A crazy beauty has an island, and a powerful figure from that era dotes on her.

Everyone's curious gazes also fell on the paper bag in Lu Yaozong's hand.

"Oh...oh..." The two little ones grinned and happily talked and laughed at Lu Yaozong.

That soft and adorable smile instantly turned the tough guy Lu Yaozong into a gentle confidant.

Lu Yaozong smiled and took out two simulated apples from the paper bag. The bright red apples really did look quite similar.

The two little ones are at the age where they love bright colors, and when they saw the bright red apples, their chubby little hands immediately reached for them.

The simulated apple was soft and fluffy, and the two little ones immediately hugged it tightly.

"Have you washed this thing since you got it?" Qin Mengjie frowned.

Since what happened yesterday, the Lu family has been traumatized.

When we got back last night, we all carefully checked the two little ones' toys and supplies.

They even conducted a thorough search of every nook and cranny of the nursery.

I was afraid of missing anything.

Wang Ma and Sister Chen also carefully checked the other rooms and courtyard.

Even the fish pond was filled with water and thoroughly cleaned.

"I washed them, I washed them myself, I washed them carefully with soap several times." Lu Yaozong dared not be careless about his two grandsons.

As soon as I got the items, I went to the lounge and cleaned them thoroughly several times.

“Ruibao, Qibao, look, what is this…” Lu Yaozong then presented two bunches of purplish-black imitation grapes as if they were treasures.

The two little ones tossed the apple aside and immediately grabbed the grapes.

This quirky move amused everyone.

Qin Mengjie smiled, picked up the apple, carefully wiped it with a towel, and put it aside.

"Brother, where did you buy this?" Liu Qiyu asked with a smile.

"I asked a friend to buy this for me." Lu Yaozong smiled and took a fake orange out of the paper bag and handed it to Xiao Jiaojiao.

Perhaps out of shyness, Xiao Jiaojiao didn't reach out and instead timidly shrank into Liu Qiyu's arms.

Lu Yaozong smiled and handed it to her again.

"Waaaaah..." Little Jiaojiao pouted and burst into tears.

Tears flowed out like a flood bursting its banks.

It was completely different from the two little ones' dry wailing.

Lu Yaozong felt a throbbing pain in his temple.

I feel inexplicably numb.

Is he really that scary?!

Ruibao and Qibao's attention also shifted from the grapes in their arms to Xiaojiaojiao.

The two little ones blinked their big, watery eyes and stared intently, as if they had seen something very interesting.

"Waaaaah..." Qi Bao frowned and actually started crying like Xiao Jiao Jiao.

His fake crying made everyone burst into laughter.

Lu Yaozu saw this scene as soon as he entered.

“This little thing…” Lu Yaozu couldn’t help but laugh.

Doctor Xu was right.

These two little ones were born in the Year of the Monkey.

He's so clever, so cunning.

“Come here, let your second grandpa hug you…” Lu Yaozu smiled and reached out his hand to Qi Bao.

Qi Bao grinned and pounced on her.

"Little one, how about becoming your second grandfather's soldier in the future?" Lu Yaozu teased the little guy in his arms with a smile.

"Shut up!" The old lady snatched Qi Bao back.

The old lady can't stand hearing this now.

Lu Yaozu chuckled and grabbed an apple from the fruit plate, crunching it down as he ate it.

"Brother, I heard that the Cao family's little courtyard in the suburbs was 'cleaned'?" he suddenly remembered.

Lu Yaozong gave Lu Yaozu a wink, and the two brothers went outside.

Lu Xingqing mixed up some baby formula to coax Xiaojiaojiao.

When the pacifier was placed to her lips, Xiao Jiaojiao gradually stopped crying.

Before long, Lu Yaozu's furious voice came from the courtyard.

"Fuck them, those bastards..."

When they came in for dinner, Lu Yaozu's expression was still extremely unpleasant.

"Eat, eat. He Qian and the others are keeping an eye on things, so don't worry about it." Lu Yaozong patted his shoulder reassuringly.

Lu Yaozu nodded angrily.

He was clearly quite upset.

"Listen to your brother, don't go and make things worse." The old man looked at him.

“But…” Lu Yaozu wanted to say something more.

With just one look from the old man, Lu Yaozu immediately shut his mouth.

In this family, the old man's words are law.

"Oh...oh..." Ruibao looked up at the old man, pouting his little mouth, and babbled.

The old man was instantly amused and beamed with joy.

Lu Yaozu chuckled.

Sure enough, once a great-grandson is born, sons and grandsons have to take a backseat.

In the following days, several collateral branches of the Cao family kept dropping bombshells.

Embezzlement, bribery, misappropriation of public funds, having an affair with a subordinate's wife...

People keep coming forward to testify.

The Cao family's affairs escalated further.

Fearing being implicated, families who had previously been on good terms with the Cao family turned against them.

With the combined efforts of everyone, the pillars of the Cao family collapsed.

Grandma Cao's daughter-in-law couldn't withstand the blow and suffered a stroke just like her.

Fortunately, he received timely treatment and was left with only a limp and hand tremors, but he is still able to take care of himself in basic life.

With no money and no source of income, and with two sick people and a child in the family, Grandma Cao's granddaughter-in-law could only do odd jobs to earn a living.

But just a few days later, news spread that Cao's only son had fallen into the river while playing with some neighborhood children and drowned.

Although the villagers who knew how to swim went into the river immediately, summer is the flood season with frequent rains.

The river was not only swift, but also very turbulent.

If a three- or four-year-old child falls in, a wave can sweep them far away.

In an instant, they disappeared from sight.

A dozen or so villagers searched along the river for a long time before finally finding him in the silt at a stagnant spot.

When Grandma Cao and her daughter-in-law heard the news, they were so shocked that they couldn't catch their breath and followed their husbands to their deaths.

When Grandma Cao's granddaughter-in-law rushed back after hearing the news, she was met with three cold and stiff corpses.

Perhaps she had cried all her tears recently, for she simply held her son tightly with his eyes closed, without uttering a word.

Her neighbors, fearing she might do something rash, comforted her for a long time.

The next day, she still appeared in the well in her courtyard.

The family of four was neatly arranged there.

In the end, village officials intervened and sent the person to the crematorium.

The village officials originally intended to sell the small courtyard to buy them a burial plot so they could be laid to rest, but as soon as they opened their mouths, they all ran away.

In the end, having no other choice, they found a mass grave, dug a large pit, and buried all four of their ashes together.

The once-glorious Cao family has fallen into ruin.

When they learned of this news, Lu Yujing, Zhou Chenfeng, and He Qian were in Yunlai's office sorting out the network of relationships in Beijing.

“This family is getting more and more arrogant…” Zhou Chenfeng pointed at the character “Li” and said coldly.

"The higher you fly, the harder you fall." He Qian smiled.