After severing ties, the cold-blooded family regretted it

Chapter 10: Who took the money?

Lu Meng sat in the car in a daze for half the night, and only started the car and went back when it was a little brighter outside.

"Lu Meng, what are you doing out so early in the morning?" Zhao Rui woke up very early and was already sitting on the sofa drinking coffee. "Auntie Wu, pour a cup of coffee for the second young lady."

"Miss Second, coffee." Aunt Wu put the coffee down and turned to leave.

The bitter taste of coffee slowly seeps into Lu Meng's nostrils. Drinking a cup of black coffee every morning is the moment she enjoys most.

But today, she added a few sugar cubes into it.

Seeing her look, Zhao Rui also felt a little strange.

"What's wrong with you so early in the morning? You never put sugar in it before." Zhao Rui put down the coffee in her hand suspiciously.

"Oh, nothing, it's just too bitter." He took a sip of the coffee, but his nose felt sour. "I've added sugar, why is it still so bitter?"

Listening to Lu Meng's constant mumbling, Zhao Rui felt more and more that something was wrong.

"What happened to you?"

"It's okay, I'll go upstairs and rest first." Lu Meng hurried back to her room regardless of her mother's shouting behind her.

"Second sister..." Lu Tianci came out of the room and spoke. In the past, Lu Meng would stop and talk to him no matter how busy she was, but now, she just nodded and opened the door and walked in.

Lu Tianci looked at the closed door and frowned.

It seems that he must have suffered a blow from that kid Gu Chi.

Gu Chi, you really are a lingering ghost. Even though everyone has left, you still make the Lu family suffer from unrest.

Humph, just wait, sooner or later he will disappear completely.

In the room, Lu Meng leaned against the head of the bed, still holding the keychain in her hand.

Not long after, Lu Ning pushed the door open and walked in.

"Lu Meng, what happened to you today? What were you doing so early yesterday morning?" Lu Meng and his partner were not very different in appearance and were considered close friends in this family.

"Sister, Gu Chi has been found." Lu Meng's voice was choked with sobs.

"What do you mean found? Then why didn't you bring the person back?" Lu Ning looked at Lu Meng in surprise. She was the strong woman in the family.

I have been a person who rarely cries since I was young, but today, I cried so hard.

There are even thick dark circles under their eyes, which is something that would never happen to them.

"Why are you in such a mess? Is it because of that kid Gu Chi that you got mad at him?" Lu Ning, who was usually cold, always lost control when she mentioned Gu Chi.

"No." Lu Meng quickly shook her head, but the miserable condition of Gu Chi in the hospital appeared in front of her eyes.

The shredded bloody T-shirt and the whitened wounds, all of this was like a knife constantly torturing Lu Meng's heart.

They are siblings from the same mother, but he has to live outside while they are at home, playing leisurely in the warm air conditioning.

Not to mention Gu Chi, even she felt as if there was a nameless anger in her heart.

"In the early morning, I received a call from Officer Qin, saying that Gu Chen had an infected wound and a fever and fainted." Lu Meng spoke with a thick nasal voice.

"How could it be?" Lu Ning was also shocked by her news. "Did you see it with your own eyes? Could it be that he just wanted to save face and created this illusion..." If it were in the past, Lu Ning would definitely agree with such an inference after hearing it.

But today, she just felt an inexplicable irritation in her heart.

"Sister, I saw it with my own eyes. The wound had been soaked until it was completely bloodless..." He choked up again, "The clothes were cut off by the doctor. They were stuck to the skin."

"But, but it was just a few hits with a ruler, is it that serious?" The more Lu Ning spoke, the more unsure she felt. Thinking back to the scene that day, it was not just a matter of a few hits.

Instead, their mother beat them with all her might and did not stop until she had no strength left in her body.

After being beaten, they were locked in the basement, and they had no time to care about their specific situation.

Everyone was paying attention to Lu Tianci being beaten, and they only vaguely remembered that blood seeped out of his white T-shirt.

"So how is he now?" Lu Ning finally felt guilty and asked.

"The fever has subsided, but he is not in a good mood now. I don't dare to stimulate him anymore, so I came back first." Lu Meng wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, feeling a little annoyed.

But compared to these, there are some things she still needs to figure out.

"Since you're here, I have something to tell you." Lu Meng straightened her clothes and regained her shrewd and resolute look. "Did Gu Chi really take the 10,000 yuan?"

"What do you mean?" Lu Ning looked up in surprise when he heard Lu Meng's question.

"If Gu Chi really stole the money, he wouldn't have put himself in such a miserable situation." Lu Meng stared at Lu Ning, trying to find out something from the expression on her face.

In this family, although this elder sister is cold and indifferent, she always maintains 100% enthusiasm towards Gu Chi.

Gu Chi usually doesn't even dare to come out of his room, so how could he have the courage to go to his parents' room to look for money?

"You know something, right?" Looking at Lu Ning's erratic eyes, Lu Meng had already guessed it roughly.

"I didn't." Lu Ning subconsciously refuted, but soon wilted, "How can you be sure that I know? Maybe Gu Chi has already squandered it all these days."

"Gu Chi has hardly ever entered my parents' bedroom, so it's even more impossible for him to know where the money is. There's no sign of anyone turning the whole room over. To put it bluntly, he went there for the money. The person who could do this must be someone who is very familiar with our family."

Lu Meng's analysis was so logical that for a moment Lu Ning had nothing to refute.

His hands kept stirring because he felt guilty.

Lu Meng knew every subtle movement of hers.

"Sister, now that things have come to this, if we can't clear Gu Chi's name, what's our position to ask him to come back? If you don't want to talk about it, I can choose to call the police. It's no problem for someone like Officer Qin to catch a petty thief."

Lu Meng was helpless and could only resort to this last resort.

Seeing that the situation was about to go beyond expectations, Lu Ning had no choice but to speak up: "Actually, it was Tianci who took it."

Lu Meng seemed to have guessed what Lu Ning would say.

"He is not short of money at all. His monthly pocket money is at least tens of thousands of yuan, and we buy all the other things he needs. What does he do with the money?" Lu Meng frowned.

"He wants to buy a gaming device. Didn't he ask us for it before? But he's going to take the college entrance exam soon, so let him buy it after that..." Lu Ning stopped talking abruptly.

(End of this chapter)