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Chapter 29: Chapter 29: Picking Out Red Beans Because of an Allergy?

Chapter 29 -29: Picking Out Red Beans Because of an Allergy?

The man, trembling, confessed that after he strangled the girl with a rope and confirmed she wasn’t breathing, he took a picture and sent it to the buyer.

Li Muchen couldn’t help but frown slightly.

Evidently, the girl had not died; perhaps she had deceived the man in some way, or maybe there was some other unknown secret he was unaware of.

“Boss, what do we do now?” Chen An looked up and said, “If the murder-for-hire was arranged through the Dark Web, and this person knows nothing about the client, we really can’t find out who wants the miss dead. At most, we can only send him to the police station.”

“Then send him to the station,” Li Muchen’s voice was ice-cold, “He has more than one life on his hands, he needs to pay for those he has harmed before.”

—

Lu Sheng told Li Muchen that he had other matters these next two days; he needed to prepare for the entrance exam for new students at Shengjing High School.

Lu Jingyan instructed Lu Qianrou to use the day to tutor her, to go over the key points for the exam.

After yesterday’s incident at the mall, Lu Sheng thought that Lu Qianrou would outright refuse, yet, unexpectedly, not only did she agree, but she also came over last night specifically to ask her to wake up early today.

As if yesterday never happened.

Although Lu Sheng didn’t know what Lu Qianrou was up to, it was definitely not anything good.

But Lu Sheng couldn’t be bothered to guess what exactly she wanted to do.

At half-past eight in the morning.

The housekeeper, as usual, came to call her for breakfast; Lu Sheng was about to go out, but Black Bean, who had been dozing off in the blankets, suddenly raised its head and let out a meow—

Lu Sheng turned her head, and in the next second, Black Bean suddenly leaped onto her. The round little head rubbed against her chest, meowing several times.

“Are you saying, someone wants to harm me?”

Black Bean only reacted like this when sensing malice and danger for her; while smoothing his fur, Lu Sheng bent her head to ask.

“Meow~” Black Bean nodded his small head, as if affirming.

“I see.” Lu Sheng rubbed Black Bean’s head and narrowed her eyes.

[Dining Room]

Although she had only stayed in the Lu Family for two days, Lu Sheng had already roughly learned about the Lu Family’s daily routine from the housekeepers.

Lu Jingyan was the earliest riser, typically leaving for the company before eight o’clock. Lu Chengye and Jiang Ting wouldn’t get up until nearly noon; after lunch, the two would go out to dine, drink, play cards, and enjoy themselves, not returning until the early morning hours.

Lu Youye would stay up late playing video games, usually sleeping until two or three in the afternoon. Lu Qianrou’s schedule was unpredictable; if she had a date with Fu Chen, she would rise early to put on makeup and dress up, but if not, she too would sleep until noon.

So upon arriving at the dining room and seeing both Jiang Ting and Lu Qianrou sitting at the dining table, Lu Sheng couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

These two were up rather early.

That day at the Fu household, she had managed to completely offend Mrs. Fu and Jiang Ting.

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If it weren’t for later going into the room and telling Grandpa Fu to not pressure Fu Chen and Lu Qianrou into breaking up, and putting aside her engagement to Fu Chen, Jiang Ting probably wouldn’t even have shown her a pleasant face at the Lu household these past two days.

“Mother, sister, good morning,” Lu Sheng approached the dining table and greeted politely.

Jiang Ting didn’t even lift her eyelids, took a sip of the coffee in her hand, and coldly tossed out a sentence: “Sit.”

“Thank you, mother.”

Lu Sheng did not mind Jiang Ting’s cold demeanor, or rather, it would have been abnormal for Jiang Ting to be warm to her, so she pulled out a chair and sat down beside her.

Before Lu Sheng was a bowl of red bean porridge, the same as Lu Qianrou’s.

Each day, the Lu Family’s chef would prepare breakfast according to the different tastes of the Lu Family.

Jiang Ting preferred Western flavors, usually toasted bread with butter, eggs, and coffee; Lu Chengye enjoyed noodles, Lu Qianrou liked porridge, and Lu Youye skipped breakfast.

As for her own preference, the Lu Family’s chefs didn’t care at all. It didn’t matter; whatever was left over from others was given to her.

“Eat up, Sister, your porridge is getting cold,” Lu Qianrou, sitting opposite, suddenly spoke up after seeing Lu Sheng sit down but not yet move her chopsticks.

Lu Sheng had been about to pick up her spoon to drink the porridge, but at these words, she looked up at Lu Qianrou.

Black Bean said someone was out to harm her, and now Lu Qianrou was acting unusually attentive.

Lu Sheng looked down at the steaming porridge in front of her—

So, was there something wrong with this bowl of porridge?

She paused, then said, “I’m sorry, Little Sister, I’m allergic to red beans. I’ll have something else instead.”

“What, allergic to red beans?” Lu Qianrou was taken aback.

“Yes.”

Lu Sheng nodded, ready to pick up something else to eat, but Jiang Ting suddenly frowned, her face full of disgust, “How fussy can you be? Just because you’re allergic to red beans, you can’t have red bean porridge? Just pick out the red beans and that’s it!”

“All this porridge that’s been cooked and you let it sit there uneaten; even though you grew up in the countryside, you have no sense of cherishing food?”

Jiang Ting’s words were quite unreasonable.

The red beans have been stewed in the porridge for so long, it isn’t as if picking them out would be the same as never having put them in. If someone truly allergic to red beans were forced to eat it, it would certainly cause an adverse reaction.

Yet here Jiang Ting was, pressuring her, her eyes intently fixed on her. It was as if she would force her to eat it if she didn’t.

Under Jiang Ting’s gaze, Lu Sheng suddenly smiled lightly, “…Mother is right, we shouldn’t waste food, so I’ll just pick out the red beans.”

Having said that, Lu Sheng actually began to pick out all the red beans in the porridge with her spoon into a small dish on the side, and then she bowed her head and started to drink the porridge as if it was nothing.

Lu Qianrou saw her drinking and couldn’t help feeling secretly pleased.

Lu Sheng finished the porridge in five minutes, then stood up, “I’m done eating, I’ll go back to my room first. Mother and Little Sister, please enjoy your meal.”

Once Lu Sheng returned to her room, she used her Soul Power to overhear Lu Qianrou and Jiang Ting’s conversation in the dining room.

“Mom, she finished all her porridge, and besides, she’s allergic to red beans, does this mean we’ve succeeded?” Lu Qianrou’s voice was filled with joy.

“Hmph,” Jiang Ting snorted coldly, “The Lychee Pollen I had someone get and put in the porridge will definitely cause her face to break out in large red patches tomorrow, which won’t disappear for three months.”

“Just looking at her face, which resembles that vixen, her mother, makes me sick. With such a face, let’s see how she can be as conspicuous at parties as before. Let’s see if Old Mr. Fu will still find her pleasant to look at.”

Lu Qianrou was also delighted.

Thinking back to the Fu Family’s banquet, when Lu Sheng made her appearance and stole the spotlight, even Fu Chen couldn’t take his eyes off her in her presence, made her infuriated.

She absolutely wouldn’t allow Lu Sheng, this illegitimate daughter without any social standing, to overshadow her. Lu Sheng was only fit to play a supporting role next to her.

Once she turned ugly, wherever she went, she would only be ridiculed. She was still going to be the most sought-after precious daughter of the Lu Family.

Having heard the conversation in the dining room, Lu Sheng narrowed her eyes.

Lychee flowers are a toxic species that grows in the dense forests of the south.

If touched carelessly, the area of contact would break out in a rash, and if ingested, it would cause widespread red patches on the body, taking a long time to subside.

This Mrs. Jiang really was vicious, even thinking of getting her hands on such things.

However, Lu Sheng had sensed at the time that it was this substance that had been added to the porridge. Lychee Pollen would not affect her in any way; it would even make her skin even more fair and rosy, so she quite enjoyed drinking it.

After all, she was a Flower Demon.

All flowers were naturally close to her.

But it was different for humans. Apart from red patches and rashes, if a large dose were ingested, it could even be lethal.

This mother and daughter had no blood ties, but their malicious thoughts were indeed passed down through succession. To want to ruin her appearance, and perhaps even to kill her, wouldn’t be too far off.

Lu Sheng sneered, raised her palm, and above the center of her hand, a wisp of light red powder slowly appeared, gathering together amidst the eddies formed by the air current.