Chapter 53: Make Madam Lu Pay 100,000

Lu Mu quickly arrived at the hospital.

In the ward, Lu Chi was lying on the hospital bed while the doctor examined his wound.

Lu Chi's face and body were covered in bruises, showing how hard the other side had struck.

Seeing this, Lu Mu's face grew ever uglier.

What a Lu Jingqing, daring to treat her son like this!

Lu Mu shoved open the ward door.

Lu Chi was startled by Lu Mu's arrival: "Mom?"

Qin Xue, who had been staying by his side, panicked and stood up as soon as she saw Lu Mu arrive.

"Aunt..."

Qin Xue's flustered appearance looked to Lu Mu like a jumping clown.

"How could you be hospitalized without telling anyone? Who let you go to a place like a bar?"

Faced with Lu Mu's reproach, Qin Xue dared not say a word.

Lu Chi's face darkened as he said, "Mom, this has nothing to do with Xiao Xue."

"No relation? If it's not related to her, then who is it related to?"

Lu Mu coldly said, "I've told you before not to associate with such people, yet you wouldn't listen. He took you to that kind of place—who knows what his intentions are?"

"Mom!"

Lu Chi felt his mother's words were too harsh.

Qin Xue beside him also softly said, "Sorry, Aunt, I didn't mean to, I'm really sorry."

As she spoke, Qin Xue began to sob.

Lu Chi frowned and said, "Mom, Qin Xue is my classmate; I hope you can respect her."

"You foolish child, you treat her as a classmate, but she treats you as a money tree!"

Lu Mu never expected her son to be so naïve as to trust a woman like that.

Lu Mu simply didn't know what to say.

"It's already late; take Miss Qin home."

"Yes."

The assistant at his side quickly approached Qin Xue, saying with a cold face, "Miss Qin, I hope you won't make things difficult for me."

Seeing that the other party was determined to take her away, Qin Xue could only follow them out.

After Qin Xue left, Lu Chi said to Lu Mu, "Mom, you were just too harsh; Qin Xue is my classmate, you shouldn't treat her like that."

"I'm doing this for your own good! Foolish son, can't you see? She's only after your money. If you weren't the Lu family's young master, she'd have long run away."

Lu Mu had long grown tired of hearing this line from Lu Chi.

"Not everyone is as you think; Qin Xue is kind and brave, and though her family is poor, she's still a good girl."

Lu Chi said, "You don't need to interfere now; just go."

Seeing her son ungrateful, Lu Mu could only swallow her anger and walk outside.

Outside the hospital, Secretary Li was settling Lu Chi's bill.

Upon seeing Lu Mu arrive, Secretary Li politely stepped forward and said, "Madam Lu."

"Where's Jingqing? Why isn't he coming over?"

Lu Mu had been holding in a breath of anger.

When she saw the person was Secretary Li, Lu Mu became even more displeased.

It was Lu Jingqing who ordered the beating of her son, yet Lu Jingqing himself didn't even show up.

Secretary Li seemed to see what Lu Mu was thinking, and he smiled, saying, "Boss Lu has already rested at this hour, so he sent me to check on Young Master Lu."

"He rested? He beat my son black and blue and can still sleep?"

Lu Mu was angry, but she dared not be too blunt.

After all, the Lu family still needs Lu Jingqing.

Secretary Li had long known Lu Mu was displeased; he directly produced a hospital invoice and handed it to her, saying, "Boss Lu said this time he's helping you discipline the young master; if there's a next time, he won't care, so this hospital reimbursement will likely have to come from you, Madam Lu… and… Lu Chi caused a disturbance in the bar, damaging much property; Boss Lu personally paid to settle it for Lu Chi—it's not much, just 100,000, Madam Lu can certainly afford it."

"What? 100,000?"

Lu Mu thought she had misheard.

"What kind of bar actually demanded 100,000 from Lu Jingqing?"

"So, Boss Lu is really angry—you say you made 100,000 in one night; any parent would be furious."

Lu Mu also never imagined her son could be such a scoundrel.

"He made that much money outside."

"I'll give this invoice to you, Madam Lu; please transfer it to Boss Lu's personal account tomorrow—after all, this is money Boss Lu himself spent. Though we're one family, Boss Lu disciplining the young master is indeed a case of 'substituting peach for plum,' so this money falls on you, Madam Lu."

Having said that, Secretary Li gave Lu Mu no further reply and turned and left directly.

Seeing this, Lu Mu's face instantly darkened.

"What kind of thing is this!"

Lu Mu held the invoice in her hand, feeling a stifled anger in her chest.

"This Lu Jingqing."

"He really has his accounts figured out!"

"The next day."

When Su Yun Jiao came downstairs to eat breakfast, she saw Lu Jingqing lowering his head to look at his phone.

"How come? Who would send you a message first thing in the morning?"

Su Yun Jiao curiously looked at Lu Jingqing's phone.

Lu Jingqing directly pushed the phone to Su Yun Jiao's face, saying, "Naturally, it's the money owed."

"The money owed?"

Su Yun Jiao lowered her head and saw the phone display a deposit of one hundred thousand yuan.

Upon seeing the hundred thousand yuan, Su Yun Jiao was somewhat surprised: "Last night, you actually gave that bar owner a hundred thousand yuan?"

"Quite surprising?"

"Yeah, the bar owner must have thought it was easy money—this hundred thousand yuan is too easy to earn."

Su Yun Jiao only realized at this point that the earlier notification was a deposit.

"These couldn't be the money you got from Lu Chi's mother, could they?"

"Hmm."

Seeing Lu Jingqing speak so nonchalantly, Su Yun Jiao was somewhat surprised: "He's a tight-fisted iron rooster; not squeezing you for money is already good. How did you manage to get money from him? Besides, you beat up his son—how could he let you off and still give you money?"

"I naturally have my own way."

Lu Jingqing raised his hand and lightly tapped Su Yun Jiao's forehead: "Little drunkard, after breakfast go to the library and study properly."

"I know, I made an appointment with the class monitor to go together."

Hearing the words "class monitor," Lu Jingqing raised his eyebrows and said, "The class monitor you're talking about is that boy I saw yesterday, right?"

"Yeah."

"That's the Zhou family's son, right?"

"Yes, he's the son of Zhou Pharmaceuticals."

Seeing that Lu Jingqing seemed to know the Zhou family, Su Yun Jiao curiously asked: "How come even Brother Jingqing knows about the Zhou family?"

"The Zhou family is a prominent clan; few people don't know them. After all, very few families can be called aristocratic—probably only the Zhou family in Hai Cheng counts. Consider yourself lucky to have found a treasure; from now on, you should get along well with this Young Master Zhou."