such sarcasm. Are you just disgusted that we are incompetent?"

Grandma Xu laughed disappointingly, "So, all this time, this is what you’ve thought of me. My heart, it truly has been thrown to the dogs."

"No, dogs are grateful, dogs don’t despise a poor home, dogs are loyal and follow their owner without abandoning or giving up," Grandma Xu coldly said.

With that, she realized her children were even worse than dogs.

"People come from afar to spend New Year with me, naturally, the rooms are vacated for Youxi and them," said Grandma Xu. "Since you’re only here for the house, and not for your elderly mother, you might as well go stay somewhere else. Clearly, you don’t have me in your hearts."

"No, don’t they have a place to stay? They are from Hexing Village, they have places to stay in Hexing Village," Zhang Jialiang complained unhappily. "Why should they leave their own home and occupy our place, making us homeless?"

"And why shouldn’t they be the ones to stay at a hotel?" Zhang Jiayu followed up.

Lu Youxi guessed this was one of the rare times the siblings united so solidly.

"People come to spend the New Year with me, what about you? You are here to demand a house from me," said Grandma Xu coldly.

Grandma Xu was always kind, always considering her children.

But this time, she was truly disillusioned.

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