CHAPTER 1354: CHAPTER 691: AWAKENING

The last day of the pink double event, asking for pink.

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After Lian Shouxin freed himself from Lady Zhou, he didn’t sit on the kang, but turned around and walked away. Lian Shouren, Lian Shouyi, and Lian Jizu all hurriedly stood up to offer him a seat. Lian Shouxin didn’t stand on ceremony, choosing a chair and sitting down.

Now, it was still Old Master Lian and Lady Zhou sitting on the kang together, while the sons and grandsons sat far away, on the chairs and stools near the cupboard.

Lady Zhou sat there, her hand still outstretched. She opened her mouth but didn’t make a sound. Her cloudy eyes revealed a bit of confusion. She rarely treated Lian Shouxin kindly, thinking for sure that Lian Shouxin would be overwhelmed and then obey her in everything. However, Lian Shouxin’s response was so cold and unfeeling, which startled and even panicked Lady Zhou.

In the past, if Lian Shouxin embarrassed her like this, Lady Zhou would immediately explode. But now, Lady Zhou didn’t have such confidence anymore. She actually swallowed her pride and held it in.

Old Master Lian slightly squinted, observing the expressions of Lady Zhou and Lian Shouxin, unnoticed by others, he let out a sigh.

"...I wasn’t home the past few days, and there was no one left at home." Lian Shouxin was talking to Lian Shouyi, "I heard you planned to come to my home, grab your sister-in-law and two nieces, is that right?"

Lian Shouxin’s tone was very calm, but everyone in the room could feel the turbulence hidden beneath that calmness. Lian Shouxin was very angry. An honest person’s anger can be terrifying, and now Lian Shouxin was not just any honest person.

"No, nothing like that." Lian Shouyi involuntarily shuffled to the side, wanting to distance himself from Lian Shouxin, "Old Fourth, who did you hear this from... No, no, I couldn’t possibly do such a thing, would I still be human if I did? Absolutely nothing like that happened."

Lian Shouyi firmly denied it.

"What’s the point of going after them? I’m back now, if you have something to say, you come at me. Let’s have a proper discussion. You still know that doing that isn’t being human? Then why did you plan it, do you have any human decency left? What do you take me for?" Lian Shouxin shouted at Lian Shouyi, pointing at his nose.

Lian Shouyi jumped up from the stool and fled to Lady Zhou’s side, touching the edge of the kang, but not daring to sit down. Lady Zhou was shaken by Lian Shouxin’s shouting and shivered, but she quickly composed herself and straightened her back.

"Old Fourth, don’t be angry with me. I didn’t go, did I?" Lian Shouyi said with a grin, trying to appease Lian Shouxin, "It wasn’t me who wanted to go, it was our mother who gave the order. I just agreed offhandedly to make her happy, I never intended to go. I can’t do such inhuman things."

With a few words, Lian Shouyi sold out Lady Zhou without hesitation.

"If our mother gives an order, can’t you discourage her, do you always have to add fuel to the fire?" Lian Shouxin didn’t let Lian Shouyi off, "You also know it’s not being human, it’s inhumanity, why didn’t you stop it? Don’t think I don’t know what you’re up to, you just want to take advantage of the situation, and if nothing goes wrong, everything will be fine, but if something does, you’ll use our mother as a shield? Don’t tell me who gave the order, you’re not a child, I’m holding you accountable!"

"No, don’t get worked up." Lian Shouyi’s eyes darted back and forth between Lian Shouxin and Old Master Lian, Lady Zhou, wishing he could climb onto the kang and hide behind Lady Zhou right now.

"Listen up, all of you, if anything like this happens again, don’t bother telling me unnecessary things, or who supposedly made you do it. Whatever happens, I’m holding you accountable. Don’t plan on using Old Master or Old Lady as shields, I won’t let you off easy!" Lian Shouxin suddenly stood up, pointing at Lian Shouren, Lian Shouyi, and the others.

"Old Fourth, calm down, sit down and let’s talk." Lian Shouren hurriedly stood up, smiling to placate him, "Don’t worry, we absolutely won’t do anything to wrong you. This time, it was just Second Brother acting irrationally. In the end, he didn’t dare to go. If he really went, I would’ve stopped him."

"Yes, Fourth Uncle." Lian Jizu also chimed in from the side.

Lian Shouxin didn’t sit down, pacing back and forth, feeling extremely agitated. When he got home and learned about this incident, he almost exploded, wanting to question Lady Zhou. However, he held back because Lady Zhou is his mother, and because of his long habit of silently accepting everything.